En voilà un test intéressant, de deux cartes graphiques de milieu de gamme lancées il y a environ trois ans maintenant, et qui ont eu droit à des améliorations de fonctionnalités. Notre premier concurrent du jour est l'AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT. Une carte lancée en septembre 2023, qui a pour elle ses 16...

Sandisk et les prix officiels de ses SSD, c'est toute une histoire. Alors certes, il y a un contexte particulier et des prix qui flambent, mais la firme a vraiment la main lourde, très lourde même parfois, quand il est question de choisir quels prix officiels afficher sur son site web. Nous vous mon...

Nicolas vous en parlait dès le Computex 2026 : ASUS lance toute une collection de composants et périphériques ROG Edition 20, pour fêter les vingt ans de sa marque ROG. Pour ce qui est de la liste complète des produits proposés, avec leurs prix conseillés TTC pour l'Allemagne (donc cela devrait être...

En Chine, on croise de sacrés OVNI en matière de cartes graphiques. Les modèles avec des PCB et/ou refroidisseurs totalement revus sont légion, certaines cartes ont des capacités en VRAM qui ne sont pas censées exister, tout cela est dû à des ateliers clandestins qui sont devenus là-bas un business...

Comme vous le savez, les grandes sociétés fonctionnent en "années fiscales". Chez Microsoft, elles débutent le 1ᵉʳ juillet, et nous venons donc d'entamer l'année fiscale 2027 de la firme. C'est donc le bon moment pour faire de grandes annonces, et cette FY2027 commence comme la FY2026 avait elle aus...

Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg: The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish kronor, or roughly $8.2 billion, in the wake of a European Union antitrust crackdown... The Swedish price-comparison website argued that Google has been abusing its dominant position as a search engine by favoring its own comparison shopping service over competing portals for more than a decade. Wednesday's award compensates for lost revenue caused by Google's preferential treatment of its own comparison-shopping service over independent price-comparison services, conduct that also drives up costs for consumers, [Pricerunner owner] Klarna said in a statement after the judgment... A Google spokesperson said the company doesn't agree with the court's decision and will consider its legal options. [The ruling can be appealed.] Changes implemented in 2017 to Google's platform are working and generating growth and jobs for hundreds of comparison shopping services operating more than 1500 websites across Europe, according to the statement. The litigation is linked to a 2017 decision by the European Commission to fine Google €2.4 billion for illegally leveraging its search dominance to give its own shopping service an edge. The EU decision unleashed a wave of so-called follow-on suits, which were delayed for years as Google appealed the EU fine. Two years ago the EU's top tribunal confirmed that the company did violate antitrust laws — meaning EU-based plaintiffs no longer have to prove that in court. A Berlin court last year ordered the tech giant to pay €573 million in damages to two German price-comparison websites, a ruling Google appealed. Similar cases are pending across Europe.

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Vous aimez les films d'horreur version hardware PC ? Les prix actuels des Raspberry Pi pourraient bien vous déclencher un hurlement d'effroi quand vous allez les découvrir.  Début décembre 2025, la Fondation Raspberry Pi avait officiellement communiqué sur une "petite" hausse de prix concernant ses...

"A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs," remembers the Wall Street Journal.But "For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone." In late May, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman — who has long predicted that AI will lead to seismic shifts in the workforce — said during a conference, "We've been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications." Soon after, he told CNBC, "Our industry underestimated how much we're going to be able to keep people at the center of everything." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who warned in May 2025 that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level jobs, a year later highlighted more positive scenarios for AI-adopting businesses: "They can do the same thing with less resources, and that leads to things like layoffs, or they can do more with the same amount of resources. But that requires creativity...." Is the sunnier outlook a move to win back customers and the public who are souring on AI's world-upending promise? Or is the role of AI in the workplace now just better understood...? Collectively, the narrative has shifted from worker-light doomsday scenarios caused by AI to a future in which workers keep their jobs — and get a productivity boost. The sentiment change isn't limited to tech leaders: A survey by EY-Parthenon found that the percentage of CEOs who believe AI investments will result in significant reductions in head count fell from around 46% in January 2025 to just 20% this May. "They may have noticed that the labor market is genuinely not changing (i.e., imploding) as rapidly as they expected," said David Autor, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy." The article notes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos "has a history of predicting that AI will create new jobs," and in June said AI could even lead to a labor shortage. "When asked on CNBC in May about people being afraid of AI taking jobs, he said the reason they're afraid is because 'all these smart people keep saying that.'" The article then adds that "Fewer people are saying it now."

