Le CESIN et Hexatrust lancent un panorama pour recenser les offres souveraines en matière de cybersécurité pour la France. La liste sera régulièrement mise à jour et devrait s’étendre à toute l’Europe.

Jamais la question de la souveraineté numérique n’a autant été débattue. Largement alimentée par l’attitude peu consensuelle de la Maison-Blanche depuis le retour de Donald Trump à la présidence américaine, elle revient constamment sur le devant de la scène. 

En juillet, nous avions rassemblé les principales pour en offrir une vue de synthèse. Fin octobre, la Cour des comptes fustigeait la mauvaise gestion de cette question, soulignant notamment le manque de cohérence dans les décisions gouvernementales. Mais le sujet est loin d’être nouveau : en octobre 2021, Jean-Paul Smets estimait déjà que la France avait « tout d’un pays colonisé ».

• Souveraineté numérique : la Cour des comptes étrille le manque de cohésion en France

Dans ce contexte, le CESIN (Club des Experts de la Sécurité de l’Information et du Numérique) et Hexatrust, deux associations centrées sur la cybersécurité, ont uni leurs forces. Elles proposent un Cyber Panorama : un « outil opérationnel pour guider les organisations vers des solutions souveraines ».

Sérieux déséquilibre

Cette initiative a été lancée le 9 décembre. Le Cyber Panorama recense ainsi 320 noms environ d’acteurs français proposant des solutions souveraines. Dans le communiqué, on peut lire que le projet est né du constat alarmant que les organisations européennes éprouvent des difficultés majeures à identifier des alternatives crédibles aux solutions extra-européennes, majoritairement américaines. Et pour cause : selon un rapport du Cigref en avril dernier, 83 % des achats de technologies en Europe se font auprès d’acteurs extra-européens.

L’outil sert plusieurs objectifs. D’abord, réduire certains risques, toujours les mêmes sur ce thème : dépendance critique à des technologies étrangères (essentiellement américaines), exposition non maitrisée aux risques liés à l’extraterritorialité juridique (dont le fameux Cloud Act) et vulnérabilité stratégique face aux tensions géopolitiques.

Ensuite, le Cyber Panorama peut être abordé sous l’angle économique : en achetant des produits européens, les capitaux restent en Europe. C’était le cœur du rapport du Cigref, qui abordait aussi les nombreux emplois que la réorientation créerait. Jean-Noël de Galzain, président d’Hexatrust, insiste sur ce point : porter la part des achats purement européens à 30 % représenterait un chiffre d’affaires de 690 milliards d’euros d’ici dix ans, et jusqu’à 500 000 emplois.

Les acteurs sont déjà là

Le communiqué commun du CESIN et d’Hexatrust le clame haut et fort : l’Europe a déjà tout ce qu’il faut. Le problème majeur, pour les deux associations, est surtout que les organisations européennes ne savent pas qui sont ces acteurs. Le Cyber Panorama se propose donc de les recenser.

Le critère de souveraineté n’est pas expliqué dans le communiqué du Cyber Panorama. Selon le MagIT, qui assistait à la présentation, il est requis que le siège de l’entreprise et ses équipes de développement soient situés en France. Les cabinets de conseil, sociétés de services et intégrateurs ont été mis de côté. Sur le sujet du capital en revanche, les deux associations se seraient plus souples, acceptant qu’une part puisse provenir d’une société extra-européenne.

La structure de l’offre est fondée sur le NIST Cybersecurity Framework, référentiel largement utilisé venant des États-Unis. « Nous avons voulu opter pour une nomenclature qui parle à tout le monde », a déclaré Alain Bouillé, délégué général du CESIN. Elle établit six grandes fonctions : Gouverner, Identifier, Protéger, Détecter, Répondre et Récupérer. Chaque fonction est ensuite divisée en catégories plus spécifiques correspondant aux différents domaines de la cybersécurité (surveillance, sécurité des données, sensibilisation, etc.).

Pour l’instant, il s’agit d’une liste statique de noms. Prochainement, tout sera rassemblé au sein d’une interface web dynamique permettant de filtrer les acteurs selon ce que l’on cherche. Le CESIN et Hexatrust précisent que la liste sera régulièrement mise à jour, de sorte que les résultats devraient toujours être « frais ».

