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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 10 de l’année 2024

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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.

[Next] Le CNRS veut que ses logiciels libres génèrent des revenus

✍ Martin Clavey, le vendredi 8 mars 2024.

Le logiciel libre a une place importante dans l’univers de la recherche publique. De nombreux chercheurs contribuent à des projets du libre ou en créent. Le CNRS veut maintenant aider ses chercheurs à intégrer leurs logiciels dans une «logique de satisfaction d’objectifs économiques viables» avec un programme de financement appelé «OPEN».

[Le Monde Informatique] Priyanka Sharma (General Manager CNCF): «En France il y a une communauté open source vibrante»

✍ Dominique Filippone, le vendredi 8 mars 2024.

Un mois avant la première édition en France de la Kubecon Europe, la directrice exécutive de la Cloud Native Computing Foundation, qui gère Kubernetes, revient sur les projets et ambitions et apporte son regard sur l’évolution de la place de l’open source dans les entreprises.

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[Le Temps] Au Tribunal fédéral, l'informatique se passe des géants américains (€)

✍ Grégoire Barbey, le jeudi 7 mars 2024.

La plus haute autorité judiciaire du pays a fait le choix de la souveraineté numérique pour son infrastructure informatique. Une approche qui tranche avec d’autres institutions publiques et privées

[ZDNet France] Canonical fête ses 20 ans: comment Ubuntu a changé le monde de Linux

✍ Steven Vaughan-Nichols, le mercredi 6 mars 2024.

La société mère d’Ubuntu, qui équipe aujourd’hui des millions d’ordinateurs de bureau, de serveurs et d’instances cloud, continue de rechercher l’équilibre entre la fourniture de ‘Linux pour les humains’ et sa responsabilité croissante sur le marché mondial de la technologie.

[Le Monde.fr] Open data publique: «On voit les limites dès que les données pourraient remettre en cause le pouvoir établi» (€)

✍ Raphaëlle Aubert et Léa Sanchez, le mardi 5 mars 2024.

Dans un entretien au «Monde», le sociologue Samuel Goëta dresse un bilan de l’ouverture des données publiques en France.

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[Next] Orange condamnée à 860 000 euros pour contrefaçon et violation de la licence libre GNU GPL

Le mardi 5 mars 2024.

Après plus de douze ans de procédure, rapporte l’association April, Orange vient d’être condamnée pour contrefaçon. Elle a violé les termes de la licence GNU GPL v2, et donc le droit d’auteur d’Entr’ouvert, société coopérative autrice de la bibliothèque libre de gestion d’identité LASSO (Liberty Alliance Single Sign On).

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[Place Gre'net] Échirolles va accueillir AlpOSS, rendez-vous dédié à l'Open Source

✍ Florent Mathieu, le lundi 4 mars 2024.

Échirolles accueille AlpOSS le 21 mars 2024, première édition d’un rendez-vous dédié aux solutions numériques Open Source.

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 11 de l’année 2024

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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.

[ICTjournal] Cyber Resilience Act adopté: les députés de l'UE répondent aux demandes de la communauté open source

✍ Yannick Chavanne, le mercredi 13 mars 2024.

Tout juste adopté, Cyber Resilience Act européen impose des contraintes de cybersécurité aux fournisseurs de produits numériques. Le texte final fait la distinction entre les acteurs de l’open source et les distributeurs de solutions commerciales.

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[RFI] Elon Musk lance la bagarre des IA en promettant une intelligence artificielle en accès libre

✍ Thomas Bourdeau, le mercredi 13 mars 2024.

Un dilemme réside en intelligence artificielle: les progrès dans le domaine sont-ils la propriété des entreprises ou doivent-ils être partagés à la communauté de chercheurs? En annonçant déployer en «open source» son «chatbot» conversationnel baptisé Grok, Elon Musk a non seulement relancé le débat, mais aussi taclé la société Open AI -créatrice de chat GPT- devenue une entreprise à but lucratif, au grand dam du milliardaire. Les motivations du patron de X sont-elles louables et un juste équilibre peut-il exister dans le monde de l’IA?

