Qui sera le GOTY 2025, le fameux "Game Of The Year". Chaque année, le sujet devient enflammé sur les réseaux sociaux une fois la liste des nominés annoncés, ce qui a été fait le lundi 17 novembre 2025. La cérémonie aura lieu de son côté le 11 décembre, à 2h30 du matin donc il faudra soit veiller tar...

A Chinese man who cryogenically preserved his wife after her death has sparked a heated online debate after it emerged he began dating a new partner in 2020. Some argue it's natural for him to move on, while others say he's being selfish or disrespectful to both his late wife and his current partner. The BBC reports: As a sign of his devotion, Gui Junmin decided to freeze his wife Zhan Wenlian's body after she died from lung cancer in 2017, aged 49, making her China's first cryogenically preserved person. But after a November interview revealed he had been dating a different partner since 2020, Chinese social media has been torn on Mr Junmin's predicament. Whilst some asked why the 57-year-old didn't just "let go" another commenter remarked he appeared to be "most devoted to himself." After Zhan Wenlian was given months to live by doctors, Gui Junmin decided to use cryonics - which is scientifically unproven - to preserve her body once she died. Following her death, he signed a 30-year agreement to preserve his wife's frozen body with the Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute. Since then, Zhan's body has been stored in a 2,000-litre container at the institute in a vat of -190C liquid nitrogen. Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly revealed that although Mr Junmin lived alone for two years after the procedure, in 2020 he began dating again, despite his wife remaining in cryopreservation. He told the newspaper that a severe gout attack which left him unable to move for two days began to change his mind about the benefits of living alone. Soon after, he started seeing his current partner Wang Chunxia, although Mr Junmin suggested to the paper the love was only "utilitarian" and that she hadn't "entered" his heart.

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Avec sa nouvelle manette Ultimate 2C Wireless, 8BitDo semble vouloir frapper un grand coup, au risque de rendre sa gamme un peu plus complexe. Basée sur la manette Ultimate, dont elle reprend la forme, l'Ultimate 2C Wireless se veut plus abordable et s'affiche à seulement 29.99 USD avec une fiche technique loin d'être anodine puisqu'on retrouve, notamment, des gâchettes et joysticks à effet Hall, une prise en charge de la connexion sans fil en 2.4 GHz et Bluetooth, un layout ABXY et une autonomie allant jusqu'à 19 heures ou 32 heures selon la connexion retenue. Et si la somme demandée est encore trop conséquente, la manette existe aussi en version Ultimate 2C Wired pour 19.99 USD. […]

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Cette semaine, nous avons trois nouveaux jeux DLSS : AION2, Pizza Bandit et DAVY x JONES. Vous pouvez obtenir gratuitement le skin Echo-4 Borderlands 4 dans l'application NVIDIA avec GeForce Rewards à partir du 20 novembre à 18 h. Voici un aperçu des nouveaux jeux et des jeux à venir intégrant les technologies RTX : - AION2 : ce MMORPG nouvelle génération développé par NCSOFT réinvente l'univers original d'AION avec une approche novatrice. AION2 sortira simultanément en Corée et à Taïwan le 19 novembre, puis dans le monde entier en 2026. À son lancement, AION2 prendra en charge NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation et NVIDIA Reflex, pour des performances graphiques et une réactivité améliorées, offrant ainsi aux joueurs GeForce RTX la meilleure expérience possible dans ce jeu massivement multijoueur. DLSS Multi Frame Generation sera disponible en décembre. - Pizza Bandit : le jeu de tir coopératif chaotique à la troisième personne de JOFSOFT, Pizza Bandit, est une combinaison hilarante de chasse aux primes et de cuisine sous pression. Armé d'une technologie de voyage dans le temps et d'un plan d'affaires douteux, vous plongerez dans des époques chaotiques, éliminerez des cibles dangereuses et cuisinerez sous pression, littéralement. Pizza Bandit est disponible dès maintenant, et les joueurs GeForce RTX peuvent optimiser leur fréquence d'images grâce à DLSS 4 avec Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Frame Generation et DLSS Super Resolution. - DAVY x JONES : Trahi et dépouillé, le légendaire pirate Davy Jones sombre dans le Locker, le royaume des marins morts. Mais la mort n'est que le début de son épopée vengeresse dans DAVY x JONES de PARASIGHT. Le jeu est désormais disponible en accès anticipé, et les joueurs équipés d'une GeForce RTX peuvent accélérer la fréquence d'images grâce à l'intégration de la technologie DLSS Super Resolution. […]

