Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: If you devoured the Childhood of Famous Americans book series as a kid and are ready for a longer read, Bill Gates has a book for you. "I'm excited to announce my new book, Source Code, which will be published next February," Gates wrote Tuesday in a GatesNotes blog post. "It's a memoir about my early years, from childhood through my decision to leave college and start Microsoft with Paul Allen. I write about the relationships, lessons, and experiences that laid the foundation for everything in my life that followed." GeekWire explains the timing of the book release is notable: January 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Popular Electronics magazine issue that featured the early Altair 8800 personal computer, which inspired Gates and Allen to start the company. Proceeds from book sales will be donated to the nonprofit United Way Worldwide, in recognition of Gates' late mother Mary's longtime work as a volunteer and board member with the organization. "Hey, this thing is happening without us," Allen famously said to Bill Gates (who had just turned 19). When Gates finished reading the Popular Electronics article, "he realized that Allen was right," according to one biographer. "For the next eight weeks, the two of them embarked on a frenzy of code writing that would change the nature of the computer business."

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Bon, pour faire le tour du stand CORSAIR, il faut prévoir un peu de temps tellement il y a des choses à voir. Elgato avec le Streaming, les premiers produits Sim Racing, des boitiers, des AIO Watercooling, des Mini PC, des claviers, des souris et encore plus de choses... Clairement CORSAIR était présent en FORCE.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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C'est donc la dernière vidéo sur ASUS et ROG que nous vous proposons. Donc après toutes les annonces que nous avions pu voir le dimanche et le lundi, nous vous proposons les dernières nouveautés de la marque sur les stands du Computex. Vous allez le voir, il y a du PC Mini ITX de folie et de la CM Arrow-Lake.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Chez SHARKOON, vous allez le voir, nous avons la dose, mais alors grosse dose de nouveaux produits. Des nouveaux boitiers Rebel, du ventirad, des casques, du siège Ergo apacher, mais surtout des claviers en bois qui sont tout simplement magnifiques. On adore.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Reuters reports: A special uranium fuel planned for next-generation U.S. nuclear reactors poses security risks because it could be used without further enrichment as fissile material in nuclear weapons, scientists said in an article published on Thursday. The fuel, called high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, is enriched to levels of up to 20%, compared with about 5% for the fuel that powers most existing reactors. Until recently it was made in commercial amounts only in Russia, but the United States wants to produce it to fuel a new wave of reactors... "This material is directly usable for making nuclear weapons without any further enrichment or reprocessing," said Scott Kemp, one of five authors of the peer-reviewed article in the journal Science. "In other words, the new reactors pose an unprecedented nuclear-security risk," said Kemp, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former science adviser on arms control at the State Department. A bomb similar in power to the one the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 could be made from 2,200 pounds (1,000 kg) or less of 19.75% enriched HALEU, the article said. "Designing such a weapon would not be without its challenges, but there do not appear to be any convincing reasons why it could not be done," it said. The authors said if enrichment is limited to 10% to 12%, the supply chain would be far safer with only modest costs... TerraPower, a company backed by Bill Gates that has received funding from the [U.S.] Energy Department, hopes to build its Natrium nuclear plant in Wyoming by 2030 to run on HALEU. TerraPower in late 2022 delayed Natrium's launch date by at least two years to 2030 due to a lack of HALEU. A TerraPower spokesperson said Natrium will use HALEU as it allows more efficient energy production and reduces nuclear waste volumes. "TerraPower has made reduction of weapons risks a foundational principle" the spokesperson said, adding that its fuel cycle eliminates the risk of proliferation. Reuters notes that America's 2022 climate legislation "included $700 million for a HALEU availability program including purchasing the fuel to create a supply chain for planned high-tech reactors." But the study's authors argue that if it becomes a standard reactor fuel, it could eliminate the distinction between peaceful and nonpeaceful nuclear programs — in countries around the world. Thanks to Slashdot reader locater16 for sharing the article.

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Arch Linux derivative CachyOS that is optimized for a nice desktop experience and shipping a nice set of performance optimizations/tuning by default is out with its June 2024 refresh...

