The Free Software Foundation announced a special photography contest honoring its 40th anniversary: The technology we use every day has changed dramatically since our founding nearly forty years ago, including the way we interact with it... We're incredibly grateful for the countless hours that developers and users have put into the free software programs that exist today. Without all the people who cared enough to make and use software that respects the four freedoms four decades or even a year ago, we wouldn't have much to celebrate. We want to honor the hard work that has gone into free software and its development with the FSF40 Photo Contest. Starting on August 14, 2025, we're inviting free software supporters worldwide to share how they use free software on a daily basis. While we can think of hundreds of ways that free software can be used, there's almost certainly many of you who have thought of much more creative ways to involve libre software every day! Shortly after the photo contest closes on August 31, 2025, we will invite you and other free software supporters to vote for your favorite of the #FSF40Photos... We will be displaying the winning photos at our fortieth [anniversary] celebration in Boston, MA on October 4, 2025 — we hope you get to see them on a big screen with us! Earlier this month the FSF also shared 40 links from around the FSF and GNU sites "that give a sense of what we've been doing all this time as we work for your freedom." (For example, 2007's announcement of the GNU General Public License, version 3.)

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"Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro," reports the Register, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that apparently started a week ago. Arch maintainer Cristian Heusel announced Thursday on the project's web site that the attack "primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums." We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards... As a volunteer-driven project, we appreciate the community's patience as our DevOps team works to resolve these issues. A status update Friday acknowledged "we are suffering from partial outages." The Register reports: The attack comes as the project has been enjoying a boost in mainstream success. The distro was picked by Valve to underpin the SteamOS software running on its Steam Deck handheld gaming gadget, with the company providing the project with funding for further development. Late last year, a new version of the archinstall tool was released, with a view to making the system more friendly to newcomers... For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure, with Heusel advising that users should "default to the mirrors listed in the pacman-mirrorlist package" if tools like reflector fail. Installation media can be downloaded from a range of mirrors, too, but should be checked against the project's official signing key before being trusted.

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En 2017, le premier opus Hollow Knight voyait le jour et ce metroidvania est rapidement devenu une référence incontestée dans le milieu des jeux indépendants et même plus largement dans le monde des jeux vidéo tout court. Depuis son lancement, Hollow Knight cumule la bagatelle de 384 757 avis sur St...

The Washington Post looks at the rise of low-effort, high-volume "AI slop" videos: The major social media platforms, scared of driving viewers away, have tried to crack down on slop accounts, using AI tools of their own to detect and flag videos they believe were synthetically made. YouTube last month said it would demonetize creators for "inauthentic" and "mass-produced" content. But the systems are imperfect, and the creators can easily spin up new accounts — or just push their AI tools to pump out videos similar to the banned ones, dodging attempts to snuff them out. One place where they're coming from... Jiaru Tang, a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology who recently interviewed creators in China, said AI video has become one of the hottest new income opportunities there for workers in the internet's underbelly, who previously made money writing fake news articles or running spam accounts. Many university students, stay-at-home moms and the recently unemployed now see AI video as a kind of gig work, like driving an Uber. The average small creator she interviewed did their day jobs and then, at night, "spent two to three hours making AI-slop money," she said. A few she spoke with made $2,000 to $3,000 a month at it. But the article provides other examples of the "wild cottage industry of AI-video makers, enticed by the possibility of infinite creation for minimal work" A 31-year-old loan officer in eastern Idaho first went viral in June "with an AI-generated video on TikTok in which a fake but lifelike old man talked about soiling himself. Within two weeks, he had used AI to pump out 91 more, mostly showing fake street interviews and jokes about fat people to an audience that has surged past 180,000 followers..." (He told the Post the videos earn him about $5,000 a month through TikTok's creator program.) "To stand out, some creators have built AI-generated influencers with lives a viewer can follow along. 'Why does everybody think I'm AI? ... I'm a human being, just like you guys,' says the AI woman in one since-removed TikTok video, which was watched more than 1 million times." One AI-generated video a dog biting a woman's face off (revealing a salad) received a quarter of a billion views.