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Il y a quelques jours, la présentation des nouveaux produits Steam a permis de remettre en avant la machine à rumeurs. Après tout, quoi de mieux que de sortir la Steam Machine avec un jeu fédérateur ? Comme Half Life 3 ? La vidéo de présentation, analysée image par image par une foule d'internautes, semblait aussi montrer quelques indices laissés par Valve, mais ne nous avançons pas sur ce point. Pourtant, la hype est encore montée d'un écran hier puisque le jeu aurait dû, selon certains joueurs en manque d'aliens à fracasser à coups de pied de biche, être annoncé hier. Finalement, l'annonce serait faite aujourd'hui, et la mise en ligne d'une page Half Life 3 chez le célèbre revendeur de clés Instant Gaming ne fait qu'alimenter la machine. […]

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Un patch 1.1.2.0 vient d'être déployé pour le jeu Battlefield 6, on découvre les nombreuses modifications et apports. Cette mise à jour améliore la réactivité des soldats, la fiabilité de la visée, la fidélité des animations et la stabilité de Battlefield 6 d'une manière générale. Nous avons également ajouté un nouveau mode à durée limitée, modifié l'aide à la visée et résolu un certain nombre de problèmes relatifs aux armes, aux gadgets et aux véhicules grâce aux retours de la communauté. Nouveau contenu : Résistance californienne. Nouvelle carte : Eastwood. Une carte ayant pour thème la Californie du Sud. Des variations de cette carte seront disponibles dans tous les modes officiels. Le mode Conquête de cette carte comporte des chars, des hélicoptères et une voiturette de golf. Nouveau mode à durée limitée : Sabotage. Un événement thématique qui se concentre plus spécifiquement sur la démolition et la défense. Nouvelles armes : fusil à pompe DB-12 et arme d'appui M357 Trait. Le mode Survie comprend une nouvelle mission : Rodéo. Cette mission comporte plusieurs véhicules, avec lesquels et pour lesquels vous devrez vous battre. Vous gagnez des points bonus lorsque vous éliminez des ennemis en étant à bord d'un véhicule. Nouvelle fonctionnalité : équipements de guerre. Ces puissantes armes seront disponibles dans des contextes spécifiques et dans Portal, avec une quantité de munitions limitée, mais elles sont suffisamment puissantes pour changer le cours du combat. Mises à jour de Portal : Carte en mode bac à sable. Grâce à cette option, les créateurs et créatrices pourront exprimer leur vision créative et donner libre cours à leur imagination dans Portal. La voiturette de golf est disponible dans le cadre de ces expériences. Passe de combat : la branche bonus de Résistance californienne est disponible pendant une durée limitée. Nouvel accessoire sous canon : butée de main fine, débloquée par un défi. Mises à jour majeures de la version 1.1.2.0 : Les paramètres d'aide à la visée de la bêta ouverte sont rétablis, ce qui confère de nouveau une visée d'infanterie fiable avec tous les types de commandes. Amélioration de la latence de saisie et de la réactivité au stick analogique, de manière à offrir une visée plus fluide et des mouvements plus réactifs. Ajustement de la précision et de la dispersion : correction de l'augmentation accidentelle de la dispersion des armes et augmentation de la précision des fusils de précision autres que ceux des éclaireurs, tout en réduisant la dispersion de tous les types d'armes. Améliorations apportées aux défis et à la progression, pour clarifier les tâches et leur suivi. Améliorations majeures apportées aux gadgets déployables, notamment au mortier portatif LWCMS, au désignateur laser portatif LTLM II et aux caisses de ravitaillement. Intégration de Fort Lyndon à Portal ; les segments disponibles pour la création d'expériences sont de plus en plus nombreux. […]

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previously known as Three Mile Island Unit 1, the plant is expected to start generating power again in 2027. Constellation unveiled plans to rename and restart the reactor in Sept. 2024 through a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to support the tech company's data center demand in the region. Three Mile Island Unit 1 ceased operations in 2019, one of a dozen reactors that closed in recent years as nuclear struggled to compete against cheap natural gas. It sits on the same site as Three Mile Island Unit 2, the reactor that partially melted down in 1979 in the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. The loan would cover the majority to the project's estimated cost of $1.6 billion. The first advance to Constellation is expected in the first quarter of 2026, said Greg Beard, senior advisor to the Energy Department's Loan Programs Office, in a call with reporters. The loan comes with a guarantee from Constellation that it will protect taxpayer money, Beard said.

