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Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 22:34
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies, according to the Guardian, and "she also faces trial for alleged involvement in three attacks in 1990 and 1994: a failed bombing in front of a bank, a shooting at the US embassy in Bonn and a 1993 bombing at a prison.".] She had remained hidden for decades, and the German police hadn't deployed facial recognition software to catch her. But according to the article a journalist did, to good effect. Is the ban on the police using it a good thing? Is it good that a journalist was able to track her down using it?

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Linux Developers Consider Retiring The x32 ABI

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 21:34
The Linux kernel mailing list has a new patch proposing the retirement of the x32 ABI, reports Phoronix: The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and is now looking at possible removal from the Linux kernel. The x32 code was a nice concept for helping lower memory footprint requirements while otherwise making use of the x86_64 capabilities, but with its limited adoption and x86_64 simply being the de facto standard these days, Linux kernel developers are looking at phasing out the x32 ABI. The x32 ABI was added in Linux 3.4 back in 2012 plus also required updated compiler support too. The proposed patch argues "there is practically no real use for x32," noting that some Linux vendors (like Debian) already disable x32 by default to reduce attack surfaces. "Should nothing happen within the next half year, lets remove code bits around August after the summer break." Discussions about dropping x32 support first started in 2018...

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'Call Of Duty: Warzone' Is Shutting Down On PS4 And Xbox One

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 20:34
Call Of Duty: Warzone is shutting down on PS4 and Xbox One later this year, reports Kotaku. As Call of Duty fully transitions to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (and Switch 2), its popular battle royale spin-off, Warzone, is also ditching the old consoles. Later this year, Warzone will no longer be playable on PS4 or Xbox One... Shortly after Modern Warfare 4 ( MW4) launches on October 23, it will be integrated with Warzone. But because MW4 is skipping PS4 and Xbox One, Activision is starting the process of shutting down Warzone on those older consoles... "Beginning June 4, the game will no longer be available for new downloads on those platforms," [Activision wrote on their blog], "though existing players can continue playing until Season 1 launches. Certain items, such as Call of Duty Points bundle purchases, will no longer be available on those platforms...." Players who have properly linked their platform accounts to their Activision accounts will be able to keep all their progress and unlocks once they leap to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, or PC. Activision also confirmed on its support site that all past Call of Duty games will remain playable online on PS4 and Xbox One. The upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 "will be set against a full-scale invasion of South Korea," according to the Washington Post. And they report that Infinity Ward will release the game October 23 "on all modern gaming platforms including, notably, the Nintendo Switch 2. (The blockbuster franchise has long skipped Nintendo consoles.)" The campaign introduces Private Park, a young Korean soldier thrown into combat for the first time, framed as a classic "zero-to-hero story" against the backdrop of global calamity. The franchise's most recognizable hero, Capt. John Price, also returns, this time as a rogue agent, picking up the story of the Modern Warfare timeline that began with 2019's reboot title... [T]he game features a fictional North Korean leader, rather than Kim Jong Un or his family. Infinity Ward said it consulted regional specialists, people who defected from the North and the studio's own Korean employees. When asked whether the studio is braced for a diplomatic response from Pyongyang (familiar territory for the series), [Jack O'Hara, co-head of Infinity Ward] was dry about it. "We've had state responses to our games before. We'll find out what we all think about each other soon enough," he said... Infinity Ward is making its most significant mechanical changes in years. The game will remove "bloom," the randomized bullet spread visual trick that game developers use to simulate gunfire chaos, while firing guns from the hip. Instead, bullets will exit the gun in the same direction as the visible recoil on screen, rewarding aim over chance... The studio is also introducing Kill Block, a multiplayer map that reconfigures itself between matches using a modular system of interchangeable sections, producing more than 500 possible layouts.

