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A UK tribunal has allowed a £2.1 billion lawsuit over Microsoft’s cloud licensing to move forward, adding new pressure to how Windows Server is priced outside Azure.

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Un logiciel malveillant destiné à effacer définitivement les données de postes informatiques vient de faire surface dans le secteur énergétique vénézuélien.

La bête a été baptisée "Lotus" par les chercheurs de Kaspersky qui l'ont analysé en premier, il a été mise en route en décembre 2025 depuis un ordinateur vénézuélien, et sa cible principale semble être PDVSA, la compagnie pétrolière d'État.

Côté technique, Lotus ne fait pas dans la dentelle. Deux scripts batch préparatoires, OhSyncNow.bat et notesreg.bat, désactivent toutes les défenses, coupent les comptes utilisateurs et ferment les interfaces réseau, histoire de bien tout bloquer.

Ensuite, le binaire principal passe en mode destruction avec diskpart, robocopy et fsutil pour manipuler le système de fichiers, puis descend au niveau IOCTL pour écraser directement des secteurs physiques du disque. Les points de restauration sont supprimés, le journal USN est effacé. Aucune récupération possible.

LKaspersky ne pointe personne, et aucun élément technique ne désigne un État ou un groupe criminel en particulier. Le timing est quand même troublant : fin 2025 et début 2026, le Venezuela a traversé une crise politique majeure avec la capture de l'ancien président Nicolás Maduro le 3 janvier, et les tensions toujours fortes autour des infrastructures énergétiques. Coïncidence ou coordination, on ne saura probablement pas avant longtemps.

En pratique, un wiper qui cible PDVSA, ça rappelle immédiatement les attaques contre les infrastructures critiques qu'on a vues en Ukraine avec Stryker ou contre des clusters Kubernetes avec la variante TeamPCP.

L'objectif n'est pas le chantage ni le vol, c'est la destruction pure. Les opérateurs ne cherchent pas à exfiltrer quelque chose, ils veulent rendre l'infrastructure inutilisable le plus vite possible, pour déstabiliser ou punir.

Un réseau d'alimentation électrique ou de distribution de carburant paralysé quelques jours, ça a des conséquences directes sur la vie quotidienne et sur la stabilité politique d'un régime.

Ce qui inquiète, c'est aussi la qualité du code. Lotus n'est pas un script amateur collé à la va-vite : il enchaîne plusieurs étapes de sabotage méthodique, de la désactivation des défenses à la destruction bas niveau du disque.

Pour un pays qui n'a déjà pas la réputation d'avoir la cybersécurité la plus pointue du continent, encaisser ce genre d'outil, ça fait mal. Et la probabilité que d'autres échantillons du même auteur circulent déjà ailleurs est loin d'être nulle.

Bref, un wiper bien fichu sur une compagnie pétrolière d'État dans un pays en crise, c'est rarement l'œuvre d'un adolescent dans son garage. Affaire à suivre donc.

Source : Bleeping Computer

Most of us have at least one object in our home we’ve never actually looked at. The napkin holder. The fruit basket. The candle holder that’s been sitting on the same shelf for three years. We use these things daily, sometimes multiple times, and yet they exist in this strange invisible space between functional and forgotten. That’s exactly the space that Sebastián Ángeles decided to design for.

Ángeles is the founder and creative director of Dórica, a Mexico City-based contemporary furniture brand that has spent years building a quiet but increasingly well-regarded reputation for pieces that prioritize longevity over trend. Their chairs, benches, and credenzas have found their way into residential, commercial, and hospitality spaces, and the brand has been recognized as one of the most relevant contemporary furniture names coming out of Mexico. But with Prea, released in February 2026 and recently featured by Wallpaper, Ángeles shifted his focus somewhere more intimate: the objects you reach for without thinking.

Designer: Sebastián Ángeles for Dórica

Prea is labeled “Chapter II” in Dórica’s story, and the brand describes it as their first collection of everyday objects. It’s a small but considered group of pieces, including an egg basket, a fruit basket, a candelabra, and a napkin holder, each designed and produced in Mexico with a clear emphasis on wood and ceramic, clean lines, and what the brand calls “material honesty.” The pieces are not elaborate. They don’t announce themselves when you walk into a room. And that restraint is, I think, the entire point.

Wallpaper described Prea as “a study in restraint,” and that feels right. But I’d push it further. Prea is actually a philosophical statement wrapped in a very practical object. The brand’s own language around the collection is striking: “Design here does not decorate. It holds. It supports. It allows the ordinary to be seen.” That’s not the kind of copy you expect from a brand selling a napkin holder. It’s the kind of thought that makes you pause.

We talk constantly in design circles about the gap between high design and everyday life, between the gallery object and the kitchen counter. Dórica seems genuinely uninterested in that gap existing at all. The premise of Prea is that the objects living alongside our daily rituals, the things we touch without registering that we’re touching them, deserve the same level of intentionality that goes into a statement chair or a sculptural lamp. Not to make them more important than they are, but to acknowledge that they already are important. We just stopped noticing.

