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A Game Studio's Fired Co-Founder Hijacked Its Domain Name, a New Lawsuit Alleges

24 janvier 2026 à 16:34
Three co-founders of the game studio That's No Moon "are suing another co-founder for allegedly hijacking the company's website domain name," reports the gaming news site Aftermath, "taking the website offline and disabling employee access to email accounts, according to a new lawsuit." Tina Kowalewski, Taylor Kurosaki, and Nick Kononelos filed a complaint against co-founder and former CEO Michael Mumbauer on Tuesday in a California court. [Game studio] That's No Moon, which was founded in 2020 by veterans of Infinity Ward, Naughty Dog, and other AAA studios, said in its complaint that Mumbauer is looking to "cripple" the studio after being fired in 2022... Mumbauer, according to the complaint, purchased the domain name, and several others, when the studio was founded; it said both parties agreed these would be controlled by the studio. Mumbauer allegedly still has access to the domains, and That's No Moon said he took control over the website on Jan. 6, disabled the studio's access, and turned off employees' ability to email external addresses. The team was locked out for two days as a four-person IT team worked to get the services back online. On the public-facing side, the website briefly redirected to the Travel Switzerland page, according to the complaint. That's No Moon's lawyers said the co-founders sent Mumbauer a letter on Jan. 7 demanding he "relinquish his unauthorized access." That's when, according to the compliant, the website started redirecting to a GoDaddy Auction site, where the domain was priced at $6,666,666; That's No Moon remarked in the complaint: "A number that [Mumbauer] may well have selected for its Satanic connotation." As of Wednesday, Aftermath was able to access a public-facing That's No Moon website using both the original domain and the new one... The charges listed as part of this lawsuit are trademark infringement, cybersquatting, computer fraud, conversion, trespass to chattels, and breach of contract. That's No Moon also asked a judge for a temporary restraining order to prevent Mumbauer from continued access to the domains. Mumbauer has not responded to Aftermath's request for comment. Mumbauer said, in an email to That's No Moon attorney Amit Rana published as part of the lawsuit, that he intends to file "a wrongful termination countersuit and will be seeking extensive damages...." That's No Moon hasn't yet announced its first game, but has said the game is led by creative director Taylor Kurosaki and game director Jacob Minkoff. South Korean publisher Smilegate invested $100 million into the company, That's No Moon announced in 2021.

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Intel s’offre Eric Demers, pointure du GPU

L’information a depuis été reprise çà et là, mais c’est en fin de semaine dernière que CRN, ou encore le compte X d’un certain Haze, ont rapporté le débauchage d’Eric Demers par Intel. Il officiait depuis quatorze ans chez Qualcomm, et s'était distingué chez ATI / AMD auparavant... [Tout lire]

L’Iran profite de la contestation pour développer un Internet restreint sur le modèle chinois 

19 janvier 2026 à 16:09

Alors que la coupure d’Internet se prolonge en Iran, le pouvoir promet un retour progressif à la normale. L’ONG Filterwatch alerte pourtant sur un plan visant à réserver l’accès au Web mondial à une minorité, tout en développant un Internet national sous contrôle.

Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 3 de l’année 2026

Par : echarp
19 janvier 2026 à 14:24

Cette revue de presse sur Internet fait partie du travail de veille mené par l’April dans le cadre de son action de défense et de promotion du logiciel libre. Les positions exposées dans les articles sont celles de leurs auteurs et ne rejoignent pas forcément celles de l’April.

[Numerama] Contrôles CAF: comment fonctionne le nouvel algorithme de data mining?

✍ Amine Baba Aissa, le dimanche 18 janvier 2026.

Alors que le dispositif avait suscité de nombreuses critiques au sein d’associations en France, la CNAF a choisi de ne pas renoncer à son algorithme de contrôle des allocataires et vient de déployer un nouveau modèle de «data mining».​ Cette fois, l’organisme mise sur une communication plus transparente et a décidé

[Mediapart] Wikipédia, les 25 ans d'une utopie réussie devenue le punching-ball de l'extrême droite (€)

✍ Dan Israel, le jeudi 15 janvier 2026.

L’encyclopédie en ligne, gratuite et coopérative, a été lancée le 15 janvier 2001. Avec 65 millions d’articles en 326 langues, son succès a dépassé toutes les attentes, malgré les critiques régulière…"

[Républik IT Le Média] Software Heritage: dix ans de préservation du patrimoine applicatif

✍ Bertrand Lemaire, le mercredi 14 janvier 2026.

Le 28 janvier 2026, Software Heritage fêtera ses dix ans à l’Unesco. Morane Gruenpeter, directrice de la verticale Open-Science, et Bastien Guerry, responsable des partenariats, présentent cette initiative qui vise à préserver le patrimoine applicatif quelque soit le sort des éditeurs ou les feuilles de route de ceux-ci.

