"An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis," writes Kotaku. Launched Thursday, it's already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Average contribution size: $14.52) The bundle is pay-what-you-want with a minimum purchase price of $10, offering DRM-free PC versions of games including A Short Hike, SkateBIRD, and my favorite game in the pack, Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure ... The bundle will be available through August 13. The gaming blog Rock Paper Shotgun shares more details, starting with this quote from the bundle's page on itch.io: "Reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the last two years, and the jobs they could fill are disappearing as CEOs try to replace them with AI. It's hard for companies to adjust to the new shape of the game industry, but even harder for the people they should be employing... To address this in some small way, we have created a bundle with almost 150 games. The proceeds of this bundle will go toward a hardship fund for those experiencing layoffs." Games industry workers currently out of work or under-employed can apply to this fund, which is distributed by the United Videogame Workers, to help out with basic necessities like food and rent. As a note, this is only available to US and Canada-based devs, but there's an FAQ explaining who can apply for the fund.

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Sur la Bbox, le service Canal VOD accueille chaque semaine son lot de nouveautés. La sélection VOD week-end met ainsi en avant cinq titres forts : le retour de Super Mario en film, l’événement anime Chainsaw Man, une comédie portée par Zendaya et Robert Pattinson, un thriller d’horreur remarqué, et une saison complète disponible d’un […]

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NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. NASA reports: The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far as the rover can see... "[T]his sea of polygons took our breath away," said the mission's project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California... Some of the polygons that the mission has spotted in the past clearly formed as mud cracks, though a variety of processes can contribute to their honeycomb textures, including cycles of warm and cold temperatures or compression that squeezed water out of the sediment when the surface was buried. These newly discovered polygons are among the many surprises Curiosity has trundled across since landing on Mars 14 years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012. Besides sulfur crystals, shiny meteorites, and other interesting geologic features, the rover has made major discoveries about the ancient Martian environment — most importantly, that it had the water, chemistry, and nutrients to support microbial life. Billions of years ago, lakes and streams dappled the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that Curiosity has been ascending since 2014. The rover has previously uncovered chemistry left over from Mars' watery history, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information. Scientists have no way of knowing whether these organic molecules were created by biologic or geologic processes — either path is possible — but their discovery reconfirmed that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life. Dark, pebble-sized rocks also litter the area, NASA writes in a blog post, saying it's a "still-to-be-resolved question" as to whether they're bits of Mars that "floated" down from higher in the sediment layers, or "were ejected from distant impacts outside of Gale crater, or are meteorites from beyond Mars altogether."

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Apple's stock "fell just shy of 10% on Friday," reports Yahoo Finance, "after CEO Tim Cook warned about the impact of the global memory shortage on the company's business." During Apple's third quarter earnings call, Cook said the company paid significantly more for memory in the quarter and expects that to further increase in the current period. And while Apple is able to offset some of that price jump, it won't be able to tackle it all... The CEO said that iPhone and Mac sales outpaced Apple's own expectations and that a lack of flexibility in the supply chain is making it more difficult to keep up with demand. Yahoo Finance cited an investment analyst who predicts overall gross margins for Apple's iPhone could drop from 38% to 34.5%. But another analyst sees a scenario where Apple "raises iPhone prices, unit growth will slow, and as unit growth slows, so will user growth, which we think ultimately will slow Services growth." (Still, Yahoo Finance predicts Apple's new leasing program "could help address those concerns.") Apple has another controversial option, according to the blog 9to5Mac: Bloomberg reports that US senators from both sides of the aisle are urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to commit by August 21 to not using memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC.... Apple is not required to obtain U.S. government approval to purchase chips from the companies, but doing so without the administration's support could expose it to significant political ramifications. Which is why, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal ahead of Apple's recent price hikes, Tim Cook said that "everything needs to be on the table," adding that "we should look at all supply...." More recently, the Journal reported that Apple's use of Chinese memory chips could extend beyond China, with the company seeking the administration's blessing to use components from CXMT and YMTC in products sold elsewhere outside the US. The report also detailed Micron's efforts to persuade the administration to reject Apple's request, arguing that allowing Chinese suppliers into Apple's supply chain could undermine domestic memory production... [Bloomberg's reported that U.S. lawmakers warned] other companies could follow Apple's lead, potentially undermining domestic memory production and planned investments in states such as Indiana, Idaho, New York, and Virginia... [T]he senators sought details about any information Apple has shared with CXMT during the component qualification process, noting that the transfer of controlled technical information to advanced chipmaking facilities in China may require a Commerce Department license. The blog MacRumors notes that Apple has already increased prices for Macs and iPads in June because of surging memory prices. Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday "we did it because we're in what I would characterize as a 100-year flood on memory pricing with exponential increases in memory prices." Cook did not comment on whether Apple plans to raise iPhone prices when the iPhone 18 Pro models and first foldable launch this September, but multiple analysts believe prices will go up. Cook said Apple is expecting to pay higher memory costs in the September quarter, though Apple will be able to partially offset it with lower costs on some non-memory components and a stockpile of inventory. Sky News points out that "It was Tim Cook's final earnings appearance before his retirement after 15 years at the helm of the company." Apple, which recently topped Nvidia as the most valuable listed company, has been largely spared the volatility in share price seen by chipmakers and big spenders on artificial intelligence. Apple continues to generate cash without the huge investment spending that its Wall St peers are dealing with "and that showed across most parts of the operation," said Thomas Monteiro, an analyst at Investing.com.