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Mise à jour du 11 juillet 2026 : L'offre est de retour, strictement identique à la fois précédente !Bon plan originel du 6 juillet 2026 : Le fait qu'il s'agisse de promotions uniquement sur des modèles 280 mm va sans doute décevoir plusieurs d'entre vous, car c'est une dimension de radiateur assez r...

La semaine dernière, Intel a officialisé l'augmentation des prix de ses processeurs Arrow Lake Refresh. +30 $ pour le Core Ultra 5 250K Plus et même +50 $ pour le Core Ultra 7 270K Plus. Comme toujours, la répercussion sur les prix en magasins peut prendre un peu de temps, entre les réapprovisionnem...

USA Today reports on a Facebook post from a Washington state sheriff's office: Four residents of Clallam County, a coastal region west of Seattle along northern Washington's peninsula, lost more than $673,000 in just three days, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office... The smallest amount lost was $3,500, which someone purchased in Apple gift cards for a scammer posing as an employee with Microsoft technical support, the sheriff's office wrote. Another person lost $50,000 after they clicked on a malicious email and unwittingly granted the scammers access to their financial accounts. The local Peninsula Daily News reports another scam involved a 64-year-old resident who attempted to contact Coinbase after seeing their account displayed shown as closed: "Believing they were speaking with a legitimate Coinbase representative, the victim was told there was fraudulent activity on the account and was instructed to download a 'rescue' application," the [sheriff's] release states. "The application allowed the scammer to remotely access the victim's phone." They then convinced the victim to transfer approximately $200,000 worth of cryptocurrency to what was described as a secure wallet. The funds were instead transferred to the scammer and could not be recovered... In one scam, reported Monday, an 84-year-old Clallam County resident believed they had received an email from their daughter with a photo. After opening the email, a fake Microsoft security alert appeared on the computer directing the victim to call a support number, according to the release. "The victim was transferred to someone claiming to represent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and was falsely told they were under investigation in a child pornography and money laundering case," the release states. "The scammers instructed the victim not to contact local law enforcement and claimed local banks were also under investigation. The victim was told their bank accounts were in danger of being seized and was instructed to purchase gold to protect their assets." In three separate transactions, the victim purchased approximately $420,000 worth of gold and gave it to an unknown man waiting at the end of their driveway. "Only after speaking with bank officials did the victim realize they had been defrauded," the release states. USA Today offers this advice from the sheriff's press release. "These criminals are professional manipulators who prey on fear, trust and urgency. We encourage everyone to pause before sending money, purchasing gold or gift cards, or transferring cryptocurrency. A simple phone call to a trusted family member, your bank or local law enforcement can prevent a life-changing financial loss."

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"Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer" who's been accused of damaging over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year and even knocking down their poles. Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this article from Futurism: According to local channel WAVY, Virginia-based Air Force engineer and mechanic Jeffrey Sovern is facing 13 counts of destruction of property, as well as six counts of both petit larceny and possession of burglary tools related to the destruction of Flock license plate cameras... [Wavy reports the cameras were sometimes pointed in the wrong direction or thrown to the street.] Armed with garbage bags, spray paint, and even chainsaws, a not insignificant number of privacy vigilantes have taken the fight to Flock, using any means to free their neighborhoods of the ominous surveillance poles. On a GoFundMe page to raise money for his legal defense, the 41-year-old Sovern explained that this kind of privacy-minded vandalism has far more support than would outwardly appear... Sovern kicked off the campaign late in December of 2025, where he encouraged his supporters to "reach out to the local governments and demand that these systems are taken down." The Virginia resident initially set his funding goal to $8,500. As news of his case has spread across the web, the amount of support has far outpaced those already-hopeful aspirations. [Two hours ago the legal fund stood at $23,326 from over 680 donors].

