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Alerte bon plan pour tous les passionnés de technologie ! VMware, le spécialiste de la virtualisation, a mis en ligne de nouvelles versions de ses logiciels Workstation et Fusion. La grande nouvelle, c’est que l’utilisation personnelle est désormais totalement gratuite ! Vous pouvez créer des machines virtuelles à profusion sur votre PC Windows, Linux ou votre Mac sans débourser un centime.

Si vous ne connaissez pas encore VMware Workstation et Fusion, il s’agit de logiciels conçus pour les administrateurs système et les développeurs capablent de faire tourner plusieurs systèmes d’exploitation différents sur la même machine, chacun dans son environnement isolé. Windows 10, Linux, Windows XP, et même FreeBSD ou Solaris, tout ça sur le même ordinateur en gros… C’est super pratique pour tester des trucs. Perso, c’est le logciel de Virtualisation que je préfère.

Du haut de ses 20 ans d’expérience, VMware est d’ailleurs reconnu pour ses solutions performantes, stables et sécurisées. Leurs produits ont d’abord été conçus pour les serveurs, mais les éditions Workstation pour PC et Fusion pour Mac sont rapidement devenues populaires. Ces outils sont géniaux pour tester des configurations sans risquer d’endommager son environnement principal… par exemple, j’utilise souvent VMware pour essayer de nouvelles distributions Linux, jouer à d’anciens jeux pas trop gourmands, ou tester des logiciels un peu risky.

Et jusqu’à présent, Workstation et Fusion étaient payants pour les particuliers, avec seulement des versions d’évaluation disponibles pendant 30 jours. Les prix variaient entre 100 et 200 euros et je sais de quoi je parle puisque j’ai une licence payante. Autant dire que cela pouvait freiner certains qui apprécient bidouiller sans forcément avoir un budget pour ça.

Mais bon, ils ont changé de politique et c’est gratuit pour un usage personnel, sans restriction de durée. Il vous suffit de créer un compte sur le site de VMware pour obtenir un numéro de série gratuit, puis installer le logiciel et voilà, vous pouvez commencer à virtualiser tant que vous voulez !

Après pour les professionnels, l’utilisation de Workstation et Fusion reste payante. VMware propose d’ailleurs un abonnement annuel à 120 dollars par utilisateur, incluant les mises à jour. Cela reste raisonnable pour les entreprises qui utilisent ces outils dans le cadre du développement ou de l’administration système.

Bref, c’est pas tous les jours que c’est Noël, et ça va vous permettre de découvrir autre chose que Virtualbox.

Bien sûr, faut pas se leurrer, VMware a bien évidemment une stratégie marketing derrière cette décision. Populariser leurs outils gratuits pour les particuliers est un excellent moyen de fidéliser les utilisateurs. Ceux qui adopteront Workstation ou Fusion sur leur machines perso seront plus susceptibles de vouloir la même solution dans un contexte professionnel, ce qui génèrera des revenus pour VMware. Puis c’est toujours plus de comptes utilisateurs et de données récupérées. C’est la technique Microsoft 🙂

Bref, trêve de bla-bla, pour télécharger tout ça :

• VMware Fusion Pro pour macOS
• VMware Workstation Pro pour Windows

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Portugal’s Madeiguinco designed its latest tiny home offering – the Pego. In a world where tiny homes reign supreme, it is tough to create one that truly stands out, but by fostering woodworking expertise and building timber dwellings, Madeguincho managed to offer us something new and refreshing. The Pego is a compact tiny home that is designed to accompany you on your adventures into the wild with the help of a solar panel setup. The tiny home is pretty small and compact, but you shouldn’t judge the dwelling by its size, because it does pack a punch with its functionality and utility.

