Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in control" of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited Slack screenshots late Thursday evening where Mullenweg posted "Don't call it a comeback" and linked to LL Cool J's music video for "Mama Said Knock You Out." "Mullenweg's Slack profile picture currently shows him wearing a pirate hat and eyepatch," the report notes. From the report: "Happy to announce the board is back in agreement, and I'm in control of Automattic," Mullenweg wrote in the company-wide Announcements channel on Slack. "A lot happened in the past 48 hours that we need to sort out, and I hope much of it was a misunderstanding, because I have huge respect and regard for those involved." Mark Davies, Automattic's CFO who was set to act as interim CEO according to a statement from Automattic, had his Slack account deactivated as of at least Friday, sources told 404 Media and TechCrunch similarly reported. Davies, Mullenweg, and Automattic did not respond to 404 Media's requests for comment for this story. Techcrunch reported that Mullenweg told them a blog post is forthcoming. On Friday morning, Mullenweg published a blog post on his personal website, titled "Major Life Announcement." In it he announced he's buying a tugboat. "Anybody who's founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch," he wrote in the blog. He did not address the confusion surrounding his status at Automattic. The back-and-forth follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg's leadership.

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For those wanting the freshest Debian 13 "Trixie" install media, Debian 13.7 is out today in bundling up all the latest bug and security fixes...

LG is pushing back against reports that its smart TVs are "spying" on users, saying wake-word detection happens locally and that features such as Automatic Content Recognition, voice recognition, and interest-based ads are optional. But critics note that researchers found TVs keeping logs of ambient conversations, and LG's response "did not address broader concerns about how much data it collects, who it shares it with, the potential for bad actors to exploit its features, or the misleading way in which its privacy options are presented," reports The Verge. Here's an excerpt from LG's statement: Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work. As an industry leader, LG believes we have a responsibility to provide customers with clear and accurate information about how our smart TVs operate and the privacy controls available to them. We would like to clarify how our smart TVs operate and explain our approach to user privacy. LG smart TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations. Speech-to-text processing begins only if a user activates a voice interaction through a supported wake-word feature or by pressing the voice (or AI) button on the remote control. Audio used for wake-word detection is processed locally on the TV and, if no wake word is detected, audio is not converted to text, stored, or transmitted. Voice-recognition results and related technical logs may be generated as part of processing a voice command. These records are associated with specific voice interactions and do not indicate continuous recording of conversations occurring outside an active voice recognition session. Speech-recognition results may be used to support voice-related features but are not uploaded later when the TV is offline or when connectivity is restored. Features such as Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), voice recognition, and interest-based advertising are optional. These features are not enabled by default. Users can choose to enable these features and can manage or withdraw consent through TV settings. ACR uses audio fingerprinting technology using the TV's internal audio processor (not a speaker) to identify content and does not collect screenshots, screen recordings, video recordings, voice recordings, or other audio recordings from the TV. Where ACR is available and enabled, ACR-related information may be used for audience segmentation and viewing or audience trend analysis. Interest-based advertising and cross-device advertising require separate user consent through the applicable advertising-related agreements. Protecting user privacy is a fundamental principle in the design and operation of LG products and services. The statement goes on to "provide additional details on how LG smart TV features work, how information may be processed, what choices users have, and how LG continues to strengthen privacy, transparency, and security."

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A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text...

Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived this week only to change course two days later...

Lors du dernier CES, Cooler Master avait présenté sa solution de surveillance du connecteur 12V-2x6, et plus précisément celle des câbles qui le constituent. En août, David vous annonçait que l'engin était lancé officiellement, à 49 €, mais toujours pas la moindre trace du boîtier de monitorage GPU...

Nouvelle semaine et nouveau relevé des prix des cartes graphiques en France, et clairement, c'est la panique sur les boulevards. Cette fois, les mauvaises nouvelles concernent principalement AMD, avec plusieurs Radeon qui repartent très fortement à la hausse. La palme revient à la Radeon RX 7900 XTX, qui prend pas moins de 210 euros en seulement une semaine, tandis que la RX 7900 XT s'offre également une hausse de 120 euros. Il y a toutefois une nuance importante : les Radeon RX 9000 haut de gamme résistent pour le moment plutôt bien à la crise, avec une RX 9070 qui baisse même de 21 euros et une RX 9070 XT qui reste parfaitement stable. AMD : les RX 7000 souffrent, les RX 9000 résistent Chez AMD, les RX 7600 et RX 7600 XT restent stables, à respectivement 329,90 et 712,90 euros. En revanche, la RX 9060 XT 16 Go passe de 481,90 à 516,90 euros, soit 35 euros supplémentaires. Même sanction pour la RX 7700 XT, qui grimpe de 499,90 à 554,90 euros, soit +55 euros. La RX 7800 XT ne bouge pas et reste à 629,90 euros. […]

