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Des terriers d’écureuils vieux de 700 000 ans livrent une découverte que personne n’avait vue venir

Des terriers restés prisonniers du pergélisol pendant des centaines de milliers d’années ont livré un témoignage exceptionnel sur les écosystèmes de l’ère glaciaire. Grâce à l’ADN préservé dans des excréments fossilisés d’écureuils terrestres, des chercheurs ont reconstitué une partie de leur...

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SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.

It comes just two days after SpaceX's unprecedented IPO and a few months after the merger of SpaceX and xAI, which brought a significant restructuring of xAI.

Cursor was one of the first tools to fully bake features that leverage large language models into an IDE. It's a branch of Visual Studio Code with heavy AI integration. However, incumbent platforms and bigger AI companies have since rolled out comparable features.

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Firefox 152 Adds JPEG XL Support, Redesigned Settings

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Linuxiac: Mozilla has released Firefox 152, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, with updated settings, improved media controls, experimental JPEG XL support, and various platform-specific fixes for desktop and Android. A key update is the redesigned Firefox Settings page, which now features clearer groupings, improved navigation, and a more streamlined structure for easier customization. The release also expands built-in spellchecker support, adding dictionaries for Croatian, English (UK), Georgian, Persian, Slovenian, Tajik, Tamil, Tibetan, Turkish, Welsh, and Xhosa. [...] Importantly, Firefox now offers experimental support for JPEG XL, an image format with improved compression over WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Users can enable JPEG XL in the Firefox Labs panel within Settings.

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Les rapaces chassent en fonction de la morphologie de leurs phalanges

Les rapaces, héritiers directs des dinosaures, se distinguent par leur régime carnivore, leurs becs crochus et leurs serres puissantes et recourbées. Selon des travaux publiés dans le Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, la morphologie des phalanges apparaît comme un facteur clé dans leurs stratégies de prédation, influençant directement leurs modes de chasse et de capture des proies.

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Logitech G completa a Série G3 com o rato G305 X SUPERLIGHT e o teclado G316 X 98

Depois dos auscultadores G325 X, lançados no início do ano, a Logitech G fecha o ecossistema da Série G3 com a chegada de um rato sem fios de 59 gramas e um teclado mecânico com ecrã de matriz de pontos. Ambos estão preparados para uma taxa de atualização de 8 kHz.

The post Logitech G completa a Série G3 com o rato G305 X SUPERLIGHT e o teclado G316 X 98 appeared first on Tek Notícias.

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Contre la fatigue des yeux liée aux écrans, voici la méthode 20-20-20 que recommandent les spécialistes

La fatigue oculaire liée aux écrans atteint des proportions alarmantes avec près de 50 % des utilisateurs d'ordinateurs concernés. Entre vision trouble, yeux secs et maux de tête, nos yeux paient un lourd tribut à notre vie numérique. Heureusement, une méthode simple et efficace existe pour...

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Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

A screenshot from Hellblade.

Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The closure comes as "several" Xbox studios at Microsoft, including Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in "active negotiations" about spinning off, Bloomberg reports.

The closure and negotiations follow Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty warning last week of a "reset" at Xbox, laying out several challenges facing Xbox's business - including that it had "over extended" with its studio system and the hardware c …

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Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising

Fox Corporation has agreed to buy Roku Inc. for $160 per share, an approximate enterprise value of $22 billion, the firms announced today.

The acquisition would unite Fox’s broadcast channels, including Fox, Fox News, Fox Business, and FS1, as well as its streaming businesses, including Tubi, a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform that Fox bought in 2020, with Roku’s own FAST service, The Roku Channel, and Roku’s streaming hardware business, including its streaming sticks and smart TVs. Roku says it has 100 million households using its platform.

The most valuable part of Roku’s business isn't its hardware, which lost $19.1 million in the quarter ending March 31, 2026, but its the operating system (Roku OS) and advertising business. In that same quarter, Roku’s advertising and subscriptions business posted a gross profit of $584.1 million, with the advertising business pulling in $371 million in revenue. The COVID-19 pandemic helped Roku become profitable in 2021, but the company didn’t see annual profitability again until 2025.

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New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils

Reconstruction of Phantasmodon travouilloni in the Early Miocene rainforests of northwestern Queensland. Image credit: Peter Schouten.

Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, one of Australia’s richest fossil sites.

The post New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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Xbox turmoil continues with a studio closure and executive departures

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Last week, Xbox boss Asha Sharma sent a memo warning of an Xbox "reset" ahead of expected layoffs, and today, Kotaku reported that Xbox plans to shut down Compulsion Games, the studio behind South of Midnight.

Since taking over in February, Sharma has made some big decisions, including cutting the price of Xbox Game Pass and making Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution Xbox console exclusives. But in their "reset" memo, Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty discussed many challenges facing the Xbox business, including that it has "over extended" with its studio system:

We are the fortunate stewards of industry-defining franch …

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