Double face

Sur X, un compte de soutien à Donald Trump aux apparences organiques est en réalité géré par la Maison-Blanche. Une mécanique qui vient s’ajouter à d’autres déséquilibres de la plateforme en faveur des discours conservateurs.

Son pseudo : Johnny MAGA. Suivi par plus de 300 000 personnes sur X, ce compte pro-Trump participe directement au récit porté par la Maison-Blanche.

Dans les heures qui ont suivi la mort de Renee Good, tuée par un agent de l’ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, le service de l’immigration et des douanes des États-Unis), le compte Johnny MAGA était au nombre de ceux republiant des images de drapeaux enflammés, affirmant qu’ils « brûlent le drapeau américain à Minneapolis ». Régulièrement, il republie à destination de son audience des publications faites par Trump sur son réseau Truth Social, quand il ne s’attaque pas aux opposants démocrates du Président.

Administré par le responsable des comptes de la Maison Blanche

Mais s’il cultive une apparence d’indépendance, qui pourrait le faire passer pour un soutien de Donald Trump parmi d’autres, le compte de « Johnny MAGA » serait en réalité administré par un membre des équipes de la Maison Blanche, rapporte Wired.

Selon des recoupements de numéros de téléphone et la confirmation de source interne à l’administration, le compte serait même géré par un spécialiste de ce type de sujets : Garett Wade, employé comme « rapid response manager », notamment en charge du compte officiel de la Maison Blanche sur X.

Si le cas mérite une attention particulière, c’est notamment parce qu’il a été cité par plusieurs médias traditionnels comme représentant (parmi d’autres) d’opinions supposément émises naturellement par une partie de la population états-unienne. Ainsi du New York Post, de Mother Jones ou de TownHall, liste Wired.

L’absence de transparence sur les liens de ce type de compte avec la Maison Blanche est de nature à renforcer la perte de confiance du public envers son administration. Pour le spécialiste de la désinformation Samuel Wooley, il s’agit même d’un conflit d’intérêts évident, alors même que Donald Trump a su, historiquement, s’entourer de créateurs et créatrices de contenus soutenant ses idées.

Écosystème orienté

Le cas est par ailleurs détecté alors qu’une nouvelle étude publiée dans Nature démontre l’orientation politique du système algorithmique de X. Nombreux sont les représentants politiques et les journalistes (y compris français) qui recourent toujours à la plateforme, sans nécessairement noter que le flux algorithmique « For You » ou « Pour vous » leur suggère des contenus à la tonalité différente du flux chronologique « Followers » ou « Abonnés ».

Loin d’être neutre, le système automatisé de hiérarchisation de l’information promeut plus régulièrement les contenus conservateurs, ce qui pousse les usagers à s’abonner à un nombre croissant d’activistes conservateurs, dont ils continuent de suivre les activités si jamais ils changent de système pour adopter le flux chronologique.

Autrement dit, si l’on reprend l’exemple du compte de la Maison-Blanche, ses publications peuvent profiter d’une double amplification difficilement perceptible par le public : celle d’un compte géré directement par la Maison-Blanche comme celui de Johnny MAGA, sans que cela ne soit rendu évident, et celui d’un flux algorithmique orienté en faveur des thématiques et propos portés par le président des États-Unis. En France, l’Arcom vient d’ailleurs d’être saisie au motif que X s’ouvre par défaut sur l’onglet « Pour vous » plutôt que sur son fil chronologique « Abonnés », rapporte L’Informé.

La question de la transparence des partis politiques sur leur manière de diffuser des contenus en ligne n’est pas spécifique au Parti républicain, relève Wired. Le Parti démocrate s’est ainsi avéré avoir recruté plus de 90 créateurs de contenu et les avoir payés de 250 à 8 000 dollars par mois pour publier des contenus numériques en leur faveur.

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Double face

Sur X, un compte de soutien à Donald Trump aux apparences organiques est en réalité géré par la Maison-Blanche. Une mécanique qui vient s’ajouter à d’autres déséquilibres de la plateforme en faveur des discours conservateurs.

Son pseudo : Johnny MAGA. Suivi par plus de 300 000 personnes sur X, ce compte pro-Trump participe directement au récit porté par la Maison-Blanche.

