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India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google For Training AI On Copyrighted Content

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Tuesday, India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released a proposed framework that would give AI companies access to all copyrighted works for training in exchange for paying royalties to a new collecting body composed of rights-holding organizations, with payments then distributed to creators. The proposal argues that this "mandatory blanket license" would lower compliance costs for AI firms while ensuring that writers, musicians, artists, and other rights holders are compensated when their work is scraped to train commercial models. [...] The eight-member committee, formed by the Indian government in late April, argues the system would avoid years of legal uncertainty while ensuring creators are compensated from the outset. Defending the system, the committee says in a 125-page submission (PDF) that a blanket license "aims to provide an easy access to content for AI developers reduce transaction costs [and] ensure fair compensation for rightsholders," calling it the least burdensome way to manage large-scale AI training. The submission adds that the single collecting body would function as a "single window," eliminating the need for individual negotiations and enabling royalties to flow to both registered and unregistered creators.

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Si vous n’avez toujours pas la fibre optique, c’est le moment d’apprendre la patience

mème Pablo Escobar

Le régulateur des télécoms a publié ce 9 décembre 2025 son observatoire du troisième trimestre. Le verdict est rude pour celles et ceux qui attendent encore la fibre optique. Si cette solution est désormais la norme absolue en matière de très haut débit, le rythme des raccordements chute brutalement.

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D’où vient cette pub de Noël d’Intermarché avec un loup solitaire qui a cassé Internet ?

Une publicité Intermarché de deux minutes fait le tour du monde. Ses images animées racontent l'histoire d'un loup solitaire qui apprend à cuisiner des légumes, dans l'espoir de devenir ami avec les autres animaux de la forêt. Le dessin animé n'a pas été créé par une IA, mais par qui alors ?

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Evidence That Humans Now Speak In a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger

Researchers and moderators are increasingly concerned that ChatGPT-style language is bleeding into everyday speech and writing. The topic has been explored in the past but "two new, more anecdotal reports, suggest that our chatbot dialect isn't just something that can be found through close analysis of data," reports Gizmodo. "It might be an obvious, every day fact of life now." Slashdot reader joshuark shares an excerpt from the report: Over on Reddit, according to a new Wired story by Kat Tenbarge, moderators of certain subreddits are complaining about AI posts ruining their online communities. It's not new to observe that AI-armed spammers post low-value engagement bait on social media, but these are spaces like r/AmItheAsshole, r/AmIOverreacting, and r/AmITheDevil, where visitors crave the scintillation or outright titillation of bona fide human misbehavior. If, behind the scenes, there's not really a grieving college student having her tuition cut off for randomly flying off the handle at her stepmom, there's no real fun to be had. The mods in the Wired story explain how they detect AI content, and unfortunately their methods boil down to "It's vibes." But one novel struggle in the war against slop, the mods say, is that not only are human-written posts sometimes rewritten by AI, but mods are concerned that humans are now writing like AI. Humans are becoming flesh and blood AI-text generators, muddying the waters of AI "detection" to the point of total opacity. As "Cassie" an r/AmItheAsshole moderator who only gave Wired her first name put it, "AI is trained off people, and people copy what they see other people doing." In other words, Cassie said, "People become more like AI, and AI becomes more like people." Meanwhile, essayist Sam Kriss just explored the weird way chatbots "write" for the latest issue of the New York Times Magazine, and he discovered along the way that humans have accidentally taken cues from that weirdness. After parsing chatbots' strange tics and tendencies -- such as overusing the word "delve" most likely because it's in a disproportional number of texts from Nigeria, where that word is popular -- Kriss refers to a previously reported trend from over the summer. Members of the U.K. Parliament were accused of using ChatGPT to write their speeches. The thinking goes that ChatGPT-written speeches contained the phrase "I rise to speak," an American phrase, used by American legislators. But Kriss notes that it's not just showing up from time to time. It's being used with downright breathtaking frequency. "On a single day this June, it happened 26 times," he notes. While 26 different MPs using ChatGPT to write speeches is not some scientific impossibility, it's more likely an example of chatbots, "smuggling cultural practices into places they don't belong," to quote Kriss again. So when Kriss points out that when Starbucks locations were closing in September, and signs posted on the doors contained tortured sentences like, "It's your coffeehouse, a place woven into your daily rhythm, where memories were made, and where meaningful connections with our partners grew over the years," one can't state with certainty that this is AI-generated text (although let's be honest: it probably is).

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 49 de l’année 2025

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.

[ZDNET] 'Non à la taxe Windows': 20 organisations appellent à passer au logiciel libre

✍ Thierry Noisette, le dimanche 7 décembre 2025.

20 organisations invitent à passer au Libre et demandent la liberté de choix informatique, dès l’acte d’achat, avec l’affichage des coûts des licences et la possibilité d’acheter un ordinateur sans système d’exploitation imposé.

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[Goodtech] Logiciels de caisse: le Parlement veut rétablir l'auto-attestation et sauver l'open source

Le jeudi 4 décembre 2025.

Victoire en vue pour le logiciel libre en France: après l’Assemblée, le Sénat vote la fin de la certification tierce obligatoire pour les logiciels de caisse, jugée trop coûteuse et inadaptée. L’avis de l’APRIL.

[Génération NT] L'ascension de Linux: le géant Windows est-il vraiment en danger?

✍ Mathieu M., le mercredi 3 décembre 2025.

