L'expérimentation de Google sur la presse devient un champ de mines. L'entreprise américaine est sous le coup d'une décision de justice qui lui ordonne de ne pas exécuter immédiatement son test consistant à cacher la presse européenne pour 1 % des internautes de neuf pays de l'UE. Dans le cas contraire, une astreinte journalière de près d'un million d'euros surviendra.

Google lancera le 14 novembre une expérimentation qui consistera à exclure pour un temps l'affichage des résultats renvoyant vers la presse. Plusieurs pays européens sont concernés, dont la France. Le test touchera un petit échantillon d'internautes. Les autres ne seront pas affectés.

I had the opportunity to interview esteemed programmer Steve Yegge for the SourceForge Podcast to ask him all about AI-powered coding assistants and the future of programming. "We're moving from where you have to write the code to where the LLM will write the code and you're just having a conversation with it about the code," said Yegge. "That is much more accessible to people who are just getting into the industry." Steve has nearly 30 years of programming experience working at Geoworks, Amazon, Google, Grab and now SourceGraph, working to build out the Cody AI assistant platform. Here's his Wikipedia page. He's not shy about sharing his opinions or predictions for the industry, no matter how difficult it may be for some to hear. "I'm going to make the claim that ... line-oriented programming, which we've done for the last 40, 50 years, ... is going away. It is dying just like assembly language did, and it will be completely dead within five years." You can watch the episode on YouTube and stream on all major podcast platforms. A transcription of the podcast is available here.

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Anton Shilov reports via Tom's Hardware: FFmpeg is an open-source video decoding project developed by volunteers who contribute to its codebase, fix bugs, and add new features. The project is led by a small group of core developers and maintainers who oversee its direction and ensure that contributions meet certain standards. They coordinate the project's development and release cycles, merging contributions from other developers. This group of developers tried to implement a handwritten AVX512 assembly code path, something that has rarely been done before, at least not in the video industry. The developers have created an optimized code path using the AVX-512 instruction set to accelerate specific functions within the FFmpeg multimedia processing library. By leveraging AVX-512, they were able to achieve significant performance improvements -- from three to 94 times faster -- compared to standard implementations. AVX-512 enables processing large chunks of data in parallel using 512-bit registers, which can handle up to 16 single-precision FLOPS or 8 double-precision FLOPS in one operation. This optimization is ideal for compute-heavy tasks in general, but in the case of video and image processing in particular. The benchmarking results show that the new handwritten AVX-512 code path performs considerably faster than other implementations, including baseline C code and lower SIMD instruction sets like AVX2 and SSSE3. In some cases, the revamped AVX-512 codepath achieves a speedup of nearly 94 times over the baseline, highlighting the efficiency of hand-optimized assembly code for AVX-512.

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theodp writes: "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election," argues Jeff Bezos in The Hard Truth: Americans Don't Trust the News Media, a WaPo op-ed defense of his decision as owner of The Washington Post to end the newspaper's tradition of endorsing candidates for president. "No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, 'I'm going with Newspaper A's endorsement.' None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it's the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it's a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy."

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L'Apple TV, le Google TV 4K ou encore la Nvidia Shield TV vous tentent ? Vous avez bien raison, ces appareils sont d'excellentes alternatives aux interfaces parfois limitées et affreusement de certains téléviseurs. Avec une offre de plus en plus diversifiée, allant des clés HDMI aux boîtiers multimédias ultra-complets, il peut être compliqué de choisir le modèle qui vous conviendra le mieux. Dans ce guide, nous faisons le tour des box TV que nous avons testées chez Numerama pour 2024.

À peine sorti, le nouveau casque VR Meta Quest 3S se retrouve déjà en remisé dans une offre plutôt inattendue. En effet, c'est l'opérateur SFR qui a décidé de brader le casque uniquement pour ses abonnés.

Avec la montée en puissance des réseaux mobiles, les box 5G se positionnent aujourd'hui comme des solides alternatives à la fibre optique, notamment dans les zones où l'installation de la fibre tarde à se déployer. La promesse ? Une connexion internet rapide, et surtout facile à installer avec moins d’encombrements. Dans ce guide, on passe en revue les meilleures offres internet du marché afin de vous aider à faire le bon choix en fonction de votre usage et de votre localisation.