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MI5 has warned U.K. lawmakers that Chinese intelligence operatives are using LinkedIn and recruitment fronts to target them for information gathering and long-term cultivation. PBS reports: Writing to lawmakers, House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said a new MI5 "espionage alert" warned that Chinese nationals were "using LinkedIn profiles to conduct outreach at scale" on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security. "Their aim is to collect information and lay the groundwork for long-term relationships, using professional networking sites, recruitment agents and consultants acting on their behalf," he said. MI5 issued the alert because the activity was "targeted and widespread," he added. The MI5 alert cited LinkedIn profiles of two women, Amanda Qiu and Shirly Shen, and said other similar recruiters' profiles were acting as fronts for espionage. Home Office Minister Dan Jarvis said that apart from parliamentary staff, others including economists, think tank consultants and government officials have been similarly targeted. Jarvis said the government is rolling out a series of measures to tackle the risk, including investing 170 million pounds ($224 million) to renew encrypted technology used by civil servants to safeguard sensitive work. Opposition parties say authorities are not doing enough and are too wary of jeopardizing trade ties with China.

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Mexico has finally lifted its long-running Tor ban for the main government portal, allowing privacy-focused users, journalists, and activists to access gob.mx again after more than a decade of blocking. That said, the open data portal and the former Tor-compatible whistleblower system remain inaccessible. CyberInsider reports: The development follows a long period of digital censorship that spanned two full six-year presidential terms, those of Enrique Pena Nieto and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and continued into the early months of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo's current administration. Research conducted by Jacobo Najera and Miguel Trujillo, published in October 2023, documented that 21 federal government agencies were blocking traffic from the Tor network, effectively excluding privacy-conscious users from vital public resources and services.

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Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

For the past several months a Uniwill laptop driver for the Linux kernel has been in development to expose extra platform capabilities for laptops manufactured by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM manufacturer. Assuming no last minute issues, this driver is now set to premiere in Linux 6.19 for helping Uniwill laptops and hardware from other brands relying on Uniwill as the device manufacturer...

A NordPass analysis found that Gen Z is actually worse at password security than older generations, with "12345" topping their list while "123456" dominates among everyone else. The Register reports: And while there were a few more "skibidis" among the Zoomer dataset compared to those who came before them, the trends were largely similar. Variants on the "123456" were among the most common for all age groups, with that exact string proving to be the most common among all users -- the sixth time in seven years it holds the undesirable crown. Some of the more adventurous would stretch to "1234567," while budding cryptologists shored up their accounts by adding an 8 or even a 9 to the mix. However, according to Security.org's password security checker, a computer could crack any of these instantly. Most attackers would not even need to expend the resources required to reveal the password, given how commonly used they are. They could just spray a list of known passwords at an authentication API and secure a quick win.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s leaders predicted an enormous surge in cloud-native computing, driven by the explosive growth of AI inference workloads. How much growth? They're predicting hundreds of billions of dollars in spending over the next 18 months. [...] Where cloud-native computing and AI inference come together is when AI is no longer a separate track from cloud-native computing. Instead, AI workloads, particularly inference tasks, are fueling a new era where intelligent applications require scalable and reliable infrastructure. That era is unfolding because, said [CNCF Executive Director Jonathan Bryce], "AI is moving from a few 'Training supercomputers' to widespread 'Enterprise Inference.' This is fundamentally a cloud-native problem. You, the platform engineers, are the ones who will build the open-source platforms that unlock enterprise AI." "Cloud native and AI-native development are merging, and it's really an incredible place we're in right now," said CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk. The data backs up this opinion. For example, Google has reported that its internal inference jobs have processed 1.33 quadrillion tokens per month recently, up from 980 trillion just months before. [...] Aniszczyk added that cloud-native projects, especially Kubernetes, are adapting to serve inference workloads at scale: "Kubernetes is obviously one of the leading examples as of the last release the dynamic resource allocation feature enables GPU and TPU hardware abstraction in a Kubernetes context." To better meet the demand, the CNCF announced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program, which aims to make AI workloads as portable and reliable as traditional cloud-native applications. "As AI moves into production, teams need a consistent infrastructure they can rely on," Aniszczyk stated during his keynote. "This initiative will create shared guardrails to ensure AI workloads behave predictably across environments. It builds on the same community-driven standards process we've used with Kubernetes to help bring consistency as AI adoption scales." What all this effort means for business is that AI inference spending on cloud-native infrastructure and services will reach into the hundreds of billions within the next 18 months. That investment is because CNCF leaders predict that enterprises will race to stand up reliable, cost-effective AI services.

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Another highly influential Linux kernel engineer, David Hildenbrand, is leaving Red Hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and VirtIO. His recent kernel patch updates his maintainer info to a kernel.org address, signaling his departure. He hasn't yet said where he's headed next. Phoronix reports: David Hildenbrand serves as a reviewer for the HugeTLB code, s390 KVM code, and memory management reclaim code. He also serves as an upstream maintainer for the Linux kernel's core memory management code, Get User Pages (GUP) memory management code, kernel samepage merging (KSM), reverse mapping (RMAP), transparent hugepage (THP), memory advice (MADVISE), VirtIO memory driver, and VirtIO balloon driver. Hildenbrand had been employed by Red Hat the past decade in Munich working on QEMU/KVM virtualization, Linux kernel memory management, VirtIO, and related low-level areas. Just this year alone so far in 2025 he's authored or been mentioned on more than one thousand mainline Linux kernel patches.