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It was more than two years ago that TypeScript's creator Anders Hejlsberg announced plans to rewrite its compiler in Go. This week Microsoft announced its first Go-based release candidate for TypeScript 7.0, reports InfoWorld: TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0, Microsoft said, thanks to native code speed and shared memory parallelism... Unlike TypeScript 6.0, TypeScript 7.0 performs many steps in parallel, including parsing, type checking, and emitting, Microsoft said. Some of these steps, such as parsing and emitting, can mostly be done independently across files. For that reason, parallelization automatically scales well with larger codebases with relatively little overhead. However, not every step in a TypeScript build is easily parallelizable, Microsoft said. Microsoft plans to release TypeScript 7.0 within the next month, the article points out, but developers can try the new compiler by installing it from the typescript package on npm: npm install -D typescript@rc

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"Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch," writes The Verge. While it's not available for downloads in most locations, Meta's Pocket will allow people "to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts," writes TechCrunch. They're called "gizmos", and Pocket "also offers a scrollable feed where you can play with gizmos others have made." Some context from The Verge: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media, and he's previously described a vision of how users could use AI to make interactive experiences and share them with people. The launch of Pocket appears to be one manifestation of that idea... It follows Meta hiring engineers from a company called Atma Sciences Inc., which made an app called Gizmo, as Business Insider reported in March. On a help center page, Meta also describes a gizmo as a "playable AI-generated experience," and when you post one, Meta says you can choose to let other people remix them. "Based on the app's screenshots in Google Play, there are many similarities to Gizmo's original app, which is still listed," notes TechCrunch. "Pocket is another example of Meta's push to make AI creation tools more mainstream, extending its earlier efforts, which included AI-generated images created via its Meta AI app and AI videos created with its app called Vibes. It has also added AI features across its social platforms... " Given that Meta has not officially announced Pocket's debut, it's likely that Pocket is still in its initial experimentation phase. Its counterpart Gizmo, however, had generated 635,000 lifetime installs across both iOS and Google Play, according to Appfigures, which noted it had a 98% positive sentiment.

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"Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed," writes TechCrunch. That's the conclusion of new report tracking AI spending from Ramp's corporate card/bill pay data as well as Revelio Labs' workforce records from 21,599 U.S. firms: According to the report, "high-intensity adopters" — firms that spend on average $30 per employee per month on AI in the first three months — saw headcount increase 10.2%. Headcount also rose across functions, including engineering, sales, administration, customer service, finance, marketing, and scientist roles. The strongest job growth among high-intensity adopters was in the information sector, which includes software, internet, media, and tech-adjacent firms. Despite these positive signals, the data isn't as rosy as it seems. It skews heavily toward tech-forward, knowledge-work firms — ones that might have VC-backing and are growing fast anyway, making it difficult to say whether AI is contributing to the hiring or just showing up at companies that are expanding anyway. "This paper does not show that AI universally creates jobs," the paper's authors admit, "but it does counter claims that AI will lead to broad job losses." It also counters claims that AI is killing all junior jobs. Recent research from Goldman Sachs found that AI has already erased about 16,000 net jobs per month over the past year, with Gen Z and entry-level workers taking the brunt of the burden. But in tech-forward firms, the report finds that entry-level headcount actually rose by 12%... "For software and technology firms, AI can make core output cheaper or faster to produce: writing code, debugging, building internal tools, producing technical documentation, and supporting product development," the report reads. "Lower production costs in these workflows can raise the return to expanding the whole firm, not just the engineering team." But companies that buy subscriptions and run pilots, yet did not go on to make sustained investments, don't tend to see any gains in headcount, per the report. That sets up the potential for a widening gap between firms that have the resources — like capital, technical staff, founder networks, and management bandwidth — to turn AI adoption into actual business gains and those that are stuck experimenting with subscriptions. In other words, this report suggests that firms that already have the resources are the ones that will see the largest gains. CNBC argues another AI "narrative" was challenged this week: that open source can't make money. "The assumption was that giving your model away for free meant no business. That's breaking too, as open-model companies start posting real revenue and enterprises move from renting AI to running their own."

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Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new group "assisting clients with AI implementations," reports CNBC: [Microsoft] said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that's become known as forward deployed engineering [or FDE]... The announcement comes two days after cloud rival Amazon said it was putting $1 billion behind an FDE initiative to support fast-paced AI engagements. Leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI both established FDE groups in May, partnering with private equity firms, banks and consulting firms. Alongside its technology peers, Microsoft has sunk tens of billions of dollars into building data centers that run generative AI models. Microsoft has also released a variety of AI services, with mixed results. The Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant has yet to gain anything approaching ubiquity in the business world, and the GitHub Copilot coding agent has ceded market share to newer players. Microsoft's stock has slumped 21% this year, by far the worst performance among the mega-cap tech companies. One concern on Wall Street is that AI models that quickly compose code might threaten mature software companies... Microsoft has for years provided support and implementation services to customers. The company generated about $2.1 billion in revenue from enterprise and partner services in the March quarter, up 2.5% from a year earlier.

