Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project...

"Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers. "The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today's 4+TB per disk toward 10TB per disk, eventually enabling 100TB-class drives." In a one-exabyte deployment, Seagate estimates Mozaic could improve infrastructure efficiency by roughly 47% compared to standard 30TB drives, cutting both footprint and energy consumption... HAMR uses a tiny laser to heat the disk surface during writes, allowing higher recording density without sacrificing stability. With most major cloud storage providers reportedly qualified on the Mozaic platform, Seagate is positioning spinning disks, not flash, as the long-term answer for cost-effective AI-scale data growth.

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Le 9 janvier 2024, à un mois du lancement du jeu, Sony dévoilait les configurations recommandées de la version PC de HELLDIVERS 2. Nous pouvions alors découvrir une taille recommandée de stockage disponible de 100 Go, sur SSD ou HDD. Avec le temps et les mises à jour, le jeu prenait de l’embonpoint...

"Reservation holders, it's finally time to get ready," writes long-time Slashdot reader AirHog. The EV news site Electrek reports: Aptera Motors, "the little startup that could," announced another important milestone... completing the first example of its flagship solar EV on its validation assembly line in Southern California... While the validation line at its headquarters remains a low-volume assembly process, its successful operation represents the startup's transition from hand-built validation SEVs to a more structured assembly line process that will be fine-tuned for mass production... With low-volume assembly now being validated, Aptera is starting to publicly utter encouraging terms like "EPA certification" and, better yet, that holy grail of "initial customer deliveries." Before then, however, the Aptera Solar EVs built on this low-volume validation line will be used for testing programs such as thermal validation, brake performance, and "some destructive testing." Aptera shared that its assembly and integration team has grown to become the largest at the startup, "reflecting the beginning of its transition from engineering development to testing and production execution"... As of March 2026, Aptera says it has over 50,000 reservations totaling over $2 billion in sales if all were to solidify following the launch of a deliverable vehicle. Clean Technica notes the vehicles' "generous cargo space that comes out to 60% more storage than a Honda Accord and 20% more storage than a Prius, according to the company." "Built with recyclable materials, this eco-friendly vehicle features a lightweight carbon fiber structure and no-welding assembly for maximum cost and production efficiency," Aptera adds. The emphasis on lightweighting supports the goal of engineering a car that can travel on the electricity provided by its onboard solar panels. The company currently advertises that the vehicle can travel 40 miles on solar power alone, with the battery providing extra juice as needed. Ideally, the car can keep recharging itself with sunlight, further elongating the time between charging sessions... [Its range is up to 1,000 miles with plug-in charging.] The new autocycle could also appeal to drivers who enjoy the challenge of hypermiling, which involves deploying a suite of driving techniques to minimize fuel consumption. Hypermiling can apply to gas-powered cars, but the magic really kicks in with the regenerative braking capability of EVs. Aptera's onboard solar panels add another dimension to the fun.

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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report. Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real-world events, offered customers favorable odds on Khamenei, 86, being "out as Supreme Leader" in response to the announcement of joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran in the early hours of Saturday morning. The company promoted the trade on its homepage and app and tweeted [last] Saturday: "BREAKING: The odds Ali Khamenei is out as Supreme Leader have surged to 68 percent." It continued: "Reminder: Kalshi does not offer markets that settle on death. If Ali Khamenei dies, the market will resolve based on the last traded price prior to confirmed reporting of death." Khamenei was later confirmed dead in the airstrikes and the company clarified in a follow-up post: "Please note: A prior version of this clarification was grammatically ambiguous. As a customer service measure, Kalshi will reimburse lost value due to trades made between these clarifications...." While the company has offered to reimburse any bets, fees or losses from the trade placed prior to its clarification message, it has nevertheless attracted a firestorm of complaints on social media. A Kalshi spokesperson told Reuters they'd reimbursed "net losses" out of pocket "to the tune of millions of dollars". But a class action lawsuit was filed Thursday saying Kalshi had failed to pay $54 million: Kalshi did not invoke a "death carveout" provision until after the Iranian leader was killed to avoid paying customers in Kalshi's "Khamenei Market" what they were owed, the lawsuit said... The language specifying that Khamenei's departure could be due to any cause, including death, was "clear, unambiguous and binary," the lawsuit said, describing Kalshi's actions as "deceptive" and "predatory." "In a notice filed Monday, the company proposed standardizing the terms of all its markets that implicitly depend on a person surviving..." reports Business Insider. "The update comes after Kalshi paid $2.2 million to resolve complaints from users who were confused by the way it divided the $55 million wagered on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ouster after his targeted killing by Israel and the US." Their article cites a DePaul University law professor who says "There's now sort of this nascent, but bipartisan movement against prediction markets. I think Kalshi's feeling the heat." For example, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy told the Washington Post, "People shouldn't be rooting for people to die because they placed a bet."