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Blender 5.0 has been released with major upgrades including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan, significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements. 9to5Linux reports: Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays that can be used for color grading for HDR video export, and new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as an alternative to AgX and Filmic. A new "Jump Time by Delta" operator for jumping forward/backward in time by a user-specified delta has been introduced as well, along with a revamped Curve drawing, which better supports the new Curves object type and all of their features, and a new Geometry Attribute constraint. Also new is a "Cylinder" option for curve display type that allows rendering thicker curves without the flat ribbon appearance, support for the Zstd (Zstandard) fast lossless compression algorithm for point caches, as well as a new "Curve Data" panel in edit mode that allows tweaking built-in curve attribute values. A full list of changes can be found here. You can download from the official website.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple's Power Mac and Mac Pro towers used to be the company's primary workstations, but it has been years since they were updated with the same regularity as the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro has seen just four hardware updates in the last 15 years, and that's counting a 2012 refresh that was mostly identical to the 2010 version. Long-suffering Mac Pro buyers may have taken heart when Apple finally added an M2 Ultra processor to the tower in mid-2023, making it one of the very last Macs to switch from Intel to Apple Silicon -- surely this would mean that the computer would at least be updated once every year or two, like the Mac Studio has been? But Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that Mac Pro buyers shouldn't get their hopes up for new hardware in 2026. Gurman says that the tower is "on the back burner" at Apple and that the company is "focused on a new Mac Studio" for the next-generation M5 Ultra chip that is in the works. As we reported earlier this year, Apple doesn't have plans to design or release an M4 Ultra, and the Mac Studio refresh from this spring included an M3 Ultra alongside the M4 Max. Note that Gurman carefully stops short of saying we definitely won't see a Mac Pro update next year -- the emphasis on the Mac Studio merely "suggests the Mac Pro won't be updated in 2026 in a significant way," and internal sources tell him "Apple has largely written off the Mac Pro." The current Mac Pro does still use the M2 Ultra rather than the M3 Ultra, which indicates that Apple doesn't see the need to update its high-end desktop every time it releases a suitable chip. But all of Apple's other desktops -- the iMac, the Mac mini, and the Studio -- have skipped a silicon generation once since the M1 came out in 2020.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock's license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming that the city's nearly 500 cameras create a pervasive database of residents movements in a surveillance network that is essentially impossible to avoid. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network and Council on American-Islamic Relations, California, and claims that the surveillance is a violation of California's constitution and its privacy laws. The lawsuit seeks to require police to get a warrant in order to search Flock's license plate system. The lawsuit is one of the highest profile cases challenging Flock; a similar lawsuit in Norfolk, Virginia seeks to get Flock's network shut down in that city altogether. "San Jose's ALPR [automatic license plate reader] program stands apart in its invasiveness," ACLU of Northern California and EFF lawyers wrote in the lawsuit. "While many California agencies run ALPR systems, few retain the locations of drivers for an entire year like San Jose. Further, it is difficult for most residents of San Jose to get to work, pick up their kids, or obtain medical care without driving, and the City has blanketed its roads with nearly 500 ALPRs."

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Klarna has claimed that AI-related savings have allowed the buy now, pay later company to increase staff salaries by nearly 60%, but hinted it could slash more jobs after nearly halving its workforce over the past three years. From a report: Chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski said headcount had dropped from 5,527 to 2,907 since 2022, mostly as a result of natural attrition, with departing staff replaced by technology rather than by new staff members. The figures add to the impact of an internal artificial intelligence programme, which had steadily reduced its use of outsourced workers including those in customer service, with technology now carrying out the work of 853 full-time staff, up from 700 earlier this year. It meant the company, which was founded in Sweden in 2005, had managed to increase revenues by 108% while keeping operating costs flat. Siemiatkowski told analysts on an earnings call on Tuesday that it was "pretty remarkable, and unheard of as a number, among businesses."

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An anonymous reader shares a report: It's too soon to be talking about the Curse of OpenAI, but we're going to anyway. Since September 10, when Oracle announced a $300 billion deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315 billion in market value. OK, yes, it's a gross simplification to just look at market cap. But equivalents to Oracle shares are little changed over the same period (Nasdaq Composite, Microsoft, Dow Jones US Software Index), so the $15 billion loss figure [figure updated with stock price] is not entirely wrong. Oracle's "astonishing quarter" really has cost it nearly as much as one General Motors, or two Kraft Heinz.

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Intel's LASS functionality was queued today into tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" Git branch. With LASS now making it into a TIP branch, it looks like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds...