An anonymous reader shared this story from SFGate: A boy who was kidnapped from an Oakland playground in 1951 has been found alive on the East Coast, a remarkable resolution to a mystery that has haunted his family for over half a century. On February 21, 1951, 6-year-old Luis Armando Albino was playing with his older brother Roger at Jefferson Square Park. The boys had recently immigrated with their mother and four other siblings from Puerto Rico... That afternoon, Luis and 10-year-old Roger walked down the block from their home at 730 Brush Street to play in the park. They were approached by a woman in her 30s, wearing a green bandana over her hair, who began chatting with Luis in Spanish. She promised she would buy him candy if he came along with her, and little Luis agreed to join her. Wary, Roger trailed the pair for a while before returning home to alert an adult to the strange encounter. Oakland police were called by frantic family members and a search was immediately launched... Antonia [the boy's mother] was convinced her son was alive. "She came once a week, then once a month, then at least once a year, to see the shake of the head, to have the answer 'no' translated for her although she could read it in the officers' faces," the Oakland Tribune wrote in 1966... Decades passed. In 2020, Luis' niece, Alida Alequin, took a DNA test on a whim, the Mercury News reported. The service returned several possible family members to the Oakland woman. One of them was a man who Alequin had never met. After some internet sleuthing, she began to suspect this man might be the missing uncle she'd heard so much about. She reached out to the man but didn't hear back. Earlier this year, Alequin tried again. Armed with photos, she took her evidence to the Oakland Police Department's missing persons unit. In short order, the FBI and California Department of Justice were also investigating Alequin's lead. They discovered the man was living on the East Coast, had worked as a firefighter and served two tours in Vietnam with the Marine Corps. This week, the Mercury News first reported that a DNA test confirmed what Alequin suspected: This was Luis Albino. In June, Luis flew to California to reunite with his family, among them his devoted brother Roger... For over 70 years, he lived on the East Coast believing he was the son of another couple.... When Luis met Alequin for the first time this summer, he held her in an embrace. "Thank you," he said, "for finding me."

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The JavaScript runtime Bun is a Node.js/Deno alternative (that's also a bundler/test runner/package manager). And Bun 1.1.28 now includes experimental support for ">compiling and running native C from JavaScript, according to this report from The New Stack: "From compression to cryptography to networking to the web browser you're reading this on, the world runs on C," wrote Jarred Sumner, creator of Bun. "If it's not written in C, it speaks the C ABI (C++, Rust, Zig, etc.) and is available as a C library. C and the C ABI are the past, present, and future of systems programming." This is a low-boilerplate way to use C libraries and system libraries from JavaScript, he said, adding that this feature allows the same project that runs JavaScript to also run C without a separate build step... "It's good for glue code that binds C or C-like libraries to JavaScript. Sometimes, you want to use a C library or system API from JavaScript, and that library was never meant to be used from JavaScript," Sumner added. It's currently possible to achieve this by compiling to WebAssembly or writing a N-API (napi) addon or V8 C++ API library addon, the team explained. But both are suboptimal... WebAssembly can do this but its isolated memory model comes with serious tradeoffs, the team wrote, including an inability to make system calls and a requirement to clone everything. "Modern processors support about 280 TB of addressable memory (48 bits). WebAssembly is 32-bit and can only access its own memory," Sumner wrote. "That means by default, passing strings and binary data JavaScript WebAssembly must clone every time. For many projects, this negates any performance gain from leveraging WebAssembly." The latest version of Bun, released Friday, builds on this by adding N-API (nap) support to cc [Bun's C compiler, which uses TinyCC to compile the C code]. "This makes it easier to return JavaScript strings, objects, arrays and other non-primitive values from C code," wrote Sumner. "You can continue to use types like int, float, double to send & receive primitive values from C code, but now you can also use N-API types! Also, this works when using dlopen to load shared libraries with bun:ffi (such as Rust or C++ libraries with C ABI exports).... "TinyCC compiles to decently performant C, but it won't do advanced optimizations that Clang or GCC does like autovectorization or very specialized CPU instructions," Sumner wrote. "You probably won't get much of a performance gain from micro-optimizing small parts of your codebase through C, but happy to be proven wrong!"

