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Lyft Plans Fleet of Hundreds of Tensor Robocars From 2027

Lyft is teaming up with Tensor Auto to launch hundreds of AI-powered "Robocars" across Europe and North America starting in 2027. Bloomberg reports: Tensor Robocars, the first deliveries of which are planned in late 2026, have more than 100 sensors including cameras, lidars and radars, and processes sensor data with artificial intelligence technology powered by Nvidia Corp. chips on board. The vehicles will come from the manufacturer with Lyft's platform installed, which will allow owners to make money on the rideshare network in markets where level 4 autonomous technology is available, according to the joint statement. Lyft has reserved hundreds of Robocars via its affiliates for its own fleet operations, subject to regulatory approvals.

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SonicWall Breach Exposes All Cloud Backup Customers' Firewall Configs

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CSO Online: On Sept. 17, security vendor SonicWall announced that cybercriminals had stolen backup files configured for cloud backup. At the time, the company claimed the incident was limited to "less than five percent" of its customers. Now, the firewall provider has admitted that "all customers" using the MySonicWall cloud backup feature were affected. According to the company, the stolen files contain encrypted credentials and configuration data. "[W]hile encryption remains in place, possession of these files could increase the risk of targeted attacks," SonicWall warns in its press release. Security specialist Arctic Wolf also warns of the consequences of the incident. "Firewall configuration files store sensitive information that can be leveraged by threat actors to exploit and gain access to an organization's network," explains Stefan Hostetler, threat intelligence researcher at Arctic Wolf. "These files can provide threat actors with critical information such as user, group, and domain settings, DNS and log settings, and certificates," he adds. Arctic Wolf has previously observed threat actors, including nation-state and ransomware groups, exfiltrating firewall configuration files to use for future attacks. SonicWall urges all customers and partners to regularly check their devices for updates. Admins can find additional information here.

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The People Rescuing Forgotten Knowledge Trapped On Old Floppy Disks

smooth wombat writes: At one point in technology history, floppy disks reigned supreme. Files, pictures, games, everything was put on a floppy disk. But technology doesn't stand still and as time went on disks were replaced by CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, and now cloud storage. Despite these changes, floppy disks are still found in long forgotten corners of businesses or stuffed in boxs in the attic. What is on these disks is anyone's guess, but Cambridge University Library is racing against time to preserve the data. However, lack of hardware and software to read the disks, if they're readable at all, poses unique challenges. Some of the world's most treasured documents can be found deep in the archives of Cambridge University Library. There are letters from Sir Isaac Newton, notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin, rare Islamic texts and the Nash Papyrus -- fragments of a sheet from 200BC containing the Ten Commandments written in Hebrew. These rare, and often unique, manuscripts are safely stored in climate-controlled environments while staff tenderly care for them to prevent the delicate pages from crumbling and ink from flaking away. But when the library received 113 boxes of papers and mementoes from the office of physicist Stephen Hawking, it found itself with an unusual challenge. Tucked alongside the letters, photographs and thousands of pages relating to Hawking's work on theoretical physics, were items now not commonly seen in modern offices -- floppy disks. They were the result of Hawking's early adoption of the personal computer, which he was able to use despite having a form of motor neurone disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, thanks to modifications and software. Locked inside these disks could be all kinds of forgotten information or previously unknown insights into the scientists' life. The archivists' minds boggled. These disks are now part of a project at Cambridge University Library to rescue hidden knowledge trapped on floppy disks. The Future Nostalgia project reflects a larger trend in the information flooding into archives and libraries around the world.

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Australia's Queensland Reverses Policy, Pledges To Keep Using Coal Power At Least Into the 2040s

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve. From a report: The centre-right Liberal National Party won last year's election in Queensland, a huge chunk of land in Australia's northeast where more than 60% of electricity comes from coal-fired plants that are mostly owned by the state.

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How Plastic Goods Took Over the World, Creating a Throwaway Culture

A new book, by Wall Street Journal reporter Saabira Chaudhuri, traces how disposability became a deliberate business strategy rather than an accidental consequence of modern commerce. The book, titled "Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic," emerged from her reporting on how plastic bottles transformed bottled water from an occasional restaurant treat into an everyday staple. Excerpts from a Bloomberg story: After World War II, the plastics industry made a conscious pivot. Lloyd Stouffer, an industry figure, openly said plastics should move from durable goods to disposables because companies make more money selling something a thousand times than once. The industry sold consumers on hygiene, convenience, modernity and easier household management. McDonald's dropped polystyrene clamshells in the late 1980s under activist pressure but simply swapped one single-use product for another. Paper containers still cannot be recycled well once food soaks in. The old diaper-service model disappeared. Companies collected, washed and returned cloth diapers like the milkman, but plastics helped kill that business model. Chaudhuri argues companies built their businesses on disposability and will not change unless regulation forces everyone to move together. Executives admit that if they launch a reusable product but competitors do not, they lose market share and face shareholder backlash. Packaging standardization would improve recycling economics. Colored plastics like red shampoo bottles cannot be recycled in a closed loop and are down-cycled into gray products like pipes.

