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Reçu — 25 janvier 2026 ⏭

MIO: Memories in Orbit cache son gameplay mou dans une direction artistique majestueuse

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Par : Maxime Claudel
25 janvier 2026 à 14:02

Développé par le studio français Douze Dixièmes, MIO: Memories in Orbit se frotte au genre terrible des Metroidvania, quelques mois seulement après Hollow Knight: Silksong. C'est un grand oui pour la direction artistique. Un petit non pour le gameplay, trop mou pour répondre aux exigences de son défi assez relevé. Notre test.

Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot

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Par : EditorDavid
24 janvier 2026 à 23:34
CIO magazine reports that "the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say." "In addition to resistance, there would also be the risk of talent turnover," [says Lawrence Wolfe, CTO at marketing firm Converge]... "The truth is, both physical and virtual collaboration provide tremendous value...." IT workers facing work-from-office mandates are two to three times more likely than their counterparts to look for new jobs, according to Metaintro, a search engine that tracks millions of jobs. IT leaders hiring new employees may also face significant headwinds, with it taking 40% to 50% longer to fill in-person roles than remote jobs, according to Metaintro. "Some of the challenges CIOs face include losing top-tier talent, limiting the pool of candidates available for hire, and damaging company culture, with a team filled with resentment," says Lacey Kaelani, CEO and cofounder at Metaintro... There are several downsides for IT leaders to in-person work mandates, [adds Lena McDearmid, founder and CEO of culture and leadership advisory firm Wryver], as orders to commute to an office can feel arbitrary or rooted in control rather than in value creation. "That erodes trust quickly, particularly in IT teams that proved they could deliver remotely for years," she adds. The mandates can also create new friction for IT leaders by requiring them to deal with morale issues, manage exceptions, and spend time enforcing policy instead of leading strategy, she says. "There's also a real risk of losing experienced, high-performing talent who have options and are unwilling to trade autonomy for proximity without a clear reason," McDearmid adds. "When companies mandate daily commutes without a clear rationale, they often narrow their talent pool and increase attrition, particularly among people who know they can work effectively elsewhere." McDearmid has seen teams "sitting next to each other" who collaborate poorly "because decisions are unclear or leaders equate visibility with progress... Collaboration doesn't automatically improve just because people share a building." And Rebecca Wettemann, CEO at IT analyst firm Valoir, warns of return-to-office mandates "being used as a Band-Aid for poor management. When IT professionals feel they're being evaluated based on badge swipes, not real accomplishments, they will either act accordingly or look to work elsewhere." Thanks to Slashdot reader snydeq for sharing the article.

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Reçu — 23 janvier 2026 ⏭

Ubisoft prend conseil auprès de son voisin Cooperl Montfort pour sa restructuration

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Par : Estyaah
23 janvier 2026 à 20:40

Vous n’avez pas pu y échapper, vous avez sans doute vu qu’Ubisoft avait tranché dans le lard. Six jeux annulés dont un très attendu, de nombreux reports, des studios fermés, une restructuration et une annonce prévue le 12 février prochain vécue comme une épée de Damoclès par les employés, voici le fabuleux programme déroulé mercredi en conférence de presse par le géant breton. L’objectif serait d’économiser 200 millions d’euros en deux ans, et ainsi réduire les coûts fixes annuels à 1,25 milliards d’euros à l’horizon 2028, au lieu de 1,75 milliards dépensés sur l’année fiscale 2022/2023. Les investisseurs, quant à eux, ont pris acte en paniquant comme il faut, puisque le titre a chuté en bourse de près de 40 %.

D’après les économies prévues, Insider Gaming estime le nombre de licenciements à venir à environ 2 400, ce qui amènerait le nombre d’employés autour des 15 000. Cela s’accompagnera de fermetures de studios un peu partout, comme celui d’Ubisoft Stockholm, mais l’information sur les autres n’a pas encore été communiquée. Et pour éviter d’avoir à trop mettre la main au portefeuille, surtout en France, Ubisoft choisit de couper toute possibilité de télétravail, afin de dégrader la qualité de vie des salariés et les pousser doucement vers la sortie. Une relation saine et équilibrée entre employeur et employés. Un appel à la grève pour une demi-journée a été lancé par Solidaires Informatique, pour un rendez-vous moins de 24 h après les annonces, sans doute pour marquer le coup. On n’a pas trouvé de bilan de la mobilisation, mais elle devrait être suivie de nouvelles journées de débrayage, si l’on en croit les syndicats.