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The Washington Post reports that electric vehicles made by General Motors now can use Tesla's Superchargers. (GM's charger adapters "will first be made available to customers in the United States, followed by availability for Canadian customers later this year.") The Post writes that the move "expands the number of vehicles compatible with the North American Charging Standard developed by Tesla" — and also marks "another step forward for efforts to settle on a universal public charger network for battery-powered cars and trucks in the U.S. "It could also allay some GM customers' concerns about a lack of charging options." The new changes take effect immediately, along with sales of the GM-approved power adapters... The deal makes roughly 17,800 Tesla Superchargers available to drivers of GM-manufactured vehicles such as the Chevy Bolt, Cadillac Lyriq and Silverado EV, with the help of an adapter that costs $225... GM estimates that the partnership with Tesla contributes to an overall network of 231,800 fast chargers across the United States available to drivers of its vehicles. GM is also part of IONNA, a joint venture of eight automakers that plans to build at least 30,000 high-powered chargers nationwide. GM's statement calls it "a move that will help accelerate fast and convenient charging options for current and future EV drivers." And the move comes 15 months after GM announced it was adopting the standard — a move followed within weeks by similar announcements from Rivian, Ford, Volvo, Nissan, Hyundai and Kia. "Ford and Rivian have started distributing adapters for their EVs," the Washington Post points out, "while others, such as BMW, Honda, Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz have promised to start making their vehicles compatible this year or next." "Knowing we will now have access to Tesla Supercharger locations means that range anxiety has now virtually evaporated..." argues a Chevy owner at CleanTechnica: This is mostly good news for drivers of electric cars from GM. Tesla and The General have been bitter enemies in the past, with GM opposing Tesla's direct sales model in many states. The once fierce battle has cooled in recent years, but GM essentially won by keeping Tesla from selling direct to the public in several US states, including its new home of Texas. Nevertheless, the two companies are now cooperating, which is a bonus for drivers... Despite some niggling concerns, this is a big deal for EV drivers in North America. Tesla Superchargers are the gold standard in the industry today. There are fast, reliable, and always located in clean, well-lit places where restrooms and fresh foods are available. This could very well change the conversation about electric cars to the point where by the time GM, Ford, and Stellantis get their plug-in hybrids into showrooms, the demand for them will have shrunk considerably. One GM executive says in this week's statement that "GM's ongoing efforts to help accelerate the expansion of public charging infrastructure is an integral part of our commitment to an all-electric future."

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Polypropylene and polyethylene plastics "can be recycled," reports Ars Technica. But as "polyolefin" polymers, "the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. "Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have come up with a method of recycling these polymers that uses catalysts that easily break their bonds, converting them into propylene and isobutylene, which are gasses at room temperature. Those gasses can then be recycled into new plastics..." [T]he previous catalysts were expensive metals that did not remain pure long enough to convert all of the plastic into gas. Using sodium on alumina followed by tungsten oxide on silica proved much more economical and effective, even though the high temperatures required for the reaction added a bit to the cost. In both plastics, exposure to sodium on alumina broke each polymer chain into shorter polymer chains and created breakable carbon-carbon double bonds at the ends. The chains continued to break over and over. Both then underwent a second process known as olefin metathesis. They were exposed to a stream of ethylene gas flowing into a reaction chamber while being introduced to tungsten oxide on silica, which resulted in the breakage of the carbon-carbon bonds. The reaction breaks all the carbon-carbon bonds in polyethylene and polypropylene, with the carbon atoms released during the breaking of these bonds ending up attached to molecules of ethylene... The entire chain is catalyzed until polyethylene is fully converted to propylene, and polypropylene is converted to a mixture of propylene and isobutylene. This method has high selectivity — meaning it produces a large amount of the desired product. That means propylene derived from polyethylene, and both propylene and isobutylene derived from polypropylene. Both of these chemicals are in high demand, since propylene is an important raw material for the chemical industry, while isobutylene is a frequently used monomer in many different polymers, including synthetic rubber and a gasoline additive. "Because plastics are often mixed at recycling centers, the researchers wanted to see what would happen if polypropylene and polyethylene underwent isomerizing ethenolysis together," the article adds. "The reaction was successful, converting the mixture into propylene and isobutylene, with slightly more propylene than isobutylene." The reaction worked, even if there were contaminants from other plastics. And "When the research team increased the scale of the experiment, it produced the same yield, which looks promising for the future...." The researchers hope this some day could reduce the demand for chemicals derived from fossil fuels. Thanks to Slashdot reader echo123 for sharing the article.

