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Windows XP vs Vista vs 7 vs 8.1 vs 10 vs 11 : quel est le plus rapide des Windows des 25 dernières années ?

En voilà un test qui risque de faire jaser, et ce à plusieurs niveaux. Le YouTubeur TrigrZolt a posté en décembre 2025, navré nous avons un peu de retard à l'allumage, une vidéo mettant aux prises six ordinateurs portables identiques d'un point de vue hardware (matériel), mais disposant chacun d'une...

DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution : un premier test, avec des GeForce RTX 20, 30, 40 et 50 !

Depuis la mise en ligne des pilotes graphiques GeForce Game Ready 591.74 WHQL, les possesseurs de cartes graphiques GeForce RTX peuvent s'essayer à une composante essentielle du nouveau DLSS 4.5 de NVIDIA : la toute nouvelle itération du DLSS Super Resolution, c'est-à-dire de la technologie de mise...

Intel Core G3 (Extreme) : les processeurs Panther Lake pour consoles portables se précisent

En ce début janvier 2026, Intel a finalement libéré et délivré Panther Lake. Nous n'avons plus seulement droit aux informations techniques comme ce fut le cas au mois d'octobre 2025, mais bien à l'annonce complète de tous les différents modèles proposés par Intel. Enfin, tous, pas tout à fait, car u...

Une alimentation 1200W avec 6 connecteurs 16 pins 12V-2x6 ? Ne paniquez pas de suite, il y a une explication

Lors du CES 2026 qui est sur le point de se terminer, la marque COUGAR présente sur son stand une alimentation PC qui pourrait bien déclencher des sueurs froides à certains, surtout ceux qui ont déjà connu une mésaventure avec un câble d'alimentation pour carte graphique 16 pins, qu'il soit de type...

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Ryzen AI 7 445 : le fabuleux processeur qui montre toute l'estime qu'AMD a pour les CONsommateurs

Il faut parfois savoir tirer son chapeau aux génies du marketing et à leurs grandioses idées, surtout quand tout se fait à la fois dans l'intérêt de l'entreprise, mais aussi en total respect des simples petits consommateurs que nous sommes, nous, de notre côté. AMD vient de réaliser un coup de maitr...

View Cross TG : Thermaltake fait rentrer deux configurations Micro-ATX complètes dans un seul boitier PC !

Des boitiers PC pouvant contenir deux configurations, cela n'a rien de nouveau même si cela reste évidemment très rare. Par contre, l'un des points communs à ces modèles "hors nomes" était quasiment tout le temps le fait que l'emplacement pour la seconde configuration se résumait à du Mini-ITX.  Lor...

007 First Light : les premières configurations recommandées sont tombées, le jeu s'annonce très gourmand !

Début septembre 2025, Thibaut vous parlait sur H&Co du prochain jeu James Bond en préparation du côté d'IO Interactive : 007 First Light. Un jeu qui va avoir la lourde tâche de redorer le blason des jeux de la franchise, qui reste sur un 007 Legends sorti en 2012 et qui s'est fait détruire par l...

ASRock et les watercoolings CPU (AIO), c'est parti !

À la toute fin 2025, ASRock faisait un peu de teasing sur le hardware que la firme allait présenter au CES 2026. L'information la plus marquante était sans doute le fait que la société ajoutait une corde de plus à son arc en se lançant sur le marché des watercoolings autonomes pour CPU, que l'on app...

NVIDIA autorise ses partenaires à faire des GeForce RTX 5090 avec le PCB "éclaté" de la Founders Edition !

Hier, le 6 janvier 2026, nous vous présentions pour l'ouverture du CES une GeForce RTX 5090 particulière à plus d'un titre : la GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5090 AORUS INFINITY. Son design "arrondi aux deux extrémités" n'est pas commun du tout, mais d'un point de vue technique l'information la plus importan...

Le Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 à double 3D V-Cache repoussé à la dernière minute par AMD ?

Il a rapidement fallu se rendre à l'évidence, puisqu'AMD a levé très tôt le mardi 6 janvier son NDA sur ses nouveautés du CES 2026 : pas de Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 en vue, alors qu'il était attendu de pied ferme par ceux qui espéraient voir en action une double 3D V-Cache pour la première fois sur un CPU g...

MSI explique la sécurité GPU "'proactive" de ses nouvelles alimentations PC 2026 : GPU Safeguard

La semaine dernière, le 2 janvier pour être précis, nous vous parlions d'un "teasing" de la part de MSI au sujet d'une nouvelle gamme d'alimentations disposant de sécurités pour les soucis récurrents de connecteurs 16 pins et câbles qui brulent. La firme en a finalement dit plus à ce sujet et a décr...