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Microsoft Criticized for Threatening Legal Action Against Security Researcher

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 19:34
"A security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products," reports TechCrunch, "along with code to exploit them." Microsoft's response to the researcher? "Threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them." On Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle "Nightmare Eclipse," for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products such as the Windows built-in antivirus engine Defender and the disk-encryption tool BitLocker. The core of Microsoft's complaints is that the researcher did not attempt to report the bugs so that the company could fix them. That would have been "responsible," as Microsoft's blog put it. The other side of the company's argument is that by publishing the details of the bugs and how to exploit them before they were patched, Nightmare Eclipse may have aided malicious hackers. Some of the vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse disclosed have since been used by hackers in real-world attacks, according to Microsoft, as well as the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA. "Our Digital Crimes Unit will continue bringing cases against these actors and those that enable their criminal activity — coordinating as needed with law enforcement around the world," Microsoft wrote... In a series of blog posts published in the last couple of weeks — without providing many specific details — Nightmare Eclipse claimed to have been in contact with Microsoft, but the company allegedly mistreated them, including revoking access to their Microsoft Security Response Center account, the portal where researchers can report vulnerabilities to the tech giant. Nightmare Eclipse's implication was that they had no choice but to release the vulnerabilities publicly... The researchers published the bugs on open source repositories GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and GitLab. The researchers' accounts on those platforms have been banned... In response to this latest controversy with Nightmare Eclipse, countless researchers have shared their bad experiences reporting bugs to Microsoft. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Elektroschock for sharing the news.

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Processeurs pour consoles portables Intel Arc G-Series : les caractéristiques complètes sont là

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
30 mai 2026 à 19:20

Il y a deux jours, le 28 mai 2026, Intel officialisait ses tout premiers processeurs entièrement destinés aux consoles portables : les Arc G3 Extreme et Arc G3. Nous nous étions alors un peu plaints du manque d'informations données par la firme quant aux caractéristiques des deux processeurs, car no...

Mars Minerals Reveals an Ancient Ocean's Potential For Life - and a Possible Way to Make Oxygen

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 18:34
Researchers have identified a ring of minerals around the largest basin in the northern hemisphere of Mars (which past research suggests held a large body of water). Phys.org says the research provides new clues on when life may have been possible on Mars — and how future astronauts could make oxygen: Manganese oxides and hydroxides (collectively written as manganese (hydr)oxides) can act as geological proxies for past oceans... The team involved in the new study analyzed short-wave infrared (SWIR) data from China's Zhurong rover, ESA's OMEGA orbiter and NASA's CRISM orbiter to identify and quantify manganese (hydr)oxides... The team says the placement of the ring indicates that the ring formed during the Hesperian epoch — a geologic period on Mars that occurred roughly 3.7 to 3.0 billion years ago. The Hesperian epoch marked the transition from the warmer, wetter, and volcanically active Martian world to a cold, dry, and dusty planet... [when "the potential for further prebiotic evolution on the surface was significantly reduced."] "This yields a final estimated duration of 0.8-1.5 million years for the presence of stable aqueous conditions in Utopia Planitia. This timescale significantly exceeds what is typically expected for transient surface water activity on Mars, suggesting that Utopia Planitia hosted a long-lived and evolving aquatic system during the Hesperian epoch, rather than a short-lived or rapidly evaporating water body," write the study authors. The researchers say that although this does not provide direct evidence of early life, it does suggest that Mars may have provided an environment conducive to initiating early forms of life. The timeline of the ocean matches the minimal timescale required for prebiotic chemistry, and also temporally overlaps with the period on Earth in which scientists believe the earliest forms of life first arose, approximately 3.4 billion years ago. The study authors also note that the conditions for life may have also extended into the next Amazonian period on Mars. They write, "If MnOx formation or redistribution occurred during the Amazonian, this would suggest that Mars may have maintained episodic or localized liquid water environments significantly later than traditionally assumed." Interestingly, the authors also bring up the potential for future human habitation on Mars. They suggest that oxygen can be produced by using the manganese (hydr)oxides for water-splitting reactions that generate oxygen through photocatalysis, potentially supporting human activities or even terraforming. Of course, this would be a long way off.

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DuckDuckGo Installs Up 30% After Google Announced AI Search