Dans les heures qui ont suivi la mort de Renee Good, tuée par un agent de l’ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, le service de l’immigration et des douanes des États-Unis), le compte Johnny MAGA était au nombre de ceux republiant des images de drapeaux enflammés, affirmant qu’ils « brûlent le drapeau américain à Minneapolis ». Régulièrement, il republie à destination de son audience des publications faites par Trump sur son réseau Truth Social, quand il ne s’attaque pas aux opposants démocrates du Président.

Administré par le responsable des comptes de la Maison Blanche

Mais s’il cultive une apparence d’indépendance, qui pourrait le faire passer pour un soutien de Donald Trump parmi d’autres, le compte de « Johnny MAGA » serait en réalité administré par un membre des équipes de la Maison Blanche, rapporte Wired.

Selon des recoupements de numéros de téléphone et la confirmation de source interne à l’administration, le compte serait même géré par un spécialiste de ce type de sujets : Garett Wade, employé comme « rapid response manager », notamment en charge du compte officiel de la Maison Blanche sur X.

Si le cas mérite une attention particulière, c’est notamment parce qu’il a été cité par plusieurs médias traditionnels comme représentant (parmi d’autres) d’opinions supposément émises naturellement par une partie de la population états-unienne. Ainsi du New York Post, de Mother Jones ou de TownHall, liste Wired.

L’absence de transparence sur les liens de ce type de compte avec la Maison Blanche est de nature à renforcer la perte de confiance du public envers son administration. Pour le spécialiste de la désinformation Samuel Wooley, il s’agit même d’un conflit d’intérêts évident, alors même que Donald Trump a su, historiquement, s’entourer de créateurs et créatrices de contenus soutenant ses idées.

Écosystème orienté

Le cas est par ailleurs détecté alors qu’une nouvelle étude publiée dans Nature démontre l’orientation politique du système algorithmique de X. Nombreux sont les représentants politiques et les journalistes (y compris français) qui recourent toujours à la plateforme, sans nécessairement noter que le flux algorithmique « For You » ou « Pour vous » leur suggère des contenus à la tonalité différente du flux chronologique « Followers » ou « Abonnés ».

Loin d’être neutre, le système automatisé de hiérarchisation de l’information promeut plus régulièrement les contenus conservateurs, ce qui pousse les usagers à s’abonner à un nombre croissant d’activistes conservateurs, dont ils continuent de suivre les activités si jamais ils changent de système pour adopter le flux chronologique.

Autrement dit, si l’on reprend l’exemple du compte de la Maison-Blanche, ses publications peuvent profiter d’une double amplification difficilement perceptible par le public : celle d’un compte géré directement par la Maison-Blanche comme celui de Johnny MAGA, sans que cela ne soit rendu évident, et celui d’un flux algorithmique orienté en faveur des thématiques et propos portés par le président des États-Unis. En France, l’Arcom vient d’ailleurs d’être saisie au motif que X s’ouvre par défaut sur l’onglet « Pour vous » plutôt que sur son fil chronologique « Abonnés », rapporte L’Informé.

La question de la transparence des partis politiques sur leur manière de diffuser des contenus en ligne n’est pas spécifique au Parti républicain, relève Wired. Le Parti démocrate s’est ainsi avéré avoir recruté plus de 90 créateurs de contenu et les avoir payés de 250 à 8 000 dollars par mois pour publier des contenus numériques en leur faveur.

• Comment les mouvements politiques français jouent des techniques de manipulation de l’information sur les réseaux sociaux

Le jeu Gotham Knights se passe, enfin, de la protection Denuvo, rappelons que le titre fut proposé le 21 octobre 2022, il aura donc fallu attendre plus de trois années pour que cela rrive... Cela pourra, ou pas, vous persuader d'entamer l'aventure, le titre promettait de découvrir un Gotham City, sans Batman, le héros masquée étant mort, la relève se devait d'assurer un semblant d'ordre dans la célèbre cité ! Qui pour devenir le descendant de Batman ?Batman est mort. Un monde criminel a envahi les rues de Gotham City. Il appartient maintenant à la Batman Family (Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood et Robin) de défendre Gotham, de redonner espoir à ses citoyens, de discipliner ses policiers et d'inspirer la peur à ses criminels. Résolvez les mystères qui lient les chapitres les plus sombres de l'histoire de la ville et triomphez de célèbres vilains dans des affrontements épiques. […]

