Frog “Je Ne Sais Pas”
There’s an interesting tension here between Frog’s high level of songwriting craft and their gleeful disregard for careerism. On one hand, “Je Ne Sais Pas” sounds like it could be the demo of a lost early 80s Hall & Oates song. On the other, they’re opening the song by singing “I want to fuck / I want to sick your duck.” The track is lo-fi and feels artfully unfinished, as though you’re meant to sorta hear a more fleshed-out and polished version of it in your head while listening to the bashed-out piano chords and chintzy synth accompaniment that’s actually on tape. Part of me would love to actually hear a slick recording of the song, but I appreciate the impromptu...

Curry Barker, the emerging horror talent behind 'Obsession,' will take on Tobe Hooper's legacy at A24.

S’exprimant sur sa plateforme, Truth Social, le président américain a écrit, mardi soir, avoir décidé de prolonger la trêve jusqu’à « ce que l’Iran présente une proposition visant à mettre fin au conflit ». Il a toutefois « ordonné [aux] forces armées [américaines] de maintenir le blocus et de rester, à tous égards, prêtes et opérationnelles ».

Ruth Garbus “I Think I’m Ready Now”
• I clearly recall the first time I heard I heard “I Think I’m Ready Now.” Ruth Garbus was opening for Fievel Is Glauque at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and I was immediately pulled in by the song’s “what the hell did she just sing?” opening line: “When I penetrated that man I felt just like a dog.” • The song is less lurid than you’d expect from that opener. Garbus’ language is vivid and memorable, contrasting vulgar and mundane imagery with a sort of cosmic philosophy. The lyrics are not narrative or didactic, but I think it’s basically a song about shame mixing with pleasure, and indignity as a path to enlightenment. Something like that....

Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a new effort to build a far more realistic picture of how galaxies formed. They help explain how galaxies changed and spread across the universe over billions of years. A new suite of simulations called COLIBRE now tracks both, along with the violent push and pull from stars and black holes, in a way earlier large-scale models usually could not. The result is a set of virtual universes that, according to the research team, reproduces real galaxies with striking accuracy, from the nearby universe to the distant young cosmos seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. That matters because galaxy...

The Angle Computer of the B-52, opened. (Credit: Ken Shirriff)
In the ages before convenient global positioning satellites to query for one’s current location military aircraft required dedicated navigators in order to not get lost. This changed with increasing automation, including the arrival of increasingly more sophisticated electromechanical computers, such as the angle computer in the B-52 bomber’s star tracker that [Ken Shirriff] recently had a poke at.
We covered star trackers before, with this devices enabling the automation of celestial navigation. In effect, as long as you have a map of the visible stars and an accurate time source you will never get lost on Earth, or a few kilometers above its...

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that's focused on AI coding could help xAI's tools compete with market leader Anthropic, as well as the other competitors. A report by The Information this week said Sergey Brin has directed Google's "strike team" to help its agentic AI tools catch up, while Sam Altman reportedly declared a "code red" at OpenAI last year before shutting down Sora to focus on the ChatGPT superapp and its own Codex too …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.

Surely this will encourage a sense of job security.

It's weird but true, and physicists now have more questions.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's new book, cowritten with Nicholas Zamiska, is called The Technological Republic. After claiming "because we get asked a lot," Palantir posted a 22-point summary of the book that reads like a corporate manifesto. It evokes both weird reactionary shit and also trilby-wearing Reddit comments from the early 2010s.
Palantir's summary of the book is ominous. But even the company's name is unironically ominous. The palantíri are crystal balls in The Lord of the Rings that let Middle-earth's worst tyrants spy on the heroes of the st …
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It notched a Guinness World Record for the highest-altitude launch and retrieval of a Lego set.

OpenAI wants you to forget about Nano Banana Pro and come back to ChatGPT, please.

