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New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed for Linux Like Microsoft Windows' 'Modern Standby'

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 22:34
Phoronix reports on "an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list" proposing "a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows..." Modern Standby is a low-power mode on Windows 11 for letting systems remain connected to the network and appear "sleeping" but will allow for instant wake-up for notifications, music playback, and other functionality. The display is off, the network remains online, and background tasks can wake-up the system if needed with Microsoft Modern Standby... "This series introduces a new runtime standby ABI to allow firing Modern Standby firmware notifications that modify hardware appearance from userspace without suspending the kernel," [according to the email about the proposed patch series]. "This allows userspace to set the inactivity state of the device so that it looks like it is asleep (e.g., flashing the power button) while still being able to perform basic computations..." Those interested can see the RFC patch series for the work in its current form, in particular the documentation patch outlines the proposed /sys/power/standby interface.

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Is Russia Developing an Anti-Satellite Weapon to Target Starlink?

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27 décembre 2025 à 21:34
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called "zone-effect" weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, potentially disabling multiple satellites at once but also risking catastrophic collateral damage to other orbiting systems. Analysts who haven't seen the findings say they doubt such a weapon could work without causing uncontrollable chaos in space for companies and countries, including Russia and its ally China, that rely on thousands of orbiting satellites for communications, defense and other vital needs. Such repercussions, including risks to its own space systems, could steer Moscow away from deploying or using such a weapon, analysts said. "I don't buy it. Like, I really don't," said Victoria Samson, a space-security specialist at the Secure World Foundation who leads the Colorado-based nongovernmental organization's annual study of anti-satellite systems. "I would be very surprised, frankly, if they were to do something like that." [Later they suggested the research might just be experimental.] But the commander of the Canadian military's Space Division, Brig. Gen. Christopher Horner, said such Russian work cannot be ruled out in light of previous U.S. allegations that Russia also has been pursuing an indiscriminate nuclear, space-based weapon. "I can't say I've been briefed on that type of system. But it's not implausible," he said... The French military's Space Command said in a statement to the AP that it could not comment on the findings but said, "We can inform you that Russia has, in recent years, been multiplying irresponsible, dangerous, and even hostile actions in space." The article also points out that this month Russia "said it has fielded a new ground-based missile system, the S-500, which is capable of hitting low-orbit targets..."

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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 20:34
NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed." "What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a prime example.?" On these systems, updating the OS with a Pascal, Maxwell or similarly unsupported GPU will result in the new driver failing to load and thus the user getting kicked back to the CLI to try and sort things back out there. This issue is summarized by [Brodie Robertson] in a recent video. "Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support," explains an announcement on the Arch Linux mailing list. But Hackaday points out that using the legacy option "breaks Steam as it relies on official NVIDIA dependencies, which requires an additional series of hacks to hopefully restore this functionality. "Fortunately the Arch Wiki provides a starting point on what to do."

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Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 19:34
Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already "designed to handle dark traffic signals," and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco's long power outage, properly treating those intersections as four-way stops. But while during the long outage their cars sometimes experienced a "backlog" when waiting for confirmation checks (leading them to freeze in intersections), Waymo said Tuesday they're implementing "fleet-wide updates" to provide their self-driving cars "specific power outage context, allowing it to navigate more decisively." Ironically, two days later Waymo paused their service again in San Francisco. But this time it was due to a warning from the National Weather Service about a powerful storm bringing the possibility of flash flooding and power outages, reports CNBC. They add that Waymo "didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, or say whether regulators required its service pause on Thursday given the flash flood warnings." And they also note Waymo still faces criticism over last Saturday's incident: The former CEO of San Francisco's Municipal Transit Authority, Jeffrey Tumlin, told CNBC that regulators and robotaxi companies can take valuable lessons away from the chaos that arose with Waymo vehicles during the PG&E power outages last week. "I think we need to be asking 'what is a reasonable number of [autonomous vehicles] to have on city streets, by time of day, by geography and weather?'" Tumlin said. He also suggested regulators may want to set up a staged system that will allow autonomous vehicle companies to rapidly scale their operations, provided they meet specific tests. One of those tests, he said, would be how quickly a company can get their autonomous vehicles safely out of the way of traffic if they encounter something that is confusing like a four-way intersection with no functioning traffic lights. Cities and regulators should also seek more data from robotaxi companies about the planned or actual performance of their vehicles during expected emergencies such as blackouts, floods or earthquakes, Tumlin said.

