The U.S. is awash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China. From a report: Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations. The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details. The gangs behind the scams take advantage of this information to buy iPhones, gift cards, clothing and cosmetics. Criminal organizations operating out of China, which investigators blame for the toll and postage messages, have used them to make more than $1 billion over the last three years, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Behind the con, investigators say, is a black market connecting foreign criminal networks to server farms that blast scam texts to victims. The scammers use phishing websites to collect credit-card information. They then find gig workers in the U.S. who will max out the stolen cards for a small fee. Making the fraud possible: an ingenious trick allowing criminals to install stolen card numbers in Google and Apple Wallets in Asia, then share the cards with the people in the U.S. making purchases half a world away.

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Speaking of the new MacBook Pro, which Apple launched on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reports that the company is preparing to launch a touch-screen version of its Mac computer, reversing course on a stance that dates back to co-founder Steve Jobs. From the report: The company is readying a revamped MacBook Pro with a touch display for late 2026 or early 2027 [non-paywalled link], according to people with knowledge of the matter. The new machines, code-named K114 and K116, will also have thinner and lighter frames and run the M6 line of chips. In making the move, Apple is following the rest of the computing industry, which embraced touch-screen laptops more than a decade ago. The company has taken years to formulate its approach to the market, aiming to improve on current designs. Bloomberg News first reported in January 2023 that Apple was working on a touch-screen MacBook Pro. The new laptops will feature displays with OLED technology, the same standard used in iPhones and iPad Pros, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the products haven't been announced. It will mark the first time that this higher-end, thinner system is used in a Mac.

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Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen as a "No-Go" was declared at the Fedora Linux 43 release meeting...

The TED conference is changing hands, and education pioneer Sal Khan will be the new "vision steward" for the institution long headed by Chris Anderson. From a report: The move aims to ensure the future of the organization, while keeping it a not-for-profit entity. Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, will be the public face of TED, with Logan McClure Davda taking over as CEO. Davda, who previously served as the organization's head of impact and was the co-founder of its fellows program, will run day-to-day operations. Khan remains CEO of Khan Academy while joining TED's board. Jay Herratti, who has served as CEO since 2021, will remain on TED's board. TED announced in February it was seeking new leadership and structure and put out an open call for proposals. The company held dozens of discussions, including some that would have transformed the organization into a for-profit venture. The organization's flagship conference is also headed for a big change, with 2026 being its last year in Vancouver, with plans to hold future events somewhere in California.

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Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors have a new RDSEED issue...

A Phoronix reader pointed out a bug report from 2015 now getting renewed interest... Linux software RAID via MD RAID, DRBD, LVM RAID, and similar software-based solutions can be broken from user-space around O_DIRECT usage. The issue is that these RAID arrays can be put silently into an inconsistent state across disks...

Oil, gas and coal will continue to dominate the world's energy mix well beyond 2050, as soaring electricity demand outpaces the shift to renewables, according to a new McKinsey report. From a report: McKinsey expects fossil fuels to account for about 41-55% of global energy consumption in 2050, down from today's 64% but higher than previous projections. U.S. data-center-related power demand is expected to grow nearly 25% a year until 2030, while demand from data centers globally would average 17% growth per year between 2022 and 2030, especially in OECD countries. Alternative fuels are not likely to achieve broad adoption before 2040 unless mandated, but renewables do have the potential to provide 61-67% of the 2050 global power mix, McKinsey said.

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Hanneke Faber, CEO of global tech manufacturing company Logitech, says she'd be open to the idea of having an AI-powered board member. From a report: "We already use [AI agents] in almost every meeting," Faber said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. While she said AI agents today (like Microsoft Copilot and internal bots) mostly take care of summarization and idea generation, that's likely to change owing to the pace at which the technology is developing. "As they evolve -- and some of the best agents or assistants that we've built actually do things themselves -- that comes with a whole bunch of governance things," Faber said. "You have to keep in mind and make sure you really want that bot to take action. But if you don't have an AI agent in every meeting, you're missing out on some of the productivity." "That bot, in real time, has access to everything," she continued.

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Début septembre, nous vous relayions un projet de réglementation européenne inquiétant. Surnommé Chat Control, son objectif officiel est de lutter contre la criminalité en ligne et plus particulièrement les abus sur mineurs, en instaurant un traçage des individus ayant un lien potentiel avec ces act...

