Apple's grudging accommodation of European law -- allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices -- apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and support third-party browser engines for the region. From a report: The Register has learned from those involved in the browser trade that Apple has limited the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU. That requirement adds an additional barrier to anyone planning to develop and support a browser with an alternative engine in the EU. It effectively geofences the development team. Browser-makers whose dev teams are located in the US will only be able to work on simulators. While some testing can be done in a simulator, there's no substitute for testing on device -- which means developers will have to work within Apple's prescribed geographical boundary. Prior to iOS 17.4, Apple required all web browsers on iOS or iPadOS to use Apple's WebKit rendering engine. Alternatives like Gecko (used by Mozilla Firefox) or Blink (used by Google and other Chromium-based browsers) were not permitted. Whatever brand of browser you thought you were using on your iPhone, under the hood it was basically Safari. Browser makers have objected to this for years, because it limits competitive differentiation and reduces the incentive for Apple owners to use non-Safari browsers.

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Nous ne sommes pas vendredi, mais cette histoire mériterait de passer un vendredi. Geekerwan, un overclockeur sur tablette, vient de battre le record du monde sous Geekbench 6, avec une puce M4, qui a été OC de 10 MHz, grâce à un refroidissement sous Azote liquide, qui clairement ne sert strictement à rien, mais pour le style, on peut le dire, c'est grave mieux. Le proco de la pomme fonctionnait ainsi à 4.41 GHz contre 4.40 GHz de base. Mais avec les 10 MHz de plus, la puce M4 est capable de délivrer plus de 4000 points sous Geekbench 6, ce qui est un record du monde. […]

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Lauren Forristal writes via TechCrunch: Netflix announced during its Upfronts presentation on Wednesday that it's launching its own advertising technology platform only a year and a half after entering the ads business. This move pits it against other industry heavyweights with ad servers, like Google, Amazon and Comcast. The announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant's advertising approach. The company originally partnered with Microsoft to develop its ad tech, letting Netflix enter the ad space quickly and catch up with rivals like Hulu, which has had its own ad server for over a decade. With the launch of its in-house ad tech, Netflix is poised to take full control of its advertising future. This strategic move will empower the company to create targeted and personalized ad experiences that resonate with its massive user base of 270 million subscribers. [...] Netflix didn't say exactly how its in-house solution will change the way ads are delivered, but it's likely it'll move away from generic advertisements. According to the Financial Times, Netflix wants to experiment with "episodic" campaigns, which involve a series of ads that tell a story rather than delivering repetitive ads. During the presentation, Netflix also noted that it'll expand its buying capabilities this summer, which will now include The Trade Desk, Google's Display & Video 360 and Magnite as partners. Notably, competitor Disney+ also has an advertising agreement with The Trade Desk. Netflix also touted the success of its ad-supported tier, reporting that 40 million global monthly active users opt for the plan. The ad tier had around 5 million users within six months of launching.

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Vous le savez surement, HYTE a développé et lancé un watercooling assez fou, le THICC Q60. Un modèle en 240 mm qui intègre un écran LCD de 5 pouces en 720 x 1280 juste au-dessus de la pompe. Il sera donc possible d'afficher ce que vous voulez sur cet écran, et cela, via le logiciel NEXUS. Et clairement, il faut le dire, c'est un peu comme si HYTE avait intégré un smartphone dans son AIO, la preuve en image... […]

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Récemment, Aigo a lancé de nouveaux produits dans sa gamme AIYOUNGO, dont de nouveaux boitiers avec une vue à 270 ° pour les composants. Un style qui se généralise de plus en plus, mais ce n'est finalement pas le point le plus important : la marque chinoise a également de nouveaux kits AIO à son catalogue, avec un style tout à fait unique. Dénommée Matrix Cube, après traduction, cette série se distingue par le top de l'ensemble pompe / waterblock qui embarque un éclairage sous forme de pixels, à l'image de la façade du très sympathique InWin 309. Avec bien entendu la possibilité d'animer les pixels pour se faire une machine vraiment unique ! […]

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Avec ses systèmes AIO IceMyst, SilverStone veut donner plus de choix aux utilisateurs : partir sur un joli kit aux performances intéressantes, ou bien ajouter en plus des ventilateurs pour s'occuper des composants autour du socket. Comme une tour en KAPLA, on vient empiler des unités IMF70 sur le top du waterblock et on profite d'un éclairage RGB et d'un style unique. Une bonne idée alors que le kit IceMyst 360 coûte déjà un peu plus de 135 €. Réponse dans ce nouvel article.

