joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA programs sanctify profit-driven dealmaking at the expense of public life. "That's not the institution failing," he writes. "Sadly, it's the institution working." "Business school doesn't just hand out skills and a network," argues Marquis, "it quietly reshapes how people see the world, rewarding dealmaking, simplification, and optimization for financial metrics, while workers and communities become afterthoughts." Marquis points to research suggesting that business-school-trained CEOs often benefit shareholders at the expense of workers, without delivering measurable improvements in company performance... "[W]hen a business-school-trained CEO takes over a firm, wages fall and labor's share of income drops, with no gain in productivity," writes Marquis. "In both the U.S. and Denmark, what passes for the 'managerial skill' of business-school graduates turns out to be a transfer of wealth away from workers and toward shareholders. Students deserve better than a machine that narrows their sense of what's possible."

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In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to AI/LLM-generated bug fixes for these likely unused or minimally used drivers...

TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget reports: The company has signed a letter of intent with manufacturer Key Tronic and, pending approval from regulators, TP-Link says stateside assembly of its routers could start at a Mississippi production line as soon as early 2027. Once things are up and running, Wi-Fi 8 routers are expected to be among the first TP-Link products that Key Tronic assembles. TP-Link claims that the agreement is part of its "long-term effort to accelerate US investment in high-tech manufacturing and job creation, designing and assembling next-generation products for American consumers here on American soil." The company said it will still have to source components from outside the US. "Many [components] are just not available from a domestic source, and this is not a TP-Link issue," TP-Link's corporate affairs officer Steve Kovsky told PC Mag. "This is an issue for all manufacturers that are trying to onshore manufacturing."

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Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump's second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the findings so they could be given to the White House, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request. The proposition was shocking to CISA's career staffers, according to one of the former officials. CISA typically worked to thwart hackers. Moreover, the agency had been directed not to alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws, contrary to its standard practices. The request made the CISA employees fear they were being asked to take part in political interference. "My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don't like," one of the former officials said. "This goes against everything CISA represents." [Or, perhaps do something worse?] The CISA employees repeatedly told the political appointees that their request was impossible, in part because the agents capable of pulling off such an operation had just been laid off by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. The appointees eventually stopped pressing CISA. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the agency for its own ends while draining it of resources for one of its critical missions: protecting the nation's voting systems.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. [...] Researchers at Norforge uncovered the attacks through exposed work on Cairn, an open-source AI platform that describes itself as a "general-purpose problem-solving engine." With Cairn, users set a start and end point for the AI agents, which document their progress as they move forward with the task. However, as noted by Norforge, hackers can also use the tool to orchestrate cyberattacks using AI agents. The hacker who broke into more than 100 sites was the "most active" among the exposed Cairn instances discovered by Norforge, waging attacks on companies based in the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan, as reported by Reuters. This attacker laid out "preferred intrusion tactics" using fewer than 100 Chinese characters, with successful breaches taking about 23 hours, according to Reuters. Overall, Nordforge found more than 20 exposed Cairn instances that are "likely malicious." A John Deere spokesperson said there is "no indication that sensitive information was accessed" as a result of the attack, while Cummins said it's "investigating the report of a potential cyber-attack on a website operated by one of our third-party vendors." Meanwhile, SharkNinja says the breach impacted a standalone site with product support information, and that it has contained the threat.

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Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagline "Pro and tell." 9to5Mac reports: Rumors say Apple has a slew of new products to announce at its next event, headlining by its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and OLED. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, here's what's on the docket: - New 14-inch and 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro models with OLED displays. They will also have a Dynamic Island for the first time and will be "significantly lighter" than the current models. The new MacBook Pro models are expected to be powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. - A revamped iPad mini with an OLED screen, a "revamped speaker system," and a relocated FaceTime camera - New iMac and entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro models powered by the M6 chip, which will "look like their current versions."

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With Linux 7.3 there are some nice Btrfs performance improvements to enjoy while the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel is set to bring some additional performance optimizations for this copy-on-write file-system...

Florida's DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver's license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had "improperly stored on an electronic device." The ShinyHunters group has been linked to the intrusion. Ars Technica reports: In a notice posted Friday, [Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV)] confirmed that it took "immediate steps" after discovering that "a malicious actor accessed certain department records on September 4, 2026, using compromised credentials." There's "no evidence" that data has yet been misused, the department said, but law enforcement "determined the information potentially affected includes driver license and motor vehicle data, to include document images, and other personal information." [...] On a webpage describing the security incident, FLHSMV confirmed that an "international cybercriminal organization" was behind the breach but did not specify which group or how long they had access. Instead, officials claimed to have "promptly mitigated the breach, launched an investigation, and issued required notification to state authorities." Mitigations included "blocking unauthorized access, resetting relevant user credentials, engaging cybersecurity professionals, and implementing additional safeguards to protect sensitive information," FLHSMV said. Florida's investigation is "ongoing," officials said, but a cybercriminal group called ShinyHunters -- which recently claimed credit for hacking the FBI -- may have stolen the data. Florida residents affected by the breach will receive a letter offering one year of free credit monitoring through Sontiq, Inc. Those whose contact information is outdated can email the FLHSMV at customerinquiry@flhsmv.gov to determine whether their data was compromised.