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Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 17:34
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant "was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986," CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities "have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant," reports CNN, "which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster." Despite nerves from many local residents, the Niigata prefectural assembly, home to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, approved a bill on Monday that clears the way for utility company Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to restart one of the plant's seven reactors. The company plans to bring the No. 6 reactor back online around January 20, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported... Following the [2011] disaster, Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear power stations including Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which sits in the coastal and port region of Niigata about 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Tokyo on Japan's main island of Honshu. Japan has since restarted 14 of the 33 nuclear reactors that remain operable, according to the World Nuclear Association. The Niigata plant will be the first to reopen under the operation of TEPCO, the company that ran the Fukushima Daiichi power station. It has been trying to reassure residents of the restart plan is safe... About 60-70% of Japan's power generation comes from imported fossil fuels, which cost the country about 10.7 trillion yen ($68 billion) last year alone... Japan is the world's fifth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, after China, the United States, India and Russia, according to the International Energy Agency. But it has committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, and renewable energy was at the center of its latest energy plan published earlier this year, with a push for greater investments in solar and wind. The country's energy demands are also expected to increase in the coming years due to a boom in energy-hungry data centers that power AI infrastructure. To achieve its energy and climate goals, Japan aims to double the share of nuclear power in its electricity mix to 20% by 2040... On its website, TEPCO said Kashiwazaki-Kariwa had undergone multiple inspections and upgrades and that the company had learned "the lessons of Fukushima." The company said new seawalls and watertight doors would provide "stronger protection against tsunamis" and that mobile generators and more fire trucks would be on hand for "cooling support" in an emergency. It also said the plant now had "upgraded filtering systems designed to control the spread of radioactive materials." A survey published by the prefecture in October "found 60% of residents did not think conditions for the restart had been met," reports Reuters, adding that "Nearly 70% were worried about TEPCO operating the plant."

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La Logitech G305 X LIGHTSPEED approche, et elle sera bien plus légère !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
27 décembre 2025 à 18:33

Les souris, il en faut pour tous les gouts, notamment au niveau de leur forme. Si vous aimez la simplicité du design de la G305 de Logitech, voici une bonne nouvelle pour vous : celle qui va lui succéder n'est visiblement plus loin d'arriver, avec plusieurs modifications intéressantes à la clé et no...

Open Source Initiative Estimates the 'Top Open Source Licenses in 2025'

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 18:34
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers "enriched" license pages with "relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support". So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause and 2-clause), and GNU General Public license: mit (1.5M) apache-2-0 (344k) bsd-3-clause (214k) bsd-2-clause (128k) gpl-2-0 (76k) gpl-3-0 (55k) isc-license-txt (35k) lgpl-3-0 (34k) OFL-1.1 (31k) lgpl-2-1 (24k) . . From the Open Source Initiative's announcement: Please note that these are aggregated pageviews from actual humans along the year of 2025... Actual humans (presumably) because the number of requests by bots or crawlers is several orders of magnitude higher (e.g. requests just for the MIT license are on the range of 10M per month). We do provide an API service that gives access to the canonical list of OSI Approved Licenses — this is a very new service, which hopefully will be adopted by automated requests from CI/CD pipelines. One final observation is that the number of human pageviews is likely higher because we are using Plausible as our data source and a high percentage of our target audience uses Ad blockers, which by design are not accounted by Plausible. Users from China are also likely undercounted by Plausible for the same reason.

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Japan Votes to Restart Fukushima Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Its Meltdown

