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Reçu — 16 juin 2026 ⏭

Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers

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Par : BeauHD
16 juin 2026 à 23:00
Commodore has unveiled the Callback 8020, a $499 Sailfish OS flip phone that runs most Android apps but deliberately blocks social media, browsers, email, and workplace apps to discourage doomscrolling. The "not dumb dumbphone" still supports messaging, music, maps, ridesharing, hotspots, a removable battery, and plenty of Commodore nostalgia. "The phone uses T9-style texting with predictive input, includes Commodore SID ringtones, ships with a selection of Commodore and Sailfish games, and even includes Snake," reports TechSpot. From the report: Commodore says it has developed patent-pending technology that prevents browsers and social media apps from being sideloaded, while DNS-level blocking should stop them from working even if someone finds a way to install them. Users can still sideload nearly anything else if it's not available on the Commostore, but apps designed for doomscrolling remain off limits. That means useful services such as WhatsApp, SMS, Signal, Telegram, WeChat, Spotify, Uber, Lyft, maps, podcasts, QR scanning, voice notes, and hotspot support work, but the likes of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Gmail, and browsers do not. The Callback 8020 has a 3.25-inch 480 x 640 internal display, a MediaTek Helio G81 chip, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, a 48MP Sony rear camera, an autofocus front camera, dual SIM support, USB-C, a headphone jack, FM radio, and something many of us miss from flagships: a removable battery. There's no 5G as Commodore argues that 4G VoLTE and Wi-Fi better fit a device meant to discourage constant streaming and scrolling. [...] The main screen is touch-capable but disabled by default, while the outer display keeps things deliberately sparse, showing basics such as time, battery, signal, and notifications via dome LEDs. The 8020 name is a nod to Commodore's 8010 modem from 1980. The phone comes in ProtoPET White, SX Silver, BASIC Beige, a translucent Starlight Edition, and a gold Founders Edition with a 24-karat gold-plated Commodore button. Standard models start at $499, the Starlight version is $549.99, and the Founders Edition costs $640. Preorders open June 30, with shipping targeted for winter. You can watch the launch ad on YouTube.

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Amazon fait baisser le prix de l’iPhone 17 Pro pour l’avant première de ses Prime Day

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Par : Matthieu Fabris
16 juin 2026 à 15:34

[Deal du jour] L'iPhone 17 Pro bénéficie d'une réduction sur Amazon en avant-première pour les abonnés Prime. Le dernier smartphone haut de gamme d'Apple voit son prix s'alléger de 130 € à quelques jours des Prime Day.

Amazon lâche ses offres Prime Day une semaine en avance : on fait le tri des meilleures promos en direct

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Par : Adam Langumier
16 juin 2026 à 15:29

Depuis le lundi 15 juin, Amazon propose déjà des offres estampillées Prime Day, à quelques jours du coup d’envoi officiel de l’événement. On a déjà fait le tri pour vous remonter uniquement les promotions en avant-première que l’on estime vraiment intéressantes.

Amazon lance ses Prime Day en avance : voici les offres qui valent déjà le détour

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Par : Adam Langumier
16 juin 2026 à 13:50

Depuis le lundi 15 juin, Amazon propose déjà des offres estampillées Prime Day, à quelques jours du coup d’envoi officiel de l’événement. On a déjà fait le tri pour vous remonter uniquement les promotions en avant-première que l’on estime vraiment intéressantes.

Particulièrement endurant, le récent iPhone 17e bénéficie d’une baisse de prix

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Par : Matthieu Fabris
16 juin 2026 à 07:33

[Deal du jour] L'iPhone 17e voit son tarif baisser de 50 € chez Joybuy, passant ainsi de 719 € à seulement 669,99 €. C'est l'occasion idéale de s'équiper d'un smartphone iOS particulièrement endurant et doté d'un stockage généreux à un tarif plus doux.

Comment Super Mario Bros. est devenu le jeu le plus cher de l’histoire

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Par : Matthieu Fabris
16 juin 2026 à 07:27

Vous trouvez que payer vos jeux 89 € est trop cher ? Imaginez devoir débourser 3 millions de dollars. C’est la somme qu’un fan a dépensée pour acquérir un exemplaire original de Super Mario Bros., encore sous blister.

Reçu — 15 juin 2026 ⏭

Trump's 'Made In the USA' Phone Is Just a Reskinned HTC U24 Pro

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Par : BeauHD
15 juin 2026 à 19:00
Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The heavily promoted, $499 T1 "Trump Phone" was originally said to be "Made in the USA" and ship in September 2025. Later, that was downgraded to "Assembled in the USA." Given the Trump Organization's lack of engineering or supply chain expertise, many assumed the "T1" would just be a private-label phone made by someone else. After a number of delays, the first phones are finally shipping. iFixit has performed a teardown and concluded that the T1 is a just gold-painted 2024 HTC U24 Pro -- a device from a Taiwanese company, probably using mainland China design and supply chains. In collaboration with NBC News, the iFixit team examined both phones using CT scans, side-by-side teardowns, and even reassembled a working T1 using a U24 Pro main board. As for "assembled in the USA," that may be true, in the same sense that your phone's repairman can "assemble" a phone from a handful of subassemblies sourced from someone else. Or it may have been assembled in Guangdong, China like the other U24 Pros. iFixit sums it up: "What you have is not an 'American-Proud Design,' but a phone designed in China, made in China, with the vast majority of parts sourced from China. I'm failing to find any stirring of American pride within me. I've certainly felt it before, so I can confirm that it is absent at this time." Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs on YouTube also published a comprehensive video of his experience ordering, unboxing, and tearing down the phone. "From pre-order emails landing in Gmail spam thanks to botched DMARC records, to paying for the $47.45 Trump Mobile 47 Plan over the phone, the entire buying experience was a disaster worthy of its own review," writes Nelson.