Du côté des jeux, l’annonce de la restructuration en cinq « maisons créatives » permet de voir quelles sont les licences qui subsistent, mais on ne peut pas dire que ça donne spécialement envie. Et surtout, il n’y a que Vantage Studio qui travaille sur un FPS, l’ancêtre Rainbow Six: Siege qui vient de fêter ses 10 ans. Heureusement, le géant breton nous annonce qu’il se focalisera désormais sur ce qui compte réellement pour les joueurs : les mondes ouverts, les GAAS (Game As a Service) et l’IA générative. Miam.

Reçu — 21 janvier 2026 ⏭

L’IA ne raisonne pas comme un humain : la preuve par la couleur des bananes

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Par : Eitanite Bellaiche
21 janvier 2026 à 18:28

Les chatbots d'intelligence artificielle peuvent fournir des réponses convaincantes, tout en demeurant largement incompris de l’intérieur. Pour déconstruire cette « boîte noire », des chercheurs d’Anthropic développent des méthodes d’interprétabilité mécaniste, qui cartographient certains mécanismes internes des modèles de langage.

Reçu — 15 janvier 2026 ⏭

Raspberry Pi's New Add-on Board Has 8GB of RAM For Running Gen AI Models

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Par : msmash
15 janvier 2026 à 20:45
An anonymous reader shares a report: Raspberry Pi is launching a new add-on board capable of running generative AI models locally on the Raspberry Pi 5. Announced on Thursday, the $130 AI HAT+ 2 is an upgraded -- and more expensive -- version of the module launched last year, now offering 8GB of RAM and a Hailo 10H chip with 40 TOPS of AI performance. Once connected, the Raspberry Pi 5 will use the AI HAT+ 2 to handle AI-related workloads while leaving the main board's Arm CPU available to complete other tasks. Unlike the previous AI HAT+, which is focused on image-based AI processing, the AI HAT+ 2 comes with onboard RAM and can run small gen AI models like Llama 3.2 and DeepSeek-R1-Distill, along with a series of Qwen models. You can train and fine-tune AI models using the device as well.

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Reçu — 14 janvier 2026 ⏭

House Sysadmin Stole 200 Phones, Caught By House IT Desk

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Par : BeauHD
14 janvier 2026 à 22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: According to the government's version of events, 43-year-old Christopher Southerland was working in 2023 as a sysadmin for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In his role, Southerland had the authority to order cell phones for committee staffers, of which there are around 80. But during the early months of 2023, Southerland is said to have ordered 240 brand-new phones -- far more than even the total number of staffers -- and to have shipped them all to his home address in Maryland. The government claims that Southerland then sold over 200 of these cell phones to a local pawn shop, which was told to resell the devices only "in parts" as a way to get around the House's mobile device management software, which could control the devices remotely. It's hard to find good help these days, though, even at pawn shops. At some point, at least one of the phones ended up, intact, on eBay, where it was sold to a member of the public. This member of the public promptly booted the phone, which did not display the expected device operating system screen but instead "a phone number for the House of Representatives Technology Service Desk." The phone buyer called this number, which alerted House IT staff that government phones were being sold on eBay. According to the government, this sparked a broader investigation to figure out what was going on, which revealed that "several phones purchased by Southerland were unaccounted for." The full scheme is said to have cost the government over $150,000. Southerland was indicted in early December 2025 and arrested on January 8, 2026. He pled not guilty and has a court date scheduled for later this month.

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Dell Tells Staff To Get Ready For the 'Biggest Transformation in Company History'

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Par : msmash
14 janvier 2026 à 20:50
Dell's chief operating officer Jeff Clarke has informed employees that the company is preparing for what he calls the "biggest transformation in company history," a sweeping systems overhaul scheduled to launch on May 3 that will standardize processes across nearly every major division. The initiative, dubbed One Dell Way, will replace Dell's existing sprawl of applications, servers and databases with a single enterprise platform designed to unify the 42-year-old company's operations. Clarke's memo, sent to staff on Tuesday and obtained by Business Insider, said Dell has spent the past two years building toward this transition. The May 3 launch will affect the company's PC business, finance, supply chain, marketing, sales, revenue operations, services, and HR. The ISG division, which handles cloud and AI infrastructure, will follow in August. "We need one way -- simplified, standardized and automated -- so we can be more competitive and serve our customers better," Clarke wrote. Mandatory training begins February 3.

