"Rust is the fastest-growing programming language, with its developer community doubling in size over the past two years," writes The New Stack, "yet JavaScript remains the most popular language with 25.2 million active developers, according to the results of a recent survey." The 26th edition of SlashData's Developer Nation survey showed that the Rust community doubled its number of users over the past two years — from two million in the first quarter of 2022 to four million in the first quarter of 2024 — and by 33% in the last 12 months alone. The SlashData report covers the first quarter of 2024. "Rust has developed a passionate community that advocates for it as a memory-safe language which can provide great performance, but cybersecurity concerns may lead to an even greater increase," the report said. "The USA and its international partners have made the case in the last six months for adopting memory-safe languages...." "JavaScript's dominant position is unlikely to change anytime soon, with its developer population increasing by 4M developers over the last 12 months, with a growth rate in line with the global developer population growth," the report said. The strength of the JavaScript community is fueled by the widespread use of the language across all types of development projects, with at least 25% of developers in every project type using it, the report said. "Even in development areas not commonly associated with the language, such as on-device coding for IoT projects, JavaScript still sees considerable adoption," SlashData said. Also, coming in strong, Python has overtaken Java as the second most popular language, driven by the interest in machine learning and AI. The battle between Python and Java shows Python with 18.2 million developers in Q1 2024 compared to Java's 17.7 million. This comes about after Python added more than 2.1 million net new developers to its community over the last 12 months, compared to Java which only increased by 1.2 million developers... Following behind Java there is a six-million-developer gap to the next largest community, which is C++ with 11.4 million developers, closely trailed by C# with 10.2 million and PHP with 9.8 million. Languages with the smallest communities include Objective-C with 2.7 million developers, Ruby with 2.5 million, and Lua with 1.8 million. Meanwhile, the Go language saw its developer population grow by 10% over the last year. It had previously outpaced the global developer population growth, growing by 5Y% over the past two years, from three million in Q1 2022 to 4.7 million in Q1 2024. "TNS analyst Lawrence Hecht has a few different takeaways. He notes that with the exceptions of Rust, Go and JavaScript, the other major programming languages all grew slower than the total developer population, which SlashData says increased 39% over the last two years alone."

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A worker at a retail store in an airport has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in electronics and clothing, reports the Washington Post. But what's more interesting is what led to his arrest... A woman showed up at his home looking for the missing luggage that she'd tracked with her Apple Watch. CNN reports: Paola Garcia told CNN affiliate WPLG in Miami that she usually takes her suitcase onboard, but this time, she was told she had to check it. Garcia waited at least two hours for her pink roller bag, which contained an Apple MacBook, Apple iPad, Apple Watch, jewelry, high-end woman's clothing and toiletries. It never came out on the luggage belt. In her WPLG interview, Garcia said that Spirit Airlines told her that her luggage had been sent to her house. The luggage never came. But Garcia explored another avenue with her own electronic tracker. Garcia, not named in the affidavit, later pinged the electronic items inside the bag to try and locate them, and the ping showed them at an address in Fort Lauderdale, the affidavit said... While at the house, she took video and still pictures, where she saw "several pieces of luggage in the front of the home," none of which were her own, the affidavit said. Garcia told WPLG that she dialed 911. "The first thing I remember the police told me is: 'What are you doing here? This is so dangerous for you to be here.' " When a detective with the Broward County Sheriff's Office searched the address within the airport's employee databases, he found that Bazile reportedly lived at the address. Bazile was listed as working at a Paradies Lagardère Travel Retail store at the airport and was working on the day of the theft, according to the affidavit. So apparently when the airline said the luggage had been sent to her house — they were wrong. In fact when police contacted a store manager, "he provided the detective with internal CCTV footage from the day of the incident," CNN reports, "which allegedly showed Bazile entering the store's storage room with a pink shell roller bag, matching the description of the stolen bag, and rummaging through the luggage, the affidavit said. "He then appeared to take the MacBook and other smaller items out of the luggage and put them in other bags."

