Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...

Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising answer. "Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people... that the chances of you living 50 [more] years are very small." Cold War estimates for a 1% chance of nuclear war each year seem low, Gross says. "The chances are more likely 2%. So that's a 1-in-50 chance every year." David Gross: The expected lifetime, in the case of 2% [per year], is about 35 years. [The expected lifetime is the average time it would take to have had a nuclear war by then. It is calculated using similar equations as those used to determine the "half-life" of a radioactive material.] Live Science: So what do you suggest as remedies to lower that risk? Gross: We had something called the Nobel Laureate Assembly for reducing the risk of nuclear war in Chicago last year. There are steps, which are easy to take — for nations, I mean. For example, talk to each other. In the last 10 years, there are no treaties anymore. We're entering an incredible arms race. We have three super nuclear powers. People are talking about using nuclear weapons; there's a major war going on in the middle of Europe; we're bombing Iran; India and Pakistan almost went to war. OK, so that's increased the chance [of nuclear war]. I would really like to have a solid estimate — it might be more, and I think I'm being conservative — but a 2% estimate [of nuclear war] in today's crazy world. Live Science: Do you think we'll ever get to a place where we get rid of nuclear weapons? Gross: We're not recommending that. That's idealistic, but yes, I hope so. Because if you don't, there's always some risk an AI 100 years from now [could launch nuclear weapons], but chances of [humanity] living, with this estimate, 100 years, is very small, and living 200 years is infinitesimal. So [the answer to] Fermi's question of "Where are the civilizations, all the intelligent organisms around the galaxy, and why don't they talk to us?" is that they've killed themselves... There are now nine nuclear powers. Even three is infinitely more complicated than two. The agreements, the norms between countries, are all falling apart. Weapons are getting crazier. Automation, and perhaps even AI, will be in control of those instruments pretty soon... It's going to be very hard to resist making AI make decisions because it acts so fast. He points out that with the threat of climate change, "people have done something," even though "It's a much harder argument to make than about nuclear weapons. "We made them; we can stop them." Thanks to hwstar (Slashdot reader #35,834) for sharing the article.

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Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...

In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter. "One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in four years," they write — but it's not just in the U.S. Instead, they argue the U.S.-Iran conflict "is driving a global surge of interest in electric vehicles..." In the U.K., electric car sales reached a record high, with 86,120 vehicles sold in March... The French online used-car retailer Aramisauto reported its share of EV sales nearly doubled from February 16 to March 9, rising to 12.7% from 6.5%, while sales of fueled models dropped to 28% of sales from 34%, and sales of diesel models dropped to 10% from 14%. Germany's largest online car market, mobile.de, told Reuters that the share of EV searches on its website has tripled since the start of March — from 12% to 36%, with car dealers receiving 66% more enquiries for used EVs than in February. South Korea reported that registrations for electric vehicles more than doubled in March compared to the prior year, due in part to rising fuel prices and government subsidies... In New Zealand, more than 1,000 EVs were registered in the week that ended on March 22, close to double the week before, making it the country's biggest week for electric vehicle registrations since the end of 2023, according to the country's Transport Minister, Chris Bishop. In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.

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A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...

NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence." Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the clinical trial, after getting the vaccine, the patients also received chemotherapy, which is standard post-op treatment for operable pancreatic cancer... [The article notes that less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it "one of the deadliest cancers."] [E]xperts have long believed that people with pancreatic cancer could not generate an immune response against tumors. But after nine doses of the personalized vaccine, [clinical trial participant Donna] Gustafson is one of eight people in the 16-person Phase 1 trial who did just that, producing an army of immune cells called T cells that seek out and destroy tumor cells... [Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a vaccine center director who is leading the trial, said] it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer... New data collected during the trial's six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive... More research is still needed. Genentech and BioNTech, the two drugmakers behind the vaccine, have already launched a larger Phase 2 clinical trial... Another team is working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that targets a protein called KRAS that is present in as many as 90% of pancreatic cancers. In a small, early trial, about 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the protein.

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The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware...

"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..." The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the company's devices. In its over 60-page filing, Motorola has sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from publishing or sharing what it describes as false or defamatory content about its products, including reviews, videos, comments, and boycott campaigns. The complaint cites hundreds of posts across platforms, including videos alleging device issues and phones catching fire. But it is also targeting unfavorable product reviews and user commentary that the company alleges are false or defamatory. In a statement after publication, a Motorola spokesperson said it had initiated legal action "in the interest of public safety" against what it described as demonstrably false claims that its devices had exploded or caught fire. One online creator told TechCrunch "they expect more such legal action in the future, as evolving rules around online content increase liability for creators and platforms — a trend reflected in recently proposed changes to India's IT rules aimed at tightening oversight of online content." A Motorola spokesperson "said the company did not seek to suppress legitimate reviews or criticism and was reviewing the scope of the proceedings, adding that it apologized to creators affected inadvertently."

