Amazon says it is ending sideloading on new Fire Sticks because "apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware," adding that there is "a good amount of evidence" that sideloaded apps may contain unwanted code or behavior. However, the company did not provide specific examples of Fire Stick users being harmed. Ars Technica reports: Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system, Vega OS. Previous Fire Sticks ran Fire OS, which is an Android fork based on the Android Open Source Project. One of the biggest differences between Vega OS and Fire OS is that the former doesn't support sideloading. [...] In a recent interview, Or Goren, editor-in-chief of Cord Busters, a UK-based streaming news outlet, noted the negative reaction to Vega being a closed OS. [Aidan Marcuss, VP of Fire TV, advertising, and Appstore] responded, per the publication, by saying that Vega OS was Amazon's opportunity to "innovate and deliver more capabilities, even on the least expensive devices." He also said that making a platform around security and privacy was "sort of utmost in my mind." The statement is somewhat ironic, considering Vega OS blocks custom launchers and other third-party apps that helped users avoid Amazon tracking and ads. Goren asked whether Amazon had evidence that sideloaded devices caused users harm. "Apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware," Marcuss responded. Marcuss also said that there is "a good amount of evidence that apps can carry unwanted code and behavior on them when they're sideloaded." Marcuss didn't provide specific examples of Fire Stick users being hurt by sideloaded apps. There are some potential examples, though. In 2025, Amazon claimed to blacklist (which blocked the apps from being sideloaded to Fire Sticks) four video streaming apps for malicious behavior. At the time, AFTVnews reported that two of the apps served as residential proxy providers and were considered riskware, and that the other two had APK files that were flagged by virus-scanning tools. Safari and Chrome also flagged one of the apps' official websites, the publication reported. And in 2018, a botnet that infected Android devices with cryptocurrency-mining malware appeared on some Fire Sticks, per discussion on XDA Forums. That said, Amazon also has a history of disabling apps that let users circumnavigate its home screen that Fire devices, including Fire Sticks and Fire TVs, have increasingly used for ads. Worth noting: developers can continue sideloading apps onto Vega OS devices if they register them with Amazon.

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Juin a été un mois particulièrement riche pour les jeux compatibles avec le DLSS, avec de nouvelles sorties, des mises à jour majeures, des lancements à venir et des démos jouables offrant aux joueurs GeForce RTX de nombreuses nouveautés à découvrir. Voici un aperçu des sorties et mises à jour du mois de juin, ainsi que des nouveautés à venir : - EMPULSE avec le DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - Subnautica 2 mis à niveau vers le dernier modèle de DLSS Super Resolution - Squad mis à niveau avec le DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - Zenless Zone Zero Version 3.0 intègre désormais le DLSS Frame Generation, le Super Resolution et le Ray Tracing - Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core prend désormais en charge le DLSS Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - Gothic 1 Remake avec le DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - NBA: THE RUN avec le dernier modèle de DLSS Super Resolution - GOALS avec le DLSS Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - Fatekeeper avec le DLSS Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - Marathon Season 2 est désormais disponible avec le DLSS Frame Generation - Tides of Tomorrow avec le DLSS Super Resolution - Reaper Actual avec le DLSS Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution - Mortal Shell II Open Beta intègre le DLSS Multi Frame Generation, le Super Resolution et le Ray Tracing - À venir : Dune: Awakening lancera son mode solo ainsi que l'acte final du premier chapitre de son histoire le 22 septembre, accompagné d'une mise à niveau vers le DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation et le Super Resolution. CONTROL Resonant sortira quant à lui le 24 septembre, avec le Path Tracing et le DLSS. […]

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Google has shut down the Tenor API, breaking GIF pickers in services that still relied on it and forcing platforms such as X to migrate elsewhere. 9to5Google notes that the library itself remains available at Tenor.com and "integrations within Google products are also still active, including Gboard, Google Messages, and more." From the report: The Tenor API has been rejecting new API sign-ups in January of this year, but existing integrations remained in place. This week, though, they're shutting down, and any integrations that remain in place will stop working on July 1. The support page adds details that "any API or Ads Distribution Agreements" with Tenor will be terminated on June 30, while "current integrations" will be "fully decommissioned" as of June 30. One of the most notable examples here is Twitter/X, which has relied on Tenor for its GIF picker for years. Twitter/X Head of Product Nikita Bier confirmed that the platform has migrated elsewhere, which is why the "recently used" section was purged, and why you might notice fewer GIF options when posting. Other platforms affected include Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky.

