Bilibili, often described as China's answer to YouTube, is relaunching its international app and preparing an English-language site as part of a broader push into the U.S., Europe, Japan, and other markets. The company is courting Western creators like MrBest, hiring community and moderation staff globally, and building tools for brand partnerships. Semafor reports: The revamped international app no longer requires identity verification -- meaning users can sign up without having to provide a passport or ID document, which were long required of overseas users on its main Chinese platform, according to what appears to be a newly created account on X marketing the platform to global creators. "Yes bilibili is going global," the account wrote, adding that content-wise, the US and Chinese sites will be the same. In a document recently shared in a Discord chat for Bilibili creators, the company pitched itself as a place for influencers to make money and connect with "Gen Z Coded, affluent and well-educated" users. A marketplace for international users to connect with brands for sponsored content is "in development," according to the presentation. The deck also showed creators how to post videos on its Chinese website, adding that an English version is "coming soon. We are working hard."

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All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes -- including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are "completely overwhelmed" due to this code churn from the output of AI large language models...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help them stay focused and weigh longer-term goals. When people watch a short video they enjoy enough to finish, two brain regions involved in cognitive control show significant deactivation. That is the central finding of a new study from Zhejiang University, published in NeuroImagein January 2026. Using functional MRI alongside proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-MRS), the research team examined 56 young adults while they freely watched short video clips inside an MRI scanner. Both the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) showed reduced activity specifically when participants watched clips they liked enough to view to completion. Cognitive control helps people balance immediate pleasures against longer-term goals, and impairments in this system are linked to conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, and addiction. Short-video platforms present rapid, algorithmically curated streams that are built for continuous, low-effort consumption. Prior behavioral research has tied both internet addiction and smartphone addiction to weaker self-control, and separate neuroimaging work has documented disruptions to reward and cognitive-control circuits in people with behavioral addictions. Despite this, few studies had directly tested whether the act of watching entertaining short videos itself suppresses the brain's cognitive control regions. The Zhejiang University team set out to answer that question, along with a second one: what neurochemical factors might explain why this suppression varies from person to person?

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Russian attacks on Ukrainian publishing infrastructure in July and August destroyed roughly 10 million books, which equates to about 30% of Ukraine's annual book output. The Ukrainian Book Institute is warning of a potential "collapse of the entire book ecosystem" and is calling for international financial and industry support to help publishers, printers, and distributors recover. The Guardian reports: A major attack on August 1 hit warehouses belonging to the RNK-Ranok publishing group in Kharkiv, destroying approximately 8m books, following July attacks in Kyiv which led to the loss of more than 1.5m books. In all, the recent attacks have led to the destruction of approximately 30% of the volume of books produced annually in Ukraine. The RNK-Ranok logistics centre, which stores books for the company's many imprints, is also the distribution centre for the national bookselling chain KnyhoLand, which runs 51 shops and several websites. Along with the estimated 8m books lost, a further 600,000 school textbooks were destroyed. The total loss has been preliminarily estimated at almost 1bn hryvnias (16.5m eueros). "At this stage, we face the risk of the collapse of the entire book ecosystem," said Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute. The institute is asking for donations to support Ukrainian publishers, and is calling on the international publishing community to work with Ukrainian publishers and raise awareness about Russian attacks on Ukrainian culture. On August 16, a Russian attack on Kyiv led to a fire breaking out at the Pochaina book market, destroying several rows of stalls, books and vendors' property. The Pochaina market, founded in 1997, was once one of Ukraine's largest book markets, with hundreds of stalls and books from more than 120 publishers. The institute said the book industry was of "strategic importance" to Ukraine, preserving and promoting Ukrainian culture and giving the country's voice a platform at home and abroad. [...] The institute also called for an end to cooperation with Russian publishers and literary agencies, saying that solidarity with Ukrainian publishers was crucial to preserving cultural heritage that Russia was "deliberately trying to destroy."