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Reçu — 9 janvier 2026 ⏭

Splitgate Arena Reloaded : pleurer comme un bébé semble ne pas attirer plus de joueurs

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Par : Estyaah
9 janvier 2026 à 22:47

Vous vous souvenez de Splitgate 2, récemment renommé Splitgate Arena Reloaded lors de sa ressortie après cinq mois de retour en bêta ? Il y a quelques jours, les développeurs de chez 1047 Games ont souhaité s’exprimer sur les chiffres assez peu impressionnants de leur jeu sur Steam. Ils expliquent que les « chiffres Steam ne mesurent pas le fun » et qu’ils ne donnent pas la vision globale de la communauté. Ils terminent leur petit laïus en implorant les joueurs de venir tester, parce que c’est gratuit ! Mais contrairement à un titre plus ou moins inconnu qui pourrait rencontrer un nouveau public grâce à ce genre de message, ce n’est pas un problème de visibilité. En effet, il est fort probable que toute personne potentiellement intéressée ait déjà entendu parler du projet, ne serait-ce que grâce à la formidable intervention du CEO lors des conférences de juin 2025. Et au lancement, le résultat n’était pas honteux, puisqu’il y avait eu plus de 25 000 joueurs simultanés sur Steam. S’ils n’y jouent plus aujourd’hui, c’est simplement parce qu’ils ont trouvé mieux à faire de leur temps.

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On a vraiment l’impression que les développeurs viennent pleurnicher sur le réseau de tonton Elon pour dire que les chiffres Steam, c’est vraiment trop injuste. Malheureusement, la majorité des commentateurs semblent davantage se moquer de la situation plutôt que de compatir avec le studio. Étonnant. Pourtant, le jeu en lui-même n’est pas nul : le feeling est correct, les mouvements sont sympas, et le principe de portail fonctionne bien. Reste que le titre n’accroche pas suffisamment pour conserver ses joueurs, malgré la présence d’un battlepass à 10 €, de magnifiques skins à 20 € et de pages captives au démarrage pour forcer le partage à un ami.

Si vous voulez vous faire un avis et contribuer à tenter d’égaler le nom du studio en nombre de joueurs, vous pouvez retrouver Splitgate Arena Reloaded sur Steam ou l’Epic Games Store.

Torvalds Tells Kernel Devs To Stop Debating AI Slop - Bad Actors Won't Follow the Rules Anyway

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Par : msmash
9 janvier 2026 à 18:05
Linus Torvalds has weighed in on an ongoing debate within the Linux kernel development community about whether documentation should explicitly address AI-generated code contributions, and his position is characteristically blunt: stop making it an issue. The Linux creator was responding to Oracle-affiliated kernel developer Lorenzo Stoakes, who had argued that treating LLMs as "just another tool" ignores the threat they pose to kernel quality. "Thinking LLMs are 'just another tool' is to say effectively that the kernel is immune from this," Stoakes wrote. Torvalds disagreed sharply. "There is zero point in talking about AI slop," he wrote. "Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such." He called such discussions "pointless posturing" and said that kernel documentation is "for good actors." The exchange comes as a team led by Intel's Dave Hansen works on guidelines for tool-generated contributions. Stoakes had pushed for language letting maintainers reject suspected AI slop outright, arguing the current draft "tries very hard to say 'NOP.'" Torvalds made clear he doesn't want kernel documentation to become a political statement on AI. "I strongly want this to be that 'just a tool' statement," he wrote.

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Send To Kindle from Microsoft Word is Discontinued

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Par : msmash
9 janvier 2026 à 15:30
Microsoft is discontinuing its Send to Kindle integration in Word, ending a feature that allowed Microsoft 365 subscribers to send documents directly to their Kindle e-readers and preserve complex formatting through fixed layouts. The company updated its documentation to announce that beginning February 9th, 2026, the Send to Kindle feature will no longer work across Web, Win32, and Mac platforms. Microsoft has not disclosed why it's killing the integration but recommends users switch to Amazon's official Send to Kindle app. The feature launched in 2023 and was particularly valued by Kindle Scribe owners who could annotate the transferred documents.