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British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom "has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. "It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure." But now "a cyber attack has caused widespread multi-day service disruption..." On August 14, 2025, the telecom giant said it had detected a cyber attack that began two days earlier, on August 12. Upon learning of the cyber intrusion, the telecommunications service provider responded by proactively taking some systems offline to contain the cyber attack. Although Colt Telecom's cyber incident response team was working around the clock to mitigate the impacts of the cyber attack, service disruption has persisted for days. However, the service disruption did not affect the company's core network infrastructure, suggesting that Colt customers could still access its network services... The company also did not provide a clear timeline for resolving the service disruption. A week after the apparent ransomware attack, Colt Online and the Voice API platform remained unavailable. And now Colt Technology Services "confirms that customer documentation was stolen," reports the tech news site BleepingComputer: "A criminal group has accessed certain files from our systems that may contain information related to our customers and posted the document titles on the dark web," reads an updated security incident advisory on Colt's site. "We understand that this is concerning for you." "Customers are able to request a list of filenames posted on the dark web from the dedicated call centre." As first spotted by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, Colt added the no-index HTML meta tag to the web page, making it so it won't be indexed by search engines. This statement comes after the Warlock Group began selling on the Ramp cybercrime forum what they claim is 1 million documents stolen from Colt. The documents are being sold for $200,000 and allegedly contain financial information, network architecture data, and customer information... The Warlock Group (aka Storm-2603) is a ransomware gang attributed to Chinese threat actors who utilize the leaked LockBit Windows and Babuk VMware ESXi encryptors in attacks... Last month, Microsoft reported that the threat actors were exploiting a SharePoint vulnerability to breach corporate networks and deploy ransomware. "Colt is not the only telecom firm that has been named by WarLock on its leak website in recent days," SecurityWeek points out. "The cybercriminals claim to have also stolen data from France-based Orange." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K for sharing the news.

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A patch series posted overnight that is part of a larger planned rework for the kernel to introduce a "Swap Table" is poised to bring significant real-world performance gains to the Linux kernel...

Alors que la Gamescom 2025 bat son plein, l’actualité hardware reprend (enfin !) quelques couleurs après le passage à vide classique qui suit le Computex. Sauf que vos aimables rédacteurs ne sont (malheureusement) pas dotés du don d’ubiquité, si bien que la lecture francophone demeure limitée en ce...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: There's an overwhelming sense of deja vu at multiplexes these days. In August alone, "Black Swan" (2010) is returning to theaters, along with the Tim Burton "Batman" movies from 1989 and 1992. Audiences will be able to revisit the oceanic terror of "Jaws" (1975), as well as the comic mystery (and multiple endings) of "Clue" (1985). Or they could groove to Prince's "Sign o' the Times" concert film from 1987. And it doesn't look like the rerelease trend is slowing down. In September, "The Breakfast Club" (1985) is returning, Pixar is bringing back "Toy Story" (1995), and "Apollo 13" (1995) is blasting off again. "Casper" (1995) will haunt screens for nearly the entire month of October, while "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) will run for about five days, teeing up the forthcoming "Avatar: Fire and Ash." And there are still more to come before the end of the year. Rereleases have long been part of the theatrical ecosystem. After all, "Star Wars" movies have been heading back to multiplexes routinely since 1981 -- before "Return of the Jedi" even debuted. But recently, studios have been digging deeper into their archives for a variety of reasons -- only some of which have to do with nostalgia. "Black Swan," from Searchlight, which is now owned by Disney, took over around 200 IMAX screens to commemorate its 15th anniversary. Universal's specialty arm, Focus Features, rereleased both "Pride & Prejudice" (2005) and "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) earlier this year. "Pride & Prejudice" ultimately grossed more than $6 million domestically this time around, about 16 percent of its original U.S. box office haul. In total, Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate -- not including a partnership with another distribution company -- compared with just four in 2024 and two in 2023. "We very much pay a lot of attention to our repertory business," the studio's president of domestic theatrical distribution, Jim Orr, said by phone, explaining, "We just think it's not only great fun for audiences, but a great business to be in as well." Orr explained that the size of Universal's rerelease slate this year was "more coincidental" than anything else, with all the films hitting anniversaries in 2025. Still, there is a strong business motivation: The rereleases help studios and exhibitors pad out relatively thin slates. "The truth of the matter is studios don't have enough product right now to give theaters, so that's why you're seeing an influx of these nostalgia plays," said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst at Exhibitor Relations. He added, "It doesn't cost a lot for them to do an anniversary edition or a 4K edition." There are several other reasons why Hollywood is rereleasing old movies, according to Orr. Rereleases are far cheaper to put out than launching a brand-new title. Studios also target films that already have strong, enduring audiences, "whether that's 'Pride & Prejudice,' with its meme-able depiction of yearning, or 'Casper,'" which he said had elicited 'decent' interest every year. Then there's what Orr calls "opportunistic dating." "There might be a window where something goes thematically or holiday-wise, whatever kind of fits in, or there might be some more screens available in specific formats," he said. Specialty format releases like IMAX, Dolby, or 3D also help bring moviegoers to the theaters.