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Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Windows does have a lot of useful app (but smaller than "power apps"). Some of these are closed source, some are open, but they're not all available in Linux yet. My list would have to contain Gimp Tookit versions of: IrfanView image manager, which I think is unequaled in Linux (though it does work to some extent under Wine). I also miss the full version of 7-Zip, because of its better compression settings, which File-Roller does not provide, though the Linux port p7zip is available (though unnoticed by common distributions). Lastly, I think that Notepad++ would be a good addition to Linux. That last one drew some pushback from long-time Slashdot reader jesco. "If there's one area where Linux shines, then it's the availability of high-quality text editors. Last time I looked Kate was still pretty nice, and there's Emacs, Vim and Neovim" if you're partial to command lines. But are there any daily-drive apps you still find yourself needing? Share your own thoughts in the comments. Which apps aren't available on Linux?

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America's Justice Department and FBI teamed joined Finland's National Bureau of Investigation to arrest a teenager they say is part of one of the world's biggest cybercrime syndicates, reports Tom's Hardware. The "Scattered Spider" syndicate has extorted over $100 million in ransom payments, according to Department of Justice figures: 19-year-old Peter Stokes is a dual U.S.-Estonian citizen who was trying to board a flight to Japan from Helsinki, when law enforcement caught up with him. [T]he main criminal complaint against Stokes stems from a May 2025 attack on a luxury jewelry dealer based in the United States. The attackers apparently called the company's IT helpdesk using Google Voice, posing as employees. They were able to convince the help desk into resetting their credentials, which allowed them to infiltrate three accounts, two of which had admin privileges. From there, the group, allegedly including Stokes, stole important data and held the jeweler at ransom, demanding an $8 million payment in crypto. The company ultimately regained access to their infrastructure and avoided paying the ransom, but the operational disruption still caused a purported $2 million in losses. This served as the spark that led to Stokes' eventual arrest in Helsinki, as the prosecutors slowly followed the paper and digital trail laid by the attackers. Microsoft played a key role in the process by providing GDID [Global Device Identifier] data to the FBI to help them apprehend the alleged criminal... [I]t's a unique identifier assigned to every Windows install that tracks device-specific telemetry. It's the reason why sometimes changing a major component in your PC can revoke your Windows license... [T]he court documents from the case reveal that Stokes used Windows, from which investigators were able to link his physical hardware to specific internet activity and locations... Stokes' web activity, videogame history, IP addresses, tool usage (including Ngrok), Azure status, and more were logged with timestamps, and were provided to the investigators by Microsoft... Stokes was carrying two hard drives full of incriminating evidence with him when boarding his flight to Japan... His real identity has actually been known since 2024, but since he was a minor living across Estonia and the UAE at the time, he could only be monitored until the time was right. The official criminal complaint even includes a selfie photo that Stokes posted on Snapchat (hiding his face behind dozens of hundred dollar bills). It then notes that behind Stokes the wallpaper, carpet, and furniture match New York's Empire Hotel — and that Stokes had visited the hotel's web site in Germany before then flying to New York... "Following the arrest, Stokes was extradited to the U.S., where he appeared in front of a federal court in Chicago for the first time on June 30, 2026, and he remains in custody," adds Tom's Hardware. "The accused is now awaiting trial, having been charged with conspiracy, cyber intrusion, and fraud..."

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Bonjour à toutes et à tous, bienvenue dans La Semaine Automobile par LeBlogAuto.com. Je suis David, et on se retrouve pour une semaine Alpine, presque entièrement : fin d’une ère à Dieppe, mulet électrique à Goodwood. On parle aussi de Dacia, de E.Leclerc et d’une Aston Martin qui a pris un bain involontaire. C’est parti.