[l'Informé] Offensive au Conseil d’État contre l’hébergement de nos données de santé par Microsoft (€)

✍ Marc Rees, le mercredi 13 mars 2024.

Plusieurs sociétés spécialisées dans l’hébergement sécurisé et des associations s’attaquent à la décision de la CNIL qui a autorisé ce stockage par le géant américain.

[InformatiqueNews.fr] Open source et télétravail: 2 piliers similaires du Future of Work

✍ Franz Karlsberger, le lundi 11 mars 2024.

Dans un monde en pleine mutation, les entreprises font face à deux évolutions majeures: le travail à distance, d’une part, devenu la tendance dominante depuis la pandémie de Covid-19 et d’autre part, le développement vertigineux de l’open source. Deux transformations a priori indépendantes l’une de l’autre mais dont les similitudes sont frappantes, autant en termes de philosophie que de modes d’organisation.

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Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data

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Christopher Harper reports via Tom's Hardware: Earlier this month, Danluu.com released an exhaustive 23-page analysis/op-ed/manifesto on the current status of unoptimized web pages and web app performance, finding that just loading a web page can even bog down an entry-level device that can run the popular game PUBG at 40 fps. In fact, the Wix webpage requires loading 21MB of data for one page, while the more famous websites Patreon and Threads load 13MB of data for one page. This can result in slow load times that reach up to 33 seconds or, in some cases, result in the page failing to load at all. As the testing above shows, some of the most brutally intensive websites include the likes of... Quora, and basically every major social media platform. Newer content production platforms like Squarespace and newer Forum platforms like Discourse also have significantly worse performance than their older counterparts, often to the point of unusability on some devices. The Tecno S8C, one of the prominent entry-level phones common in emerging markets, is one particularly compelling test device that stuck. The device is actually quite impressive in some ways, including its ability to run PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile at 40 FPS -- but the same device can't even run Quora and experiences nigh-unusable lag when scrolling on social media sites. That example is most likely the best summation of the overall point, which is that modern web and app design is increasingly trending toward an unrealistic assumption of ever-increasing bandwidth and processing. Quora is a website where people answer questions -- there is absolutely no reason any of these websites should be harder to run than a Battle Royale game.

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US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels

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Major U.S. broadband internet providers must start displaying information similar to nutrition labels on food products to help consumers shop for services starting on April 10, under new rules from the Federal Communications Commission. From a report: Verizon Communications said it will begin providing the labels on Wednesday. The FCC first moved to mandate the labels in 2022. Smaller providers will be required to provide labels starting in October. The rules require broadband providers to display, at the point of sale, labels that show prices, speeds, fees and data allowances for both wireless and wired products. Verizon Chief Customer Experience Officer Brian Higgins said in an interview the labels will help consumers make "an equal comparison" between product offerings, speeds and fees. Higgins said standardized labels across the industry "make it easier for customers to do a comparison of which provider is going to be the best fit for their needs." He said customers will still need to research various bundling offers across carriers. The labels were first unveiled as a voluntary program in 2016. Congress ordered the FCC to mandate them under the 2021 infrastructure law. "Consumers will finally get information they can use to comparison shop, avoid junk fees, and make informed choices about which high-speed internet service is the best fit for their needs and budget," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said.

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 12 de l’année 2024

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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 France] L'open data, un moyen de 'changer les données' de la démocratie

✍ Thierry Noisette, le dimanche 24 mars 2024.

Les données ouvertes «ne servent pas seulement à révéler des faits mais à transformer la réalité, ‘à changer les données’, expose Samuel Goëta dans ‘Les données de la démocratie’, un excellent ouvrage sur l’histoire, les enjeux et les perspectives de l’open data.

[Silicon] Redis change de licence: le point sur la situation

✍ Clément Bohic, le vendredi 22 mars 2024.

