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Hockey sur glace : Zoug, en crise, résiste seul à l’hégémonie suédoise (CHL, demi-finale aller) - Par Damien KusterNous sommes arrivés au niveau des demi-finales de la CHL et la Suède revint en grande force pour cette édition 2026. Seul reste un club suisse, Zoug, qui accueille Luleå. Seulement, le club du lac de Zurich n’est pas en grande forme avec actuellement cinq défaites consécutives en championnat. Zoug est une formation de milieu […]

An uncivilised folk custom in ancient China known as Pai Xi, or “Beating for Joy”, involved striking women with sticks in an attempt to exorcise evil spirits and pray for conception. Pai Xi, also known as Da Sheng, meaning “Beating for Birth”, is believed to have originated in southern China, particularly in Jiangsu and Fujian provinces. It was a fertility ritual that gained popularity during the Song dynasty (960–1279). According to the Records of National Customs of China, in rural areas of...

L’ancien chanteur, principal candidat d’opposition pour le scrutin présidentiel du 15 janvier, subit la pression du régime répressif de Yoweri Museveni.

Jensen HuangPatrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty ImagesNvidia has added key marketing, policy, and HR executives over the past year.Several senior software acqui-hires came via startup deals.Executive turnover appeared to slow in 2025 compared to high-level departures in 2024.Nvidia has added high-profile names to its senior leadership and technical ranks over the past year, as the chipmaker reaches new levels of visibility and wealth.Nvidia's latest major hire is its first chief marketing officer, Alison Wagonfeld, a veteran of Google Cloud. Over the past year, the company has also acqui-hired senior software leaders through startup deals, tapping its balance sheet to supercharge growth. It has also sought talent from outside the tech industry, including hires from government and academia.Taken together, they underscore Nvidia's position as an AI chip designer expanding its software products, with added cybersecurity and marketing muscle to engage governments and large enterprise customers, alongside software and research executives to build the programs that run on its hallmark GPUs.While 2024 saw the departure of key leaders, such as Keith Strier, Nvidia's former vice president of worldwide AI initiatives, and enterprise computing executive Manuvir Das, turnover at the top was more limited in 2025.Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.Here's a list of key hires Nvidia has made since January 2025:Kristin Major, SVP of human resourcesKristin Major, senior vice president of human resources at NvidiaBusiness Wire/APKristin Major joined Nvidia as senior vice president of human resources last February, after spending over 13 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where she held roles across the company's legal and HR departments. At Nvidia, Major serves on CEO Jensen Huang's executive leadership team, according to the executive search firm ON Partners.Jiantao Jiao, director of researchNexusflow cofounders Kurt Keutzer from the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and Professor Jiantao Jiao, along with industry AI leader Jian Zhang. (Photo: Business Wire)Business Wire/APJiantao Jiao announced he was joining Nvidia in June. He works on AI post-training, evaluation, agents, and building better infrastructure, with the aim of fostering collaboration between academia and industry. Previously, he was the CEO and cofounder of Nexusflow AI, and he is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Mark Weatherford, head of cybersecurity policy and strategic engagementMark WeatherfordBusiness Wire/APMark Weatherford serves as Nvidia's head of cybersecurity policy and strategic engagement. Prior to joining Nvidia, he held several roles across the public and private sectors, including serving as the nation's first deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration.Rochan Sankar, founder and CEO of EnfabricaRochan Sankar, the founder and CEO of AI startup Enfabrica, is joining Nvidia through a $900 million acqui-hire in September that also saw the chip giant license his startup's technology. Other employees at Enfabrica — which builds systems to cluster GPUs together for large AI workloads — also joined Nvidia as part of the deal.Krysta Svore, vice president of applied research — quantum computingKrysta Svore joined Nvidia in November after nearly 20 years at Microsoft, where she served as VP of advanced quantum development. At Nvidia, she'll "lead applied research and engineering across the quantum stack," according to a LinkedIn post.Danny Auble, senior director of system softwareLate last year, Nvidia acquired Danny Auble's startup SchedMD, which creates the open-source workload management software Slurm. Nvidia said it will keep Slurm open-source and continue to invest in the software. Auble serves as Nvidia's senior director of system software.Jonathan Ross, chief software…