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Arizona Charges Kalshi With Illegal Gambling Operation

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 23:00
Arizona has filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing it of operating an illegal gambling business. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. The case could ultimately head to the Supreme Court to decide whether federal oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission overrides state gambling laws. Bloomberg reports: While state regulators have taken steps to crack down on what they say is unlicensed betting on Kalshi's site, Arizona appears to be the first state to escalate to criminal charges. The charges cited in the complaint are misdemeanors, which carry less serious penalties than felonies. [...] Prediction market exchanges like Kalshi have said they should continue to be regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission despite opposition from some state officials, who argue the trading should come under state gambling laws. Arizona's criminal complaint follows Kalshi's move last week to block the state's gaming department from taking enforcement action against the company. "These are the first criminal charges of any kind filed against Kalshi in any court in the United States, but it will likely be the first of several," said Daniel Wallach, a sports and gaming attorney.

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Rural Ohioans Seek To Ban Data Centers Through Constitutional Amendment

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 22:00
Residents in rural Ohio are pushing a constitutional amendment to ban large data centers over 25 megawatts, citing concerns about energy use, water consumption, and lack of transparency around proposed projects. "My biggest concern is because I love Adams County," Nikki Gerber told Cleveland.com. "What it feels like they are doing is just taking advantage of the unzoned rural areas of Ohio, where they can go ahead and put in whatever they want." From the report: Gerber and a handful of residents from Adams and Brown counties gathered about 1,800 signatures in eight days to start the ballot process. They submitted those petitions to the Ohio attorney general's office on Monday. That's the first step before supporters can begin collecting signatures statewide. State law requires at least 1,000 valid voter signatures to begin the process. The petitions must also include the full text of the proposed amendment and a summary explaining what it would do. Attorney General Dave Yost's office now has 10 days to decide whether the summary fairly and truthfully describes the proposal. If it does, the measure will move to the Ohio Ballot Board. Supporters would then need to gather about 413,000 valid signatures by July to place the amendment before voters this November. The report notes that a 25-megawatt limit "would effectively block most modern data centers from being built in Ohio."

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Gamers React With Overwhelming Disgust To DLSS 5's Generative AI Glow-Ups

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 21:00
Kyle Orland writes via Ars Technica: Since deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS) launched on 2018's RTX 2080 cards, gamers have been generally bullish on the technology as a way to effectively use machine-learning upscaling techniques to increase resolutions or juice frame rates in games. With yesterday's tease of the upcoming DLSS 5, though, Nvidia has crossed a line from mere upscaling into complete lighting and texture overhauls influenced by "generative AI." The result is a bland, uncanny gloss that has received an instant and overwhelmingly negative reaction from large swaths of gamers and the industry at large. While previous DLSS releases rendered upscaled frames or created entirely new ones to smooth out gaps, Nvidia calls DLSS 5 -- which it plans to launch in Autumn -- "a real-time neural rendering model" that can "deliver a new level of photoreal computer graphics previously only achieved in Hollywood visual effects." Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said explicitly that the technology melds "generative AI" with "handcrafted rendering" for "a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression." Unlike existing generative video models, which Nvidia notes are "difficult to precisely control and often lack predictability," DLSS 5 uses a game's internal color and motion vectors "to infuse the scene with photoreal lighting and materials that are anchored to source 3D content and consistent from frame to frame." That underlying game data helps the system "understand complex scene semantics such as characters, hair, fabric and translucent skin, along with environmental lighting conditions like front-lit, back-lit or overcast," the company says. Nvidia's announcement video and detailed Digital Foundry breakdown can be found at their respective links. "Reactions have compared the effect to air-brushed pornography, 'yassified, looks-maxed freaks,' or those uncanny, unavoidable Evony ads," writes Orland. "Others have noted how DLSS 5 seems to mangle the intended art direction by dampening shadows in favor of a homogenized look." Thomas Was Alone developer Mike Bithell said the technology seems designed "for when you absolutely, positively, don't want any art direction in your gaming experience." Gunfire Games Senior Concept Artist Jeff Talbot added that "in every shot the art direction was taken away for the senseless addition of 'details.' Each DLSS 5 shot looked worse and had less character than the original. This is just a garbage AI Filter." DLSS 5's "AI dogshit is actually depressing," said New Blood Interactive founder and CEO Dave Oshry, adding that future generations "won't even know this looks 'bad' or 'wrong' because to them it'll be normal."