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"Lansweeper's scans of its customers' networks found an awful lot of Linux boxes facing imminent end of life," reports the Register, "with no direct upgrade path." Belgian corporate network scanner vendor Lansweeper periodically collates some of the statistics collected by its users and publishes the results... This year's report says that while a third of its users' Linux machines run Ubuntu, second place goes to CentOS Linux [with 26.05%]. Back in 2020, Red Hat brought CentOS Linux 8's end of life forward from 2029 to the end of 2021. CentOS Linux 9 was canceled, CentOS Linux 8 is dead and gone, leaving only CentOS Linux 7. As we reported in May, CentOS 7's end of life is very close now — the end of June. After this month, no more updates. Of course, Red Hat will be happy to help you migrate to RHEL. It offers a free tool to switch boxes' package source, but RHEL 7 hits what Red Hat terms "the end of its maintenance support 2 phase" on the same day. RHEL 7 isn't EOL, but you'll need to pay extra for "Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS)" to keep security fixes coming. Lansweeper seems confident this will happen: "Assuming most of the CentOS devices will migrate over to RHEL, we can expect RHEL to comfortably take over first place from Ubuntu soon." RHEL was already on 20% of the machines scanned by Lansweeper (with Rocky Linux at 1.5%). But the Register argues that instead of switching to RHEL, "the freeloaders running CentOS Linux might well migrate to one of the RHELatives instead. CIQ publishes guidance on how to migrate to Rocky Linux, and will help if you buy its CIQ Bridge service. AlmaLinux has more than that with its ELevate tool to perform in-place version upgrades, as we described back in 2022. "Or, of course, you could just reinstall with Debian, and run anything you can't immediately reprovision in a free RHEL container image."

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La plupart d’entre nous connaissent Good Old Games, la plateforme de jeux vidéo dématérialisés de CD Project RED appréciée des joueurs pour son approche libre de DRM et concurrente de Steam et Epic Games. En général, toutes ces plateformes et la majorité des jeux qui s’y trouvent permettent aux joue...

CNN reports that the low-calorie sweetener xylitol used "may be linked to nearly twice the risk of heart attacks, stroke and death in people who consume the highest levels of the sweetener, a new study found..." In 2023, the same researchers found similar results for another low-calorie sweetener called erythritol, which is used as a bulking sugar in stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products. Additional lab and animal research presented in both papers revealed erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to clot more readily. Clots can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, triggering a stroke. In the new study on xylitol, "differences in platelet behavior were seen even after a person consumed a modest quantity of xylitol in a drink typical of a portion consumed in real life," said Dr. Matthew Tomey, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in New York City, who was not involved in the study... "Through their work, the investigators have shined a light on the safety of sugar substitutes. There is more to learn," Mount Sinai's Tomey said. "In the meantime, it is worth remembering that sugar substitutes are no substitute for a sincere commitment to the several elements of a healthy diet and lifestyle." Tomey added that the experiments "are interesting but alone do not prove that platelet abnormalities are to account for a linkage between xylitol and clinical events." But CNN notes that the researchers began by analyzing over 3,200 blood samples — and then also gave volunteers a typical xylitol-sweetened drink to see how much in increased their glucose levels. "They went up 1,000-fold," senior study author Dr. Stanley Hazen told CNN. His study adds that the World Health Organization warned consumers in 2023 to avoid artificial sweeteners for weight loss and called for additional research on the long-term toxicity of low- and no-calorie sweeteners.

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Et oui, vous l'avez sûrement compris maintenant, nous sommes partis à la chasse aux informations sur ces fameuses barrettes de RAM au format CUDIMM après avoir vu une carte mère arborant l'un de ces slots sur le stand MSI. C'est donc sur le stand de Geil que nous avons pu observer les seules barrettes disponibles sur tout le salon. Geil ayant bien fait les choses, à côté l'un de l'autre, nous pouvions observer les deux formats de barrettes de RAM qui entreront bientôt en compétition pour devenir le prochain standard pour nos futurs PC. Et oui, seul le meilleur format restera ! Pour le moment, on ne rentre pas encore dans le détail, on vous prépare un petit dossier pour résumer toutes les infos qu'on a accumulées pendant le Computex. […]

