Dans le cadre de nos 20 ans et à la suite de notre visite chez Seasonic, nous vous proposons, en partenariat avec la marque taïwanaise, un nouveau concours. Concours qui passe par Gleam, qui vous demandera quelques actions des plus simples et qui vous permettra peut-être de gagner un pack Seasonic comprenant une alimentation FOCUS GX-850 ATX 3.0, un pack de trois ventilateurs Magflow 120 aRGB et un pack de stickers exclusifs Cowcotland 20 ans. […]

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Just before Microsoft closed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it said that it would take some time to bring the publisher's titles to Game Pass. We've only seen one such addition so far in the form of Diablo IV, but the company has announced another, somewhat notable one. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Game Pass on its release day later this year. Microsoft is banking on the debut of a new Call of Duty title on its subscription service leading to a significant bump in the number of Game Pass members. It's a bit of a gamble, as for nearly every year in recent memory, the latest Call of Duty release has been the best-selling game. Microsoft is likely to see lower direct sales of Black Ops 6 on Xbox and PC, though it will still generate revenue from Game Pass and the PlayStation version (and perhaps even a Nintendo Switch release), as well as through microtransactions.

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The Biden administration on Tuesday laid out for the first time [PDF] a set of broad government guidelines around the use of carbon offsets in an attempt to shore up confidence in a method for tackling global warming that has faced growing criticism. From a report: Companies and individuals spent $1.7 billion last year voluntarily buying carbon offsets, which are intended to cancel out the climate effects of activities like air travel by funding projects elsewhere, such as the planting of trees, that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but that wouldn't have happened without the extra money. Yet a growing number of studies and reports have found that many carbon offsets simply don't work. Some offsets help fund wind or solar projects that likely would have been built anyway. And it's often extremely difficult to measure the effectiveness of offsets intended to protect forests. As a result, some scientists and researchers have argued that carbon offsets are irredeemably flawed and should be abandoned altogether. Instead, they say, companies should just focus on directly cutting their own emissions. The Biden administration is now weighing in on this debate, saying that offsets can sometimes be an important tool for helping businesses and others reduce their emissions, as long as there are guardrails in place. The new federal guidelines are an attempt to define "high-integrity" offsets as those that deliver real and quantifiable emissions reductions that wouldn't have otherwise taken place. [...] The new federal guidelines also urge businesses to focus first on reducing emissions within their own supply chains as much as possible before buying carbon offsets. Some companies have complained that it is too difficult to control their sprawling network of outside suppliers and that they should be allowed to use carbon offsets to tackle pollution associated with, for instance, the cement or steel they use.

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Sent out today as a fix for the Linux kernel's in-tree "cpupower" utility is properly handling P-State frequency reporting for upcoming AMD Zen 5 processors...

Encore une définition exotique qui arrive sur le marché, et c'est HP qui propose cette nouvelle résolution de 3840 x 1600 avec le 738PU. Bien qu'elle n'ajoute que quelques pixels par rapport à l'UWQHD, cet écran est particulièrement adapté au travail. Avec une définition comme celle-ci, on ne manquera pas de place, surtout avec une diagonale de 37 pouces. En plus de ce format 24:10, l'écran est équipé d'une dalle incurvée à 2300R de type IPS avec un taux de contraste de 2000:1 et un affichage de 1,07 milliard de couleurs couvrant 98 % de l'espace colorimétrique DCI-P3. Il propose un taux de rafraîchissement de 60 Hz et un temps de réponse de 5 ms GtG. […]

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Sales of SUVs hit a new record in 2023, making up half of all new cars sold globally, data has revealed. Experts warned that the rising sales of the large, heavy vehicles is pushing up the carbon emissions that drive global heating. From a report: The analysis, by the International Energy Agency, found that the rising emissions from SUVs in 2023 made up 20% of the global increase in CO2, making the vehicles a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis. If SUVs were a country, the IEA said, they would be the world's fifth-largest emitter of CO2, ahead of the national emissions of both Japan and Germany. Climate-fuelled extreme weather is increasing, with urgent cuts in emissions needed. But emissions from the global transport sector have risen fast in recent years, outside of the Covid pandemic. SUV sales rose 15% in 2023, compared with a 3% rise for conventional cars. There were more than 360m SUVs on the roads worldwide in 2023, producing 1bn tonnes of CO2 emissions, up about 10% on 2022. As a result, global oil consumption rose by 600,000 barrels a day, more than a quarter of total growth in oil demand, the IEA said. SUVs weigh 200-300kg more than an average medium-sized car and emit about 20% more CO2. In rich countries, almost 20m new SUVs were sold in 2023, surpassing a market share of 50% for the first time. Globally, 48% of new cars were SUVs and, including older cars, one in four cars on the road today are SUVs, according to the IEA.

