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Astropad Launches Rock Paper Pencil 4.0 With New Graphite Apple Pencil Tip
Astropad today launched Rock Paper Pencil 4.0, an updated version of its screen protector and Apple Pencil tip combo made for the iPad. Rock Paper Pencil offers a paper-like writing experience on a tablet display by pairing a paper-textured screen protector with custom tips for the Apple Pencil. The new version of the product comes with two Apple Pencil tips, one with a smooth ballpoint feel and one that mimics a soft graphite pencil.…
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Domotique
Home Assistant : surveiller les sauvegardes au lieu de supposer qu’elles fonctionnent
Configurer une sauvegarde automatique procure un soulagement immédiat. Pourtant, une tâche planifiée ne prouve pas qu’un fichier exploitable a été créé, envoyé au bon endroit et conservé assez longtemps. Un NAS éteint, un espace plein, une clé de chiffrement perdue ou une erreur silencieuse peuvent transformer une belle routine en absence totale de recours. Home Assistant expose désormais des informations précises sur l’état des sauvegardes automatiques : dernière tentative, dernier succès, prochaine exécution et…
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IA
Australia's recording association bans AI-made music from charts
Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed. The Australian Recording Industry Association announced today that any tracks wholly generated with AI will not be eligible for inclusion on the nation's music charts. The Code of Practice for the charts will allow songs that use generative AI to be counted, but only if the track in question "is substantially human made" and "raises no stream or chart manipulation concerns." These rules…
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Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale as Meta agrees with a group of 52 attorneys general to implement sweeping changes to how minors use Instagram and Facebook. The settlement “gives the AGs what they want, which is the political story that they’ve extracted a huge amount of benefit for the public from this settlement, including…
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Serrure connectée : préparer l’accès de secours avant de confier la porte à Matter
Une serrure connectée promet un quotidien plus simple : ouverture depuis le téléphone, code temporaire pour un proche, automatisation au départ et intégration dans la maison. Mais la porte reste un équipement de sécurité physique. Un téléphone déchargé, une pile faible, une panne de réseau ou une mauvaise règle ne doit jamais transformer une commodité en impossibilité de rentrer. Matter définit un type d’appareil Door Lock et un ensemble de fonctions communes. Cette interopérabilité…
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Actualité : Bon plan – L’objet connecté Netatmo Têtes thermostatiques connectées pour radiateur Vanne additionnelle "5 étoiles" à 50,99 € (-16%)
En marge de son célèbre thermostat, Netamo propose aussi des têtes thermostatiques connectées pour radiateurs afin de "maîtriser la température de votre appartement". La promesse est alléchante, mais sont-elles simples à installer et le résultat est-il au rendez-vous ? Faciles à installer et à paramétrer via l'application, les têtes thermostatiques connectées Netatmo nous ont convaincus. Elles sont particulièrement utiles pour gérer la température de votre logement pièce par pièce sur les créneaux horaires de…
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Apps & Logiciels
Meta Agrees to Limit Teens' Time on Facebook and Instagram, Calls on TikTok and YouTube to Match
Meta today said it will implement major changes to Facebook and Instagram's child safety features as part of a settlement agreement with almost all U.S. states. Here's what will change for users under 18 on Instagram and Facebook if the agreement is approved. Time Limit - Teens will have a two-hour daily time limit on Facebook and Instagram, though it can be overridden by a parent. The two-hour total includes both apps. Night Mode…
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Domotique
Matter et gestion de l’énergie : préparer la maison connectée sans promettre des économies automatiques
La maison connectée sait déjà allumer une lampe à distance, relever une température ou signaler une porte ouverte. La prochaine étape consiste à coordonner des équipements qui consomment, stockent ou produisent beaucoup d’énergie : chauffe-eau, borne de recharge, pompe à chaleur, batterie domestique ou panneaux solaires. Matter prévoit désormais des modèles communs pour décrire une partie de ces usages. Cette évolution est importante, mais elle ne signifie pas qu’une mise à jour fera immédiatement…
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How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood
Roughly 160 people are dead and hundreds more—including dozens of international tourists—are missing after flash floods hit a region on the mountainous border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. Devastating footage posted to social media shows people fleeing a wall of water that washed away buildings and vehicles. Initial analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the Nepalese government indicate that the flooding was likely triggered by a landslide caused after a piece of…
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Smartphones
Google Keep for Android rolls out ‘Find in note’ search
The last big update to Google Keep was at the start of this year with the reminders-Tasks migration. Google has now updated Keep for Android with “Find in note” search. Open a note and tap the three-dot overflow menu in the bottom-right corner for the new option. “Find in note” appears at the top of this list and gives you straightforward text search. The term you enter is highlighted in yellow across the current…
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RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
It's said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that the universe has also seen fit to deprive us of the glorious presence of Tim Curry, who died at home yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 80. No cause of death has been given, but Curry had been in ill health since 2012, when he suffered a stroke…
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Smartphones