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For those that happen to have an HP Victus 16-r1000 gaming laptop or considering one with the 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics, the Linux support is now slightly better off thanks to the HP-WMI driver adding fan and thermal profile support for the Victus 16-r1000 series...

Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by default for a better video playback experience on the Linux desktop with Wayland-based environments...

Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-clocking within the open-source Nouveau driver...

Au mois de mai, Intel officialisait ses cartes graphiques Intel Arc Pro B50 et B60 pour le monde professionnel. Lors de cette présentation, une carte avait particulièrement retenu l'attention : la Maxsun Intel ARC Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo, que nous vous présentions d'ailleurs plus en détails dans une...

Manque d’imagination ? Déficit d’ingénieurs ? Peur de ne pas parvenir à en vendre suffisamment pour rentabiliser de la R&D ? Je n’en ai aucune idée mais le Corsair AI Workstation 300 est le énième clone de la même solution.

À bien regarder la connectique et le format du Corsair AI Workstation 300, on retrouve exactement la même disposition de port et de ventilation que les autres MiniPC sous Strix Halo présentés depuis le début de l’année. Le dernier en date était le Colorful SMART 900 en juin dernier, mais avant lui, il y avait eu le FEVM FA-EX9, le AOKZOE et le PELADN Y01. 

Je n’ai aucune idée du pourquoi ou du comment, peut-être que cette carte mère, ce dispositif tout entier est simplement le reflet d’une solution proposée en amont par AMD lui-même. Une sorte de carte de travail pensée pour le Ryzen AI Max+ 395 et qui s’avère très performante. Les constructeurs n’ayant alors plus qu’à recopier ce design en usine pour obtenir une solution prête à l’emploi et efficace.

Toujours est-il que ce nouveau venu n’est qu’un emballage de la même solution et que Corsair n’apporte ici rien de vraiment neuf à cette gamme de puces Strix Halo. On retrouve un châssis en métal sur ce boitier de 9.65 cm de large pour 18.84 cm de profondeur et 24.75 cm On retrouve ici exactement la connectique des machines précédentes présentée dans un décor différent.

On retrouve donc, ici, de gauche à droite un bouton de démarrage, un second bouton programmable, apparemment pour les ventilateurs internes, un lecteur de cartes SDXC, un port USB4, deux USB 3.2 Type-A et un jack audio combo 3.5 mm. Pas difficile, je n’ai eu qu’à copier-coller la connectique des modèles précédents.

A l’arrière, même topo. Si on compare cette image à l’arrière du Colorful, on se rend bien compte qu’il s’agit de la même machine. Cela me donne envie de jouer à un jeu des « une » différence avec le modèle Colorful ci-dessous :

Avez-vous trouvé ce qui différencie les deux engins mis à part le boitier ? C’est simple, Corsair a « bouché » l’entrée d’alimentation au format JACK encore présente sur le prototype du Colorful SMART 900… C’est la seule chose qui change d’une machine à l’autre. Pour le reste, c’est encore un calque parfait. Mêmes connecteurs, mêmes ailettes, même forme d’ouïes de ventilations…  Alimentation intégrée et petit ventilateur associé. Même la forme et le placement des vis est identique…

On retrouve donc un Jack audio, un Ethernet, un USB 3.x Type-A, un USB 3.2 Type-C, un DisplayPort, un port vidéo qui semble être un HDMI et deux USB 2.0 Type-A.

Trois modèles de cette Corsair AI Workstation 300 seront proposés. Le haut de gamme est prévu en version Ryzen AI Max+ 395 avec 128 Go de LPDDR5X et 4 To de stockage NVMe. Une version qui vise précisément les amateurs d’IA. La puce Strix Halo d’AMD est parfaite pour embarquer ce type de calcul avec la possibilité de satisfaire leur gourmandise en RAM en exploitant les 40 Compute Units RDNA 3.5 de son circuit Radeon 8060S. Prix de cette bébête, 2299.99$, Hors Taxes. Un prix élevé pour un particulier, une blague pour un pro qui veut embarquer un LLM en interne.

