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Fewer US College Students Major in CS. More Choose Data Science, Engineering

"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities. The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead? Sarah Karamarkovich, a research associate with the National Student Clearinghouse, pointed to an explanation from the data that we had overlooked. Enrollments in two interdisciplinary majors, data analytics and data science, topped a combined 35,000 in the fall of 2025. That was up from a few hundred when those disciplines were broken out into their own majors in 2020. Those relatively new categories reflect colleges' zeal to create specialized majors, including in AI, data science, robotics and cybersecurity. Some of those disciplines may be counted in the national enrollment data as computer science. Others are not. The numbers suggest that some of the disappearing computer science majors didn't flee so much as they splintered into related disciplines.... The 8 percent decline in computer science majors last fall was nearly mirrored by a 7.3 percent increase in engineering majors, according to the National Student Clearinghouse data. Within engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering major enrollments increased by the largest absolute amounts — a jump of 11 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

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Il a révolutionné la télévision : Reed Hastings, le créateur de Netflix, tire sa révérence

Le 16 avril 2026, Netflix a annoncé le départ prochain de son cofondateur Reed Hastings de son conseil d’administration. Une page se tourne pour le géant du streaming, au moment même où l’entreprise affiche des résultats solides mais doit composer avec un environnement plus incertain, marqué par l’échec du rachat de Warner Bros.

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Aircooling ou Watercooling AIO que choisir ? Comparons avec be quiet!

Dernièrement, les systèmes de refroidissement liquide AIO pour processeur ont eu le droit à des baisses importantes sur les tarifs. Le produit réservé à quelques utilisateurs avec des moyens importants n'est plus, et on peut facilement trouver des kits AIO en 360 mm à des tarifs similaires à certains ventirads plutôt haut de gamme. Pour un montant similaire, vers quoi se tourner ? Une question à laquelle nous allons apporter un semblant de réponse aujourd'hui avec be quiet! et quatre solutions comparées. Radiateur avec une ou deux tours, AIO en 240 mm ou 360 mm, faisons un petit point avec ce nouveau dossier.
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Prénom, nom, établissement, classe : l’Éducation nationale victime d’une cyberattaque ciblant les comptes ÉduConnect d’élèves

Le ministère de l'Éducation nationale confirme à Numerama avoir été victime d'une cyberattaque ciblée ayant entraîné la fuite de données personnelles d'élèves. L'incident trouve son origine dans l'usurpation d'un compte administrateur fin 2025, qui a permis un accès frauduleux au service de gestion des comptes ÉduConnect.

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Will Some Programmers Become 'AI Babysitters'?

Will some programmers become "AI babysitters"? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google: "AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system," explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So "As AI-generated code becomes more accurate and ubiquitous, the role of the computer scientist shifts from author to technical auditor or expert. "While large language models can generate functional code in milliseconds, they lack the contextual judgment and specialized knowledge to ensure that the output is safe, efficient, and integrates correctly within a larger system without a person's oversight. [...] The human-in-the-loop must possess the technical depth to recognize when a piece of code is sub-optimal or dangerous in a production environment. [...] We need computer scientists to perform forensics, tracing the logic of an AI-generated module to identify logical fallacies or security loopholes. Modern CS education should prepare students to verify and secure these black-box outputs." The NY Times reports that companies are already struggling to find engineers to review the explosion of AI-written code.

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Pourquoi Daphne a disparu de Bridgerton sur Netflix ? Phoebe Dynevor brise enfin le silence

Daphne Bridgerton, la Duchesse qui a lancé le phénomène mondial La Chronique des Bridgerton sur Netlix, reviendra-t-elle un jour à Mayfair ? Alors que la saison 5 se prépare en Écosse, Phoebe Dynevor s'est confiée sans détour sur les coulisses de son départ et les conditions de son éventuel come-back dans l'univers de Shonda Rhimes.

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