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De nouveaux documents plongent profondément la tête de Krafton dans un magnifique tas de merde

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Par :Estyaah
24 novembre 2025 à 00:32

Cela fait maintenant plusieurs mois qu’on vous parle de l’affaire Subnautica 2 et des ex-dirigeants d’Unknown Worlds, licenciés pour des raisons plus ou moins étranges (1, 2, 3). Selon Krafton, le jeu n’était pas du tout prêt pour une sortie en 2025, et l’équipe de devs aurait été laissée à la dérive par les anciens chefs du studio. À l’inverse, ces derniers contestent ces deux points, et affirment qu’ils ont été licenciés pour éviter qu’ils reçoivent une prime de 250 millions de dollars si le jeu sortait bien en accès anticipé en 2025 et atteignait un certain seuil de rentabilité.

Il y a quelques jours, nos confrères de chez GamesIndustries.biz ont publié un article basé sur des documents déposés en amont de l’ouverture du procès, révélant que les membres de la direction de Krafton seraient bel et bien des enflures. Ils auraient monté un groupe de travail pour tenter de conclure un accord avec les fondateurs pour réduire la prime pourtant contractuelle, ou alors procéder à une prise de contrôle d’Unknown Worlds. Comme vous vous en doutez, les négociations n’ont pas abouti, ce qui a débouché sur l’éjection des éléments gênants. De son côté, l’éditeur coréen accuse les anciens fondateurs du studio d’avoir siphonné des fichiers de l’entreprise et quelques e-mails avant d’être licenciés, ce que les intéressés nient formellement. Mais la révélation des échanges sur Slack (ndlr : sorte de Discord professionnel) entre le PDG de Krafton et d’autres employés de la société, montre que cette histoire de prime lui courait sur le haricot depuis un moment : il considérait que c’était un mauvais accord pour Krafton, ou encore que cela pourrait entraîner une « baisse significative de la valeur du studio » et que « lui, en tant que responsable de l’investissement, devrait en assumer la responsabilité ». Ce n’est effectivement pas une preuve de la culpabilité du bonhomme, mais cela commence à faire un sacré faisceau. Cerise moisie sur le gâteau à la merde, les échanges montrent que le PDG de Krafton aurait utilisé ChatGPT pour tenter de trouver une solution à son « embarrassant » problème, mais que l’IA n’aurait pas donné de réponse satisfaisante.

Subnautica 2 - Équipe de développement
État des membres de l’équipe de développement de Subnautica 2, allégorie, 2025

Ne partez pas, on n’a pas touché le fond ! En plus de cela, d’autres documents révèlent que les données de tests de Subnautica 2 présentées à Krafton en mai « montraient que le jeu répondait aux attentes des joueurs ». Selon un expert, pourtant interne à Krafton, « la sortie prévue en 2025 [aurait été] la meilleure solution », et « le licenciement de Ted Gill entraînerait un retard de développement de plusieurs années ». Pour finir, la responsable mondiale du développement de l’entreprise chez Krafton a écrit que « le jeu était prêt pour une sortie en août ».

Le procès n’est pas terminé, et on aura peut-être également des éléments de la part de Krafton. Mais pour l’instant, tout porte à croire que la cupidité et la stupidité de la direction de l’éditeur coréen soient les responsables de la situation. Difficile de savoir où tout cela mènera la société, mais en attendant, la poursuite du développement de Subnautica 2 est pour le moins incertaine. D’autant plus quand on connaît l’amour que porte Krafton pour l’IA…

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Amazon Cut Thousands of Engineers in Its Record Layoffs, Despite Saying It Needs To Innovate Faster

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Par :msmash
21 novembre 2025 à 16:41
Amazon's 14,000-plus layoffs announced last month touched almost every piece of the company's sprawling business, from cloud computing and devices to advertising, retail and grocery stores. But one job category bore the brunt of cuts more than others: engineers. CNBC: Documents filed in New York, California, New Jersey and Amazon's home state of Washington showed that nearly 40% of the more than 4,700 job cuts in those states were engineering roles. The data was reported by Amazon in Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, filings to state agencies. The figures represent a segment of the total layoffs announced in October. Not all data was immediately available because of differences in state WARN reporting requirements.