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Pour nous, ce ne sont souvent que de petites lignes de changelogs que nous survolons, surtout quand les jeux en question ne nous concernent pas. Mais pour les studios à l'origine de ces jeux, il peut s'agir de la fin d'une longue traversée du désert. Voilà l'histoire que nous allons pouvoir aborder...

Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing one of its bridges in one single gigantic piece. The new replacement weighs 3700 metric tons and was carefully moved into place over a stretch of 500 meters, requiring extreme patience and precision maneuvering. Some places leave only 40 cm of room to neighbouring buildings.

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NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...

"GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security," reports SecurityWeek, "by preventing the fast propagation of poisoned package versions and the poisoning of old and long-stable releases." To prevent the fast delivery of malicious code through the immediate fetching of brand-new releases, GitHub has introduced a Dependabot cooldown, where the automation tool waits for at least three days after a release has been published before opening a pull request. "Waiting a few days before adopting a new release gives maintainers, security researchers, and automated scanners time to spot a malicious version and get it pulled before it ever reaches your pull requests," GitHub explains. The three-day cooldown only applies to non-security version bumps, and the behavior can be modified through the configuration option in the dependabot.yml. "Three days as the default balances two goals: it pushes you past the window where most of these attacks live, and it doesn't hold your dependencies back longer than necessary," GitHub notes. And the Python Package Index (PyPI) "now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days," according to a recernt blog post from the Python Software Foundation's security developer-in-residence Seth Larson: This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised... The discussion of this behavior began during PEP 740 (Digital Attestations) back in January 2024. The discussion was restarted in March 2026 after the popular packages LiteLLM and Telnyx were compromised. These packages were compromised due to a "mutable reference" in these projects' usage of the Trivy GitHub Action... To quantify how disruptive this change would be to existing workflows, the PyPI database was queried for projects that have published new files to old releases... [O]nly 56 projects of 15,000 had published a [Python] 3.14-compatible wheel more than 14 days after a release was available. This topic was brought to the Packaging Summit at PyCon US 2026 by PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Mike Fiedler. The rough consensus of the discussion was that the summit attendees thought it was "acceptable to require users to bump to the next version" to support new Python versions. With the data and consensus in hand, Seth moved forward with a patch to reject new files on old releases which was merged July 8th, 2026.

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Avec son retour très médiatisé et savamment orchestré par AMD, le Ryzen 7 5800X3D est depuis quelques mois sur toutes les bouches lors des discussions sur une configuration DDR4 (pour limiter les coûts par rapport à la DDR5) mais qui serait aussi performante que possible pour du jeu. Nos confrères d...

Alors qu'août pointe le bout de son nez, l'humeur du hardware francophone est aux machines portables. En effet, entre le Framework Laptop 13 — jugé bon compétiteur du MacBook — et les diverses machines Panther Lake en vadrouille, voilà de quoi préparer sereinement son changement de config'. À moins...