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Chrome Will Automatically Disable Web Notifications You Don't Care About

Google is introducing a new Chrome browser feature for Android and desktop users that automatically turns off notifications for websites that you're already ignoring. From a report: Chrome's Safety Check feature already provides similar functionality for camera access and location tracking permissions. This new auto-revocation feature builds on a similar Android feature that already makes it easier for Chrome users to unsubscribe from website notifications they don't care about with a single tap. The feature doesn't revoke notifications for any web apps installed on the device, and permissions will only be disabled for sites that send a lot of notifications that users rarely engage with. Less than one percent of all web notifications in Chrome currently receive any interaction from users, according to Google, often making them more distracting than helpful.

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Linux Now Disabling TPM Bus Encryption By Default For Performance Reasons

Introduced last year in Linux 6.10 was TPM bus encryption and integration protection for Trusted Platform Module 2 (TPM2) handling. The intent was on better TPM security after a prior security demonstration showed TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker as well as TPM sniffing attacks. Shortly after being merged it was limited to just an x86_64 default where it had been tested the most at the time. Now more than one year later, this feature is being disabled by default in the mainline Linux kernel...
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Climate Goals Go Up in Smoke as US Datacenters Turn To Coal

US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand. From a report: According to a research note from financial services firm Jefferies, datacenter operators are racing to connect new capacity to the electrical grid, with accelerated load growth expected during the 2026-2028 period. This spike in demand is driving an unexpected resurgence in coal generation, which has increased nearly 20 percent year-to-date. The research note, seen by The Register, states: "We raise our estimate for coal generation by ~11 percent (driven by higher capacity factors), and staying elevated through 2027 on favorable fuel pricing vs gas (particularly for existing fleet)." Warnings emerged last year that rising energy demand from the proliferation of data centers in the US risked outstripping available generation capacity, potentially extending the operational life of coal-fired power plants. Further reading: India Needs Coal For the Next Decade and Nobody Wants To Say It.

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Apple Doubles Its Biggest Bug Bounty Reward To $2 Million

Apple is updating its Security Bounty program this November to offer some of the highest rewards in the industry. From a report: It has doubled its top award from $1 million to $2 million for the discovery of "exploit chains that can achieve similar goals as sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks" and which requires no user interaction. But the maximum possible payout can exceed $5 million dollars for the discovery of more critical vulnerabilities, such as bugs in beta software and Lockdown Mode bypasses. Lockdown Mode is an upgraded security architecture in the Safari browser. In addition, the company is rewarding the discovery of exploit chains with one-click user interaction with up to $1 million instead of just $250,000. The reward for attacks requiring physical proximity to devices can now also go up to $1 million, up from $250,000, while the maximum reward for attacks requiring physical access to locked devices has been doubled to $500,000. Finally, researchers "who demonstrate chaining WebContent code execution with a sandbox escape can receive up to $300,000."

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NSO To Be Acquired By US Investors, Ending Israeli Control of Pegasus Maker

An anonymous reader shares a report: Control of NSO Group is set to leave Israeli hands. A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire the controversial spyware developer in a deal valued at several tens of millions of dollars. The transaction is expected to be signed in the coming days, though its completion will require approval from Israel's Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) at the Ministry of Defense. Since March 2023, NSO's shares have been held by a Luxembourg-based holding company wholly owned by founder Omri Lavie. The company's lender syndicate, which had extended roughly $500 million in loans to finance a share buyback from the private equity fund Francisco Partners, transferred ownership to Lavie following the restructuring.

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Battlefield 6 est là. Possesseurs d'AMD Radeon, n'oubliez pas de mettre vos pilotes à jour !

Si NVIDIA a sorti dès le 1er octobre 2025 ses pilotes graphiques pour Battlefield 6, du côté d'AMD l'attente aura été longue ! C'est seulement 30 minutes avant la disponibilité du jeu, lancé pour rappel à 17h00 en France, que la firme mettait en ligne une page avec des pilotes graphiques en version...

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Poland Says Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure Rising, Blames Russia

An anonymous reader shares a report: Poland's critical infrastructure has been subject to a growing number of cyberattacks by Russia, whose military intelligence, has trebled its resources for such action against Poland this year, the country's digital affairs minister told Reuters. Of the 170,000 cyber incidents that have been identified in the first three quarters of this year, a significant portion has been attributed to Russian actors, while other cases are financially motivated, involving theft or other forms of cybercrime, Krzysztof Gawkowski said. He said Poland is a subject to between 2,000 and 4,000 incidents a day and that 700 to 1,000 are "taken up by us, meaning they posed a real threat or had the potential to cause serious problems," he said. Foreign adversaries are now expanding their focus beyond water and sewage systems to the energy sector, he said.

