Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from autoevolution: The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. Polestar will continue to sell its existing inventory of Polestar 3 and 4 crossovers in the United States and will continue to offer support to customers and access to its service network. But no new 2027 models will set wheels on American soil. The Connected Vehicle Rule is a regulation that restricts the import and sale of vehicles equipped with Vehicle Connectivity Systems (VCS) and Automated Driving Systems (ADS) tied to foreign adversaries, primarily from China and Russia. Polestar is owned by Chinese auto giant Geely, which has also been the parent company of Swedish brand Volvo since 2010. However, Volvo has recently been granted authorization to sell connected vehicles in the United States. The rule, set out by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), classifies modern vehicles as mobile data centers and is designed to protect national security by keeping sensitive driver data and vehicle control systems out of the hands of foreign governments. Michael Lohscheller, Polestar CEO, confirms that the company is well aware that the automotive industry is entering a new phase, based on regional dynamics. So, Polestar will shift its strategy to its biggest market as it is preparing its exit from the U.S. market. The report notes that Polestar sold 5,384 cars in the U.S. in 2025, with 60,119 units sold globally.

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The Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns. The model will initially be offered to a small group of partners, with the government "approving access customer by customer during this preview period," reports The Information. The request came from conversations with the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report said.

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The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...

BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, JPMorganChase, and others. Akrites will provide a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), a standardized coordinated vulnerability disclosure process, and act as a "maintainer of last resort" for abandoned but widely used packages. The goal is to reduce duplicate reports, avoid conflicting patches, and help upstream maintainers address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. As AI makes it easier to find security flaws, can a coordinated industry effort help protect open source, or does it risk giving large corporations too much influence over the ecosystem? "Akrites is the largest coordinated effort in history to create systems and deploy tooling that leverages the collective power of the community to make everyone safer," the Linux Foundation said in an open letter. "Akrites participants will contribute engineering resources; work to build and ship fixes; or fund the engineers who do. Some companies have contributed mightily already. The reality is, collectively, we need to contribute more."

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Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

Apple has sharply raised prices across its Mac, iPad, HomePod, and Apple TV lineups as surging AI-driven demand creates a global memory and storage shortage. Increases range from $30 for the HomePod mini to $1,300 for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio, with Apple CEO Tim Cook saying efforts to shield customers from higher costs had become "unsustainable." The Verge reports: On Thursday, the company adjusted the price of its new MacBook Neo, which will now start at $699 instead of $599, while the base MacBook Air will jump to $1,299 from $1,099, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The 14-inch MacBook Pro is getting an increase as well, going from $1,699 to $1,999. Meanwhile, the iPad Air will now start at $749 instead of $599, while the iPad Pro is increasing to $1,199 from $999. As spotted by MacRumors, the M4 Max Mac Studio will now cost $2,499, a big jump from $1,999. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now priced at $5,299, up from $3,999. Apple is even raising the prices of its HomePod, which now costs $349 instead of $299, as well as bumping the price of the HomePod mini to $129 instead of $99. The Apple TV also now costs $199 instead of $129.

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Hier, dans une actualité pourtant sur la Steam Machine de Valve à la base, nous écrivions ceci, telle une simple anecdote : Pour la petite histoire, concernant les consoles XBOX une rumeur récente évoque le fait que la patronne de Microsoft verrait d'un très mauvais œil le fait que la vente à perte...

LastPass says hackers stole customers' personal information, support case records, and sales data by breaching market research partner Klue. The password manager told TechCrunch that its own systems and password vaults were unaffected. However, the hackers used their access to obtain "reams of data about LastPass customers," the report says. From the report: In a blog post that shared information about the incident, LastPass said the hackers took customers' names, phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses, as well as customer support case data and sales-related data. It's not yet known what was in the contents of customer support tickets, although they likely contain fragments of potentially private or sensitive information. Customers typically contact customer service when they are having a billing issue or need assistance in gaining access to their accounts. Past incidents involving customer support tickets have included credentials and government-issued identity documents. The last data breach LastPass reported was in 2022, when hackers stole the company's entire store of customer password vaults.

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The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic has accused the Chinese firm Alibaba of launching the largest attack yet attempting to clone Claude, as China races to match the capabilities of Anthropic's leading model following Mythos' release and subsequent restriction from foreign markets. Ars obtained a June 10 letter sent to Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) one day ahead of a Senate committee hearing on "AI and the American Dream." In the letter, Anthropic shared "new, confidential evidence of the largest campaign to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities we have ever measured." The attacks occurred between April 22 and June 5, when "operators afliated with Alibaba and Alibaba Qwen, Alibaba's AI lab" allegedly generated "more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through almost 25,000 fraudulent accounts," Anthropic said. Violating Claude's terms of service and access restrictions, this campaign "targeted some of Claude's most valuable capabilities, such as agentic reasoning, software engineering, and long-horizon tasks." According to Anthropic, Alibaba evaded detection by "using obfuscation techniques and proxy networks." As Chinese demand for reliable obfuscation techniques increases, Anthropic warned there's already "a growing circumvention economy" to fuel an ever-expanding web of future distillation attacks. [...] "Alibaba is governed by an independent board, none of whom has any military affiliation," Alibaba said. "Its products and services are built for retail, logistics, and enterprise information technology -- not weapons, defense, or intelligence." Anthropic appears unconvinced, however, that Alibaba isn't working with the Chinese government. In the letter, Anthropic warned that without stronger interventions, these distillation attacks will "help China reach Mythos Preview-level capabilities sooner." To keep the US ahead of China, Anthropic recommended that Congress pass legislation with three objectives. First, antitrust laws must be updated to allow AI firms to share information about evolving Chinese tactics to deter more threats. Second, the US needs more export controls on chips to hamstring Chinese access to advanced compute so that they simply can't train on US model outputs. That could make conducting distillation attacks pointless, Anthropic suggested. Finally, Congress should pass laws penalizing Chinese labs' "bad behavior" so that it's "more difficult and costly" to rely on distillation attacks to advance Chinese models. Penalties could include limiting Chinese firms from accessing US models or advanced US chips or from relying on data centers outside of China, Anthropic suggested.