Astronaut Chris Williams and the rest of the Expedition 74 crew are getting new laptops. | Photo: NASA Even astronauts need to level up their laptops once in a while - including the crew of Expedition 74 on board the ISS, which NASA announced last week is in the process of some computer upgrades. According to NASA, the crew met on Friday to review plans to "first replace network servers then activate their new, more powerful laptop computers." In a statement to The Verge, NASA spokesperson Joshua Finch confirmed the new laptops the astronauts will be using: "The International Space Station Program has selected the HP ZBook G9 Mobile Workstation as the next laptop for the space station." According to HP, the...

Time already behaves strangely in modern physics. It can stretch, slow, and split depending on speed and gravity. Now a new theoretical study pushes that weirdness into even stranger territory. It argues that time itself may carry quantum signatures that could soon be tested with some of the most precise clocks ever built. That idea sounds almost like science fiction. In everyday life, a clock ticks one second at a time, in one direction, at one rate. In relativity, that neat picture breaks down because motion changes how quickly time passes. A moving clock runs differently from one at rest, even if the difference is tiny. But quantum physics adds another twist, because motion itself can exist in...

LED candles are neat, but they’re very suboptimal for wish-making: you can’t blow them out. Unless you take the circuit from [Andrea Console]’s latest project that lets you do just that, using only analog electronics— no microcontroller in sight.
He’s using the known temperature-voltage behaviour of the LED for control here– sort of like the project we saw in last year’s Component Abuse Challenge that let you illuminate the LED with a butane lighter. Here it’s a bit less dramatic, relying only on the small cooling effect your breath has on the LED.
There are two parts to the circuit, really– a latching section to turn the thing on from a single button press, and breath-detecting section. The...

Lundi, le ministère avait fait savoir que les « données à caractère personnel » touchées étaient les nom et prénom, l’adresse électronique et la date de naissance d’usagers.

In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for Prince’s new movie.

Volodymyr Zelensky a annoncé, mardi, que l’oléoduc Droujba, qui achemine du pétrole russe en Hongrie en passant par l’Ukraine et qui avait été endommagé par des frappes russes, a été réparé.

Under Steve Jobs, Apple released the groundbreaking products that defined the company. But the company wouldn't be what it is today without Tim Cook's reign of ruthless efficiency.
Jobs' legacy has long been written at this point. He was stubborn, unpleasant, and a generational visionary. He pushed the limits of industrial design and brought technologies together in ways that others laughed off at the time. It's an iconic tenure that's basically unequaled anywhere else in tech. But the radical thinker passed the torch to a very different kind of CEO in Tim Cook in August of 2011. Tim Cook is an inventor of a different kind. The Apple Watc …
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The company announced its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, along with updates to its 16-inch model.

After years of skyrocketing fees and byzantine sales practices, a jury ruled against the company in an antitrust case. The effect on concert-going remains uncertain.

Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies and executives is unrestrained - sometimes to the point of condoning violence.
But look at the issues that most campaigns are focused on, and AI is far less prevalent, experts say.
More than 60 percent of both Republicans and Democrats polled by Ipsos earlier this year agree that the government should regulate AI for economic stability and public safety, and that the technology's development should slow down. Still, "when you just ask folks, 'w …
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The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it’s better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.

Distraction free writing tools are a reaction to the bells and whistles of the modern desktop computer, allowing the user to simply pick up the device and write. The etyper from [Quackieduckie] is one such example, packing an e-paper screen into a minimalist case.
These devices are most often made using a microcontroller such as an ESP32, so it’s interesting to note that this one uses a full-fat computer — if an Orange Pi Zero 2W can be described as “Full-fat”, anyway. There’s an Armbian image for it with the software pre-configured, and also mention of a Raspberry Pi port. It works with wired USB-C keyboards, and files can be retrieved via Bluetooth. It doesn’t look as though there’s a...

The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, when forests mostly disappeared and many familiar plant species were lost, a unique group of plants emerged and proliferated across the planet. These plants were lycophytes. They were spore-producing plants. Recent findings indicate that they survived by utilizing a different approach to photosynthetic carbon assimilation. Specifically, this approach involved utilizing the cooler hours of the night for part of their carbon intake. This hypothesis regarding the effect of extensive volcanism in the Siberian Traps that contributed to the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction, approximately 252...