Les modèles suivants sont un peu moins musclés avec une version sous Ryzen AI Max 395 (sans le + !), toujours 128 Go de mémoire et 1 To de stockage de base. Joujou tout de même à 1999.99$ HT. Enfin, un troisième larron est annoncé sous Ryzen AI Max 385 avec 64 Go de mémoire, toujours soudée, toujours LPDDR5X,  et un SSD de 1 To. 1599.99$ HT pour ce dernier modèle.

Mon intuition me dit que l’objectif de Corsair est de vendre une assurance. Ses modèles sont plus chers que ceux des concurrents mais la marque jouit d’une bien meilleure réputation que Colorful, PELADN ou AOKZOE aux USA. Un acheteur d’entreprise ne passera pas commande d’un PC en import à 2300$ mais n’aura pas de souci à acheter exactement la même machine emballée dans un boitier de la marque Corsair. Il y a donc là un coup à jouer intéressant pour le constructeur qui pourrait en profiter à plein, même si son travail se borne à emballer à nouveau une carte mère qui n’est pas de son cru. Si on compare l’offre de Corsair à celle d’HP par exemple, il n’y a pas photo. Les engins d’HP sont séduisants mais leur modèle Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 en 128 Go / 4 To est listé à 6700$…

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KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his customary weekend blog post to summarize all the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the week. Most exciting in recent days is Plasma 6.5 receiving an initial system setup wizard...

Après la Gamescom on reprend nous habitudes et il est donc temps de parler des prix des cartes graphiques. On commence chez les rouges, avec la 7900 XT qui recule de 30 euros cette semaine. Ensuite, nous avons une baisse a significative sur la RX 9070, qui perd 37 euros, ce qui est très bien, car nous sommes ainsi bien en dessous du MSRP. Enfin, la RX 9070 XT repasse à 689 euros, elle perd donc 10 euros cette semaine. Chez les bleus d'Intel pas de changement cette semaine. […]

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Cette semaine, c'était un peu la reprise suite aux vacances d'été. Nous avons tout d'abord présenté les ventilateurs ARCTIC P14 Pro, puis le boitier SHARKOON VK4 ARGB. Mais surtout cette semaine nous étions à la GAMESCOM 2025 ou nous avons tourné 11 vidéos. On commence avec les produits : […]

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La Gamescom a donné l'occasion à des tas de personnes de tester en réel des jeux, même si incomplets et en développement. Dans le lot, deux jeux ont retenu notre attention, pour leur faculté à nous émerveiller, nous attendrir, faire de chacun un gros nounours rempli d'amour et d'empathie, à moins qu...

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: LibreOffice 25.8 has landed, and while it packs in new features and speed improvements, the biggest headline is who just got left behind. If you are still running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1, this is the end of the road. LibreOffice will not run on those systems anymore, and there are no workarounds. The suite has slammed the door shut. For years, LibreOffice kept older Windows users afloat while Microsoft and other developers moved on. That lifeline is gone. Anyone stubbornly clinging to Windows 7 or 8 now has two choices: upgrade or stay stuck on outdated software. LibreOffice has made it clear that it will not carry dead platforms any further. And the cuts do not stop there. 32-bit Windows builds are on their way out, with deprecation already in place. On the Mac side, 25.8 is the last release that runs on macOS 10.15. Starting with LibreOffice 26.2, only macOS 11 and newer will be supported. In other words, if your computer is too old to run modern systems, LibreOffice is walking away.

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Alors que les vacances se terminent, pas, un salon arrive. Du coup, on reste une nouvelle fois sur une semaine peu chargée en articles. Qu'on se rassure, il y a quand même de la lecture ici et chez nos confrères, avec des produits très variés. Et ça, c'est bien pour découvrir de tout. […]

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Petit retour chez LYNK+ qui présentait plus ou moins les mêmes produits que lors du dernier COMPUTEX, mais les choses avancent bien dans les coulisses. Rappelons le principe : des composants watercooling préremplis avec un système de quick-connect simple et efficace, mais surtout un PCB présent dans chaque élément de la boucle afin de récupérer des informations et de modifier simplement et automatiquement la vitesse de la pompe et des ventilateurs. Initialement, la marque cherchait des partenaires pour travailler en OEM / ODM, et nous aurons finalement le droit à des produits LYNK+ directement, dont un gros waterblock avec un écran et un radiateur de 360 mm. En revanche, il y a bien du partenariat pour les cartes graphiques, avec Palit qui serait dans la course. […]

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