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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: A YouTuber who posted a Fourth of July video in which passengers on a low-flying helicopter shot fireworks at a speeding Lamborghini is facing a federal charge tied to the stunt. Suk Min Choi, 24, who runs a YouTube channel under the name Alex Choi, was charged Thursday with causing the placement of an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft, the Justice Department announced. He arranged to have the helicopter fly over the El Mirage Dry Lakebed near Los Angeles in June 2023 for a video titled "Destroying a Lamborghini With Fireworks," according to a complaint filed in the Central District Court of California. The video, released on July 4, shows scenes akin to an action film as Choi laughs while driving the Lamborghini and helicopter-launched fireworks ricochet off the car, enveloping it in sparks... Choi faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, according to the Justice Department. More details from NBC Los Angeles: Federal authorities said radar data from the day of the video shoot showed that the helicopter left an airport in Pacoima, California, around 1:53 p.m. and turned toward El Mirage Lake, a dry lake in California, where the video was filmed. The helicopter's transponder was then turned off, according to the affidavit. The helicopter reappeared on the radar and flew back to the airport just before 9 p.m., the document says. The pilot initially told an FAA inspector that he did not know anything about the El Mirage video, according to the affidavit. In a follow-up call, he told inspectors that he did not want Choi to know he was speaking with them and said "Choi was doing unsafe activities involving cars and aircraft." In January, the FAA issued an emergency order revoking the pilot's private pilot certification, the affidavit says.

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Outre les moult développements à l’œuvre dans le NF-A14x25 G2, les autrichiens de Noctua avaient — heureusement — quelques autres propositions alléchantes sur le stand du Computex. Pour les clients possédant un serveur au format rack situé hors datacenter (par exemple pour des questions de temps d’a...

En plus des cartes mères exotiques avec des slots CAMM2 et Mini_CUDIMM pour la mémoire que nous vous présentions dans une autre news. MSI nous présentait aussi quelques-unes des futures cartes mères « classiques » qui viendront prochainement étoffer son catalogue. Très peu d'informations ont été fournies avec les Z890, à part qu'elles ont eu droit aux systèmes EZ pour extraire rapidement les composants, et qu'à l'instar d'ASUS et Gigabyte, MSI a créé son propre connecteur pour les antennes WIFI, et apparemment, aucune des trois marques qui ont créé leur connecteurs ne seront compatibles entre elles (hum..). Seul ASRock est resté sur l'ancien système. […]

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Mis à part ASUS qui ne nous a présenté qu'une seule carte mère au cours du Computex, la plupart des fabricants ont été plus généreux. A l'instar de MSI qui a réussi à braquer les projecteurs sur eux en présentant une carte mère que personne n'attendait : une Z790 estampillée MPOWER qui a la particularité d'avoir non pas des slots DIMM pour la RAM, ni même des slots CAMM2, mais des slots Mini_CUDIMM ! Un autre potentiel standard pour les barrettes de RAM portée par Intel et qui va rentrer en compétition avec le format CAMM2 dont on vous parle déjà depuis quelques jours. Nous essayerons de vous résumer tout ça dans quelques temps, mais pour le moment, retenez que CAMM2 est plus performant et permet de meilleures fréquences, tandis que CUDIMM est plus facile d'utilisation, et permet toujours de placer 4 slots sur une carte mère (bien que ce ne soit pas le cas sur la carte de MSI que nous avons vu). […]