There’s a Mexican design perspective embedded in this that feels worth acknowledging. The brand has always positioned itself around craftsmanship and longevity rather than novelty, and Prea continues that ethos into a new category. It’s a move that says something about how Ángeles sees the role of design in everyday life: not as a luxury layer applied to living, but as something woven into the texture of it.

I’ll be honest, when I first looked at the collection, my instinct was that it seemed minimal to the point of simplicity. A fruit basket is a fruit basket. But the more I sat with the images and the thinking behind the work, the more that restraint started to feel like confidence. These pieces don’t need to perform. They just need to be present, well-made, and honest. In a market saturated with objects begging for your attention, that’s a harder thing to pull off than it looks.

Prea is also a smart move for Dórica as a brand. Entering the everyday objects category at this level of intention signals a maturity that not every furniture brand is willing to commit to. It’s easier to scale up into bigger, more visible pieces. Scaling down into the egg basket, and making it mean something, takes a different kind of confidence. If you’re the kind of person who has ever picked up a beautifully made object and held it for just a second longer than you needed to, this collection is worth seeking out.

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Working on the go rarely looks as tidy as productivity-tool adverts suggest. Most people who travel with serious work needs end up carrying at least two or three things that don’t quite fit together: a tablet or laptop, a compact keyboard if the touchscreen isn’t enough, maybe a portable monitor, and a cable situation that somehow multiplies every time you pack.

VitaLink is trying to simplify that. The concept combines a full-size keyboard and a large touch display into one foldable object in a CNC aluminum shell. Connect it to any USB-C device and your workspace expands immediately, without a separate stand, a monitor arm, or a bag pocket devoted to adapters. It folds down to 20mm and opens into something that feels genuinely designed.

Designer: VitaLink

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The integrated 13-inch display sits directly above the keyboard in what amounts to a compact laptop form factor. The screen runs at a 3840×1600 pixel resolution, a 2.4:1 ultra-wide format rather than a standard 16:9 panel, giving it an unusual amount of horizontal room. There’s enough space to keep two apps open side by side without either feeling squeezed into a corner.

The 180-degree hinge is what makes the compact form actually practical. When you’re done, everything closes into a flat 20mm slab that slips into a laptop sleeve without awkward bulk. The open footprint sits at around 34 × 15 cm, compact enough for a plane tray table, a crowded café counter, or a hotel desk that never seems to fit anything comfortably.

The panel supports 10-point touch, runs at 60 Hz, and delivers 298 PPI pixel density with 100% sRGB color coverage. Touching a screen this size changes how you interact with content. You can swipe, drag, and tap directly on the display while still using the keyboard below, which means managing layers in an editor, scrubbing a timeline, or pulling up references doesn’t require switching between input modes.

The keyboard uses scissor-switch mechanisms with 0.8mm of key travel and wider-than-typical spacing. That added spacing sounds like a minor detail until you’ve spent an hour trying to type accurately on a portable board that prioritizes size above everything else. Three RGB backlight modes let you set the visual tone, and the keys are designed to stay quiet enough for cafés and shared offices.

Two USB-C ports handle video, data, and power delivery through a single cable, and the plug-and-play setup works across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android without requiring additional drivers. That compatibility extends to mini PCs, tablets, and handheld gaming consoles, so VitaLink isn’t tied to one kind of device. You’re not locked into a single workflow or a single ecosystem, which is most of the appeal.

Think about what that actually means. You’re in a hotel room with just your iPad and need a proper keyboard and enough screen space to write, edit, and reference something at once. Or you’re at a café with a mini PC and want a setup that doesn’t take over the whole table. Those are the moments where having the keyboard and the display in one object makes a real difference.

The aluminum body does more than keep things thin. CNC-machined aluminum with a frosted anodized finish gives it a rigidity that plastic travel accessories rarely have, protecting the display in transit and keeping the keyboard deck from flexing during typing sessions. It carries more like a slim hardcover notebook than a peripheral, which is a meaningful difference for anyone who’s dealt with a flimsy portable monitor in a crowded bag.

There’s something worth noting in the fact that portable work setups have gotten faster without necessarily getting more cohesive. The bag is still a loose collection of things that don’t quite belong together. VitaLink is at least making a case that the keyboard and the display belong in a single intentional object, built from the start for people whose work doesn’t stay in one place.

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The ASUS ROG Swift 32" 4K OLED Gaming Monitor (PG32UCDP) is a perfect fit for both cinematic single-player and competitive multiplayer games, thanks to its dual-mode with 480Hz refresh rates, and it's now on a 31% discount.

Turtle Beach has unveiled the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II wireless gaming headset along with details on its auditory capabilities, release date, and pre-order availability.

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The EU unveils a privacy-first age verification app to protect minors online, pressuring platforms to comply with stricter digital safety rules.

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ChipSoft, l'éditeur qui fournit le logiciel de dossiers médicaux à environ 80 % des hôpitaux aux Pays-Bas, vient d'être touché par un ransomware. Le site de l'entreprise est hors ligne depuis le 7 avril, et on ne sait pas encore si des données de patients ont été volées.