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Chez AMD, le "gros" GPU intégré dans des processeurs mobiles "normaux" est le Radeon 890M, avec ses 16 cœurs RDNA 3.5. Il y a évidemment encore plus performant, du côté des modèles Strix Halo et Gorgon Halo, mais on ne joue alors plus dans la même cour, notamment en matière de prix. Le petit souci d...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. "Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America," he wrote on X on Monday. "This will be the first of many." SpaceX only began trading publicly in June (and after the biggest initial public offering in history). The company's shares were trading for about $146 when the market closed on Friday. Musk's proposal was thin on detail. It is not clear how those shares would be distributed to the tens of millions of American children or whether all of them would even be eligible. According to the United States Census Bureau, there are roughly 73 million people under the age of 18, making Musk's potential giveaway worth about $10.7 billion at SpaceX's current share price. The move came in response to Anthropic's announcement on Sunday that it will commit at least 5% of its shares to a "Public Benefit Fund" that will donate money to social causes. "I recommend giving the shares directly to the public," Musk said in a reply to Anthropic's announcement. "This is what I will be doing."

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Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. "Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well," writes Thomas Frohwein, OpenBSD developer and ports maintainer. OSnews reports: The biggest limitation seems to be the lack of support for WoW64, so 32bit Windows software won't work. Still, this is a massive milestone for OpenBSD, and makes especially gaming a somewhat viable option on OpenBSD.

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Les violences du samedi 17 octobre 2026 ont frappé les boutiques Bouygues Telecom : le directeur général de l’opérateur recense 19 boutiques dégradées. Quatre d’entre elles nécessitent une reconstruction. Ainsi voici le bilan communiqué, la situation des équipes et le contexte plus large pour le commerce. Le bilan de l’opérateur Les équipes touchées Le contexte […]

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Autant le dire tout de suite, nous avons deux certitudes concernant ce nouvel écrin GALAX : c'est estampillé Swarovski, et ça concerne les RTX 50. Inconnue : à aucun moment le GPU n'est donné, cela signifie donc que cela peut être une RTX 5090 ou 5080, on ne voit pas de RTX 5060 finir dans cette gam...

An Intel engineer opened the pull requests today for adding Intel XeSS support to Valve's Proton for Steam Play along with associated changes to VKD3D-Proton and DXVK...

Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely promising performance results...

Le département états-unien de la Sécurité intérieure (DHS) ordonne le retrait des produits DeepSeek et services tiers utilisant le modèle d’IA chinois des systèmes informatiques des agences civiles fédérales, rapporte l’agence Reuters. Le DHS leur interdit également d’acquérir des produits DeepSeek, ainsi que des services tiers développés à l’aide des outils de l’entreprise chinoise.

L’AFP précise que le DHS, qui a autorité sur les services civils du gouvernement (mais pas sur l’armée ni le renseignement américain), ne motive pas sa décision dans l’avis.

Reuters souligne cela dit que dans une note de service datée de juillet et rendue publique ce lundi, en annexe du mémo, le DHS avait déjà demandé aux agences fédérales de surveiller le trafic entrant et sortant des sites web gouvernementaux afin de faire face aux risques potentiels liés à DeepSeek.

Le DHS expliquait que les modèles DeepSeek comportent « plusieurs vecteurs de menace », qu’ils « peuvent contenir des logiciels malveillants ou d’autres vulnérabilités de sécurité », et que « plusieurs vulnérabilités critiques » avaient été découvertes dans son application mobile iOS en 2025.

Il s’inquiétait également du fait que l’utilisation de ce produit « pourrait entraîner le transfert de données sensibles vers la République populaire de Chine s’il était utilisé par des employés du gouvernement américain ou des prestataires ». Le DHS indiquait enfin que l’utilisation de DeepSeek par des agences gouvernementales « pourrait générer des renseignements exploitables concernant des ressortissants américains et/ou des agences gouvernementales ».

