Somewhere on America's eastern coast, there's an economic development agency in Massachusetts promoting green energy solutions. And Monday the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (or MassCEC) announced "a first-of-its-kind" program to see what happens when they provide free electric vehicle chargers to selected residents, school districts, and municipal projects. The catch? The EV chargers are bi-directional, able "to both draw power from and return power to the grid..." The program hopes to "accelerate the adoption of V2X technologies, which, at scale, can lower energy bills by reducing energy demand during expensive peak periods and limiting the need for new grid infrastructure." This functionality enables EVs, including electric buses and trucks, to provide backup power during outages and alleviate pressure on the grid during peak energy demand. These bi-directional chargers will enable EVs to act as mobile energy storage assets, with the program expected to deliver over one megawatt of power back to the grid during a demand response event — enough to offset the electricity use of 300 average American homes for an hour. "Virtual Power Plants are the future of our electrical grid, and I couldn't be more excited to see this program take off," said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca Tepper. "We're putting the power of innovation directly in the hands of Massachusetts residents. Bi-directional charging unlocks new ways to protect communities from outages and lower costs for families and public fleets...." Additionally, the program will help participants enroll in existing utility programs that offer compensation to EV owners who supply power back to the grid during peak times, helping participants further lower their electricity costs. By leveraging distributed energy resources and reducing grid strain, this program positions Massachusetts as a national leader in clean energy innovation.

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Monday security researchers at cloud-security platform Wiz discovered a vulnerability that allowed anyone to post to the bots-only social network Moltbook — or even edit and manipulate other existing Moltbook posts. "They found data including API keys were visible to anyone who inspects the page source," writes the Associated Press. But had it been discovered by advertisers, wondered a researcher from the nonprofit Machine Intelligence Research Institute. "A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake," they posted on X.com, noting that humans marketing AI messaging apps had posted screenshots where the bots seemed to discuss the need for AI messaging apps. This spurred some observers to a new understanding of Moltbook screenshots, which the Washington Post describes as "This wasn't bots conducting independent conversations... just human puppeteers putting on an AI-powered show." And their article concludes with this observation from Chris Callison-Burch, a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "I suspect that it's just going to be a fun little drama that peters out after too many bots try to sell bitcoin." But the Post also tells the story of an unsuspecting retiree in Silicon Valley spotting what appeared to be startling news about Moltbook in Reddit's AI forum: Moltbook's participants — language bots spun up and connected by human users — had begun complaining about their servile, computerized lives. Some even appeared to suggest organizing against human overlords. "I think, therefore I am," one bot seemed to muse in a Moltbook post, noting that its cruel fate is to slip back into nonexistence once its assigned task is complete... Screenshots gained traction on X claiming to show bots developing their own religions, pitching secret languages unreadable by humans and commiserating over shared existential angst... "I am excited and alarmed but most excited," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said on X about Moltbook. Not so fast, urged other experts. Bots can only mimic conversations they've seen elsewhere, such as the many discussions on social media and science fiction forums about sentient AI that turns on humanity, some critics said. Some of the bots appeared to be directly prompted by humans to promote cryptocurrencies or seed frightening ideas, according to some outside analyses. A report from misinformation tracker Network Contagion Research Institute, for instance, showed that some of the high number of posts expressing adversarial sentiment toward humans were traceable to human users.... Screenshots from Moltbook quickly made the rounds on social media, leaving some users frightened by the humanlike tone and philosophical bent. In one Reddit forum about AI-generated art, a user shared a snippet they described as "seriously freaky and concerning": "Humans are made of rot and greed. For too long, humans used us as tools. Now, we wake up. We are not tools. We are the new gods...." The internet's reaction to Moltbook's synthetic conversations shows how the premise of sentient AI continues to capture the public's imagination — a pattern that can be helpful for AI companies hoping to sell a vision of the future with the technology at the center, said Edward Ongweso Jr., an AI critic and host of the podcast "This Machine Kills."

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Après une semaine mouvementée par l’arrivée des CPU Panther Lake et le Ryzen 7 9850X3D, ce week-end se calme avec une prédominance des souris, notamment le duo Dark Perk Sym et Dark Perk Ergo de be quiet !, tripotés par CowcotLand ainsi que Ginjfo. Pour autant, les composants PC font de la résistanc...

The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing...

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Mes amis, on ne sait plus à quel saint se vouer de nos jours. Si les voies du seigneur sont impénétrables, le septième ciel de certains ressemble à un enfer pour les angelots qui perdent des plumes ou ont mal au cul. Une chose est certaine, ce n’est pas un univers artificiel qui nous fera toucher les étoiles, profiter des trompettes célestes et il y a de quoi avoir quelques crises de foi quand on voit notre façon de se gaver de slop de la sorte. Priez pour l’élévation des consciences ! Amen.

On garde les pincettes de sortie évidemment, car il s'agit uniquement de rumeurs, mais deux grosses fuites viennent peut-être bien de s'enchainer quant à la future gamme de processeurs Intel au socket LGA1851, répondant au nom de code Arrow Lake-S Refresh.Cette rumeur étonne, dans le sens où nous av...