Designer: Madeiguinco

The Pego tiny home features a length of 16 feet, which is quite small for a European tiny home. Based on a double-axle trailer and finished in wood, the home perfectly presents the firm’s wonderful craftsmanship. The home is finished in wood both inside and outside, and the craftsmanship is reflected in the shutters on the windows, and in the doors that close up the house. The home is topped with solar panels, which keep it powered up, irrespective of where it is placed. The tiny home also has a standard RV-style hookup.

You can enter the home via double glass doors. The floor space is mostly taken up by a combined living room/kitchen area. This includes a massive L-shaped sofa with integrated storage, a sink, cabinetry, an electric cooktop, and storage space. The space also includes a mini wood-burning stove, much like the ones you use while camping in a tent.

The ground floor of the Pego tiny home includes a bathroom that is equipped with a shower, sink, and toilet. The bathroom features a secondary door that offers access to the outdoors, which is quite an unusual feature. The tiny home is amped with only one bedroom which can be accessed using a fixed wooden ladder. The bedroom room has a typical tiny home loft-style setup, partnered up with a low ceiling. There is sufficient space for a double bed.

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Wacom was once an industry leader in the sketching tablet PC market. However, it’s no match for the deadly combo of the new iPad Pro M4 and the Apple Pencil Pro. Announced at the iPad keynote yesterday, the new Pencil Pro packs features so unique, it makes regular capacitive styluses look like tools from the Stone Age. The new Pencil Pro has a new squeeze gesture to activate quick menus, can track rotation to have objects and brushes rotate in real-time (known as barrel roll), and even has a haptic motor for feedback – while still packing features from previous models like the hover feature, pressure and tilt sensitivity, and low-latency. If all that wasn’t enough, the Pencil Pro even has Find My support, allowing you to locate your stylus if it ever gets lost. The Wacom Pro Pen 3 on the other hand, has buttons.

Styluses have existed for decades at this point, and if you asked anyone ten years back which was the most well-designed stylus and tablet combo for creatives, the answer would invariably be something from Wacom’s lineup. The company had three options back in the day, the budget Wacom Bamboo, the mid-range Wacom Intuos, and the flagship Wacom Cintiq. Apart from the Cintiq, none of the other tablets had screens – they were just massive trackpads that you could only draw on with styluses. The Cintiq was the closest thing to an iPad – it had a screen, allowed multi-touch gestures, and came with controls galore… the only problem was that it didn’t work independently, it needed to be tethered to a desktop or laptop to work. The Cintiq, along with the Intuos and Bamboo, came with a stylus that featured a pressure and tilt-sensitive tip, along with programable buttons that let you undo or redo tasks, and a stylus tip on the back of the pen also that activated the eraser, mimicking how most pencils come with erasers on their reverse tip. The styluses also operated without batteries, allowing for hours of sketching without needing to charge the pen periodically.

Cut to yesterday when Apple dropped the iPad Pro M4 and the comparison is incredibly stark. For starters, whenever anyone asks me whether they should buy an iPad or a Wacom, the answer is almost always the former… because when you’re not sketching on the Wacom, it’s useless, but when you’re not sketching on the iPad, it’s still an iPad. The difference seems even greater with the new iPad Pro being Apple’s thinnest device yet at just 5.1mm thick, while the 16-inch Wacom Cintiq is a whopping 25mm thick – 5 times thicker than its competitor. Cut to the larger 22-inch Cintiq and it’s a staggering 40mm thick, or the equivalent of 8 iPad Pros stacked one on top of the other.

However, a hardware comparison between a trillion-dollar electronics giant and Wacom, that’s valued at just half a billion dollars doesn’t seem fair. What does seem fair, however, is to just look at one singular product to see how far Apple’s outpaced its competition – the humble stylus. Wacom played a critical role in perfecting its EMR stylus technology, which was game-changing a decade or so ago. The pens ran without batteries, could sense pressure and tilt with stunning accuracy, and an eraser on the rear, becoming the creative industry’s go-to for digital sketching. When Apple debuted the Pencil, it had the same features except without any buttons. The Pencil 2, on the other hand, got a tap feature that let you swap between brush and eraser, and a unique charging mechanism that allowed you to charge your stylus simply by snapping it to the side of an iPad (it subsequently also got a hover function with newer iPad models). Apple’s newly announced Pencil Pro, which dropped yesterday, however, is an entirely different beast.