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[Bon plan] Écran iiyama 27" QHD IPS 144 Hz à 121,49 € livré !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
17 mars 2026 à 20:12

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Finance Bros To Tech Bros: Don't Mess With My Bloomberg Terminal

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 20:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: A battle of insults and threats has broken out between the tech world and Wall Street. What's got everyone so worked up? The same thing that starts most fights: business software. A series of social-media posts went viral in recent days with claims that AI has created a worthy -- and way cheaper -- alternative to the Bloomberg terminal, a computer system that is like oxygen to professional investors. Now "Bloomberg is cooked," some posters argued as they heralded the arrival of a newly released AI tool from startup Perplexity. [...] The finance bros who worship at the altar of Bloomberg have declared war on the tech evangelists who have put all their faith in AI. To suggest that the terminal is replaceable is "laughable," said Jason Lemire, who jumped into the conversation on LinkedIn. (Ironically or not, his post also included an AI-generated image of churchgoers praying to the Bloomberg terminal). "It seems quite obvious to me that those propagating that post are either just looking for easy engagement and/or have never worked in a serious financial institution," he wrote. [...] Morgan Linton, the co-founder and CTO of AI startup Bold Metrics and an avid Perplexity Computer user, said it's rare for a single AI prompt to generate anything close to what Bloomberg does. That said, he added that tools like this can lay "a really good foundation for a financial application. And that really has not been possible before." Others aren't so sure. Michael Terry, an institutional investment manager who used the terminal for more than 30 years, said he used a prompt circulating online to try to vibe code a Bloomberg replica on Anthropic's Claude. "It was laughable at best, horrific at worst," he said. Shevelenko acknowledged there are some aspects of the terminal that can't be replicated with vibe coding, including some of Bloomberg's proprietary data inputs. The live chat network, which includes 350,000 financial professionals in 184 countries, would also be hard to re-create, as well as the terminal's data security, reliability and robust support system. "I love Bloomberg. And I know most people that use Bloomberg are very, very loyal and extremely happy," said Lemire. His message to the techies? "There's nothing that you can vibe code in a weekend or even like over the course of a year that's going to come anywhere close."

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Samsung Ends $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold Sales After Just Three Months

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 19:00
Samsung is reportedly ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold just months after launch, likely due to "high production costs" and limited supply. 9to5Google reports: The Galaxy Z TriFold launched in South Korea barely four months ago, arriving in Samsung's home market ahead of a larger debut in the U.S. and other markets in January. The $2,899 smartphone brought an entirely new form factor to the foldable market, but it's apparently very short-lived. Korean media reports (via SamMobile) that Samsung is planning to end sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold in Korea, with one more restock coming in the country this week. In the United States, the report mentions that the TriFold will be available until "the current production volume is sold out," which sounds like we might only get another restock or two here as well.

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AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs

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Par : Michael Larabel
17 mars 2026 à 19:00
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features...

Le boitier PC né de la collaboration entre Antec et Noctua est là, avec 6 ventilateurs Noctua d'origine !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
17 mars 2026 à 18:47

C'était le seul "survivant" de la nouvelle roadmap de Noctua pour le premier trimestre 2026 et le voilà finalement lancé. Nous parlons de l'Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition, un boitier PC clairement pensé pour les passionnés de la marque et... qui sont prêts à y mettre le prix, comme souvent de toute m...

Nvidia Expects To Sell 'At Least' $1 Trillion In AI Chips By 2028

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 18:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers -- mostly of the technical variety -- during his keynote Monday to kick off the company's annual GTC Conference in San Jose, California. But there was one financial figure that investors surely took notice of: his projection that there will be $1 trillion worth of orders for Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips, a monetary reflection of a booming AI business. About an hour into his keynote, Huang noted that last year Nvidia saw about $500 billion in demand for its Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips through 2026. "Now, I don't know if you guys feel the same way, but $500 billion is an enormous amount of revenue," he said. "Well, I'm here to tell you that right now where I stand -- a few short months after GTC DC, one year after last GTC -- right here where I stand, I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion."

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Are Split Spacebars the Next Big Gaming Keyboard Trend?

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 17:00
"There are countless upgrades you could make to your gaming setup," writes PC Gamer's Jacob Ridley. "A wireless this, a bigger that, a faster thing. But how do you know what's going to be a genuine upgrade worth investing in? Personally, I think it might be split spacebars." His argument centers on the fact that spacebars take up a "greedy" amount of keyboard space -- space that could instead be divided into multiple keys for different actions, such as voice chat or melee attacks. From the report: While it's often very easy to reprogram your spacebar to do a different action via your keyboard's software, it's a lot harder to reprogram your brain to hit any other key when you try to jump in game. Spacebar makes you jump. Everyone knows that; it's practically etched onto your brain if you're a long-time mouse and keyboard player. So, why does a split spacebar help with that? It comes down to this: once you know which side of a spacebar you tend to thwack with your thumb, you can program the other side to do whatever you want. I hit the right-side of my spacebar every time when I'm typing. Therefore, when I started using a Wooting 60HE v2 with a split spacebar, I set the left-side to be the delete key; the keyboard lacking a dedicated delete key for its 60% size. Though for gaming, the split spacebar offers much more varied purpose. People do strange things with the WASD keys that I won't litigate here, but I'm pretty sure most gamers use their left thumb to strike the spacebar for gaming. Right? Right. If you fall into this category, you have the option of using the right-side spacebar for things like a chunky melee key, or, my personal favorite, an in-game voice chat key.

