BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According to Kioxia, matching the same capacity with more common 30.72TB SSDs would require seven additional servers and another 280 drives. The companies are pitching the hardware squarely at AI and hyperscale workloads, where storage is rapidly becoming a bottleneck alongside compute. Kioxia claims the denser configuration can dramatically reduce power consumption and rack space requirements while remaining air cooled. The announcement also highlights how quickly enterprise storage capacities are escalating as organizations race to support larger AI models, massive datasets, and increasingly demanding data pipelines.

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Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0...

AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. "The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-based GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs like the Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S," reports Ars Technica. "In 'early 2027,' support will also be extended to the RDNA2 architecture, which includes the Radeon RX 6000 series, integrated GPUs like the Radeon 680M, and the Steam Deck's GPU. This would also open the door to supporting FSR 4 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, all of which also use RDNA2-based GPUs." From the report: [AMD Computing and Graphics SVP Jack Huynh's] short video presentation didn't get into performance comparisons, but did mention that AMD had to work to get FSR 4's superior hardware-backed upscaling working on its older graphics architectures. RDNA4 includes AI accelerators that support the FP8 data format in the hardware, and porting FSR 4 to older GPUs meant getting it running on the integer-based INT8 hardware in the RDNA3 and RDNA2-based GPUs. This may mean that FSR 4.1 running on an RDNA3 or RDNA2-based GPU may come with a larger performance hit relative to RDNA4 cards, or that image quality may differ slightly. Modders have already worked to get FSR4 working on INT8-supporting GPUs, and the older GPUs reportedly see a 10 to 20 percent performance hit relative to FSR 3.1 running on the same hardware. AMD's official implementation may or may not improve on these numbers. [...] Any games that support FSR 4 should be able to support FSR 4.1 running on Radeon 7000-series cards; users will presumably be able to install a driver update in July that enables the new feature. Games that support the older FSR 3.1 can also be forced to use FSR 4 in the Radeon graphics driver.

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Bitwarden appears to be undergoing a quiet shift in leadership and messaging. Its longtime CEO and CFO have stepped down, while the company has removed "Always free" from a prominent password-manager page and replaced "Inclusion" and "Transparency" in its GRIT values with "Innovation" and "Trust." Fast Company reports: In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of both Acquia and Insightsoftware, touts his experience with "all facets of mergers and acquisitions" on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms. CFO Stephen Morrison also left Bitwarden in April, replaced by former InVision CEO Michael Shenkman. Both Crandell and Morrison joined the company in 2019. Kyle Spearrin, who started Bitwarden as a fun hobby project in 2015, remains the company's CTO. Meanwhile, Bitwarden has made some subtle tweaks to its website. The page for its personal password manager no longer includes the phrase "Always free." Previously this appeared under the "Pick a plan" section partway down the page, but that section no longer mentions the free plan, though it remains available elsewhere on the page. Bitwarden made this change in mid-April, according to the Internet Archive. Bitwarden has also stopped listing "Inclusion" and "Transparency" as tentpole values on its careers page. The company has long defined its values with the acronym "GRIT," which used to stand for "Gratitude, Responsibility, Inclusion, and Transparency." After May 4, it changed the acronym to stand for "Gratitude, Responsibility, Innovation, and Trust." The phrase "inclusive environment" still appears under a description of Gratitude, while "transparency" is mentioned under the Trust heading. They're just no longer the focus.

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Merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel is some new documentation surrounding what qualifies as a security bug as well as around responsible use of AI for finding kernel bugs...