The IMF has issued a stark warning over soaring global government debt, saying it is on track to exceed 100% of GDP by 2029. Semafor: Such a ratio would be the highest since 1948, when large economies were rebuilding post-war. Today, "there is little political appetite for belt-tightening," The Economist wrote: Rich nations are reluctant to raise taxes on their beleaguered electorates -- but they're facing pressure to spend more on defense, and on social services for aging populations. Higher long-term bond yields, meanwhile, suggest investor wariness over governments' balance sheets. In the short term, the debt concerns manifest in political disruption: France's budget fight recently toppled another government, while the US federal shutdown highlights the tension between new spending demands and deficit reduction.

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Nous sommes le 16 octobre 2025, c'est donc aujourd'hui que sortent officiellement les nouvelles consoles portables issues du partenariat entre ROG et Xbox : les ROG Xbox Ally et ROG Xbox Ally X. À partir d'aujourd'hui à 18h00 pétante, il vous est possible d'acheter la version de base "Ally" à 599 €,...

China now generates well over twice as much electricity as the United States. The country's economy has become substantially larger than America's in real terms, measured at purchasing power parity, economist Paul Krugman wrote this week. The Trump administration has moved aggressively against renewable energy development. It rolled back Biden's tax incentives for renewables through the One Big Beautiful Bill. The administration is attempting to stop a nearly completed offshore wind farm that could power hundreds of thousands of homes. It canceled $7 billion in grants for residential solar panels. A solar energy project that would have powered almost 2 million homes was killed. The administration canceled $8 billion in clean energy grants, mostly in Democratic states, and is reportedly planning to cancel tens of billions more. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said solar power is unreliable because "you have to have power when the sun goes behind a cloud and when the sun sets, which it does almost every night." California has already integrated substantial solar power into its grid through battery storage technology. Republican support for higher education has collapsed over the past decade, according to polling data. The administration has also targeted vaccines and research in multiple areas. Krugman argues that by 2028 America will have fallen so far behind China that it is unlikely to catch up.

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South Korea's government has stripped AI-powered textbooks of their official status after a single semester of use. The textbooks were introduced in March for math, English, and computer science classes as a flagship initiative under former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Students and teachers complained about technical problems, factual inaccuracies, and increased workload. The government spent more than 1.2 trillion won ($850 million) on the program. Publishers invested around 800 billion won ($567 million). The textbooks were reclassified as supplementary material. Adoption rates dropped from 37% in the first semester to 19% in September. Only 2,095 schools now use them, about half the number from earlier in the year.

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La Kobra 3 V2 Combo d’Anycubic reprend les grandes lignes du premier modèle tout en améliorant ses prestations de multiples manières. Cela reste une imprimante 3D à filament classique et c’est l’entrée de gamme de la marque. Pour autant, ce n’est vraiment pas un modèle au rabais.

Pas vraiment prévue dans les calendriers de sorties, la Kobra 3 V2 débarque un peu sans prévenir chez Anycubic. Il faut dire que cette V2 est bien un modèle qui a évolué et pas une véritable nouveauté. Une sorte de correctif de la V1 rendu possible par les évolutions récentes de la marque. On retrouve donc un modèle cartésien classique, ouvert, capable d’imprimer en grand et proposé à un prix très proche de la première en promo.

Parmi les nouveautés, on note un changement de taille d’impression maximale. De 250 x 250 x 260 mm de volume, on passe à 255 x 255 x 260 mm. 5 mm de gagné de chaque côté, c’est peu de chose mais cela permettra sans doute d’imprimer certains groupes d’objets plus confortablement. La machine bascule également sur le nouveau traitement de buse mis en place pour la Kobra S1 sortie après la première Kobra 3 et qui est réputé offrir une meilleure tenue dans la durée.

La V2 embarque par ailleurs une caméra par défaut. Une solution 720P qui apporte à l’imprimante tout le confort d’une vision à distance mais aussi les fonctions de surveillance par IA. Le logiciel Anycubic pouvant détecter un décrochage de votre impression, les erreurs d’impression type « spaghetti » ou autres. Une alerte évite ainsi de gâcher du filament inutilement. Anycubic indique par ailleurs avoir amélioré la précision et la vitesse de l’ensemble et confirme la possibilité de piloter jusqu’à 8 filaments différents. La Kobra 3 V2 peut désormais atteindre les 600 mm/s théoriques. Ce qui permettra des impressions plus rapides à des vitesses plus raisonnables, car si cette fulgurance de laboratoire est rarement exploitable en réalité, mais elle montre des capacités plus élevées en usage normal.