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The US stock market is finally as fast as it was about a hundred years ago. Bloomberg News: That was the last time share trades in New York settled in a single day, as they will from Tuesday under new Securities and Exchange Commission rules. The change, halving the time it takes to complete every transaction, also occurred in jurisdictions including Canada and Mexico on Monday. The switch to the system known as T+1 -- abandoned in the earlier era as volumes became unwieldy -- is ultimately intended to reduce risk in the financial system. Yet there are worries about potential teething issues, including that international investors may struggle to source dollars on time, global funds will move at different speeds to their assets, and everyone will have less time to fix errors. The hope is that everything will run smoothly, but even the SEC said last week the transition may lead to a "short-term uptick in settlement fails and challenges to a small segment of market participants." The finance world's main industry group, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, has instigated what it calls the T+1 Command Center to identify problems and coordinate a response. Firms across the spectrum have been preparing for months, relocating staff, adjusting shifts and overhauling workflows, and many say they're confident in their own readiness. The worry is whether every other counterparty and intermediary is similarly organized.

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For those continuing to rely on the Enterprise Linux 8 series, AlmaLinux 8.10 has made its stable debut this morning as the newest version of this community-oriented operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10...

Asus vient de présenter un nouveau NUC, le NUC 14 Performance ; après les NUC 14 Pro / Pro+ et ROG NUC 14, c’est officiellement le quatrième modèle à embarquer un processeur Intel Core Ultra 100 (Meteor Lake). Bon, dans les faits, cette version n’est qu’une déclinaison du ROG NUC dévêtue de ses apparats « gaming »... [Tout lire]

À l’occasion de l’Intel Innovation 2021, Intel avait dévoilé sa génération Alder Lake, la 12ème version des Core iTruc pour les PC de bureau. Pour la version 2022, c’était Raptor Lake. En 2023, ce fut Meteor Lake. Que nous apportera l’itération 2024 ? Comment, vous dites ? Arrow Lake? C’est bien pro...

MSI travaillerait sur un nouveau concept de carte graphique, son nom est RTX 4090 SUPRIM FUZION et sa particularité réside dans son système de refroidissement, il s'agit d'un AIO (all-in-one), oui, nous le savons ce n'est pas vraiment inédit et pourtant, la carte de MSI se démarque ! En effet, elle ne propose pas un classique radiateur externe, relié au PCB grâce à de longs tuyaux, non, ici tout est contenu sous le carénage ! Cela se traduit par un léger embonpoint, la SUPRIM FUZION occupe 4.5 slots, contre 3.5 slots pour une SUPRIM "classique", la carte est dotée de deux ventilateurs, MSI annonce 15% de performances supplémentaires sur le refroidissement, en comparaison d'un système aircololing et le constructeur estime que la réduction de la taille des tuyaux (90% par rapport à un AIO classique) permet un gain de 10 %. […]

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Alors qu'une partie de l'équipe s'apprête à reprendre l'avion pour Taiwan et le COMPUTEX, remontons le temps de quelques jours : fin avril, nous étions chez Acer pour une visite riche en informations. Faisons le point sur les nouveautés qui arrivent, avec notamment l'intelligence artificielle qui va s'installer de plus en plus dans nos machines ou encore la gamme Vero qui ne cesse de repousser les limites du recyclage. C'est ici : Cowcotland x Acer ou sur la source. […]

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PayPal hopes to boost its growth by starting an ad network [non-paywalled link] juiced with something it already owns: data on its millions of users. From a report: The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app. PayPal has hired Mark Grether, who formerly led Uber's advertising business, to lead the effort as senior vice president and general manager of its newly-created PayPal Ads division. In his new role, he will be responsible for developing new ad formats, overseeing sales and hiring staff to fill out the division, he said. PayPal in January introduced Advanced Offers, its first ad product, which uses AI and the company's data to help merchants target PayPal users with discounts and other personalized promotions. Advanced Offers only charges advertisers when consumers make a purchase. Online marketplaces eBay and Zazzle have begun testing it, according to a PayPal spokesman. But PayPal now aims to sell ads not only to its own customers, but to so-called non-endemic advertisers, or those that don't sell products or services through PayPal. Those companies might use PayPal data to target consumers with ads that could be displayed elsewhere, for instance, on other websites or connected TV sets.

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Spotify avait prévenu que la taxe streaming, votée plus tôt dans l’année, serait répercutée sur les abonnements. L’entreprise expliquait alors qu’elle n’avait pas le choix, car la rentabilité de son service était en danger.

La taxe entraine une ponction de 1,2 % sur le chiffre d’affaires pour alimenter les caisses du CNM, le Centre national de la musique. Celui-ci « commande des études sur l’industrie musicale française, et fournit des subventions financières aux maisons de disques et à l’industrie du spectacle vivant ».

« Bien que Spotify ait travaillé dur pour trouver des solutions alternatives, le gouvernement français a finalement décidé d’imposer cette taxe de 1,2 % à tous les services de streaming musical. Spotify s’engage à défendre les artistes et continuera à reverser près des deux tiers de ses revenus aux ayants droit (soit plusieurs centaines de millions d’euros en France en 2023). À l’avenir, les augmentations supplémentaires de la taxe CNM seront reflétées dans nos plans tarifaires en France et nous continuerons à exhorter le gouvernement à trouver des moyens alternatifs pour ce financement », explique Spotify dans l’email actuellement envoyé aux abonnés.