Refroidissement aujourd'hui avec SilverStone et la série IceMyst, que nous découvrons avec le modèle 360 mm, désormais format le plus plébiscité avec les nouveaux processeurs. Vendu 135 U+20AC environ et capable de recevoir des ventilateurs […]

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Josh Norem reports via ExtremeTech: At the recent International supercomputing conference called ISC 2024, Intel's newest Aurora supercomputer installed at Argonne National Laboratory raised a few eyebrows by finally surpassing the exascale barrier. Before this, only AMD's Frontier system had been able to achieve this level of performance. Intel also achieved what it says is the world's best performance for AI at 10.61 "AI exaflops." Intel reported the news on its blog, stating Aurora was now officially the fastest supercomputer for AI in the world. It shares the distinction in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which both built and houses the system in its current state, which Intel says was at 87% functionality for the recent tests. In the all-important Linpack (HPL) test, the Aurora computer hit 1.012 exaflops, meaning it has almost doubled the performance on tap since its initial "partial run" in late 2023, where it hit just 585.34 petaflops. The company then said it expected to cross the exascale barrier with Aurora eventually, and now it has. Intel says for the ISC 2024 tests, Aurora was operating with 9,234 nodes. The company notes it ranked second overall in LINPACK, meaning it's still unable to dethrone AMD's Frontier system, which is also an HPE supercomputer. AMD's Frontier was the first supercomputer to break the exascale barrier in June 2022. Frontier sits at around 1.2 exaflops in Linpack, so Intel is knocking on its door but still has a way to go before it can topple it. However, Intel says Aurora came in first in the Linpack-mixed benchmark, reportedly highlighting its unparalleled AI performance. Intel's Aurora supercomputer uses the company's latest CPU and GPU hardware, with 21,248 Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs and 63,744 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. When it's fully operational later this year, Intel believes the system will eventually be capable of crossing the 2-exaflop barrier.

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Stack Overflow's new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data has users who've posted their questions and answers about coding problems in conversations with other humans rankled. From a report: Users say that when they attempt to alter their posts in protest, the site is retaliating by reversing the alterations and suspending the users who carried them out. A programmer named Ben posted a screenshot yesterday of the change history for a post seeking programming advice, which they'd updated to say that they had removed the question to protest the OpenAI deal. "The move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out," read the updated post. The text was reverted less than an hour later. A moderator message Ben also included says that Stack Overflow posts become "part of the collective efforts" of other contributors once made and that they should only be removed "under extraordinary circumstances." The moderation team then said it was suspending his account for a week while it reached out "to avoid any further misunderstandings."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: A key supplier to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is building a $20 million supercomputer with buzzy chipmaker Nvidia to speed deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities across the U.S. federal government, the MITRE think tank said Tuesday. MITRE, a federally funded, not-for-profit research organization that has supplied U.S. soldiers and spies with exotic technical products since the 1950s, says the project could improve everything from Medicare to taxes. "There's huge opportunities for AI to make government more efficient," said Charles Clancy, senior vice president of MITRE. "Government is inefficient, it's bureaucratic, it takes forever to get stuff done. ... That's the grand vision, is how do we do everything from making Medicare sustainable to filing your taxes easier?" [...] The MITRE supercomputer will be based in Ashburn, Va., and should be up and running late this year. [...] Clancy said the planned supercomputer will run 256 Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs, at a cost of $20 million. This counts as a small supercomputer: The world's fastest supercomputer, Frontier in Tennessee, boasts 37,888 GPUs, and Meta is seeking to build one with 350,000 GPUs. But MITRE's computer will still eclipse Stanford's Natural Language Processing Group's 68 GPUs, and will be large enough to train large language models to perform AI tasks tailored for government agencies. Clancy said all federal agencies funding MITRE will be able to use this AI "sandbox." "AI is the tool that is solving a wide range of problems," Clancy said. "The U.S. military needs to figure out how to do command and control. We need to understand how cryptocurrency markets impact the traditional banking sector. ... Those are the sorts of problems we want to solve."