Une dimension européenne à venir

La liste des 320 acteurs est d’ailleurs présentée comme « une première étape ». Dans une future version, les deux associations ambitionnent d’ajouter les suites bureautiques et collaboratives, ainsi que les solutions de « Cloud de Confiance », dont les offres labellisées SecNumCloud, et Digital Workplace. Une nouvelle catégorie « Héberger » fera son apparition.

À plus long terme, l’outil devrait référencer les solutions européennes et devenir un outil utilisable par les autres. Les deux associations espèrent en outre que l’outil favorisera l’émergence d’une BITC (Base Industrielle et Technologique de Cybersécurité), équivalente numérique de la BITD (Base Industrielle et Technologique de Défense).

L’outil devrait avoir au moins le mérite d’accroitre la visibilité des acteurs mentionnés. Selon un baromètre publié en septembre (pdf) par Hexatrust et EY, 40 % des entreprises interrogées n’effectuent aucune veille des solutions françaises existantes.

• Le numérique de confiance a son contrat de filière : et maintenant ?

Le CESIN et Hexatrust lancent un panorama pour recenser les offres souveraines en matière de cybersécurité pour la France. La liste sera régulièrement mise à jour et devrait s’étendre à toute l’Europe.

Jamais la question de la souveraineté numérique n’a autant été débattue. Largement alimentée par l’attitude peu consensuelle de la Maison-Blanche depuis le retour de Donald Trump à la présidence américaine, elle revient constamment sur le devant de la scène. 

En juillet, nous avions rassemblé les principales pour en offrir une vue de synthèse. Fin octobre, la Cour des comptes fustigeait la mauvaise gestion de cette question, soulignant notamment le manque de cohérence dans les décisions gouvernementales. Mais le sujet est loin d’être nouveau : en octobre 2021, Jean-Paul Smets estimait déjà que la France avait « tout d’un pays colonisé ».

• Souveraineté numérique : la Cour des comptes étrille le manque de cohésion en France

Dans ce contexte, le CESIN (Club des Experts de la Sécurité de l’Information et du Numérique) et Hexatrust, deux associations centrées sur la cybersécurité, ont uni leurs forces. Elles proposent un Cyber Panorama : un « outil opérationnel pour guider les organisations vers des solutions souveraines ».

Sérieux déséquilibre

Cette initiative a été lancée le 9 décembre. Le Cyber Panorama recense ainsi 320 noms environ d’acteurs français proposant des solutions souveraines. Dans le communiqué, on peut lire que le projet est né du constat alarmant que les organisations européennes éprouvent des difficultés majeures à identifier des alternatives crédibles aux solutions extra-européennes, majoritairement américaines. Et pour cause : selon un rapport du Cigref en avril dernier, 83 % des achats de technologies en Europe se font auprès d’acteurs extra-européens.

L’outil sert plusieurs objectifs. D’abord, réduire certains risques, toujours les mêmes sur ce thème : dépendance critique à des technologies étrangères (essentiellement américaines), exposition non maitrisée aux risques liés à l’extraterritorialité juridique (dont le fameux Cloud Act) et vulnérabilité stratégique face aux tensions géopolitiques.

Ensuite, le Cyber Panorama peut être abordé sous l’angle économique : en achetant des produits européens, les capitaux restent en Europe. C’était le cœur du rapport du Cigref, qui abordait aussi les nombreux emplois que la réorientation créerait. Jean-Noël de Galzain, président d’Hexatrust, insiste sur ce point : porter la part des achats purement européens à 30 % représenterait un chiffre d’affaires de 690 milliards d’euros d’ici dix ans, et jusqu’à 500 000 emplois.

Les acteurs sont déjà là

Le communiqué commun du CESIN et d’Hexatrust le clame haut et fort : l’Europe a déjà tout ce qu’il faut. Le problème majeur, pour les deux associations, est surtout que les organisations européennes ne savent pas qui sont ces acteurs. Le Cyber Panorama se propose donc de les recenser.

Le critère de souveraineté n’est pas expliqué dans le communiqué du Cyber Panorama. Selon le MagIT, qui assistait à la présentation, il est requis que le siège de l’entreprise et ses équipes de développement soient situés en France. Les cabinets de conseil, sociétés de services et intégrateurs ont été mis de côté. Sur le sujet du capital en revanche, les deux associations se seraient plus souples, acceptant qu’une part puisse provenir d’une société extra-européenne.