The new Pencil Pro has the hover function, lets you squeeze to activate a quick menu, and even supports barrel rolls that allow you to rotate brushes or objects simply by rotating your stylus. In true Apple fashion, it doesn’t have any buttons on it, but you can still tap to alternate between brush and eraser, and you even get a brush preview when your stylus is near the screen, letting you know how your brush is oriented. If all that wasn’t enough, the new Pencil Pro even packs Apple’s Find My feature, letting you locate a lost pencil through your iPad or iPhone.

A great stylus on the iPad Pro, which already comes with an industry-leading chip, laptop-grade performance, a brilliant camera setup and LiDAR sensor, and an app store, basically makes the iPad or Wacom question moot. The only true advantage Wacom’s tablets have at this point is that they’re bigger than iPads, starting at 16 inches and maxing out at 27 inches diagonally. They also cost MUCH more than the iPad Pros, with the Cintiq Pro 16″ starting at $1599, and the Cintiq Pro 27″ having an eye-watering $3499 price tag. That’s Vision Pro territory for a sketching tablet.

There still is a market for Wacom products. They’re massive, preferred by the hardcore animation and visual industries, and are platform-agnostic, which means you can easily run Windows or Linux programs on them, which most power users will appreciate over being limited to the iPadOS. But for the most part, the iPad Pro and Pencil Pro are so far ahead of their competition at this point, that they’ve made Wacom’s tablets (an already niche creative-focused gadget) even more niche… almost to the point of obscure.

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Tiens, Microsoft nous prépare un nouveau bébé baptisé Zero Trust DNS, ou ZTDNS pour les intimes. Alors c’est quoi encore ce truc ? Eh bien c’est tout simplement un système permettant de sécuriser le DNS sur nos chers Windows.

Pour ceux qui auraient loupé un épisode, le DNS c’est un peu comme l’annuaire téléphonique d’Internet. Il permet de traduire les noms de domaine tout mignons comme korben.info en adresses IP bien moins sexy. Le problème, c’est que jusqu’à présent, le DNS c’était un peu le maillon faible de la sécurité. Les communications n’étaient pas chiffrées, ce qui ouvrait la porte à plein de menaces comme l’espionnage, le détournement de trafic ou même les attaques de type « DNS spoofing« . D’ailleurs, selon une étude de Cisco, plus de 70% des attaques de phishing utilisent des techniques de DNS spoofing pour tromper leurs victimes.

Mais ça, c’était avant ! Avec ZTDNS, Microsoft promet de changer la donne. Déjà, toutes les communications entre les clients Windows et les serveurs DNS seront chiffrées et authentifiées grâce aux protocoles DNS over HTTPS (DoH) ou DNS over TLS (DoT), ce qui devrait rendre la vie plus difficile aux vilains cyber criminels qui voudraient mettre leur nez dans nos petites affaires.

Ensuite, et c’est là que ça devient vraiment intéressant, ZTDNS va permettre aux admins réseau de contrôler finement quels domaines peuvent être résolus par les serveurs DNS. En gros, si un domaine n’est pas sur la liste blanche, et bien le client Windows ne pourra tout simplement pas s’y connecter !

Mais attention, mettre en place un truc pareil, ça ne va pas être une partie de plaisir. Il va falloir bien planifier son coup pour éviter de tout casser, du genre bloquer sans faire exprès l’accès à des services importants ! Mais bon, c’est le prix à payer pour renforcer la sécurité et se rapprocher doucement d’un modèle « Zero Trust » où on ne fait confiance à personne par défaut.