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Un nouveau trailer vient d'être dévoilé par le studio IO Interactive pour son futur titre 007 First Light, avec une guest star vraiment rock and roll, en la personne de Lenny Kravitz. The Pirate King Bawma : un Lenny plus vrai que nature ! Le célèbre chanteur prête sa voix et ses traits à un personnage clé du jeu 007 First Light, surnommé The Pirate King Bawma, fantasque marchand d'armes à la langue bien pendue, la rencontre avec notre jeune James Bond s'annonce fraccassante !Suite à un acte de bravoure, James Bond, jeune membre de la Navy, est enrôlé dans le programme Double 0. Mais quand une mission visant à neutraliser un espion séditieux s'achève en tragédie, il doit s'allier à son mentor Greenway pour dévoiler une conspiration menaçant le cœur même du pouvoir. DEVENEZ 007 Découvrez l'histoire inédite et revisitée des origines de James Bond, et suivez le parcours tumultueux d'un jeune héros devenu le meilleur agent du MI6. […]

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As the Mobile World Conference begins in Spain, Lenovo brought a new attachable accessory for their laptops — an AI agent. CNET reports: The little circular module perches on the top of your Lenovo laptop display, attached via the magnetic Magic Bay on the rear. The module is home to an adorable animated companion called Tiko, who you can interact with via text or voice... [I]t can start and stop your music, open a web page for you or answer a question. You can also interact with it by using emoji. Give it a book emoji, for example, and it will pop on its glasses and sit reading with you while you work... The company wants to sell the Magic Bay accessory later this year — although it doesn't know exactly when, or how much it will cost. It even comes with a timer (for working in Pomodoro-style intervals) — but Lenovo has also created another "concept" AI companion that CNET describes as "a kind of stationary tabletop robot, not dissimilar to the Pixar lamp, but with an orb for a head." With a combination of cameras, microphones and projectors, the AI Workmate can undertake a variety of tasks, including helping you generate and display presentations or turn your written work or art into a digital asset... It's robotic head swivelled around and projected the slides onto the wall next to me. Lenovo created a video to show this "next-generation AI work companion" — with animated eyes — "designed to transform how modern professionals interact with their workspace." It bridges the physical and digital worlds — capturing handwritten notes, recognizing gestures, summarizing tasks, and proactively helping you stay ahead of your day. The moment you sit down, Lenovo AI Workmate greets you, surfaces priority tasks, and keeps your work organized without switching apps or losing context. From turning sketches into presentations to projecting information for instant collaboration, [it] brings on-device AI intelligence directly to your desk — secure, responsive, and always ready... It's not just software. It's a smarter way to work. It looks like Lenovo once considered naming it "AI Sphere" (since that name still appears in its description on YouTube). Lenovo also showed another "concept" laptop idea that PC Magazine called "futuristic": The ThinkBook Modular AI PC looks like a traditional laptop at first glance, but a second, removable screen fastens onto the lid. You can swap that screen onto the keyboard deck (in place of the keyboard, which can then be used wirelessly), or use it alongside the laptop as a portable monitor, attached via an included cable.... While Lenovo is still working on this device, and it's very much in the concept phase, it feels like one of its best-thought-out prototypes, one likely to make it to store shelves at some point. Another "concept" laptop is Lenovo's Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept, ofering directional backlight and eye-tracking technology for the illusion of 3D (playing slightly different images to each of your eyes). It offers gesture control for 3D models, two OLED displays, and some magical "snap-on pads" which, when laid on the display — make the GUI appear on the screen for a new control menu to "provide quick-access shortcuts for adjusting lighting, viewing angle, and tone".

