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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Dévoilée avant le salon, la première console portable de ZOTAC se laissait prendre en main sur le stand, sous forme de prototype. Et il faut bien reconnaitre que le Zone ne manque pas de charme malgré quelques petits points à changer ci et là, comme la couleur du D-pad qui donnait une impression un peu cheap, alors que le reste de la console rend bien. Et puisqu'on parle couleur, profitons pour dire que la machine devrait passer au gris gunmetal, ce qui ne manque pas d'attiser notre curiosité. Sans surprise, ZOTAC fait confiance à AMD et intègre un processeur Ryzen 7 8840U qui se chargera d'animer l'écran de 7" en AMOLED. L'affichage se fait en 1080p avec un taux de rafraichissement de 120 Hz, pour une belle fluidité dans Forza Horizon 5 que nous avons pu essayer. […]

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Chez ID-COOLING, on aime bien faire des choses différentes et le salon de cette année n'a pas échappé à la règle, notamment avec le watercooling AIO HUNTER GDL. Mettons de côté le GDL qui renvoie à la finition dorée qu'on retrouvera sur d'autres produits, dont les ventirads FROZN, pour s'attarder sur sa construction puisqu'on peut voir pas moins de quatre tuyaux partir de la base ! La raison est simple, on trouve deux radiateurs de 360 mm qui pourront prendre place dans le boitier. Une installation un peu plus complexe, mais pour quel gain ? Avec la configuration actuelle des ventilateurs, qui ne sont pas orientés vers la performance, environ 5 °C. […]

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Chez ENERMAX, la partie refroidissement occupait un large espace sur le stand, avec une petite surprise : une solution hybride air / watercooling comme à la grande époque. Dénommé AQUACore, ce ventirad mesure 162 mm de hauteur et intègre une solution antifuite et un petit écran de monitoring sur les ventilateurs. Mais on retiendra surtout la partie intégrée watercooling qui donne l'impression que la base est énorme. Malheureusement, ENERMAX reste discret sur l'intégration, qui semble différente de ce qu'on pouvait trouver chez PCCooler il y a quelques années, notamment. […]

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Depuis quelques mois, de plus en plus de marques se lancent dans les boitiers avec du bois, et Sharkoon a fait de même avec le Rebel C70, d'ores et déjà passé entre nos mains. Une façade en bois plutôt discrète sur un châssis noir, qui sera désormais également disponible en blanc dans une nouvelle version. Surprise, la façade garde la même essence sans changement de teinte, ce qui est assez surprenant alors que la concurrence mélange plus les boitiers blancs avec des essences claires. […]

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Cette année, de nombreuses marques historiques faisaient leur retour sur le salon, comme Scythe (que nous n'avons pu faire) ou encore Thermalright. Et chez ce dernier, le stand était chargé en nouveautés. La gamme étant déjà complète, et potentiellement confuse, autant dire qu'il sera difficile de faire son choix facilement pour un nouveau ventirad. Les solutions aircooling sont en effet les plus représentées, avec quelques nouveaux AIO derrière et des alimentation ATX et SFX. Notons ainsi l'arrivée d'une nouvelle gamme Royal avec une finition plus propre que les actuels King et Assassin, tandis que les écrans prennent plus de place en watercooling et devraient s'installer en aircooling sur les tops. […]

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"The first European Space Agency instrument to land on the Moon has detected the presence of negative ions on the lunar surface produced through interactions with the solar wind," according to a statement from the agency, collecting over three hours of data, "three times more than what the science teams needed for mission success..." The solar wind is a constant flow of radiation and particles from the Sun. Earth's magnetic field acts as a shield. In contrast, the Moon has no magnetic field and a very tenuous atmosphere, called the exosphere. When the solar wind hits the Moon,âthe surface reacts, kicking up secondary particles... While the positively charged particles have been measured from orbit before, measuring negative particles was a challenge. Negative ions are short-lived and cannot make it to orbit. The instrument was dropped off by China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander, and Europe's ground stations are also providing support for that mission. Futurism reports: Within just over 48 hours, China's Chang'e-6 lunar touched down on the far side of the Moon, successfully scooped up samples, and kicked off once again. It was an extraordinary feat, representing the first-ever samples ever collected from the side of the Moon that permanently faces away from us. During its brief visit, the lander also dropped off several scientific payloads on the lunar service, including the European Space Agency's Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface instrument. The lander also unfurled China's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon, according to the Associated Press. And then... Its ascender lifted off Tuesday morning at 7:38 a.m. Beijing time, with its engine burning for about six minutes as it entered a preset orbit around the moon, the China National Space Administration said. The agency said the spacecraft withstood a high temperature test on the lunar surface, and acquired the samples using both drilling and surface collection before stowing them in a container inside the ascender of the probe as planned. The container will be transferred to a reentry capsule that is due to return to Earth in the deserts of China's Inner Mongolia region about June 25. The samples "could help researchers figure out why the moon's two sides are so starkly different," writes Science News: Spacecraft observations of the farside show very little volcanic activity. Some scientists suspect that this is because the nearside crust is much thinner, which would have allowed more magma to come up from below the surface, says Kerri Donaldson Hanna, a planetary geologist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. There is evidence that some volcanism occurred in the South Pole-Aitken basin and in Apollo crater, though it appears this activity happened roughly 3.5 billion years ago. It's possible the impact that created both Aiken and Apollo weakened the lunar crust, forming fractures and allowing magma to flow. The samples onboard Chang'e-6 could contain clues as to whether or not this happened. Both Chinese and international researchers will be able to study the material. Donaldson Hanna is looking forward to seeing what insights will be gleaned from Chang'e-6 as well as future landers, such as those in NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Thanks to Slashdot reader cusco for sharing the news.

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