Beaucoup de choses ont été dites (et montrées) lors du Computex 2024, et des boulettes parfois aussi. Chez SK hynix celle-ci a pris la forme d’une affirmation de l’un de ses représentants, qui expliquait que son entreprise prévoyait finalement de commencer la production en volume de la GDDR7 pendant...

An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism: An AI chatbot named VIC, or Virtually Integrated Citizen, is trying to make it onto the ballot in this year's mayoral election for Wyoming's capital city of Cheyenne. But as reported by Wired, Wyoming's secretary of state is battling against VIC's legitimacy as a candidate — and now, an investigation is underway. According to Wired, VIC, which was built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and trained on thousands of documents gleaned from Cheyenne council meetings, was created by Cheyenne resident and library worker Victor Miller. Should VIC win, Miller told Wired that he'll serve as the bot's "meat puppet," operating the AI but allowing it to make decisions for the capital city.... "My campaign promise," Miller told Wired, "is he's going to do 100 percent of the voting on these big, thick documents that I'm not going to read and that I don't think people in there right now are reading...." Unfortunately for the AI and its — his? — meat puppet, however, they've already made some political enemies, most notably Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray. As Gray, who has challenged the legality of the bot, told Wired in a statement, all mayoral candidates need to meet the requirements of a "qualified elector." This "necessitates being a real person," Gray argues... Per Wired, it's also run amuck with OpenAI, which says the AI violates the company's "policies against political campaigning." (Miller told Wired that he'll move VIC to Meta's open-source Llama 3 model if need be, which seems a bit like VIC will turn into a different candidate entirely.) The Wyoming Tribune Eagle offers more details: [H]is dad helped him design the best system for VIC. Using his $20-a-month ChatGPT subscription, Miller had an 8,000-character limit to feed VIC supporting documents that would make it an effective mayoral candidate... While on the phone with Miller, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle also interviewed VIC itself. When asked whether AI technology is better suited for elected office than humans, VIC said a hybrid solution is the best approach. "As an AI, I bring unique strengths to the role, such as impartial decision-making, data-driven policies and the ability to analyze information rapidly and accurately," VIC said. "However, it's important to recognize the value of human experience and empathy and leadership. So ideally, an AI and human partnership would be the most beneficial for Cheyenne...." The artificial intelligence said this unique approach could pave a new pathway for the integration of human leadership and advanced technology in politics.

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Friday the Python Software Foundation published several blog posts about this year's "Python Language Summit" May 15th (before PyCon US), which featured talks and discussions by core developers, triagers, and Python implementation maintainers. There were several lightning talks. One talk came from the maintainer of the PyO3 project, offering Rust bindings for the Python C API (which requires mapping Rust concepts to Python — leaving a question as to how to map Rust's error-handling panic! macro). There was a talk on formalizing the PEP prototype process, and a talk on whether the Python team should have a more official presence in the Apple App Store (and maybe the Google Play Store). One talk suggested changing the formatting of error messages for assert statements, and one covered a "highly experimental" project to support structured data sharing between Python subinterpreters. One talk covered Python's "unsupported build" warning and how it should behave on platforms beyond Python's officially supported list. Python Foundation blog posts also covered some of the longer talks, including one on the idea of using type annotations as a mechanism for transformers. One talk covered the new interactive REPL interpreter coming to Python 3.13. And one talk focused on Python's security model after the xz-utils backdoor: Pablo Galindo Salgado, Steering Council member and the release manager for Python 3.10 and 3.11, brought this topic to the Language Summit to discuss what could be done to improve Python's security model... Pablo noted the similarities shared between CPython and xz-utils, referencing the previous Language Summit's talk on core developer burnout, the number of modules in the standard library that have one or zero maintainers, the high ratio of maintainers to source code, and the use of autotools for configuration. Autotools was used by [xz's] Jia Tan as part of the backdoor, specifically to obscure the changes to tainted release artifacts. Pablo confirmed along with many nods of agreement that indeed, CPython could be vulnerable to a contributor or core developer getting secretly malicious changes merged into the project. For multiple reasons like being able to fix bugs and single-maintainer modules, CPython doesn't require reviewers on the pull requests of core developers. This can lead to "unilateral action", meaning that a change is introduced into CPython without the review of someone besides the author. Other situations like release managers backporting fixes to other branches without review are common. Much discussion ensued about the possibility of altering workflows (including pull request reviews), identity verification, and the importance of post-incident action plans. Guido van Rossum suggested a "higher bar" for granting write access, but in the end "Overall it was clear there is more discussion and work to be done in this rapidly changing area." In another talk, Hugo van Kemenade, the newly announced Release Manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15, "started the Language Summit with a proposal to change Python's versioning scheme. The perception of Python using semantic versioning is a source of confusion for users who don't expect backwards incompatible changes when upgrading to new versions of Python. In reality almost all new feature releases of Python include backwards incompatible changes such as the removal of "dead batteries" where PEP 594 marked 19 modules for removal in Python 3.13. Calendar Versioning (CalVer) encompasses a wide array of different versioning schemes that have one property in common: using the release date as part of a release's version... Hugo offered multiple proposed versioning schemes, including: - Using the release year as minor version (3.YY.micro, "3.26.0") - Using the release year as major version (YY.0.micro, "26.0.0") - Using the release year and month as major and minor version (YY.MM.micro, "26.10.0") [...] Overall the proposal to use the current year as the minor version was well-received, Hugo mentioned that he'd be drafting up a PEP for this change.