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Reçu — 8 janvier 2026 ⏭

Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From Google

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Par : msmash
8 janvier 2026 à 18:05
Adam Wathan, the creator of the popular CSS framework Tailwind CSS, has let go of 75% of his engineering team -- reducing it from four people to one -- because AI-generated search answers have decimated traffic to the project's documentation pages. Traffic to Tailwind's documentation has fallen roughly 40% since early 2023 despite the framework being more popular than ever, Wathan wrote in a post. The documentation is the primary channel through which developers discover Tailwind's commercial products, and without that traffic the business has struggled to sustain itself; revenue has dropped close to 80%. The reduced team also means Wathan cannot currently prioritize implementing LLMS.txt, a proposed feature that would make documentation more accessible to large language models. "Tailwind is growing faster than it ever has and is bigger than it ever has been, and our revenue is down close to 80%," he wrote in the forum post.

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Reçu — 7 janvier 2026 ⏭

Logitech Caused Its Mice To Freak Out By Not Renewing a Certificate

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Par : msmash
7 janvier 2026 à 16:41
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you're among the macOS users experiencing some weird issues with your Logitech mouse, then good news: Logitech has now released a fix. This comes after multiple Reddit users reported yesterday that Logi Options Plus -- the app required to manage and configure the controls on Logitech accessories -- had stopped working, preventing them from using customized scrolling features, button actions, and gestures. One Reddit user said that the scroll directions and extra buttons on their Logitech mouse "were not working as I intended" and that the Logi Options Plus app became stuck in a boot loop upon opening it to identify the cause. Logitech has since acknowledged the situation and said that its G Hub app -- a similar management software for gaming devices under the Logitech G brand -- was also affected. According to Logitech's support page, the problem was caused by "an expired certificate" required for the apps to run. Windows users were unaffected. The issues only impacted Mac users because macOS prevents certain applications from running if it doesn't detect a valid Developer ID certificate, something that has affected other apps in the past.

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Dell Walks Back AI-First Messaging After Learning Consumers Don't Care

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Par : msmash
7 janvier 2026 à 16:00
Dell's CES 2026 product briefing, PC Gamer writes, stood out from the relentless AI-focused presentations that have dominated tech events for years, as the company explicitly chose to downplay its AI messaging when announcing a refreshed XPS laptop lineup, new ultraslim and entry-level Alienware laptops, Area-51 desktop refreshes and several monitors. "One thing you'll notice is the message we delivered around our products was not AI-first," Dell head of product Kevin Terwilliger said during the presentation. "A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC." The shift stems from Dell's observation that consumers simply aren't making purchasing decisions based on AI capabilities. "We're very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device -- in fact everything that we're announcing has an NPU in it -- but what we've learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI," Terwilliger said. "In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."

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Reçu — 6 janvier 2026 ⏭

Nvidia's New G-Sync Pulsar Monitors Target Motion Blur at the Human Retina Level

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Par : msmash
6 janvier 2026 à 20:42
Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar technology, first announced nearly two years ago as a solution to display motion blur caused by old images persisting on the viewer's retina, is finally arriving in consumer monitors this week. The first four Pulsar-equipped displays -- from Acer, AOC, Asus and MSI -- hit select retailers on Wednesday, all sharing the same core specs: 27-inch IPS panels running at 1440p resolution and up to 360 Hz refresh rates. Nvidia claims the technology delivers the "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor." The system uses a rolling scan scheme that pulses the backlight for one-quarter of a frame just before pixels are overwritten, giving them time to fully transition between colors before illumination. The approach also reduces how long old pixels persist on the viewer's retina. Previous "Ultra Low Motion Blur" features on other monitors worked only at fixed refresh rates, but Pulsar syncs its pulses to G-Sync's variable refresh rate. Early reviews are mixed. The Monitors Unboxed YouTube channel called it "clearly the best solution currently available" for limiting motion blur, while PC Magazine described the improvements as "minor in the grand scheme of things" and potentially hard for casual viewers to notice.