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GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow...

California's Protect Our Games Act, which would require publishers to warn players before shutting down paid online games and offer refunds or continued access, failed to advance after a state Senate committee vote. Four state senators voted in favor, three voted against, and four abstained. Engadget reports: The committee unanimously voted in favor of granting the bill reconsideration, meaning it could come back before this group of state senators. Assemblymember Chris Ward introduced the bill in February and it passed the California State Assembly 43-16 in late May. That said, the abstentions prevented the bill's progression for now. "Not enough yeses means the bill stops here for this session," a volunteer with the Stop Killing Games campaign (which supported the bill) noted on Reddit. "That is the loss." The volunteer also claimed this was the movement's first attempt to nudge such legislation through in the U.S., and that the bill got this far without paid staff or an in-person lobbying campaign. They said the Entertainment Software Association -- a trade organization of major game industry publishers -- brought in a lobbyist to halt the bill's progress (including by claiming private servers for the likes of Minecraft would be "illegal") and that Stop Killing Games would be more prepared to counter that in the future. "Next session, we come back with an in-person lobbying presence, the funding to do this properly and a long list of organizations and developers signed on in support," the volunteer, u/Mr_Presidentle, wrote. "We are not limiting this to California. We intend to introduce versions of this in other state legislatures, and we are seriously looking at the federal level."

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"Another breach at Tata has leaked details about Apple's iPhone 18, along with documents belonging to several other Tata clients," writes Longtime Slashdot reader Ritz_Just_Ritz. "It's becoming a recurring theme for the company." Reuters reports: Reuters has previously reported the Tata Electronics leak of more than 200,000 files on the dark web by World Leaks had files with purported component design papers of older iPhones and some parts of Tesla -- both Tata clients. They also included documents of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Qualcomm, both of which make parts used in iPhones. New documents reviewed by Reuters show there are at least six files that map many components in the iPhone 18 Pro models to the specific company that supplies them. These include details of chips on its main circuit board and parts of the battery and cameras. Apple considers this detail sensitive and is concerned about the documents being shared on the dark web as they relate to unreleased models, according to the person familiar with the matter. The data maps suppliers to iPhone parts, which Apple does not disclose in its public database of suppliers, the person added. In all, the documents detail hundreds of parts to be on the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models. The records also show where Apple draws a part from several suppliers and where it relies on just a few, laying bare both its bargaining leverage and its vulnerabilities. More broadly, the leak threatens Apple's trust in Tata just as Tata is becoming central to its effort to shift iPhone production away from China. With India expected to produce roughly a quarter of the world's iPhones in 2026, any deterioration in that relationship could complicate Apple's diversification strategy and force tighter security controls across its suppliers.

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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text prompts, though the results still require laboratory testing before clinical use. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News reports: In a Claude Science demo, Oliver Vince, PhD, co-founder at Basecamp, uploaded a sample patient microbiology report. When given a simple natural language prompt, the platform designed peptides, predicted their efficacy, and provided a shortlist of candidates most likely to succeed in experiments in minutes. While generating human-ready antibiotics at the click of a button is still a step away, Vince said democratizing these tools is a powerful first step, particularly for researchers in regions where accelerated computing infrastructure is not readily accessible. "Most models require you to be a computational scientist," Vince told GEN Edge. "Now, potentially any clinician in the world can chat with Claude and design an antibiotic that may work."

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Le printemps 2026 a vu l'arrivée d'une nouvelle mouture des profils d'overclockings automatiques de RAM d'AMD : l'AMD EXPO 1.2. Parmi ces nouveautés, on trouve l'AMD EXPO ULL (pour Ultra Low Latency), qui prend en charge davantage de timings possible pour les barrettes mémoire et permet donc d'optim...

Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fedora installations. Finally with Fedora 45 that may change...

Linux 7.2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7.2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview.

While Linux 7.2 introduces the ability to boot on Apple M3 Macs, it's not yet remotely useful for end-users wanting to use an Apple Mac/MacBook as their daily system. As it stands now, the M3 Macs boot to a simple console and that's about it with the lack of proper GPU acceleration and functionality like the keyboard on MacBooks not working either. Posted to the kernel mailing list today was the new driver patches for enabling the internal keyboard on more recent Apple MacBooks...

Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly convenient for Linux developers who must comply with corporate edicts to use a Windows device. The CLI for end-to-end container workflows furthers this. Microsoft stated, "WSL containers make it easier for developers and organizations to build, test, and run containerized workloads while benefiting from the security, manageability, and integration of the Windows platform." Alternatively, you could run your preferred Linux distribution natively, but that might not be an option, particularly if an organization is keen on the "security, manageability, and integration of the Windows platform." And this is an important point. WSL's existing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) has been updated (in private preview) to be aware of Linux container events, and there are settings in Intune for managing WSL containers. Support is also in a pre-release version of VS Code, where the Docker path in the dev container settings can be changed to wslc. There is also a new default file system for WSL container that Microsoft claims makes Windows file access twice the speed. So, going from terribly slow to just slow? We'll wait until general availability is reached before passing judgment. There's a new default networking mode to improve compatibility and better memory reclaim techniques. However, none of these tweaks will be enabled by default in WSL. Microsoft wrote, "Since these changes touch mission critical paths like file system access and network, for now they are enabled just in WSL container."

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Voici la probable fin de la RTX 5050 dotée de 9 Go de GDDR7, qui était, un temps, pressentie pour remplacer la RTX 5050 classique équipée de 8 Go. Si cela parait totalement contradictoire, à savoir de mettre plus de VRAM alors qu'il en manque partout, la réalité est qu'avec 3 puces de 3 Go, on met u...

Les premiers kits mémoire DDR5 AMD EXPO ULL commencent à faire leur apparition dans le commerce, et les tarifs montrent déjà des écarts importants selon les références. La hausse reste contenue sur certains modèles face aux kits EXPO classiques, mais elle devient beaucoup plus marquée dès que l'on descend sur les latences les plus agressives. Pour le moment, on parle de kits G.SKILL Trident Z5 NeoX RGB DDR5-6000 en 32 Go, soit 2 x 16 Go. Le modèle le plus abordable, en CL36, est affiché à 549,99 dollars, contre 499,99 dollars pour un kit Trident Z5 Neo EXPO équivalent. L'écart reste donc raisonnable, autour de 10 %. Le kit DDR5-6000 CL30 passe de son côté à 619,99 dollars, contre 544,44 dollars pour la version EXPO classique. En revanche, le CL28 grimpe à 999,99 dollars, contre 559,99 dollars, soit près de 79 % de plus. Enfin, le kit DDR5-6000 CL26 atteint 1099,99 dollars, contre 699,99 dollars pour son équivalent Trident Z5 Neo EXPO. […]

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next fiscal year. We anticipate more rate increases for electricity in the years ahead," a copy of the email obtained by 404 Media said (emphasis his). Henrico County is a community of more than 350,000 people in eastern Virginia just outside of Richmond. It also hosts 37 data centers and there are plans to build 17 more, including plans to convert hundreds of acres of Civil War battlefields into data centers. Thanks to its proximity to DC and vast amounts of land, Henrico County became a data center hub seemingly overnight and its services clients big and small. Meta built a data center there in 2017. "To mitigate the impact of higher electric costs, I am asking that we, collectively, make slight adjustments to conserve electricity across our individual workspaces," Vithoulkas wrote in the email. "Turn off your lights when leaving your workspace, including when you leave for the day. Turn off your computers/laptops at the end of each workday. If your workspace has windows, adjust the blinds to manage heat from sunlight. Unplug any appliances, chargers, or other electrical items when they are not in use. Please limit use of (or refrain altogether from using) space heaters. A typical space heater alone can cost the county from $150 to $300 per year in electricity costs." "Each dollar we can save by conserving electricity is another dollar the county can reinvest into staff and the services we provide our residents," Vithoulkas email said.