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"In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we'll find evidence of life on another planet..." begins a new essay by author Dave Eggers in the Washington Post. "In more than a dozen conversations with some of the best minds in astrophysics, I did not meet anyone who was doubtful about finding evidence of life elsewhere — most likely on an exoplanet beyond our solar system. It was not a matter of if. It was a matter of when." [A]ll evidence points to us getting closer, every year, to identifying moons in our solar system, or exoplanets beyond it, that can sustain life. And if we don't find conditions for life on the moons near us, we'll find it on exoplanets — that is, planets outside our solar system. Within the next few decades, we'll likely find an exoplanet that has an atmosphere, that has water, that has carbon and methane and oxygen. Or some combination of those things. And thus, the conditions for life. In a few years, NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will have a panoramic field of vision a hundred times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope. And on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — we'll call it Roman from here on out — there will be a coronagraph, a device designed to perform something called, beautifully, starlight suppression. Starlight suppression is the blocking of the rays of a faraway star so that we can see behind it and around it. Once we can master starlight suppression, with Roman and NASA's next astrophysics flagship, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, we'll find the planets where life might exist. To recap: For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether life is possible elsewhere in the universe, and now we're within striking distance of being able to say not only yes, but here. And yet this is not front-page news. I didn't really know how close we were to this milestone until I visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on a hot and dry day in June... Eggers' article is part of an ongoing series called "Who is government?" (For the series Michael Lewis also profiled the uncelebrated number-crunchers at the U.S. Department of Labor, while Casey Cep wrote about the use of DNA to identify the remains of World War II soldiers for America's Veteran Affairs' department's.) But this week Eggers wrote that the work being done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory "is the most inspiring research and exploration being done by any humans on our planet..." "No billionaires will fund work like this because there's no money in it. This is government-funded research to determine how the universe was created and whether we are alone in it. If NASA and JPL were not doing it, it would not be done." Eggers emphasizes later that "doesn't mean it's intelligent life, or even semi-intelligent life. It could be bacteria, or some kind of interstellar sea cucumber. But whatever form it takes, we are close to finding it..."

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Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the next year...

The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs...

Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as "Project Volterra" was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11. With pending DeviceTree patches there would be mainline support for the Windows Dev Kit 2023 under Linux...

Nous sommes dimanche, on passe donc aux prix des processeurs AMD et Intel. Je remarque que le titre de cette semaine est aussi calamiteux que celui de la semaine dernière... On commence chez les bleus, avec le 13600K qui perd 4 euros et qui s'affiche à 288,90 euros chez notre partenaire 1FODISCOUNT. Ensuite, nous avons le 13900K qui explose, qui prend 39 euros. Après, il y a le 14600K qui baisse, de 5 euros et qui encore une fois au moins cher chez 1FODISCOUNT avec un prix de 324,90 euros. […]

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Le principe reste simple : on est dimanche, on vous montre une configuration, pas forcément un mod, mais plutôt des montages hors normes, farfelus, ou encore ultra sobres. La seule chose que l'on félicite ici, c'est le travail ! On vous laisse critiquer le goût et les couleurs dans les commentaires. Durant cette section, nous allons sûrement déterrer de vieilles configurations et nous n'aurons pas forcément de hardware musclé. Le but réel est de vous montrer qu'on peut tout faire en matière de montage. Alors, n'hésitez pas à nous proposer vos configurations via Lucas en MP, peut-être seront-elles éditées ? Ce dimanche, nous vous proposons un mod par Mechanic Master : […]

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The administrators of Great Britain's power grid admit that it's often unable to use energy-storage batteries due to old computer systems and an old network with "not enough cables", according to the Financial Times — though the system operator says they're making progress after upgrading their system last December: The company has plans to lower the rate at which batteries are sidelined to single figures by early next year [said Craig Dyke, from National Grid's electricity system operator], calling current levels "higher than where we want them to be". Dyke's comments came in response to a letter from four leading battery storage groups which said National Grid's "electricity system operator" or ESO division was making the country's power costlier and dirtier by failing to use their technology properly. "Consumers are paying more, clean renewable energy is being wasted, and fossil fuel generation is being used instead," they said... depriving them of revenue and undermining investor confidence. While the U.K. has the world's second-largest offshore wind market, the article notes that when the system operator can't send its power where it's needed, "the ESO pays wind farms in one place to switch off... and can also need to pay gas-fired power plants in another area to turn on. These payments add up to hundreds of millions of pounds each year, and the costs are passed on to household and business energy bills." "Use of battery storage abroad has soared in places such as California, where batteries soak up solar power during the day and regularly supply a fifth of the state's power in the evening..." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo for sharing the article.