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US Employee Well-Being Hit New Low In 2024, Survey Reveals

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Par :BeauHD
20 novembre 2025 à 23:03
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: New research from the Human Capital Development Lab at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School analyzes the state of the American workforce in 2024 and shows an overall decline in employee well-being compared to years prior. [...] The latest research confirms a decline in general employee well-being since 2020. In 2024, employees reported the lowest well-being scores on record, as opposed to 2020, when employees reported the highest well-being scores. "In some cases, the lower scores represent a reduction in employee flexibility for either flexible hours or remote work," the latest research states. "In other cases, these scores could be related to challenges associated with greater economic shifts related to inflation or productivity needs." In prior years, well-being scores for managers and employees were comparable to one another, and during the pandemic, managers and top leaders often reported lower scores due to the extra burden of that time period. However, one of the most noteworthy shifts the current data shows is a rise in well-being scores for managers and senior leaders, while well-being for employees and individual contributors decreased in 2024. Rick Smith, director of the Human Capital Development Lab and author of the study, says that the increase in well-being scores for managers could reflect the return to regular operating conditions since the pandemic, which may be indicative of the distance between leadership and workers. "What we're seeing is a growing gap between how leaders and their teams experience the workplace," said Smith. "Managers may feel a return to normalcy, but that doesn't mean their employees do. Leaders must be cautious not to assume their own well-being reflects the broader workforce at their organization. The data shows a potential disconnect, and that's a signal for action."

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Vous pourrez bientôt vous faire livrer vos commandes Uber Eats par un robot

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
20 novembre 2025 à 17:10

UberEats va pour la première fois proposer des livraisons par des mini-robots en Europe grâce à un partenariat avec l'entreprise Starship. Cette méthode de livraison va être testée dès décembre, dans certaines régions du Royaume-Uni.

Who is OpenAI's Auditor?

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Par :msmash
20 novembre 2025 à 14:01
OpenAI won't say who audits its books. The company, which projects to hit an ARR of $20 billion this year and is valued at $500 billion, has committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers over the next decade. It accounts for roughly two-thirds of unfulfilled contracts at Oracle and two-fifths at CoreWeave. Microsoft alone holds around $375 billion in unfulfilled contracts with OpenAI. Reuters reported the company may target a $1 trillion valuation for a potential IPO in coming years. Most companies at this scale use one of the Big Four accounting firms: Deloitte, EY, KPMG or PwC. OpenAI declined to comment to Financial Times. A person close to the organization told the publication the company has "an industry standard audit with one of the Big Four firms." The company's latest Form 990 filing lists Fontanello, Duffield, & Otake -- a small San Francisco accountancy firm -- as the paid preparer. The form does say an independent accountant audited the statements. Michael Burry, last night: "Can anyone name [OpenAI's] auditor?"

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Adobe Bolsters AI Marketing Tools With $1.9 Billion Semrush Buy

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Par :BeauHD
20 novembre 2025 à 00:02
Adobe is buying Semrush for $1.9 billion in a move to supercharge its AI-driven marketing stack. Reuters reports: Semrush designs and develops AI software that helps companies with search engine optimization, social media and digital advertising. The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of next year, would allow Adobe to help marketers better understand how their brands are viewed by online consumers through searches on websites and generative AI bots such as ChatGPT and Gemini. "The price is steep as Semrush isn't a massive revenue engine on its own, so Adobe is likely paying for strategic value. The payoff could be high too if Adobe can quickly turn Semrush's data into monetizable AI products," said Emarketer analyst Grace Harmon. "While we are positive on Adobe restarting its M&A engine given the success that it has seen with this motion over the years... this deal likely does little to answer the questions revolving around the company's creative cloud business," added William Blair analysts.