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America "is now adding less wind capacity each year" than it was before the passage of a climate-protecting bill in 2022, according to the New York Times. Since then "solar panel installations are indeed soaring to record highs in the U.S., as are batteries that can store energy for later. But wind power has struggled, both on land and in the ocean." Some factors behind the wind industry's recent slowdown may be temporary, such as snarled supply chains. But wind power is also more vulnerable than solar power to many of the biggest logistical hurdles that hinder energy projects today: a lack of transmission lines, a lengthy permitting process and a growing backlash against new projects in many communities... [M]any areas are now crowded with turbines and existing electric grids are clogged, making it difficult to add more projects. Energy companies want to expand the grid's capacity to transport even more wind power to population centers, but getting permits for transmission lines and building them has become a brutal slog that can take more than a decade... Because they can reach the height of skyscrapers, wind turbines are more noticeable than solar farms and often attract more intense opposition from local communities. The wind industry has also been hampered by soaring equipment costs after the pandemic wrecked supply chains and inflation spiked. While those factors initially hurt solar, too, the solar industry has adjusted much faster, with China nearly doubling its manufacturing capacity for panels over the past two years. Wind supply chains, which are dominated by a few manufacturers in China, Europe and the United States, have yet to fully recover. The cost increases have been devastating for offshore wind projects in the Northeast, where developers have canceled more than half the projects they planned to build this decade. Wind isn't languishing only in the United States. While a record 117 gigawatts of new wind capacity came online last year globally, virtually all of that growth was in China. In the rest of the world, developers weren't installing wind turbines any faster than they were in 2020... It's still possible that wind power could rebound. In fact, some experts argue that the recent slowdown is only a temporary artifact of tax policy... [John Hensley, vice president for markets and policy analysis at the American Clean Power Association, a renewable industry trade group] said that U.S. wind manufacturing was beginning to ramp up thanks to new tax incentives, while costs were starting to come down. Last year, orders for new turbines increased by 130%, although many of them won't be delivered until 2025 or later. Some states are now trying to make it easier to build renewable energy: Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota have all passed laws making it harder for local governments to restrict wind and solar. The federal government has issued new rules to accelerate the planning of transmission lines. Demand for wind could also rise as a growing number of states, tech companies and hydrogen producers are trying to secure clean electricity around the clock, rather than just a burst of solar power in the daytime. Many plans for moving America off fossil fuels "envision a large expansion of both solar and wind," the article points out, "because the two sources generate electricity at different hours and can complement each other. A boom in solar power alone, which runs only in daytime, isn't enough."

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Chez ENDORFY, nous vous proposons de découvrir les deux nouveautés de la marque à destination des Gamers et des PC Users. Nous allons débuter avec la nouvelle souris Gamer Liv Plus Wireless et ensuite, nous passerons sur les ventirads CPU Fortis 5.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Alors cette info, cela faisait longtemps qu'on l'attendait ! Si vous saviez toutes les fois où nous avons fait les yeux doux à Nuphy en leur demandant s'ils lanceraient un jour des claviers au format ISO, et aujourd'hui, c'est enfin fait ! Quand nous avons découvert les nouveaux claviers au Computex, croyez-nous, notre journée était faite ! Pour le moment, seuls deux modèles ont été présentés, mais nous espérons que ce n'est que le début et qu'il y en aura plein d'autres. […]

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On est les derniers à vous parler de la Z890 AQUA d'ASRock ? Pas grave, on a plein de belles photos et on est sûrs qu'il y a encore quelques personnes qui n'ont pas encore eu l'occasion d'admirer la belle. Qui dit AQUA dit démesure n'est-ce pas ? Avec la Z890 AQUA, ASRock ne déroge pas à la règle et nous propose une carte de toute beeauuuté dans son habillage blanc sur un PCB blanc. (oui on le sait, on n'est pas encore censé parler de « Z890 », mais on le fait quand même, car c'est plus facile comme ça, na !). […]

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Trop la classe chez HYTE avec des nouvelles couleurs pour les boitiers, mais aussi des nouveaux ventilateurs et des nouveaux AIO Watercooling qui propose un bien joli cadre. À découvrir dans cette nouvelle vidéo from Taipei with Love. Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Nous le savons en chemin depuis un bon moment, Silicon Motion n’ayant eu de cesse l’année passée de parler de son SM2508, l’alternative maison haut de gamme destinée à concurrencer le PS5026-E26 de Phison, entre autres. Mais visiblement, le fabricant n’était pas dans l’urgence ni gêné de laisser ain...

ou pas

J’espère que vous avez vu le film.

Sinon pour faire un résumé sans spoil de l’actualité lunaire : il y a Microsoft qui fait des étincelles et ça brille assez fort.

Si vous avez raté ce film de Paul Verhoeven qui sent bon le turfu des années 90, matez-le, au moins pour voir Schwarzenegger se sortir un mouchard (et non un mouchoir) des narines, gesticuler en animatronic les yeux exorbités sous l’atmosphère de mars. Allez, sinon vous allez me faire pleurer.

Merci et bon weekend à tous!

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There was a very exciting Friday evening code drop out of AMD... They announced a new project called Peano that serves as an open-source LLVM compiler back-end for AMD/Xilinx AI engine processors with a particular focus on the Ryzen AI SOCs with existing Phoenix and Hawk Point hardware as well as the upcoming XDNA2 found with the forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 series...