Google has confirmed it is testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail accounts, with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number. Android Authority reports: While the company didn't mention which regions are impacted, user reports from yesterday were mostly from African countries. That said, if Google's tests prove successful, this could possibly become the norm for new sign-ups in more regions. The company could be testing ways to discourage users from creating multiple Gmail accounts to access free cloud storage. However, if you already have a Gmail account with 15GB free storage, it shouldn't be impacted by this change. The language on Google's support page mentions "up to 15GB of storage." However, it's a recent change. An archived version of the support page from February did not use the words "up to." Whether the test has been running since early March or Google updated its language before it ever started the test, it's evident that the company could roll out the change globally as well.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly's appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major win for Stop Killing Games' grassroots game preservation movement and comes over the objections of industry lobbyists at the Entertainment Software Association. California's Protect Our Games Act, as currently written, would require digital game publishers who cut off support for an online game to either provide a full refund to players or offer an updated version of the game "that enables its continued use independent of services controlled by the operator." The act would also require publishers to notify players 60 days before the cessation of "services necessary for the ordinary use of the digital game." As currently amended, the act would not apply to completely free games and games offered "solely for the duration of [a] subscription. Any other game offered for sale in California on or after January 1, 2027, would be subject to the law if it passes. [...] In a formal statement of support for the bill sent to the California legislature, SKG wrote that "there is no other medium in which a product can be marketed and sold to a consumer and then ripped away without notice As live service games rise in popularity for game developers and gamers alike, end-of-life procedures are essential tools to ensure prolonged access to the games consumers pay to enjoy." The Entertainment Software Association, which helps represent the interests of major game publishers, publicly told the California Assembly last month that the bill misrepresents how modern game distribution actually works. "Consumers receive a license to access and use a game, not an unrestricted ownership interest in the underlying work," the ESA wrote. The eventual shutdown of outdated or obsolete games is "a natural feature of modern software," the group added, especially when that software requires online infrastructure maintenance. The ESA also said the bill would impose unreasonable expectations on publishers regarding licensing rights for music or IP rights, which are often negotiated on a time-limited basis. "A legal requirement to keep games playable indefinitely could place publishers in an impossible position -- forcing them to renegotiate licenses indefinitely or alter games in ways that may not be legally or technically feasible," they wrote.

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A new patch for the Linux kernel posted today by Intel has outed "Panther Lake R" as a ruggedized variant of Panther Lake intended for harsh environments...

OpenAI is previewing a feature that lets ChatGPT Pro users connect bank and investment accounts through Plaid, allowing the chatbot to analyze spending, subscriptions, balances, portfolios, debt, and major financial decisions. "More than 200 million people are already going to ChatGPT every month with finance questions -- from budgeting to tips on how to cut back on spending," OpenAI said in its announcement. "Now, users can securely connect their financial accounts with Plaid to get the full view of their financial picture in the context of their personal goals, lifestyle, and priorities that they've shared with ChatGPT, powered by OpenAI's advanced reasoning capabilities." The Verge reports: When financial accounts are connected, OpenAI says that ChatGPT users can view a dashboard that details their spending history, including any active subscriptions. Users can also ask it to help with financial decisions like buying a house or signing up for credit cards and flag any changes in spending habits. This financial feature will be initially available to users in the US who subscribe to ChatGPT's $200-per-month Pro tier. "We'll learn and improve from early use before rolling it out to Plus, with the goal of making it available to everyone," says OpenAI. To assuage concerns, OpenAI promises users "control over their data," including the ability to disconnect their bank accounts from ChatGPT at any time, though the company has up to 30 days to delete your data from its systems. You can also view and delete "financial memories" like goals or financial obligations saved by the chatbot. User control extends to whether your data is fed back into AI models -- users can enable the option to "Improve the model for everyone" to allow financial data in their ChatGPT conversations to be used for training AI, for example. OpenAI also says ChatGPT can't make any changes to your bank accounts or see "full account numbers."

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ArXiv says it will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing AI-generated slop, such as hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in the manuscript. "If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s)," said Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, on X. "We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper." 404 Media reports: Examples of incontrovertible evidence, he wrote, include "hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ('here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?'; 'the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments.'" "The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue," Dietterich wrote. Dietterich told [404 Media] in an email on Friday morning that this is a one-strike rule -- meaning authors caught just once including AI slop in submissions will be banned -- but that decisions will be open to appeal. "I want to emphasize that we only apply this to cases of incontrovertible evidence," he said. "I should also add that our internal process requires first a moderator to document the problem and then for the Section Chair to confirm before imposing the penalty."

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Les noms chez MSI, c'est souvent la prise de tête, surtout en ce qui concerne les dernières lettres des références en matière de moniteurs. Si on vous dit que le MSI MAG OLED 271QPX32 arrive, hormis le fait que vous avez compris qu'il s'agit d'un écran OLED, que c'est un 27", et que le Q signifie 25...