[ZDNET] Logiciel libre et souveraineté: la Commission européenne lance un appel à contributions

✍ Thierry Noisette, le lundi 12 janvier 2026.

La Commission propose jusqu’au 3 février aux développeurs, entreprises et communautés open source, administrations et chercheurs de contribuer à la future stratégie européenne d’écosystème numérique ouvert. En identifiant les obstacles à l’adoption de l’open source et en suggérant des mesures concrètes.

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Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever

Par : BeauHD
16 janvier 2026 à 00:45
Iran has imposed one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns in its history, cutting more than 92 million people off from connectivity for over a week as mass anti-government protests continue. TechCrunch reports: As of this writing, Iranians have not been able to access the internet for more than 170 hours. The previous longest shutdowns in the country lasted around 163 hours in 2019, and 160 hours in 2025, according to Isik Mater, the director of research at NetBlocks, a web monitoring company that tracks internet disruptions. Mater said that the current shutdown in Iran is the third longest on record, after the internet shutdown in Sudan in mid-2021 that lasted around 35 days, followed by the outage in Mauritania in July 2024, which lasted 22 days. "Iran's shutdowns remain among the most comprehensive and tightly enforced nationwide blackouts we've observed, particularly in terms of population affected," Mater told TechCrunch. The exact ranking depends on how each organization measures a shutdown. Zach Rosson, a researcher who studies internet disruptions at the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, told TechCrunch that according to its data, the ongoing shutdown in Iran is on a path to crack the top 10 longest shutdowns in history. Further reading: Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time

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TSMC met ses recettes 2025 en wafers

TSMC, le fondeur leader et de loin, a présenté ses résultats financiers du quatrième trimestre 2025. Au-delà des montants, l’entreprise, apparemment pas juste spécialisée en wafers, expose d’autres galettes : des diagrammes à secteurs plutôt informatifs... [Tout lire]

Internet en Iran : Starlink active les liaisons en silence, contrairement au Venezuela

15 janvier 2026 à 09:35

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Alors que l’Iran impose un black-out numérique total pour étouffer la contestation, Starlink a rendu son service gratuit dans le pays. Une bouffée d'oxygène pour les terminaux clandestins déjà sur place, mais qui tranche par la discrétion autour de la manœuvre : contrairement au Venezuela, Elon Musk a cette fois choisi d'agir sans faire de bruit.

Starlink a beaucoup d’avance, mais l’Europe n’a pas dit son dernier mot avec OneWeb

13 janvier 2026 à 20:19

Face au rouleau compresseur Starlink, l'Europe organise la résistance. Eutelsat vient de confirmer une commande massive de 340 nouveaux satellites à Airbus pour moderniser sa constellation OneWeb.

Starlink a beaucoup d’avance, mais l’Europe n’a pas dit son dernier mot avec OneWeb

13 janvier 2026 à 16:24

Face au rouleau compresseur Starlink, l'Europe organise la résistance. Eutelsat vient de confirmer une commande massive de 340 nouveaux satellites à Airbus pour moderniser sa constellation OneWeb.

How Markdown Took Over the World

Par : msmash
12 janvier 2026 à 21:25
22 years ago, developer and columnist John Gruber released Markdown, a simple plain-text formatting system designed to spare writers the headache of memorizing arcane HTML tags. As technologist Anil Dash writes in a long piece, Markdown has since embedded itself into nearly every corner of modern computing. Aaron Swartz, then seventeen years old, served as the beta tester before its quiet March 2004 debut. Google eventually added Markdown support to Docs after more than a decade of user requests; Microsoft put it in Notepad; Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, and Apple Notes all support it now. Dash writes: The part about not doing this stuff solely for money matters, because even the most advanced LLM systems today, what the big AI companies call their "frontier" models, require complex orchestration that's carefully scripted by people who've tuned their prompts for these systems through countless rounds of trial and error. They've iterated and tested and watched for the results as these systems hallucinated or failed or ran amok, chewing up countless resources along the way. And sometimes, they generated genuinely astonishing outputs, things that are truly amazing to consider that modern technology can achieve. The rate of progress and evolution, even factoring in the mind-boggling amounts of investment that are going into these systems, is rivaled only by the initial development of the personal computer or the Internet, or the early space race. And all of it -- all of it -- is controlled through Markdown files. When you see the brilliant work shown off from somebody who's bragging about what they made ChatGPT generate for them, or someone is understandably proud about the code that they got Claude to create, all of the most advanced work has been prompted in Markdown. Though where the logic of Markdown was originally a very simple version of "use human language to tell the machine what to do", the implications have gotten far more dire when they use a format designed to help expresss "make this **bold**" to tell the computer itself "make this imaginary girlfriend more compliant".

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