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 17:34
After Google announced AI-emphasizing changes to its search results, many web surfers began defecting to DuckDuckGo, reports TechCrunch. (They describe DuckDuckGo as "a privacy-focused alternative" that accounts for around 2% of the U.S. search market...) DuckDuckGo said U.S. app installs went up 18.1% week-over-week on average during the May 20 to May 25 period, compared to May 13 to May 18. The company said that growth was sustained for six consecutive days and peaked at 30.5% on May 25. On iOS, the rate of install is even higher, with week-over-week growth hitting a 33% average, peaking at 69.9%... DuckDuckGo said the trend is stronger in the U.S, and that DuckDuckGo continued to gain users over the Memorial Day weekend, when it usually sees a dip in traffic. Some of that data is backed up by third parties. App analytics company Apptopia found a 29% increase in average daily downloads in the U.S. and a 12% increase globally over the same period. DuckDuckGo also said visits to its AI-free search page, noai.duckduckgo.com averaged 22.7% week-over-week growth, peaking at 27.7% on May 24, according to the article. ("DuckDuckGo also offers an AI Image Filter that filters out AI-created images from search results.") TechCrunch delves into the reason why: I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can "opt out of using AI... Google just isn't Google anymore," she said. It seems that others had the same idea... Some have argued it will kill the open web, while others shared concerns that AI overviews surface inaccurate responses and take away control from users who might not want to use AI. It also overcomplicates simple things. A Google spokesperson pointed out that AI Mode isn't the default in their search results. (And CNET notes Google include an AI-free "Web" choice in its results if you just want a page of ftraditional blue links.) TechCrunch adds that DuckDuckGo also offers a separate free tool called Duck.ai offering access to models including Claude, Meta's Llama and OpenAI's GPT-5 mini. "All chats are private because DuckDuckGo strips the user's IP address before requests reach model providers, deletes conversations within 30 days, and prevents chats from being used for training."

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La Moore Threads MTT-S80 testée en 2026. Après avoir vu cela, vous ne direz plus jamais de mal de votre carte graphique !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
30 mai 2026 à 17:19

Si vous êtes du genre à insulter régulièrement votre carte graphique au moindre ralentissement ou framerate que vous jugez insuffisant, dites-vous que cela pourrait être pire : vous pourriez avoir une Moore Threads MTT-S80. Bon, on dit évidemment cela avec humour. Car oui, il faut reconnaitre aux pu...

Ozempic May Be Reshaping the Brain, Scientists Say

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 16:34
A research team found "extensive changes" on brain scans of 13 young women taking GLP-1 drugs, reports the Washington Post: Within only a few months, the brain connections in the salience network, which helps target attention, had multiplied... ["We didn't expect to see this effect, and we really don't know what it means," said an assistant professor assisting the research.] Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a metabolism breakthrough: medicines that act like hormones to control hunger, blood sugar and weight. But as researchers probe deeper into how the drugs work, early evidence suggests that GLP-1s may also be reshaping parts of the brain. Tens of millions of people are now taking the medications worldwide, turning what began as an obesity and diabetes treatment into what could be modern medicine's largest unplanned neuroscience experiments... Long before Oprah Winfrey and social media influencers helped popularize GLP-1 drugs, physician-scientist Lorenzo Leggio was studying them as a possible addiction treatment... Several major studies examining GLP-1 drugs on nicotine dependence, opioid- and cocaine-use disorders, gambling addiction and binge eating are also underway. "It's very exciting times, but we don't fully understand how it works," Leggio said... As evidence has grown that inflammation, metabolism and mental health may be far more connected than scientists once believed, researchers have become intrigued by patients who say GLP-1 drugs appear to ease anxiety, compulsive thinking and emotional distress. Daniel Drucker, a University of Toronto researcher and GLP-1 drug pioneer who receives funding from several drugmakers, said researchers are investigating the medications across a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions, though none are approved for them. "We have so many anecdotal reports: They were treated for blood sugar and then they felt much happier. Or they took one dose of the drug and their brain fog cleared," he said. The article suggests social media complaints "raise deeper questions about what, exactly, these drugs are changing. "If GLP-1s alter the brain systems involved in reward, craving and motivation, researchers wonder, where is the line between quieting a person's destructive impulses and reshaping personality itself?"

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Google TV Streamer vs Apple TV 4K 2026 : lequel choisir ?

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Par : ToFoo93
30 mai 2026 à 15:00

Face à face entre deux références du marché : le Google TV Streamer vs Apple TV 4K 2026, lequel l’emporte ? Ces deux appareils se positionnent dans la même gamme de prix pour des usages très proches. Toutefois, leurs philosophies divergent nettement : l’un mise sur l’écosystème Apple, l’autre sur l’ouverture Google. Voici notre comparatif […]

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Beelink Me Pro : les PC-Nas évoluent vers des puces plus rapides

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Par : Pierre Lecourt
30 mai 2026 à 15:36

L’idée de base du Beelink Me Pro lors de son lancement à la fin de l’année dernière était très claire. Proposer un boîtier permettant de gérer de deux à quatre stockages 2.5 ou 3.5 pouces et l’associer à une base de carte mère extractible permettant une évolution. Quelques mois plus tard, cette évolution est déjà là.