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Avec une partie de l'équipe à Shenzhen pour une visite d'usine MSI, la semaine a été plutôt calme, tant en news qu'en articles. Quatre ont tout de même été publiés, on fait le point ! […]

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"The cab was cut from a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee," writes the New York Times. "The engine once revved up a 1985 Toyota Celica; and 107 hand-sewn rubber segments, courtesy of Mr. Tymofichuk's wife, help to direct low-pressure air beneath the craft so that it rises eight inches above the ground..." On a cold spring day in a small garage in Alberta, Canada, an engine revved up and an improbable machine — fabricated from auto parts, a hand-sewn rubber skirt and an abandoned fiberglass hull — came to life. A homemade hovercraft began to rise off the ground with a small crew standing by. The successful liftoff was the culmination of a lifelong fascination of Robert Tymofichuk, 55, who spent about 1,800 hours over a year working on it [according to this nifty video on YouTube ]. And, to the gratitude of passengers, it comes with heated seats. "If you're going through all that hassle, you might as well make yourself comfortable," Mr. Tymofichuk said. He repurposed the seats from a Volkswagen, so the heating coils were already installed. Achieve speeds around 40 miles per hour (or 64 kmph), "Mr. Tymofichuk's hovercraft now sails above land and water, a bright red gem coasting over the Saskatchewan River," according to the article. And it also quotes Mr. Tymofichuk as saying it's the fulfillment of a childhood dream. "To actually have something constructed with your own hands be zipping around, and it's fully functional — it's like magic."

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The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code...

"Exceed the speed limit in one of the 27 European Union countries, and you may get some pushback from your vehicle," reports Car and Driver. "As of July, new cars sold in the EU must include a speed-warning device that alerts drivers if they exceed the posted limit." The warnings can be ither acoustic or haptic, "though the European Commission gives automakers the latitude to supplant those passive measures with either an active accelerator pedal that applies counterpressure against the driver's foot or a governor that restricts the vehicle's speed to the legal limit." Drivers can override or deactivate these admonishments, but the devices must default to their active state at startup. Now California is looking to emulate the EU with legislation that would mandate in-car speed-warning devices [for driving more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit — in "just about every 2030 model-year vehicle equipped with either GPS or a front-facing camera"]. The article cites statistics that 18% of those drivers involved in fatal crashes were speeding. Although the projects director at the European Transport Safety Council also acknowledges the systems may struggle to identify speed limits from passing signs — and that their testing shows the systems generally irritate drivers, who often deactivate the systems... Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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Friday America's Federal Trade Commission brought action against three companies for "anticompetitive and unfair" practices "that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin." For years, many of the millions of Americans who need insulin to survive "have been forced to pay exorbitant prices for a product that's inexpensive to make," writes NPR. "Now, the federal government is targeting one part of the system behind high insulin prices." While out-of-pocket costs have gone down for many people to $35 a month, questions remain on how the drug became so expensive in the first place. In a new lawsuit filed Friday, the Federal Trade Commission said it's going after one link in the chain: pharmacy benefit managers. The FTC brought action against the top pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — CVS Health's Caremark Rx, Cigna's Express Scripts, and United Health Group's OptumRx — saying the companies created a "perverse drug rebate system" that artificially inflates the cost of insulin. If the suit is successful, it could further drive down costs for patients at the pharmacy counter. PBMs are essentially the middlemen between drug manufacturers and insurance providers. Their job is to reduce drug prices. But the process is complex and opaque, and critics say they're actually driving prices up for patients. The FTC said a big issue is that PBMs' revenue is tied to rebates and fees — which are based on a percentage of a drug's list price. Essentially, in the case of insulin, when the drug costed more, it generated higher rebates and fees for PBMs. "Even when lower list price insulins became available that could have been more affordable for vulnerable patients, the PBMs systemically excluded them in favor of high list price, highly rebated insulin products," the FTC said in a press release on Friday. The three PBMs named in the FTC lawsuit make up about 80% of the market. According to the suit, the PBMs collected billions of dollars in rebates and fees while insulin became increasingly unaffordable. Over the last two decades, the cost of the lifesaving drug shot up 600% — forcing many Americans with diabetes to ration their medication and jeopardize their health. In 2019, one 1 of 4 insulin patients was unable to afford their medication, according to the FTC. Some people have died. The FTC's statement says the companies "have abused their economic power by rigging pharmaceutical supply chain competition in their favor, forcing patients to pay more for life-saving medication... While PBM respondents collected billions in rebates and associated fees according to the complaint, by 2019 one out of every four insulin patients was unable to afford their medication..." "[A]ll drug manufacturers should be on notice that their participation in the type of conduct challenged here raises serious concerns, and that the Bureau of Competition may recommend suing drug manufacturers in any future enforcement actions."