Alors concrètement, comment ça va marcher ?

Eh bien déjà, il faudra que les serveurs DNS supportent les protocoles de chiffrement comme DoH ou DoT. Ça tombe bien, ZTDNS est conçu pour être compatible avec tout ça. Pas besoin de réinventer la roue.

Ensuite, lorsqu’un client Windows aura besoin de résoudre un nom de domaine, il va discuter avec un des fameux serveurs DNS « protecteurs » et si le domaine est autorisé, le serveur lui filera l’adresse IP correspondante. Et hop, le pare-feu Windows sera dynamiquement mis à jour pour autoriser la connexion vers cette IP. Par contre, pour le reste, c’est niet ! Le trafic sera bloqué direct !

Bon après, faut quand même avouer qu’il y aura des trucs qui vont morfler à cause de ZTDNS. Tous les protocoles réseaux un peu exotiques qui n’utilisent pas le DNS, comme le multicast DNS (mDNS) par exemple, ça va être coupé. Pareil pour les partages de fichiers sur le réseau local ou les imprimantes qui utilisent des protocoles de découverte archaïques. Ça risque donc de râler dans les chaumières !

Mais heureusement, les ingénieurs de Microsoft ne sont pas nés de la dernière pluie et ont prévu pas mal de mécanismes pour « mitiger » ces problèmes. Par exemple, on va pouvoir définir des exceptions pour autoriser certaines plages d’adresses IP sans passer par le DNS. Ou encore favoriser des solutions plus modernes et sécurisées, comme l’impression via Universal Print qui passe, lui, gentiment par le DNS.

Un autre truc à prendre en compte, c’est que certaines applications un peu spéciales risquent de ne plus fonctionner du tout avec ZTDNS. Celles qui utilisent des adresses IP codées en dur ou des mécanismes de résolution maison, c’est mort. Mais bon, ce sera l’occasion de faire le ménage et de moderniser tout ça.

Microsoft a d’ailleurs prévu un mode « Audit » qui permet dans un premier temps de voir ce qui serait bloqué par ZTDNS, sans pour autant péter la prod. Comme ça, on peut analyser tranquillement les flux réseau et identifier les applications ou les flux problématiques. C’est un bon moyen d’anticiper les éventuels soucis avant de passer en mode bloquant !

Bon après, faut pas non plus se voiler la face. Même avec ZTDNS, il restera toujours des failles de sécurité potentielles. Les connexions VPN ou SASE/SSE par exemple, qui encapsulent le trafic dans un tunnel chiffré, pourront toujours passer entre les mailles du filet si on n’y prend pas garde. Sans parler des technologies de virtualisation qui court-circuitent carrément la pile réseau de Windows !

Mais bon, rien n’est parfait et il faut bien commencer quelque part… ZTDNS représente déjà une sacrée avancée pour renforcer la sécurité réseau des parcs Windows et avec un peu de rigueur et de persévérance, les admins sys pourront en tirer le meilleur parti.

Pour l’instant, ZTDNS est en preview privée chez Microsoft. On ne sait pas encore exactement quand il débarquera dans nos Home Sweet Home. En attendant, je vous invite à aller jeter un œil à l’article sur le blog Techcommunity qui rentre dans les détails techniques de la bête. C’est dense mais ça vaut le coup de s’y plonger si vous voulez être informé.

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There have been a lot of discussions about how artificial intelligence affects designers and design in general. This will continue to be a hotly debated topic in the next few years. There are those that believe this is heralding the death of the creative industry while there are those that believe that it can help brands and designers streamline processes and can foster innovation and experimentation. Italian furniture brand Kartell and French architect and designer Philippine Starck seems to be of the latter school of thought as they unveiled their A.I. collection

Designer: Philippe Starck and Kartell (and A.I.)