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 17:34
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant "was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986," CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities "have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant," reports CNN, "which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster." Despite nerves from many local residents, the Niigata prefectural assembly, home to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, approved a bill on Monday that clears the way for utility company Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to restart one of the plant's seven reactors. The company plans to bring the No. 6 reactor back online around January 20, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported... Following the [2011] disaster, Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear power stations including Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which sits in the coastal and port region of Niigata about 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Tokyo on Japan's main island of Honshu. Japan has since restarted 14 of the 33 nuclear reactors that remain operable, according to the World Nuclear Association. The Niigata plant will be the first to reopen under the operation of TEPCO, the company that ran the Fukushima Daiichi power station. It has been trying to reassure residents of the restart plan is safe... About 60-70% of Japan's power generation comes from imported fossil fuels, which cost the country about 10.7 trillion yen ($68 billion) last year alone... Japan is the world's fifth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, after China, the United States, India and Russia, according to the International Energy Agency. But it has committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, and renewable energy was at the center of its latest energy plan published earlier this year, with a push for greater investments in solar and wind. The country's energy demands are also expected to increase in the coming years due to a boom in energy-hungry data centers that power AI infrastructure. To achieve its energy and climate goals, Japan aims to double the share of nuclear power in its electricity mix to 20% by 2040... On its website, TEPCO said Kashiwazaki-Kariwa had undergone multiple inspections and upgrades and that the company had learned "the lessons of Fukushima." The company said new seawalls and watertight doors would provide "stronger protection against tsunamis" and that mobile generators and more fire trucks would be on hand for "cooling support" in an emergency. It also said the plant now had "upgraded filtering systems designed to control the spread of radioactive materials." A survey published by the prefecture in October "found 60% of residents did not think conditions for the restart had been met," reports Reuters, adding that "Nearly 70% were worried about TEPCO operating the plant."

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Should Physicists Study the Question: What is Life?

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 16:34
An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester writes that "many" of his colleagues in physics "have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human." And it's a mystery that: - "Challenges basic assumptions physicists have held for centuries" - "May even help redefine the field for the next generation" - "Could answer essential questions about AI." In short, while physicists have favored a "reductionist" philosophy about the fundamental laws controlling the universe (energy, mattery, space, and time), "long-promised 'theories of everything' such as string theory, have not borne significant fruit: There are, however, ways other than reductionism to think about what's fundamental in the universe. Beginning in the 1980s, physicists (along with researchers in other fields) began developing new mathematical tools to study what's called "complexity" — systems in which the whole is far more than the sum of its parts. The end goal of reductionism was to explain everything in the universe as the result of particles and their interactions. Complexity, by contrast, recognizes that once lots of particles come together to produce macroscopic things — such as organisms — knowing everything about particles isn't enough to understand reality... Physicists have always been good at capturing the essential aspects of a system and casting those essentials in the language of mathematics... Now those skills must be brought to bear on an age-old question that is only just getting its proper due: What is life? Using these skills, physicists — working together with representatives of all the other disciplines that make up complexity science — may crack open the question of how life formed on Earth billions of years ago and how it might have formed on the distant alien worlds we can now explore with cutting-edge telescopes. Just as important, understanding why life, as an organized system, is different at a fundamental level from all the other stuff in the universe may help astronomers design new strategies for finding it in places bearing little resemblance to Earth. Analyzing life — no matter how alien — as a self-organizing information-driven system may provide the key to detecting biosignatures on planets hundreds of light-years away. Closer to home, studying the nature of life is likely essential to fully understanding intelligence — and building artificial versions. Throughout the current AI boom, researchers and philosophers have debated whether and when large language models might achieve general intelligence or even become conscious — or whether, in fact, some already have. The only way to properly assess such claims is to study, by any means possible, the sole agreed-upon source of general intelligence: life. Bringing the new physics of life to problems of AI may not only help researchers predict what software engineers can build; it may also reveal the limits of trying to capture life's essential character in silicon.

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Free Software Foundation Receives 'Historic' Donations Worth Nearly $900K - in Monero

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 15:34
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — in the cryptocurrency Monero. The two donations "are among some of the largest private gifts ever made to the organization," the FSF said in a statement. "The donors wish to remain anonymous," according to the FSF's statement: The organization is in its annual winter fundraising drive, currently at three-quarters of its $400,000 USD winter goal, and will now switch its focus to a member drive thanks in part to these donations... The donation will support the organization's technical team and infrastructure capacity, as well as strengthen its campaigns, education, licensing, and advocacy initiatives, and future opportunities. The FSF is seeking donations until year-end after which they aim to gain 100 associate members through its year-end fundraising ending January 16. The FSF's executive director said the donations prove "that software freedom is recognized more and more as a principal issue today, at the core of several other social movements people care about like privacy, ownership, and the right to repair... "We are proudly supported by a large variety of contributors who care about digital rights. All donations matter, whether $5 or $500,000."

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Utiliser des barrettes SODIMM dans un PC desktop, l'astuce de petits malins pour ne pas payer trop (trop) cher leur DDR5

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
27 décembre 2025 à 14:59

"C'est dans l'adversité que, parfois, le génie éclate au grand jour", telle pourrait être la morale de l'histoire que nous allons compter aujourd'hui. En ces temps sombres, où la menace grandissante de l'IA plonge le monde de la DRAM dans la tourmente, la sagesse nous dicte de repousser à (bien) plu...