La structure de l’offre est fondée sur le NIST Cybersecurity Framework, référentiel largement utilisé venant des États-Unis. « Nous avons voulu opter pour une nomenclature qui parle à tout le monde », a déclaré Alain Bouillé, délégué général du CESIN. Elle établit six grandes fonctions : Gouverner, Identifier, Protéger, Détecter, Répondre et Récupérer. Chaque fonction est ensuite divisée en catégories plus spécifiques correspondant aux différents domaines de la cybersécurité (surveillance, sécurité des données, sensibilisation, etc.).

Pour l’instant, il s’agit d’une liste statique de noms. Prochainement, tout sera rassemblé au sein d’une interface web dynamique permettant de filtrer les acteurs selon ce que l’on cherche. Le CESIN et Hexatrust précisent que la liste sera régulièrement mise à jour, de sorte que les résultats devraient toujours être « frais ».

Une dimension européenne à venir

La liste des 320 acteurs est d’ailleurs présentée comme « une première étape ». Dans une future version, les deux associations ambitionnent d’ajouter les suites bureautiques et collaboratives, ainsi que les solutions de « Cloud de Confiance », dont les offres labellisées SecNumCloud, et Digital Workplace. Une nouvelle catégorie « Héberger » fera son apparition.

À plus long terme, l’outil devrait référencer les solutions européennes et devenir un outil utilisable par les autres. Les deux associations espèrent en outre que l’outil favorisera l’émergence d’une BITC (Base Industrielle et Technologique de Cybersécurité), équivalente numérique de la BITD (Base Industrielle et Technologique de Défense).

L’outil devrait avoir au moins le mérite d’accroitre la visibilité des acteurs mentionnés. Selon un baromètre publié en septembre (pdf) par Hexatrust et EY, 40 % des entreprises interrogées n’effectuent aucune veille des solutions françaises existantes.

• Le numérique de confiance a son contrat de filière : et maintenant ?

Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT), a hard-to-manufacture semiconductor produced by only a handful of companies, is enabling a quiet revolution in medical imaging, science, and security by delivering faster scans, lower radiation doses, and far more precise X-ray and gamma-ray detection. "You get beautiful pictures from this scanner," says Dr Kshama Wechalekar, head of nuclear medicine and PET. "It's an amazing feat of engineering and physics." The BBC reports: Kromek is one of just a few firms in the world that can make CZT. You may never have heard of the stuff but, in Dr Wechalekar's words, it is enabling a "revolution" in medical imaging. This wonder material has many other uses, such as in X-ray telescopes, radiation detectors and airport security scanners. And it is increasingly sought-after. Investigations of patients' lungs performed by Dr Wechalekar and her colleagues involve looking for the presence of many tiny blood clots in people with long Covid, or a larger clot known as a pulmonary embolism, for example. The 1-million-pound scanner works by detecting gamma rays emitted by a radioactive substance that is injected into patients' bodies. But the scanner's sensitivity means less of this substance is needed than before: "We can reduce doses about 30%," says Dr Wechalekar. While CZT-based scanners are not new in general, large, whole-body scanners such as this one are a relatively recent innovation. CZT itself has been around for decades but it is notoriously difficult to manufacture. "It has taken a long time for it to develop into an industrial-scale production process," says Arnab Basu, founding chief executive of Kromek. [...] The newly formed CZT, a semiconductor, can detect tiny photon particles in X-rays and gamma rays with incredible precision -- like a highly specialized version of the light-sensing, silicon-based image sensor in your smartphone camera. Whenever a high energy photon strikes the CZT, it mobilizes an electron and this electrical signal can be used to make an image. Earlier scanner technology used a two-step process, which was not as precise. "It's digital," says Dr Basu. "It's a single conversion step. It retains all the important information such as timing, the energy of the X-ray that is hitting the CZT detector -- you can create color, or spectroscopic images."

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ASUS a dévoilé l'arrivée imminente du ROG Strix XG27JCG, un écran capable de basculer entre une définition QHD (2560 x 1440) à 330 Hz et une définition 5K (5120 x 1880) à 180 Hz. De quoi offrir un large espace de travail tout en préservant les performances de la carte graphique en jeu. […]