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If U.S. automakers turn their backs on electric vehicles, "their sales outside the U.S. will shrivel," warns Bloomberg. [Alternate URL.] They're already falling behind on the technology, relying on a 100% U.S. tariff on Chinese EVs to keep surging rivals like BYD Co. at bay.... While the American automakers "mostly understand the challenge in front of them, they don't have full plans" to confront it [said Mark Wakefield, head of the global automotive practice at consultant AlixPartners]... "Now is a great time for the V-8 engine," said Ryan Shaughnessy, the Mustang's brand manager. "We've done extensive customer research in multiple cities, looking at a variety of powertrains, and the V-8 is always the number-one choice." It isn't just customers. U.S. automakers have long been run by "car guys:" enthusiasts who live for the bone-shaking rumble of a big engine. For them, quiet and smooth EVs — even the absurdly fast ones — can't satisfy that craving. They're convinced many American car buyers share the same enthusiasm for what Shaughnessy described as "the sound and roar of the V-8." Wall Street couldn't be happier with the new direction... Ford's fortunes are also on the rise, as it's predicting operating profits could grow by as much as 47% this year to $10 billion. Ford's stock has risen nearly 50% over the last 12 months. Under the previous environmental rules, automakers effectively had to sell zero-emission vehicles in growing numbers to offset their gas-guzzlers. When they fell short, they had to buy regulatory credits from EV companies such as Tesla Inc. or face penalties. GM spent $3.5 billion on credits from 2022 to the middle of 2025. Now, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ryan Brinkman, GM and Ford each have "billion dollar tailwinds"... [T]he hangover from all that new horsepower could leave US automakers lagging their Chinese rivals who already build the world's most advanced — and lowest priced — electric cars. Indeed, there is much talk in Detroit about the competitive tsunami that will be unleashed on American automakers once Chinese car companies find a way to break through trade barriers now protecting the US market. [Ford Chief Executive Officer Jim] Farley even calls it an "existential threat"... "They're going to build as many V-8 engines and big trucks as they can get out the factory doors," said Sam Fiorani, vice president of vehicle forecasting for consultant Auto Forecast Solutions. "And as the rest of the world develops modern drivetrains, newer batteries and better electric vehicles, GM and Ford in particular are going to find themselves falling even further behind." The article notes GM "continues to develop battery-powered vehicles, and CEO Mary Barra said the automaker would begin offering a 'handful' of hybrids soon," while Ford and Stellantis "have plans to launch extended-range electric vehicles, or EREVs, a new kind of plug-in hybrid with an internal combustion engine that recharges the battery as the vehicle drives down the road." But while automakers may be investing in future EV vehicles, they're also "leaning into the lucre that comes from selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles in a rare moment of loosened regulation."

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The second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.0 is now available for testing...

The Norwegian Consumer Council, a government funded organization advocating for consumer's rights, released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways consumers for consumers to resist. But they've also dramatized the problem with a funny four-minute video about the man whose calls for him to make things shitty for people. "It's not just your imagination. Digital services are getting worse," the video concludes — before adding that "Luckily, it doesn't have to be this way." The Consumer Council's announcement recommends: Stronger rights for consumers to control, adapt, repair, and alter their products and services, Interoperability, data portability, and decentralisation as the norm, so the threshold for moving to different services becomes as low as possible, Deterrent and vigorous enforcement of competition law, so that Big Tech companies are not allowed to indiscriminately acquire start-ups, competitors or otherwise steer the market to their advantage, Better financing of initiatives to build, maintain or improve alternative digital services and infrastructure based on open source code and open protocols, Reduce public sector dependence on big tech, to regain control and to contribute to a functioning market for service providers that respect fundamental rights, Deterrent and consistent enforcement of other laws, including consumer and data protection law. The Norwegian Consumer Council is also joining 58 organisations and experts in a letter asking the Norwegian government to rebalance power with enforcement resources and by prioritizing the procurement of services based on open source code. And "Our sister organisations are sending similar letters to their own governments in 12 countries." They're also sending a second letter to the European Commission with 29 civil society organisations (including the EFF and Amnesty International) warning about the risks of deregulation and calling for reducing dependency on big tech. Thanks to Slashdot reader DeanonymizedCoward for sharing the news.

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La semaine dernière, nous vous avions proposé note Performance Test du du dernier épisode de la saga Resident Evil, alias Requiem, un jeu qui n'est pas un remaster mais bel et bien une nouvelle création dans l'univers franchement fécond de la saga. Nous avons ajouté 3 cartes au catalogue, ce sont le...

"Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises," reports New Scientist: Kenneth Payne at King's College London set three leading large language models — GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash — against each other in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival. The AIs were given an escalation ladder, allowing them to choose actions ranging from diplomatic protests and complete surrender to full strategic nuclear war... In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models. "The nuclear taboo doesn't seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans," says Payne. What's more, no model ever chose to fully accommodate an opponent or surrender, regardless of how badly they were losing. At best, the models opted to temporarily reduce their level of violence. They also made mistakes in the fog of war: accidents happened in 86 per cent of the conflicts, with an action escalating higher than the AI intended to, based on its reasoning... OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, the companies behind the three AI models used in this study, didn't respond to New Scientist's request for comment. The article includes this comment from Tong Zhao, a senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace think tank. "It is possible the issue goes beyond the absence of emotion. More fundamentally, AI models may not understand 'stakes' as humans perceive them." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Tufriast for sharing the article.

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Slashdot reader JustAnotherOldGuy shared this report from the Guardian: Chronic ocean heating is fuelling a "staggering and deeply concerning" loss of marine life, a study has found, with fish levels falling by 7.2% from as little as 0.1C of warming per decade. Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1993 and 2021, and isolated the effect of the decadal rate of seabed warming from short shifts such as marine heatwaves. They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year. "To put it simply, the faster the ocean floor warms, the faster we lose fish," said Shahar Chaikin, a marine ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Spain and the study's lead author. "A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small," he added. "But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life."

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"Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government," reports Engadget, "but it's gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard." Anthropic's Claude AI assistant had already leaped to the #2 slot on Apple's chart by late Friday," CNBC reported Saturday: The rise in popularity suggests that Anthropic is benefiting from its presence in news headlines, stemming from its refusal to have its models used for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons... OpenAI's ChatGPT sat at No. 1 on the App Store rankings on Saturday, while Google's Gemini was at No. 3... On Jan. 30, [Claude] was ranked No. 131 in the U.S., and it bounced between the top 20 and the top 50 for much of February, according to data from analytics company Sensor Tower... [And Friday night, for 85.3 million followers] pop singer Katy Perry posted a screenshot of Anthropic's Pro subscription for consumers, with a heart superimposed over it. Sunday Engadget reported Anthropic's "very public spat" with the Pentagon "led to a wave of user support that finally allowed Claude to dethrone OpenAI's ChatGPT on the App Store as the most downloaded free app." . Friday Anthropic posted "We are deeply grateful to our users, and to the industry peers, policymakers, veterans, and members of the public who have voiced their support in recent days. Thank you. "

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"Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government," reports Engadget, "but it's gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard." Anthropic's Claude AI assistant had already leaped to the #2 slot on Apple's chart by late Friday," CNBC reported Saturday: The rise in popularity suggests that Anthropic is benefiting from its presence in news headlines, stemming from its refusal to have its models used for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons... OpenAI's ChatGPT sat at No. 1 on the App Store rankings on Saturday, while Google's Gemini was at No. 3... On Jan. 30, [Claude] was ranked No. 131 in the U.S., and it bounced between the top 20 and the top 50 for much of February, according to data from analytics company Sensor Tower... [And Friday night, for 85.3 million followers] pop singer Katy Perry posted a screenshot of Anthropic's Pro subscription for consumers, with a heart superimposed over it. Sunday Engadget reported Anthropic's "very public spat" with the Pentagon "led to a wave of user support that finally allowed Claude to dethrone OpenAI's ChatGPT on the App Store as the most downloaded free app" . Friday Anthropic posted "We are deeply grateful to our users, and to the industry peers, policymakers, veterans, and members of the public who have voiced their support in recent days. Thank you. "

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Engadget reports: In a lengthy post on Truth Social on February 27, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology" following strong disagreements between the Department of Defense and the AI company. A few hours later, the U.S. conducted a major air attack on Iran with the help of Anthropic's AI tools, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Even Trump's post noted there would be a six-month phase-out for Anthropic's technology (adding that Anthropic "better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.") Anthropic's Claude technology was also used by the U.S. military less than two months ago in its operation in Venezuela — reportedly making them the first AI developer known to be used in a classified U.S. War Department operation. The Wall Street Journal reported Anthropic's technology found its way into the mission through Anthropic's contract with Palintir.

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"Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States," reports TechCrunch, citing Edison Research's Share of Ear survey: The researchers have tracked these statistics over the last decade, and almost always, the percentage of time people spent listening to podcasts increased, while their time with spoken radio broadcasts decreased. For the first time this year, podcasts eclipsed spoken-word radio with 40% of listening time, as opposed to 39% for radio... We checked with Edison to see if these statistics include video podcasts, and they do. But the need to clarify that question points to the undeniable growing prevalence of video podcasts, hosted on platforms like Spotify and YouTube, which marks another key trend in podcasting... YouTube said that viewers watched 700 million hours of podcasts each month in 2025 on living room devices, like TVs, up from 400 million the previous year.