Electric vehicles have historically been "notorious" for losing their resale value, reports CNBC. But this year prices for used EVs in the U.S. "are up 5.1% from January to June 2026, according to a Recurrent analysis published this month." The trend continued into the second half of the year: Prices are up 7% year to date through mid-July, it said. Recurrent compared EVs according to the same make and model year across 108 combinations and weighted price growth according to inventory volume. "Used EVs are appreciating, which almost never happens," according to an e-mailed Recurrent statement about the analysis. Other auto analysts found a similar trend... Price growth for used EVs has been broad-based, said Stephanie Valdez Streaty, the director of industry insights at Cox Automotive, a market research firm. Twenty-one of the 25 used EV models with the highest sales volume increased in price between January and June this year, she said... [T]he price growth for used EVs this year has been all the more surprising because it has happened despite a high supply of used EVs hitting the market — which, all else being equal, would generally cause prices to fall, experts said... There are several factors juicing consumer demand for used EVs, experts said. Among them are high gasoline prices due to the Iran war, which have pushed more consumers to consider fuel-efficient options, experts said... Overall affordability is another big factor, against a backdrop of inflation that has remained above policymakers' target of 2% for five or so years, auto experts said. The dynamic has pushed more consumers toward the used car market more broadly. Two interesting statistics from the article: "Used EV sales were up 20% in June versus a year earlier, while sales of new EVs were down about 28%, according to Cox Automotive data." New EVs accounted for 5.4% of total new-vehicle sales in June, while the market share for used EVs was just 2.4%, according to Cox Automotive data.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google's Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform's open nature. Still, the restrictions will be a big change, and there are still some unanswered questions. An issue that has come up repeatedly in the run-up to verification is what will happen to devs who can't verify because of where they live. It turns out that Google has a cryptic answer for that buried in an FAQ. Developer verification will soon block the installation of apps from unverified developers on any Android device running Google services, which is functionally all Android phones outside Russia and China. Developers who want to keep releasing software, even if it's not in the Play Store, have to provide Google with their ID and pay a small fee. But what if you're an Android developer living in a sanctioned nation? Currently, the U.S. sanction list includes Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and occupied areas of Ukraine. Given the current uncertain state of US foreign policy, that list could change in the future. Google doing any business with developers in those places is a thorny issue, and it seems like the company has decided to just leave them hanging. A rather lengthy FAQ a few levels deep on the Google developer site addresses various issues around dev verification. Smack in the middle is this: "How does this program impact developers in sanctioned countries? Devices in sanctioned countries will be excluded from Android developer verification checks. This allows any developer to continue distributing apps in these regions without verification, though users there won't benefit from the enhanced security benefits of the program." [...] A Google spokesperson has expanded on the FAQ and confirmed to Ars that people living in sanctioned nations will not be allowed to go through the verification process. That means they will not be able to effectively distribute software through any channel internationally. Today, someone making an app in, say, Cuba can distribute it freely around the world, as well as at home. Anyone can install it and see their work in action after tapping through a few sideloading alerts. In the coming months, that will no longer be the case. These unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn't exist.

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Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July...

Le 1064 Bouygues Telecom est le numéro gratuit du service clients, mais un appel manqué ou un rappel inattendu inquiète vite. Ce guide explique donc pourquoi il vous appelle, comment bien le joindre, et que faire s’il reste injoignable. Qu’est-ce que le 1064 Pourquoi il vous appelle Passer le serveur vocal S’il reste injoignable Questions […]

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Microsoft a traversé une tempête, qui aurait pu n'être qu'une vaguelette si l'entreprise avait communiqué un peu mieux que ça au sujet de Windows 11. On part en 2025, avec ses mises à jour Windowsiennes, pour atterrir en octobre 2025. À cette date, de nombreuses personnes se plaignaient de baisses d...

En début de semaine, MSI augmentait les tarifs officiels de ses cartes GeForce RTX 50 à architecture Blackwell. Une hausse violente, qui hélas ne nous a pas tant que cela étonnés puisque de nombreuses rumeurs insistantes nous avaient prévenus quelques jours avant. Les irréductibles optimistes se dis...

Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...

Cet été, Next vous propose des mini-jeux. Aujourd’hui, vous devez aider un technicien à réparer un PC. Problème, le système RGB (oui, c’est un Jacky PC…) fait des siennes et s’allume par intermittence. Seule solution, utiliser le marteau pour éteindre les éléments récalcitrants.

Halalala… qui n’a jamais eu la mauvaise surprise de voir un ordinateur refuser de démarrer à cause d’un mauvais branchement ? Ou bien de faire planter Windows car le ventilateur du radiateur du processeur ou de la mémoire n’était pas alimenté… contrairement aux LED RVB trop kikoolol qui lui explosent les rétines !

• #Flockeries et cahier de vacances : amusez-vous avec Next et tentez de gagner des cadeaux

Simon, notre technicien informatique du jour, est dans cette situation. Aidez-le, vite ! Il parait qu’après une douzaine de niveaux passés, vous avez droit à une surprise. Les « prouveurs » tenteront de finir le jeu en mode niveau infini. Bon courage !

Les dessins sont de Flock et la partie interactive développée avec une IA générative. Vous pouvez également facilement jouer sur mobile, avec votre doigt.

Cet été, Next vous propose des mini-jeux. Aujourd’hui, vous devez aider un technicien à réparer un PC. Problème, le système RGB (oui, c’est un Jacky PC…) fait des siennes et s’allume par intermittence. Seule solution, utiliser le marteau pour éteindre les éléments récalcitrants.

Halalala… qui n’a jamais eu la mauvaise surprise de voir un ordinateur refuser de démarrer à cause d’un mauvais branchement ? Ou bien de faire planter Windows car le ventilateur du radiateur du processeur ou de la mémoire n’était pas alimenté… contrairement aux LED RVB trop kikoolol qui lui explosent les rétines !

• #Flockeries et cahier de vacances : amusez-vous avec Next et tentez de gagner des cadeaux

Simon, notre technicien informatique du jour, est dans cette situation. Aidez-le, vite ! Il parait qu’après une douzaine de niveaux passés, vous avez droit à une surprise. Les « prouveurs » tenteront de finir le jeu en mode niveau infini. Bon courage !

Les dessins sont de Flock et la partie interactive développée avec une IA générative. Vous pouvez également facilement jouer sur mobile, avec votre doigt.

Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...