HYTE présente son boitier PC Z90, un prototype qui ne sera jamais produit car trop couteux...

Si vous aimez les vidéos qui dévoilent un peu l'envers du décor du hardware PC, en voici un qui pourrait vous intéresser. La marque HYTE se met elle-même en scène avec ce mini reportage de près de 15 minutes où elle dévoile un prototype assez original de boitier résolument pensé pour optimiser le re...

NVIDIA pose les premières pierres de son DLSS 4.5 dès ce 6 janvier 2026, mais il faudra attendre pour tout avoir !

Tôt ce matin, Thibaut vous annonçait l'arrivée du DLSS 4.5 de NVIDIA. La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'il ne sera pas nécessaire d'attendre pour profiter du DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution, la nouvelle itération donc de la technologie de mise à l'échelle de NVIDIA. Il faudra par contre attendre "le printemps",...

GIGABYTE a maintenant lui aussi sa GeForce RTX 5090 d'exception "arrondie" : la AORUS INFINITY

Ces dernières années, la tendance des designs de cartes graphiques haut de gamme allait plutôt vers le format "brique", bien rectangulaire et aux arêtes saillantes. ASUS avait d'ailleurs pas mal étonné en présentant en aout 2025 son fleuron ultime en quantité limitée: l'ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 ROF Mat...

Game Over pour les SSD WD_BLACK et WD Blue, qui deviennent les SANDISK Optimus

Le 24 février 2025, Sandisk redevenait une société dissociée de Western Digital, qui l'avait rachetée en 2016. Elle emportait en "cadeau bonus" la branche dédiée à la mémoire flash de Western Digital, qui souhaitait de son côté se focaliser uniquement sur les disques durs. Pourtant, probablement pou...

Même pas le temps de siroter un mojito, que la GeForce RTX 3060 devrait déjà sortir de sa retraite !

Mi décembre, nous vous proposions une actualité sur les derniers instants de la vie commerciale de la GeForce RTX 3060. Son sort semblait décidé, alors que la production avait stoppé depuis un bon moment déjà et que les derniers stocks étaient en train de s'écouler. Eh bien, il semblerait qu'il ne f...

As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked

5 janvier 2026 à 12:34
America's tech companies and data center developers "are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near them," reports the Associated Press: Communities across the United States are reading about — and learning from — each other's battles against data center proposals that are fast multiplying in number and size to meet steep demand as developers branch out in search of faster connections to power sources... [A]s more people hear about a data center coming to their community, once-sleepy municipal board meetings in farming towns and growing suburbs now feature crowded rooms of angry residents pressuring local officials to reject the requests... A growing number of proposals are going down in defeat, sounding alarms across the data center constellation of Big Tech firms, real estate developers, electric utilities, labor unions and more. Andy Cvengros, who helps lead the data center practice at commercial real estate giant JLL, counted seven or eight deals he'd worked on in recent months that saw opponents going door-to-door, handing out shirts or putting signs in people's yards. "It's becoming a huge problem," Cvengros said. Data Center Watch, a project of 10a Labs, an AI security consultancy, said it is seeing a sharp escalation in community, political and regulatory disruptions to data center development. Between April and June alone, its latest reporting period, it counted 20 proposals valued at $98 billion in 11 states that were blocked or delayed amid local opposition and state-level pushback. That amounts to two-thirds of the projects it was tracking... For some people angry over steep increases in electric bills, their patience is thin for data centers that could bring still-higher increases. Losing open space, farmland, forest or rural character is a big concern. So is the damage to quality of life, property values or health by on-site diesel generators kicking on or the constant hum of servers. Others worry that wells and aquifers could run dry...

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2025 Ends With Release of J. R. R. Tolkein's Unpublished Story

