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iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing To Third-Party Devices In EU Under DMA

Under pressure from the Digital Markets Act, Apple's iOS 26.3 adds AirPods-style proximity pairing and notification support for third-party accessories in the EU. The changes will roll out to European users in 2026. MacRumors reports: The Digital Markets Act requires Apple to provide third-party accessories with the same capabilities and access to device features that Apple's own products get. In iOS 26.3, EU wearable device makers can now test proximity pairing and improved notifications. Here are the new capabilities that Apple is adding: - Proximity pairing - Devices like earbuds will be able to pair with an iOS device in an AirPods-like way by bringing the accessory close to an iPhone or iPad to initiate a simple, one-tap pairing process. Pairing third-party devices will no longer require multiple steps. - Notifications - Third-party accessories like smart watches will be able to receive notifications from the iPhone. Users will be able to view and react to incoming notifications, which is functionality normally limited to the Apple Watch. Notifications can only be forwarded to one connected device at a time, and turning on notifications for a third-party device disables notifications to an Apple Watch.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : l’armée ukrainienne concède à l’armée russe la ville de Siversk, dans l’oblast de Donetsk

Les forces russes ont progressé en raison de leur supériorité numérique et de la pression constante exercée par de petits groupes d’assaut, dans des conditions météorologiques difficiles, affirme l’armée ukrainienne.

© SERVICE DE PRESSE DU MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE RUSSE/AP

Sur cette image extraite d’une vidéo, des soldats russes brandissent le drapeau de leur pays, à Siversk (Ukraine), le 11 décembre 2025.
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John Carreyou and Other Authors Bring New Lawsuit Against Six Major AI Companies

A group of authors led by John Carreyrou has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the AI firms of training models on pirated copies of their books. TechCrunch reports: If this sounds familiar, it's because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but that it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place. While eligible writers can receive about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors were dissatisfied with that resolution -- it doesn't hold AI companies accountable for the actual act of using stolen books to train their models, which generate billions of dollars in revenue. The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit say the proposed Anthropic settlement "seems to serve [the AI companies], not creators." "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates, eliding what should be the true cost of their massive willful infringement."

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Le chef d’état-major libyen meurt dans un accident d’avion en Turquie

L’appareil du général Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad avait demandé un atterrissage d’urgence pour un dysfonctionnement électrique peu après son décollage d’Ankara où une délégation libyenne était en visite.

© HAZEM TURKIA / Anatolie / AFP

Le chef d’état-major des forces armées libyennes, le général Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, à Tripoli, le 21 novembre 2020.
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KVM Guest VMs Using Intel AMX Can Cause The Linux Host To Kernel Panic

An unfortunate Linux kernel bug coming to light just ahead of Christmas may cause frustration for some server administrators, particularly public cloud providers... It turns out with the Linux kernel releases since 2022, KVM guest virtual machines making use of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is possible to cause the host to experience a kernel panic...
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Linux's sched_ext Has Plans For GPU Awareness, Energy-Aware Abstractions

Sched_ext as the extensible scheduler code for the Linux kernel that allows loading schedulers from user-space via eBPF code has shown a lot of interesting possibilities. Andrea Righi of NVIDIA who has been heavily involved in sched_ext development shared some of the future plans being looked at as we move into 2026...
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