Grammarly is rebranding itself as "Superhuman" following its acquisition of the email client, while keeping its existing product names for now. Along with the rebrand, the company is launching "Superhuman Go," an AI assistant that integrates with tools like Gmail, Jira, and Google Drive to enhance writing and automate productivity tasks. "The assistant can use these connections to do tasks like logging tickets or fetching your availability when you're scheduling a meeting," adds TechCrunch. "Superhuman said it plans to add functionality to enable the assistant to fetch data from sources like CRMs and internal systems to suggest changes to your emails." "Users can try Superhuman Go by turning on a toggle in the Grammarly extension, which will let them connect it to different apps. Users can also try out different agents in the company's agent store, which include a plagiarism checker and a proofreader, launched in August."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Character.AI said on Wednesday that it would bar people under 18 from using its chatbots starting late next month, in a sweeping move to address concerns over child safety. The rule will take effect Nov. 25, the company said. To enforce it, Character.AI said, over the next month the company will identify which users are minors and put time limits on their use of the app. Once the measure begins, those users will not be able to converse with the company's chatbots. "We're making a very bold step to say for teen users, chatbots are not the way for entertainment, but there are much better ways to serve them," said Karandeep Anand, Character.AI's chief executive. He said the company also plans to establish an AI safety lab. Last October, a Florida teenager took his own life after interacting for months with Character.AI chatbots imitating fictitious characters from the Game of Thrones. His mother filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging the platform's "dangerous and untested" technology led to his death.

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Following last week's initial batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes intended for Linux 6.19, another round of new AMDGPU / Radeon / AMDKFD material was sent out today to DRM-Next. Notable with this pull is the Display Core "DC" work for analog video connectors as the initiative from one of Valve's contractors for improving the Radeon GCN 1.0 era GPU support with the AMDGPU driver...

An anonymous reader shares a report: The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind and revise certain rules attached to consumer broadband labels. The measure passed on a two-to-one vote, with Commissioner Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat on the FCC, voting no and calling the notice "one of the most anti-consumer items I have seen." The vote was held at the Commission's open meeting for the month of October. As per a draft notice circulated earlier this month, the FCC is looking to roll back several rules, including requirements that service providers read the label to consumers via phone, itemize state and local pass-through fees, and display labels in consumer account portals, among others. Advocates at Public Knowledge urged the Commission to reconsider, saying in a recent filing that "the Commission could create a permission structure for ISPs to continue to act without accountability." In her remarks during Tuesday's open meeting, Commissioner Gomez appeared to concur, depicting the move as "anti-consumer" and counter to the goals of Congress. The FCC was mandated via the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to create rules for implementing consumer broadband labels. After a lengthy rulemaking process and discussions with industry and consumer groups, ISPs were required to start displaying labels in 2024. "I typically vote in favor of notices of proposed rulemaking because I believe in asking balanced questions, even on proposals that I dislike, so that we can encourage fruitful and helpful public comment. Answers to tough questions help us strike the right balance so that our rules can both encourage competition and serve consumers. However, the questions posed in this NPRM are so anti-consumer that I could not bring myself to even agree to them," said Gomez. Gomez stressed that the notice will harm consumers by enabling ISPs to hide add-on fees and stripping people of their ability to access information in their own language. Moreover, added Gomez, it's unclear why the FCC is doing this. "What adds insult to injury is that the FCC does not even explain why this proposal is necessary. Make it make sense," she added.

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Microsoft shipped its first Xbox handheld nearly two weeks ago. The $600 white Xbox Ally cannot reliably sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. Asus said it needs more time to test. Installing Bazzite, a Linux-based operating system, solves the problems, the publication reports. The same hardware runs games up to 30% faster than Windows and beats the Steam Deck in all but one benchmark. Steam runs more responsively without Windows bloat. The device can be used like a Nintendo Switch, pausing games with the power button and resuming hours or days later. Bazzite initially had sleep issues but fixed them two days after programmer Antheas Kapenekakis obtained the hardware and consulted with two AMD contacts. The black Xbox Ally X, which doesn't have as many sleep issues, gets a similar speed boost with Bazzite. Two Xbox Ally units tested on Windows repeatedly woke themselves at random intervals. One lost 10% battery after 12 hours of supposed sleep, the other 23%. After another 12 hours, both had only 30% battery remaining. One tried to apply a Windows Update while asleep. Both units refused to wake from sleep at times and required hard resets. Many users have reported similar issues on Reddit with both Xbox Ally versions. Further reading: Microsoft's Next Xbox Will Run Full Windows and Eliminate Multiplayer Paywall, Report Says.

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Même si la marque de cartes graphiques Yeston n'est pas trouvable directement en France, vous êtes sans doute nombreux à nous lire qui connaissez tout de même la Yeston Radeon RX 9070 XT Sakura Atlantis. Un design si particulier "Waifu", une publicité qui passerait sans doute très mal en France, mai...

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said that maintaining the US edge in AI will require a steady approach that ensures China remains hooked on American technology. From a report: The chipmaker is in an "awkward place" as President Donald Trump prepares to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this week, Huang told reporters Tuesday at a company conference in Washington. The Nvidia chief praised Trump's commitment to winning but urged careful engagement with China because of the country's massive software developer base and its growing technology capabilities. During the meeting, Trump and Xi are expected to finalize an agreement to ease trade tensions between the world's two largest economies. When it comes to those negotiations, Huang said he has "no idea" if GPUs -- the chips central to artificial intelligence capabilities -- will be a topic between Trump and Xi. Huang was careful to leave the negotiating to Trump but encouraged US leadership to think longer term on its overall AI strategy. "A policy that causes America to lose half of the world's developers is not beneficial long-term," Huang said, warning that it was still possible for the US to cede the AI race to China. Keeping US technology in front requires finesse," he said. "It requires balance. It requires long-term thinking."

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An anonymous reader shares a report: The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on links, Chrome will enable a setting called Always Use Secure Connections for public sites for all users by default. This will happen in October 2026 with the release of Chrome 154. The change will happen earlier for those who have switched on Enhanced Safe Browsing protections in Chrome. Google will enable Always Use Secure Connections by default in April when Chrome 147 drops. When this setting is on, Chrome will ask for your permission before it first accesses a public website that doesn't use HTTPS.

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Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable update to this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used on Linux systems for 3D support...

Vous êtes à la recherche d'un boitier à prix raisonnable mais (très) bien ventilé et si possible ARGB ? Voici un modèle dont nous n'avions jamais parlé encore sur H&Co, mais qui se révèle très intéressant grâce à une grosse promotion sur Amazon : l'ASUS A21 PLUS.Passons en revue les points qui n...

Blogger and technologist Anil Dash, writing about OpenAI's recently launched browser, Atlas: When I first got Atlas up and running, I tried giving it the easiest and most obvious tasks I could possibly give it. I looked up "Taylor Swift showgirl" to see if it would give me links to videos or playlists to watch or listen to the most popular music on the charts right now; this has to be just about the easiest possible prompt. The results that came back looked like a web page, but they weren't. Instead, what I got was something closer to a last-minute book report written by a kid who had mostly plagiarized Wikipedia. The response mentioned some basic biographical information and had a few photos. Now we know that AI tools are prone to this kind of confabulation, but this is new, because it felt like I was in a web browser, typing into a search box on the Internet. And here's what was most notable: there was no link to her website. I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all. Unless you were an expert, you would almost certainly think I had typed in a search box and gotten back a web page with search results. But in reality, I had typed in a prompt box and gotten back a synthesized response that superficially resembles a web page, and it uses some web technologies to display its output. Instead of a list of links to websites that had information about the topic, it had bullet points describing things it thought I should know. There were a few footnotes buried within some of those response, but the clear intent was that I was meant to stay within the AI-generated results, trapped in that walled garden. During its first run, there's a brief warning buried amidst all the other messages that says, "ChatGPT may give you inaccurate information", but nobody is going to think that means "sometimes this tool completely fabricates content, gives me a box that looks like a search box, and shows me the fabricated content in a display that looks like a web page when I type in the fake search box." And it's not like the generated response is even that satisfying.