Cette interdiction n’est pas la première aux États-Unis, relève Reuters. Plusieurs agences américaines, notamment le ministère du Commerce et la Marine, avaient ainsi déjà interdit l’utilisation de DeepSeek sur les appareils gouvernementaux. Plusieurs États, dont New York, le Tennessee et la Virginie, avaient pris des mesures similaires.

En juillet, la Federal Communications Commission (FCC) avait par ailleurs voté l’interdiction de la vente aux États-Unis d’appareils contenant des composants matériels clés provenant d’entreprises chinoises considérées comme présentant un risque pour la sécurité nationale. La FCC avait aussi proposé d’interdire aux opérateurs de télécommunications américains de s’interconnecter avec des entreprises de télécommunications chinoises considérées comme présentant un risque pour la sécurité nationale.

Le département états-unien de la Sécurité intérieure (DHS) ordonne le retrait des produits DeepSeek et services tiers utilisant le modèle d’IA chinois des systèmes informatiques des agences civiles fédérales, rapporte l’agence Reuters. Le DHS leur interdit également d’acquérir des produits DeepSeek, ainsi que des services tiers développés à l’aide des outils de l’entreprise chinoise.

L’AFP précise que le DHS, qui a autorité sur les services civils du gouvernement (mais pas sur l’armée ni le renseignement américain), ne motive pas sa décision dans l’avis.

Reuters souligne cela dit que dans une note de service datée de juillet et rendue publique ce lundi, en annexe du mémo, le DHS avait déjà demandé aux agences fédérales de surveiller le trafic entrant et sortant des sites web gouvernementaux afin de faire face aux risques potentiels liés à DeepSeek.

Le DHS expliquait que les modèles DeepSeek comportent « plusieurs vecteurs de menace », qu’ils « peuvent contenir des logiciels malveillants ou d’autres vulnérabilités de sécurité », et que « plusieurs vulnérabilités critiques » avaient été découvertes dans son application mobile iOS en 2025.

Il s’inquiétait également du fait que l’utilisation de ce produit « pourrait entraîner le transfert de données sensibles vers la République populaire de Chine s’il était utilisé par des employés du gouvernement américain ou des prestataires ». Le DHS indiquait enfin que l’utilisation de DeepSeek par des agences gouvernementales « pourrait générer des renseignements exploitables concernant des ressortissants américains et/ou des agences gouvernementales ».

Cette interdiction n’est pas la première aux États-Unis, relève Reuters. Plusieurs agences américaines, notamment le ministère du Commerce et la Marine, avaient ainsi déjà interdit l’utilisation de DeepSeek sur les appareils gouvernementaux. Plusieurs États, dont New York, le Tennessee et la Virginie, avaient pris des mesures similaires.

En juillet, la Federal Communications Commission (FCC) avait par ailleurs voté l’interdiction de la vente aux États-Unis d’appareils contenant des composants matériels clés provenant d’entreprises chinoises considérées comme présentant un risque pour la sécurité nationale. La FCC avait aussi proposé d’interdire aux opérateurs de télécommunications américains de s’interconnecter avec des entreprises de télécommunications chinoises considérées comme présentant un risque pour la sécurité nationale.

The Motorola 68000 "m68k" CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from the likes of Commodore Amiga, Atari, and early Apple Macintosh models...

A peine annoncée, la nouvelle carte graphique MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G COD MW4 EDITION OC EDITION est à la ferme ! C'est pas ma guerre, mais tu es chouette ! Débutons avec des chiffres, la nouvelle venue mesure 343 x 124 x 50 millimètres, pour un poids de 1356 grammes, elle dispose de deux équerres PCi, mais le carénage dépasse conséquemment, il vaut mieux anticiper un espace de trois slots. Le refroidissement TRIO FROZR 4 dispose de trois ventilateurs STORMFORCE de 100 millimètres. Visuellement la carte se démarque par de nombreux éléments : un cerclage jaune autour des ventilateurs , une backplate issue de l'univers du jeu et le radiateur entièrement peint en jaune ! Et franchement, l'effet est impressionnant, puisque ce dernier est visible quelque soit le côté de la carte que vous regardez, on apprécie une telle customisation soignée. La carte est livrée avec un bundle qui comprend un support, siglé Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 et un adaptateur 12 VHPWR, point de clé de jeu. La backplate arbore donc le portrait de GHOST, apposé sur une partie transparente et l'effet est très sympa, cela permet d'apercevoir le PCB du composant, le reste comporte des éléments en aluminium brossé et diverses découpes. La tranche supérieure dispose de quelques leds sous les logos MSI et Call of Duty. […]

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Le Core i5-4670K comme le test Cinebench R11.5 ne sont plus tout jeunes, du moins à l’échelle des composants et des logiciels... [Tout lire]