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Un autre Performance Test pour Battlefield 6, complétant le nôtre pour dégager des tendances !

Battlefield 6 fait son grand plouf aujourd'hui, cependant nous avons pu y mettre la main dessus avant pour vous proposer en temps et en heure un Performance Test. Cette idée a également traversé la tête de VCG qui a également pu réaliser le sien en vidéo. Après avoir testé plusieurs cartes graphique...

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AI Push Drives Record Job Cuts at Top India Private Employer TCS

Tata Consultancy Services made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift toward AI reshape the country's $280 billion IT services sector. From a report: India's biggest private-sector employer cut 19,755 employees in the quarter ended Sept. 30, according to the company's quarterly earnings presentation. That number includes staff fired by the company and people who left voluntarily. The number of employees at Asia's biggest IT outsourcer fell 3.2% from the previous quarter, dipping below 600,000 for the first time since since the year ended March 2022. The company made a provision of 11.35 billion rupees ($128 million) in the quarter for severance related costs.

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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse To Use AI to 'Go 5x Faster'

A Meta executive in charge of building the company's metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to "go 5X faster," according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media. From the report: "Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%," the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, said (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should be using AI to work five times more efficiently than they are currently working -- not just using it to go 5 percent more efficiently. "Our goal is simple yet audacious: make Al a habit, not a novelty. This means prioritizing training and adoption for everyone, so that using Al becomes second nature -- just like any other tool we rely on," the message read. "It also means integrating Al into every major codebase and workflow." Shah added that this doesn't just apply to engineers. I want to see PMs, designers, and [cross functional] partners rolling up their sleeves and building prototypes, fixing bugs, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible," he wrote. "I want to see us go 5X faster by eliminating the frictions that slow us down. And 5X faster to get to how our products feel much more quickly. Imagine a world where anyone can rapidly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours -- not weeks. That's the future we're building."

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☕️ Modélisation, animation : Blender 5.0 a sa bêta

Elle arrive avec une semaine de retard, mais la bêta de Blender 5.0 est disponible au téléchargement. Comme le laisse supposer le numéro de version, il s’agit d’une mouture majeure, avec d’importantes nouveautés.

Parmi les principaux apports, il faut déjà signaler l’arrivée d’ACES 1.3 et 2.0. ACES, pour Academy Color Encoding System, est un workflow conçu pour préserver la fidélité des couleurs à travers l’ensemble de la chaine de production.

Crédits : Blender

Signalons également des améliorations pour Cycles, qui gagne par exemple une capacité Thin Film sur surface métallique et un nouvel algorithme Volumetrics. On peut citer également la gestion du multi-bounce dans SSS Random Walk, permettant de supprimer les lignes noires qui apparaissent entre les objets qui se croisent. Les nœuds géométriques et de shaders ont reçu des Bundles et Closures. D’autres nouveautés ont trait à l’interface, comme la disponibilité des assets dans le Compositor. La liste des changements est particulièrement longue.

Cette bête est « feature complete », ce qui signifie que toutes les fonctions prévues pour la version finale sont en place. L’équipe de développement se concentre désormais sur la correction des bugs et d’éventuelles optimisations. Blender 5.0 est attendu pour la mi-novembre. La branche de développement active, quant à elle, est passée sur la version 5.1.

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La PNIJ a intercepté 31 millions d’appels, 500 000 MMS et 500 To de datas en 2024

Tenir en Thales
La PNIJ a intercepté 31 millions d’appels, 500 000 MMS et 500 To de datas en 2024

Longtemps brocardée pour ses retards, surcoûts et pannes à répétition, la plateforme nationale des interceptions judiciaires donnerait presque satisfaction à ses 70 000 utilisateurs. Ils pointent cependant ses problèmes d’ergonomie, de fluidité et de fonctionnalités. Initialement externalisée auprès de Thales, des travaux seraient prévus afin d’en internaliser l’hébergement, sans plus de précisions.

Dans un rapport intitulé « Maîtriser les frais de justice pour mieux rendre la justice », la commission des finances du Sénat constate que « leur coût a été de 716 millions d’euros 2024, en hausse de 51,2 pour cent par rapport à 2013 », alors que l’inflation n’a été que de 19,1 % dans le même temps.

