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Oura Buys Gesture-Navigation Startup DoublePoint

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 23:00
Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepoint, a Finnish startup specializing in gesture recognition technology for wearables. Engadget reports: The Finnish startup uses smartwatches and wristbands as examples of products that benefit from its technology, but Oura will clearly be looking to incorporate it into its rings, in theory allowing you to control your connected devices with hand movements. Oura said in a press release that the deal sees it inherit an "exceptional team of AI architects and builders from Doublepoint," including Doublepoint's four founders. The newly-acquired company will remain in its native Helsinki, where it will work with Oura's international teams. It added that Doublepoint's expertise in helping devices register subtle hand movements will be key, as nobody wearing a smart ring is going to engage with gesture control if they have to thrash their hand around like a conductor.

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Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance's Chinese Apps

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 22:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform's Chinese parent organization ByteDance. ByteDance owns a vast array of different apps spanning social media, entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other sectors. The leading one is Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which has over 1 billion monthly active users. While most of those users reside in China, iPhone owners around the world have traditionally been able to download these apps from anywhere without using a VPN, as long as they have a valid App Store account registered in China. That's not true anymore. Starting in late January, iPhone users in the U.S. with Chinese App Store accounts began reporting that they were encountering new obstacles when they tried to download apps developed by ByteDance. WIRED has confirmed that even with a valid Chinese App Store account, downloading or updating a ByteDance-owned Chinese app is blocked on Apple devices located in the United States. Instead, a pop-up window appears that says, "This app is unavailable in the country or region you're in." The restriction appears to apply only to ByteDance-owned apps and not those developed by other Chinese companies. The timing and technical specifics suggest the restriction is related to the deal TikTok agreed to in January to divest Chinese ownership of its U.S. operations. The agreement was the result of the so-called TikTok ban law passed by Congress in 2024, which also barred companies like Apple and Google from distributing other apps majority-owned by ByteDance. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act states that no company can "distribute, maintain, or update" any app majority-controlled by ByteDance "within the land or maritime borders of the United States." The law was primarily aimed at TikTok, which has more than 100 million users in the U.S. and had been the subject of years of debate in Washington over whether its Chinese ownership posed a national security risk. But ByteDance also has dozens of other apps that at some point were also removed from Apple's and Google's app stores in the U.S.. Now it seems like the scope of impact has reached even more apps that are not technically designed for U.S. audiences, such as Douyin, the AI chatbot Doubao, and the fiction reading platform Fanqie Novel.

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System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 21:00
In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and freedom more than they protect minors. "System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment," adds Phoronix's Michael Larabel, noting that they're also based out of Colorado. Here's an excerpt from the post: "A parent that creates a non-admin account on a computer, sets the age for a child account they create, and hands the computer over is in no different state. The child can install a virtual machine, create an account on the virtual machine and set the age to 18 or over. It's a similar technique to installing a VPN to get around the Great Firewall of China (just consider that for a moment). Or the child can simply re-install the OS and not tell their parents. ... In the case of Colorado's and California's bills, effectiveness is lost. In the case of New York's bill, liberty is lost. In the case of centralized platforms, potential is lost. ... The challenges we face are neither technical nor legal. The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they're 16 or 18 is too late. It's a wonderful and weird world. Yes, there are dark corners. There always will be. We have to teach our children what to do when they encounter them and we have to trust them." "We are accustomed to adding operating system features to comply with laws," writes Richell, in closing. "Accessibility features for ADA, and power efficiency settings for Energy Star regulations are two examples. We are a part of this world and we believe in the rule of law. We still hope these laws will be recognized for the folly they are and removed from the books or found unconstitutional."

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Les Antec 900 de 2006 et 2026 testés en même temps : nouveauté et nostalgie, du deux en un !

Le 19 février, nous vous présentions sur H&Co le boitier Antec 900 (2026). Le dernier-né de la firme est évidemment un clin d'œil au célèbre "Nine Hundred" qui avait lui été lancé en 2006, il y a donc 20 ans, déjà.La philosophie entre les deux boitiers a beaucoup changé, mais qu'à cela tienne :...