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Arrivé dans le monde du watercooling AIO avec le dernier train, Thermalright a depuis très largement rattrapé la concurrence et le catalogue du spécialiste du refroidissement ne manque de produits. Certains diront même qu'il y en a peut-être un peu trop, mais les choses sont ainsi. Toujours est-il que Thermalright multiplie depuis quelques semaines les sorties de modèles avec un écran de monitoring, et le nouveau venu ne fait pas exception. Dénommé Frozen Warframe PRO, il s'agit tout simplement d'un Frozen Warframe revu avec un design différent pour le top de la pompe, l'écran étant désormais plus grand avec un affichage en 320 x 320 contre 320 x 240. […]

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Avec le watercooling AIO IceMyst, ici en version 360 mm, SilverStone veut proposer quelque chose de différent. Du RGB, des ventilateurs chainables, un style simple, c'est désormais du classique. Tout comme un ventilateur sur le top de la pompe. Mais que se passe-t-il si ce ventilateur peut être tourné vers un composant spécifique ? Et si on peut en installer en second ? Et même un troisième ? Découvrons ça avec cet IceMyst 360 et ses IMF70, des petits ventilos qui en font un produit unique, ludique et original. Windows 10 Pro (13U+20AC) : https://biitt.ly/c8V0M Windows 11 Pro (19U+20AC) : https://biitt.ly/7ctfn […]

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Une modularité sans limite avec le terminal Eisblock Aurora 180° ! Alphacool présente le nouveau membre de sa ligne de produits innovants : le terminal Aurora 180°, un complément à tout refroidisseur de GPU Eisblock. Conçu pour les passionnés et les moddeurs, ce nouveau terminal est la solution parfaite pour les projets de modding complexes ou les systèmes où chaque centimètre compte. […]

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Roblox announced it'll be rolling out virtual billboards with video advertisements that will be displayed in its virtual worlds. Reuters reports: Users will now see billboards featuring content from brands such as e.l.f beauty, Walmart and Warner Bros Discovery, just as they would in real life. That would give advertisers access to Roblox's nearly 72 million daily active users -- half of whom are Gen-Z customers, a population group prized by marketers and businesses. The company in November began testing the video ads -- that will be served to users who are 13 years and older -- as part of its efforts to reduce reliance on revenue generated from its in-game currency "Robux", which players can use to buy outfits, vehicles and other features inside the company's digital worlds. It charges a fee on all purchases done on its platform, which hosts millions of videogames that are built by its users -- who get a share of any related revenue. That practice will extend to the ads, with creators of the virtual worlds who opt to show the billboards getting a portion of the revenue Roblox makes from them. Roblox is hoping its large Gen-Z user base will give it an edge in the competitive ad market, where it would have to wrestle for marketing dollars with tech giants such as Google and Meta and smaller players such as Snap.

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ArsTechnica: Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's General Electric GE-225 mainframe. Little did they know that their creation would go on to democratize computing and inspire generations of programmers over the next six decades.

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Au tour de RAIJINTEK de se lancer dans les systèmes de refroidissement avec un écran de monitoring via la nouvelle gamme CYCLOPS 360, des systèmes AIO qui se déclinent en 240 mm et en 360 mm avec un style unique. La marque reprend en effet l'hélice visible sur le top, avec au centre un petit écran de 1.28" en 240 x 240 qui pourra afficher quelques informations. Avec, si besoin, un oeil en fond d'écran afin de rester dans le thème du cyclope ! C'est original, et c'est surtout très coloré puisque l'hélice profite d'un éclairage RGB adressable et synchronisable, tout comme les ventilateurs présents sur le radiateur. […]

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Streamable: Roku wants to take the term "ad-supported" to another level. The company held its quarterly earnings conference call on Thursday, and revealed that 81.6 million households used a Roku device or smart TV to stream video in the first three months of the year. As part of the report, company CEO Anthony Wood laid out ideas for how the company would increase revenues in 2024. Unsurprisingly, advertising will be an important centerpiece of that strategy, and Wood provided some details on what Roku users can expect from their ad experience going forward. The idea of bringing more ads to the Roku home screen is nothing new, but that's what Wood focused on in his discussion with analysts about how to boost revenue on the Roku platform. The company has already begun putting more static ads on the screen, but now it appears that Roku is considering how to get video ads embedded into the home page as well. Wood said that he believes that a video-enabled ad unit on the Roku home screen will be "very popular with advertisers," considering that Roku devices have the reach to put ads in front of 120 million pairs of eyes every day. He also said that the company is "testing other types of video ad units, looking at other experiences" that it can bring to the Roku home screen. As another way to boost ad revenues, Wood suggested that the company's home screen experiences could be leveraged to deliver more ads. He pointed to the NBA Zone, which Roku launched at the beginning of April as an example. Roku can use these themed content hubs to deliver ads more tailored to fans of that particular content, harnessing the power of popular sports to pull more ad revenue. Customers concerned that Roku will just gunk up their home screen with ads are likely wondering if the company has made any moves toward actually making the user experience on the platform better. The good news is that Roku has also introduced a recommended content row, that will compile picks from across various streaming services and use AI to point customers toward new shows and movies they might like. "There's lots of ways we're working on enhancing the home screen to make it more valuable to viewers but also increase the monetization," Wood said.