Redis abandonne la licence permissive BSD au profit d’un système «à la carte» avec deux options. Quels en sont les motifs et les implications?

N. D. M. : ainsi qu'un journal et un lien sur le sujet sur LinuxFr.org.

[Echirolles] Une première réussie pour AlpOSS!

Le vendredi 22 mars 2024.

Ce jeudi 21 mars s’est tenu la 1ère édition d’AlpOSS au sein de l’Hôtel de Ville. Coorganisé avec OW2 et Belledonne Communications, le nouvel événement isérois de l’écosystème open source local a réuni 250 personnes - entreprises, associations, collectivités locales ou passionné-es du libre - venu-es se rencontrer et échanger.

[Numerama] Elon Musk publie un torrent de 318 Go et rend Grok open source

✍ Nicolas Lellouche, le lundi 18 mars 2024.

En guerre contre OpenAI et ses modèles commerciaux, Elon Musk avait promis début mars qu’il rendrait le modèle de langage derrière Grok, son chatbot, open source. Promesse tenue.

[ZDNet France] Mais 3 Go par semaine, c'est sa peau contre ma peau…

✍ Guillaume Serries, le lundi 18 mars 2024.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, ancienne ministre de l’Education nationale, critique l’utilisation massive des écrans. Sa solution? ‘La rareté oblige à une certaine sagesse’ dit-elle. Et de mettre au débat le fait de ‘rationner internet’ par la loi.

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N. D. M. : ainsi qu'un lien LinuxFr.org.

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Playboy Image From 1972 Gets Ban From IEEE Computer Journals

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsen. The so-called "Lenna image," (Forsen added an extra "n" to her name in her Playboy appearance to aid pronunciation) has been used in image processing research since 1973 and has attracted criticism for making some women feel unwelcome in the field. In an email from the IEEE Computer Society sent to members on Wednesday, Technical & Conference Activities Vice President Terry Benzel wrote, "IEEE's diversity statement and supporting policies such as the IEEE Code of Ethics speak to IEEE's commitment to promoting an including and equitable culture that welcomes all. In alignment with this culture and with respect to the wishes of the subject of the image, Lena Forsen, IEEE will no longer accept submitted papers which include the 'Lena image.'" An uncropped version of the 512×512-pixel test image originally appeared as the centerfold picture for the December 1972 issue of Playboy Magazine. Usage of the Lenna image in image processing began in June or July 1973 (PDF) when an assistant professor named Alexander Sawchuck and a graduate student at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute scanned a square portion of the centerfold image with a primitive drum scanner, omitting nudity present in the original image. They scanned it for a colleague's conference paper, and after that, others began to use the image as well. The image's use spread in other papers throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and it caught Playboy's attention, but the company decided to overlook the copyright violations. In 1997, Playboy helped track down Forsén, who appeared at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science in Technology, signing autographs for fans. "They must be so tired of me ... looking at the same picture for all these years!" she said at the time. VP of new media at Playboy Eileen Kent told Wired, "We decided we should exploit this, because it is a phenomenon." The image, which features Forsen's face and bare shoulder as she wears a hat with a purple feather, was reportedly ideal for testing image processing systems in the early years of digital image technology due to its high contrast and varied detail. It is also a sexually suggestive photo of an attractive woman, and its use by men in the computer field has garnered criticism over the decades, especially from female scientists and engineers who felt that the image (especially related to its association with the Playboy brand) objectified women and created an academic climate where they did not feel entirely welcome. Due to some of this criticism, which dates back to at least 1996, the journal Nature banned the use of the Lena image in paper submissions in 2018.

