Les guerres servent aussi parfois à enrichir une langue. Le commandant d’un bataillon de Sloviansk, dans le Donbass, boit un café sous la tonnelle d’un jardin. Il demande à ses hommes d’arrêter de « macroner ». Puis il raconte, hilare, que l’expression s’est répandue comme une traînée de poudre : « Entre combattants, on l’utilise à chaque fois que quelqu’un parle pour ne rien dire. »

Vous êtes contre les pédophiles, n’est-ce pas ? Vous ne verrez donc pas d’inconvénient à ce qu’un robot ouvre votre courrier pour s’assurer qu’il ne contient aucun message ou document suspect. Voilà en substance l’esprit d’une proposition de règlement déposée par la Commission européenne le 11 mai dernier

A few weeks ago you might have read that the Thunderbird project is working on a mobile email client. Some of you have mentioned that it might have been a better strategy to support one of the existing open source email clients on Android rather than creating a new one. As you may have guessed from the title of this post, the Thunderbird project came to the same conclusion.

I’m very excited to announce that K-9 Mail is now part of the Thunderbird family 🎉

Manuel Valls n'arrive qu'en troisième position, avec un peu plus de 15% des suffrages.

The day has finally come: NVIDIA IS PUBLISHING THEIR LINUX GPU KERNEL MODULES AS OPEN-SOURCE! To much excitement and a sign of the times, the embargo has just expired on this super-exciting milestone that many of us have been hoping to see for many years. Over the past two decades NVIDIA has offered great Linux driver support with their proprietary driver stack, but with the success of AMD's open-source driver effort going on for more than a decade, many have been calling for NVIDIA to open up their drivers. Their user-space software is remaining closed-source but as of today they have formally opened up their Linux GPU kernel modules and will be maintaining it moving forward. Here's the scoop on this landmark open-source decision at NVIDIA.