Ce qu'il s'est passé

L'attaque a été confirmée le 7 avril par Z-CERT, l'agence néerlandaise qui surveille la sécurité informatique dans le secteur de la santé. ChipSoft développe le logiciel HiX, qui gère les dossiers médicaux de patients dans la grande majorité des hôpitaux du pays. Le site web de l'entreprise est tombé dans la journée et reste inaccessible.

Z-CERT a envoyé un mémo confidentiel aux clients de ChipSoft pour leur demander de couper leur connexion VPN vers les systèmes de l'éditeur. Onze hôpitaux ont déconnecté leurs systèmes par précaution. Les autres ont indiqué que leurs données patients étaient en sécurité et que leurs services continuaient de fonctionner.

Des données patients potentiellement compromises

ChipSoft a confirmé qu'il y avait eu un "incident de données" avec un "possible accès non autorisé". L'entreprise ne peut pas garantir que des données de patients n'ont pas été consultées ou copiées. Le groupe de hackers derrière l'attaque n'a pas été identifié, et aucun montant de rançon n'a été rendu public.

Plusieurs hôpitaux, dont le Rijnstate Hospital, l'Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (spécialisé en cancérologie) et le Franciscus Hospital ont déclaré ne pas être affectés. Mais la portée réelle de l'attaque reste floue.

Le secteur de la santé toujours en première ligne

Z-CERT classe les ransomwares et l'extorsion comme les menaces principales pour les organisations de santé néerlandaises dans son rapport annuel.

Le secteur reste une cible privilégiée parce que les données médicales ont une valeur élevée sur le marché noir, et que les hôpitaux ne peuvent pas se permettre de rester longtemps sans accès à leurs systèmes.

Quand un seul éditeur gère les dossiers médicaux de 80 % des hôpitaux d'un pays, une attaque sur cet éditeur prend une dimension un peu inquiétante.

Pour l'instant les dégâts semblent contenus, mais le fait que ChipSoft ne puisse pas exclure un vol de données, c'est quand même un gros point d'interrogation. Et ça rappelle qu'un système de santé aussi centralisé, ça peut vite devenir une faiblesse.

Source : NL Times

Intel's aging Raptor Lake desktop CPUs are "not going anywhere," according to an Intel exec, as RAM prices soar and PC gamers search for DDR4 alternatives. Are these chips worth buying in 2026? Let's explore.

Open-ear earbuds have had a genuine moment over the past year, and it’s easy to understand why. About half of all earbud users have moved toward them, drawn by ambient awareness, ear health, and the comfort of not having anything plugged into their ear canals. The category has grown quickly, and the question now is which designs actually get it right.

The Skullcandy Push 540 Open enters that picture with a clear sense of what’s been bothering people. Thick earhooks that compete with glasses, neckbands that catch on hair and collars, and touch controls that trigger every time headwear grazes the sensor aren’t fringe complaints; they’re consistent ones. Skullcandy took that feedback and built the 540 Open around fixing each of them.

Designer: Skullcandy

Anyone who has worn open-ear hooks alongside glasses or a hat knows the small but mounting annoyance of too much hardware competing behind the ear. Skullcandy trimmed the earhook thickness based on direct user feedback, and the result is a fit that holds without adding friction to whatever you’re already wearing. It’s the kind of detail you only notice once you stop thinking about it.

The neckband gets the same thoughtful treatment. Unlike rigid or snapping designs found on competing options, Skullcandy’s version drapes naturally, so it won’t fight longer hair or push against a jacket collar. When you pull it off mid-run and don’t have the case on you, the magnetic closure lets it wrap cleanly around your wrist or neck without turning into a tangled nuisance.

Think about what it’s actually like to be deep into a trail run, layered up in a gaiter and hat, headphones that have stayed put the whole time, traffic audible from a distance. That’s the version of open-ear audio the 540 Open is built for. The over-ear hanger keeps things locked in, and the open design keeps the world around you audible.

Battery life is where the 540 Open puts some distance between itself and the competition. At 10 hours per earbud with 32 more in the case, it totals 42 hours, compared to six per earbud for both the Shokz Open Fit Air and JBL Soundgear Sense. The IP44 rating and a 10-minute rapid charge round it out for full days outdoors.

For anyone who trains with a hat on, the ability to disable the touch sensors entirely is a quietly significant option. Most open-ear earbuds don’t offer it. Audio comes from 12mm dynamic drivers, and Bluetooth 5.3 with multipoint pairing means two devices can stay connected at once, so moving between a phone and a laptop mid-workout doesn’t require any extra steps.

At $99.99, it’s $20 less than the Shokz Open Fit Air and $60 less than the JBL Soundgear Sense. What’s more interesting than the price gap is that it doesn’t get there by skimping. Better battery life, a flexible neckband that cooperates with real-world dressing, and comfort details from user feedback aren’t the kind of things that make headlines, but they’re what make the difference on a long day outdoors.

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