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Face à la crise actuelle des composants, c’est au tour de Microsoft de revenir en arrière sur la fin du support du vénérable Windows 10. La date butoir est repoussée d’un an. En espérant que d’ici le 12 octobre 2027, la situation du marché informatique se soit améliorée. Que les particuliers puissent basculer vers un Windows 11 en investissant dans une machine plus abordable.

La transition vers Windows 11 pose un peu plus de friction qu’anticipé. Il faut dire qu’avec des ordinateurs qui ont largement augmenté de prix, le grand public – comme pas mal de pros – n’a pas vraiment envie de se rééquiper.

La date du 12 octobre 2026 est donc encore repoussée d’une année complète. Les propriétaires de PC sous Windows 10 parfaitement fonctionnels pourront continuer à recevoir des mises à jour de sécurité. Tous les Windows 10 déjà inscrits au programme de mises à jour prolongé Windows ESU vont en profiter une année de plus. Il n’y a rien à faire de particulier, pas de formulaire à remplir ou de site à visiter, tout est totalement transparent. La prolongation reste également gratuite.

Windows 10 fait de la résistance

Il existe une certaine résistance de la part des propriétaires de PC sous Windows 10 à passer à 11. Avec des machines fonctionnelles et suffisantes pour leurs besoins mais qui n’ont pas droit à la fameuse mise à jour pour différentes raisons techniques, le marché PC actuel pose un léger souci. Racheter un PC complet n’est déjà pas du goût de tout le monde. Surtout quand son matériel fonctionne, ronronne et reste d’une grande stabilité. Si, en plus, il faut passer à la caisse pour racheter un matériel en ce moment facturé entre 30 et 70% de plus qu’à l’été 2025, cela n’enchante personne.

C’est donc une très bonne nouvelle pour les utilisateurs, mais également un nouveau risque pour le marché. Les marques qui espéraient finir par convaincre les 26% d’utilisateurs toujours sous Windows 10 de basculer vers 11 avec l’achat d’un nouvel engin, ne vont pas pouvoir le faire. Ce qui ne va pas améliorer leurs affaires déjà assez compliquées.

D’un point de vue marché plus global, ce mouvement fera sans doute les affaires de la concurrence de Microsoft. Apple de son côté, Google avec ses GoogleBook de l’autre et au milieu Linux qui va pouvoir continuer de vanter les mérites de son univers qui ne manque pas de mises à jour techniques et qui propose souvent de meilleures performances sur les anciennes configurations que Windows 10… ou 11.

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After Ford's automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it," Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters on a call Wednesday. "Over prior years, we didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles." Bloomberg reports: Those engineers were "at the heart" of Ford's efforts to turn around quality problems, said Kumar Galhotra, chief operating officer. They now run mandatory meetings that rigorously troubleshoot quality problems and they have reprogrammed AI tools to head off glitches before they happen. "We had been relying more and more on automated quality systems" and not getting the desired results, Galhotra said. "We brought back technical specialists" and "they hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor." The return of the veteran engineers at Ford cuts against the prevailing wisdom -- and fear -- that AI will replace all kinds of knowledge workers. But Ford found the machines couldn't replace experience. "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product," Poon said. But "we recognized that for us to enhance some of our automation and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools we needed to ensure that they were trained by the most experienced individuals." As a result of the efforts of the old hands, Ford vaulted above quality stalwarts such as Toyota and Honda on JD Power's bellwether survey that measures the quality of a car during the first three months of ownership. Only luxury brands Porsche and Genesis topped Ford this year.

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Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.