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Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: A group of Michigan lawmakers has introduced a bill in Congress that would effectively place a permanent ban on Chinese connected vehicles from being sold in the United States. While an executive order signed by Joe Biden in early 2025 already imposed heavy restrictions, the new bill would codify and expand on the ban, as first reported by Autoweek and explained in a release by the House of Representatives Select Committee on China. The bill, titled the Connected Vehicle Security Act, was co-signed by John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican, and Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat. It joins a companion version of the same Connected Vehicle Security Act introduced last month to the Senate by Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat. While the wording is similar to that found in former President Biden's January 2025 executive order, the new bill would codify the language into law, as well as determine rules for compliance and enforcement. Specifically, the new bill would restrict Chinese automakers from selling passenger cars in the United States if those vehicles contain any China-developed connectivity software. Officially, the bill covers the sale of vehicles from states deemed "foreign adversary countries," which include China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. The proposed legislation arrives as Chinese automakers including Chery, Geely, and BYD (maker of the 2026 BYD Dolphin Surf, shown above), continue to rise in prominence in foreign markets around the world. "Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons," comments sinij. "Connected cars that spy on consumers are not a uniquely Chinese problem and should be addressed for all vehicles."

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ASUS arrive officiellement sur le marché de la mémoire DDR5 desktop avec un premier kit estampillé ROG. Le produit a été présenté en Chine lors du ROG DAY 2026, dans le cadre des 20 ans de la marque Republic of Gamers. Son nom complet est ROG DDR5 RGB Edition 20e anniversaire, ce qui donne assez vite le ton : nous sommes face à un kit anniversaire, pensé autant pour l'image que pour la fiche technique. Le kit annoncé repose sur deux barrettes de 24 Go, pour un total de 48 Go. ASUS indique une fréquence de DDR5-6000, avec des timings en CL26-36-36-76. Les modules utiliseraient des puces SK hynix M-die, avec prise en charge des profils AMD EXPO et Intel XMP. On retrouve également un éclairage RGB compatible Aura Sync, une garantie à vie et un habillage noir, rouge et doré qui colle très fortement au langage visuel ROG. […]

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ZDNet a appris du parquet de Paris qu’un jeune homme de 19 ans, de retour de vacances en Thaïlande, a été mis en examen et placé en détention provisoire ce jeudi 14 mai.

Il est soupçonné d’être le créateur de « C3N Backup », un portail qui usurpait le nom et le logo du Centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques (C3N) de la gendarmerie.

• À l’approche des JOP de Paris, la gendarmerie explicite la réorganisation de ses unités cyber

Le site proposait d’accéder à des informations d’identification à partir de différents critères : identité, téléphone, adresse e-mail ou plaque d’immatriculation.

Le parquet de Paris explique qu’il s’agissait d’un site de « lookup », du nom des services illégaux agrégeant des bases de données illicites à des fins malveillantes. Il permettait en outre d’obtenir des identifiants bancaires, données médicales ou liées à la détention d’armes à feu.

ZDNet a appris du parquet de Paris qu’un jeune homme de 19 ans, de retour de vacances en Thaïlande, a été mis en examen et placé en détention provisoire ce jeudi 14 mai.

Il est soupçonné d’être le créateur de « C3N Backup », un portail qui usurpait le nom et le logo du Centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques (C3N) de la gendarmerie.

• À l’approche des JOP de Paris, la gendarmerie explicite la réorganisation de ses unités cyber

Le site proposait d’accéder à des informations d’identification à partir de différents critères : identité, téléphone, adresse e-mail ou plaque d’immatriculation.

Le parquet de Paris explique qu’il s’agissait d’un site de « lookup », du nom des services illégaux agrégeant des bases de données illicites à des fins malveillantes. Il permettait en outre d’obtenir des identifiants bancaires, données médicales ou liées à la détention d’armes à feu.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after taking an over $9 billion hit over its failed EV bet, leading to its biggest loss in company history. Honda admitted it was "unable to deliver products that offer value for money better than that of new EV manufacturers, resulting in a decline in competitiveness," after suddenly announcing plans to cancel three new EVs in the US in March, warning restructuring costs could reach 2.5 trillion yen ($15.7 billion). After posting its first annual loss since it became a publicly traded company in 1957 on Thursday, Honda's CEO Toshihiro Mibe revealed the company's comeback plans. Honda is no longer planning to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2040. Instead, Honda now aims "to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050," including a mix of EVs, hybrids, carbon-neutral fuels, and carbon-offset tech. Starting next year, Honda plans to begin introducing its next-gen hybrids, underpinned by a new hybrid system and platform. Honda said it aims to improve fuel economy by over 10% in its upcoming hybrids. The new system is expected to help cut costs by over 30% compared to Honda's current hybrid system. By the end of the decade, Honda plans to launch 15 new hybrid models globally. In North America, its most important market, the company will introduce larger hybrids in the D-segment or above. Honda previewed two of the new hybrids during the business update: the Honda Hybrid Sedan Prototype and the Acura Hybrid SUV Prototype, which the company said will go on sale within the next two years.