5 janvier 2026 à 08:34
2025'S final months finally saw the publication of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Bovadium Fragments, writes the Los Angeles Review of Books: Anyone who has read Tolkien's letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and The Bovadium Fragments is a work brimming with Tolkien's fury — specifically, ire over mankind's obsession with motor vehicles. Tolkien's anger is expressed through a playful satire told from the perspective of a group of future archaeologists who are studying the titular fragments, which tell of a civilization that asphyxiated itself on its own exhaust fumes. Tolkien's fictional fragments use the language of ancient myth, reframing modern issues like traffic congestion and parking with a grandeur that highlights their total absurdity. It is Tolkien at his angriest and funniest, making The Bovadium Fragments a minor treasure in his ever-growing catalog... As Tolkien put it in one of his private letters, "the spirit of 'Isengard,' if not of Mordor, is of course always cropping up. The present design of destroying Oxford in order to accommodate motor-cars is a case." Readers of The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) will recognize the allusion. In the author's magnum opus, Isengard is a kind of industrial hell, endlessly feeding its furnaces with felled trees... The Bovadium Fragments brings Tolkien's visceral hatred of such machines to the fore for the first time — on the same level as Isengard or the scoured Shire. In Tolkien's story, the words "Motores" and "monsters" are interchangeable. And with his grand, mythic register, Tolkien defamiliarizes the car enough for modern readers to see it as he does — as truly monstrous. "[T]he Motores continued to bring forth an ever larger progeny," Tolkien writes. "[M]any of the citizens harboured the monsters, feeding them with the costly oils and essences which they required, and building houses for them in their gardens...." One suspects that Tolkien would have preferred to see Oxford return to the era of the donkey cart. That kind of nostalgia is familiar in Tolkien's work — the idea that we developed just a little too far, skipping past an Eden we failed to recognize a generation or two ago. (For Tolkien, the paragon of paradise seems to have been a rural village around the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.) But he also knows that mankind's impulse to develop is something we cannot help. And the inevitable blowback we get from our hubris is something we cannot avoid. That defeatist attitude is suggested in the frame narrative to The Bovadium Fragments, in which the archaeologists smugly declare their superiority to the extinct citizens of old Oxford. "We at any rate are not likely to fall into such folly," one of them says. In their more enlightened future, we are told, they only pursue the more benign science of longevity. Their wish is that one day they shall "at last conquer mortality, and not 'die like animals.'" But humans are animals, Tolkien argues. And in stretching beyond that, we may find progress and modern conveniences like motorcars. But perhaps we also pave a road to Isengard. And we may not recognize that destination until it is too late — until we are trapped within its walls, suffocating on our own exhaust fumes.

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Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX

5 janvier 2026 à 05:35
Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews. They call it "the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux." I have two HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC workstations, one of them being my pride and joy: an HP c8000, the last and fastest PA-RISC workstation HP ever made, back in 2005. It's a behemoth of a machine with two dual-core PA-8900 processors running at 1Ghz, 8 GB of RAM, a FireGL X3 graphics card, and a few other fun upgrades like an internal LTO3 tape drive that I use for keeping a bootable recovery backup of the entire system. It runs HP-UX 11i v1, fully updated and patched as best one can do considering how many patches have either vanished from the web or have never "leaked" from HPE (most patches from 2009 onwards are not available anywhere without an expensive enterprise support contract)... Over the past few years, I've been trying to get into contact with HPE about the state of HP-UX' patches, software, and drivers, which are slowly but surely disappearing from the web. A decent chunk is archived on various websites, but a lot of it isn't, which is a real shame. Most patches from 2009 onwards are unavailable, various software packages and programs for HP-UX are lost to time, HP-UX installation discs and ISOs later than 2006-2009 are not available anywhere, and everything that is available is only available via non-sanctioned means, if you know what I mean. Sadly, I never managed to get into contact with anyone at HPE, and my concerns about HP-UX preservation seem to have fallen on deaf ears. With the end-of-life date now here, I'm deeply concerned even more will go missing, and the odds of making the already missing stuff available are only decreasing. I've come to accept that very few people seem to hold any love for or special attachment to HP-UX, and that very few people care as much about its preservation as I do. HP-UX doesn't carry the movie star status of IRIX, nor the benefits of being available as both open source and on commodity hardware as Solaris, so far fewer people have any experience with it or have developed a fondness for it. As the clocks chimed midnight on New Year's Eve, he advised everyone to "spare a thought for the UNIX everyone forgot still exists."

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39 Million Californians Can Now Legally Demand Data Brokers Delete Their Personal Data

5 janvier 2026 à 02:34
While California's residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company," reports TechCrunch. But now Californians can make "a single request that more than 500 registered data brokers delete their information" — using the Delete Requests and Opt-Out Platform (or DROP): Once DROP users verify that they are California residents, they can submit a deletion request that will go to all current and future data brokers registered with the state... Brokers are supposed to start processing requests in August 2026, then they have 90 days to actually process requests and report back. If they don't delete your data, you'll have the option to submit additional information that may help them locate your records. Companies will also be able to keep first-party data that they've collected from users. It's only brokers who seek to buy or sell that data — which can include your social security number, browsing history, email address, phone number, and more — who will be required to delete it... The California Privacy Protection Agency says that in addition to giving residents more control over their data, the tool could result in fewer "unwanted texts, calls, or emails" and also decrease the "risk of identity theft, fraud, AI impersonations, or that your data is leaked or hacked."

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