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AMD's GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16. With this new GAIA release is support for developing AI agents purely in C++ with no longer needing to depend upon Python...

Depuis des années déjà, les rumeurs étaient insistantes sur le fait que Google travaillait en coulisses à l'élaboration d'un nouveau système d'exploitation, visant grossièrement à fusionner son Chrome OS pour PC et son Android pour smartphones et tablettes en une seule entité. Les choses se sont acc...

Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content, addiction, and online threats. The rule will roll out starting March 28 and makes Indonesia the first country in Southeast Asia to impose such a restriction. The Guardian reports: Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Roblox and Bigo Live, a popular livestreaming site. With a population of about 285 million, the fourth-highest in the world, the south-east Asian nation represents a significant market for social networks. The implementation will start gradually from 28 March, until all platforms fulfill their compliance obligations. "The basis is clear. Our children face increasingly real threats. From exposure to pornography, cyberbullying, online fraud, and most importantly addiction. The government is here so that parents no longer have to fight alone against the giant of algorithms," Hafid said. She added that the government is taking this step as the best effort in the midst of a digital emergency to reclaim sovereignty over children's futures. "We realize that the implementation of this regulation may cause some discomfort at first. Children may complain and parents may be confused about how to respond to their children's complaints," Hafid said.

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Apocalypse already now

La guerre ne fait jamais dans la finesse, puisse-t-elle être à base de frappes chirurgicales menées par des bouchers enivrés par leurs nouveaux joujoux à télécommandes automatiques. L’intelligence artificielle est là pour ça, pour se salir les mains, les mettre dans le cambouis et vous driver toujours plus loin dans le mur, jusque dans vos lunettes de vue. On en regretterait presque les bons vieux conflits à l’ancienne entre vils humains, au moins on s’éclatait dans la joie et la chaleur humaine. Bon weekend quand même!

The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE desktop option from FreeBSD's text-based installer UI but also improved Realtek WiFi adapter support is on the way, updating of the graphics drivers from Linux, and more...

Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft's .NET MAUI...

In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard...

Resources, the modern GNOME GTK4/libadwaita-based GUI application for system resource monitoring and an alternative to GNOME System Monitor, is out with a new update. Resources 1.10.2 brings some nice improvements for those running GNOME on modern Intel hardware...

Après une 10è semaine de l’année marquée sous le sceau de l’anniversaire, la presse en ligne n’a que faire d’amasser encore et toujours plus de tests. Comme à l’accoutumée, les périphériques sont de sortie avec une double manette à la ferme du hardware, mais aussi une souris sur Frandroid et du clav...

Cette semaine, en comparant les prix relevés entre le 27 février 2026 et le 6 mars 2026, on constate que le marché des cartes graphiques reste globalement assez calme. Les variations sont limitées sur une majorité de références, mais quelques mouvements méritent tout de même d'être soulignés, notamment chez AMD, tandis que NVIDIA reste presque figé, sauf sur sa carte la plus extrême. Chez les rouges, ce sont surtout deux modèles qui attirent l'attention. La Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 Go passe de 459.90 euros à 409.90 euros, soit une baisse très nette de 50 euros. C'est tout simplement la plus forte diminution de la semaine. Même constat pour la RX 7800 XT, qui abandonne elle aussi 50 euros, en passant de 749.90 euros à 699.90 euros. Deux mouvements loin d'être anodins, qui permettent à AMD de repositionner un peu plus agressivement certaines références sur le milieu et le haut de gamme. La RX 9070 suit la même tendance, mais de façon plus mesurée, avec une baisse de 10 euros, de 659.90 euros à 649.90 euros. […]