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced in New York federal court on Thursday to 15 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Kwon, 34, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, previously pleaded guilty and admitted to misleading investors about a coin that was supposed to maintain a steady price during periods of crypto market volatility. Kwon was one of several cryptocurrency moguls to face federal charges after a slump in digital token prices in 2022 prompted the collapse of a number of companies. [...] Kwon was accused of misleading investors in 2021 about TerraUSD, a so-called stablecoin designed to maintain a value of $1. Prosecutors alleged that when TerraUSD slipped below its $1 peg in May 2021, Kwon told investors a computer algorithm known as "Terra Protocol" had restored the coin's value. Instead, Kwon arranged for a high-frequency trading firm to secretly buy millions of dollars of the token to artificially prop up its price, according to charging documents. "I made false and misleading statements about why it regained its peg by failing to disclose a trading firm's role in restoring that peg," Kwon said in court. "What I did was wrong." He also faces charges in South Korea, and under his plea deal, prosecutors won't oppose his transfer abroad after he serves half of his U.S. sentence.

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Longtime Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Nature: Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth. The dataset, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on December 1, covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 meters by 3 meters. The 3D map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modeling and urban planning, according to study co-author Xiaoxiang Zhu, an Earth observation data scientist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. "Imagine a video game with the world's buildings already mapped in basic spatial dimensions!" writes Gilmoure.

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joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: More than 10,000 Docker Hub container images expose data that should be protected, including live credentials to production systems, CI/CD databases, or LLM model keys. After scanning container images uploaded to Docker Hub in November, security researchers at threat intelligence company Flare found that 10,456 of them exposed one or more keys. The most frequent secrets were access tokens for various AI models (OpenAI, HuggingFace, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq). In total, the researchers found 4,000 such keys. "These multi-secret exposures represent critical risks, as they often provide full access to cloud environments, Git repositories, CI/CD systems, payment integrations, and other core infrastructure components," Flare notes. [...] Additionally, they found hardcoded API tokens for AI services being hardcoded in Python application files, config.json files, YAML configs, GitHub tokens, and credentials for multiple internal environments. Some of the sensitive data was present in the manifest of Docker images, a file that provides details about the image.Flare notes that roughly 25% of developers who accidentally exposed secrets on Docker Hub realized the mistake and removed the leaked secret from the container or manifest file within 48 hours. However, in 75% of these cases, the leaked key was not revoked, meaning that anyone who stole it during the exposure period could still use it later to mount attacks. Flare suggests that developers avoid storing secrets in container images, stop using static, long-lived credentials, and centralize their secrets management using a dedicated vault or secrets manager. Organizations should implement active scanning across the entire software development life cycle and revoke exposed secrets and invalidate old sessions immediately.

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Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts...

TheRock is an interesting open-source build platform for ROCm and HIP that has taken shape over the past year. It's become an official ROCm effort albeit still in early stages and relying on community contributions for enhancements for different consumer GPU targets and more. To date its users have largely relied on running the latest TheRock Git while today TheRock v7.10 was tagged...

Broadcom has quietly pulled VMware vSphere Foundation from parts of EMEA, pushing smaller customers toward far more expensive bundles and prompting some to consider jumping to Hyper-V or Nutanix. The Register reports: VVF is a bundle that offers compute, storage, and networking virtualization, and a platform to run containers. It's most useful in hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds, but is less capable than the Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite. Virtzilla said EMEA customers would need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF was still on sale in their country. "VVF is no longer available in some EMEA countries, but for the majority it is still available," a Broadcom spokesperson said. "Customers will have to reach out to sales reps or partners to determine availability of a given product in their region. These changes were recent." Our initial tipster said their reseller clued them into the impending change when VMware's new fiscal year started in November. This anonymous customer told us that their hardware fleet boasts thousands of compute cores and without more affordable options, his organization was looking at their annual VMware spend leaping by 10x from around $130,000 to $1.3 million. "We're currently looking to jump ship to either Microsoft's Hyper-V or Nutanix, as we can't eat (that) increase," they told The Register. [...] For the moment, a Broadcom spokesperson told us it has no plans to ditch VMware vSphere Standard, the basic server virtualization bundle which we're told makes up about 60 percent of the company's licenses and is a lower-cost way to access VMware's hypervisor than buying its full suite of VMware Cloud Foundation products. "We have not announced any changes to the availability of vSphere Standard in EMEA nor end of support for vSphere Standard," the spokesperson said via email. "The product remains fully available across EMEA today. However, Broadcom product availability can vary by region to align with local market requirements, customer demand, and other considerations."

