Bien qu’en avril, se découvrir d’un fil est fortement déconseillé, la sphère hardware francophone n’a pas manqué d’en tester, des bousins à fils. Entre l’embouteillage de matériel en provenance de chez Corsair chez nous, du ASUS — mais pas seulement — à la ferme et tout un tas de périphériques allan...

Is OpenAI's ChatGPT violating copyrights? The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023. But Ars Technica summarizes OpenAI's response. The New York Times (or NYT) "should have known that ChatGPT was being trained on its articles... partly because of the newspaper's own reporting..." OpenAI pointed to a single November 2020 article, where the NYT reported that OpenAI was analyzing a trillion words on the Internet. But on Friday, U.S. district judge Sidney Stein disagreed, denying OpenAI's motion to dismiss the NYT's copyright claims partly based on one NYT journalist's reporting. In his opinion, Stein confirmed that it's OpenAI's burden to prove that the NYT knew that ChatGPT would potentially violate its copyrights two years prior to its release in November 2022... And OpenAI's other argument — that it was "common knowledge" that ChatGPT was trained on NYT articles in 2020 based on other reporting — also failed for similar reasons... OpenAI may still be able to prove through discovery that the NYT knew that ChatGPT would have infringing outputs in 2020, Stein said. But at this early stage, dismissal is not appropriate, the judge concluded. The same logic follows in a related case from The Daily News, Stein ruled. Davida Brook, co-lead counsel for the NYT, suggested in a statement to Ars that the NYT counts Friday's ruling as a win. "We appreciate Judge Stein's careful consideration of these issues," Brook said. "As the opinion indicates, all of our copyright claims will continue against Microsoft and OpenAI for their widespread theft of millions of The Times's works, and we look forward to continuing to pursue them." The New York Times is also arguing that OpenAI contributes to ChatGPT users' infringement of its articles, and OpenAI lost its bid to dismiss that claim, too. The NYT argued that by training AI models on NYT works and training ChatGPT to deliver certain outputs, without the NYT's consent, OpenAI should be liable for users who manipulate ChatGPT to regurgitate content in order to skirt the NYT's paywalls... At this stage, Stein said that the NYT has "plausibly" alleged contributory infringement, showing through more than 100 pages of examples of ChatGPT outputs and media reports showing that ChatGPT could regurgitate portions of paywalled news articles that OpenAI "possessed constructive, if not actual, knowledge of end-user infringement." Perhaps more troubling to OpenAI, the judge noted that "The Times even informed defendants 'that their tools infringed its copyrighted works,' supporting the inference that defendants possessed actual knowledge of infringement by end users."

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Le 6 janvier 2025, AMD profitait de l'ouverture du CES de Las Vegas pour annoncer tout un tas de nouveautés. En pratique, la patience est de mise sur de nombreuses références, les véritables lancements se faisant au compte-goutte. Parmi toutes ces choses annoncées, il y avait par exemple une nouvell...

Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Yet another busy hurricane season is likely across the Atlantic this year -- but some of the conditions that supercharged storms like Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 have waned, according to a key forecast issued Thursday. A warm -- yet no longer record-hot -- strip of waters across the Atlantic Ocean is forecast to help fuel development of 17 named tropical cyclones during the season that runs from June 1 through Nov. 30, according to Colorado State University researchers. Of those tropical cyclones, nine are forecast to become hurricanes, with four of those expected to reach "major" hurricane strength. That would mean a few more tropical storms and hurricanes than in an average year, yet slightly quieter conditions than those observed across the Atlantic basin last year. This time last year, researchers from CSU were warning of an "extremely active" hurricane season with nearly two dozen named tropical storms. The next month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an aggressive forecast, warning the United States could face one of its worst hurricane seasons in two decades. The forecast out Thursday underscores how warming oceans and cyclical patterns in storm activity have primed the Atlantic basin for what is now a decades-long string of frequent, above-normal -- but not necessarily hyperactive -- seasons, said Philip Klotzbach, a senior research scientist at Colorado State and the forecast's lead author.