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Avant l'avènement des aventuriers polygonaux Lara Croft et Nathan Drake, il y avait Indiana Jones. Interprété par Harrison Ford, et magistralement doublé par Richard Darbois, le héros malgré lui archéologue a toujours eu deux objectifs : sauver les reliques pour les exposer, et combattre les nazis q...

A Linux power management change merged on Friday aims to help ensure AMD Ryzen systems with NVMe solid-state drive storage will work properly when resuming from suspend...

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C’est con quand même cette histoire d’Apple intelligence, ça aurait quand même été bien de bachoter un peu au lieu de compter sur ses camarades, se la jouer l’Apple du devoir en quelque sorte !

Enfin bon, c’est comme ça, il sera toujours temps de briller lors du rattrapage.

Si vous n’en avez pas assez, je ne peux que vous recommander de la lecture de lecteur : avec
ovancantfort, c’est très fort !

Bon weekend à tous !

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Le Computex pour MSI, ça a été l’occasion de montrer les futurs modules CAMM2, le nouveau format de RAM dont tout le monde cause pour les générations prochaines, ainsi que le CuDIMM dont la firme est précurseur, pour des performances supplémentaire. Mais pas seulement ! Dans le gigantesque stand de...

Il y a désormais quelques jours, nous dévoilions la liste des gagnants des Eiropean Hardware Awards 2024. Avec quelques surprises dans certaines catégories, certaines marques commençant à s'installer tandis que d'autres font leur apparition. Aujourd'hui, on se concentre sur la France avec les Cowcotland Awards 2024, soit la liste des produits que nous avons décidé de mettre en avant sur divers critères comme les performances, la simplicité d'utilisation, le positionnement tarifaire selon le type de produit, etc. Et comme vous pourrez le constater, il y a quelques différences avec les résultats européens. Chaque pays a ses préférences, et il en va de même pour nous. On commence avec la première partie, la suite demain ! […]

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GNOME's longtime document viewer, Evince, was recently forked as GNOME Papers and saw its first release a few weeks back. This new GNOME document viewer has been ported from GTK3 to GTK4 and also brings an improved user interface and other refinements...

Apple compiler engineers have contributed Apple M4 CPU support to the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler via the new -mcpu=apple-m4 target. Interestingly the Apple M4 is exposed as an ARMv8.7 derived design...

Il y a plusieurs semaines, Intel et les constructeurs de cartes mères ont passé un mauvais repas de famille. Ce que nous savons depuis longtemps, c'est que les constructeurs de cartes mères ne respectent pas les consignes Intel quant aux capacités d'overclocking, ceci afin de mettre en avant les per...

Le processeur AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D est donc au prix le bas cette semaine et ce dernier s'affiche sous les 600 euros chez 1FODISCOUNT. Vous pourrez vous procurer ce monstre pas AMD au prix de 594,90 euros et avec la livraison offerte.Le Ryzen 9 7950X3D possède 16 Cœurs et 32 threads répartis sur 2 CCD. Il dispose de 128 Mo de cache L3 et 16 Mo de cache L2 (1Mo par cœur). Sa vitesse de base est de 4.2 GHz et peut monter jusqu'à 5.7 GHz en boost. Son TDP est de 120 Watts. […]