J’ai actuellement la possibilité d’accueillir deux nouvelles personnes en analyse, soit en présentiel à Vannes, soit à distance.
Depuis les années COVID, j’ai pu vérifier que la psychanalyse en distanciel se déploie sans inconvénient : elle permet aussi d’instaurer ce « hors champ visuel » qui, depuis Freud, favorise la parole libre.
Pour comprendre plus en détail le cadre, l’esprit et les conditions de ma pratique, vous pouvez lire ce billet de présentation. Si vous souhaitez entrer en analyse avec moi, il vous suffit de me contacter par mail ici.

Samuel Samson, 27 ans à peine, s’est retrouvé au cœur de la diplomatie de Washington en Europe, rapporte “The New York Times”. Il s’est rendu aux quatre coins du continent pour cultiver les liens avec l’extrême droite et défendre sa vision de la liberté d’expression, assimilant même la France à la Corée du Nord.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Les 6 et 15 avril au soir, les températures enregistrées par une sonde positionnée à Paris - Charles-de-Gaulle se sont anormalement emballées. Phénomène météo ou anomalie ? De forts soupçons pèsent sur une manipulation à la faveur de paris en ligne.

The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.

Le retour de bâton contre la tech, ou “Techlash”, a-t-il commencé ? La presse américaine s’interroge après le jet d’un cocktail Molotov visant le domicile du patron d’OpenAI, Sam Altman. Arrêté à la mi-avril et inculpé de tentative de meurtre, l’incendiaire s’est explicitement réclamé de Luigi Mangione, accusé du meurtre, en 2024, du patron de l’assureur santé UnitedHealthcare.

Face aux prix élevés des carburants, Matignon élargit les aides déjà lancées, notamment aux « grands rouleurs » disposant de faibles revenus. Le coût du dispositif passe de 70 millions à 180 millions d’euros par mois

There are plenty of electronic components out there, but the one we tend to forget is the most basic: wire. Sure, PC boards have largely replaced wire with copper traces, but most projects still need some kind of wire somewhere. Once you need any wire, there’s a good bet you will need longer wire, and that means splicing one wire to another. Simple, right? Not really. There are a variety of ways to splice wires, and which one you use depends on what you want to do and the type of wire you are using.
If the wires touch, good enough, right? Not necessarily. You need enough contact area for the current you are drawing through the wire to flow. It is also nice if the splice can survive some amount of mechanical...

When asked by a reporter whom the arch would be for, Trump said, “Me.”

US envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have travelled to Moscow several times, but never to Kyiv.

A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

Two soldiers will be removed from combat duty and receive 30 days of military detention, Israel's military says.

A stone tomb near Paris held generations of dead, but the people buried there did not all belong to the same world. That is the striking picture emerging from new genetic work on 132 individuals buried at Bury, a large Neolithic megalithic site about 50 kilometers north of Paris. The tomb was used in two separate phases, first around 3200 to 3100 BC. Then it was used again across much of the third millennium BC until about 2450 BC. Between those periods, something appears to have gone badly wrong. The break is not subtle. The people buried in the earlier phase were not closely related to the later group. Instead, the DNA points to a major population turnover. This fits into a broader pattern of demographic...

The impact is being felt by manufacturers, retailers and the digital sector, amid warnings it could get worse if the war resumes.

“Balachandran and his team published the results of the Phase 1 clinical trial last year. At the time, the patients, all of whom had early-stage disease before they joined the trial, had only been tracked for just over three years, and it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer, he said. New data collected during the trial’s six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive, along with two of the eight people who did not respond. Two of the...

La K-Beauty booste aujourd’hui l’industrie coréenne des cosmétiques qui a explosé à l’international ces dernières années. Cet engouement mondial, associé à la vague du soft power coréen à travers la K-pop et les séries coréennes, est au cœur d’une exposition du musée Guimet - du 18 mars au 6 juillet - qui retrace la genèse culturelle de ce phénomène.