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Disruption, innovation, mindset growth!

Les aléas ont fait que les LIDD ont connu une pause prolongée ces derniers mois, mais les revoilà ! avec notre sélection des liens les plus intéressants de ces dernières semaines. Ils proviennent des commentaires les plus intéressants, utiles et/ou originaux de la semaine, mais aussi de nos recherches.

Cette semaine, nous avons pour rappel tenté une nouvelle approche des LIDD. Nous en avons disséminé plusieurs durant la semaine, le matin à 6 h. De quoi commencer la journée de bonne humeur et/ou avec une vidéo ou un podcast à écouter pendant le trajet pour aller au travail.

• Les derniers #LIDD publié sur Next

Cette semaine, le menu comprenait en entrée un article expliquant comment (ou pas) monétiser un blog, une vidéo sur la révolution Matrix (et pas Matrix Révolution), un questionnement sur l’avenir de notre : espèce, une comparaison entre du bleu et du vert, une conférence sur les évolutions technologiques et enfin une vraie utilisation de l’IA pour le bullshitron.

Du hardware et des consoles, what else ?

Sur le brief de l’analyse de l’architecture de la Game Boy (Color), ElCroco signale à juste titre que le site de Rodrigo Copetti propose « une vraie mine d’or pour faire une intro au HW de consoles ». Il nous invite également de faire un tour sur LSD Security Daemon pour en découvrir davantage sur les Gamecube, Nintendo 64, 3DS, Switch, et même PC. Bref, il y en a pour tous les goûts.

• Architecture of Consoles | A Practical Analysis (site)
• LSD Security Daemon (site)

Gamergate : des contenus à foison pour les 10 ans

Fin aout, l’article de Mathilde sur les dix ans du Gamergate semble vous avoir inspiré. Lyzz par exemple à fait plusieurs recommandations intéressantes, avec un article de Canard PC et plusieurs vidéos de la chaine Game Dolls Advance. JK propose le podcast de Hugo Terra et Lucie Ronfaut : Aidez-moi, est-ce que je suis gamer ?. Enfin, Inny met en avant Mickael J sur le même sujet.

• Comment écrire sur le Gamergate ? (Article)
• Le GamerGate est-il de retour ? avec Ache, Lenophie, Krone, Sekamelica, et Emma ! (YouTube)
• Gamergate 2, Scandale QSMP et Dune en JV : Les News ! (YouTube)
• ESG, BlackRock : la théorie du complot du Gamergate 2 (YouTube)
• Aidez-moi, est-ce que je suis gamer ? (YouTube)
• Gamergate, l’intégrale – 𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙈𝙀𝙕 𝙇𝘼 (YouTube)

Un podcast sur l’histoire des communications et des ondes

Chez France Culture, Cédric Villani propose un podcast en quatre épisodes sur les ondes pour communiquer. Le premier revient sur l’histoire « du sémaphore au premier câble sous-marin. Au commencement des télécommunications, était le sémaphore ». Le second opus passe à l’empire du téléphone, le troisième sur le smartphone, le quatrième sur la « grande transformation des réseaux ».