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Le rachat de SFR entre dans une nouvelle ère. Ce 17 avril 2026, Bouygues Telecom, Free-Groupe iliad et Orange officialisent une offre à 20,35 milliards d’euros et des négociations exclusives avec Altice France — un séisme annoncé pour le télécom français. 📋 Sommaire 📢 L’annonce officielle 💰 La répartition de l’offre 📱 Clients & RED […]

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"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant." The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police... Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then. "Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds. But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.

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kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes: HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. "Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement. But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited to setup and troubleshooting, no new updates or patches, and support ending in a little over six months on October 31, 2026. While for Desktop Access customers — Tera2 Zero Clients and PCoIP Management Console — "the previously announced EOL date remains December 31, 2029," sales have already ended for other customers. HP Anyware renewals are available for purchase through October 31 of 2027, but with a maximum one year term, with support ending October 31, 2028. HP says the decision "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."

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Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one." (Though those prices appear to be estimates...) Disney's announcement calls it "a new certification for premium large format (PLF) theaters," helping ticket-buyers find "a huge screen with the sharpest, clearest color and sound," including laser projection "for superior brightness and clarity ") and "premium audio formats for fully immersive sound". Light on specifics, Disney says they will be certifying premium large format theaters for the Infinity Vision experience, highlighting laser projection and immersive audio quality. The new program will begin in the summer for a theater run of 2019's Avengers: Endgame ahead of Doomsday's holiday release. Now you might be thinking: Giant screen? Booming audio? That sounds an awful lot like IMAX. The most consumer-recognized premium movie-going screen is the coveted throne for big blockbuster events, from Avatar to One Battle After Another. Unfortunately for Doomsday, IMAX screens are already booked for the holiday season by Dune: Part Three, the anticipated return to Arrakis, where Timothée Chalamet's Muad'Dib will begin to go worm-mode. Locked out of the popular choice for doubling your ticket price, Disney appears to have made up a new one... Disney says they aim to certify 75 theaters in the United States and 300 internationally for the Infinity Vision program.

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Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware...

Décidément, cette histoire de GeForce RTX 3060 commence à nous faire tourner en bourrique. Selon les dernières rumeurs, NVIDIA pourrait relancer dès juin 2026 sa RTX 3060 12 Go, tout en mettant en pause la très discutée RTX 5050 9 Go. Une information qui provient du leaker MEGAsizeGPU et qui circule de plus en plus dans la presse hardware ces derniers jours. Mais ce qui est assez savoureux dans cette histoire, c'est que… à la Ferme, on en parle déjà depuis un bon moment. Dès février, on évoquait un possible retour avec un comeback surprise de la RTX 3060. Puis en mars, on en remettait une couche avec un retour en stock évoqué dès la mi-mars, avant de confirmer un peu plus tard que Samsung relançait la production en 8 nm pour NVIDIA. Bref, tout était déjà là, il ne manquait plus que la confirmation officieuse actuelle. […]

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Nouvelle mise à jour des prix des processeurs à la Ferme du Hardware, avec notre suivi hebdomadaire basé, on le rappelle, sur des boutiques françaises disposant de numéros de TVA FR, sans marketplace ni import exotique. Et cette semaine du 10 au 17 avril 2026, il y a clairement du mouvement, surtout chez Intel. Chez les bleus justement, la tendance est assez nette : les prix repartent à la hausse. Le Core i5-14600K prend +14 euros pour atteindre 313,90 euros, tandis que le Core i7-14700K grimpe franchement avec +44 euros pour s'afficher à 425,90 euros. Le Core i9-14900K reste plus sage avec une petite hausse à 499,90 euros. Clairement, on sent une pression tarifaire qui revient du côté d'Intel, possiblement en lien avec les ajustements évoqués ces dernières semaines sur les coûts de production. Du côté des Core Ultra 200S, c'est beaucoup plus calme. Le Ultra 5 245K ne bouge pas à 199,90 euros, le Ultra 5 250K+ prend 3 euros pour passer à 243,90 euros, tandis que le Ultra 7 265K et le Ultra 7 270K+ reculent légèrement à respectivement 321,90 euros et 348,90 euros. Le Ultra 9 285K, lui, reste totalement stable à 617,90 euros. Bref, une gamme plutôt stable dans l'ensemble. […]

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Le dimanche, chez Cowcotland, les portes du laboratoire grincent à nouveau. Ici, les machines ne sont plus de simples assemblages de composants, mais des artefacts rescapés d'un monde qui a mal tourné. Le Mod du Dimanche, c'est cette zone interdite où l'on explore des créations marquées par le chaos, où chaque câble semble avoir été tiré à la hâte et chaque panneau refermé dans l'urgence. Certaines configurations brillent encore d'une froide perfection, d'autres portent les cicatrices d'expériences qui auraient dû rester confinées. Aujourd'hui, on s'enfonce dans une ambiance lourde, presque irrespirable, où la technologie se mêle à quelque chose de plus organique, de plus inquiétant. Une machine qui semble avoir été extraite d'un complexe abandonné, entre sirènes muettes et protocoles de quarantaine oubliés. Voici le Resident Evil Requiem par Blue Horse Studios. […]