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La AYANEO Pocket S est mignonne, très mignonne. Les rendus 3D proposés par la marque n’engagent évidemment à rien et les risques pris par un financement participatif sur Indiegogo ne doivent pas être gommés, mais elle est vraiment jolie.

La console Android 13 a de beaux atouts comme la présence d’une puce Qualcomm Snapdragon G3x Gen2 annoncée il y a juste un an, pas moins de 16 Go de mémoire et 1 To de stockage dans sa version la plus complète. Mais cela reste une console Android et le jour où la AYANEO Pocket S ne sera plus mise à jour par la marque, elle se transformera peu à peu en un objet à risque.

Son SoC est annoncé comme extrêmement performant avec 8 cœurs cadencés à 3.36 GHz et un circuit graphique Adreno à 1 GHz. C’est une puce gourmande, pensée pour fonctionner avec un TDP de 15 watts du moment que la dissipation suit ce rythme. Elle apporte également à la console son module Wi-Fi7 et Bluetooth 5.3. La batterie 6000 mAh embarquée ne détaille pas d’autonomie.

Pour encaisser cette puce, la AYANEO Pocket S emploie un système de dissipation digne d’un portable avec une « Vapor Chamber » qui dirige la chaleur vers des ailettes et un ventilateur qui la repousse vers l’extérieur. L’équivalent des solutions concurrentes sous puces AMD ou Intel. Le châssis est réalisé en métal et on retrouve la panoplie d’accessoires de jeux propres aux système : gâchettes, joysticks, boutons, pcrois directionnelle. Les petits LEDs RGB sont de rigueur ainsi qu’un gyroscope sur 6 axes.

Prévue pour la mi mai, donc sans aucun besoin réel d’un financement participatif pour entrer en production, la console propose un écran de 6″ en deux versions. Le premier en 1920 x 1080 pixels et le second en 2560 x 1440 pixels. La mémoire vive débute à 12 Go de LPDDR5x-8533 et pourra grimper à 16 Go Le stockage quand à lui démarre à 128 Go  avec une solution UFS 3.1 maius pourra atteindre 512 Go ou 1 To en UFS 4.0 plus rapide.

La connectique est limitée à un unique port USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C sans même un port jack audio. Un lecteur de cartes MicroSDXC sera tout de même présent pour étendre la capacité de stockage. L’alimentation et la sortie vidéo se feront donc en DisplayPort et en Power Delivery via l’USB Type-C uniquement… Ce qui forcera le recours à un dock ou un Hub USB. L’ensemble pse 350 grammes et mesure 21.4 cm de large pour 8.5 cm de haut et 1.4 cm d’épaisseur.

Le détail des tarifs et de disponibilités est visible sur Indiegogo.

AYANEO Pocket S : une console Android 13 sous Snapdragon © MiniMachines.net. 2024.

Nouvelle série chez Thermalright avec l'arrivée du kit AIO Core Vision 360 en noir. Point de 240 mm, Thermalright ne semble miser que sur du 360 mm depuis un petit moment afin de vraiment mettre à profit les performances des ventilateurs TL-B12 installés. Tournant à 2150 rpm maximum, ces ventilateurs entièrement en noir délivrent un débit d'air de 69.0 CFM avec une pression statique de 2.87 mmAq. En revanche, aucun réel dispositif n'est présent pour l'organisation des câbles, même si on reste sur un nombre réduit grâce à l'absence de RGB. Mais pas sur le top de la pompe, qui a le droit à un écran de monitoring et à un anneau RGB. […]

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