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La b.tv semaine 29 juin propose un programme particulièrement dense. D’abord, la Coupe du Monde passe en 8e de finale samedi et dimanche sur M6. Ensuite, le Tour de France démarre sur France 2 le 4 juillet. Wimbledon est par ailleurs en direct toute la semaine sur beIN Sports, accessible via Canal+ sur le décodeur […]

L'article b.tv semaine 29 juin : CDM, Silo S3 et Tour de France a été publié en premier sur Bbox-Mag

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech on June 29, as reported by BBC News and other media outlets. "Semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers are the triple axis for a great leap forward." [...] The most costly of the megaprojects involves Samsung and SK Hynix committing $585 billion to building new chip fabrication plants in the southwest provinces of South Korea, along with boosting semiconductor fab construction in the Seoul capital region, according to Reuters. The government's goal is to double South Korea's production of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) within five years. [...] The second flagship megaproject involves a $357 billion investment by the South Korean tech companies SK Group, GS Group, and Naver into building large-scale AI data centers in more outlying provinces, including South Chungcheong Province in the west, Gangwon Province in the east, and the North and South Jeolla Provinces in the southwest corner of South Korea. The third flagship megaproject revolves around the South Korean government assigning a "national strategic industry" designation to physical AI -- the AI systems that enable robots and self-driving vehicles to interact more autonomously with the real world. The government aims to develop a Korean "general-purpose foundation model" based on a world model to support robots within three years, according to The Chosun Daily. Hyundai Motor Company has also committed $5.8 billion to build a robot manufacturing facility and AI data center in the Saemangeum region of North Jeolla Province in the southwest, The Chosun Daily reported. The South Korean automaker has already been helping Boston Dynamics -- the US robotics company it acquired in 2021 -- use the South Korean supply chain in scaling up manufacturing to produce 30,000 Atlas humanoid robots each year by 2028. Similarly, the South Korean government announced it would aim to commercialize humanoid robots in 10 major industries by 2028, along with training 10,000 human workers as "AI robotics specialists" over the next five years, Reuters reported.

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J’a du stock ! (Ho wait, c’est surtout de la DDR3 :o)

On parle souvent des hausses de prix sur les composants, mais savez-vous à quel point elle est importante ? Nous suivons depuis 18 mois les prix d’une quarantaine de composants chez deux revendeurs. Sur la mémoire, ils sont multipliés par quatre en moyenne selon nos relevés, par deux sur les SSD et les HDD. Les processeurs s’en tirent généralement bien pour le moment.

Depuis fin 2024, le prix de la mémoire est en hausse, à cause d’une demande toujours plus forte de GPU pour l’intelligence artificielle générative. Les GPU intègrent une quantité croissante de mémoire pour prendre en charge des modèles toujours plus grands (et donc performants), raflant ainsi une grosse partie de la mise. Une pénurie s’installe rapidement car la production des trois principaux fabricants de puces – Micron, Samsung et SK hynix – est aspirée de toutes parts.

Les hausses de prix ne concernent pas que les composants, les produits finis en pâtissent aussi. Preuve en est avec les hausses régulières sur le Raspberry Pi, les VPS chez les hébergeurs et plus récemment Apple… qui n’y va pas avec le dos de la cuillère.

Mais quelle est précisément cette hausse ? Le prix de certains kits de mémoire vive a été multiplié par cinq ! Le lot de deux Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 de 16 Go (soit 32 Go) est ainsi passé de 105 à 520 euros, excusez du peu.

Sur la mémoire, les prix sont parfois multipliés par cinq !

En moyenne, selon nos relevés, la hausse sur la mémoire est de plus de 300 %, soit des prix multipliés par plus de quatre. Alors qu’une barrette de 8 Go de DDR4 était vendue 20 euros fin 2024, elle est passée à 40 euros pendant l’été 2025, 85 euros au début de l’année, elle est désormais proposée à 90 euros.

Dans le tableau et le graphique ci-dessous, nous avons regroupé les prix d’une douzaine de kits de DDR4 et DDR5, relevés par nos soins sur des produits en stock (ou avec une date de livraison annoncée relativement proche). Il est en effet important de comparer des prix sur des produits que l’on peut réellement commander.

Par rapport à notre précédente actualité en janvier, quelques produits n’étaient plus disponibles, ce qui explique l’absence de prix pour le relevé de cette semaine.

Le vol de données subi par Tata Electronics se transforme en cauchemar pour Apple. Les documents confidentiels concernant les appareils du constructeur, tout particulièrement l’iPhone 18 Pro, ont dépassé les frontières du « dark web » pour se retrouver un peu partout sur internet. Au grand dam d’Apple.