This collection features eco-friendly pieces of furniture that were a result of input from Kartell and Starck and streamlined by A.I. particularly in terms of prototyping and planning. It was able to contribute to make the collection sustainable and optimize the materials used resulting in reduced waste. Creating eco-friendly products is the ultimate goal and the combination of design, production, and A.I. helped achieve this.

The A.I. Lounge uses thermoplastic techno polymer with a mineral filler. It is available in white, black, green, and gray and can be used both indoors and outdoors or wherever you want to lounge around. The H.H.H Her Highest Highness meanwhile is a chair that should make you sit like a royal. The way the back is shaped will force you to sit as if on a throne. It uses green polycarbonate material for the eco-friendly aspect.

The A.I. Console meanwhile is a minimalist small table that can be placed in the foyers, vestibules, entrances, and hallways, or anywhere you need to have a small stand or table for your stuff. It sports a one legged design and is made from recycled Illy iPerEspresso coffee capsules. You can get it in orange, white, gray, or black.

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Purist audiophiles always come back to the DAPs and high-resolution audio players to enjoy their favorite music collection in high definition. Sony has a foothold in the hi-res audio game for as long as memory goes back, and they continue to offer some of the best players for music listening. Walkman MW-A306 released last year is a favorite one for music lovers.

Teenage Engineering resonates the same value for its consumers with a broader portfolio of innovative and unconventional audio gadgets. Both Sony and TE have things like modern design, Gen-Z targeting and sublime quality at their helm to attract a niche set of audio lovers. We certainly love TE and so does the community of designers who have been mustering up cool concepts inspired by the Stockholm-based electronics company. If you’re a purist audiophile, this portable CD player with built-in speaker is a must-have addition to your collection.

Designer: Evgeniy Vakulich

This cool concept of collaborating together the two loved brands is surely going to bring the heat to the likes of Astell&Kern, Fiio, iBasso and Shanling. Interestingly called the Pony Project, the DAP has the design DNA and color theme of Teenage Engineering. It gets a digital display to show the currently playing music and library elements to search for tracks. All the other buttons for toggling the elements like the tempo, loop, mode or FX. The tactile input for the L-Shift, R-Shift, Mic, Select and Start is heavily inspired by the Teenage Engineering aesthetics.

The top of the gadget has the volume rockers, bass and treble, power and stop buttons. A lot of mind has been put into the design and conceptualization of the music player by Evgeniy. The popular color theme of the TE products is so good to see in a DAP which usually comes in contemporary dark hues. If you’ve already not noticed, the audio player comes with the Pony branding which dupes the Sony brand name.

 

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Hot on the heels of the new Beats Solo 4 headphones and Solo Buds earbuds, eagle-eyed fans spotted F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo and basketball star LeBron James carrying what appears to be a brand new Beats Pill speaker. This has ignited speculation about a potential revival of the popular portable speaker line, discontinued in early 2022.

The original Beats Pill, launched in 2012, quickly gained a loyal following for its compact size, bold design, and surprisingly good sound quality. After Apple acquired Beats in 2014, they introduced the slightly larger Pill+ in 2015, addressing some sound quality concerns and adding a Lightning port for charging (likely to be replaced with USB-C in the new iteration).

These celebrity sightings with the new Pill come across as a calculated marketing strategy, similar to how the Beats Pill gained traction in the past. The new Beats Pill maintains the familiar pill-shaped design of its predecessors, measuring roughly 8 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. It retains the clean look with just the Beats logo adorning the front grille. A continuous rubberized strip separates the front and back speaker grilles, and rubber feet on the bottom keep it from rolling around.

For reference, the discontinued Pill+ earned praise for its significantly improved sound quality thanks to an internal redesign. It also sported a Lightning port for charging, which will likely be swapped for USB-C in this new iteration. The Pill+ offered a respectable battery life of 12 hours. While details remain scarce, the leaked images show a design that stays true to the classic Beats Pill silhouette. A lanyard attachment hints at portability remaining a key feature.

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