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Nvidia Beats Earnings Expectations, Even As Bubble Concerns Mount

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Par :BeauHD
19 novembre 2025 à 22:24
Nvidia blew past earnings expectations with soaring revenue and profit, easing fears of an AI bubble and reinforcing its position as the engine of the global AI boom. From a report: Nvidia's sales grew 62% year-over-year to $57 billion in the October quarter, ahead of the $54.9 billion Wall Street had projected, signaling that demand for AI chips remains strong even as more questions emerge about whether returns from the technology will keep up with the pace of AI infrastructure investments. It posted profits of $31.9 billion, up 65% from the year-ago quarter and also slightly above expectations. "Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement, a message that echoes his earlier arguments that fears of an AI bubble are overblown. The company also posted stronger-than-expected sales guidance of around $65 billion for the fourth quarter, another indicator that the AI spending spree isn't slowing anytime soon.

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Pendant que Free patine sur le fixe, Bouygues Telecom gagne plein d’abonnés

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
19 novembre 2025 à 16:09

Les résultats de Free au troisième trimestre 2025 font état d’une stagnation du nombre d’abonnés fixes, tandis que Bouygues Telecom a enregistré 79 000 nouveaux clients sur la même période.

Netgear Accused by Rival of China Smear To Fan Security Fear

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Par :msmash
19 novembre 2025 à 13:49
An anonymous reader shares a report: California-based TP-Link says it may take a sales hit of more than $1 billion because of erroneous reports that the networking company's technology has been "infiltrated" by Beijing. In a lawsuit, TP-Link claims its competitor, Netgear, orchestrated a smear by planting false claims with journalists and internet influencers with the goal of scaring off customers. Closely held TP-Link, which makes wireless routers, alleges in a complaint filed Monday that Netgear's campaign "threatens injury to well over a billion dollars in sales" and violates a 2024 settlement of a patent fight. That accord, in which TP-Link agreed to pay Netgear $135 million, includes a provision that the public company promises not to disparage its rival, according to the suit in Delaware federal court. The suit comes as TP-Link faces growing scrutiny in Washington over national-security issues. US lawmakers from both parties have expressed concern that TP-Link's wireless equipment could be exploited by Chinese hackers following a series of attacks on its routers.

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Revolut s’attaque aux files d’attente à l’aéroport : ses clients vont pouvoir griller tout le monde

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
18 novembre 2025 à 14:08

En pleine offensive sur le marché du voyage, Revolut a introduit le 17 novembre 2025 Fast Track, un système de coupe-file accessible depuis son application. Le service, déjà actif dans plusieurs pays européens, vise à passer devant tout le monde pendant les contrôles de sécurité.

'Buy Now, Pay Later' is Expanding Fast, and That Should Worry Everyone

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Par :msmash
17 novembre 2025 à 21:20
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Nigel Morris tells you he's worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in Mexico, he's watching something that makes him deeply uncomfortable. "To see that people are using [BNPL services] to buy something as basic and fundamental as groceries," Morris told me on stage at Web Summit in Lisbon this week, "I think is a pretty clear indication that a lot of people are struggling." The statistics back up his unease. Buy-now-pay-later services have exploded to 91.5 million users in the United States, according to the financial services firm Empower, with 25% using the services to finance their groceries as of earlier this year, according to survey data released in late October by lending marketplace Lending Tree. These aren't discretionary purchases -- the designer bags and latest Apple headphones that BNPL was marketed for originally. Borrowers aren't paying it all back, either. According to Lending Tree, default rates are accelerating: 42% of BNPL users made at least one late payment in 2025, up from 39% in 2024 and 34% in 2023.

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Jeff Bezos, fondateur d’Amazon, pourrait diriger Project Prometheus, une nouvelle start-up d’IA

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
17 novembre 2025 à 17:08

Selon un article publié par le New York Times, Jeff Bezos, fondateur d’Amazon, pourrait diriger Project Prometheus, une nouvelle start-up d’IA encore très discrète. Lancée aux côtés du scientifique Vik Bajaj, la jeune pousse miserait sur l’application de l’IA au monde physique.