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Autant vous le dire tout de suite, le Flockotron3000 a beaucoup souffert mardi dernier et je ne sais pas si je dois remercier votre enthousiasme débridé. J’étais parti chez moji pour cramer cette infamie technique et voilà que je constate comme Sam Altman chez lui, que vous avez fait fondre les cartes graphiques sur place ! J’ai essayé d’éteindre l’incendie avec le jerrican d’essence que j’avais dans les mains, sans succès.

Faut dire qu’il était peu rempli, j’avais tenté juste avant de siphonner la voiture électrique du boss et j’ai vu quelques étoiles ! Les pompiers ont été sympas, en plus de me réanimer, ils ont sauvé quelques « dessins » qui bourraient l’imprimante, comme une Chouffe triple fermentation le ferait pour le gosier d’un dev local.

Tous vos prompts sont partis en fumée, sauf une petite dizaine, ce qui est déjà dix fois trop. J’avoue que je ne sais que penser de vos tentatives, qui parfois se sont mélangées : vous êtes capables du meilleur comme du pire !

C’est un scandale, encore merci et bravo, je ne vous félicite pas, bisous et bon weekend !

On a pu le constater lors du lancement des GeForce RTX 5080 customisées : les puissances maximales autorisées par les différentes marques étaient très variées, pour ne pas dire qu'il y avait là un gros bazar. Quelques exemples pour vous aider à comprendre de quoi nous parlons ? Sur la NVIDIA GeForce...

APT 3.0 has been officially released as the first stable version following an interesting development cycle. APT 3.0 has been dedicated to the late Steve Langasek with his many Debian and Ubuntu contributions over the years...

A new study shows bonobos can combine vocal calls in ways that mirror human language, producing phrases with meanings beyond the sum of individual sounds. "Human language is not as unique as we thought," said Dr Melissa Berthet, the first author of the research from the University of Zurich. Another author, Dr Simon Townsend, said: "The cognitive building blocks that facilitate this capacity is at least 7m years old. And I think that is a really cool finding." The Guardian reports: Writing in the journal Science, Berthet and colleagues said that in the human language, words were often combined to produce phrases that either had a meaning that was simply the sum of its parts, or a meaning that was related to, but differed from, those of the constituent words. "'Blond dancer' -- it's a person that is both blond and a dancer, you just have to add the meanings. But a 'bad dancer' is not a person that is bad and a dancer," said Berthet. "So bad is really modifying the meaning of dancer here." It was previously thought animals such as birds and chimpanzees were only able to produce the former type of combination, but scientists have found bonobos can create both. The team recorded 700 vocalizations from 30 adult bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, checking the context of each against a list of 300 possible situations or descriptions. The results reveal bonobos have seven different types of call, used in 19 different combinations. Of these, 15 require further analysis, but four appear to follow the rules of human sentences. Yelps -- thought to mean "'et's do that" -- followed by grunts -- thought to mean "look at what I am doing," were combined to make "yelp-grunt," which appeared to mean "let's do what I'm doing." The combination, the team said, reflected the sum of its parts and was used by bonobos to encourage others to build their night nests. The other three combinations had a meaning apparently related to, but different from, their constituent calls. For example, the team found a peep -- which roughly means "I would like to ..." -- followed by a whistle -- appeared to mean "let's stay together" -- could be combined to create "peep-whistle." This combination was used to smooth over tense social situations, such as during mating or displays of prowess. The team speculated its meaning was akin to "let's find peace." The team said the findings in bonobos, together with the previous work in chimps, had implications for the evolution of language in humans, given all three species showed the ability to combine words or vocalizations to create phrases.

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In addition to all the KDE Plasma activity this week, GNOME developers have also been quiet busy working on a variety of improvements to the open-source desktop on their side of the pond...

LACT 0.7.3 is out this weekend as the newest feature update to this Linux GPU configuration and monitoring tool. LACT helps make up for the lack of any official GUI-based GPU configuration tool on Linux provided by AMD or Intel. It also works on NVIDIA GPUs too for providing a nice unified app for GPU configuration from all three major GPU vendors...