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A growing backlash against AI data centers is spilling into local politics, with residents in more than a dozen communities pushing recall elections against officials who approved projects. "People are standing up and saying, 'Sorry, we don't want these data centers in our communities for a number of reasons,'" Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, said in an interview. "'If you can't have the guts to stand up to some large corporation, you should not continue serving in office.'" The New York Times reports: In Festus, Mo., critics of a local data center project gathered enough signatures in May to force a vote to remove the mayor and City Council members who had approved a $6 billion data center, though the effort is tied up in legal wrangling. In Mason, Mich., residents will vote in November over whether to recall a City Council member over a vote to create zoning rules for data centers. Voters in Yukon, Okla., will also decide in November whether to recall their mayor after the town moved to sell land to a data center developer. And residents of Independence, a city of 121,000 that is 10 miles from Kansas City, will vote on whether to remove Mr. Perkins on Sept. 1. Some local officials have already lost their jobs in the face of data center concerns in regularly scheduled elections. Last year, two members of the Georgia Public Service Commission lost their seats amid concern about data centers' driving up electricity prices. A Virginia state delegate, Geary Higgins, also lost his job last year after his opponent branded him "Data Center Geary." [...] Independence would be one of the first municipalities to hold a data-center-motivated recall election. A judge this month rejected a legal challenge by Mr. Perkins and others, who argued the recall violated Missouri's Constitution.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a "severe" math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece. The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were "five to eight years" behind and lacked a "middle school" education on fractions and basic algebra. Stankova said the UC system's test-blind admissions were to blame, suggesting that students who weren't sufficiently prepared for the rigor of Berkeley's mathematics program were admitted because a longstanding benchmark like the SAT had disappeared. Over the weekend, journalists at Berkeley's student newspaper, the Daily Californian, noticed the op-ed's language sounded like AI. According to Berkeley sophomore Francis Luo, they ran it through AI-detection software Pangram, which claimed 33% of the op-ed had been generated or assisted by AI. In response, Stankova admitted she had used AI software to "help edit the piece" but that the article was "the result of several hundred person-hours of intensive human work, of which about 80 hours are my own." Stankova said by email she had used AI to locate "numerous documents and articles related to the initiative" but that "all analysis is the result of the team members." When asked about their AI usage policy, the Standard -- which published the op-ed -- shared this statement by email: "While AI may assist, our expectation is that humans are behind every article we publish and take responsibility for every word. Our understanding in working with the author of this op ed was -- and continues to be -- that this piece reflects her and her colleagues' extensive original analysis, research and expertise." Should the op-ed have been entirely written without artificial assistance or is the use of AI a distraction from the argument at hand? That's the question at the heart of the debate playing out online. According to the op-ed, Stankova and her peers found that the number of students with a "severe deficit" in their readiness for a calculus I class had tripled after the University of California adopted test-blind admissions. Some students were allegedly five to eight years behind and struggling with basic algebra and fractions, among other concepts. Much of that decline, Stankova argues, is from the removal of standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, which served as important benchmarks for identifying whether applicants were prepared for Berkeley-level coursework.

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On vous le disait dans les news précédentes, la seconde quinzaine du mois d'août allait être chargée en sorties. On comptait le DLC de STALKER 2, The Sinking City 2, Hell Let Loose Vietnam, Mortal Shell II, 1666 Amsterdam, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, Star Wars Zero Company, et c'est sans compte...

Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...

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With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...

