[Deal du jour] Garder ses jeux installés sans devoir faire le ménage à chaque nouveauté : c’est la promesse des 4 To du Lexar EQ790. Ce SSD compatible PC et PS5 tombe en promotion sur Amazon, avec son dissipateur.

[Deal du jour] Près de dix ans après son lancement, la première Nintendo Switch amorce sa sortie de scène. La boutique en ligne de Nintendo veut écouler ses derniers stocks avec un pack réunissant la console et Mario Kart 8 Deluxe à 199,99 €.

[Deal du jour] Jouer avec une bonne manette, c’est quand même mieux que de jouer avec une mauvaise. Une évidence qu’il est toujours bon de rappeler, surtout quand le modèle Xbox Series est en ce moment bradé sur Amazon. De quoi jouer dans les meilleures conditions, aussi bien sur console de salon que sur PC.

The European Commission "proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15," reports Reuters. "Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself" — a free, open-source age verification smartphone app "that tells a platform whether a user meets an age threshold without revealing their identity..." If passed, the proposed Kids Act would create the world's largest social media access restriction, covering 450 million people across 27 countries... [The EU-built age-verification app] is being rolled out through member states, with seven pilot countries: Cyprus, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The Commission expects EU-wide availability by the end of 2026. It will also be used to prove users are over 18 when accessing adult sites, a restriction already implemented under the Digital Services Act... [T]he system itself is decentralised. Member states run it through issuers they designate, and the proofs live on the user's phone. There is no central EU database of ages or of who verified whom... A user proves their age once to a nationally designated issuer — a body vetted by the member state, which can be a digital ID provider, a bank or a post office. At a restricted site, the app certifies that the user is above the required age threshold. The platform receives only a yes-or-no response. Issuance and verification are handled by separate entities. The proof provider is not told which service the proof was used for. Each proof works only once, preventing cross-service tracking. No identity documents or biometric data are retained. The code is open-source, allowing independent scrutiny. The significance of the EU approach is that it provides a common age-verification mechanism rather than leaving individual platforms to develop and enforce their own systems. "Online platforms can easily rely on our age verification app. So there are no more excuses," [EU Commission President Ursula] von der Leyen said... The proposal must be approved by EU member states and the European Parliament before becoming law. Non-compliance would risk fines of up to 6% of a tech company's global annual sales, plus supervisory fees, Reuters reported earlier. The EU's plan follows similar initiatives in Australia, Britain, China, India, Turkey and several European Union countries.

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L’ocarina de Link pourra bientôt rejoindre votre salon et servir dans le remake d’Ocarina of Time sur Switch 2. Le modèle électronique de HORI commence à apparaître chez les marchands à 49,99 €. Mais attention à bien le distinguer de l’autre instrument présenté par Nintendo.

[Deal du jour] Bouygues Telecom propose la PS5 à partir de 101 € pour toute souscription à l’une de ses box fibre Gaming, avec engagement de 24 mois. La console peut même revenir à 1 € après reprise d’une PS4 ou d’un smartphone éligible, grâce à la valeur de reprise.

Les PS5 coûtent plus cher, certains stocks se tendent et GTA 6 arrive le 19 novembre. Entre la Slim numérique, le modèle avec lecteur et une Pro à 900 € : voici où mettre votre argent -- et ce que chaque console change vraiment.

À la BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard a laissé la presse jouer à Diablo IV sur Switch 2, uniquement en mode portable. Quarante minutes manette en main suffisent déjà à voir si un hack’n slash aussi gourmand tient vraiment dans les mains.

[Deal du jour] Carrefour propose la table d'arcade Head-to-Head Pac-Man d'Arcade1Up à 349,99 € au lieu de 699 €, soit 350 € d'économie sur ce meuble résolument rétro.

Avec sa mise à jour 23.0.0, déployée ce 10 septembre 2026, Nintendo active le VRR lorsque la console est connectée à un téléviseur. Une fonction attendue depuis le lancement, mais qui faisait jusqu'ici défaut malgré les promesses de la firme japonaise.

French entrepreneur Helene Huby is emerging as one of Europe's most ambitious space leaders, with The Exploration Company raising a record $450 million Series C as it develops the Nyx cargo capsule, a crewed spacecraft, and a reusable heavy-lift rocket. Huby argues Europe risks falling irrelevance without a much larger rocket flying at high cadence. Her company is targeting a 400,000-pound-thrust methane engine test by 2028 and an aggressive 2033 timeline for the launcher. Ars Technica reports: "The fundraise we have done right now is not sufficient to build the massive rocket we have in mind, so there will be another fundraise," she said. "Right now, we're going to be very, very focused on the execution. We must dock with the space station, with the capsule, as fast as possible. We must build this rocket engine and de-risk it as fast as possible. I think once one of these two milestones is achieved, we'll be talking fundraise again." Critics may look at Huby and her company and say that is a lot of big talk for a company that only has a single, partial success in spaceflight to its credit. And sure, it is. But that's kind of the point. So much of the spaceflight community in Europe has been concerned with either the large aerospace primes seeking government handouts to protect their turf or small launch startups. There has been a stunning lack of big, visionary thinking. Few people on the continent seem to recognize that multibillion investments by US companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Amazon in space, and their many imitators in China, are radically transforming spaceflight. As the world changes, Huby does not seem willing to stand on the sidelines in Europe and bemoan capitalism in space. Rather, she seems to be saying it is not too late for Europe to seize the day. "We need to have European politicians who are ambitious," she said. "Entrepreneurs cannot do this alone. We need to be backed by the politicians and by the European Space Agency. But we have to start by achieving the crazy targets that we've set up for ourselves. That will give trust to others to believe in what we're doing."