FEX 2504 is out with its newest monthly feature update for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts. This alternative to QEMU and Box64 continues focusing on new performance optimizations to further enhance the appeal and speedy potential of this x86_64-on-ARM64 emulator...

Intel's Open Image Denoise library that is part of their oneAPI Rendering Toolkit as a set of open-source, high performance denoising filters for ray-traced images is out with a new release. Open Image Denoise is used by applications like Blender and with this version 2.3.3 release is expanded GPU support...

Il y a trois jours, le président américain a annoncé de nouveaux droits de douane affectant la quasi-totalité des partenaires commerciaux des USA, déclarant de fait une guerre commerciale à l'ensemble de l'économie mondiale. L'objectif de fond est d'équilibrer la balance commerciale et de booster la...

It's been a busy start to April for KDE Plasma developers as they continue working toward the Plasma 6.4 feature release. There have been yet more crash fixes along with other polishing and stability enhancements to kick off the new month...

Comme nous le disions en milieu de semaine, les prix des cartes graphiques commencent à se tasser et cela se confirme en fin de semaine sur pas mal de modèles, faisons le point. On débute chez les rouges avec la 7600 qui prend 8 euros, la 7600 XT qui baisse de 22 euros et enfin la 7700 XT qui perd 10 euros. Chez AMD c'est tout, les 9070 et 9070 XT ne bouge pas, du moins dans les magasins FR. Chez Intel, zéro changement, comme assez souvent. […]

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Quelle semaine ! Vous avez envie d'assembler un ordinateur avec des composants CORSAIR ? HardwareetCo a fait le plein ! Besoin de mettre moins cher ? GinjFo teste un AIO abordable en 360 mm signé MSI, tandis que nous avons un AIO ASUS en 240 mm. Et plein d'autres choses, la preuve ci-dessous ! […]

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Pour cette semaine, deux vidéos seulement. Et oui, un peu moins de production, mais deux beaux produits tout de même. Pour la première vidéo on parle smartphone avec le tout nouveau HONOR Magic 7 Pro. Pour la seconde vidéo, nous vous proposons un montage d'une RTX 5070 Ti AERO de chez GIGABYTE, dans un bel ensemble blanc.En partenariat avec GVGMALL: Windows 10 Pro (13U+20AC) : https://biitt.ly/c8V0M Windows 11 Pro (19U+20AC) : https://biitt.ly/7ctfn […]

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Le principe reste simple : on est le week-end, on vous montre une configuration, pas forcément un mod, mais plutôt des montages hors normes, farfelus, ou encore ultra sobres. La seule chose que l'on félicite ici, c'est le travail ! On vous laisse critiquer le goût et les couleurs dans les commentaires. Durant cette section, nous allons sûrement déterrer de vieilles configurations et nous n'aurons pas forcément de hardware musclé. Le but réel est de vous montrer qu'on peut tout faire en matière de montage. Alors, n'hésitez pas à nous proposer vos configurations via Lucas en MP, peut-être seront-elles éditées ? Ce Week-end, nous vous proposons de découvrir le Wood Workstation de Mayhem Modz : […]

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SpaceX's Fram2 mission returned safely after becoming the first crewed spaceflight to orbit directly over Earth's poles. From a report: Led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, who is the financier of this mission, the Fram2 crew has been free-flying through orbit since Monday. The group splashed down at 9:19 a.m. PT, or 12:19 p.m. ET, off the coast of California -- the first West Coast landing in SpaceX's five-year history of human spaceflight missions. The company livestreamed the splashdown and recovery of the capsule on its website. During the journey, the Fram2 crew members were slated to carry out various research projects, including capturing images of auroras from space and documenting their experiences with motion sickness. [...] This trip is privately funded, and such missions allow for SpaceX's customers to spend their time in space as they see fit. For Fram2, the crew traveled to orbit prepared to carry out 22 research and science experiments, some of which were designed and overseen by SpaceX. Most of the research involves evaluating crew health.

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