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Petite semaine pour les tests, mais une belle semaine pour les dossiers ! A commencer par PRAGMATA, le dernier jeu de Capcom avec de très bons retours de la presse et des joueurs, qui est passé au grill avec des nombreuses cartes graphiques et technologies. Après tout, le jeu est compatible Steam Deck avec une jolie pastille verte, donc autant voir jusqu'où on peut aller ! Rappelons que sur Steam, le jeu propose une petite démo et s'affiche à 59.99 U+20AC dans la version de base, qui devrait suffire à de nombreux joueurs. A côté, deux souris sans fil avec des approches très différentes sont testées, mais avec un point commun : une connexion USB et 2.4 GHz qui monte à 8000 Hz. Retour dans les dossiers avec une visite chez Longsys pour découvrir la fabrication et le test des produits Lexar, ainsi qu'un peu de refroidissement avec be quiet! et un comparatif aircooling / watercooling sur deux positions tarifaires. De la lecture donc, mais profitons aussi du beau temps ! […]

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Petit récap' des vidéos publiées cette semaine sur la chaîne de la Ferme du Hardware, avec deux gros morceaux et quelques shorts pour compléter tout ça. Et clairement, il y avait de quoi faire, entre écran ultra-rapide, boitier très travaillé, écran G-Sync et mini CG puissante. Alienware AW2725QF : vitesse ou définition, pourquoi choisir ? On commence avec l'écran Alienware AW2725QF, un modèle qui surfe sur la tendance du moment : le Dual Mode. Comprenez par là qu'il est capable de proposer deux expériences bien distinctes selon vos besoins. D'un côté, on profite d'un affichage UHD très propre pour le travail ou les jeux solo, et de l'autre, on peut basculer sur un mode Full HD ultra rapide, parfait pour le compétitif. Sur le papier, on parle quand même de 360 Hz en Full HD et d'un mode UHD qui reste très solide, ce qui en fait un écran particulièrement polyvalent. Un produit qui illustre bien l'évolution du marché : aujourd'hui, on ne veut plus choisir entre qualité d'image et performances. […]

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Nouvelle semaine à la Ferme du Hardware et nouvelle analyse de notre suivi des prix des cartes graphiques. Et autant le dire tout de suite : cette semaine du 10 au 17 avril 2026 est marquée par une stabilité quasi totale chez AMD et Intel, tandis que NVIDIA continue de jouer au yoyo, parfois de manière assez violente. AMD : calme plat sur toute la gamme Chez les rouges, c'est simple : rien ne bouge ou presque. Toutes les références restent parfaitement alignées sur les tarifs de la semaine précédente. La RX 7600 reste à 269,90 euros, la RX 7600 XT à 549,90 euros, et même constat pour les RX 7700 XT et RX 7800 XT qui stagnent respectivement à 429,90 et 749,90 euros. Sur le haut de gamme, même topo : RX 7900 XT à 699,90 euros, RX 7900 XTX à 899,90 euros. Enfin, les nouvelles RX 9000 restent également figées avec une RX 9070 à 629,90 euros et une RX 9070 XT qui grappille à peine 2 euros pour tomber à 677,90 euros. Clairement, AMD maintient ses positions, probablement pour rester compétitif dans un marché toujours sous tension. Intel : toujours figé Du côté des bleus, la Arc B580 ne bouge pas d'un centime et reste à 309,90 euros. Une stabilité qui confirme que Intel peine encore à dynamiser son positionnement tarifaire, malgré quelques ajustements observés les semaines précédentes […]

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Avant de commencer le week-end, on vous propose quelques photos de notre carte graphique préférée, et clairement, on peut le dire, à la vue de sa taille, elle est, sans aucun doute, celle qui offre le plus de puissance vis-à-vis de son format. Et cette carte n'est autre que la ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5060 Low Profile et on l'adore à la Ferme. D'ailleurs, on avait même déjà testé la carte, ici même : Test ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5060 Low Profile : lower is better ?, mais nous n'avions pas eu le temps de faire des belles photos de la petite bête. Et on vous propose donc, dans cette actulité, de vous rincer un peu les mirettes. Aujourd'hui, on vous propose donc un petit focus autour de cette carte graphique que nous avons installée dans une plateforme compacte, mais loin d'être ridicule côté performances. Pour l'occasion, nous avons opté pour une carte mère ITX ASUS STRIX B550, un processeur Ryzen 7 5800X3D de chez AMD, ainsi que 32 Go de mémoire DDR4 Ballistix (2 x 16 Go). […]

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