La mise à niveau automatique de la machine est aussi annoncée comme plus efficace et plus rapide. Ce qui évitera les réglages fastidieux avant impression. Le projet des constructeurs d’imprimantes modernes et d’Anycubic ces dernières années étant de ranger au placard les idées qui ont la vie dure sur les difficultés liées à cette pratique de l’impression 3D. Si les premiers modèles sortis étaient clairement très gourmands en réglages et avaient la fâcheuse habitude de consommer beaucoup trop de temps en préparation et en impression, les imprimantes de ces dernières années sont plus automatisées, plus fiables et rapides. Augmentant largement leur efficacité.

L’appellation Kobra 3 V2 Combo vient justement de la présence d’un coffret de stockage de filaments qui va prendre en charge les bobines et les stocker à l’abri de la poussière. Ce dispositif permet de gérer l’hygrométrie des matériaux et ainsi éviter des soucis d’impression. C’est également lui qui va distribuer les différents matériaux. Je ne suis pas spécialement fan de la gestion multicouleurs des impressions, car cela provoque un gâchis énorme de matériau lié à la purge des coloris.

Ici avec deux coffrets en parallèle pour gérer 8 filaments !

Mais avoir « sous la main » différentes couleurs ou différents matériaux sans avoir à changer toute sa bobine, c’est réellement très pratique. Ainsi, je garde toujours un filament de base, peu cher, qui sert pour du prototypage rapide et des filaments plus coûteux qui permettent une impression finale. Bien sûr l’option d’impression mélangeant plusieurs filaments reste possible et la machine est livrée avec de quoi connecter deux boitiers externes pour gérer 8 bobines.

L’imprimante 3D Anycubic Kobra 3 V2 Combo est proposée à 335€ avec 4 Kg de filament offerts grâce au code promo NNNAK3V2 à entrer dans votre panier ! Bien moins que les 499€ d’origine. Elle est stockée en Allemagne et sera livrée en quelques jours gratuitement. Un excellent prix pour un modèle rapide, fiable, efficace et livré avec son coffret de gestion 4 filaments. 

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 j’ai la Kobra 3 V1 combo et la  Anycubic Vyper¹ qui tournent chez moi et aucun problème particulier avec ces deux modèles.

Anycubic Kobra 3 Combo : L’impression multi filament à 299€ !

L’imprimante 3D Anycubic Kobra 3 V2 Combo en promo à 335€ © MiniMachines.net. 2025

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and GNU Binutils mailing list today is an intriguing message from a longtime x86/x86_64 expert around a "a corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" using some x86 opcodes not used by AMD or Intel processors...

Le jeu Amnesia: The Bunker est offert par le store d'Epic Games, l'ajout est possible ici, durant les sept prochains jours. L'aventure se déroule dans un bunker de la première guerre mondiale, avec des événements à vous glacer le sang... […]

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Le second jeu offert par le store d'Epic Games est un certain Samorost 3, l'ajout se passe ici, jusqu'au 23 octobre, 17 heures. LE titre vous promet une aventure dans un univers magnifique, composé de neuf mondes spatiaux. […]

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En ce mois d'octobre 2025, CORSAIR offre à ses clients une nouvelle possibilité en matière de choix d'alimentation PC en élargissant simultanément ses gammes SHIFT et HXi. Voici les HXi SHIFT, déclinées en trois modèles : les HX1000i SHIFT, HX1200i SHIFT et HX1500i SHIFT.La CORSAIR HX1500i SHIFT (20...

The California Broadband & Video Association has objected to legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on October 15 that allows apartment tenants to opt out of mandatory bulk billing for internet service. The cable industry group called the measure "an anti-affordability bill masked as consumer protection." The association said property owners would have to provide refunds to tenants who decline internet service provided through building contracts. The law "undermines the basis of the cost savings and will lead to bulk billing being phased out," the group said. Assembly member Rhodesia Ransom, who authored the bill, said lobby groups for internet providers and real estate companies worked hard to defeat it. The association told the Sacramento Bee it was disappointed Newsom signed the legislation because it would be "an impediment to utilizing an effective tool" that helped middle-class Californians get discounted rates. The law takes effect January 1. Tenants who are denied the right to opt out can deduct subscription costs from their rent.

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En dépit de ses bientôt 16 balais (parution le 17 novembre 2009), Left 4 Dead 2 jouit toujours d’une belle popularité. Au moment où nous écrivons ces lignes, 25 804 joueurs chassent le zombie ; ou se font traquer par lui, comme vous préférez... [Tout lire]