Beelink Me Pro

Il faut dire qu’Intel a un peu tordu le bras du constructeur. Le Beelink Me Pro d’origine est sorti avec des puces Intel N95 et N150. Des processeurs qui sont de plus en plus difficiles à obtenir aujourd’hui et sur lesquels les marques ne comptent plus dans la durée. Beelink se rabat donc sur d’autres solutions et met en avant par la même la compétence particulière de son MiniPC.

En effet ces engins ont une carte mère montée sur un support en rack, totalement extractible. Un propriétaire d’une version N95 pourra donc, en théorie, l’échanger contre une des nouvelles cartes. La partie théorique vient du fait que pour le moment Beelink n’a pas mis en vente de cartes nues. Il est également possible que des incompatibilités techniques existent, mais j’en doute.

Beelink Me Pro

Beelink Me Pro

Les puces disponibles sont l’Intel Raptor Lake Core i5-13420H, l’AMD Hawk Point Ryzen 7 H 255 ou l’AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Des processeurs aux compétences évidemment plus avancées dont on ne connait pas l’entourage technique pour le moment. Les précédents modèles sont équipés de mémoire LPDDR5x en 12 ou 16 Go, on peut donc s’attendre à des dispositifs du même type dans des évolutions plus ou moins importantes.  

Le stockage ne devrait pas changer en quantité de SSD disponibles, mais il proposera peut-être plus de lignes PCIe. L’actuel modèle N150 propose un M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x2 et deux PCIe 3 x1. On devrait donc retrouver un M.2 2280 destiné au système et deux autres pour du stockage rapide. Cela en plus des deux à quatre baies SATA3 compatibles avec des stockages 2.5 ou 3.5″.

Le Beelink Me Pro comme MiniPC classique avec option NAS et/ou serveur

La connectique comprend, un Ethernet 10 Gigabit, un autre en 2.5 Gigabit, une sortie HDMI, un USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C avec DisplayPort, un USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A (en façade), deux USB 2.0 Type-A et un jack audio combo 3.5 mm

L’ensemble mesurera 12.1 cm de large pour 11.2 cm de haut sur 16.5 cm de profondeur pour le modèle 2 baies. La version quatre baies sera plus imposante avec 14.5 cm de large, 16.5 cm de haut et autant de profondeur. Diverses options de couleurs seront disponibles.

Pour vous situer les appareils, les modèles actuels en 2 baies sont disponibles sur Amazon aux prix suivants :

Les modèles 4 baies ne sont pas disponibles.

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Beelink Me Pro : les PC-Nas évoluent vers des puces plus rapides © MiniMachines.net. 2026

Software Stocks Have Best Month Since 2001. Talk of 'SaaSpocalypse' Subsides

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Par : EditorDavid
30 mai 2026 à 15:34
Security company Okta shot up 30% Friday, reported CNBC, while data platform provider Snowflake jumped 50% this week. They see it as part of a larger trend where software stocks "soared this week," signaling "some companies are navigating their way through AI disruption better than Wall Street expected" and that investors "may have been too quick to declare the end of software with the emergence of AI. Even as AI displaces certain tools and job functions, many software companies continue to show growth, assisted by their own AI products..." The "SaaSpocalypse" may not be over. But for now at least, fears of software's demise have cooled... The iShares Expanded Tech-Software exchange-traded fund rose 8% this week and closed May up 21%, the best monthly performance for the ETF since October 2001. Back then it was a brief rebound during the dot-com bust, while the current rally comes as concerns about the impact of AI ripple across the sector. Software names have been hit particularly hard over the past year due to the boom in so-called vibe coding, with users able to now build apps and websites in minutes thanks to offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI and others... Elsewhere in the software space, Atlassian climbed 26% for the week and ServiceNow surged over 20%, while Shopify, Workday and Asana each gained at least 14%.

