The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that all publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will become freely available to everyone starting January 2026. Authors will retain full copyright to their published work under the new arrangement, and ACM has committed to defending those works against copyright and integrity-related violations. The transition follows what ACM described as extensive dialogue with authors, Special Interest Group leaders, editorial boards, libraries, and research institutions globally. Students, educators, and researchers at institutions of all sizes -- from well-resourced universities to emerging research communities -- will gain unrestricted access to the full catalog of ACM-published work. The Digital Library houses decades of computing research across journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and books.

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The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks in what it describes as "very clear evidence" of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November. The first, it said, was carried out by the pro-Russian group known as Z-Pentest and the second by NoName057(16), which has links to the Russian state. "The Russian state uses both groups as instruments of its hybrid war against the west," DDIS said in a statement. "The aim is to create insecurity in the targeted countries and to punish those that support Ukraine. Russia's cyber operations form part of a broader influence campaign intended to undermine western support for Ukraine." It added: "The DDIS assesses that the Danish elections were used as a platform to attract public attention -- a pattern that has been observed in several other European elections."

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D'après Bloomberg, Riot Games préparerait une version « rafraîchie » de League of Legends afin de moderniser ses graphismes et de le rendre plus accessible aux nouveaux joueurs. Baptisée « League Next », cette mise à jour serait prévue pour 2027. A.

Les prix de la RAM et des SSD explosent. La tendance devrait se poursuivre en 2026, tant que les mégacorporations dystopiques qui dirigent le monde continueront de tout rafler pour équiper leurs maudits centres de données. Et les conséquences pour l'industrie du jeu vidéo commencent à se faire sentir. Après Nvidia qui annonce vouloir diminuer de 30 à 40 % sa production de GPU gaming, le boss du studio Larian explique à The Gamer que cette nouvelle réalité du marché, qui nous dissuade d'acheter du matos PC plus performant, va l'obliger à faire un gros travail d'optimisation sur la (future) version anticipée de Divinity, ce qu'il n'avait pas prévu. Cela voudrait donc dire qu'en 2026, nous allons dépenser moins d'argent (car les prix seront inabordables) tout en ayant des jeux mieux optimisés. Bah perso, ça me va. A.