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Ce pack avec un iPhone 17, des AirPods Pro 3 et 4 AirTags tombe à 699 € dans quelques heures

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Par : Adam Langumier
15 juin 2026 à 15:00

[Deal du jour] Joybuy s'apprête à frapper un grand coup en proposant un pack Apple d'été inédit dès ce soir. Le lot regroupant l'iPhone 17 (256 Go Sage), les AirPods Pro 3 et quatre AirTags s'affiche à 699 € au lieu de 1 337 €.

Prime Day : les offres en avant-première sont déjà là, on fait le tri en direct

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Par : Adam Langumier
15 juin 2026 à 12:56

Les Prime Day ont lieu officiellement la semaine prochaine, mais Amazon n’a pas attendu le coup d’envoi pour dégainer ses premières offres. On fouille en direct dans son grand catalogue pour vous recommander les meilleures promotions en avant-première.

Reçu — 14 juin 2026 ⏭

UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids' Brains

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Par : EditorDavid
14 juin 2026 à 21:35
UK's Members of Parliament (MP) were "looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains," writes The Register — but they got "a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it." Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing. Asked what evidence exists on the impact of digital devices on infants and young children, Professor Denis Mareschal, director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, replied: "There is very little, if any, causal research in the early years. Almost everything is correlational." MPs kept coming back to the question — and the experts kept coming back to the same answer. When questioned about social media's impact on adolescents, Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of the University of Cambridge was equally cautious. "What evidence do we have of the impact of digital devices or social media on the adolescent brain?" she asked. "Almost nothing. There are a few small studies, but they haven't been replicated, and they're purely correlational...." MPs also wanted to know whether neuroscience could settle one of the liveliest arguments in the debate: how old a child should be before they're allowed onto social media. "What neuroscience can't do is pinpoint a precise age," Blakemore said. "The individual differences in brain development are vast...." If there was a takeaway from the hearing, it was that concern about digital childhood is running well ahead of the evidence needed to settle the argument.

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Reçu — 13 juin 2026 ⏭

Amazon fait chuter l’alternative ultra-fine à l’AirTag Ugreen à moins de 20 €

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Par : Matthieu Fabris
13 juin 2026 à 04:31

[Deal du jour] Pour protéger votre portefeuille sans l'encombrer, ce traceur d'Ugreen se pose en alternative idéale à l'AirTag grâce à son format carte de crédit. Pratique et compatible avec le réseau Apple Find My, il profite actuellement d'une bonne réduction sur Amazon.

Reçu — 11 juin 2026 ⏭

Study Links Smartphones With Declining Fertility Rates

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Par : BeauHD
11 juin 2026 à 23:00
Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrates by reducing in-person social interaction, sexual frequency, and other conditions tied to unintended pregnancies. "One of the studies published in May is called 'The Collapse of Teen Fertility in the Digital Era' and the other, published just Monday, is titled 'Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 Carrier Monopoly,'" reports KTLA. "Both were chronicled in a New York Times piece by political writer Sabrina Tavernise on Monday." Slashdot reader sabbede submitted the story. From the report: The one from May, authored by two University of Cincinnati professors, posits that teen fertility "collapsed globally" starting around 2007 -- the same year the first iPhone was released. "Smart phones changed how teens spend time with each other ... this change in turn drove the collapse in teen fertility," the study's abstract reads. "Once enough teens are on the phone, being on the phone is where the peer network is; in-person time falls sharply, and with it the unstructured contact in which most unintended teen conceptions occur." The study claimed that countries "across the income and policy spectrum" were affected by the teen fertility drop, and that researchers used data from multiple countries, including the U.S., England and Wales, to rule out "country-specific contraceptive access and welfare reform stories." "This model predicts that the shift towards the phone-mediated equilibrium affects multiple aspects of teen behavior," the abstract continues, concluding that "the same instrument that produces a collapse in teen fertility produces a surge in teen suicides." The study published on Monday looks more closely at the United States, explaining that nationwide general fertility rates have fallen 22% since 2007. "[This is] a sustained decline not readily explained by economic conditions, contraceptive use, housing or childcare costs, or other commonly cited factors," the National Bureau of Economic Researchers study states. "We assess the potential role of a different shock: the diffusion of the smartphone." As mentioned before, the first iPhone was rolled out in 2007, and this study makes use of that timeframe as "a natural experiment" by using data from 2007 through 2011, when iPhones were only sold on AT&T. "From June 2007 through February 2011, the device was sold only on AT&T, allowing us to identify its effect from variation in AT&T's mobile broadband coverage," the study says. "Entropy-balanced Poisson and synthetic difference-in-differences event studies imply that access to the iPhone reduced births by 4.5-8.0% at ages 15-19 and 3.2-6.6% at ages 20-24, with statistically significant but smaller declines among older cohorts. Placebo analyses applied to Verizon and Sprint's pre-2011 coverage footprint are null. Taken together, these cohort effects imply that the diffusion of the iPhone deepened the decline in births among women under 30 while suppressing the rise in births among older women." "Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33-52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15-44," researchers continued. "National-survey evidence on time use and sexual behavior is consistent with the iPhone reducing in-person interactions, increasing pornography use and reducing sexual frequency."