Chez DEEPCOOL, on passe donc au BTF et au Project Zéro, mais pas seulement. Nous allons avoir un gros ventirad CPU ASSASSIN 3DVC et encore plus d'affichage sur les produits. Nous allons aussi retrouver quelques nouvelles alimentations PC dont du SFX.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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In November Google agreed to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million annually "in order to be exempt from the Online News Act, which compels tech companies to enter into agreements with news publishers," writes the Canadian Press. On Friday Google "named the organization it has selected to distribute the $100 million..." The Canadian Journalism Collective will be responsible for ensuring eligible news organizations get their share of the money. The collective is a federally incorporated non-profit organization that was created for this purpose. It was founded in May by a group of independent publishers and broadcasters... "We hope these next steps will be completed as quickly as possible, so Canadian publishers and journalists can soon begin to receive the proceeds of this new contribution model," Google said in a blog entry posted on their website Friday... The money will be distributed proportionately based on how many full time-journalists the companies employ. Small print and digital outlets can expect to receive about $17,000 per journalist that they employ, an official with the Canadian Heritage Department has said. Google's money will go to 1,520 news organizations, according to Google's blog post — which describes the arrangement as "addressing our concerns with the Online News Act" and "a viable path to an exemption at a clear and commercially acceptable commitment level..." As part of this transition, we have advised partners in our Google News Showcase program (our online news experience and licensing program for news organizations) will cease to operate in Canada later this year as we transition to this new contribution model. We will be maintaining some Google News Initiative programming in Canada. This includes a range of collaborative tools and resources that can support the advancement of quality journalism. However, with our monetary contribution in Canada now streamlined into the new single collective model, these investments will be non-monetary in nature.

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The BBC reports that British tech tycoon Mike Lynch "has been cleared of fraud charges he faced in the U.S. over the $11bn (£8.6bn) sale of his software firm to Hewlett-Packard in 2011." A jury in San Francisco found him not guilty on all counts in a stunning victory for Mr Lynch, who had been accused of inflating the value of Autonomy, his company, ahead of its sale. Mr Lynch, who faced more than 20 years in prison if convicted, had denied the charges and took the stand to defend himself. In his testimony, he maintained he had focused on technology not accounting, distancing himself from other executives, including the company's former chief financial officer who was already successfully prosecuted for fraud... Mr Lynch made £500m from the sale. Just a year later, HP wrote down the value of Autonomy by $8.8bn. Years of legal battles followed. The company's chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, was found guilty of fraud in 2018 and later sentenced to five years in prison... Mr Lynch's team pushed the argument that HP had failed to properly vet the deal and mismanaged the takeover, while he testified he was uninvolved with the transactions being described. Lynch's lawyers said the verdict "closes the book on a relentless 13-year effort to pin HP's well-documented ineptitude on Dr Lynch. Thankfully, the truth has finally prevailed." Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.

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Wired visits Chula Vista, California (population: 275,487) — where since 2018 drones have been dispatched by police "teleoperators" monitoring 911 calls. ("Noise complaints, car accidents, overdoses, domestic disputes...") After nearly 20,000 drone flights, it's become the envy of other police departments, according to Wired's article, as other police departments "look to expand their use of unmanned aerial aircraft." The [Chula Vista] department says that its drones provide officers with critical intelligence about incidents they are responding to ahead of initiating in-person contact — which the CVPD says has reduced unnecessary police contacts, decreased response times, and saved lives. But a WIRED investigation paints a complicated picture of the trade-offs between public safety and privacy. In Chula Vista, drone flight paths trace a map of the city's inequality, with poorer residents experiencing far more exposure to the drones' cameras and rotors than their wealthier counterparts, a WIRED analysis of nearly 10,000 drone flight records from July 2021 to September 2023 found. The drones, often dispatched for serious incidents like reports of armed individuals, are also routinely deployed for minor issues such as shoplifting, vandalism, and loud music. [Drones are sent in response to about 1 in every 14 calls.] Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the city even used drones to broadcast public service announcements to homeless encampments. Despite the police promoting the benefits of the "Drone as First Responder" program, residents who encounter the technology day-to-day report feeling constantly watched. Some say they are afraid to spend time in their backyards; they fear that the machines are following them down the street, spying on them while they use the public pool or change their clothes. One resident says that he was so worried that the drones were harassing him that he went to the emergency room for severe depression and exhaustion. [A 60-year-old professor told Wired that the sound of drones kept them awake at night.] The police drones, equipped with cameras and zoom lenses powerful enough to capture faces clearly and constantly recording while in flight, have amassed hundreds of hours of video footage of the city's residents. Their flight paths routinely take them over backyards and above public pools, high schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, immigration law firms, and even the city's Planned Parenthood facility. Privacy advocates argue that the extensive footage captured by the drones makes it difficult to distinguish between flights responding to specific incidents and mass surveillance from the sky. Department secrecy around the recordings remains the subject of ongoing litigation... At the time of our analysis, approximately one in 10 drone flights listed on the department's transparency portal lacked a stated purpose and could not be connected to any relevant 911 call.