L’entreprise californienne ferait ainsi la chasse très active aux fuites de Tata. Le sous-traitant indien, victime d’une cyberattaque il y a quelques semaines, s’est fait dérober de nombreux documents et fichiers confidentiels appartenant à ses clients, dont Tesla et Apple.

Le groupe de pirates qui serait à l’origine du vol de données, World Leaks, aurait mis en ligne plus de 200 000 fichiers sur le dark web. Dont des listes de composants et des photos de l’iPhone 18 Pro qui se sont retrouvées en accès libre ici et là sur Internet, comme le révèle Reuters. Des clips partagés sur X montrent une vidéo de ce qui est présenté comme l’iPhone 18 Pro soumis à un test de chute.

Les publications ont depuis été supprimés, sans qu’on sache si la demande venait d’Apple ou de Tata. Un fuiteur bien connu du milieu, Ice Universe, assure que le constructeur aurait « interdit les fuites sur Twitter ». Un de ses messages republiant les images a justement été retiré de X. L’internet n’oubliant jamais, ces documents sont visibles ailleurs, et il ne faut pas fouiller très longtemps : une simple recherche sur Reddit devrait étancher la soif des plus curieux.

Les images en question, qui remontent au début d’année, semblent indiquer que l’iPhone 18 Pro ressemblera beaucoup à son prédécesseur. Le smartphone, de couleur grise, en reprend le design industriel en plus uniforme (un seul ton de couleur), ainsi que le fameux plateau à l’arrière intégrant les trois capteurs photo. On trouve également des images de la carte mère, de la batterie, des capteurs photo, et de ce qui devrait être la puce A20 Pro (fabriquée par TSMC et a priori gravée avec le procédé 2 nm).

Pour Apple, ces documents en (quasi) libre-service sur internet sont susceptibles de ruiner le lancement de la nouvelle gamme d’iPhone 18 Pro cet automne. Une mauvaise nouvelle, après l’annonce de la hausse vertigineuse des prix de ses appareils la semaine dernière.

Le vol de données subi par Tata Electronics se transforme en cauchemar pour Apple. Les documents confidentiels concernant les appareils du constructeur, tout particulièrement l’iPhone 18 Pro, ont dépassé les frontières du « dark web » pour se retrouver un peu partout sur internet. Au grand dam d’Apple.

L’entreprise californienne ferait ainsi la chasse très active aux fuites de Tata. Le sous-traitant indien, victime d’une cyberattaque il y a quelques semaines, s’est fait dérober de nombreux documents et fichiers confidentiels appartenant à ses clients, dont Tesla et Apple.

Le groupe de pirates qui serait à l’origine du vol de données, World Leaks, aurait mis en ligne plus de 200 000 fichiers sur le dark web. Dont des listes de composants et des photos de l’iPhone 18 Pro qui se sont retrouvées en accès libre ici et là sur Internet, comme le révèle Reuters. Des clips partagés sur X montrent une vidéo de ce qui est présenté comme l’iPhone 18 Pro soumis à un test de chute.

Les publications ont depuis été supprimés, sans qu’on sache si la demande venait d’Apple ou de Tata. Un fuiteur bien connu du milieu, Ice Universe, assure que le constructeur aurait « interdit les fuites sur Twitter ». Un de ses messages republiant les images a justement été retiré de X. L’internet n’oubliant jamais, ces documents sont visibles ailleurs, et il ne faut pas fouiller très longtemps : une simple recherche sur Reddit devrait étancher la soif des plus curieux.

Les images en question, qui remontent au début d’année, semblent indiquer que l’iPhone 18 Pro ressemblera beaucoup à son prédécesseur. Le smartphone, de couleur grise, en reprend le design industriel en plus uniforme (un seul ton de couleur), ainsi que le fameux plateau à l’arrière intégrant les trois capteurs photo. On trouve également des images de la carte mère, de la batterie, des capteurs photo, et de ce qui devrait être la puce A20 Pro (fabriquée par TSMC et a priori gravée avec le procédé 2 nm).

Pour Apple, ces documents en (quasi) libre-service sur internet sont susceptibles de ruiner le lancement de la nouvelle gamme d’iPhone 18 Pro cet automne. Une mauvaise nouvelle, après l’annonce de la hausse vertigineuse des prix de ses appareils la semaine dernière.