Comment fabrique-t-on une souris d’ordinateur ? J’ai servi de cobaye chez Logitech
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 11:32
À Lausanne, en Suisse, Logitech fabrique des claviers et des souris depuis 1981. L'accessoiriste a proposé à Numerama de visiter son siège et ses laboratoires, dans lesquels des ingénieurs passent leurs journées à imaginer les périphériques de demain. Le nombre de tests pour une simple souris a de quoi surprendre.
Ces forfaits 40 Go et 110 Go sur le réseau Orange sont à moins de 6 € et 9 € par mois
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 09:13
[Deal du Jour] L’opérateur virtuel Lebara Mobile propose plusieurs forfaits sur le réseau Orange, à des prix bien plus intéressants que chez l'opérateur historique. Les forfaits flexibles sans engagement 40 Go et 110 Go en 4G sont en ce moment à d'excellents prix.
Un ancien de Pixar explique pourquoi les vidéos générées par IA ne fonctionneraient pas à Hollywood
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 09:09
Un ancien animateur des célèbres studios Pixar estime que, pour l'instant, les outils capables de générer des vidéos grâce à l'IA, ne seraient pas encore assez pertinents. La nécessité de retravailler les plans empêche ces programmes de percer dans le monde du cinéma.
Garmin Fenix 7 : l’une des meilleures montres connectées pour le sport est 100 € moins chère
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 08:21
[Deal du jour] La montre connectée Fenix 7 est l’un des modèles haut de gamme les plus complets de Garmin. Elle embarque de nombreuses fonctionnalités et offre de bonnes performances. Un peu chère, elle est tout de suite plus intéressante en promotion.
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Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 19:35 · 1 minute
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Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire Google account just by sideloading some apps. As 404 Media reports, the issue was originally brought to Google's attention by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as part of a "review of the privacy practices of streaming TV technology providers." Google originally told the senator that the issue was expected behavior but, after media coverage, decided to change its stance and issue some kind of patch.
"My office is mid-way through a review of the privacy practices of streaming TV technology providers," Wyden told 404 Media. "As part of that inquiry, my staff discovered an alarming video in which a YouTuber demonstrated how with 15 minutes of unsupervised access to an Android TV set-top box, a criminal could get access to private emails of the Gmail user who set up the TV."
The video in question was a PSA from YouTuber Cameron Gray , and it shows that grabbing any Android TV device and sideloading a few apps will grant access to the current Google account. This is obvious if you know how Android works, but it's not obvious to most users looking at a limited TV interface.
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Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 18:06
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Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down . Spy Pet's website was unavailable as of this writing. A Discord spokesperson told Ars that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it.
"Scraping our services and self-botting are violations of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines," the spokesperson wrote. "In addition to banning the affiliated accounts, we are considering appropriate legal action." The spokesperson noted that Discord server administrators can adjust server permissions to prevent future such monitoring on otherwise public servers.
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Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 17:30
Enlarge / A DOS prompt.
Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00 , a version better known for its unpopularity, bugginess, and convoluted development history than its utility as a computer operating system.
The MS-DOS 4.00 code is available on Microsoft's MS-DOS GitHub page along with versions 1.25 and 2.0, which Microsoft open-sourced in cooperation with the Computer History Museum back in 2014 . All open-source versions of DOS have been released under the MIT License .
Initially, MS-DOS 4.00 was slated to include new multitasking features that allow software to run in the background. This release of DOS, also sometimes called "MT-DOS" or " Mutitasking MS-DOS " to distinguish it from other releases, was only released through a few European PC OEMs and never as a standalone retail product.
Drake retire en vitesse un titre utilisant un deepfake sonore de Tupac pour attaquer Kendrick Lamar
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 3 days ago - 13:40
Le rappeur canadien Drake a publié une chanson utilisant une fausse voix de Tupac. Il a fait de même avec Snoop Dogg. Sous la menace de représailles judiciaires, il a fini par retirer son titre, qui attaquait son rival Kendrick Lamar.
3 000 coups par minute : ce drone américain embarque deux mitrailleuses rotatives
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 3 days ago - 10:05
General Atomics, qui fournit des drones de grande taille de l'armée américaine, a diffusé une vidéo de son dernier appareil aérien en train de détruire une cible grâce à ses deux mitrailleuses rotatives.