Mozilla Is Working On a Big Firefox Redesign

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 20:00
darwinmac writes: Mozilla is working on a huge redesign for its Firefox browser, codenamed "Nova," which will bring pastel gradients, a refreshed new tab page, floating "island" UI elements, and more. "From the mockups, it appears Mozilla took some inspiration from Googles Material You (or at least, the dynamic color extraction part of it) because the browser color accent appears influenced by the wallpaper setting," reports Neowin. "Choosing a mint-green desktop background automatically shifts the top navigation bars to match that exact shade." Mozilla has a habit of redesigning Firefox every few years. Before "Nova," there was the "Proton" redesign in 2021, the "Photon" redesign in 2017, and the "Australis" redesign in 2014. Nova is still in early development, so it might take a year or two before it appears in an official stable Firefox release. Neowin adds: "Not every redesign project ends well for Mozilla, though. You might remember 2012's Firefox Metro, an ambitious attempt to build a custom browser for Windows 8s touch-first interface. The team built it to operate both as a traditional desktop application and as a touch-optimized Metro app. The whole thing was scrapped in 2014 after two years in development due to a dismally low user adoption rate (a preview version of the software had been released a year earlier on the Aurora channel)."

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Iran War Provides a Large-Scale Test For AI-Assisted Warfare

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 19:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by Katrina Manson: The U.S. strikes on Iran ordered by President Donald Trump mark the arrival on a large scale of a new era of warfare assisted by artificial intelligence. Captain Timothy Hawkins, a Central Command spokesperson, told me last night that the AI tools the U.S. military is using in Iran operations don't make targeting decisions and don't replace humans. But they do help "make smarter decisions faster." That's been the driving ambition of the U.S. military, which has spent years looking at how to develop and deploy AI to the battlefield [...]. Critics, such as Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of 270 human-rights groups, argue that AI-enabled decision-support systems reduce the separation between recommending and executing a strike to a "dangerously thin" line. Hawkins said the military's use of AI assistance follows a rigorous process aligned with U.S. policy, military doctrine and the law. Artificial intelligence helps analysts whittle down what they need to focus on, generating so-called points of interest and helping personnel make "smart" decisions in the Iran operations, he told me. AI is also helping to pull data within systems and organize information to provide clarity. Among the AI tech used in the Iran campaign is Maven Smart System, a digital mission control platform produced by Palantir [...]. That emerged from Project Maven, a project started in 2017 by the Pentagon to develop AI for the battlefield. Among the large language models installed on the system is Anthropic's Claude AI tool, according to the people, who said it has become central to U.S. operations against Iran and to accelerating Maven's development. Claude is also at the center of a row that pits Anthropic against the Department of Defense over limits on the software. Further reading: Hacked Tehran Traffic Cameras Fed Israeli Intelligence Before Strike On Khamenei

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AMD perd du terrain sur le marché mondial des cartes graphiques desktop, mais progresse sur les GPU intégrés

Le cabinet d'études Jon Peddie Research vient de livrer le bilan de ses analyses de parts de marché pour le milieu des GPU grand public lors du quatrième trimestre 2025. Comme nous l'avions fait pour les chiffres du troisième trimestre, nous allons commencer par observer le marché uniquement des car...

Python 'Chardet' Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 18:00
Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: The maintainers of the Python package `chardet`, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 this week, claiming a speedup factor of 43x over version 6. In the release notes, the maintainers claim that version 7 is, "a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet." Problem: The putative "ground-up rewrite" is actually the result of running the existing copyrighted codebase and test suite through the Claude LLM. In so doing, the maintainers claim that v7 now represents a unique work of authorship, and therefore may be offered under a new license. Version 6 and earlier was licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Version 7 claims to be available under the MIT license. The maintainers appear to be claiming that, under the Oracle v. Google decision, which found that cloning public APIs is fair use, their v7 is a fair use re-implementation of the `chardet` public API. However, there is no evidence to suggest their re-write was under "clean room" conditions, which traditionally has shielded cloners from infringement suits. Further, the copyrightability of LLM output has yet to be settled. Recent court decisions seem to favor the view that LLM output is not copyrightable, as the output is not primarily the result of human creative expression -- the endeavor copyright is intended to protect. Spirited discussion has ensued in issue #327 on `chardet`s GitHub repo, raising the question: Can copyrighted source code be laundered through an LLM and come out the other end as a fresh work of authorship, eligible for a new copyright, copyright holder, and license terms? If this is found to be so, it would allow malicious interests to completely strip-mine the Open Source commons, and then sell it back to the users without the community seeing a single dime.

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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 17:00
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from 404 Media: Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media. The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped.

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Icy Dock ressort la caméra pour présenter ses produits en vidéo

Pour terminer la semaine, quoi de mieux que quelques vidéos ? Une parenthèse audiovisuelle qui vous rappellera votre jeunesse, ces moments d’école où l’instituteur sortait le téléviseur et lançait une cassette pour conclure la journée. Cela marquait la fin de la logorrhée et offrait l’occasion idéale de roupiller et de récupérer avant la libération de la sonnerie... [Tout lire]

En chimie, l’IA permet d’« optimiser la manière de faire de la recherche »

6 mars 2026 à 16:14
C'est du chimique !
En chimie, l’IA permet d’« optimiser la manière de faire de la recherche »

Les méthodes d’IA ont passé les portes des laboratoires depuis quelques années. Mais, concrètement, à quoi sert-elle quand les chimistes l’utilisent ? Next a voulu en savoir plus et a interrogé le chimiste théorique François-Xavier Coudert.