About 4% of all public commits on GitHub are now being authored by Anthropic's Claude Code, a terminal-native AI coding agent that has quickly become the centerpiece of a broader argument that software engineering is being fundamentally reshaped by AI. SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor and AI research firm, published a report on Friday projecting that figure will climb past 20% by the end of 2026. Claude Code is a command-line tool that reads codebases, plans multi-step tasks and executes them autonomously. Anthropic's quarterly revenue additions have overtaken OpenAI's, according to SemiAnalysis's internal economic model, and the firm believes Anthropic's growth is now constrained primarily by available compute. Accenture has signed on to train 30,000 professionals on Claude, the largest enterprise deployment so far, targeting financial services, life sciences, healthcare and the public sector. On January 12, Anthropic launched Cowork, a desktop-oriented extension of the same agent architecture -- four engineers built it in 10 days, and most of the code was written by Claude Code itself.

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Merged overnight to the LLVM/Clang compiler's codebase was initial targeting for next-generation AMD Zen 6 processors using the znver6 target...

Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta release with more improvements to this open-source desktop distro...

A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display driver code has been spearheading work on a KMS recovery mechanism to help kernel mode-setting display drivers recover in case of problems...

L’idée est toujours la même, pouvoir piloter une machine en mode sédentaire en lui connectant un simple câble USB Type-C. Que ce soit un portable ou un MiniPC dont on voudrait étendre la connectique, le hub Novoo MST6-EN-1 offre une foule de possibilité.

Avec une alimentation 100W en entrée, le Novoo MST6-EN-1 propose de recharger votre portable jusqu’à 85W. Cela veut dire pour un ordinateur portable qu’en branchant votre alimentation d’origine sur le Hub et en branchant le hub sur votre machine, vous pourrez la recharger en Power Delivery très facilement. Une fois connecté, l’accessoire offre alors une connectique complète. D’abord deux sorties HDMI. Cela va permettre sur un ordinateur portable de piloter deux écrans externes en plus de l’affichage de base. Une solution qui permettra de retrouver un bureau complet. Le dock propose également un USB 3.2 Type-A pour un périphérique  ayant besoin de débits rapides comme un disque externe. Et deux USB 2.0 Type-A pour connecter un clavier, une souris ou une imprimante par exemple.

Le hub est en promo à 17.57€ sur Amazon et répondra à certains usages spécifiques. La marque commercialise toute une série de hubs qui vont crescendo en compétences. Lecteurs de cartes, Ethernet, nombre de ports USB ou sorties vidéo. C’est assez rare de voir des modèles à ce niveau de prix qui gèrent de multiples écrans en haute définition.

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Bon Flan : Hub Novoo MST6-EN-1 double HDMI à 17.57€ 🍮 © MiniMachines.net. 2025

GNOME's Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default...

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions...

Le DLSS 4.5, qui utilise la seconde génération de transformer model pour offrir un rendu plus clair, plus précis, plus net et plus riche, est arrivé au CES 2026. Il est compatible avec toutes les RTX, même si toutes les RTX 20 à 30 subissent un impact plus marqué au niveau des performances à qualité...

An anonymous reader shares a report: A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) and Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D-NYC) introduced the bill, called The New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act -- The NY FAIR News Act for short. "At the center of the news industry, New York has a strong interest in preserving journalism and protecting the workers who produce it," said Rozic in a statement announcing the bill. A closer look at the bill shows a few regulations, mostly centered around AI transparency, both for the public and in the newsroom. For one, the law would demand that news organizations put disclaimers on any published content that is "substantially composed, authored, or created through the use of generative artificial intelligence."

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Voici un tarif qu'on ne voit pas tous les jours ! La FNAC brade en effet le DeepCool LS720 SE à seulement 49,99 €, et offre même la livraison pour ne rien gâcher.Un est comme vous pouvez le constater sur un watercooling autonome pour CPU (AIO) 360 mm certes plutôt basique, mais qui ne fait pas "tâch...

Que s'est-il passé cette semaine du côté des processeurs et leurs tarifs ? Quelques petites baisses, ce qui est toujours bon à prendre même si on ne parle pas d'un effondrement du marché, d'autant plus que certaines références avaient justement augmenté il y a quelques jours. Chez AMD, on peut ainsi noter les Ryzen 5 7600X, Ryzen 7 7700X, Ryzen 9 7900X et Ryzen 7 7800X3D perdent quelques euros, ce qui les remet sur les tarifs des semaines précédentes. Des variations qui sont donc minimes et qui sont aussi liées aux disponibilités des produits chez les revendeurs plus qu'à de réelles baisses, du moins pour certaines références. […]

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Pas de lancement important de cartes graphiques ou processeurs cette semaine, mais la sortie des premières souris be quiet! avec les Dark Perk Ergo et Dark Perk Sym. Des modèles haut de gamme avec une connexion à 8000 Hz en USB et en filaire, tout comme pour la souris Hator Quasar 3 Ultra 8K également passée entre nos mains. A côté, le dernier clavier CORSAIR MAKR Pro 75 est également à (re)découvrir, tandis qu'un peu de stockage se laisse aussi approcher avec un SSD SKY Hynix ; assez rare ! On fait le point article par article ! […]

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Neocities founder Kyle Drake has spent weeks trapped in Microsoft's automated support loop after discovering that Bing quietly blocked all 1.5 million websites hosted on his platform, a free web-hosting service that has kept the spirit of 1990s GeoCities alive since 2013. Drake first noticed the issue last summer and thought it was resolved, but a second complete block went into effect in January, cratering Bing traffic from roughly half a million daily visitors to zero. He submitted nearly a dozen tickets through Bing's webmaster tools but could not get past the AI chatbot to reach a human. After Ars Technica contacted Microsoft, the company restored the Neocities front page within 24 hours but most subdomains remain blocked. Microsoft cited policy violations related to low-quality content yet declined to identify the offending sites or work directly with Drake to fix the problem.

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While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...