Alors qu’on pouvait s’attendre à au moins 1 euro de plus, il n’en est rien. L’abonnement Premium passe ainsi de 10,99 à 11,12 euros, soit 13 centimes de plus. De même, l’offre Duo évolue de 14,99 à 15,17 euros (18 centimes de plus), l’offre Famille de 17,99 à 18,21 euros (22 centimes de plus) et l’offre étudiante de 5,99 à 6,06 euros (7 centimes de plus).

L’évolution tarifaire se fait donc en douceur. Elle sera répercutée dès la fin du mois en cours pour les personnes abonnées.

Spotify avait prévenu que la taxe streaming, votée plus tôt dans l’année, serait répercutée sur les abonnements. L’entreprise expliquait alors qu’elle n’avait pas le choix, car la rentabilité de son service était en danger.

La taxe entraine une ponction de 1,2 % sur le chiffre d’affaires pour alimenter les caisses du CNM, le Centre national de la musique. Celui-ci « commande des études sur l’industrie musicale française, et fournit des subventions financières aux maisons de disques et à l’industrie du spectacle vivant ».

« Bien que Spotify ait travaillé dur pour trouver des solutions alternatives, le gouvernement français a finalement décidé d’imposer cette taxe de 1,2 % à tous les services de streaming musical. Spotify s’engage à défendre les artistes et continuera à reverser près des deux tiers de ses revenus aux ayants droit (soit plusieurs centaines de millions d’euros en France en 2023). À l’avenir, les augmentations supplémentaires de la taxe CNM seront reflétées dans nos plans tarifaires en France et nous continuerons à exhorter le gouvernement à trouver des moyens alternatifs pour ce financement », explique Spotify dans l’email actuellement envoyé aux abonnés.

Alors qu’on pouvait s’attendre à au moins 1 euro de plus, il n’en est rien. L’abonnement Premium passe ainsi de 10,99 à 11,12 euros, soit 13 centimes de plus. De même, l’offre Duo évolue de 14,99 à 15,17 euros (18 centimes de plus), l’offre Famille de 17,99 à 18,21 euros (22 centimes de plus) et l’offre étudiante de 5,99 à 6,06 euros (7 centimes de plus).

L’évolution tarifaire se fait donc en douceur. Elle sera répercutée dès la fin du mois en cours pour les personnes abonnées.

Dernier article concernant notre déplacement à Taipei le mois dernier dans le cadre des 20 ans du site, et nous allons chez Acer pour terminer avec des choses qui sont légèrement différentes. Dans quel sens ? C'est à découvrir avec la Ferme du Hardware dans ce nouveau reportage, avec beaucoup de choses tant le siège de la marque est immense !

One of the new security features coming with Linux 6.10 is TPM bus encryption and integrity protection to fend off a wave of possible attacks against Trusted Platform Module recovery keys, TPM sniffing, etc. This functionality was merged for the Linux 6.10 merge window but is now being pulled back to x86_64-only by default where it's been sufficiently tested...

T-Mobile said Tuesday that it plans to acquire most of U.S. Cellular, including stores, some of the wireless operator's spectrum and its customers, in a deal worth $4.4 billion. The deal includes cash and up to $2 billion of debt. From a report: T-Mobile said it will use U.S. Cellular wireless spectrum to improve coverage in rural areas while offering better connectivity to U.S. Cellular customers around the United States. The company said it will allow U.S. Cellular customers to keep their current plans or switch to a T-Mobile plan. U.S. Cellular will retain some of its wireless spectrum and towers and will lease space on at least 2,100 additional towers to T-Mobile. The companies expect the deal to close in mid-2025.

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OpenAI said on Tuesday that it has begun training a new flagship AI model that would succeed the GPT-4 technology that drives its popular online chatbot, ChatGPT. From a report: The San Francisco start-up, which is one of the world's leading A.I. companies, said in a blog post that it expects the new model to bring "the next level of capabilities" as it strives to build "artificial general intelligence," or A.G.I., a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. The new model would be an engine for A.I. products including chatbots, digital assistants akin to Apple's Siri, search engines and image generators. OpenAI also said it was creating a new Safety and Security Committee to explore how it should handle the risks posed by the new model and future technologies. "While we are proud to build and release models that are industry-leading on both capabilities and safety, we welcome a robust debate at this important moment," the company said. OpenAI is aiming to move A.I. technology forward faster than its rivals, while also appeasing critics who say the technology is becoming increasingly dangerous, helping to spread disinformation, replace jobs and even threaten humanity. Experts disagree on when tech companies will reach artificial general intelligence, but companies including OpenAI, Google, Meta and Microsoft have steadily increased the power of A.I. technologies for more than a decade, demonstrating a noticeable leap roughly every two to three years.

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