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President Trump signed an executive order establishing a single federal AI regulatory framework that preempts state-level rules, aiming to centralize oversight of the rapidly growing AI industry. "The Trump administration, with the aid of AI and crypto czar David Sacks, has been pursuing a path that would allow federal rules to preempt state regulations on AI, a move meant to keep big Democratic-led states like California and New York from exerting their control over the growing industry," notes CNBC. Developing...

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A UC Berkeley professor, suspecting years of targeted computer damage against one Ph.D. student, secretly installed a hidden camera that allegedly caught another doctoral candidate sabotaging the student's laptop. The student now faces felony vandalism charges and is due for his first court appearance on Dec. 15. The Mercury News reports: A UC Berkeley professor smelled a rat -- over the years there had been $46,855 in damage from computers that failed, and nearly all of it seemed to affect one particular Ph.D. candidate at the college's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department. The professor wondered if the student's luck was really that bad, or if something else was afoot. So he installed a hidden camera -- disguised in a department laptop, and pointed it at the student's computer. According to police, the sly move captured another Ph.D. candidate, 26-year-old Jiarui Zou, damaging his fellow student's computer with some implement that caused sparks to fly out of the laptop. Now, Zou has been charged with three felony counts of vandalism, related to the destruction of three computers on Nov. 9-10. The charges allege the damage amounted to more than $400 each time, though the professor who reported the vandalism, and the affected student, told police they suspect Zou of the additional incidents that had been going on for years, court records show.

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During the company's first "Autonomy & AI Day" event today, Rivian unveiled a major autonomy push featuring custom silicon, lidar, and a "large driving model." It also hinted at a potential entry into the self-driving ride-hail market, according to CEO RJ Scaringe. TechCrunch reports: Rivian said it will expand the hands-free version of its driver-assistance software to "over 3.5 million miles of roads across the USA and Canada" and will eventually expand beyond highways to surface streets (with clearly painted road lines). This expanded access will be available on the company's second-generation R1 trucks and SUVs. It's calling the expanded capabilities "Universal Hands-Free" and will launch in early 2026. Rivian says it will charge a one-time fee of $2,500 or $49.99 per month. "What that means is you can get into the vehicle at your house, plug in the address to where you're going, and the vehicle will completely drive you there," Scaringe said Thursday, describing a point-to-point navigation feature. After that, Rivian plans to allow drivers to take their eyes off the road. "This gives you your time back. You can be on your phone, or reading a book, no longer needing to be actively involved in the operation of vehicle." Rivian's driver assistance software won't stop there; the EV maker laid out plans on Thursday to enhance its capabilities all the way up to what it's calling "personal L4," a nod to the level set by the Society of Automotive Engineers that means a car can operate in a particular area with no human intervention. After that, Scaringe hinted that Rivian will be looking at competing with the likes of Waymo. "While our initial focus will be on personally owned vehicles, which today represent a vast majority of the miles driven in the United States, this also enables us to pursue opportunities in the ride-share space," he said. To help accomplish these lofty goals, Rivian has been building a "large driving model" (think: an LLM but for real-world driving), part of a move away from a rules-based framework for developing autonomous vehicles that has been led by Tesla. The company also showed off its own custom 5nm processor, which it says will be built in collaboration with both Arm and TSMC.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of copyright in the AI era, but the mother of all legal teams may now be gearing up for a fight. Disney has sent a cease and desist to Google, alleging the company's AI tools are infringing Disney's copyrights "on a massive scale." According to the letter, Google is violating the entertainment conglomerate's intellectual property in multiple ways. The legal notice says Google has copied a "large corpus" of Disney's works to train its gen AI models, which is believable, as Google's image and video models will happily produce popular Disney characters -- they couldn't do that without feeding the models lots of Disney data. The C&D also takes issue with Google for distributing "copies of its protected works" to consumers. So all those memes you've been making with Disney characters? Yeah, Disney doesn't like that, either. The letter calls out a huge number of Disney-owned properties that can be prompted into existence in Google AI, including The Lion King, Deadpool, and Star Wars. The company calls on Google to immediately stop using Disney content in its AI tools and create measures to ensure that future AI outputs don't produce any characters that Disney owns. Disney is famously litigious and has an army of lawyers dedicated to defending its copyrights. The nature of copyright law in the US is a direct result of Disney's legal maneuvering, which has extended its control of iconic characters by decades. While Disney wants its characters out of Google AI generally, the letter specifically cited the AI tools in YouTube. Google has started adding its Veo AI video model to YouTube, allowing creators to more easily create and publish videos. That seems to be a greater concern for Disney than image models like Nano Banana. "We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with Disney, and will continue to engage with them," Google said in a statement. "More generally, we use public data from the open web to build our AI and have built additional innovative copyright controls like Google-extended and Content ID for YouTube, which give sites and copyright holders control over their content." The cease and desist letter arrives at the same time the company announced a content deal with OpenAI. Disney said it's investing $1 billion in OpenAI via a three-year licensing deal that will let users generate AI-powered short videos and images featuring more than 200 characters.