Bloomberg reports that YouTube is offering major creators millions of dollars to keep some content exclusive to its platform as Netflix increasingly signs YouTube-native talent to non-exclusive deals. YouTube has also warned that creators who simultaneously publish on Netflix could lose marketing support, event opportunities, and access to revenue from certain brand campaigns. Quartz reports: Bloomberg described two categories of payment: funding directed at specific programs, and a portion of the revenue YouTube brings in through large advertiser partnerships. No agreements have been finalized, but YouTube is close to deals with several partners, citing people familiar with the negotiations who declined to be identified. Creators who sign with Netflix face consequences. YouTube has warned creators that those who simultaneously publish videos on Netflix risk being sidelined from the platform's marketing campaigns and events, and would lose access to a share of proceeds from certain major brand deals. Netflix has been signing YouTube creators to non-exclusive deals that allow them to post the same content on both platforms simultaneously. Creators including Alan Chikin Chow and Nick DiGiovanni have already signed such agreements, and Netflix remains in active conversations with dozens of other channels and programs, including the celebrity talk show Hot Ones. Netflix's pitch is straightforward: creators receive a substantial additional payday for content they have already produced, and their work reaches an audience that numbers more than 325 million subscribers. YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan had previously held that creators who work with competitors tend to drive viewers back to YouTube. But Bloomberg reported that Mohan and his team decided in recent weeks that the growing number of creators posting simultaneously on both platforms had become a problem that needed to be addressed. The concern is that when a video runs on both platforms simultaneously, YouTube's ability to convince advertisers of that video's exclusive value is undermined.

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Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as "private and secure." A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired reports: Overall, according to findings from independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, the exposed ClarityCheck database contained roughly 450 GB of images, including what appeared to be profile images, screenshots, and other photographs of adults, teenagers, and children. All of the images were stored in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, with files in folders named "faces" and "profiles," which could be accessed by anyone online through a URL included in the company's publicly available website code. ClarityCheck is one of a number of so-called people-finder tools that have appeared online in recent years. These websites broadly claim to be able to search the web, public records, and other databases to identify individuals. ClarityCheck's website says it can run searches on phone numbers, email addresses, vehicle identification numbers, and names. Its photo-search page says it can help "identify anyone in a photo" and find social media profiles "in seconds." While ClarityCheck secured the giant image database after WIRED contacted the company in July, Fowler warns that it was seemingly exposed for months, and his initial efforts to flag the problem to the company were unsuccessful. Accidental data exposures create risk for any personal information, but particularly for sensitive and unchangeable biometric data like face images. [...] In addition to the face data, ClarityCheck had also misconfigured its APIs such that its website URLs could be manipulated to reveal data about people simply by entering names; anyone using any consumer browser could have done this. Entering a name into one of the URLs would return multiple potential email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers for people with that name. After WIRED contacted the company, the URLs were secured. The ClarityCheck spokesperson said in the statement that the details displayed were "sourced from publicly available information and licensed third-party data providers." A spokesperson for ClarityCheck said in a statement: "Once this was drawn to the attention of the appropriate teams, we acted immediately to restrict access." The company disputed any characterization that the data was "exposed," saying that an "ordinary member of the public" would not have come across it. "We do not accept that data in the temporary storage location was 'publicly exposed,' which implies large-scale public access," the spokesperson says. "Access required knowledge of a specific, unindexed URL that was not discoverable through ordinary use of the ClarityCheck service or a general web search."

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Il a tout juste un an maintenant, à la Gamescom 2025, Game Science révélait l'existence de Black Myth: Zhong Kui via un premier trailer. Ensuite, nous avons eu droit à une seconde vidéo de 6 minutes en février 2026, pour le nouvel an chinois. Nous voilà à présent à la Gamescom 2026, et le studio rem...