Dans un premier article, nous sommes revenus sur les différents types de « frais d’enquête », les raisons de cette inflation budgétaire, pourquoi certains experts devaient attendre « plusieurs mois, voire plusieurs années », avant de recouvrir les « milliers, voire plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’euros » que l’État leur doit, le coût des expertises informatiques et le fait que le droit français et européen interdit le remplacement des traducteurs et interprètes humains par des IA.

Ce second article revient plus particulièrement sur les frais de justice en matière d’interceptions judiciaires, ainsi que sur les économies et problèmes associés à la plateforme nationale des interceptions judiciaires (PNIJ).

Comme indiqué dans le premier article, ces derniers représentent 11,3 % de la totalité des frais de justice. Ils n’ont pourtant augmenté que de 1,4 % depuis 2019, contrairement à de nombreux autres postes budgétaires qui, à l’instar des expertises médicales, ont explosé de +- 50 %.

En 2024, le coût des interceptions judiciaires a été de 81,3 millions d’euros, contre 93 millions en 2017, soit une baisse moyenne de 2 % par an. Ces 81 millions représentent toutefois une somme « très supérieure à celle prévue en début d’exercice », qui était de 61,1 millions d’euros, soit + 32,6 %, relève le rapporteur.

Cet écart, précise-t-il, peut s’expliquer par le « caractère relativement imprévisible » des dépenses en interception judiciaire, qui dépend du nombre et de la nature des enquêtes conduites en cours d’année.

La justice étant « passée d’une culture de la preuve par l’aveu à une culture de la preuve matérielle ou scientifique », le nombre des actes prescrits au cours d’une enquête par les juges ou les officiers de police judiciaire a logiquement augmenté, « en particulier s’agissant d’actes coûteux » :

« Il a ainsi été indiqué au rapporteur spécial que le juge, aujourd’hui, s’attend, dans de nombreuses affaires, à trouver dans son dossier des preuves tirées d’interceptions judiciaires ou de l’exploitation du téléphone portable de la victime. »

En l’espèce, l’enquête initiée pour retrouver Mohamed Amra (le narcotrafiquant dont l’évasion, suite à l’attaque d’un fourgon pénitentiaire au péage d’Incarville, avait valu à deux surveillants d’être exécutés), avait reposé sur une utilisation « très importante » des données issues des interceptions judiciaires.

Et ce, d’autant qu’aux traditionnelles écoutes téléphoniques, s’ajoutent « de plus en plus » le recueil des données de connexion et de géolocalisation des criminels, « car les communications vocales sont souvent cryptées (sic) de nos jours », précise le rapporteur.

Un grand sentiment d’insécurité juridique chez les procureurs et enquêteurs

L’évolution des dépenses peut aussi s’expliquer par des circonstances conjoncturelles, relève le rapporteur pour qui le « creux » constaté en 2022 « semble lié aux incertitudes rencontrées cette année-là sur le régime d’accès aux données de connexion, qui pourrait représenter un risque dans les années à venir pour la conduite des enquêtes ».


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☕️ Modélisation, animation : Blender 5.0 a sa bêta

Elle arrive avec une semaine de retard, mais la bêta de Blender 5.0 est disponible au téléchargement. Comme le laisse supposer le numéro de version, il s’agit d’une mouture majeure, avec d’importantes nouveautés.

Parmi les principaux apports, il faut déjà signaler l’arrivée d’ACES 1.3 et 2.0. ACES, pour Academy Color Encoding System, est un workflow conçu pour préserver la fidélité des couleurs à travers l’ensemble de la chaine de production.

Crédits : Blender

Signalons également des améliorations pour Cycles, qui gagne par exemple une capacité Thin Film sur surface métallique et un nouvel algorithme Volumetrics. On peut citer également la gestion du multi-bounce dans SSS Random Walk, permettant de supprimer les lignes noires qui apparaissent entre les objets qui se croisent. Les nœuds géométriques et de shaders ont reçu des Bundles et Closures. D’autres nouveautés ont trait à l’interface, comme la disponibilité des assets dans le Compositor. La liste des changements est particulièrement longue.

Cette bête est « feature complete », ce qui signifie que toutes les fonctions prévues pour la version finale sont en place. L’équipe de développement se concentre désormais sur la correction des bugs et d’éventuelles optimisations. Blender 5.0 est attendu pour la mi-novembre. La branche de développement active, quant à elle, est passée sur la version 5.1.

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Une GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16Go de seulement 2cm d'épaisseur ? C'est possible, GALAX l'a fait

On voit régulièrement les fabricants de cartes graphique jouer au jeu de "celui qui a la plus courte" en sortant des cartes à un seul ventilateur axial, mais moins souvent à "celui qui a la plus fine".  Il nous a ainsi semblé intéressant de vous présenter la GALAX GeForce RTX 5060 Ti MAX, ne serait-...

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