For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of a universal basic income program who received $1,330 a month for an entire year.
There were benefits, but also the everyday challenges of being poor, and turning their life around "did not turn out to be quite that simple."
Across Silicon Valley, experimental guaranteed income programs have quietly taken off. Google began funding six different initiatives in 2022 as part of a $50 million donation to nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area, saying basic income could be a novel way to prevent homelessness in one of the nation's most expensive locations. Each program has hundreds of participants who receive around $1,000 a month, and academics study the results. State and federal tax laws limit the lengths of the programs and the payment amounts.
The studies have found that most basic income programs improve short-term employment and mental health while reducing food insecurity. But while data from these efforts has been closely tracked, less is known about the individual journeys of participants... The Times ultimately shadowed three people... All of the program participants, including the ones The Times followed, were previously homeless and transitioning off a housing stipend that paid for a portion of their rent, and many received the payments on top of other social assistance like food stamps.
The Times's findings mirrored the academic studies. For all three recipients, the instant benefits of basic income were clear: They had breathing room for groceries, rent and other expenses. But the success of the payments in another area — giving people more free time and opportunity in the long term — was mixed. "It's a lot to ask of someone to get their life together in 12 months, when a lot of these issues are structural or systemic," said Jennifer Loving, who runs Destination: Home, a nonprofit that administers basic income programs in Silicon Valley. "And the world around them isn't getting cheaper."
One recipient began going to community college — but resorted to taking one class at a time while single parenting — and using their monthly payments to help support relatives. In fact, the article notes that a recent study of 3,000 universal basic income participants found that money spent supporting friends and family increased 26%, "the most of any category. That was more than the increases for food (6%) and child care (11%)."
Another recipient used the time to get help at a community college to find a higher-paying job. And one recipient died — but his mother used what he'd saved to help put his brother through a drug rehab program.
A Philadelphia newscast reports on a grey-haired lady who allegedly refused to move out of the path of a delivery robot as a form of protest because "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers."
She was arrested, but says her actions were protected speech:
According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot's path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move... Marvin said she was protesting the use of delivery robots because she believes they are replacing human workers.... "I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward," Marvin said...
Marvin said she has confronted delivery robots on multiple occasions... Ashley Baldwin of West Philadelphia said she witnessed one of those encounters. "I actually thought the robot hit her, so my original question was, 'Are you OK? Did the robot hit you?' And she said, 'No, I have to stop this. They're taking over the world,'" Baldwin said.
Asked whether she plans to continue protesting the robots, Marvin said she does.
She was charged with disorderly conduct.
Uber did not respond to their request for a comment.
"When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works," argues an EFF blog post, "users rely on courts to recognize that laws can't make technical impossibilities a reality."
"That's why we were happy to see that a court has blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw the privacy protections of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)."
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah's SB 73, the state's draconian anti-VPN age verification law... Signed into law earlier this year, SB 73 attempted to regulate adult websites by requiring them to block VPN users or to identify the physical location of visitors using them or similar tools that mask their network traffic. It even went so far as to prohibit websites from offering instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass these checks. This made Utah, to EFF's knowledge, the first state in the nation to target the use of VPNs to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates. The Utah federal court halted enforcement of the law's VPN provisions last week, ruling that the law likely violates the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on passing laws that significantly burden businesses and people outside Utah's borders.
SB 73 burdens the rights of all internet users outside of Utah because it requires adult websites to either know every visiting user's physical location, and then block those in Utah, or to verify every visitor's age just in case they might be in Utah. The law's "actual-location provision in practice requires an entity to perform age verification services for every user visiting its site from any location because the entity would violate the law if even one of those users happened to be obfuscating," the court wrote. The court essentially ruled that Utah has less-burdensome ways to prevent Utah minors from accessing adult websites than requiring all users in the world to comply with SB 73.
EFF's position is that "forcing platforms to detect and block privacy-preserving tools undermines user privacy and security worldwide while demanding the impossible."
But there's another problem, explained an EFF email this week. "Age verification laws that are predicated on users possessing identity documents exclude critical sections of populations. And this problem is global in nature: Millions of people lack government-issued identification or encounter regular challenges to obtaining or updating it...."
Every site-blocking bill has the same rotten idea at their core: That enforcing copyrights requires building a censorship machine for websites into the architecture of the internet. This is, of course, a disaster for a free and open web. These proposals keep coming, but there is still no way to create a mechanism for blocking access to an entire website that does not invite both deliberate abuse and lots of collateral harm to free and lawful speech.
EFF has declared this month "Opt Out October," and each day they're offering new guides on how to "stand our ground and take control over what happens with our data."