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Microsoft est en train de revoir sa stratégie globale autour des pilotes Windows. La firme a présenté sa Driver Quality Initiative (DQI) lors de la WinHEC 2026 à Taipei... [Tout lire]

L’Autorité de la concurrence et des marchés britannique (Competition and Markets Authority, CMA) a déclaré que son enquête viserait à déterminer si le regroupement de Windows, Word, Excel, Teams, Copilot et d’autres produits constituait une pratique anticoncurrentielle tels que les licences cloud, rapporte l’agence Reuters.

L’enquête britannique examinera également comment les concurrents dans le domaine de l’IA ont pu s’intégrer aux logiciels professionnels de Microsoft, a déclaré la CMA. Dans son communiqué, elle indique vouloir recueillir l’avis des entreprises, y compris des start-ups technologiques, des clients et des concurrents, afin de déterminer si leurs choix sont susceptibles d’être limités, « notamment en raison de la vente liée, du manque d’interopérabilité et des paramètres par défaut » :

« Des centaines de milliers d’entreprises et d’organismes du secteur public britanniques utilisent quotidiennement les logiciels professionnels de Microsoft (tels que Windows, Word, Excel, Teams et, de plus en plus, Copilot), avec plus de 15 millions d’utilisateurs professionnels à l’échelle de son écosystème. L’écosystème de Microsoft joue donc un rôle important pour la productivité de l’économie britannique. »

Un porte-parole de Microsoft a déclaré que l’entreprise américaine était « déterminée à collaborer rapidement et de manière constructive avec la CMA afin de faciliter son examen du marché des logiciels d’entreprise ».

Reuters rappelle que Microsoft fait déjà l’objet d’enquêtes antitrust à l’échelle mondiale, notamment au sein de l’Union européenne et aux États-Unis, portant sur ses logiciels d’entreprise, ses activités de cloud computing et ses partenariats dans le domaine de l’intelligence artificielle.

• Suites bureautiques européennes : la bataille de l’alternative à Microsoft et Google

L’Autorité de la concurrence et des marchés britannique (Competition and Markets Authority, CMA) a déclaré que son enquête viserait à déterminer si le regroupement de Windows, Word, Excel, Teams, Copilot et d’autres produits constituait une pratique anticoncurrentielle tels que les licences cloud, rapporte l’agence Reuters.

L’enquête britannique examinera également comment les concurrents dans le domaine de l’IA ont pu s’intégrer aux logiciels professionnels de Microsoft, a déclaré la CMA. Dans son communiqué, elle indique vouloir recueillir l’avis des entreprises, y compris des start-ups technologiques, des clients et des concurrents, afin de déterminer si leurs choix sont susceptibles d’être limités, « notamment en raison de la vente liée, du manque d’interopérabilité et des paramètres par défaut » :

« Des centaines de milliers d’entreprises et d’organismes du secteur public britanniques utilisent quotidiennement les logiciels professionnels de Microsoft (tels que Windows, Word, Excel, Teams et, de plus en plus, Copilot), avec plus de 15 millions d’utilisateurs professionnels à l’échelle de son écosystème. L’écosystème de Microsoft joue donc un rôle important pour la productivité de l’économie britannique. »

Un porte-parole de Microsoft a déclaré que l’entreprise américaine était « déterminée à collaborer rapidement et de manière constructive avec la CMA afin de faciliter son examen du marché des logiciels d’entreprise ».

Reuters rappelle que Microsoft fait déjà l’objet d’enquêtes antitrust à l’échelle mondiale, notamment au sein de l’Union européenne et aux États-Unis, portant sur ses logiciels d’entreprise, ses activités de cloud computing et ses partenariats dans le domaine de l’intelligence artificielle.

• Suites bureautiques européennes : la bataille de l’alternative à Microsoft et Google