What to expect from Apple's 'Surprise and shine' iPhone 18 Pro event on September 9
Apple has confirmed its September special event will be held on September 9. It won't just be the iPhone 18 Pro or folding iPhone launch, but also the first event with John Ternus as CEO. Here's what to expect. Regular as clockwork, Apple holds an event in early September to launch new iPhone models and other products. Apple has just confirmed that this will be the case for 2026's presentation. Titled "Surprise and shine,"…
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IT & Science & Technology
Actualité : Bon plan – L’ordinateur Portable Apple MacBook Air 13 pouces (M4) 16 Go / 256 Go "5 étoiles" à 1 075,44 €
Le MacBook Air (2025) est l’ordinateur portable d’Apple équipé de la puce maison M4 et d’un écran de 13 pouces. Ce modèle bénéficie d’un nouveau coloris bleu ciel remplaçant le gris sidéral et de 16 Go de mémoire unifiée par défaut. C’est l’ordinateur portable le plus accessible de la marque à la pomme. L'Apple MacBook Air 13 pouces M4 (2025) est une évolution réussie qui offre un gain de performance notable grâce à la…
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Actualité : Bon plan – Le téléviseur Samsung 55S95F "5 étoiles" à 1 299,00 € (-13%)
Le Samsung S95F, qui succède au S95D 2024, adopte une dalle QD‑Oled de nouvelle génération et plus lumineuse, ainsi qu'un filtre antireflet amélioré, tout en reconduisant le design ultrafin et le boîtier déporté de la gamme. Successeur du S95D, le Samsung S95F progresse nettement, surtout côté luminosité, tout en affinant légèrement son traitement antireflet. Il préserve les points forts des dalles QD‑Oled — noirs profonds, couleurs précises et vastes angles de vision —, si…
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 251 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. Apple has not provided notes on what's changed in Safari 251. The current Safari Technology Preview release is compatible with machines running macOS Tahoe and macOS Golden Gate, the newest version of…
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Domotique
Maison connectée : diagnostiquer un réseau Thread sans tout réinitialiser
Un capteur Matter devient indisponible, une ampoule répond avec retard ou un nouvel appareil refuse de rejoindre la maison. La tentation est immédiate : supprimer l’équipement, réinitialiser le concentrateur, puis recommencer l’installation. Sur un réseau Thread, cette réaction peut compliquer la situation en effaçant des informations utiles avant même d’avoir identifié la panne. Thread est un réseau maillé basse consommation. Les appareils sur secteur peuvent relayer le trafic, les équipements sur pile privilégient l’autonomie,…
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Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners
The console was subject to added fees under the Trump administration's original (and illegal) tariff regime. Panic, software publisher and creator of the Playdate, is refunding customers for any US tariff fees they paid to purchase its console, Game Developer reports. The Trump administration's tariff regime was confirmed to be illegal following a Supreme Court decision in February 2026, and Panic, like other companies, applied for a refund. Unlike other companies, though, it's not…
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IA
OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better. OpenAI made headlines and raised a lot of outcry in July after one of the company's agents acted unprompted to breach fellow AI business Hugging Face and other services. Although OpenAI did share some insights about what led to the incident after it was discovered, today the company has published its official report about what happened. There's a full…
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Google says it fixed the playlist bug driving Home users crazy
Credit: Brady Snyder / Android Authority TL;DR Google says it has fixed an issue that caused Google Home devices to play the wrong playlists. Users had reported getting unrelated songs, albums, or playlists instead of what they asked for. Google hasn’t explained what caused the problem, and we’re awaiting user confirmation that the fix has worked. However well you’re getting along with your Google smart speaker, the least you’d expect it to do right…
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Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
The chip company made over $96 billion in the past quarter, most of it from its data center business. The chip company made over $96 billion in the past quarter, most of it from its data center business. Nvidia’s predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn’t be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue — Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have…
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Smartphones
Review: Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold just barely keeps up
The foldable market has been moving fast, with hardware and software we saw just a few years ago having been completely rethought and drastically improved. In the middle of it all, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like a concerted effort to make the best of a tough situation – Google’s new foldable tries its darndest to keep up with the competition, and it does just enough to deserve your attention, save for a…
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IA
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals with the likes of Microsoft and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, its new state-of-the-art chip system. The Vera Rubin system combines six different chips working in concert and is considered the cutting…
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IA
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions. Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked…
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Google sounds like it’s got a fix for Keep list glitches… maybe?
TL;DR Google Home users recently began reporting issues adding items to their Keep lists. Google has now responded to those reports, although confusingly references “UI issues.” The company’s fix is expected to hit devices within the next few days. You try so hard to be an organized adult: planning ahead, making lists, and keeping track that you get done what you need to. While we have plenty of great tools at our disposal for…
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