MapQuest creates a new layer (that can be toggled on and off), Gizmodo reports:
After promising not to comply with the Trump administration's "Lake America" gimmick, the platform announced a new "Surveillance Layer" that displays the locations of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), including those from Flock Safety. Per MapQuest, its new tool will identify the locations of known outdoor surveillance cameras and plate readers from Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and others.
While the company didn't specify how it sources its data, it appears to be similar to the data amassed by DeFlock, which maintains a user-submitted map of ALPR camera locations. MapQuest may be sourcing the information from DeFlock and the OpenStreetMap project.
Engadget notes that MapQuest also recently added "useful, long-overdue features like Android Auto support and public transit directions."
Le 20 mars 2026, Microsoft prenait l'engagement de travailler à améliorer Windows 11 pour mieux satisfaire aux attentes des consommateurs. C'était le communiqué "Notre engagement pour la qualité de Windows"., et parmi les promesses il y avait le fait de rendre Windows 11 plus réactif et moins gourma...
"Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said Friday it plans to make extensive upgrades to its Florida launch facilities," reports CNBC, "with the goal of supporting multiple flights per week by the end of the decade."
"The company will add two more launch and landing pads for New Glenn, its heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket."
A $330 million expansion to its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, expected to be complete in the summer of 2027, will enable it to produce up to 150 upper stages of its New Glenn rocket annually, Blue Origin said in a blog post. "These investments are centered on one goal: building the capacity to support more missions, more reliably, and more efficiently," Ian Richardson, Blue Origin's senior vice president of operations, wrote in the post. "As we look ahead, this infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade...."
Blue Origin said it's building a new customer integration facility with the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that will enable it to "prepare multiple missions at once" when it's up and running. Blue Origin has invested more than $3 billion in its infrastructure and facilities in Florida, which now spans more than 20 sites across the state's Brevard and Orange counties, with more than 5,000 employees, [Ian Richardson, Blue Origin's senior vice president of operations, wrote in the blog post].
The article notes it's part of "a flurry of investment" as SpaceX stops offering commercial rides on its Falcon 9, "with $92.5 billion invested in the commercial space sector in the first three quarters of 2026, according to a report this week by venture capital firm Space Capital." And it happens as Blue Origin, SpaceX and other rocket providers "are seeing increasing demand from companies and governments trying to deploy satellites into orbit."
"Launching at a high cadence requires a connected system," says Blue Origin's blog post, "one that manufactures vehicles at scale, prepares customer payloads efficiently, supports reliable launch operations, and quickly returns reusable boosters to service. We are building that system here in Florida," and "laying the foundation for a future where access to space is more frequent, more reliable, and more affordable, for the benefit of Earth."
Déjà dans l’histoire de l’endurance. Avant même le départ, les 6 Heures de Barcelone, avant-dernière manche du Championnat du monde d’endurance 2026 (WEC), proposent déjà de l’inédit.
Genesis en pole
La Genesis n°17 s’envolera, dimanche midi, depuis la pole position sur le circuit de Montmeló. C’est une première pour la marque, qui a débuté dans la catégorie en avril dernier.
« Je suis vraiment heureux, a déclaré le patron de l’équipe Genesis Magma Racing, Cyril Abiteboul. Dans le sport, il n’y a pas de meilleure façon de montrer la quantité et la qualité du travail accompli que d’obtenir un bon résultat. Nous avons fait des déclarations, nous avons dit que la voiture était bonne, que les pilotes étaient très compétents et que l’équipe trouvait sa cohésion. Mais le dire est une chose. Le montrer dans une séance en est une autre ».
Cette première pole position, réalisée aux 6 Heures de Barcelone, est aussi le résultat d’un tour remarquable bouclé dans la séance Hyperpole par le jeune Français Mathys Jaubert. Son 1’30’’166 était 170 millièmes de seconde plus rapide que la Toyota n°8 de Ryo Hirakawa, leader du championnat.
« La voiture était parfaitement dans sa fenêtre de performance, expliquait le pilote de 21 ans quelques minutes après sa première pole position à l’échelon mondial. Nous avons changé quelques stratégies entre la séance de qualification et l’Hyperpole ce qui nous a fait faire un pas en avant. Après, il s’agissait de mettre tous les ingrédients ensemble ».
Genesis : à l’aise dans le rapide
Lors des essais libres, les Genesis semblaient déjà particulièrement en forme. Pilote de la Genesis n°19, Paul-Loup Chatin explique : « C’était clair dès notre première sortie en piste avec cette voiture : nous avons un bon potentiel dans les virages à grande vitesse. Et bien sûr, le tracé va dans ce sens, d’autant plus maintenant que le dernier secteur a retrouvé son tracé d’origine ».
