Raspberry Pi's stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings "jumped 90% to $256.9 million," reports Investing.com, "while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $40.3 million, and profit before tax leapt 216% to $19.6 million." Underpinning the strong numbers was an acceleration in OEM adoption: direct unit shipments rose 26% to 3.4 million, total unit shipments climbed 17% to 4.2 million, and the customer order backlog doubled during the half to 2.6 million units. Demand was particularly robust in the Smart Home and Aerospace and Defence segments, and the company launched the AI HAT+ 2 for Raspberry Pi 5, extending its edge-AI product line. DRAM prices have been increasing everywhere, notes The Times of London, and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton "said new customers, who required computers or microcontrollers to manufacture other technologies, were choosing Raspberry Pi's computers because they had a better inventory of components than competitors." "There's always that choice for an original equipment manufacturer as to whether they should 'make' or 'buy' the computer elements of their platforms," Upton said. "The supply chain disruption is making 'make' a much harder choice and it's making the cost of repair a much harder choice. So we're seeing strength there." Raspberry Pi has already increased its suppliers of Dram more than threefold... Upton said the increased demand had led to its backlog for units doubling to 2.6 million, which meant production rates would need to increase to prevent the numbers from getting "unhealthy". New production capacity at the manufacturing facility in Pencoed, Wales was expected to come online this week... Exports were almost evenly split between North America, Europe and the rest of the world, which was primarily China, where demand was growing... Analysts at Peel Hunt said the company was "well positioned for rapid growth in unit shipments in 2027 and beyond" with demand expected from enthusiasts as well as the AI and security sectors. In other news, Hackaday notes the Raspberry Pi Foundation has "pushed binary-blob bootloader changes that limit your ability to upgrade RAM..." This change restricts upgrading the RAM chip on your Pi 4 and Pi 5, as well as Compute Modules. By the looks of it, it does not restrict replacing the RAM chip with a chip of a similar size, quote, "locking devices to their original RAM size". As such, this does not prevent repair of your Raspberry Pi board, but does somewhat limit your repair part choice, at most. This restriction is easily bypassable. The bootloader is stored in the SPI flash chip, which can be reflashed using the built-in mask ROM over USB and rpiboot, and you are not prevented from flashing older versions of the bootloader, so far. This means even if you manually swap the RAM chip, all you need to do is to also downgrade the bootloader to the last known good release — 2024-09-10 — and then your Pi board or Compute Module will function with upgraded RAM. If you have the skills to upgrade your RAM, you most certainly have the skills to downgrade the Raspberry Pi bootloader. For most regular use, having a two-year old bootloader version won't really matter... For the reference, this bootloader change happened almost exactly two years ago, at some point between September 10 and September 23, 2024... The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) justifies this as follows: they saw third-party resellers sourcing low-RAM Compute Modules, upgrading them with RAM from unknown source and unknown stability. My observation is that they'd also be reselling the modules at a markup for purely commercial gain, while undercutting RPF who would otherwise direct that money into RnD, something I much enjoy to see them do. This creates perverse incentives and risk for people buying Raspberry Pi boards online, and RPF decided to limit this primarily for their users' benefit, plus, if you ask me, some of theirs... The related GitHub issues have a fair few pingbacks, and exploring them makes the problem look grim to me.... My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest. Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2011 and 2016.

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Alors que David Ellison, CEO de Paramount, cherche de l'argent frais pour boucler le rachat de Warner Bros. Discovery, son groupe envisage de faire entrer Elon Musk au capital.

Selon un rapport du média The Information, Xbox serait à nouveau sur le point de supprimer plusieurs centaines de postes cette semaine, ainsi que de regrouper plusieurs de ses studios de jeux vidéo.

Pour valider le rachat pharaonique de Warner Bros Discovery par Paramount Skydance pour 110 milliards de dollars, les autorités américaines exigent un engagement inédit. Et la note est très salée.

Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in control" of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited Slack screenshots late Thursday evening where Mullenweg posted "Don't call it a comeback" and linked to LL Cool J's music video for "Mama Said Knock You Out." "Mullenweg's Slack profile picture currently shows him wearing a pirate hat and eyepatch," the report notes. From the report: "Happy to announce the board is back in agreement, and I'm in control of Automattic," Mullenweg wrote in the company-wide Announcements channel on Slack. "A lot happened in the past 48 hours that we need to sort out, and I hope much of it was a misunderstanding, because I have huge respect and regard for those involved." Mark Davies, Automattic's CFO who was set to act as interim CEO according to a statement from Automattic, had his Slack account deactivated as of at least Friday, sources told 404 Media and TechCrunch similarly reported. Davies, Mullenweg, and Automattic did not respond to 404 Media's requests for comment for this story. Techcrunch reported that Mullenweg told them a blog post is forthcoming. On Friday morning, Mullenweg published a blog post on his personal website, titled "Major Life Announcement." In it he announced he's buying a tugboat. "Anybody who's founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch," he wrote in the blog. He did not address the confusion surrounding his status at Automattic. The back-and-forth follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg's leadership.