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Reçu — 5 janvier 2026 ⏭

VSCode IDE Forks Expose Users To 'Recommended Extension' Attacks

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Par : msmash
5 janvier 2026 à 20:48
An anonymous reader shares a report: Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing threat actors to claim the namespace and upload malicious extensions. These AI-assisted IDEs are forked from Microsoft VSCode, but cannot use the extensions in the official store due to licensing restrictions. Instead, they are supported by OpenVSX, an open-source marketplace alternative for VSCode-compatible extensions. As a result of forking, the IDEs inherit the list of officially recommended extensions, hardcoded in the configuration files, which point to Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace.

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Samsung Co-CEO Says Soaring Memory Chip Prices Will 'Inevitably' Impact Smartphone Costs

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Par : msmash
5 janvier 2026 à 14:04
Samsung's co-CEO TM Roh has warned that product price increases are "inevitable" as an unprecedented global memory chip shortage squeezes margins across the company's consumer electronics lineup -- from smartphones to televisions and home appliances. The South Korean giant, one of the top two largest smartphone manufacturers, plans to double the number of mobile devices running its Galaxy AI features to 800 million units this year, up from 400 million at the end of 2025. Galaxy AI is powered by Google's Gemini model and Samsung's own Bixby assistant for different tasks. "As this situation is unprecedented, no company is immune to its impact," Roh told Reuters in his first interview since becoming co-CEO in November. Samsung is working with partners on longer-term strategies to minimize the impact, he said. Market researchers IDC and Counterpoint predict the global smartphone market will shrink this year as the chip shortage threatens to drive up phone prices. The shortage is a boon to Samsung's semiconductor business but pressures margins on its smartphone division, the company's second-largest revenue source.

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Reçu — 3 janvier 2026 ⏭

Dell's XPS Brand May Return Just a Year After Being Retired, Report Claims

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Par : msmash
3 janvier 2026 à 03:30
Dell is planning to bring back its XPS laptop branding, according to a news report, just one year after the company retired the storied name in favor of a simplified naming scheme that organized its consumer and professional lineup into Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max tiers. VideoCardz reported this week that Dell has presented an updated XPS lineup during prebriefings ahead of CES 2026, though the company has not officially confirmed the badge's return. The reported reversal would come after Dell launched the Dell 14 Premium and Dell 16 Premium in mid-2025 as flagship consumer models meant to carry the XPS legacy forward. Those machines replaced the XPS 14 and XPS 16 in Dell's lineup.

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Reçu — 2 janvier 2026 ⏭

ASUS Announces Price Hikes Starting January 5

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Par : msmash
2 janvier 2026 à 08:30
ASUS has informed its partners that prices on certain products will increase starting January 5, just days before the company is expected to unveil new hardware at CES. In a letter dated December 30 and obtained by Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer pointed to rising costs for memory and storage components as the primary driver behind the adjustment. The company specifically called out DRAM, NAND, and SSD pricing pressure stemming from what it described as "structural volatility" in the global supply chain tied to AI-driven demand. ASUS also cited shifts in capacity allocation by upstream suppliers and higher investment costs for advanced manufacturing processes.

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Reçu — 29 décembre 2025 ⏭

'I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret'

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29 décembre 2025 à 16:41
Google's Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company's first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, made the switch and now regrets it, he says. "In the three months since Google forced me to give up my physical SIM card, I've only needed to move my eSIM occasionally," Whitwam wrote. "Still, my phone number has ended up stuck in limbo on two occasions." The core problem is how carriers handle verification. When an eSIM transfer fails and you need support, carriers authenticate via SMS -- a message you cannot receive because your SIM is broken. "What should have been 30 seconds of fiddling with a piece of plastic turned into an hour standing around a retail storefront," Whitwam noted. Apple started this trend by dropping the SIM slot on iPhone 14 in 2022. The space savings are modest: the international iPhone 17 has a smaller battery than its eSIM-only counterpart by only about 8%. Google's US Pixel 10 models offer no such trade-off -- they lack the SIM slot but "unfortunately don't have more of anything compared to the international versions." He concludes: "A physical SIM is essentially foolproof, and eSIM is not."

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