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AMD aura pris son temps, pour finalement nous gratifier de ses Adrenalin 25.10 officiels et validés WHQL par Microsoft d'octobre 2025, à moins de 3 jours de la fin du mois. Il portent le nom d'Adrenalin 25.10.2, la version "1" ayant pour rappel été lancée plus tôt dans le mois en tant que pilote "Pr...

YouTube says it will automatically upscale videos uploaded below 1080p (full-HD to higher resolution using AI. The Google-owned platform, however, assured that it will give creators and viewers the option to opt out of the enhancement. The feature will apply only to videos uploaded in resolutions from 240p to 720p and will not affect videos that creators have already remastered to 1080p. Creators will retain control over their original files, and viewers will be able to watch videos in their uploaded resolution through a settings option. YouTube said it plans to support upscaling to 4K in the near future. The company also said it is expanding the video thumbnail size limit from 2MB to 50MB to support 4K images. On videos with tagged products, viewers will soon be able to scan a QR code on TV screens to purchase items directly.

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The best way to innovate in gaming is to have good margins, that's according to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. He made the comments during an interview days after Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has expected unrealistic profit margins from its gaming division, which the report suggested was a likely reason for studio closures, game cancelations and thousands of layoffs at Xbox. Nadella used the word "innovation" at least five times during the interview but never offered specifics about what he meant by it. He said Microsoft needs to "invent, maybe, some new interactive media" because gaming's competition is short-form video rather than other games. The CEO described Microsoft's new gaming strategy as being "everywhere, on every platform" after comparing the company's game publishing business to Microsoft Office. He said "the biggest gaming business is the Windows business" and added that he is looking forward to "the next console, the next PC gaming."

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Following last month's Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta and COSMIC desktop beta, System76 has now shared their stable release plans for this long-awaited LInux distribution release with their Rust-written custom desktop...

Hedge fund Apollo has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios reported Wednesday From the report: AOL still drives hundreds of millions of dollars of free cash flow. Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari said AOL has around 30 million monthly active users across its email and web content properties. That "incredibly loyal user base," as he called it, could be better served with greater investments in AOL's product and user experience, he noted. [...] Bending Spoons is a privately held Italian holding company that acquires assets with large user bases and invests in their turnaround with technology improvements. The company tends to sit on their investments long term after acquiring them. Some of the other companies Bending Spoons has acquired include Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove.

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Un guide d’installation Thermaltake ayant fuité suggère que le prochain socket desktop d’Intel, le LGA-1954 que doivent étrenner les Core Ultra 400 Nova Lake-S, restera compatible avec les modèles conçus pour LGA-1851 et LGA-1700. Réponse dans un an ? C’est cohérent avec une précédente fuite qui remonte mai, et fondée sur un document d’expédition daté de fin mars... [Tout lire]

Pas besoin d’être un fin limier pour se douter de l’arnaque et pourtant des gens tombent toujours dans le panneau. La raison est toujours la même, le manque de compétences techniques ou de vigilance.

Loin de moi l’idée de juger les personnes victimes de ce genre d’arnaque. Tout le monde ne passe pas sa vie à se préoccuper des évolutions du marché informatique ni des tarifs des produits. Si pour beaucoup de mes lecteurs, acheter un SSD mobile à un prix extrêmement bas, est évidemment problématique, cela ressemble simplement à la meilleure affaire possible en termes de stockage pour beaucoup d’autres.

L’histoire que nous découvrons aujourd’hui aurait finalement pu arriver à beaucoup de monde dans d’autres domaines. Un internaute témoigne des déboires liés à son acquisition d’un SSD externe Seagate. Achat qui s’est avéré être un mauvais investissement puisque ce qu’il a reçu ne correspond pas tout à fait à ce qu’il avait commandé.