Pour ces 6 Heures de Barcelone, les organisateurs ont choisi d’escamoter l’odieuse chicane, rendant la dernière partie du tracé plus fluide… Une bonne nouvelle pour la voiture coréenne au moment où Genesis entend transformer ses bons fondamentaux en résultats. Pour l’heure, et malgré de belles performances, les équipages n’ont rapporté que dix points au championnat. Le meilleur résultat à ce jour est une 7e place à Austin (Etats-Unis).
« Nous n’avons pas su traduire notre rythme en résultats concrets, en particulier avec la voiture n°19, analyse Mathieu Jaminet, l’un de ses pilotes. Les deux dernières courses, à Fuji et à Austin, en sont le meilleur exemple. Nous avions le rythme pour figurer sans aucun doute dans le top 7 ou 8, et même plus haut dans le classement. Et pourtant, nous n’avons toujours aucun point à notre actif ».
Cette deuxième Genesis s’élancera en troisième position, malgré une petite alerte technique dans la séance Hyperpole. Le résultat d’ensemble du constructeur impressionne. Reste à confirmer en course.
Toyota pour le titre
La marque nipponne peut décrocher la couronne constructeurs ce dimanche. Mais Toyota aura besoin d’un bon résultat d’ensemble : « Ça ne sera pas facile. Les cartes ne sont pas seulement dans nos mains, parce que ça dépend aussi de celui de nos concurrents, admet David Floury, directeur technique de Toyota Racing. L’objectif, c’est de se focaliser, comme on l’a fait cette année. Je pense qu’on a une bonne dynamique ».
Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley et Ryo Hirakawa l’avaient emporté lors de la dernière manche à Fuji (Japon) aux commandes de la n°8. Le trio compte 10 points d’avance sur l’équipage de la Toyota n°7 (Conway, Kobayashi, de Vries) au championnat pilotes. Là aussi, le couronne peut être attribuée ce week-end en cas de résultat favorable.
Photo : DPPI / WEC
BMW dans le dur
Si l’Hélice est encore dans la course au titre à l’occasion de ces 6 Heures de Barcelone, les dernières sorties ont été décevantes. Tout comme les qualifications. Les deux voitures ont été éliminées dès la première partie, ratant la séance Hyperpole. Elles prendront le départ aux 14e et 16e places.
Le tracé catalan ne correspond pas aux caractéristiques de la M Hybrid V8, nous confirme René Rast, pilote de la n°20, actuellement troisième au championnat avec son partenaire Robin Frijns.
« De manière générale, il semble que nous soyons un peu plus en difficulté cette année sur les circuits qui comportent beaucoup de virages », constate l’Allemand, vainqueur à Spa et deuxième au Mans. Il est vrai que Montmeló est nettement plus sinueux. Et son asphalte est plus ancien, limitant l’adhérence et épuisant les pneumatiques. BMW devra être créatif pour conserver ses chances.
Alpine : exit l’option Geely
Le programme Alpine prendra fin après la finale de Monza (Italie), début novembre. Et le constructeur chinois Geely, longtemps pressenti pour reprendre l’effort, n’a finalement pas signé.
Philippe Sinault, patron de l’équipe, l’a confirmé à nos confrères de L’Equipe : « C’était du sérieux, on a discuté très longtemps, il y avait un réel intérêt de leur part. Mais ça ne se fera pas, et ce n’est pas une bonne nouvelle ».
La structure Signatech, chargée depuis trois saisons de l’exploitation des Alpine Hypercar, cherche désormais des alternatives. Des contacts sont en cours mais à un niveau moins avancé que le dossier Geely. Le temps presse : les engagements sont bouclés en novembre. « Je me dois d’être optimiste », assure Philippe Sinault.
Pilote de l’Alpine n°35, Charles Milesi abonde : « Dans l’équipe, ce n’était le choix de personne d’arrêter. C’est pour ça qu’on est tous soudés. Pour le moment, ça s’est plutôt bien passé, même si on aurait pu optimiser un peu plus les résultats ici et là ».
Les Alpine partiront des 4e et 7e places dimanche midi.
Photo : DPPI / WEC
Alors, ces 6 Heures de Barcelone ?
Le tracé catalan est arrivé cet été au calendrier après les annulations des manches au Qatar et à Bahreïn. C’est une première en WEC pour ce circuit.
Si la grande tribune face aux stands sonnait un peu creux vendredi, elle était nettement plus garnie samedi. L’un des pilotes les plus encouragés est Miguel Molina, vainqueur des 24 Heures du Mans 2024. Il est aussi natif de Gérone, à 50 minutes du circuit.
« Je pense que ça va être un beau week-end, s’enthousiasme le Ferrariste. Je suis très attaché à ce circuit depuis longtemps, j’ai beaucoup roulé au début de ma carrière de pilote. Donc, arriver ici en tant que pilote officiel Ferrari, en lutte pour la victoire, c’est le moment fort de ma carrière ».
