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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 3 de l’année 2026

✇LinuxFr.org : les dépêches
Par : echarp

Cette revue de presse sur Internet fait partie du travail de veille mené par l’April dans le cadre de son action de défense et de promotion du logiciel libre. Les positions exposées dans les articles sont celles de leurs auteurs et ne rejoignent pas forcément celles de l’April.

[Numerama] Contrôles CAF: comment fonctionne le nouvel algorithme de data mining?

✍ Amine Baba Aissa, le dimanche 18 janvier 2026.

Alors que le dispositif avait suscité de nombreuses critiques au sein d’associations en France, la CNAF a choisi de ne pas renoncer à son algorithme de contrôle des allocataires et vient de déployer un nouveau modèle de «data mining».​ Cette fois, l’organisme mise sur une communication plus transparente et a décidé

[Mediapart] Wikipédia, les 25 ans d'une utopie réussie devenue le punching-ball de l'extrême droite (€)

✍ Dan Israel, le jeudi 15 janvier 2026.

L’encyclopédie en ligne, gratuite et coopérative, a été lancée le 15 janvier 2001. Avec 65 millions d’articles en 326 langues, son succès a dépassé toutes les attentes, malgré les critiques régulière…"

[Républik IT Le Média] Software Heritage: dix ans de préservation du patrimoine applicatif

✍ Bertrand Lemaire, le mercredi 14 janvier 2026.

Le 28 janvier 2026, Software Heritage fêtera ses dix ans à l’Unesco. Morane Gruenpeter, directrice de la verticale Open-Science, et Bastien Guerry, responsable des partenariats, présentent cette initiative qui vise à préserver le patrimoine applicatif quelque soit le sort des éditeurs ou les feuilles de route de ceux-ci.

[ZDNET] Logiciel libre et souveraineté: la Commission européenne lance un appel à contributions

✍ Thierry Noisette, le lundi 12 janvier 2026.

La Commission propose jusqu’au 3 février aux développeurs, entreprises et communautés open source, administrations et chercheurs de contribuer à la future stratégie européenne d’écosystème numérique ouvert. En identifiant les obstacles à l’adoption de l’open source et en suggérant des mesures concrètes.

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Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever

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Par : BeauHD
Iran has imposed one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns in its history, cutting more than 92 million people off from connectivity for over a week as mass anti-government protests continue. TechCrunch reports: As of this writing, Iranians have not been able to access the internet for more than 170 hours. The previous longest shutdowns in the country lasted around 163 hours in 2019, and 160 hours in 2025, according to Isik Mater, the director of research at NetBlocks, a web monitoring company that tracks internet disruptions. Mater said that the current shutdown in Iran is the third longest on record, after the internet shutdown in Sudan in mid-2021 that lasted around 35 days, followed by the outage in Mauritania in July 2024, which lasted 22 days. "Iran's shutdowns remain among the most comprehensive and tightly enforced nationwide blackouts we've observed, particularly in terms of population affected," Mater told TechCrunch. The exact ranking depends on how each organization measures a shutdown. Zach Rosson, a researcher who studies internet disruptions at the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, told TechCrunch that according to its data, the ongoing shutdown in Iran is on a path to crack the top 10 longest shutdowns in history. Further reading: Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time

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Internet en Iran : Starlink active les liaisons en silence, contrairement au Venezuela

✇Numerama.com - Magazine
Par : Julien Lausson

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Alors que l’Iran impose un black-out numérique total pour étouffer la contestation, Starlink a rendu son service gratuit dans le pays. Une bouffée d'oxygène pour les terminaux clandestins déjà sur place, mais qui tranche par la discrétion autour de la manœuvre : contrairement au Venezuela, Elon Musk a cette fois choisi d'agir sans faire de bruit.