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Researchers Unlock Fiber Optic Connection 1.2 Million Times Faster Than Broadband

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: In the average American house, any download rate above roughly 242 Mbs is considered a solidly speedy broadband internet connection. That's pretty decent, but across the Atlantic, researchers at UK's Aston University recently managed to coax about 1.2 million times that rate using a single fiber optic cable -- a new record for specific wavelength bands. As spotted earlier today by Gizmodo, the international team achieved a data transfer rate of 301 terabits, or 301,000,000 megabits per second by accessing new wavelength bands normally unreachable in existing optical fibers -- the tiny, hollow glass strands that carry data through beams of light. According to Aston University's recent profile, you can think of these different wavelength bands as different colors of light shooting through a (largely) standard cable. Commercially available fiber cabling utilizes what are known as C- and L-bands to transmit data. By constructing a device called an optical processor, however, researchers could access the never-before-used E- and S-bands. "Over the last few years Aston University has been developing optical amplifiers that operate in the E-band, which sits adjacent to the C-band in the electromagnetic spectrum but is about three times wider," Ian Phillips, the optical processor's creator, said in a statement. "Before the development of our device, no one had been able to properly emulate the E-band channels in a controlled way." But in terms of new tech, the processor was basically it for the team's experiment. "Broadly speaking, data was sent via an optical fiber like a home or office internet connection," Phillips added. What's particularly impressive and promising about the team's achievement is that they didn't need new, high-tech fiber optic lines to reach such blindingly fast speeds. Most existing optical cables have always technically been capable of reaching E- and S-bands, but lacked the equipment infrastructure to do so. With further refinement and scaling, internet providers could ramp up standard speeds without overhauling current fiber optic infrastructures.

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FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President Donald Trump, the agency's chair said. The FCC told advocates on Tuesday of the plan to vote on the final rule at its April 25 meeting. The commission voted 3-2 in October on the proposal to reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 and re-establish the commission's authority over broadband internet. Net neutrality refers to the principle that internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel confirmed the planned commission vote in an interview with Reuters. "The pandemic made clear that broadband is an essential service, that every one of us -- no matter who we are or where we live -- needs it to have a fair shot at success in the digital age," she said. "An essential service requires oversight and in this case we are just putting back in place the rules that have already been court-approved that ensures that broadband access is fast, open and fair."

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 13 de l’année 2024

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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.

[cio-online.com] IA générative: davantage de modèles et davantage d'Open Source

✍ Reynald Fléchaux, le vendredi 29 mars 2024.

Selon le fonds Andreessen Horowitz, les grandes entreprises misent de plus en plus sur une diversité de LLM et privilégient les modèles Open Source.

[Le Café pédagogique] Stéphane Deudon: vers une école du Libre?

✍ Jean-Michel Le Baut, le mercredi 27 mars 2024.

L’École est-elle condamnée à obéir à la logique marchande des grandes entreprises du numérique? Pour Stéphane Deudon, professeur des écoles à Caudry dans le Nord, on peut s’en émanciper. Par exemple avec Primtux, un système d’exploitation libre et gratuit, basé sur Linux, installable sur des machines anciennes et reconditionnées. La solution est élaborée par une équipe d’enseignants, elle intègre des activités créées par des professeurs, elle offre une interface adaptée aux élèves de l’école primaire. Elle est présentée à la Journée Du Libre Educatif le 29 mars 2024 à Créteil, où sera aussi initié un «Appel à communs» dans l’éducation pour fédérer et mutualiser des projets souvent isolés et méconnus: l’enjeu sera de «proposer des services numériques de qualité, souverains et pérennes, à l’ensemble de la communauté scolaire tout en valorisant les compétences de nos enseignants et en offrant à l’Edtech des opportunités pour apporter de la valeur ajoutée et innover ensemble.»

[LeMagIT] SGBD: Redis s’éloigne, lui aussi, de l’open source

✍ Gaétan Raoul, le mardi 26 mars 2024.

La semaine dernière, l’éditeur a annoncé un changement de licence affectant le cœur de sa base de données qui devient propriétaire, mais est accessible de manière permissive. Une modification qui fait grincer des dents, mais qui n’a rien d’étonnant.