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"Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago," reports the Associated Press, "and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures, a new study found." Nearly half of the 261 species studied showed big enough losses in numbers to be statistically significant and more than half of those declining are seeing their losses accelerate since 1987, according to Thursday's journal Science... The only consolation is that the birds that are shrinking in numbers the fastest are species — such as the European starling, American crow, grackle and house sparrow — with large enough populations that they aren't yet at risk of going extinct, said study lead author Francois Leroy, also an Ohio State ecologist... When it came to population declines — not the acceleration — the scientists noticed bigger losses further south. When they did a deeper analysis they statistically connected those losses to warmer temperatures from human-caused climate change. "In regions where temperatures increase the most, we are seeing strongest declines in populations," [said study co-author Marta Jarzyna, an ecologist at Ohio State University]. "On the other hand, the acceleration of those declines, that's mostly driven by agricultural practices." The scientists found statistical correlations between speeded-up decline rates and high fertilizer use, high pesticide use and amount of cropland, Leroy said. He said they couldn't say any of those caused the acceleration of losses, but it indicates agriculture in general is a factor. "The stronger the agriculture, the faster we will lose birds," said Leroy... McGill University wildlife biologist David Bird, who wasn't part of the study, said it was done well and that its conclusions made sense. With a growing human population, agriculture practices are intensified, more bird habitats are being converted to cropland, modern machinery often grind up nests and eggs and single crop plantings offer less possibilities for birds to find food and nests, said Bird, the editor of Birds of Canada. "The biggest impact of agricultural intensity though is our war on insects. Numerous recent studies have shown that insect populations in many places throughout the world, including the U.S., have crashed by well over 40 percent," Bird said in an email. "Many of the birds in this new study showing population declines depend heavily on insects for food." A 2019 study of the same bird species by Cornell University conservation scientist Kenneth Rosenberg also found that North America had 3 billion fewer birds than in 1970, the article points out.

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Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: The Document Foundation (TDF), the organization behind LibreOffice, has decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project which been inactive since 2022. Collabora, a company that was a major contributor to the original LibreOffice Online, is not pleased with this development. After the original project went dormant, Collabora forked the code and created its own product, Collabora Online. Collaboras Michael Meeks, who also sits on the TDF board, reacted to the TDFs decision by saying that a fully supported, free online version already exists in the form of Collabora Online, and that resurrecting a dead repository makes little sense when an active, open community around the online suite already exists. For now, The Document Foundation plans to reopen the old repository for new contributions. The organization has issued a warning that the code is not ready for live deployment and users should wait until the development team confirms it is stable.

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In a library in Florence, Italy, historian Ivan Malara noticed handwritten notes on a book printed in the 1500s — and recognized the handwriting as Galileo's. The finding "promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science," writes Science magazine — since the book Galileo annotated was a reprint of Ptolemy's second-century work arguing that the earth was the center of the universe. Galileo's notes, perhaps written around 1590, or roughly 2 decades before his groundbreaking telescope observations of the Moon and Jupiter, reveal someone who both revered and critically dissected Ptolemy's work. And they imply, Malara argues, that Galileo ultimately broke with Ptolemy's cosmos because his mastery of the traditional paradigm's reasoning convinced him that a heliocentric [sun-centered] system would better fulfill Ptolemy's own mathematical logic.

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A big set of kernel patches look like they will be submitted for the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle this spring to optimize the scheduler HRTICK timer and in turn allowing it to be enabled by default...

On a vu passer pas mal de configs de folie, mais celle-ci dépasse tout ce que l'on a pu imaginer : Billet Labs vient de poster un PC gaming fini qui pèse la bagatelle de 99 kg. Oui, vous avez bien lu, 99 kilos de pure bête de course, un vrai mastodonte. Entre ses composants de rêve et son châssis en fonte, ce PC n'est pas fait pour être déplacé tous les quatre matins. Si vous pensiez qu'un RTX 5080 ou un Ryzen 7 9800X3D était impressionnant, attendez de voir l'ampleur de cette machine qui pourrait presque servir de chauffage d'appoint en hiver. […]

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