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How Markdown Took Over the World

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Par : msmash
22 years ago, developer and columnist John Gruber released Markdown, a simple plain-text formatting system designed to spare writers the headache of memorizing arcane HTML tags. As technologist Anil Dash writes in a long piece, Markdown has since embedded itself into nearly every corner of modern computing. Aaron Swartz, then seventeen years old, served as the beta tester before its quiet March 2004 debut. Google eventually added Markdown support to Docs after more than a decade of user requests; Microsoft put it in Notepad; Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, and Apple Notes all support it now. Dash writes: The part about not doing this stuff solely for money matters, because even the most advanced LLM systems today, what the big AI companies call their "frontier" models, require complex orchestration that's carefully scripted by people who've tuned their prompts for these systems through countless rounds of trial and error. They've iterated and tested and watched for the results as these systems hallucinated or failed or ran amok, chewing up countless resources along the way. And sometimes, they generated genuinely astonishing outputs, things that are truly amazing to consider that modern technology can achieve. The rate of progress and evolution, even factoring in the mind-boggling amounts of investment that are going into these systems, is rivaled only by the initial development of the personal computer or the Internet, or the early space race. And all of it -- all of it -- is controlled through Markdown files. When you see the brilliant work shown off from somebody who's bragging about what they made ChatGPT generate for them, or someone is understandably proud about the code that they got Claude to create, all of the most advanced work has been prompted in Markdown. Though where the logic of Markdown was originally a very simple version of "use human language to tell the machine what to do", the implications have gotten far more dire when they use a format designed to help expresss "make this **bold**" to tell the computer itself "make this imaginary girlfriend more compliant".

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Cloudflare Threatens Italy Exit After $16.3M Fine For Refusing Piracy Blocks

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Par : msmash
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has threatened to withdraw free cybersecurity services from Italy's Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics and potentially exit the country after Italy's telecommunications regulator fined the company approximately 14 million euros for failing to comply with anti-piracy blocking orders. The penalty equals 1% of Cloudflare's global annual revenue but exceeds twice what the company earned from Italy in 2024. Prince called Italy's Autorita per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni a "quasi-judicial body" administering a "scheme to censor the Internet" on behalf of "a shadowy cabal of European media elites." The fine stems from Cloudflare's refusal to comply with Italy's Piracy Shield law, which requires internet service providers and DNS operators to block sites within 30 minutes of receiving blocking requests from copyright holders. Prince said Cloudflare may discontinue free services for Italian users, remove servers from Italian cities and cancel plans to build an Italian office.

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 2 de l’année 2026

✇LinuxFr.org : les dépêches
Par : echarp · Benoît Sibaud

Cette revue de presse sur Internet fait partie du travail de veille mené par l’April dans le cadre de son action de défense et de promotion du logiciel libre. Les positions exposées dans les articles sont celles de leurs auteurs et ne rejoignent pas forcément celles de l’April.

[Le Monde.fr] «Les Gafam ont colonisé progressivement nos imaginaires» (€)

✍ Fabrizio Defilippi, le samedi 10 janvier 2026.

TRIBUNE. L’essor de l’intelligence artificielle, et avec elle d’images produites rapidement, a entraîné un appauvrissement de la créativité en ligne, au point de susciter une vague de nostalgie pour le Web tel qu’il existait auparavant, souligne Fabrizio Defilippi, spécialiste des cultures numériques, dans une tribune au «Monde».

[Le Monde.fr] «La domination de la Chine dans l'IA open source est un défi pour les Etats-Unis» (€)

✍ Alexandre Piquard, le jeudi 8 janvier 2026.

CHRONIQUE. La concurrence entre modèles propriétaires et modèles ouverts et gratuits d’intelligence artificielle est au cœur de l’affrontement économique et idéologique entre l’Amérique de Trump et la Chine de Xi Jinping, explique Alexandre Piquard dans sa chronique.

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[EurActiv] La Commission européenne veut commercialiser l'open source pour en faire un levier de souveraineté numérique FR

✍ Maximilian Henning, le mercredi 7 janvier 2026.

La Commission européenne entend renforcer la souveraineté numérique de l’UE en favorisant la commercialisation des logiciels open source développés en Europe, selon une consultation publiée mardi 6 janvier.

