An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base. The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is based on several assumptions, the first of which is that agentic coding assistants "give senior engineers an AI boost... while imposing an AI drag on early-in-career (EiC) developers to steer, verify and integrate AI output." In an earlier podcast on the subject, Russinovich said this basic premise -- that AI is increasing productivity only for senior developers while reducing it for juniors -- is a "hot topic in all our customer engagements... they all say they see it at their companies." [...] The logical outcome is that "if organizations focus only on short-term efficiency -- hiring those who can already direct AI -- they risk hollowing out the next generation of technical leaders," Russinovich and Hanselman state in the paper.

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Alors que la saison 1 de A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms vient de s'achever sur HBO Max le 23 février 2026, tous les regards se tournent déjà vers la suite. La saison 2 a été officiellement commandée et le showrunner, Ira Parker, ne manque pas d'idées.

Le célèbre roman de Jane Austen, qui a déjà connu de nombreuses adaptations au cinéma et à la télévision, va faire l'objet d'une nouvelle réécriture pour Netflix. Casting, histoire, sortie... Voici tout ce que l'on sait déjà sur la future série Orgueil et Préjugés.

Plus de trente ans après sa première diffusion aux États-Unis, l'une des plus grandes séries de science-fiction va faire son grand retour à la télévision : X-Files. Et bonne nouvelle : un réalisateur de grand talent sera aux manettes.

L'enfer, c'est les fandoms, dirait peut-être Jean-Paul Sartre en 2026. La preuve : ces jours-ci, les fans de Breaking Bad et de A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (une série dérivée de Game of Thrones) se sont déchirés sur IMDb, à grands coups de notes.

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: A team of researchers working at Quantinuum in the United Kingdom and QuSoft in the Netherlands has now developed a quantum algorithm that solves a specific sampling task -- known as complement sampling -- dramatically more efficiently than any classical algorithm. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, establishes a provable and verifiable quantum advantage in sample complexity: the number of samples required to solve a problem. "We stumbled upon the core result of this work by chance while working on a different project," Harry Buhrman, co-author of the paper, told Phys.org. "We had a set of items and two quantum states: one formed from half of the items, the other formed from the remaining half. Even though the two states are fundamentally distinct, we showed that a quantum computer may find it hard to tell which one it is given. Surprisingly, however, we then realized that transforming one state into the other is always easy, because a simple operation can swap between them."

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Paramount avait jusqu'au 23 février 2026 pour proposer sa « meilleure et dernière offre » pour acquérir Warner Bros Discovery et faire capoter le deal déjà conclu avec Netflix. Le groupe propose d'augmenter son offre à 31 dollars par action et s'engage à un dialogue sain pour clôturer la parenthèse Netflix.