Suspensions répétées du réseau mobile, blocages de messageries et applications populaires, contrôle de l’usage des VPN : au nom de la sécurité nationale, les autorités russes s’emploient à exercer un contrôle général d’Internet. Une erreur, selon le quotidien “Nezavissimaïa Gazeta” : dans cet éditorial, ce journal − pourtant intégré au système médiatique autorisé − estime que l’offensive des services de sécurité empêche la Russie de s’inscrire dans le “nouvel ordre technologique”.

Le pivot français a été sacré, lundi 20 avril, meilleur défenseur de l’année. Dans l’Hexagone, les matchs de Victor Wembanyama sont la plupart du temps diffusés en pleine nuit, ce qui en dit long sur la façon dont la NBA perçoit ses fans étrangers, observe le média américain “Bloomberg”.

Signé en 1995 puis entré en vigueur en juin 2000, cet accord constitue la base légale des relations entre l'UE et Israël - Crédits : MicroStockHub / iStock La question alimente de nouveau les débats : faut-il, ou non, suspendre l'accord d'association liant l'UE à Israël ? Après la cosignature, le 17 avril, d'une lettre par l'Espagne, l'Irlande et la Slovénie adressée à la Commission européenne en ce sens, puis l'appel lancé le 19 avril par le Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sánchez, lors d'un meeting de campagne dans la province de Huelva, exhortant l'UE à mettre fin à cet accord, celui-ci a été discuté le 21 avril à l'occasion d'un Conseil des Affaires étrangères. En conférence de...

“After last month’s expiry of Indian exclusivity on the patent for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, she expects even greater demand as the world’s largest producer of generic medicines also becomes a big consumer of weight-loss drugs… Analysts at Nomura estimated Indian drugmakers could charge Rs3,500-Rs8,000 ($37-$85) a month for disposable pen injections, far lower than the Rs11,000-Rs16,000 for western branded versions.” From Financial Times.
The post Indian Weight-Loss Market Booms as Drugmakers Pile In appeared first on Human Progress.

Dans une enquête vidéo, “Proekt” démonte l’architecture opaque des laboratoires liés aux armes chimiques en Russie, qui opèrent sous le couvert d’instituts aux missions officiellement civiles. Le média d’investigation russe met au jour des pratiques qui pourraient aller jusqu’à des expérimentations sur des soldats.

If you’ve got a modern car, truck, or tractor, it’s probably got a CAN bus or three that is bouncing data all around the vehicle. Listening in on these transmissions can enlighten you to what’s going on with sensors and modules which can aid in troubleshooting. You might find [Chanchal]’s latest work to be helpful in this regard — a CAN bus visualizer that runs right in your browser.
CANviz, as the project is known, is designed to work with any one of a number of cheap USB CAN reader modules. To use it, you simply run the Python “pip” tool to install it, and then you have a live CAN bus frame analyzer running on your local machine. Point your browser to localhost:8080 and you can see the data...

A person can seem healthy and still carry subtle biological signs of trouble long before the first tremor or slowed movement appears. In Parkinson’s disease, one of those early signals may be living in the gut. A new study led by researchers at University College London found that people with Parkinson’s have a distinct pattern of gut microbes, and that similar patterns also appear in some people who do not yet have the disease, including those with a known genetic risk. That raises a striking possibility: changes in the microbiome could help flag elevated Parkinson’s risk before symptoms begin. Parkinson’s is already one of the world’s fastest-growing neurological disorders. By the time doctors can...

A little over a week ago, an unreleased version of the movie Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender leaked online.
The Paramount Pictures production was not scheduled to come out before October, but that changed when copies of the film began spreading online.
The trouble started on April 12 when X user @ImStillDissin posted two clips from the film, misleadingly claiming that someone at Nickelodeon had “accidentally emailed me the entire Avatar Aang movie.” Both clips were taken down via DMCA notices shortly after. The initial leaker later told the Hollywood Reporter that he actually received the film through a contact from his “hacker days.” He didn’t realize what it was until he looked it up, and decided...