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Le Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 à double 3D V-Cache réellement en approche, et ses caractéristiques confirmées ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 décembre 2025 à 19:14

Le 21 octobre 2025, Thibaut vous présentait une rumeur lancée par chi11eddog, un leaker réputé très fiable sur X. Il évoquait l'arrivée prochaine de deux nouveaux processeurs AMD dotés de 3D V-Cache : les Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 et Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Concernant le 9850X3D, il ne fait guère de doutes qu'il va...

BitLocker plombe les performances des SSD. Microsoft réagit avec l'accélération matérielle sur Windows 11, mais...

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 décembre 2025 à 17:29

Dans une publication datée du 19 décembre 2025, Microsoft admet que l'impact sur les performances des SSD du chiffrement BitLocker est devenu plus important que prévu. Alors que la firme indique avoir toujours voulu s'assurer que BitLocker ne pénalisait pas l'efficacité des SSD d'une valeur "excédan...

Écrans Samsung Odyssey 2026 : de la 3D sans lunette, de la 5K voire 6K, 1040Hz en pointe. Alors, ça vend du rêve tout cela ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 décembre 2025 à 13:28

Juste avant le début du CES 2026, qui ouvrira officiellement ses portes le mardi 6 janvier, Samsung fera une présentation de sa nouvelle gamme d'écrans PC Odyssey dans un hôtel de Las Vegas le 4 janvier, avant des les installer ensuite sur son stand lors de l'évènement. Afin de faire "monter la mayo...

ASUS devenant fabricant de DRAM en 2026 ? La firme s'exprime sur cette rumeur montée en épingle

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 décembre 2025 à 11:17

Si l'on sait bien que les rumeurs sont fortement modifiées et amplifiées au fut et à mesure d'un bouche-à-oreille, il est toujours dommage de constater quand même des écrits sont réinterprétés et surinterprétés, alors que la source reste disponible à qui veut bien la consulter. À l'origine de cette...

[MàJ] [Bon plan] Ventirad Thermalright PA120 Digital WHITE à 36,80€ livré

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 décembre 2025 à 09:43

Mise à jour du 26 décembre 2025 : Nous déterrons ce Bon plan trois mois plus tard car l'offre est de retour à 8 centimes près ! Seulement 36,80 € livraison comprise pour ce ventirad double tour aux performances saluées dans de nombreux tests, globalement blanc (les ailettes sont restées couleur alum...

12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR natif ou adaptateur ? 9 marques donnent leur avis

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 décembre 2025 à 09:20

En voilà une bonne question. Quand on a une alimentation PC qui dispose d'un câble pour carte graphique 16 pins 12V-2x6 ou 12VHPWR, mais qu'on a en plus dans le bundle de la carte graphique elle-même un adaptateur PCIe 8 broches vers 16 pins, que faut-il utilisé de préférence ? La chaine YouTube Tec...

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10 anciens employés de Samsung inculpés pour espionnage industriel en faveur de CXMT

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
24 décembre 2025 à 12:56

Les détails de l'affaire dont nous allons parler aujourd'hui ont été révélés ces derniers jours dans des médias coréens tels que The Asia Business Daily ou encore The Chosen Daily. Le 23 décembre 2025 le procureur en chef Kim Yoon-yong, de la division d'investigation des crimes technologiques de l'o...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 : le drama de l'IA générative de retour, avec le banissement des Indie Game Awards 2025

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
24 décembre 2025 à 07:07

Le jeudi 18 décembre 2025 avait lieu la cérémonie des Indie Game Awards 2025, organisée par Six One Indie. 18 récompenses ont alors été décernées, que voici en détail en incluant les nominés afin que vous puissiez avoir une vue d'ensemble. Les vainqueurs sont chaque fois mis en gras :GAME OF THE YEA...

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GeForce RTX 5070 Ti WINDFORCE V2 : GIGABYTE fait du neuf avec du vieux, et ce n'est pas forcément un mal !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
23 décembre 2025 à 15:09

Souvent, au lancement d'une nouvelle génération de cartes graphiques, les fabricants tentent de faire bonne impression en proposant des designs et refroidisseurs améliorés par rapport aux séries précédentes. Du côté de GIGABYTE, le lancement des GeForce RTX 50 avait été l'occasion de promouvoir des...

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