HOMMAGE — L’Alpine A110 mk2 tire sa révérence après 28 701 exemplaires

28 701. C’est le nombre d’Alpine A110 de deuxième génération produites à Dieppe. C’est terminé. L’usine normande bascule désormais vers le 100 % électrique. Pour replacer ce chiffre : la première génération, celle du mythe, n’avait été assemblée qu’à 6 749 unités. La mk2 a donc multiplié par quatre la base de fans. Belle réussite, sur un créneau hyper exigeant, avec des moyens limités. L’ADN Alpine — légèreté, agilité, prix relatif — a fonctionné. On verra si l’électrique peut faire pareil.

NOUVEAUTÉ — Alpine A110 FUTURE : le mulet électrique se dévoile à Goodwood

Et dans la foulée, Alpine montre la suite. Le mulet de développement de la future A110 électrique fera ses apparitions publiques au Goodwood Festival of Speed. Sous la carrosserie actuelle, tout le technique est censé y être : nouvelle plateforme APP, batterie cell-to-pack en 800 volts, deux moteurs électriques en propulsion avec répartition des masses 40/60. Alpine promet de surpasser les meilleures sportives thermiques actuelles. C’est ambitieux. Les rumeurs parlent de plus de 400 chevaux, et d’un lancement fin 2026 ou début 2027. Gasly et Colapinto seront là pour faire le show. On attend de voir ça rouler vraiment.

SPORT AUTO — F1 Silverstone : Antonelli s’impose au sprint, Hamilton en pole

La F1 est à Silverstone pour le Grand Prix de Grande-Bretagne. Le sprint du vendredi a vu Kimi Antonelli s’imposer devant Hamilton et Norris. Le jeune pilote Ferrari confirme son talent au fil des courses. En qualifications sprint, c’est Hamilton qui a dominé Antonelli. La semaine dernière en Autriche, rappelons-le, Russell avait décroché la victoire sur la grille de départ contestée par Ferrari. La saison est ouverte, chaque week-end est une surprise.

ÉCONOMIE — Dacia Sandero full hybrid sous les 20 000 euros : une bombe tarifaire

Dacia frappe fort. La Sandero passe en full hybrid et reste sous la barre des 20 000 euros. C’est une rivale directe pour la Renault Clio E-Tech — qui appartient pourtant au même groupe. Le positionnement est agressif, le message au marché est clair : on peut avoir de l’hybride abordable sans compromis sur le prix. La Sandero est déjà la voiture la plus vendue en Europe depuis deux ans. Avec ce moteur, elle va encore gratter des parts de marché.

MOBILITÉ — E. Leclerc lance la guerre des prix sur la recharge électrique

E.Leclerc entre en guerre sur la recharge électrique. L’enseigne casse les prix sur ses bornes en grande surface, et le consommateur a tout à y gagner. C’est une bonne nouvelle pour la démocratisation du VE : plus les prix de la recharge convergent vers le bas, plus l’argument économique du passage à l’électrique devient imparable. La bataille des bornes ne fait que commencer.

SÉCURITÉ — JLR rappelle 250 000 SUV aux États-Unis pour un défaut d’airbag

Jaguar Land Rover rappelle 250 857 véhicules aux États-Unis. En cause : un défaut sur l’airbag conducteur lié à la corrosion d’un connecteur. À ce volume, on parle d’un rappel massif. Ce type d’opération coûte cher, dépasse souvent les 100 millions de dollars, et alimente les inquiétudes autour de la fiabilité des modèles de la marque. Un mauvais timing pour JLR, qui cherche à repositionner ses gammes vers le haut de gamme.

INSOLITE — James Pond : l’Aston Martin Vantage qui voulait traverser une flaque

Pour finir, un moment de légèreté pure. Un conducteur britannique a engagé sa toute nouvelle Aston Martin Vantage dans une route inondée. Le V8 biturbo a calé au milieu du gué. La vidéo a fait le tour des réseaux sociaux. Et Internet, dans sa grande sagesse, l’a surnommé « James Pond ». On ne pouvait pas mieux trouver.

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L’article LA SEMAINE AUTOMOBILE – Épisode 388 Semaine du 4 juillet 2026 est apparu en premier sur Le Blog Auto.

Le 17 mais 2025, nous vous faisions part de l'intense polémique autour du lancement PC de Stellar Blade. Une des raisons derrière la grogne des joueurs était que malgré l'annonce faite juste avant qu'il ne serait pas obligatoire d'avoir un compte PlayStation Network pour pouvoir jouer à Stellar Blad...