• Des ondes pour communiquer : un podcast à écouter en ligne (podcast)

Comment l’ADN « a bouleversé le régime de la preuve »

On reste chez France Culture avec la découverte des fichiers génétiques et une question : « chance pour les innocents ou soupçon généralisé ? ». Nos confrères en discutent avec Marc M. Howard (professeur de droit et politiques publiques à l’Université de Georgetown à Washington) et Vailly Joëlle (généticienne, anthropologue, sociologue et directrice de recherche en sociologie au CNRS).

« Les traces génétiques sont de plus en plus exploitées dans les enquêtes pénales en offrant la possibilité de comparer les traces d’ADN prélevées sur une scène de crime avec celles d’individus déjà condamnés ou simplement connus des services de police (pas nécessairement condamnés !). Pour cela, il faut constituer des fichiers, les nourrir, parce que plus ces banques de bio-identités seront grandes, plus grandes seront les chances d’identification de suspects ».

• Les fichiers génétiques : chance pour les innocents ou soupçon généralisé ? (Podcast)

On se détend et on admire les fonds marins

A Tale of Deep Sea Exploration est une vidéo sur les fonds marins, à regarder en 4K si possible pour profiter de la finesse des détails et des images. Immersion garantie. Le rendu est superbe et si vous n’avez pas 1 h devant vous, n’hésitez pas à regarder quelques morceaux au hasard.

• Ocean Watch | A Tale of Deep Sea Exploration (YouTube)

It's hypothetically capable of "delivering an exquisite portrait of the detailed surface features of any exoplanet within 100 light-years..." writes Space.com. "It would be better than any telescope we could possibly build in any possible future for the next few hundred years..." While the sun may not look like a traditional lens or mirror, it has a lot of mass. And in Einstein's theory of general relativity, massive objects bend space-time around them. Any light that grazes the surface of the sun gets deflected and, instead of continuing in a straight line, heads toward a focal point, together with all the other light that grazes the sun at the same time... The "solar gravitational lens" leads to an almost unbelievably high resolution. It's as if we had a telescope mirror the width of the entire sun. An instrument positioned at the correct focal point would be able to harness the gravitational warping of the sun's gravity to allow us to observe the distant universe with a jaw-dropping resolution of 10^-10 arcseconds. That's roughly a million times more powerful than the Event Horizon Telescope. Of course, there are challenges with using the solar gravitational lens as a natural telescope. The focal point of all this light bending sits 542 times greater than the distance between Earth and the sun. It's 11 times the distance to Pluto, and three times the distance achieved by humanity's most far-flung spacecraft, Voyager 1, which launched in 1977. So not only would we have to send a spacecraft farther than we ever have before, but it would have to have enough fuel to stay there and move around. The images created by the solar gravitational lens would be spread out over tens of kilometers of space, so the spacecraft would have to scan the entire field to build up a complete mosaic image. Plans to take advantage of the solar lens go back to the 1970s. Most recently, astronomers have proposed developing a fleet of small, lightweight cubesats that would deploy solar sails to accelerate them to 542 AU. Once there, they would slow down and coordinate their maneuvers, building up an image and sending the data back to Earth for processing... The telescope already exists — we just have to get a camera in the right position. Thanks to Tablizer (Slashdot reader #95,088) for sharing the article.

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Disruption, innovation, mindset growth!

Les aléas ont fait que les LIDD ont connu une pause prolongée ces derniers mois, mais les revoilà ! avec notre sélection des liens les plus intéressants de ces dernières semaines. Ils proviennent des commentaires les plus intéressants, utiles et/ou originaux de la semaine, mais aussi de nos recherches.

Cette semaine, nous avons pour rappel tenté une nouvelle approche des LIDD. Nous en avons disséminé plusieurs durant la semaine, le matin à 6 h. De quoi commencer la journée de bonne humeur et/ou avec une vidéo ou un podcast à écouter pendant le trajet pour aller au travail.

• Les derniers #LIDD publié sur Next

Cette semaine, le menu comprenait en entrée un article expliquant comment (ou pas) monétiser un blog, une vidéo sur la révolution Matrix (et pas Matrix Révolution), un questionnement sur l’avenir de notre : espèce, une comparaison entre du bleu et du vert, une conférence sur les évolutions technologiques et enfin une vraie utilisation de l’IA pour le bullshitron.

Du hardware et des consoles, what else ?