Parmi les régionaux engagés dans la catégorie Hypercar, on relève aussi Alex Riberas (Aston Martin) et Daniel Juncadella (Genesis).
Les organisateurs attendent environ 20 000 spectateurs ce week-end. Pas mal, quand on sait que l’évènement n’a été officiellement programmé qu’à la fin de mois de juillet. Et que la météo n’est pas très encourageante (on en reparle plus loin).
Dur avec les pneus
Le tracé de Barcelone est particulièrement retors avec les pneumatiques. « Sur un tiers de la piste, soit près d’un kilomètre et demi, le pneu est soumis à plus de 2 G d’efforts latéraux », nous décrypte Pierre Alves, directeur des opérations endurance chez Michelin.
« C’est le circuit le plus énergétique du championnat. A Spa, le pneu a le temps de respirer un peu en ligne droite. Ici, ça n’arrête jamais ». L’enjeu sera donc de préserver les gommes pour effectuer deux relais avec le même train. Les pilotes doivent donc surveiller la température interne du pneu, affichée sur le volant. Ou encore limiter au maximum les dérives.
A moins que…
Et la pluie s’invite aux 6 Heures de Barcelone…
L’agence météo espagnole est très pessimiste pour ce dimanche. L’Aemet a même diffusé une alerte orange pour pluies abondantes sur le littoral catalan. Dans le paddock, tous les téléphones portables ont sonné avec un message appelant à la prudence, samedi en début d’après-midi, alors que le ciel était encore dégagé.
Une course humide à l’occasion de ces 6 Heures de Barcelone constituerait un saut dans l’inconnu pour les équipes. D’autant qu’elles découvrent ici pour la première fois le nouveau pneumatique pluie proposé par Michelin.
Stratégies alternatives
Cette saison, on a vu beaucoup d’équipes rentrer aux stands plus tôt que prévu pour bénéficier d’une piste claire. L’objectif est de doubler les adversaires au moment où ils doivent s’arrêter à leur tour.
C’est ainsi que la BMW n°15 s’était extraite du peloton à Spa-Francorchamps pour l’emporter. Ou comment les deux voitures de l’écurie Toyota sont revenues dans le groupe de tête aux 24 Heures du Mans, après des qualifications décevantes.
« Si la piste reste sèche, on verra ce week-end de nombreuses stratégies pour bénéficier d’une piste dégagée », prévoit René Rast. Il a l’oeil de l’expert. Il était l’un des trois pilotes victorieux en Belgique grâce à cette astuce.
Charles Milesi (Alpine) explique : « La différence de rythme est énorme, surtout quand on est en pack ou dans le trafic. Parfois, l’écart peut être entre une seconde et demie et trois secondes par tour ».
Ferrari l’a bien remarqué aussi : « C’est quelque chose qui prend de plus en plus d’importance en WEC, admet Mauro Barbieri, responsable de la performance et des simulations au sein de l’équipe transalpine.
« C’est un aspect sur lequel nous nous concentrons généralement lors de nos réunions stratégiques d’avant-course, puis que nous surveillons de près pendant la course elle-même. Cela peut être déterminant ».
McLaren suit le plan
James Barclay, chef d’orchestre du programme McLaren en Hypercar, a fait part de son optimisme à cinq mois des débuts en compétition de la MCL-HY.
« Depuis le premier roulage à Varano en mai, nous avons effectué six séances de tests, si l’on exclut certains extras comme des essais aérodynamiques en ligne droite. Cela a été un processus vraiment positif, non seulement en termes de validation, mais aussi pour commencer par rendre la voiture opérationnelle et tester la durée de vie des pièces, ce que nous continuons d’ailleurs à faire. »
« Nous avons évidemment encore du chemin à parcourir jusqu’au début de l’année prochaine, mais une étape importante approche également avec l’homologation ».
Celle-ci aura lieu d’ici la fin de l’année calendaire. Et il ne faudra pas se rater : la voiture sera en effet gelée dans cette configuration pour plusieurs saisons.
La première campagne de McLaren l’an prochain sera-t-elle aussi encourageante que celle de Genesis cette année ?
Linux maintainers "have ruled that people no longer have to declare their LLM usage," reports XDA Developers, "as Torvalds himself calls a ban on AI 'utterly stupid.'"
The first part of this story comes via a message sent to the Linux mailing list. It announces one of the major changes decided during the Maintainers Summit on October 8, 2026, in Prague, Czechia, where submissions to the kernel no longer need to use the "Assisted-by" tag... meaning that people can submit AI-generated code without needing to declare it as such.