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FCC Won't Block California Net Neutrality Law, Says States Can 'Experiment'

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Jon Brodkin reports via Ars Technica: California can keep enforcing its state net neutrality law after the Federal Communications Commission implements its own rules. The FCC could preempt future state laws if they go far beyond the national standard but said that states can "experiment" with different regulations for interconnection payments and zero-rating. The FCC scheduled an April 25 vote on Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's proposal to restore net neutrality rules similar to the ones introduced during the Obama era and repealed under former President Trump. The FCC yesterday released the text of the pending order, which could still be changed but isn't likely to get any major overhaul. State-level enforcement of net neutrality rules can benefit consumers, the FCC said. The order said that "state enforcement generally supports our regulatory efforts by dedicating additional resources to monitoring and enforcement, especially at the local level, and thereby ensuring greater compliance with our requirements." [...] In the order scheduled for an April 25 vote, the FCC said the California law "appears largely to mirror or parallel our federal rules. Thus we see no reason at this time to preempt it." That doesn't mean the rules are exactly the same. Instead of banning certain types of zero-rating entirely, the FCC will judge on a case-by-case basis whether any specific zero-rating program harms consumers and conflicts with the goal of preserving an open Internet. The FCC said it will evaluate sponsored-data "programs based on a totality of the circumstances, including potential benefits." The FCC order cautions that the agency will take a dimmer view of zero-rating in exchange for payment from a third party or zero-rating that favors an affiliated entity. But those categories will still be judged by the FCC on a case-by-case basis, whereas California bans paid data cap exemptions entirely. Despite that difference, the FCC said it is "not persuaded on the record currently before us that the California law is incompatible with the federal rules." The FCC also found that California's approach to interconnection payments is compatible with the pending federal rule. Interconnection was the subject of a major controversy involving Netflix and big ISPs a decade ago. The FCC said it found no evidence that the California law has "unduly burdened or interfered with interstate communications service." When it comes to zero-rating and interconnection, the FCC said there is "room for states to experiment and explore their own approaches within the bounds of our overarching federal framework." The FCC said it will reconsider preemption of California rules if "California state enforcement authorities or state courts seek to interpret or enforce these requirements in a manner inconsistent with how we intend our rules to apply."

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The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island

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By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity. From a report: Aruba has long been a special place for Stacy Argondizzo. For years, her family has vacationed on the tiny Caribbean Island every July. More recently it's been more than just a place to take a break from her work as a digital archivist -- becoming wholly a part of that work. A project Argondizzo galvanized comes to full fruition this week. The Internet Archive is now home to the Aruba Collection, which hosts digitized versions of Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions including an archaeology museum and the University of Aruba. The collection comprises 101,376 items so far -- roughly one for each person who lives on the Island -- including 40,000 documents, 60,000 images, and seven 3D objects. The Internet Archive is mostly known for trying to back up online resources like websites that don't have a government body advocating for their posterity. Being tapped to back up an entire nation's history takes the nonprofit into new territory, and it is a striking endorsement of its mission to bring as much information online as possible. "What makes Aruba unique is they have cooperation from all the leading cultural heritage players in the country," says Chris Freeland, the Internet Archive's director of library services. "It's just an awesome statement." The project is funded wholly by the Internet Archive, in line with its policy of generally letting anyone upload content.

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 14 de l’année 2024

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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.

[Silicon] Cyber Resilience Act: l'open source en ordre de bataille

✍ Clément Bohic, le vendredi 5 avril 2024.

Des fondations open source s’allient pour peser dans la définition des spécifications communes qui accompagneront la mise en application du Cyber Resilience Act.

[Ars Technica] German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

✍ Scharon Harding, le vendredi 5 avril 2024.

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

[LeMagIT] La découverte de la porte dérobée XZ révèle une attaque de la chaîne logistique Linux

✍ Rob Wright, Alexander Culafi, le mardi 2 avril 2024.

Un mainteneur de XZ, une bibliothèque de compression open source très répandue pour les distributions Linux, a compromis le projet open source au cours des deux dernières années.

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