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared

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Par :msmash
17 novembre 2025 à 16:04
Hotel cancellation policies have transformed over the past seven years. Travelers once could cancel reservations up until the day before check-in without penalty. That flexibility has largely vanished. The shift began around 2018 when third-party travel-booking sites deployed "cancel-rebook" strategies, the Atlantic writes. These platforms would monitor hotel rates after securing initial reservations. When prices dropped, the sites automatically canceled existing bookings and rebooked customers at lower rates. Hotels lost already-booked revenue whenever they reduced prices to fill empty rooms. Hotels responded by introducing tiered pricing structures. Travelers now encounter prepaid non-refundable rates at the lowest price point, mid-range rates with two- or three-day cancellation deadlines, and higher rates for same-day cancellation flexibility. The cancel-rebook sites could still swap reservations until deadlines arrived, but the damage to hotels diminished. Christopher Anderson, a professor at Cornell University's Nolan School of Hotel Administration, told the outlet that hotel cancellations differ from airline cancellations. Most hotels operate as franchises rather than centrally-owned properties. A canceled Ithaca Marriott reservation cannot be converted to credit at a New York Marriott Marquis because different owners operate each location. Anderson suggests travelers call hotels directly to request exceptions. Hilton confirmed it evaluates cancellation waivers case-by-case and extends broad waivers during natural disasters or major disruptions.

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Tim Cook va-t-il quitter Apple en 2026 ? La rumeur prend de l’ampleur

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Par :Nicolas Lellouche
17 novembre 2025 à 10:32

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Plus long CEO de l'histoire d'Apple, Tim Cook se préparerait à enclencher son plan de succession dès le début de l'année 2026, selon le Financial Times. Des informations à prendre avec des pincettes : Apple s'apprête effectivement à faire évoluer son organigramme, mais Tim Cook reste pour l'instant encore au cœur de la structure.

Revolut s’associe à Booking : les réservations rapportent désormais des points

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
17 novembre 2025 à 10:23

Il est désormais possible de réserver un hôtel sur Booking.com et de gagner des RevPoints bonus, grâce à l’arrivée de Revolut Pay sur la plateforme. Un partenariat qui renforce l’écosystème de Revolut et son offensive dans les services de voyage.

Apple Speeds Planning for Replacing CEO Tim Cook Next Year

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Par :EditorDavid
16 novembre 2025 à 22:10
From the Business Standard: Apple has accelerated its succession plans as the company prepares for Chief Executive Tim Cook to potentially step down as early as next year, Financial Times reported. Apple's board and senior leaders have recently increased their focus on a smooth leadership transition after Cook's more than 14 years at the helm of the $4 trillion tech giant, the news report said. John Ternus, senior Vice-President of hardware engineering, is seen by many inside Apple as the top contender to become the next CEO. However, no final decision has been made yet. The leadership shift has been in the works for years and is not connected to its present performance, the news report said. Apple expects a strong year-end sales season, especially for the iPhone... Cook, who turned 65 this month, became Apple's CEO in 2011 after the passing of co-founder Steve Jobs. Under his leadership, Apple's market value has grown from around $350 billion in 2011 to $4 trillion today. Apple's stock is near a record high following strong results last month. Apple "is unlikely to introduce a new CEO before its earnings report in late January, which covers the crucial holiday quarter," the article points out. "An early-year announcement would allow the next leadership team time to settle before Apple's major annual events — the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and the iPhone launch in September..." Slashdot reader BrianFagioli points out that top-contender Ternus "is deeply technical and has been central to Apple Silicon and the hardware comeback in the Mac line." If Apple elevates him, that would be an unmistakable signal that the board wants a return to stronger, more grounded hardware leadership. The company may finally realize that accessories aren't enough to keep Apple fans excited, and that expensive experiments are not a substitute for devices people can actually use and afford... Financial success can only hide hardware misfires for so long. Apple needs a leader who can reconnect the company with its reputation for creating devices people can't live without, not ones people return or ignore. Tech blogger John Gruber "absolutely loves" the idea of Cook's successor "being a product person like Ternus, and Ternus is young enough -- the same age Cook was in 2011 when he took the reins from Steve Job -- to hold the job for a long stretch." Ternus took over iPhone hardware engineering in 2020, and was promoted to senior vice president of hardware engineering in January 2021, when Dan Riccio stepped aside. Apple's hardware, across all product lines and including silicon, has been exemplary under Ternus's leadership. And Ternus clearly loves and understands the Mac. I would also bet that Cook moves into the role of executive chairman, and will still play a significant, if not leading, role for the company. And Gruber makes another observation about that Financial Times article. "That 'several people' spoke to the FT about this says to me that those sources (members of the board?) did so with Cook's blessing, and they want this announcement to be no more than a little surprising."