[ZDNET] Linux sera invincible en 2026

✍ Steven Vaughan-Nichols, le lundi 5 janvier 2026.

Linux et l’open source s’apprêtent à connaître une année faste, avec la croissance de PDM sur les ordinateurs de bureau, la montée en puissance de Rust et toujours plus de sécurité.

[France Info] Arrêter la dépendance à Google: Côte-d'Or Street, première numérisation des routes proposée par un département, 'un véritable enjeu de souveraineté'

✍ Auberi Verne, le mercredi 31 décembre 2025.

Le Département de Côte-d’Or a lancé, fin décembre, son propre service de navigation virtuelle sur le réseau routier. Une façon d’assurer son indépendance face à l’hégémonie du géant Google Street View.

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[ZDNET] Libre et open source express (1/2): dons aux assos, exclusion numérique, Acteurs du Libre, Science ouverte, collectivités

✍ Thierry Noisette, le mardi 30 décembre 2025.

En bref. Et vous, qui soutenez-vous? Ce que peuvent faire les entreprises contre l’exclusion numérique, par Emmaüs Connect. Lyon, Grenoble et d’autres villes, retours d’expérience sur l’adoption de solutions libres

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Google: Don't Make 'Bite-Sized' Content For LLMs If You Care About Search Rank

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Par : BeauHD
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO wisdom you see online amounts to superstition. An increasingly popular approach geared toward LLMs called "content chunking" may fall into that category. In the latest installment of Google's Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan say that breaking content down into bite-sized chunks for LLMs like Gemini is a bad idea. You've probably seen websites engaging in content chunking and scratched your head, and for good reason -- this content isn't made for you. The idea is that if you split information into smaller paragraphs and sections, it is more likely to be ingested and cited by gen AI bots like Gemini. So you end up with short paragraphs, sometimes with just one or two sentences, and lots of subheads formatted like questions one might ask a chatbot. According to Google's Danny Sullivan, this is a misconception, and Google doesn't use such signals to improve ranking. "One of the things I keep seeing over and over in some of the advice and guidance and people are trying to figure out what do we do with the LLMs or whatever, is that turn your content into bite-sized chunks, because LLMs like things that are really bite size, right?" said Sullivan. "So... we don't want you to do that." The conversation, which begins around the podcast's 18-minute mark, goes on to illustrate the folly of jumping on the latest SEO trend. Sullivan notes that he has consulted engineers at Google before making this proclamation. Apparently, the best way to rank on Google continues to be creating content for humans rather than machines. That ensures long-term search exposure, because the behavior of human beings -- what they choose to click on -- is an important signal for Google.

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Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam

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Par : BeauHD
A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company regularly delays customer orders, calls couriers "human assets," and exploits their "desperation" for cash, among other indefensible actions. Nearly 90,000 upvotes and four days later, it's become increasingly clear that the post's text is probably AI-generated. Considering the delivery app industry track record of exploitation of its drivers, it's easy to see why so many people believed this was the real thing. The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle. Reached by The Verge on Signal, Trowaway_whistleblow provided an image of an Uber Eats employee badge. That image was generated or edited with Google AI, according to Gemini. The image shows an Uber Eats logo above two black boxes, presumably covering an employee name and photo, and the words "senior software engineer." It's odd that an engineer's badge would have the Uber Eats logo, and not the Uber logo, according to Gemini. That, in addition to slightly misaligned words and warped coloration at the edge of the green border, are reasons Gemini thinks it's inauthentic. (Uber later confirmed that Uber Eats-branded employee badges do not exist.) "Not only are the claims fake, but they're also dead wrong," Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen told The Verge. Uber Eats' Andrew Macdonald wrote on X, "This post is definitively not about us. I suspect it is completely made up. Don't trust everything you read on the internet." DoorDash CEO Tony Xu also denied the redditor's "appalling" allegations. "This is not DoorDash, and I would fire anyone who promoted or tolerated the kind of culture described in this Reddit post," Xu said in a post on X.

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