In some correspondence regarding concern about this new disclosure removal, the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, made his thoughts known... [Torvalds] compares an AI ban to getting rid of text editors, as doing so would prove that someone could write a good commit message without making any mistakes. He then rounds off his argument by asking, "Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?" and stating that he simply expects the people working on the Linux kernel to "understand what they are doing."
Here's the last line of Torvalds' post. "Quite honestly, in my experience, the people I respect and call intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and interesting tools."
In a related story, Torvalds says he's used AI to help him understand patches that were hard to follow. And this week Torvalds even posted an LLM-assisted patch, reports Tom's Hardware:
The development branch purports to fix an old issue with massive cache contention when many CPUs are reading the same file — a scenario potentially encountered when using shared libraries, databases, and web servers. Several developers had already made attempts over the years at fixing the issue, all with varied results, none quite ideal as an all-encompassing solution... He's now posted his solution in a development branch, and claims that he's seen a 23x performance improvement in a dedicated synthetic benchmark, though he notes that actual real-world impact will be far less significant, as "no real load" will witness those figures.
Torvalds used Anthropic's Claude Code, reports The New Stack, and "said the assistant wrote the implementation, tests, and initial documentation, and reviewed the code under his direction. He ran the benchmarks himself, despite having previously criticized developers for claiming AI writes 99% of their code." Tuesday Torvalds submitted a 10-patch series.
"Reviewers have since identified a race condition and raised concerns about memory reclamation," adds The New Stack. "Torvalds has handed further development to Kiryl Shutsemau, a Linux kernel developer who previously worked on the same bottleneck."
"Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company behind the [server-side] JavaScript and TypeScript runtime created by Ryan Dahl, the inventor of Node.js," Forbes reported last week.
But Deno "has no future at Cloudflare, which will maintain the runtime for another year before ending its development," writes The Register. "That's OK with Dahl. 'I am now of the opinion that if you're choosing Node.js for building servers, you're doing it wrong,' Dahl told The Register."
It all started with his team's work on the platform Deno Deploy, "We wanted to make running applications as straightforward as possible," Dahl
wrote on the official Deno blog. "But building and operating Deploy also showed us how much complexity remained underneath that developer experience. I wanted to simplify that layer, too."
This led to celld. Building on the Cloudflare Workers programming model, celld lets developers build distributed applications from the start while making the system simple to operate. What excites me greatly is that the scaling is built into the programming model, rather than infrastructure each app has to assemble itself.... We want to make this programming model the default way to build servers, whether you run on Cloudflare's network or your own infrastructure.
Joining also means choosing where to focus our effort... Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development. Deno Deploy will continue operating for six months before shutting down. We will provide migration support for paying customers moving to Cloudflare Workers. [Deno's JSR package registry for JavaScript and TypeScript] will continue operating, with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare.
Forbes argues that this acquisition of Deno "turns a long-standing objection to Cloudflare Workers, the claim that applications built on it cannot easily leave, into a selling point."
For CIOs evaluating serverless and edge platforms, portability now has a concrete answer... Released in August, [celld] is a single Rust binary that runs Workers and Durable Objects across many machines, with object storage as its only external dependency. Operators run multiple celld instances against one storage bucket, and the software handles placement, routing and persistence. Dahl and Belder will now lead an effort to merge celld into workerd and make self-hosting a supported way to run Workers applications. With this, customers can build an application on Cloudflare's network and move it to a private data center without rewriting it.
"With Deno, we improved the experience of writing JavaScript," Dahl argues on the Cloudflare blog, "but we didn't fundamentally change what developers had to assemble around the runtime. The bigger problems are around networked applications: distributing computation, coordinating state, data storage in general, and autoscaling to meet demand..."
Could the programming model make partitioning across machines part of the design from the start? The solution clicked into focus when I read about Cloudflare's Durable Objects. It provided a very powerful abstraction: the distributed singleton with a SQLite database. Each Durable Object is like a small, individually addressable server with its own relational database. Its JavaScript execution is single-threaded (which is easy to reason about), it handles WebSockets, and its local SQLite database can be accessed synchronously. By building a chat application using one Durable Object per channel, you have sharded your data and WebSocket connections, and thus made your application scalable... What excites me is the leverage this model gives developers: compute, relational databases, queues, and real-time communication primitives designed for applications distributed across machines.
Now Dahl and 12 of his Deno colleagues "will work to build out Cloudflare's Workers platform," explains The Register, "expanding it for potential open-source use. He feels this approach is the way to go."
"Right now, every other server is really operating at the Linux VM layer. That is not what Cloudflare Workers are," he said...
The ever-fickle Dahl first debuted Deno in 2018 as a rewrite of Node. The name 'Deno' is an anagram of Node, and it was Dahl's attempt to fix everything he felt he got wrong with Node — built-in fetch, a permission model, native TypeScript support et al. Sequoia backed Dahl's company for $21 million in 2022, and as of August, Deno amassed 400,000 monthly users. Nonetheless, Node's gravity proved too heavy for Deno to achieve escape velocity.