Dans un emballage plus vrai que nature, le SSD reçu, un Backup Plus Slim de 1 To, ressemble à tous les autres. À la prise en main, je suppose qu’il est apparu un peu léger ou sonnant un peu trop creux. Les résultats de son utilisation n’ont pas dû être bien fameux non plus. Suffisamment, en tout cas, pour que l’acheteur se dise qu’il fallait jeter un coup d’œil à ses entrailles.

Et le résultat est un grand classique. On découvre d’abord un boitier quasi vide. Avec juste un petit morceau de métal pour correspondre à peu près au poids d’un SSD  externe Normal. Et, évidemment, une électronique un peu différente de ce à quoi on pourrait s’attendre.

La prise USB Type-C est simplement connectée à un lecteur de cartes MicroSDXC qui va boucler les données afin de simuler l’existence de To de stockage. Cette arnaque est très classique et j’ai l’impression d’écrire un marronnier en la publiant. Mais je me dis que si des gens se font encore avoir en 2025 avec cette méthode, il est peut-être nécessaire d’en parler encore une fois.

Renseignez-vous toujours avant d’acheter un produit en ligne. Regardez les prix de la concurrence, regardez qui vous vend le produit également, surtout si vous êtes sur une place de marché. Essayez de voir depuis quand le vendeur existe, quels sont les autres produits proposés. L’autre jour, je suis tombé sur un casque Bluetooth Sony WH-1000XM5 à 41€ sur AliExpress. C’est évidemment une grossière copie et il suffit de regarder le vrai prix du casque pour le comprendre.

Restez vigilant

De faux SSD externes au format M.2 en approche

C’est dans les vieux SSD qu’on fait les meilleures arnaques © MiniMachines.net. 2025

AI In Shape

Sans bruit ni fanfare, TiboInShape a rendu son visage et sa voix réutilisables par tout un chacun sur l’application Sora, appuyée sur le modèle de génération de vidéo d’OpenAI. Une décision qui pose de multiples questions sur les risques encourus, par le vidéaste lui-même, mais aussi par les internautes plus ou moins adeptes de son travail.

Depuis quelques jours, les vidéos de TiboInShape inondent les réseaux sociaux. Elles ont le visage de TiboInShape, elles ont la voix de TiboInShape, mais elles n’ont pas du tout été créées par le vidéaste : elles ont été générées par IA. Bref, ce sont des deepfakes.

Mais des deepfakes d’un genre particulier : des deepfakes a priori consentis. Sur Sora, la plateforme de génération de vidéos d’OpenAI qui vise à devenir une sorte de contre-TikTok uniquement alimenté de vidéos générées par IA, les utilisateurs peuvent rendre leur « cameo », c’est-à-dire un enregistrement de leur image et de leur voix, utilisable uniquement par eux-mêmes, en ouvrir l’accès à quelques personnes autorisées, ou le rendre accessible à tout le monde.

C’est cette dernière option que TiboInShape, Thibaud Delapart de son vrai nom, a choisie. « Si on veut rester à l’ordre du jour, il faut rebondir de réseaux en réseaux », explique-t-il sur BFM. Et d’évoquer Sora 2, et le fait que « les gens s’amusent bien sur TikTok à me mettre en situation, en train de manger des burgers chez McDo par exemple », une situation a priori invraisemblable, pour ce roi du fitness.

Quand bien même l’application Sora, donc les cameo de célébrités, ne sont pour le moment disponibles qu’aux États-Unis et au Canada, la décision du vidéaste étonne l’avocate spécialiste du droit du numérique Betty Jeulin. « C’est peut-être intéressant d’un point de vue marketing, mais en l’occurrence, TiboInShape est suivi par 27 millions de personnes, selon la loi française sur les influenceurs, cela lui donne une responsabilité », explique-t-elle à Next.

Prominent AMD Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák just changed the RadeonSI driver's default from the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end over to the ACO back-end initially developed by Valve. This should lead to better performance and quicker shader compilation and in turn faster game loads...