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Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian, MrBeast… Pourquoi les ultra-riches s’enferment dans des bunkers à 5 millions de dollars

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Par :Eitanite Bellaiche
16 novembre 2025 à 17:25

Alors que les tensions nucléaires refont surface, les milliardaires se tournent vers un nouveau symbole de sécurité : le bunker de luxe. Porté par la peur d’une nouvelle guerre froide, le marché des abris souterrains explose, dominé par l’Américain Ron Hubbard et son entreprise Atlas Survival Shelters. Numerama a pu l’interviewer.

Fini le casse-tête : les cartes Ticket Restaurant Conecs (Edenred, Sodexo, Bimpli) arrivent enfin dans Apple Wallet

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
15 novembre 2025 à 06:31

Le réseau qui équipe la majorité des cartes titres-restaurant françaises pourrait devenir compatible nativement avec Apple Wallet. Une avancée attendue, qui mettrait fin à des années de bricolage technique et alignerait enfin les paiements TR sur les standards du mobile.

Retail Traders Left Exposed in High-Stakes Crypto Treasury Deals

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Par :msmash
14 novembre 2025 à 18:05
An anonymous reader shares a report: Executives are turning to a novel structure to fund crypto accumulation vehicles as investor appetite thins. They're called in-kind contributions, and they now account for a growing share of digital-asset treasury, or DAT, deals. Instead of raising cash to buy tokens in the open market, DAT sponsors contribute large slugs of their own crypto, often unlisted and hard to value. Digital-asset treasuries are a new breed of public company built to hold concentrated crypto positions. The structure surged in 2025 as small-cap firms, especially in biotech and mining, reinvented themselves as digital-asset proxies. Sponsors provide tokens or raise money to buy them, and the stock then trades as a kind of listed bet on crypto. For insiders, it's a shortcut to liquidity. For investors, a wager on upside. But not all DATs carry the same level of risk. Earlier deals raised money to buy tokens through regular markets, which offered at least some independent price check. In-kind contributions skip that step -- letting insiders decide what their tokens are worth, sometimes before the token even trades publicly. That shift means pricing and trading risks land more squarely on shareholders, many of them retail investors. Investor faith is already wobbling. Many DATs that once traded above the value of their holdings now trade below it. As insiders supply the tokens and set their price, it's becoming harder for investors to tell what these deals are really worth, or when to get out. The in-kind structure was on full display in a recent $545 million private placement by Tharimmune Inc., a biotech firm-turned-crypto proxy, to set up a buyer of Canton Coins. About 80% of the raise came in the form of unlisted Canton tokens, priced at 20 cents each, according to an investor presentation seen by Bloomberg News. The token began trading on exchanges Nov. 10 and is now around 11 cents, CoinGecko data show. More deals are following the same template. In these placements, insiders contribute tokens -- sometimes illiquid or unlisted -- to form a treasury, lock in valuations and seed the perception of market demand. But when tokens list below deal price, public shareholders absorb the difference. [...] Then there's Flora Growth Corp., a Nasdaq-listed company that announced a $401 million deal to start acquiring Zero Gravity tokens in September. On closer inspection, the firm had raised just $35 million in cash to pair with a $366 million in-kind contribution of then-unlisted 0G tokens. Those tokens were priced at around $3 a piece; they subsequently listed, and are now trading at about $1.20.

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