"What we found over years of working on Deno is that you can't really deviate from Node.js very much," Dahl told The Register. "As we continued to try to get adoption for Deno, we found we had to essentially backpedal on some of the original promises and become more Node compatible over time, and that left us as a kind of an alternative Node.js implementation." Going forward, Cloudflare will supply Deno with bug fixes and security patches for the next year, while Dahl looks for a new home for the MIT-licensed open source project.
Dahl's worked could bring "yet another revolutionary turn for server-side JavaScript," the article argues, "offering a runtime that would require only 300 KB of memory per instance, rather than the hundreds of megabytes now required for Node/Deno. Such savings could quickly add up for a cloud provider, especially one serving the voracious agentic market."
And as Dahl wrote on the Deno blog, "The need for better abstractions is especially acute with AI. Durable Objects bring together capabilities that are particularly useful for agent harnesses: inexpensive, serverless execution, persistent state, WebSockets, and a high-level JavaScript interface. This is what I'm most excited to explore and why celld focuses on Durable Objects."
Il y a tout juste une semaine, le 10 octobre 2026, apparaissait sur le web une rumeur annonçant la fin de production de la GeForce RTX 5090. Peu après, le site BenchLife indiquait que la RTX 5090 n'était pas officiellement "EOL" chez NVIDIA, mais que la firme ferait le choix stratégique de conserver...
Millions of current and former students at California's public school have had their data stolen — including names, date of birth, and addresses — stolen in a breach, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The breach affects students "who took the state's mandated standardized tests that annually assess their academic proficiency, education officials announced Friday."
The compromised information affects many more than the state's current 5.7 million public-school students as the breach dates back to 2023 enrollments. Students who left California but did not confirm their transfer to another school also were affected, dating back to 2006.
The data breach involved [nonprofit] Educational Testing Service or ETS, which provides extensive services to California [including test participation and assessment data]... Affected former students, including those who are now adults, are eligible for 24 months of free identity-protection services and identity-restoration help if there is identity theft. Officials said that parents and guardians may want to consider requesting a free credit freeze for their children who are under 16 to help prevent unauthorized accounts from being opened in the names of their children.
The breach involved a compromised login credential, according to a web page about the incident from California's Department of Education. The compromised credential was then used to copy files with student information at "various" times between May 22 and September 18, 2026, which drew concern from a cybersecurity expert interviewed by the Los Angeles Times:
"A stolen login credential should not become a months-long passport to millions of students' personal records," said Anton Dahbura, executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. "If that is what happened here, the critical question is why authentication safeguards, access restrictions, and monitoring systems failed to detect and stop the unauthorized activity."
He added: "Incidents like this expose a fundamental weakness in how we manage student data: School systems may outsource the storage and processing of sensitive information, but they cannot outsource the consequences of a breach. When millions of student records are concentrated with a single vendor, one security failure can become a statewide problem with consequences that follow children for years."
A spokesperson for ETS told the Times that they've now implemented additional safeguards, including strengthened access controls, enhanced monitoring, and more third-party review of their security practices.
TechCrunch writes:
"Isn't it weird that I, like, did a TV show about kind of a business scam, and you got in trouble for like ... a business scam?" comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder gently asks Elizabeth Holmes.
One month before the notorious Theranos CEO surrendered to begin her 11-year criminal fraud sentence in 2023, Holmes and her husband contacted A24 as a last-ditch effort to exonerate her in the public eye, suggesting they send a film crew to document her final days of freedom. Alongside director Lance Oppenheim, Fielder — a cringe-comedy mastermind whose work often walks the line between fact and fiction — embraced the impossible project of figuring out who the infamous Stanford dropout really is.
"I never actually made that connection," says Holmes. "I think it's a pretty different situation...."
We already know that Elizabeth Holmes is not innocent. What we still can't figure out, though, is whether she really, truly believes she did nothing wrong. Even as she sat on trial — listening to testimonies from investors who lost hundreds of millions of dollars, whistleblowers who were silenced when they flagged that Theranos' blood-testing devices didn't work, and patients who acted on incorrect blood test results — Holmes never wavered.
Business Insider says the scariest thing about the new documentary "is how much I wanted to believe her."
SFGate calls it "one of the finest works of journalism I've ever seen."