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Ce week-end, on traite les GPU et les CPU le même jour. On commence chez Intel ou nous avons pas mal de hausses. Bon pas sur le 13400F qui perd 15 euros cette semaine. Par contre, le 13600K prend 6 euros, le 13700K prend 18 euros, le 13900K fait + 62 euros..., le 14600K perd 5 euros, le 14700K fait + 5 euros et enfin le 14900K augmente de 36 euros... Heureusement, la tendance n'est pas la même chez AMD. […]

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Cette semaine, encore une fois c'est assez calme. Par exemple, chez AMD, nous avons une seule et unique variation, sur la RX 7800 XT qui baisse de seulement 5 euros. C'est tout chez les rouges... Chez les bleus, comme toujours, les prix ne bougent pas. C'est donc chez les verts que nous avons le plus de mouvements, mais vous allez le voir, ce n'est pas non plus la folie furieuse. En même temps, le titre voulait tout dire... […]

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Pour les vidéos de la semaine, nous vous avons proposé de découvrir le laptop gamer ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G14 qui propose puissance et compacité. Ensuite, nous vous avons présenté le nouveau ventirad CPU be quiet! Dark Rock 5, un mono tour haut de gamme. Enfin, nous avons encore parlé de laptop, avec le ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405M. […]

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wgoodman shares a report from The Register: NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in action and conducting normal science operations for the first time since the veteran probe began spouting gibberish at the end of 2023. All four of the spacecraft's remaining operational instruments are now returning usable data to Earth, according to NASA. Some additional work is needed to tidy up the effects of the issue. Engineers need to resynchronize the timekeeping software of Voyager 1's three onboard computers to ensure that commands are executed at the correct times. Maintenance will also be performed on the digital tape recorder, which records some data from the plasma instrument for a six-monthly downlink to Earth. Voyager 1's woes began in November 2023, when the spacecraft stopped transmitting usable data back to Earth. Rather than engineering and science data, NASA found itself faced with a repeating pattern of ones and zeroes, as though the spacecraft was somehow stalled. Engineers reckoned the issue lay with the Flight Data System (FDS) and in March sent a command -- dubbed a "poke" -- to get the FDS to try some other software sequences and thus circumvent whatever was causing the problem. The result was a complete memory dump from the computer, which allowed engineers to pinpoint where the corruption had occurred. It appeared that a single chip was malfunctioning, and engineers were faced with the challenge of devising a software update that would work around the defective hardware. Usable engineering data began to be returned later in April, and in May the mission team sent commands to instruct the probe to keep science data flowing. The result was that the plasma wave subsystem and magnetometer instrument began sending data immediately. According to NASA, the cosmic ray subsystem and low energy charged particle instrument required a little more tweaking but are now operational. The rescue was made all the more impressive by the fact that it takes 22.5 hours for a command to reach Voyager 1 and another 22.5 hours for a response to be received on Earth.

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KDE Plasma 6.1 is preparing for release next week on 18 June. KDE developers this week have thus been very busy with last minute finishing touches to this updated desktop while also already beginning feature work on Plasma 6.2...

The Pentagon announced the first winners of its $5.6 billion National Security Space Launch program, with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin securing a spot for the first time alongside Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA). These companies will compete for contracts through mid-2029 under the program's Phase 3, which is expected to include 90 rocket launch orders. CNBC reports: Under the program, known as NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1, the trio of companies will be eligible to compete for contracts through mid-2029. ULA and SpaceX have already been competing for contracts under the previous Phase 2 edition of NSSL: In total, over five years of Phase 2 launch orders, the military assigned ULA with 26 missions worth $3.1 billion, while SpaceX got 22 missions worth $2.5 billion. Blue Origin, as well as Northrop Grumman, missed out on Phase 2 when the Pentagon selected ULA and SpaceX for the program in August 2020. But with Phase 3, the U.S. military is raising the stakes -- and widening the field -- on a high-profile competition for Space Force mission contracts. Phase 3 is expected to see 90 rocket launch orders in total, with a split approach of categories Lane 1 and Lane 2 to allow even more companies to bid.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google must face trial on U.S. antitrust enforcers' claim that the internet search juggernaut illegally dominates the online advertising technology market, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, denied Google's motion during a hearing, according to court records. Google had argued for a win without a trial, saying that antitrust laws do not block companies from refusing to deal with rivals and that regulators had not accurately defined the ad tech market. Court papers did not specify what reasons the judge provided at the hearing. Motions like the one Google filed are only granted where a judge determines there is no factual dispute to send to trial. Last year, the U.S. Justice department and eight states sued Google, calling for the break up of the search giant's ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.

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