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[Deal du jour] À peine annoncée, la Switch 2 édition Zelda est déjà en rupture chez la plupart des revendeurs. Amazon la propose encore en précommande, avec une bonne surprise.

[Deal du jour] La manette Xbox en édition limitée pour les 25 ans de la marque refait surface chez Boulanger, à 79,99 €. Une pièce de collection qui part vite : mieux vaut ne pas trop réfléchir.

Sony a ouvert ce jeudi 10 septembre 2026, à 10 heures, les précommandes de ses deux manettes DualSense aux couleurs de GTA 6, vendues 84,99 € pièce.

[Deal du jour] Grand Theft Auto VI arrive le 19 novembre 2026 sur PS5, et les précommandes sont ouvertes depuis fin juin. Le site Joybuy propose la version PS5 en pack avec un casque de jeu JBL Quantum 100P pour 79,99 €.

Google says it will overhaul Search in Europe to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, giving more prominence to comparison services like Expedia and Hotels.com while stripping some real-time features from hotel, airline, and restaurant results. "These changes degrade the user experience for Europeans -- boosting online intermediaries at the expense of local businesses, and removing helpful features people rely on every day," said Nick Fox, senior vice-president of knowledge and information at Google. The company claims its past search changes for DMA compliance were tied to a 30% decrease "in free, direct booking traffic to European businesses." Engadget reports: That sanction was the latest salvo between the EU government and a US tech company for infringing on its Digital Markets Act. The debate centers on the DMA requirement that major tech brands "must not treat their own services more favorably in ranking than third-party services." [...] According to Reuters, Google's revised search results "will highlight one specialized search engine at the top of the page, followed by two others with fewer details. A carousel of hotels, airlines and restaurants, for example, will sit below them with key features such as real-time prices stripped out." Those specialized engines include sites like Expedia or Hotels.com, also known as vertical search services, so European users may soon see those aggregators and comparison sites prioritized more highly than individual businesses' websites in their results. Reuters noted that "the rankings will be determined by Google's algorithm," meaning the tech company still holds a lot of control over how results are displayed. The EC had given Google 60 days to comply with its rules, but the company has not specified an exact timeline for when European users will start seeing the changes.

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Nintendo a profité du Direct dédié aux 40 ans de la saga Zelda pour officialiser la toute première Switch 2 collector. Elle accompagnera le lancement du remake de The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Bouygues proposera une PS5 numérique à partir de 1 € du 15 septembre au 4 octobre 2026. Le prix implique de faire reprendre un appareil et de s’engager deux ans sur une Bbox Gaming. Une bonne affaire ?

Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It's FOSS. "That's about 7% of the federal workforce." The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027... On September 3, 2026, the Federal Council published results of "PoC BOSS", a feasibility proof-of-concept involving 172 federal employees who tested the openDesk suite, a German open-source collaboration platform. During the proof-of-concept phase, core office tasks like document processing and email received positive assessments, while large-scale video conferencing still showed technical limitations. Based on the 'success' of the PoC phase with 172 employees, the pilot is now launched for 3,000 employees... According to Matthias Stürmer, professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Microsoft's supremacy in public institutions poses three problems that are driving this migration. First is the risk of foreign access. US cloud legislation could expose Swiss government data to foreign authorities. Second is the risk to service continuity, as dependency on a single foreign vendor creates operational risk. The third risk is the escalating costs as proprietary licensing fees are rising with no Swiss leverage. Switzerland's military cybersecurity unit, Cyber Command, is not waiting for the civilian pilot. It is already poised to replace Microsoft 365 entirely with openDesk by October 2026. It is pretty much the same reason. Military doesn't want foreign governments accessing sensitive Swiss data. The article notes that during the pilot phase, the new system runs in parallel with Microsoft 365 rather than replacing it. But the article's author speculates that "If the pilot is successful, we might expect the migration to continue on all the 54,000 workstations owned by the federal administrations."

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[Deal du jour] Neo Geo et Plaion s’associent pour le 35e anniversaire de la console afin de sortir une nouvelle version de la machine mythique. La Neo Geo AES+ devrait taper dans l’œil des plus nostalgiques, d’autant qu’elle baisse son prix en précommande à l’occasion des French Days.