Le machine learning ou le deep learning pour analyser des images, des vidéos, des textes ou des sons, on commence à connaître. Mais à quoi peuvent bien servir les techniques d’IA dans un laboratoire de chimie ? Qu’est-ce qu’un chimiste théorique peut bien faire d’un réseau de neurones ?

Next a discuté avec François-Xavier Coudert, chercheur au CNRS qui a travaillé, par exemple, sur l’utilisation de l’IA pour trouver de nouveaux réseaux métallo-organiques, ces matériaux poreux dont la découverte a valu aux chimistes Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson et Omar M. Yaghi le prix Nobel en 2025.

>> Quel est le but de s’appuyer sur l’IA quand on fait des recherches en chimie ?

Une des idées est de trouver de meilleures molécules ou de meilleurs matériaux pour des applications choisies. Typiquement, on peut vouloir séparer le CO₂ des autres gaz en sortie de cheminée d’usines. On va aller creuser dans les matériaux connus qui n’ont jamais été testés pour cette application-là.

Jusqu’ici, les gens qui développaient des matériaux avaient une application en tête. Si ça marche, ils le publient et expliquent que ce matériau fait ce qu’ils veulent super bien, sinon, ils le mettent dans un tiroir et font un autre essai. L’idée, c’est que, dans les matériaux qui ont telle propriété pour laquelle ils sont connus, il y en a peut-être qui pourraient être très bien pour d’autres applications. Et ainsi d’aller chercher des matériaux connus mais qui n’auraient pas été complètement exploités. Mais comment le savoir ? On est face à des milliers de matériaux et de molécules. C’est aussi un peu l’idée du « repurposing » (réutilisation) des médicaments : si je trouve une molécule connue mais qu’elle a un autre effet, c’est toujours plus facile à déployer que de réinventer depuis rien une nouvelle molécule.

Aller au-delà de l’« intuition chimique »

>> Les techniques d’IA permettent de modéliser, sélectionner, générer plein de choses, dans quels buts les chimistes utilisent l’IA actuellement ?

Il y a beaucoup de champs scientifiques qui utilisent l’IA parce qu’ils ont de larges volumes de données qui étaient jusque-là inexploitées, c’est le paradigme du big data. En chimie, il y a la même motivation : à force, les laboratoires académiques comme ceux de R&D ont accumulé des données et ils veulent les valoriser.


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ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server

6 mars 2026 à 16:11
For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that has been available for some months now and powered by the Intel N150 processor. Besides the interesting single board hardware and well built aluminum chassis, the offering is rounded out by being preloaded with ZimaOS as a Linux-based "personal cloud OS" to easily get hosting for your own SOHO server needs.

Le nouveau Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 est totalement réparable

6 mars 2026 à 16:01

Le Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 et le Thinkpad T16 Gen 5 sont deux nouveaux portables annoncés au MWC 2026. En plus des traditionnelles évolutions techniques, le constructeur s’est fait un point d’honneur d’apporter le plus grand soin à la réparabilité de ces machines.

Thinkpad T14 Gen 7

Thinkpad T14 Gen 7

Le Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 est la nouvelle version d’un des grands classiques du monde professionnel. Un engin acheté en masse par des groupes comme des PME pour sa robustesse et l’ensemble de ses fonctionnalités. C’est également un engin pensé pour être réparé. C’était déjà le cas de la génération précédente, mais ce nouveau modèle atteint des sommets.

Lenovo s’est associé à iFixit pour proposer un engin pensé pour la réparabilité. Il hérite d’un score de 10/10 selon les critères du site de guides et conseils en réparation. Cette nouvelle gamme déployée sous processeurs Intel Core Ultra et AMD Ryzen AI PRO 400 emploie des composants spécifiques pour parvenir à ce résultat.

On retrouve par exemple la fameuse mémoire LPCAMM2 que la marque emploie depuis 2024 et qui permet d’intégrer une belle capacité dans un encombrement minimal avec la possibilité de la faire évoluer. Le reste de la machine est plus classique, son SSD est au format M.2 2280 NVMe par exemple et c’est donc la manière dont est agencé l’engin qui permet de décrocher un si beau score.