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In addition to debuting their "Peano" LLVM compiler back-end for Ryzen AI NPUs on Friday, AMD also submitted a new batch of feature code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver of new feature code aiming for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window...

Intel's IGB and IXGBE network drivers within the mainline Linux kernel are being adapted to support firmware updates for the underlying driver. To date such functionality was limited to Intel's out-of-tree versions of these drivers for their higher-end network hardware...

Mold 2.32 is out as the newest feature release for this high speed code linker that rivals LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Comme chez année chez LIAN LI, nous avons une tonne de nouveautés. Nous allons parler de ventilateurs presque sans-fil, de watercooling avec des tuyaux cachés, de boitiers aquarium ou de boitiers avec du bois, d'alimentation un peu WTF et de logiciel de gestion du RGB. Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Quand vous allez découvrir le Evolv X² de PHANTEKS, vous allez tomber de votre siège ergo ou de votre siège Gamer, tellement ce dernier est beau. Autrement, les NV passe au BTF et Project Zero, nous avons aussi du watercooling facile, des ventilateurs apacher et les nouveaux G400.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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"Police and search and rescue forces worldwide are increasingly using robots to assist in carrying out their operations," writes Interesting Engineering. "Now, the Dutch police are looking at employing AI-powered autonomous robot dogs in drug lab raids to protect officers from criminal risks, hazardous chemicals, and explosions." New Scientist's Matthew Sparkes (also a long-time Slashdot reader) shares this report: Dutch police are planning to use an autonomous robotic dog in drug lab raids to avoid placing officers at risk from criminals, dangerous chemicals and explosions. If tests in mocked-up scenarios go well, the artificial intelligence-powered robot will be deployed in real raids, say police. Simon Prins at Politie Nederland, the Dutch police force, has been testing and using robots in criminal investigations for more than two decades, but says they are only now growing capable enough to be practical for more... Some context from Interesting Engineering: The police force in the Netherlands carries out such raids at least three to four times a week... Since 2021, the force has already been using a Spot quadruped, fitted with a robotic arm, from Boston Dynamics to carry out drug raids and surveillance. However, the Spot is remotely controlled by a handler... [Significant technological advancements] have prompted the Dutch force to explore fully autonomous operations with Spot. Reportedly, such AI-enabled autonomous robots are expected to inspect drug labs, ensure no criminals are present, map the area, and identify dangerous chemicals... Initial tests by force suggest that Spot could explore and map a mock drug lab measuring 15 meters by 20 meters. It was able to find hazardous chemicals and put them away into a designated storage container. Their article notes that Spot "can do laser scans and visual, thermal, radiation, and acoustic inspections using add-on payloads and onboard cameras." (A video from Boston Dynamics — the company behind Spot — also seems to show the robot dog spraying something on a fire.) The video seems aimed at police departments, touting the robot dog's advantages for "safety and incident response": Enables safer investigation of suspicious packages Detection of hazardous chemicals De-escalation of tense or dangerous situations Get eyes on dangerous situations It also notes the robot "can be operated from a safe distance," suggesting customers "Use Spot(R) to place cameras, radios, and more for tactical reconnaissance."

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Chez NZXT, nous avions le droit à un petit retour sur l'historique de la marque avec le retour du GUARDIAN... Pour les nouveautés, il était question du nouveau H7, de nouveaux modules ventilateurs mono cadre et de nouvelles alimentations plutôt canon.Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Attention, cette vidéo dure longtemps, car il y avait beaucoup, mais alors beaucoup de choses à voir chez MSI, et encore nous avons zappé quelques parties. Dans cette vidéo, vous allez découvrir des CM Z890, des modèles X870, des écrans OLEDs, des nouveaux boitiers, du laptop, des CG à l'eau et la future Claw 2 en Lunar Lake. Une vidéo en partenariat avec 1FODISCOUNT […]

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Bon la semaine dernière était plutôt une bonne semaine avec pas mal de baisses chez les verts, mais aucun mouvement n'avait été constaté chez AMD ou Intel. Cette semaine, c'est la même, rien ne bouge chez les rouges et chez les bleus. Première chose, cette news sera donc rapide, seconde chose, nous n'allons parler que de NVIDIA. Et chez les verts, la 4060 prend 5 euros, la 4060 Ti fait + 2 euros, la 4070 perd 10 euros, la 4070 Ti fait un bond de + 75 euros..., et la 4070 Ti Super fait + 14 euros. […]

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