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Déjà dans le rouge, OpenAI doit lever 207 milliards de dollars d’ici à 2030 pour financer ses pertes

Une étude de HSBC estime qu’OpenAI devra lever 207 milliards de dollars d'ici à 2030 pour rester à flot, alors que la société prévoit d’investir plus de 1 400 milliards dans ses centres de données et reste lourdement déficitaire, malgré des projections de croissance spectaculaires.

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« Aveugler » Taïwan : le plan redoutable de la Chine pour neutraliser Starlink en cas d’invasion

Taiwan Chine drone starlink satellite

Dans la perspective d'une possible invasion de Taïwan en 2027, la Chine pourrait tenter « d'aveugler » l'île en coupant ses liaisons Starlink. Ce scénario repose sur le déploiement d'un essaim de drones stratosphériques capables de créer un couvercle électromagnétique hermétique au-dessus du territoire.

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The 6.18 kernel has been released

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Par :corbet
Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected.

So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and pushed out.

Headline changes in this release include the ability to manage namespaces with file handles, support for the AccECN congestion-control protocol, initial support for signing of BPF programs, improved memory management with sheaves, the Rust binder driver, better control over transparent huge pages, and a lot more. This release also saw the removal of the bcachefs filesystem.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.18 page for more information.

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NixOS 25.11 released

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Par :corbet
Version 25.11 of the NixOS distribution has been released. "The 25.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2742 contributors, who authored 59430 commits since the previous release". Changes include 7,002 new packages, GNOME 49, LLVM 21, a new COSMIC desktop environment beta, firewalld support, and more; see the release notes for details.
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Landlock-ing Linux (prizrak.me)

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Par :corbet
The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the Landlock security module.

Landlock shines when an application has a predictable set of files or directories it needs. For example, a web server could restrict itself to accessing only /var/www/html and /tmp.

Unlike SELinux or AppArmor, Landlock policies don't require administrator involvement or system-wide configuration. Developers can embed policies directly in application code, making sandboxing a natural part of the development process.

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