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Comme souvent à la Ferme, la semaine a été rythmée par deux nouvelles vidéos hardware sur notre chaîne Cowcot TV. Au programme, deux produits très différents mais qui ont chacun leur petit quelque chose : un ventilateur très haut de gamme chez ASUS et un boitier Mini-ITX pensé pour les configurations compactes et performantes. On commence avec une vidéo consacrée au ASUS ProArt PF120. Comme souvent avec la gamme ProArt, ASUS joue ici clairement la carte du design et de la finition premium. Le ventilateur adopte un style très sobre, noir et doré, qui tranche avec l'avalanche de RGB que l'on retrouve habituellement sur le marché. Mais ce PF120 ne mise pas uniquement sur le look. Le modèle affiche également des caractéristiques intéressantes avec un format 120 mm, mais surtout une épaisseur de 28 mm, ce qui est supérieur aux ventilateurs classiques et permet en théorie d'améliorer les performances en pression statique et en débit d'air. Les pales en polymère renforcé et la conception générale visent clairement un usage aussi bien en boitier qu'en radiateur de watercooling. […]

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The Global Times reports: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for online download, the Global Times learned from the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center on Wednesday. A Chinese scientist said while several quantum computing operating system efforts are underway worldwide, this is the first developed in China where it is seen as part of China's broad effort to achieve technology independence and to achieve technology advance in quantum computing. The center said the release marks the world's first open-source quantum computer operating system available for public download, which is expected to lower development barriers and support the growth of China's quantum computing ecosystem. Developed by Hefei-based Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co, the company behind China's third-generation superconducting quantum computer, Origin Wukong, Origin Pilot was first launched in 2021 and has gone through multiple rounds of iteration and upgrade. The developer describes it as an integrated quantum-classical-intelligent computing operating system compatible with major hardware approaches, including superconducting qubits, trapped ions and neutral atoms. It is now deployed on the company's Origin Wukong series and is available to external users, the company said. Guo Guoping, chief scientist of Origin Quantum and director at the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center, told the Global Times that a quantum operating system is the "soft heart" of the quantum computing ecosystem. He said the decision to make Origin Pilot available globally marks a shift in China's quantum computing industry from closed-door tech innovation to broader open-source ecosystem development. Dou Menghan, head of the research team, said: "Users can quickly integrate with quantum chips of multiple physical types and, using autonomous programming frameworks such as QPanda, execute quantum computing jobs across different physical quantum chips to support both research and commercialization needs."

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Cette semaine, un rumeur bien laide lancée par Bloomberg est arrivée sur la toile, celle qui voudrait que Sony ne porte plus sur PC les jeux solo. Eh bien force est de constater qu'elle prend de l'ampleur et surtout de la consistance, et il y a une raison à cela. Comme vous le savez, Sony applique u...

Petit boitier, petite alimentation, petit PC portable, gros clavier coupé en deux petits morceaux, le ton est donné pour cette semaine ! S'il y a bien eu du lourd, c'est essentiellement avec des produits un peu plus petits que d'habitude, ce qui ne les empêche visiblement pas d'être très intéressants ! Pas besoin, en effet, d'avoir un gros boitier pour avoir une super configuration, y compris haut de gamme, tandis que les alimentations SFX offrent désormais autant que des modèles ATX. En revanche, ce n'est pas la même chose quand on prend un petit PC portable de 8", il y a forcément des concessions ! Mais comme vous pourrez le lire, si ce n'est pas déjà fait, il y a de bonnes idées. Bonne lecture à tous, et bon week-end sous ce grand soleil qui donne envie de rester devant un écran ! […]

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Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a report from the European Space Agency (ESA): Last year, an approximately 60 meter near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032. Now, that risk has been eliminated. Astronomers have confirmed that 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon using new observations made by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Instead, it will safely pass the Moon at a distance of more than 20 000 km.

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