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Les iPhone 18 Pro et 18 Pro Max sont disponibles en précommande aujourd'hui, et ils coûtent bien plus cher cette année. Numerama vous aide à suivre ce lancement avec une sélection de toutes les offres régulièrement mise à jour.

La direction de l'usine Alpine de Dieppe a prévenu ses salariés : la production de l'A390 va ralentir, faute de commandes. Le premier grand pari électrique de la marque cale sur son prix.

Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence against his will, with CFO Mark Davies taking over as interim CEO. The reason for the move remains unclear, but it follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg's leadership. TechCrunch reports: Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg posted in a Slack channel visible to all employees that the company's chief financial officer, Mark Davies, had "conspired" with other board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker to vote to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence. The message read: "And the biggest news: I won't be able to make the [meeting] tomorrow. @Mark Davies has conspired with @Ann Dunwoody, @Toni, and @Sue Decker behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that. Wishing Mark and all of you the very best. To clarify @Mark Davies was voted as interim CEO. I received the resolution 50 minutes before the meeting start, and requested repeatedly for time to have it reviewed by independent legal counsel, even a few hours, which was denied." A Slack message to the open source WordPress.org community from the project's executive director, Mary Hubbard, also confirmed Mullenweg's change of status at the commercial company. However, Hubbard said that WordPress.org was not impacted. "Matt remains the leader of the WordPress project and I remain Executive Director of WordPress. Our teams, priorities, and work continue as planned," she wrote.

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Xpeng affirme avoir mis en route la première chaîne de montage automatisée au monde pour robots humanoïdes. Un exemplaire en est sorti tout seul, en marchant : de quoi rappeler à Tesla qu'il n'est plus seul.

Un mathématicien dit avoir approché la résolution d'un problème à un million de dollars avec l'aide de l'IA, celui concernant les fameuses équations de Navier-Stokes. Mais dans l'affaire, il pense que la société d'intelligence artificielle OpenAI a tenté de lui rafler la découverte... et d'écarter un mathématicien travaillant chez Anthropic, son grand rival.

Un mathématicien dit avoir approché la résolution d'un problème à un million de dollars avec l'aide de l'IA, celui concernant les fameuses équations de Navier-Stokes. Mais dans l'affaire, il pense que la société d'intelligence artificielle OpenAI a tenté de lui rafler la découverte... et d'écarter un mathématicien travaillant chez Anthropic, son grand rival.

Mistral AI vient de boucler le plus gros tour de table jamais réalisé par une entreprise tech européenne : une levée de 3 milliards d'euros, portant sa valorisation au-delà des 21 milliards.

Samedi 5 septembre, Sofia Scalia et Luigi Calagna, deux youtubeurs palermitains qui produisent du contenu pour les enfants, se sont mariés devant 6 000 spectateurs payants. Billet d’entrée allant jusqu’à 110 euros, possibilité de rencontrer les stars pour 250 euros, gadgets en vente… Tout a été commercialisé. Ce qui pose quelques questions éthiques à la presse locale.

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Daniela Amodei est présidente d’Anthropic, la société leader avec son assistant IA Claude. Le défi de cette diplômée de littérature anglaise : concilier innovation et transparence.

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Volkswagen valide le plan le plus radical de son histoire : environ 50 000 postes supprimés dans le monde, quatre usines en sursis et la moitié de sa gamme rayée d'ici à 2035. Derrière la cure d'austérité, le cœur électrique du groupe est chamboulé.

Nvidia paie 12 930 300 000 dollars pour Hugging Face, très exactement. Ce chiffre à rallonge cache l'emoji 🤗 et un clin d'œil à l'acheteur.

Nvidia paie 12 930 300 000 dollars pour Hugging Face, très exactement. Ce chiffre à rallonge cache l'emoji 🤗 et un clin d'œil à l'acheteur.

Lucid s'associe au groupe Emil Frey pour vendre ses voitures électriques en France, avec une première apparition au Mondial de l'Auto en octobre. Un pari osé pour une marque qui n'écoule quasiment rien en Europe.

Coup de théâtre après l’annonce officielle, ce 24 août 2026, de la construction d’un parc Dragon Ball en France : il semblerait que les ayants droit ne soient tout simplement pas au courant du projet.

Uber is laying off about 3,300 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting management layers and redirecting investment toward ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an internal email that was also published online.TechCrunch reports: According to the email, the layoffs are part of a restructuring exercise that would shrink the number of managers by 20%, and some personnel in these roles would work as individual contributors going forward. The ridesharing giant is reducing the number of teams with one or two members by 50%, and letting go staff who are "more than seven layers down from the CEO," per Bloomberg. Khosrowshahi's email said the company is combining its engineering, science, and delivery divisions. The company is also bringing together its delivery operations across restaurants, retail, and direct divisions. Remote jobs at the company are going away, too, with Uber only allowing less than 1% of its staff to work remotely.

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