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Google's Chrome team has built an experimental browser called Disco that takes a query or prompt, opens a cluster of related tabs, and then generates a custom application tailored to whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. The browser launched Thursday as an experiment in Google's Search Labs. GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google's Gemini AI models -- ask for travel tips and the system builds a planner app; ask for study help and it creates a flashcard system. Disco -- named partly for fun and partly as shorthand for "discovery" -- started as a hackathon project inside Google before catching the team's imagination. Parisa Tabriz, who leads the Chrome team, said that Disco is not intended as a general-purpose browser and is not an attempt to cannibalize Chrome. The experiment aims to test what happens when users move from simply having tabs to generating personalized, curated applications on demand. The capability relies on features in the recently launched Gemini 3, which can create one-off interactive interfaces and build miniature apps on the fly rather than just returning text or images.

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An acquisition announcement that flew under the radar yesterday but then I only noticed today with a GCC MAINTAINERS file update, "with the acquisition of Ventana Microsystems by Qualcomm..." Qualcomm has acquired Ventana as a RISC-V high performance CPU start-up...

Cisco's stock price touched $80.25 on Wednesday, finally eclipsing its dotcom-era peak of $80.06 set on March 27, 2000 -- when the networking giant briefly surpassed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company. The journey back took 25 years, eight months and 13 days. The company's fundamentals improved dramatically over that period, of course. Revenues have nearly quintupled since 1999, profits have quadrupled, earnings per share have grown eightfold, and margins have remained healthy throughout. Investors who bought at the peak still lost money to inflation for a generation. Cisco's trajectory draws obvious comparisons to Nvidia, today's dominant "picks and shovels" supplier for the AI boom. Nvidia trades at a price-to-earnings ratio above 45 and an enterprise value-to-sales ratio near 24. At its 2000 peak, Cisco traded at a P/E above 200 and EV/sales of 31.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed two bills aimed at regulating the use of AI in entertainment, requiring disclosure when ads feature AI-generated performers and mandating consent from heirs before a deceased person's likeness can be used commercially. Hochul described both measures as "first in the nation" policies during a signing ceremony at SAG-AFTRA's New York City offices. The first bill compels ad producers to disclose the use of synthetic performers, and the second requires companies to obtain consent from heirs or executors before using a person's name, image, or likeness for commercial purposes after their death. "We will have responsible AI policies in the state of New York," Hochul said. "It's a time where we do want to embrace innovation. But not to the detriment of people." The signing came the same day Disney announced a partnership allowing users of OpenAI's Sora to create clips featuring Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters.

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Uber has discontinued its monthly electric vehicle bonuses for drivers in the United States and Canada, marking the latest in a series of rollbacks from a company that once pledged to pour $800 million into helping its drivers transition away from gasoline-powered cars. The ride-hailing giant had previously eliminated its $1-per-ride EV perk last year, replacing it with monthly bonuses that required drivers to complete 200 rides. Those monthly payments are now gone too. The company is far behind its self-imposed climate targets. Uber had pledged to reach 100% EVs in London by 2025 and across North America and Europe by 2030. Current figures paint a different picture: roughly 40% of miles in London come from EVs, while Europe sits at about 15% and North America at just 9%. The company's emissions have nearly doubled over the past three years and now exceed Denmark's total carbon footprint. Uber executives acknowledged to Bloomberg that they will likely miss their green targets. The company has doled out $539 million of its $800 million pledge through the end of 2024. Meanwhile, Uber's operating profits are set to double this year, and the company recently committed $20 billion to stock buybacks.

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Une GeForce RTX 5060 Ti avec un TGP de 180 W entièrement alimentée par son slot principal ? Aucun connecteur additionnel PCIe 8pins ou 12V-2x6, pas même un petit HC-PWR planqué en dessous ? C'est bel et bien ce qu'a réalisé ZOTAC, mais dans un cadre précis qui ne laisse absolument pas espérer que la...