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Pour Jensen Huang, la demande en puces IA va encore doubler d’ici 2027

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Par : Alexandre Laurent
17 mars 2026 à 16:29
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Pour Jensen Huang, la demande en puces IA va encore doubler d’ici 2027

Jensen Huang, CEO de NVIDIA, a profité de la conférence d’introduction de son événement annuel, la GTC, pour souligner le caractère toujours croissant de la demande en puces dédiées à l’IA. Cette dernière pourrait atteindre l’équivalent de 1 000 milliards de dollars de chiffre d’affaires pour l’entreprise entre 2025 et 2027. Il lance dans le même temps un sérieux appel du pied au monde de l’open source avec le lancement de la Nemotron Coalition, déjà rejointe par Mistral.

Affublé de sa sempiternelle veste en cuir, Jensen Huang a arpenté pendant 2h30 la scène du Convention center de San José (Californie) lundi pour la conférence d’ouverture de la GTC (GPU Tech Conference), son événement annuel dédié aux développeurs, désormais majoritairement centré sur l’informatique dédiée à l’IA.

Émaillé de multiples annonces produits, son discours a principalement consisté à souligner à quel point la demande en matière de composants dédiés à l’intelligence artificielle était loin d’être assouvie. L’appétit du marché pour les systèmes IA complets, les nouveaux CPU Vera ou les GPU de classe Blackwell et Rubin pourrait ainsi représenter plus de 1 000 milliards de dollars sur trois ans pour NVIDIA, en regardant une période allant de 2025 à 2027.

Une soif inextinguible de GPU

Un joli nombre rond (« 1 trillion dollars » en anglais) qui témoignerait d’une trajectoire de croissance toujours extrêmement rapide : l’entreprise a pour mémoire enregistré 216 milliards de dollars de chiffre d’affaires pour son année fiscale 2026, terminée le 26 janvier dernier. Elle souligne également une révision à la hausse des prévisions formulée par NVIDIA, puisqu’en octobre dernier, lors de la GTC de Washington, l’entreprise tablait sur 500 milliards de dollars de commandes entre 2025 et 2026.

Motivée par le développement des usages et donc l’inférence, la croissance porterait les prévisions de chiffre d’affaires de NVIDIA à 1000 milliards de dollars sur la période 2025 – 2027 – capture d’écran

À quoi correspondent exactement ces chiffres, et quelle année (fiscale ou calendaire) représentent-ils pour NVIDIA, dont l’exercice financier est décalé (l’entreprise a publié fin février les résultats du quatrième trimestre de son exercice fiscal 2026, qui couvrait les trois mois précédant le 25 janvier 2026) ? Il est important de noter que les sommes avancées par Jensen Huang ne constituent pas des prévisions financières au sens boursier du terme, qui engagent l’entreprise de façon nettement plus formelle.


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US SEC Preparing To Scrap Quarterly Reporting Requirement

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Par : BeauHD
17 mars 2026 à 16:00
The U.S. SEC is reportedly preparing a proposal to make quarterly earnings reports optional, potentially allowing companies to report results just twice a year. "The proposal could be published as soon as next month," reports Reuters, citing a paywalled report from the Wall Street Journal, adding that "regulators are in talks with major exchanges to discuss how their rules may need to be adjusted." Reuters reports: The SEC will vote on the proposal once it is published, after a public comment period which typically lasts at least 30 days, the report said. The WSJ report added that the rule is expected to make quarterly reporting optional and not eliminate it altogether. The proposed change in the reporting standard would allow listed companies to publish results every six months instead of the current mandate to report figures every 90 days. Trump, who first floated the idea in his first term as president, has argued the change in requirements would discourage shortsightedness from public companies while cutting costs. Skeptics, however, caution delaying disclosures could reduce transparency and heighten market volatility.

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Les Google Pixel 10 sont disponibles chez Bouygues Telecom

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Par : ToFoo93
17 mars 2026 à 14:40

  Les Google Pixel 10 sont disponibles chez Bouygues Telecom avec des tarifs attractifs et un bonus de reprise pouvant atteindre 200 €. Du Pixel 10a accessible au Pro Fold pliable, voici le guide complet de toute la gamme. 📑 Sommaire de l’article La gamme Pixel 10 : cinq modèles, un ADN Google AI Les […]

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