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En cette semaine iséroise de l'année, ASUS est à l'honneur en France ! En effet, entre leur barre de son, leurs lunettes et leur écran, les fans vont avoir de la lecture. Si vous êtes joueur, la ferme du hardware s'est penchée sur la consommation de l'utilitaire iCUE en jeu. Si vous préférez les mac...

iOS 27 arrive le 14 septembre 2026 sur tous les iPhone compatibles, avec une refonte de Siri, de nouveaux outils dans Photos et Safari, et un long chapelet d’améliorations du quotidien. Voici ce qui change vraiment, ce qui reste indisponible en France et sur quels iPhone chaque nouveauté fonctionne. La sortie du 14 septembre Liquid […]

L'article iOS 27 : nouveautés, date de sortie et compatibilité a été publié en premier sur Bbox-Mag

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ScienceAlert: Scientists have now demonstrated one of the weirdest forms of ice yet -- under preposterous pressures up to 2.3 million atmospheres, and tremendous temperatures up to 2,630 kelvins (2,357 degrees Celsius, or 4,274 degrees Fahrenheit). [...] In their new experiments, a team led by physicist Alexis Forestier of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission subjected tiny samples of water to the sorts of extreme conditions expected in the interiors of ice giant planets. They squeezed the samples between the tips of diamonds to pressures as high as 230 gigapascals, while using lasers to heat them to thousands of degrees. That's 2.3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level â" the pressure at the center of Earth, for context, is around 360 gigapascals. Then, using an extremely narrow beam of synchrotron X-rays, they probed for changes in the crystal structure of the ice. What emerged was a configuration predicted theoretically but never unambiguously observed in experiments: hexagonal close-packed, or hcp, ice. As the hcp crystal was heated, its expansion also showed a signature of superionic behavior, suggesting it entered the superionic state at around 1,700 kelvins. [Superionic ice is thought to exist deep inside Uranus and Neptune, where its unusual properties may play a role in generating the planets' equally unusual magnetic fields.] The findings have been published in Physical Review Letters.

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Le DLSS 5 officiel est arrivé dans les jeux, pour le moment il n'y a que NBA 2K27 pour lequel nous avons fait un test. Mais les moddeurs s'en sont donné à cœur joie depuis des semaines en tentant des tonnes de combinaisons pour débloquer tout ce que NVIDIA a établi arbitrairement. Le DLSS 5 officieu...

GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release...

Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...

A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...

Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out...

Le mur du con

La machine est lancée : le monde court à sa perte. On est foutu, c’est imminent. Ah, on me dit que ça fait longtemps que c’est le cas. Bon… et bien, ça peut bien attendre la fin du week-end, je suppose ?

Le mur du con

La machine est lancée : le monde court à sa perte. On est foutu, c’est imminent. Ah, on me dit que ça fait longtemps que c’est le cas. Bon… et bien, ça peut bien attendre la fin du week-end, je suppose ?

A new study suggests Mercury may have shrunk about 30% more than scientists previously thought, losing as much as 14 miles in diameter as its interior cooled and contracted over billions of years. "That's significant for a planet barely 3,000 miles (4,900 kilometers) across," reports the Associated Press. From the report: Mercury's rough surface, continually reshaped by debris hurled from impact craters, may have hidden the true extent of the loss, according to the researchers whose findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The news comes one week after a pair of European and Japanese spacecraft shed its cruising platform and advanced toward Mercury. Known as BepiColombo, the linked craft are expected to enter orbit around Mercury in November before splitting up for a fuller survey. BepiColombo's laser instrument should confirm how much Mercury is withering as a result of internal cooling, said Gaku Nishiyama, the study's lead author who is taking part in the space mission. The shrinkage could be even more than his team is estimating based on measurements from NASA's Messenger spacecraft in the 2010s. Only one other spacecraft has ever visited Mercury, NASA's Mariner 10 in the 1970s.

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Pour notre rendez-vous du samedi, nous allons aujourd'hui nous attaquer à une série un peu particulière, puisqu'il ne s'agit pas de juger un seul jeu, mais de revenir sur une trilogie qui a beaucoup évolué au fil des années. A Plague Tale a commencé avec Innocence, avant de poursuivre son histoire avec Requiem, puis de prendre un virage assez net avec Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. Trois jeux, trois approches, mais toujours cette même volonté de raconter une histoire sombre, portée par une direction artistique particulièrement soignée et une bande-son qui sait parfaitement installer une ambiance. Et puisque Resonance vient modifier une partie de la formule, il nous semblait intéressant de revenir d'abord sur ce qui faisait la force des deux premiers épisodes avant de voir si ce changement de cap fonctionne. […]

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Notre dernier point sur les prix de la DDR5 en France était au beau milieu de l'été, le 24 juillet 2026, avec à la clé la désagréable découverte que les tarifs repartaient légèrement à la hausse. Sur les 7 boutiques en ligne françaises que nous suivons régulièrement pour faire ces brèves d'état des...