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Critiqué par George R.R. Martin, le créateur de House of the Dragon ne désire pas revenir dans l’univers de Game of Thrones

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Par : Julien Lausson
11 juin 2026 à 14:20

Sauf coup de théâtre, Ryan Condal passera la main après la saison 4. Le showrunner ne prévoit pas de revenir dans le monde de Game of Thrones après House of the Dragon. Ces dernières années, il a été ciblé par les critiques du public et publiquement désavoué par George R.R. Martin.

« Vous n’avez plus les moyens » : la savoureuse revanche de Steven Spielberg sur la saga James Bond

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Par : Camille Allard
11 juin 2026 à 09:33

Même lorsque l'on s'appelle Steven Spielberg, les portes du MI6 peuvent rester désespérément closes. Le réalisateur légendaire, qui a façonné le cinéma hollywoodien moderne, vient de partager une anecdote mémorable au micro du podcast The Rest is Entertainment. Il y révèle avoir été rejeté à plusieurs reprises par les producteurs de la franchise James Bond au début de sa carrière. De quoi laisser songeur.

Reçu — 10 juin 2026 ⏭

FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs

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Par : BeauHD
10 juin 2026 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase -- which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who compare the measures to those from authoritarian countries where it can be difficult to buy a mobile phone plan without giving up your identity. The proposed change would drastically shake up how people obtain phone plans in the U.S., and have all sorts of privacy and cybersecurity knock-on effects. The FCC is proposing the data collection partly as a way to combat scammers, with telecoms being required to collect other information on business and foreign customers like the intended use case of their bulk phone plan purchase and their IP address. But the changes would mean telecoms collect data on all new and renewing customers, and the FCC provides a long list of other things that the collected data could help authorities with. In a synopsis of the proposed changes, the FCC writes, "Specifically, we seek comment on requiring originating providers to, at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services." The goal of collecting this data, the FCC writes, is to deter some scammers from getting onto a telecom network in the first place, and so "enforcers will be better able to identify the scammers when they do." The FCC compares the changes to the sort of data collected by banks to prevent money laundering. One section stresses that the newly collected data would help "law enforcement to more easily identify callers that use the network to perpetuate crimes by ensuring that voice providers have accurate and complete customer information." It goes on to ask if the data would help identify people buying and selling illicit goods; the investigation of "fraud, espionage, or influence operations that undermine national security", and "address abuse in text messaging networks." "Criminals continue to leverage the anonymity provided by phone calls and texts to defraud Americans and exploit communications networks to further other crimes," one section reads. "For decades, civil libertarians have looked overseas at authoritarian countries where the government requires people to register to get a mobile phone to ensure they can be tracked. We never thought that would happen here," Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project told 404 Media in an email. "But make no mistake: with this rulemaking, the government is contemplating taking away people's ability to get a burner phone, which will hurt low-income people, domestic violence victims, and anyone else who cares about their privacy."

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Reçu — 9 juin 2026 ⏭

UK PM Gives Tech Firms Ultimatum To Block Explicit Images on Children's Phones

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Par : BeauHD
9 juin 2026 à 15:00
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given Apple, Google, and other tech firms until September to introduce device-level protections that prevent children from taking, sharing, or viewing explicit images. "If businesses do not comply within three months, legislation will be brought forward requiring the protection to be added to all phones and tablets sold in the UK," reports The Guardian. "Tech firms that fail to do so could face fines, and their senior managers could be made criminally liable." From the report: "Today, I am calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce vice controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images. Because this is not an impossible challenge," he said. "If they choose not, then we will act and we will change the law." [...] Under the changes, sexual predators will be prevented from being able to exploit and abuse victims through their devices, and children stopped from being able to access pornography, the Home Office said. Adults will still be able to take, share or view nude content once they have verified their age. In the Commons, Melanie Ward, the Labour MP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, said: "It's time to stop asking social media companies to make their products safe, and instead time to start requiring them to do so through regulation." Clive Efford, the Labour MP for Eltham and Chislehurst, said the "sociopaths" running social media platforms had no concern for the welfare of children. "The only message that they're going to listen to is if there's legislation put before this house that is going to act and send a clear message to them." The proposal is designed to sit alongside the Online Safety Act, which requires companies to have processes for removing material that is illegal or harmful to children.

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