As Fielder ingratiates himself with Holmes and [her husband] Evans, he gets them comfortable enough to ask the hard questions: about Theranos, about prison, and even about themselves. The resulting footage is often shocking. You will see Elizabeth Holmes, who still maintains she did nothing wrong, answer "no" when Fielder asks her if she's ever lied in her life... [Y]ou will also see Holmes and Evans spend a great deal of time in this movie attempting to boot up Theranos 2.0. They even go so far as to drag out some of the original Theranos blood testing apparatus, which looks like a bunch of random parts from TigerDirect they hooked together, to show Fielder what their product can do. We do not see it doing anything on screen, but the couple assures that it we would if it was, like, hooked up properly.
These scenes are extremely funny, but funny isn't what Fielder is looking for. He's trying to figure out if this woman is a clueless naif, if she believes her own lies, or if she is playing the character of an innocent woman, and doing so with such effectiveness that, to paraphrase Fielder, she might be the most manipulative person in the world. The answer proves fabulously elusive, and so Fielder and Oppenheim go to extremes in their attempt to find it. They hold the camera on Holmes' rubbery elfin face for what feels like hours at a time, to see if she'll blink (figuratively or literally!). They interview Holmes' visiting parents, with the father, former Enron exec Christian Holmes, casually telling Fielder that everything changed for his daughter "when she was raped." To the furthest extreme, they bring in actress Amanda Seyfried — who played Holmes in the Hulu TV show "The Dropout" — to recreate any dialogues Fielder had with Holmes herself that couldn't be recorded on camera. Seyfried is so convincing in mimicking Holmes that you, the audience, might forget which scenes were Seyfried talking to the camera and not Holmes herself. I know I did.
Continuing that theme in the film, TechCrunch notes, is how her husband Billy Evans "has constructed a lifelike AI avatar of his wife, trapped inside of a large vertical screen that he wheels over to the dinner table to sit with him and his kids as though she's actually there."
Elizabeth Holmes "comes off in the doc as every bit as innately bizarre as anyone showing up for a cinematic freak show might hope," writes Variety:
My personal hunch is that Fielder came away thinking Holmes is on the level, to the extent that someone who sometimes seems like an AI program's idea of how a human should behave can be on the level. There are a few possibilities that might explain how Holmes comes off the way she does in the movie: (a) She is a simpleton. (b) She is a conniving sociopath who happens to be utterly brilliant at playing a simpleton. (c) Somewhere between those poles, she is the very emblem of a woman who throughout her life has put herself in the sway of controlling men, to the detriment of her intellect, willpower and emotional development... Is it possible that the more you learn about someone, the less you might know how to think about them?
Meanwhile, NBC News recently reported:
Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud for siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from several high-profile investors, is scheduled to be transferred from a minimum-security federal prison to a halfway house next year, according to one of her victims... [America's Department of Justice "is required by law to notify victims of crime of case developments through letters and emails," the article points out.] She was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and three months in prison. She and her business partner, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, were ordered to pay 12 victims a total of $452 million in restitution.
Holmes has been serving that sentence at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas. The halfway house will provide her greater freedom... In March, a judge cut Holmes' sentence from 135 months to 123 months. According to a court document, the judge agreed with Holmes that she did not personally cause "substantial financial hardship" to her victims.
NBC News adds that a prison consultant they interviewed "said inmates who report to halfway houses can work, have phones, drive to religious services or shop for things they need and earn passes for weekends at home."
Le Mondial de l’Automobile de Paris 2026 était pour FORTHING l’occasion d’un retour sur la scène parisienne, deux ans après ses débuts sur ce même salon. FORTHING, la marque de voitures particulières de Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor, y a officiellement dévoilé notamment sa gamme TK, en s’offrant la vitrine du plus grand salon d’Europe de l’Ouest. Nous avons rencontré Sylar Li, directeur en charge des produits de la marque à l’international, pour un entretien exclusif, en vidéo.
De grandes ambitions pour un public exigeant
Pour un acteur chinois encore jeune sur notre continent, se rendre visible sur un événement de cette ampleur n’a rien d’anodin. Le Mondial réunit les constructeurs, la presse spécialisée et un public nombreux, ce qui en fait un passage presque obligé pour qui veut se faire connaître et donner de la crédibilité à ses ambitions. Pour FORTHING, il ne s’agit pas d’une première, puisque la marque avait fait une apparition sur un salon européen déjà à Paris en 2024, avant de participer à l’IAA Mobility 2025 à Munich. Elle s’est donné les moyens d’y exister de nouveau, tant sur le plan médiatique qu’auprès du grand public, et son stand (Hall 7, D11) a naturellement attiré notre attention.
Cette présence s’appuie sur une implantation déjà engagée. FORTHING est arrivée sur le marché européen dès 2022 et a vu ses ventes progresser régulièrement, jusqu’à dépasser les 10 000 véhicules en 2025. Forte de réseaux de concessionnaires établis en Allemagne et en Italie, la marque concentre désormais ses efforts sur la France, la Norvège et le Danemark, avec l’ambition de passer d’une simple logique d’exportation à une véritable implantation locale. Dans un contexte où les marques chinoises sont de plus en plus nombreuses à frapper à la porte du marché européen, la manière dont chacune choisit de se présenter, et à quel moment, en dit déjà beaucoup sur sa stratégie.