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[MàJ][Bon plan] SSD Crucial P310 4 To à 299,99 € livré

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
30 mai 2026 à 13:46

Alors oui, c'est un modèle QLC le Crucial P310. Si pour vous, c'est "jamais de la vie", par rapport l'usage que vous voulez en faire qui nécessite d'énormes quantités d'écritures régulières, ou tout simplement vos préjugés sur ce type de puces NAND, nous sommes navrés, mais ce Bon plan ne s'adresse...

Boitier CORSAIR WARTHOG en fuite : un design militaire et 2 ventilateurs 200 mm d'origine sur la version RS

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
30 mai 2026 à 12:50

Plusieurs revendeurs ont commencé ces derniers jours à ajouter à leur catalogue un boitier PC de la marque CORSAIR, qui n'a pourtant pas encore été officialisé par la société : le WARTHOG. Il ne sera pas au gout de tout le monde, c'est un fait, mais les amateurs de design militaires pourraient eux y...

Ethernet vs WiFi Bbox : quelle connexion choisir pour votre TV ?

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Par : ToFoo93
30 mai 2026 à 12:00

Faut-il brancher sa TV ou sa console en câble, ou le WiFi suffit largement ? Le choix entre Ethernet vs WiFi Bbox dépend avant tout de votre usage et de la configuration de votre foyer. Voici un guide pratique pour décider selon vos appareils. Ethernet vs WiFi : les différences Quand choisir l’Ethernet ? Quand […]

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#Flock : The Bouse

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Par : Flock
30 mai 2026 à 11:37
Une saison, un épisode.
#Flock : The Bouse

Des super pouvoirs, ça envoie du rêve. La disparition lactée, la prédiction comptable transcendentale à retardement, la chauffe de l’eau par prompts interposés, les tours de magie sans magiciens, sans oublier la super-police de Trump et sa violence aveugle qui voit des aliens là où il n’y en n’a pas… autant de compétences qui révèlent en chaque entreprise douée de ces capacités une vraie puissance comique hors du commun. C’est super ! Continuez comme ça.
Pour les âmes n’ayant pas vu la série The Boys d’Amazon, navré pour vous, certains détails vous échapperont sans doute. Mais mettez votre plus belle cape et envolez vous jusqu’à samedi prochain !


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US Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Startups For Nuclear Fuel

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Par : BeauHD
30 mai 2026 à 11:34
The Trump administration is planning to provide Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to nuclear startups that want to convert it into reactor fuel, arguing it could help address a looming fuel shortage for advanced reactors. Critics warn the idea raises serious nonproliferation, security, cost, and technical concerns. The New York Times reports: The plan has generated debate and some unease among nonproliferation experts. If finalized, it would mark the first time the U.S. government has made weapons-grade plutonium available to private companies. The Energy Department has more than 50 tons of surplus plutonium left over from nuclear weapons programs, and the agency had previously been planning to dilute much of that material and bury it. Some of the nuclear start-ups trying to obtain that plutonium say that transforming the waste into fuel is a better way to dispose of it. On Tuesday, the Energy Department said that it had selected five companies to enter into "advanced negotiations" to potentially receive some surplus plutonium. That includes Oklo, a California-based nuclear power company, which plans to partner with Newcleo, a European developer of advanced nuclear reactors. Using plutonium for fuel, Oklo and Newcleo said, could solve a looming problem: Energy firms want to build a new wave of nuclear reactors, but the United States can't yet make enough conventional fuel from uranium to supply the plants. Harvesting old plutonium stockpiles could provide a short-term fix. "A lack of fuel is one of the biggest choke points in expanding nuclear power right now," said Jacob DeWitte, the chief executive of Oklo, which is developing a novel type of small reactor intended to run on plutonium. "This will help us get more nuclear power online faster." [...] The plan is not yet final, and companies will still have to negotiate with the federal government over how to secure and transfer the plutonium. In addition to Oklo, the Energy Department said it had also selected four other companies -- Standard Nuclear, Exodys Energy, SHINE Technologies and Flibe Energy -- to enter into advanced negotiations to receive the material under its Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program, which was established last year. The program "is anticipated to help companies unlock the next level of private funding to broaden domestic nuclear fuel supplies, spur innovation on American recycling technologies, and unlock private sector funding to fuel the nation's nuclear renaissance," said Michael Goff, the principal deputy assistant secretary of nuclear energy, in a statement.

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