Longtemps cantonné à une niche d’experts, Linux connaît une croissance spectaculaire sur les PC de bureau. Sa part de marché a triplé en quatre ans, largement alimentée par des utilisateurs fuyant un Windows jugé trop contraignant. Entre la fin du support de Windows 10 et l’essor du gaming, l’OS libre est devenu une alternative crédible pour des millions de personnes.

[ZDNET] Le nouveau modèle open source de DeepSeek est-il le dernier coup de pelle porté à l'IA propriétaire?

✍ Webb Wright, le mercredi 3 décembre 2025.

Avec des résultats impressionnants, la dernière version open-source du modèle d’IA chinois relance la question de savoir si les modèles propriétaires en valent la peine.

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La ligne grand public de SSD et de RAM Crucial sacrifiée sur l’autel de l’IA

Micron a annoncé l’arrêt de son activité grand public via Crucial, dans le monde entier d’ici la fin du deuxième trimestre fiscal, lequel s’achève en février 2026. Autrement dit, les produits liés à la mémoire et au stockage estampillés Crucial disparaîtront des rayons d’ici quelques mois... [Tout lire]
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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 48 de l’année 2025

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.

[Place Gre'net] L'Isère en bonne place des labels Territoire numérique libre 2025

✍ Florent Mathieu, le vendredi 28 novembre 2025.

Plusieurs collectivités de l’Isère, la Ville d’Échirolles en tête, ont été distinguées par les labels Territoire numérique libre 2025.

[Numerama] Comment cet incontournable logiciel de conception 3D a permis aux hackers d'infiltrer le monde de l'animation

✍ Amine Baba Aissa, le jeudi 27 novembre 2025.

Dans un rapport publié le 24 novembre 2025, l’équipe de recherche de la société de cybersécurité Morphisec revient sur une vaste campagne cybercriminelle visant les utilisateurs de Blender. Ce logiciel de conception 3D open source est largement utilisé par les freelances ainsi que par certaines entreprises du secteur de l’animation et du jeu vidéo.

[ZDNET] Open-source pratique: 7 logiciels que vous seriez prêt à payer tellement ils sont bons (mais oui ils sont gratuits)

✍ Jack Wallen, le jeudi 27 novembre 2025.

Ces programmes sont gratuits, mais vous serez sans doute prêt à débourser quelques deniers pour les acquérir. Et voici pourquoi.

[Les Numeriques] “Près d'un million de téléchargements”: cette alternative Linux à Windows 11 fait un énorme carton

✍ Aymeric Geoffre-Rouland, le mercredi 26 novembre 2025.

La distribution Linux destinée aux transfuges de Windows vient d’annoncer un million de téléchargements en cinq semaines. Derrière ces chiffres, une stratégie aussi opportuniste qu’efficace face aux exigences matérielles de Windows 11.

[Next] Accusé d'être un outil pour criminels, GrapheneOS rompt avec la France

✍ Vincent Hermann, le mardi 25 novembre 2025.

Un article du Parisien sur le système Android alternatif GrapheneOS a créé une polémique: le système mobile serait une «botte secrète» pour les narcotrafiquants. L’équipe du projet a réagi radicalement, en retirant toutes ses ressources de France. La polémique a enflé en quelques jours, créant une cassure diplomatique dans l’univers open source.

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The Battle Over Africa's Great Untapped Resource: IP Addresses

In his mid-20s, Lu Heng "got an idea that has made him a lot richer," writes the Wall Street Journal. He scooped up 10 million unused IP addresses, mostly form Africa, and then leases them to companies, mostly outside Africa, "that need them badly." [A]round half of internet traffic continues to use IPv4, because changing to IPv6 can be expensive and complex and many older devices still need IPv4. Companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Google still want IPv4 addresses because their cloud-hosting businesses need them as bridges between the IPv4 and IPv6 worlds... Africa, which has been slower to develop internet infrastructure than the rest of the world, is the only region that still has some of the older addresses to dole out... He searches for IPv4 addresses that aren't being used — by ISPs or anyone else that holds them — and uses his Hong Kong-based company, Larus, to lease them out to others. In 2013, Lu registered a new company in the Seychelles, an African archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to apply for IP addresses from Africa's internet registry, called the African Network Information Centre, or Afrinic. Between 2013 and 2016, Afrinic granted that company, Cloud Innovation, 6.2 million IPv4 addresses. That's more addresses than are assigned to Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. A single IPv4 address can be worth about $50 on its transfer to a company like Larus, which leases it onward for around 5% to 10% of that value annually. Larus and its affiliate companies, Lu said, control just over 10 million IPv4 addresses. The architects of the internet don't appear to have contemplated the possibility that anyone would seek to monetize IP addresses... Lu's activities triggered a showdown with Africa's internet registry. In 2020, after what it said was an internal review, Afrinic sent letters to Lu and others seeking to reclaim the IP addresses they held. In Lu's case, Afrinic said he shouldn't be using the addresses outside Africa. Lu responded that he wasn't violating rules in place when he got the addresses... After some back-and-forth, Lu sued Afrinic in Mauritius to keep his allocated addresses, eventually filing dozens of lawsuits... One of the lawsuits that Lu filed in Mauritius prompted a court there to freeze Afrinic's bank accounts in July 2021, effectively paralyzing the organization and eventually sending it into receivership. The receivership choked off distributions of new IPv4 addresses, leaving the continent's service providers struggling to expand capacity... In September, Afrinic elected a new board. Since then, some internet-service providers have been granted IPv4 addresses.

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