Le clavier se retire facilement, par exemple, la coque inférieure se dévisse sans souci. De quoi accéder à l’ensemble des composants classiques avec un tournevis classique. La batterie n’est pas scellée et peut être échangée en un tournemain, sans outil particulier, grâce à un système qui la retient en place de manière simplement mécanique.

Le ventilateur intégré est dissociable du dissipateur et des ailettes sans avoir à tout démonter. Le reste du dispositif peut bien sûr être dévissé et échangé en cas de besoin ou pour le  dépoussièrer.

Mais le point primordial est sans doute le fait que la majorité des ports ne sont pas soudés sur la carte mère. Ils sont connectés avec des systèmes indépendants. Cela permet de pouvoir les changer en cas de besoin très facilement. Quelques vis à retirer pour ôter leur protection et on peut défaire les connecteurs physiques avec un système de port qui rappelle celui d’un SSD M.2. Ce type de port est souvent une cause de pannes importante, tout simplement parce qu’ils sont en première ligne d’accidents classiques. Les jambes qui se prennent dans un câble de recharge, par exemple. Ou la manipulation récurrente d’un port pour connecter plusieurs types d’accessoires. Le fait de pouvoir, en quelques minutes, échanger la prise est une excellente nouvelle, les services en charge pourront les remplacer sans avoir à échanger toute la carte mère. Le coût d’un de ces connecteurs sera sûrement plus acceptable.

Le Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 est un modèle à suivre pour le marché

Ce n’est pas très compliqué à concevoir, un acheteur informatique dans un grand groupe aujourd’hui se pose toujours naturellement la question. Quelle machine acheter pour améliorer son parc. Ici, la réponse est évidente. Si un groupe dispose de quelques dizaines ou centaines d’unités mobiles, un engin comme ce Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 est l’évidence. Il permettra de limiter le temps d’immobilisation en cas de panne, de faire face rapidement aux problèmes les plus courants, de réparer les petits bobos techniques sans passer par la case « retour fournisseur ». Tout cela a du sens économiquement parlant car cela coute cher aux entreprises, même si les machines sont sous garantie.

C’est évidemment un investissement important, ce type d’engin est plus cher qu’une solution classique. Mais suivant les profils d’utilisateurs, le jeu en vaudra sans doute la chandelle. Comment vont répondre les concurrents de Lenovo à cette approche ? Il est possible que cela entraine des modifications chez eux. Si cette décision pousse les groupes à préférer Lenovo à HP ou Dell, ces deux derniers reverront peut-être à leur tour leurs machines sous le même angle. Et cela pourrait être très bénéfique pour tous les autres utilisateurs.

Thinkpad T14 Gen 7

Car les Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 vont rejoindre tôt ou tard les autres modèles pro de la gamme sur le marché de l’occasion. Ils seront alors proposés à plus petit prix avec un matériel tout à fait exploitable. Et, en cas de batterie un peu faible, de port un peu lâche ou de stockage un peu mou, il sera possible de retrouver un engin comme neuf très facilement.

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AI Startup Sues Ex-CEO Saying He Took 41GB of Email, Lied On Resume

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 16:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a large quantity of proprietary information in the days leading up to his ouster from the company in September 2024. In a lawsuit filed late last month in San Francisco Superior Court but only made public this week, Hayden AI claims that former CEO Chris Carson undertook what it called "numerous fraudulent actions," which include "forged board signatures, unauthorized stock sales, and improper allocation of personal expenses." [...] Hayden AI, which is worth $464 million according to an estimated valuation on PitchBook, has asked the court to impose preliminary injunctive relief, requiring Carson to either return or destroy the data he allegedly stole. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Carson secretly sold over $1.2 million in company stock, forged board signatures, and copied 41GB of proprietary company emails before being fired in September 2024. The complaint also claims Carson fabricated key parts of his resume, including a PhD and military service. It's a "carefully constructed fraud," says Hayden AI. "That is a lie," the complaint states. "Carson does not hold a PhD from Waseda or any other university. In 2007, he was not obtaining a PhD but was operating 'Splat Action Sports,' a paintball equipment business in a Florida strip mall."

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The National Videogame Museum Acquires the Mythical Nintendo Playstation

Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 15:00
The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF-1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the canceled Nintendo PlayStation. Engadget reports: Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in a hybrid console that could play both. The partnership didn't last long, though, with Nintendo backing out before it ever really got off the ground, announcing that it would instead be working with Philips. Sony decided to make the PlayStation on its own instead, in an act of revenge that you have to say paid off in the long run, and we never did get to see Crash Bandicoot running around the Mushroom Kingdom. Still, the short-lived Nintendo PlayStation remains a fascinating what-if scenario in video game history, and the USA's National Video Museum has acquired the original development kit.

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