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Pourquoi les téléphones GrapheneOS de Motorola sont une victoire pour la confidentialité et l'open source

> Au Mobile World Congress, Motorola a officialisé son intention de préinstaller GrapheneOS, une version dérivée d'Android axée sur la confidentialité, sur ses smartphones dès l'année prochaine.

https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/pourquoi-les-telephones-grapheneos-de-motorola-sont-une-victoire-pour-la-confidentialite-et-lopen-source-491202.htm

Why scammers call you and say nothing - and how to respond safely
Why scammers call you and say nothing - and how to respond safely
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Y'know what? As an #opensource #advocate and #tech enthusiast, it's genuinely awesome to see increased mainstream coverage of #Linux and #FreeBSD. Unfortunately, a lot of these articles are riddled with mistakes, misinformation, clickbait, and overall low quality. A few minutes ago, while catching up on tech news I came across one #ZDNet author's frequent posts on Linux and FreeBSD.

To emphasize my point, I am only going to focus on one article titled, "After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems."

The following passages stuck out like sore thumb:

1.) "FreeBSD is more challenging than Linux."

-But is it really? Subjective, particularly if coming from a GUI-driven Linux distribution. Frankly I find FreeBSD easier because of the excellent documentation and coherent design.

2.) "FreeBSD is Unix-like" but further down he states, "Essentially, FreeBSD is Unix, where Linux is based on Unix."

-Contradictory, incorrect, and confusing for newcomers. FreeBSD is Unix. Linux (neither the kernel nor OS) is based on Unix.

3.) "Think of FreeBSD as a more challenging version of Linux. This operating system doesn't hold your hand, so you might learn a thing or two as you install it and the software you require. Even for a seasoned Linux veteran like me, FreeBSD can often be a head-scratcher."

-Challenging because it's *different than Linux*? FreeBSD doesn't hold your hand? What about #Debian, #Gentoo, #Arch, heck even #RHEL? Since the author didn't mention it, I'm going to assume he did not check the FreeBSD Handbook and his "seasoned Linux" experience has been using a Linux desktop for a couple years. Also, head-scratcher?! Being an experienced Debian user, I'd be scratching my head too if I just decided to use Gentoo on a whim. The trauma of hand-configuring the xorg.conf file was real.

Finally, contrary to the article's title, the author ended up not switching to FreeBSD.

-Clickbait.

I am all for more people exploring FreeBSD and Linux. They are great OSes but it is critical the information being reported is both accurate and consistent. For reference the article is linked below.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/freebsd-linux-review/

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Notepad++ : Une attaque sophistiquée cible les utilisateurs via les mises à jour

> Le logiciel libre a confirmé lundi avoir été visé par une attaque informatique ayant permis aux attaquants d'exploiter son système de mise à jour pour exécuter du code malveillant sur certains utilisateurs. Les responsables de cette opération sont liés à des groupes de cybercriminels chinois.

https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/notepad-une-attaque-sophistiquee-cible-les-utilisateurs-via-les-mises-a-jour-489312.htm

RE: https://ieji.de/@teezeh/116005322696339287

The #ZDNet article calls out "lack of training" as a possible factor why AI adoption isn't yielding the expected gains.

But, bear with me, what if maybe the tech isn't as great, and the informed-critical employees are simply ... right?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/confidence-in-ai-tools-among-workers-plunged-why-and-what-to-do-about-it/

#luddite #GenAI

Meet Prism, OpenAI’s free research workspace for scientists – how to try it – ZDNET

Meet Prism, OpenAI’s free research workspace for scientists – how to try it

Powered by GPT-5.2, Prism helps you draft papers, source contextualized references, and more – just don’t delegate your research to it.

Written by Radhika Rajkumar, Editor, Jan. 27, 2026 at 10:01 a.m. PT

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How Prism works Limitations The AI workspace future How to access

ZDNET’s key takeaways 

• Prism is a free, collaborative AI workspace for research.
• It’s meant to support, not replace, human-led science. 
• AI-enabled workspaces aim to unite disparate tools.

This fall, OpenAI deepened its investment in AI for science as the technology’s next frontier, citing advancements in GPT-5 as proof of its viability as a research tool — and eventual scientific automation system. As a first step to that end, OpenAI has launched Prism, a new collaborative workspace for scientists.

“In 2025, AI changed software development forever,” OpenAI said in the announcement. “In 2026, we expect a comparable shift in science.”

Also: Inside Google’s vision to make Gmail your personal AI agent command center

Prism is powered by GPT-5.2, the company’s newest model, which was released last month. At the time, OpenAI said GPT-5.2 performs “at or above human expert level,” but the company doesn’t advise you to let it automate your research — here’s why. 

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET’s parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

How Prism works

OpenAI has invested heavily in demonstrating scientific use cases for its models, releasing papers on its prowess in mathematical discovery, cell analysis, and biology experiments. But the tools scientists currently use, OpenAI argued in the announcement, constrain “how research is done day to day.” Enter Prism.

Geared toward science writing and report compilation, which requires collaboration amongst several participants, Prism “brings drafting, revision, collaboration, and preparation for publication into a single, cloud-based, LaTeX-native workspace,” OpenAI said, referring to the LaTeX scientific typesetting standard. 

Also: 10 ways AI can inflict unprecedented damage in 2026

Prism puts GPT-5.2 inside a scientific project, ideally for a more seamless experience. According to OpenAI, it’s based on Crixet, a platform the company purchased and folded into this new release. 

In a demo, OpenAI developers walked through Prism’s interface: a chat window on the left and an in-process research paper on the right. Prism lets scientists access multiple chat agents simultaneously, each executing different commands. These can include adding sources from arXiv and other platforms, creating lecture notes based on a topic, complete with citations, or perfecting equations and figures. Users can also test hypotheses with GPT-5.2 Thinking as a copilot, LaTeX-format diagrams, and edit several documents within one project. 

Similarly to Claude’s just-released Slack, Asana, and Figma integrations and comparable features in ChatGPT, the goal of Prism and tools like it is to centralize systems for ease of use. 

“Much of the everyday work of research — drafting papers, revising arguments, managing equations and citations, and coordinating with collaborators — remains fragmented,” OpenAI said. “Researchers often move between editors, PDFs, LaTeX compilers, reference managers, and separate chat interfaces, losing context and interrupting focus.” 

Also: OpenAI says it’s working toward catastrophe or utopia – just not sure which

OpenAI said reasoning models are less likely to hallucinate citations — a primary issue in using AI for research, law, and other academic contexts — because their extended thinking process forces them to review material more closely. 

Editor’s Note: Featured image at top from WP AI.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Meet Prism, OpenAI’s free research workspace for scientists – how to try it | ZDNET

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Logiciel libre et souveraineté: la Commission européenne lance un appel à contributions

> La Commission propose jusqu’au 3 février aux développeurs, entreprises et communautés open source, administrations et chercheurs de contribuer à la future stratégie européenne d’écosystème numérique ouvert. En identifiant les obstacles à l'adoption de l'open source et en suggérant des mesures concrètes.

https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/logiciel-libre-et-souverainete-la-commission-europeenne-lance-un-appel-a-contributions-488031.htm