Le store d'Epic Games vous offre un Pack de Mage Épique pour le jeu Albion Online, ce pack d'une valeur de 55 dollars vous promet d'enrichir votre expérience dans le jeu, avec des objets cosmétiques enchantés, deux apparences de monture uniques et un trésor de récompenses indispensables à votre progression ! Afin d'obtenir ce pack, il suffit de se connecter au jeu Albion Online, avant le 27 août prochain, via le launcher d'Epic Games. Contenu : Pack de Garde-Robe et Apparence de Monture de Mage Aventurier : Incarnez un maître des arts mystiques grâce à cet ensemble cosmétique complet, comprenant : - Garde-Robe Complète de Mage : Enfilez la robe, le chapeau, les bottes et la cape d'un véritable sorcier - Apparence de Monture de Cheval Protégé : Parcourez au galop le Continent Royal sur un destrier digne d'un sorcier - Apparence d'Arme de Livre de Sorts : Maniez un grimoire mystique comprenant deux emotes uniques qui invoquent des feux d'artifice arcaniques et des apparitions lumineuses - Variantes de Guilde : Affichez fièrement les couleurs de votre guilde grâce aux versions spéciales de garde-robe et d'apparence de monture Apparence de Monture de Brumeloup : Parcourez le Continent Royal à dos d'un prédateur fantomatique enveloppé d'une brume mystérieuse 400 Jetons de la Communauté : Dépensez-les chez le Marchand de Cosmétiques pour obtenir les récompenses cosmétiques de votre choix 3 Parchemins de Renommée : Donnez à votre personnage un coup de pouce supplémentaire de Renommée pour profiter au maximum de votre temps de jeu 500 Points d'Apprentissage : Progressez cinq fois plus vite sur le Panneau du Destin et franchissez les différentes étapes de votre progression 10 Potions Régénératrices de Focalisation de l'Adepte : Récupérez vos points de Focalisation pour optimiser l'efficacité de l'artisanat et du raffinage 10 Tomes de Perspicacité de l'Adepte : Gagnez instantanément de la Renommée et accélérez votre progression initiale […]

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Le jeu Cardpocalypse vous est offert par le store d'Epic Games, l'ajout se passe ici, vous avez sept jours pour effectuer l'ajout à votre bibliothèque virtuelle !Ce jeu, aux airs de roguelike, vous confie la mission de rattraper la maladresse de Jess, qui a fait interdire les jeux de cartes dès son premier jour d'école, mais les monstres issus des cartes prennent vie et semblent vouloir tout détruire ! Cardpocalypse, on vous a dit ! Faites-vous des amis, jouez aux cartes, passez outre les règles, devenez un maître des Mega Mutant Power Pets, et essayez de sauver le monde dans ce RPG en solo où vous incarnez un enfant des années 90. Lors de son premier jour à l'école élémentaire Dudsdale, Jess, 10 ans, fait accidentellement interdire le jeu de cartes de collection du moment, forçant ainsi les enfants à s'affronter en secret. Les problèmes surgissent quand les mutants du jeu envahissent le monde réel, et c'est à Jess et ses amis de les arrêter. Du studio indé primé Gambrinous, créateur de Guild of Dungeoneering, voici un RPG dans lequel les combats sont joués avec un jeu de cartes à collectionner épique. Cardpocalypse vous ramène dan les années 1990, une époque où les ordinateurs utilisaient des disquettes, et les gens achetaient des magazines pour avoir les codes de triche des jeux vidéo. Vous explorerez l'école élémentaire de Dudsdale pour construire des decks puissants afin de vaincre les mutants. Vous devrez échanger, gagner, parier, changer les règles et modifier définitivement des cartes sur votre chemin vers la victoire. […]

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered such speeds for years, the FCC said the gigabit speed goal is not "technologically neutral," suggesting that it isn't fair to other, slower technologies. In 2024, the FCC raised its broadband benchmark to 100Mbps downstream and 20Mbps upstream, setting the new standard by which to judge whether deployment is reasonable and timely. The FCC at the time also set a long-term speed goal of 1Gbps download speeds paired with 500Mbps upload speeds, saying it would use the goal "as a guidepost for evaluating our efforts to encourage deployment." Republican Brendan Carr, who is now the FCC chairman, never liked that long-term goal. He proposed abolishing it last year, and the change was finalized on August 14 in the FCC's latest broadband deployment report. The reports are mandated by Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act. "As part of our return to following the plain language of Section 706, we adopt our proposal from the Notice [of Inquiry] to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000/500 Mbps established in the 2024 Report," the order said. "A long-term goal is not mentioned in Section 706 and could appear to violate our obligation to conduct our analysis in a technologically neutral manner. At present, it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences." The FCC said that comments submitted by cable industry group NCTA and wireless industry group CTIA "support our reasoning for abolishing the long-term goal." Last year, the Brendan Carr-led FCC said (PDF) that the gigabit goal "may be unreasonably prejudicial to technologies such as satellite and fixed wireless that presently do not support such speeds." However, last week's report contradicts that stance. "We disagree with commenters arguing that our concern about technological neutrality merely serves to accommodate technologies that may currently offer slower speeds," the FCC said. "At present, we do not know the nature of future consumer preferences and, considering that the goal is not required by the statute and does not serve any positive purpose (as discussed herein), we believe it prudent to abolish it."