Il nous semblait donc intéressant de mieux comprendre comment la marque comptait renforcer sa place sur notre marché. En charge des produits à l’international, Sylar Li occupe une position idéale pour en parler, car il est au cœur des choix qui conditionnent le développement de FORTHING hors de ses frontières. Face à un public européen exigeant, habitué à une concurrence très dense et attentif à la crédibilité de chaque acteur, la marque ne peut se contenter d’une simple présence sur un stand. Il nous a reçus pour exposer les ambitions du constructeur et son plan pour notre marché, à un moment où chaque prise de parole compte pour s’installer durablement dans l’esprit des automobilistes. Il évoque ces points plus précisément dans notre interview vidéo exclusive.
Une gamme TK et un V9 pour convaincre les Européens
Le stand réunit quatre véhicules, les TK5 BEV, TK5 PHEV, TK7 PHEV et V9 PHEV Camping Edition, en SUV comme en monospace, pour les familles et les usages professionnels (le TK5 PHEV n’étant visible qu’à partir du 13 octobre). Les TK5 et TK7 reposent sur la troisième génération de l’architecture intelligente EMA, une plateforme multi-énergies qui gagne en autonomie, en vitesse de recharge et en efficacité, et sont lancés à l’échelle mondiale en versions électrique et hybride.
Le TK5 est un SUV urbain de 4,55 m de long (4 546 mm pour 1 860 mm de large et 1 680 mm de haut, empattement de 2,715 m), aux jantes sport de 20 pouces, avec un toit panoramique ouvrant et des sièges revêtus de similicuir de haute qualité, réglables électriquement dans dix directions et dotés de fonctions de ventilation, de chauffage et de massage. À bord, il propose un écran central de 15,6 pouces, une instrumentation de 8,8 pouces, Apple CarPlay et Android Auto sans fil, une recharge par induction de 50 W et des commandes physiques de climatisation. Ses aides à la conduite L2+, conformes à la réception européenne WVTA, incluent régulateur adaptatif, reconnaissance des panneaux, freinage d’urgence et surveillance du conducteur, et la marque assure l’avoir réglé pour les routes européennes, avec un châssis stable et une direction précise.
En version BEV, il s’appuie sur une architecture native de 800 V et des modules de puissance en carbure de silicium, avec un rendement du groupe motopropulseur de 99,5 % selon FORTHING, une puissance de pointe de 200 kW et une batterie de 75 kWh pour 501 km d’autonomie WLTC en tout électrique. La recharge atteint 160 kW en courant continu, de 20 à 80 % en moins de 18 minutes. Le TK5 PHEV associe un moteur essence dédié de 1,498 L à une transmission hybride dédiée et à un moteur électrique de 150 kW. Sa batterie de 39 kWh offre 201 km en tout électrique et 1 091 km cumulés, pour 5,9 L/100 km en mode hybride WLTC, avec une recharge rapide jusqu’à 90 kW.
Plus grand, le TK7 PHEV vise les familles nombreuses (4,835 m de long, 1,90 m de large, 1,74 m de haut, empattement de 2,90 m) avec cinq à huit places, confortables sur les trois rangées. Son coffre atteint 0,234 m³ en sept places et 1,086 m³ en cinq places, avec 37 rangements. Il annonce 190 km d’autonomie WLTC en tout électrique et 1 060 km cumulés, une recharge de 11 kW en alternatif et 80 kW en continu, et une prise V2L de 6,6 kW pour le camping ou les réunions de famille.
Le V9 PHEV Camping Edition pousse la polyvalence du monospace avec ses versions quatre ou sept places, une tente de toit rétractable, des couchages modulables et un auvent latéral semi-automatique de 2 × 2,5 m. La version quatre places offre un lit inférieur de 1,1 × 1,9 m, la sept places un lit électrique de 1,2 × 2 m formé par les deuxième et troisième rangées, et les deux un lit de toit de 0,95 × 1,9 m. Le V9 revendique 42 rangements, jusqu’à 2 792 L de chargement et 5,54 m² d’espace utile. La version quatre places ajoute un réfrigérateur à compresseur de 22 L descendant à −18 °C, un lavabo, un rideau de douche arrière et une multiprise de 2 200 W.
Le stand expose aussi des organes de motorisation électrifiée (moteur, transmission hybride, batterie) et présentait le brocart Zhuang, un artisanat inscrit au patrimoine culturel immatériel chinois.
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