Une IA a rooté une télé Samsung tournant sous KantS2, la plateforme logicielle d'un ancien modèle de la marque. C'est Codex, le modèle de code d'OpenAI, qui a trouvé un driver laissé avec des droits d'écriture sur le firmware, mappé la mémoire physique, et est passé root en quelques étapes. Les chercheurs de
califio
lui ont juste fourni un accès shell et le code source du firmware. À partir de là, c'est Codex qui a enchaîné la chaîne d'exploitation tout seul.
Et ce qui est marquant dans cette histoire, je trouve, c'est pas tellement la faille mais le fait qu'un driver laissé en accès libre sur un firmware embarqué des années 2018-2020, ça se trouve à la pelle. Heureusement, Samsung a...

Si vous étiez abonné à un magazine de jeux PC dans les années 90 et 2000, vous vous souvenez forcément des CD fournis avec chaque numéro de votre petit journal.
Démos jouables de jeux en cours de dev, mods, patchs, bonus, cartes supplémentaires pour les Doom et autres Quake de l'époque : les cover discs étaient un peu la seule façon de tester un jeu avant achat quand le téléchargement à 56k ne permettait pas grand-chose.
L'Internet Archive vient d'intégrer à sa collection 758 des disques du magazine PC Gamer, soit environ 1,2 To de contenu. La préservation a été orchestrée par Jason Scott (déjà à l'origine de pas mal de sauvetages numériques sur le site) avec une flopée de...

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Prolonger la durée de vie d'un AirTag de quelques mois à plusieurs années, c'est la promesse du boîtier DuHeSin vendu autour de 20 euros sur Amazon. L'accessoire remplace la CR2032 d'origine par deux piles AA classiques, ce qui multiplie l'autonomie par 14 selon le fabricant. De quoi passer d'environ un an d'usage à plus d'une décennie. Le principe est direct : vous dévissez le couvercle métallique de l'AirTag, vous placez la puce dans le logement dédié, vous insérez les deux piles AA dans le boîtier, et vous refermez l'ensemble avec la clé Allen de 4 mm fournie. Deux minutes. Le tout est en ABS noir, annoncé étanche.
Le fabricant mise aussi sur le côté...

Il a zoné au-dessus de votre jardin durant 3 minutes la semaine dernière. Vous l'avez entendu, vous avez levé la tête, mais trop tard ! Encore un putain de drone. Mais lequel ? Et surtout, qui le pilotait ?
Alors voilà un projet qui tente de répondre à ces questions pour le prix d'un week-end entre potes !
DroneAware Node
, c'est une station de détection de drones à bricoler soi-même à base de Raspberry Pi. Il vous faut un Pi, 2 dongles USB, une microSD, et vous avez un truc qui écoute les signaux Remote ID autour de chez vous. Son créateur, DroneAwareDan, annonce une portée allant jusqu'à 8 km, mais en conditions idéales, au-dessus de l'eau et avec de grosses antennes. Dans la vraie vie,...

Payer 15 euros par mois pour un chat d'équipe du genre de Slack, 20 pour un wiki pro, 10 pour un kanban... Et au bout d'un an, vous avez filé l'équivalent d'un MacBook d'occasion à des SaaS qui vivent sur votre dos. C'est ce constat qui a poussé 37signals à ouvrir ONCE.
Pour ceux qui rompichent fort depuis des années, 37signals c'est la boîte derrière Basecamp et HEY, avec Jason Fried comme CEO et David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH, le créateur de Ruby on Rails) comme CTO.
Depuis 2023, ils rament contre l'abonnement à vie façon Microsoft 365, et vendent certains de leurs outils en paiement unique façon Photoshop version boîte physique. Leur modèle commercial n'a pas vraiment décollé, alors le 16...

The EU's top court finds that the reforms breached EU values on a number of levels and broke the founding values of the EU treaty.

TRIBUNE // L'intelligence artificielle s’infiltre vite dans les entreprises. Mais entre adoption et transformation, l'écart reste immense. Car un outil, même puissant, ne corrige ni un flux mal conçu, ni des données dégradées, ni une organisation incapable d'identifier son goulot d'étranglement. Au mieux, il accélère une partie des process. Au pire, il rigidifie le reste. C'est l'avertissement que porte Thibault Fritsch , créateur du cabinet de conseil en innovation Robinswood.

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