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À chaque jour sa fuite de données, ou presque. SFR a prévenu jeudi 20 août ses clients qu’un « incident de sécurité » avait été détecté le 2 juillet. Il a touché un outil de gestion d’analyse des raccordements fibre, qui a entraîné un accès non autorisé à des données : nom, prénom, civilité, adresse, numéro de téléphone mobile, identifiant de contrat et des données techniques liées à la ligne.

Le groupe de pirates ZeroBytes a revendiqué l’attaque, rapporte FrenchBreaches qui publie le message de l’opérateur. Ces derniers ne sont pas inconnus des services : c’est à eux que l’on doit aussi l’attaque de la plateforme du fisc. Dans le cas de SFR, 2,1 millions de clients seraient potentiellement concernées.

• Troisième fuite confirmée aux impôts, Bercy détaille sa réponse aux attaques

L’entreprise a désactivé le compte utilisé pour accéder à l’outil, bloqué les adresses IP à l’origine de l’accès non autorisé, et continue de surveiller ces adresses. Les mesures de sécurité des systèmes ont été renforcés. La CNIL a également été notifiée, et une plainte déposée auprès du Procureur de la République.

Les données en fuite pourraient alimenter des campagnes de hameçonnage. Un escroc pourrait se présenter comme un représentant de SFR pour pousser les clients contactés à communiquer des informations confidentielles ou effectuer un paiement.

• Quels sont les risques liés aux multiples fuites de vos données personnelles ?

À chaque jour sa fuite de données, ou presque. SFR a prévenu jeudi 20 août ses clients qu’un « incident de sécurité » avait été détecté le 2 juillet. Il a touché un outil de gestion d’analyse des raccordements fibre, qui a entraîné un accès non autorisé à des données : nom, prénom, civilité, adresse, numéro de téléphone mobile, identifiant de contrat et des données techniques liées à la ligne.

Le groupe de pirates ZeroBytes a revendiqué l’attaque, rapporte FrenchBreaches qui publie le message de l’opérateur. Ces derniers ne sont pas inconnus des services : c’est à eux que l’on doit aussi l’attaque de la plateforme du fisc. Dans le cas de SFR, 2,1 millions de clients seraient potentiellement concernées.

• Troisième fuite confirmée aux impôts, Bercy détaille sa réponse aux attaques

L’entreprise a désactivé le compte utilisé pour accéder à l’outil, bloqué les adresses IP à l’origine de l’accès non autorisé, et continue de surveiller ces adresses. Les mesures de sécurité des systèmes ont été renforcés. La CNIL a également été notifiée, et une plainte déposée auprès du Procureur de la République.

Les données en fuite pourraient alimenter des campagnes de hameçonnage. Un escroc pourrait se présenter comme un représentant de SFR pour pousser les clients contactés à communiquer des informations confidentielles ou effectuer un paiement.

• Quels sont les risques liés aux multiples fuites de vos données personnelles ?

Comme tout le monde, Valve s’est pris les perturbations qui touchent les composants de plein fouet. Cette conjoncture a compliqué le lancement de la Steam Machine, laquelle a débarqué à un prix bien plus élevé qu’escompté... [Tout lire]