Micron has signed 16 "strategic customer agreements" (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with "a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle." Most of the deals run through 2030 and cover about 40% of Micron's revenue. The Register reports: Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company's Q3 earnings call. He explained that Micron has signed 16 SCAs, most of them covering 2026 to 2030, and that they involve a commitment to buy a certain quantity of product and pay for it in a pricing band that has a floor and a ceiling price. The floor price covers the historically high gross margins mentioned above, and the ceiling price means those who commit to an SCA are insulated if memory prices go even higher. The CEO said 16 customers have signed SCAs and then explained why it's worth locking into the deals even though they bake in such high margins. "Our customers are recognizing that supply shortages in memory and storage will take considerable time to improve," he said. "Even as we expect industry supply to improve gradually in 2028, we currently do not have line of sight as to when memory supply will be able to catch up with increasing demand." Even massive efforts to build new chip fabs aren't much help, he said, because the increasing complexity of new memory types means it takes longer to build factories -- and when they come online there still won't be enough capacity to build both the high-bandwidth memory needed for AI and other types of NAND and DRAM. "Supply is structurally constrained in its growth and ability to meet industry demand, despite our comprehensive efforts to increase supply," he said. Don't assume that SCAs mean your suppliers get price certainty, because Mehrotra said the deals will account for 40 percent of Micron revenue -- meaning the company is reserving most of its inventory to sell at prices it can negotiate. The CEO did have a little good news in the form of predictions that Micron's DRAM output in 2026 will "grow in the low- to mid-20s percentage range, slightly above our prior outlook." He also revealed that the SCAs see customers pay up front, which helps Micron to fund its fab expansions.

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Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...

Les têtes tombent une à une parmi les marques qui ont tenté de ne pas (ou peu) répercuter les hausses folles des prix de la DRAM et de la NAND sur leurs produits. C'est maintenant au tour d'Apple de baisser les bras dans cette lutte vaine contre le son de l'inéluctabilité (au revoir, M. Anderson). A...

En mai 2021, suite à l’incarcération de l’opposant au régime russe Andreï Pivovarov, plusieurs autres personnalités politiques avaient été soumises à des perquisitions policières.

Il n’avait pas donné ses mots de passe, mais les autorités russes ont pu accéder aux données de son iPhone 12 qui lui avait été confisqué avec son MacBook.

Les chercheurs du Citizen Lab ont pu analyser le smartphone de l’activiste et trouver des traces des outils d’extraction de l’entreprise de cybersécurité israélienne. Dans un billet de blog, ils expliquent qu’ils ont pu détecter que l’iPhone a été branché à un appareil dont ils avaient déjà attribué précédemment l’Host ID à l’entreprise de cybersécurité israélienne Cellebrite. Ils ont ensuite pu obtenir un document du Centre russe d’expertise de cybersécurité du ministère russe de l’Intérieur (MVD) qui confirme l’utilisation des outils de cette entreprise pour analyser l’iPhone.

Pour le MacBook d’Andreï Pivovarov, « les autorités semblent ne pas avoir réussi à y accéder », affirme le Citizen Lab.

Pour ce faire, la Russie n’aurait pas respecté les conditions du contrat de Cellebrite dans cette affaire. En effet, interrogée par les chercheurs, l’entreprise israélienne a envoyé une réponse [PDF] dans laquelle elle explique que « toute utilisation de matériel Cellebrite en Russie après mars 2021 est strictement interdite. Le matériel Cellebrite vendu avant mars 2021 sera désormais incompatible avec les appareils modernes et fonctionnerait sans notre assistance technique, sans notre consentement et sans aucune autorisation légale de la part de Cellebrite. Les progrès technologiques rapides rendent le matériel et les logiciels de cybersécurité obsolètes en très peu de temps. La Russie figure de manière permanente sur notre liste de clients soumis à des restrictions ».

En mai 2021, suite à l’incarcération de l’opposant au régime russe Andreï Pivovarov, plusieurs autres personnalités politiques avaient été soumises à des perquisitions policières.

Il n’avait pas donné ses mots de passe, mais les autorités russes ont pu accéder aux données de son iPhone 12 qui lui avait été confisqué avec son MacBook.

Les chercheurs du Citizen Lab ont pu analyser le smartphone de l’activiste et trouver des traces des outils d’extraction de l’entreprise de cybersécurité israélienne. Dans un billet de blog, ils expliquent qu’ils ont pu détecter que l’iPhone a été branché à un appareil dont ils avaient déjà attribué précédemment l’Host ID à l’entreprise de cybersécurité israélienne Cellebrite. Ils ont ensuite pu obtenir un document du Centre russe d’expertise de cybersécurité du ministère russe de l’Intérieur (MVD) qui confirme l’utilisation des outils de cette entreprise pour analyser l’iPhone.

Pour le MacBook d’Andreï Pivovarov, « les autorités semblent ne pas avoir réussi à y accéder », affirme le Citizen Lab.

Pour ce faire, la Russie n’aurait pas respecté les conditions du contrat de Cellebrite dans cette affaire. En effet, interrogée par les chercheurs, l’entreprise israélienne a envoyé une réponse [PDF] dans laquelle elle explique que « toute utilisation de matériel Cellebrite en Russie après mars 2021 est strictement interdite. Le matériel Cellebrite vendu avant mars 2021 sera désormais incompatible avec les appareils modernes et fonctionnerait sans notre assistance technique, sans notre consentement et sans aucune autorisation légale de la part de Cellebrite. Les progrès technologiques rapides rendent le matériel et les logiciels de cybersécurité obsolètes en très peu de temps. La Russie figure de manière permanente sur notre liste de clients soumis à des restrictions ».