Sur le brief de l’analyse de l’architecture de la Game Boy (Color), ElCroco signale à juste titre que le site de Rodrigo Copetti propose « une vraie mine d’or pour faire une intro au HW de consoles ». Il nous invite également de faire un tour sur LSD Security Daemon pour en découvrir davantage sur les Gamecube, Nintendo 64, 3DS, Switch, et même PC. Bref, il y en a pour tous les goûts.

• Architecture of Consoles | A Practical Analysis (site)
• LSD Security Daemon (site)

Gamergate : des contenus à foison pour les 10 ans

Fin aout, l’article de Mathilde sur les dix ans du Gamergate semble vous avoir inspiré. Lyzz par exemple à fait plusieurs recommandations intéressantes, avec un article de Canard PC et plusieurs vidéos de la chaine Game Dolls Advance. JK propose le podcast de Hugo Terra et Lucie Ronfaut : Aidez-moi, est-ce que je suis gamer ?. Enfin, Inny met en avant Mickael J sur le même sujet.

• Comment écrire sur le Gamergate ? (Article)
• Le GamerGate est-il de retour ? avec Ache, Lenophie, Krone, Sekamelica, et Emma ! (YouTube)
• Gamergate 2, Scandale QSMP et Dune en JV : Les News ! (YouTube)
• ESG, BlackRock : la théorie du complot du Gamergate 2 (YouTube)
• Aidez-moi, est-ce que je suis gamer ? (YouTube)
• Gamergate, l’intégrale – 𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙈𝙀𝙕 𝙇𝘼 (YouTube)

Un podcast sur l’histoire des communications et des ondes

Chez France Culture, Cédric Villani propose un podcast en quatre épisodes sur les ondes pour communiquer. Le premier revient sur l’histoire « du sémaphore au premier câble sous-marin. Au commencement des télécommunications, était le sémaphore ». Le second opus passe à l’empire du téléphone, le troisième sur le smartphone, le quatrième sur la « grande transformation des réseaux ».

• Des ondes pour communiquer : un podcast à écouter en ligne (podcast)

Comment l’ADN « a bouleversé le régime de la preuve »

On reste chez France Culture avec la découverte des fichiers génétiques et une question : « chance pour les innocents ou soupçon généralisé ? ». Nos confrères en discutent avec Marc M. Howard (professeur de droit et politiques publiques à l’Université de Georgetown à Washington) et Vailly Joëlle (généticienne, anthropologue, sociologue et directrice de recherche en sociologie au CNRS).

« Les traces génétiques sont de plus en plus exploitées dans les enquêtes pénales en offrant la possibilité de comparer les traces d’ADN prélevées sur une scène de crime avec celles d’individus déjà condamnés ou simplement connus des services de police (pas nécessairement condamnés !). Pour cela, il faut constituer des fichiers, les nourrir, parce que plus ces banques de bio-identités seront grandes, plus grandes seront les chances d’identification de suspects ».

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On se détend et on admire les fonds marins

A Tale of Deep Sea Exploration est une vidéo sur les fonds marins, à regarder en 4K si possible pour profiter de la finesse des détails et des images. Immersion garantie. Le rendu est superbe et si vous n’avez pas 1 h devant vous, n’hésitez pas à regarder quelques morceaux au hasard.

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X's struggles in Brazil got this update from the Guardian Wednesday: In a statement tweeted from X's global government affairs account, the company said the restoration of service was an "inadvertent and temporary" side-effect of switching network providers. But Friday "After defying court orders in Brazil for three weeks, Mr. Musk's social network, X, has capitulated," writes the New York Times. "In a court filing on Friday night, the company's lawyers said that X had complied with orders from Brazil's Supreme Court in the hopes that the court would lift a block on its site." "The company's lawyers said X had complied with the court's orders — blocking designated accounts, paying fines, and naming a new formal representative in the country," writes TechCrunch (citing reporting by the New York Times): In a filing of its own, the Supreme Court reportedly responded by telling X it had not provided the proper paperwork and giving it five days to do so.... X came back online in Brazil earlier this week, although Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told TechCrunch that the timing of the company's recent switch to Cloudflare infrastructure is just a "coincidence." During the ban, Brazilian users sought out social media alternatives, leading to dramatic growth at Bluesky and Tumblr. The New York Times believes "The moment showed how, in the yearslong power struggle between tech giants and nation-states, governments have been able to keep the upper hand." Although I'm curious about that missing paperwork...

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