Il y a quelques jours, je suis tombé sur un truc que je cherchais depuis un moment : dans les années 80, la RTBF (radio publique belge) avait diffusé des programmes pour les ordinosaures. Et les archivistes d’Archives Radio ont trouvé un extrait d’une des émissions. Yves a eu la gentillesse de m’envoyer le fichier audio, et j’ai donc tenté de récupérer les données. C’est un programme pour Commodore 64, la présentratrice l’explique, et le nom de l’émission est Court-Circuit. Comme toujours avec le Commodore 64, c’est compliqué. C’est un système assez sensible à la qualité de l’audio, et la machine utilisait à l’époque un système semi-numérique pour la récupération de...

Vous trouvez que Cities Skylines est trop facile ? Ou que SimCity vous laisse faire n’importe quoi sans trop de conséquences ?
Hé bien Microlandia va vous calmer sévère !
Car derrière ce petit city builder en voxel, se cache une simulation économique et sociale tellement réaliste que vos citoyens peuvent littéralement mourir si vous ne construisez pas assez d’hôpitaux. Bienvenue en France, euh non pardon, bienvenue à Microlandia !
Dans ce jeu, vous incarnez le maire, vous tracez des routes, vous définissez des zones résidentielles et commerciales, et vous gérez les taxes et le budget. C’est du très classique, sauf que derrière les graphismes tout mignons qui rappellent le SimCity original,...

Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it.
The answer: it burns bright enough to light up the forest at night, and hot enough to cook food and melt metal. And why on Earth would anybody do such a thing? Well [Drake] said it was because he wanted to outdo [Photonicinduction] who had already put 20,000 watts through a light bulb. Nothing like a little friendly competition to drive… progress? [Drake] says he has purchased the most powerful incandescent light bulb ever made for commercial production. Rated for 24,000 watts (and operated at 30,000 watts) the enormous filament is made...

The tech giant will begin closing accounts for under 16s, a week before an official ban.

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Save up to 25% on Nomad Goods accessories such as Nomad phone cases, Nomad wallets, and more this December.

Critics have voiced concern over the pervasiveness of stalking and violence against women in South Korea.

L’armée israélienne a annoncé jeudi matin avoir identifié Sudthisak Rinthalak, un ouvrier agricole thaïlandais tué dans l’attaque du 7-Octobre. Il ne reste plus qu’un seul corps d’otage dans le territoire.

The remains, which Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad say were found in northern Gaza, will be taken to Tel Aviv for forensic tests.

La Commission européenne a présenté mercredi deux options pour fournir 90 milliards d’euros à l’Ukraine sur les deux prochaines années : emprunter sur les marchés internationaux ou utiliser les avoirs russes gelés, une solution qu’elle juge préférable. Cette position irrite la Belgique, où est détenue la majorité de ces avoirs, rapporte la presse européenne.

It's just like grandpa used to say: It's a frog-eat-murder-hornet world out there.

L’autorité administrative s’inquiète, dans un avis publié jeudi 4 décembre, d’un « recours massif » à des mesures d’isolement pour des mineurs, constaté lors de ses visites dans des établissements de santé mentale.

Une étude inédite publiée jeudi 4 décembre par le réseau PAN Europe révèle que ces aliments constituent une importante source d’exposition au plus petit des PFAS.

Plusieurs initiatives récentes appellent à porter une attention particulière à la santé mentale des femmes. Voici les clés pour comprendre leurs arguments.

Dites donc, en ce moment, c’est la folie autour de Valve. D’ailleurs, en lisant mon article sur le
Steam Frame
, vous vous êtes peut-être demandé comme celui-ci allait réussir à faire tourner des jeux PC alors qu’il tourne sur un Snapdragon ARM ?
Hé bien la réponse s’appelle FEX
, un émulateur que Valve finance en secret depuis 2018 soit en gros depuis le tout début du projet.
Pour ceux qui connaissent pas, FEX permet de faire tourner des applications x86 (32 et 64 bits) sur des processeurs ARM64 sous Linux. C’est un peu comme qemu-user ou box64, sauf que FEX utilise un recompilateur binaire avancé avec un IR custom qui génère du code plus optimisé qu’un JIT classique.
Concrètement,...

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Le président français est en visite d’Etat à Pékin, alors que les négociations sur le « plan de paix » américain se poursuivent. L’envoyé spécial de la Maison Blanche, Steve Witkoff, et le gendre du président américain Jared Kushner ont rencontré mardi Vladimir Poutine.

La publication, début novembre, dans « Mediapart » et « Libération », de vidéos accablantes sur l’attitude des gendarmes à l’encontre de militants écologistes opposés aux mégabassines, en mars 2023, a mis en lumière le peu de zèle des magistrats.

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Menaces militaires, droits de douane punitifs ou plans de sauvetage économique, la Maison-Blanche manie la carotte et le bâton sur tout le continent latino-américain, dans une sorte de remise au goût au jour par Donald Trump de la doctrine Monroe, qui prévalait au XIXᵉ siècle. Tour d’horizon du “New York Times”.

Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” vous propose l’horoscope poétique de Rob Brezsny, un des astrologues les plus atypiques de la planète. Sagittaire est le signe de la semaine.

Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that information and records management had become, a problem that was certain to grow unless something was done. Far from being some historical footnote, MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System) grew to be used by a wide variety of healthcare facilities and still runs today. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re in luck because [Asianometry] has a documentary video that’ll tell you everything.
MUMPS had rough beginnings but ultimately found widespread support and use that continues to...

US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet senior Ukrainian negotiator, Rustem Umerov, for talks in Miami on Thursday.

Researchers used face masks and an airplane air filter to find out what microbes are floating around.

The Antigravity A1. With DJI facing an imminent import ban in the US and its flagship drones disappearing from shelves, the new Antigravity A1 didn’t need to be a groundbreaking gadget to make headlines. It just needed to be a competent alternative that you can actually buy in the United States. In August, the Chinese brand couldn’t promise that for sure. But today, it’s happening: the Antigravity A1 is now on sale at Best Buy here in the US, on shelves and shipping this very week. It seems Best Buy jumped the gun ahead of a full reveal tomorrow, December 4th — there’s one for sale at my local store right now! And thankfully, it’s not just a DJI alternative: this $1,599 drone and headset combo is...

BBC editors explain what is at stake as Russian President Vladimir Putin starts a two-day visit to India.

These six vibrant destinations are often cited for their safety, walkability, and solo-friendly experiences

If you exclude certain companies like Peloton, the world of cycling technology is surprisingly open. It’s not perfect by any means, but there are enough open or open-ish standards for many different pieces of technology from different brands to interoperate with each other, from sensors and bike computers and even indoor trainers to some extent. This has also made it possible for open source software to exist in this realm as well, and the GoldenCheetah project has jumped in for all of us who value FOSS and also like to ride various bicycles from time to time.
GoldenCheetah focuses on gathering data from power meters, allowing cyclists to record their rides and save them in order to keep track of their...

Steve Harrington's favorite snack, Peanut Butter Boppers, are back for a limited time.

The former Marvel star is in talks to join Robert Pattinson in the 2027 Matt Reeves DC film.

BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klasse, for so long - fully two years now - that I confess I've become a bit numb to the hype. I'd seen the dashboard-filling displays, talked to engineers endlessly about the completely retooled active safety suite, and even got a go behind the wheel of a prototype machine.
All this for the launch of a crossover SUV, typically the most milquetoast of all the automotive classifications. But after spending the better part of a day wheeling around the final version of the iX3, I'm surprised to say it was all worth it. This little(ish) SUV really is …
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BMW’s first car on its new EV platform has finally arrived. But will a big range, thumping charging tech, and a new driving brain that aims to deliver the ultimate ride be enough to beat China?

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Salesforce showed up to earnings priced like a SaaS relic and left with numbers that finally backed the AI pitch, sending the stock up after hours

Missed out on Cyber Monday? Auk Mini's stylish herb garden makes a great gift, and its discount is still live.

As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance.

A simulated image representing the projected contamination by satellite trails in one of the future space telescopes. The stripes of light reflected from artificial telecommunication satellites outshine the otherwise pristine image of two galaxies interacting in the background. | Image: NASA / Borlaff, Marcum, Howell (Nature, 2025) It’s getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristine images thanks to the sudden surge in satellite launches. Satellite trails could mess up nearly 40 percent of images the Hubble takes and up to 96 percent of those taken by three other telescopes over the next decade, according to a study by NASA researchers published today in the...

Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

Andrew Ross Sorkin and Dario Amodei speak onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City. | Image: Getty This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Dario Amodei took the stage at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday to throw punches without naming names.
The Anthropic CEO spent a good chunk of the interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin drawing a careful line between his company's approach and that of a certain competitor. When asked about whether the AI industry is in a bubble, Amodei separated the "technological side" from the "economic side" and...

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home upgrades you can make, a smart lock gives you remote control access to your house from anywhere, plus easy, key-free ways to unlock and lock your door. Smart locks also remember everything that happened, so they can tell you when your door was unlocked, and sometimes who did it. For most people, control and convenience are big enough selling points. However, smart locks also work nicely with other smart home devices, including...

Countries are pursuing sovereignty by making themselves more dependent on the very foreign companies they claim to be protecting themselves from

Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving inline-4 motorcycle engines he’s trying to put together too, but unlike 1940s Chrysler, he also has a trombone… and a lot more RPMs to deal with.
The Chrysler flatheads were revving at a few thousand RPM– their redline was almost certainly in the three-thousand range. [Maisteer] is working at 15,000 RPM, which is where the real challenge of this build lies: the trombone in the image is just for fun. He wanted to use a heavy chain to link the crankshafts, but at that rotational speed, a heavy chain becomes really heavy— or at least, it feels a force many...

“A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 elephants based on more tentative ‘guesses’. Updated methods provide a clearer, more accurate understanding of the species’ status – revising population figures by an additional 16%, compared to figures published in 2016. Thanks to significant advances in DNA-based survey techniques and expanded monitoring across the species’ range, 94% of all counted African Forest Elephants are now based on scientifically robust estimates, compared to just 53% in 2016.” From EnviroNews Nigeria.
The post DNA Methods Help Uncover Endangered African Elephants appeared first on Human Progress.

Summary: Iceland has long thrived through innovation and freedom. Its history is one of transforming scarcity into strength and discovery. Joining the European Union could trade entrepreneurial vitality for bureaucratic constraint and regulation. Iceland’s story proves that wealth flows not from the ground, but from the boundless resource of human imagination. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Iceland, a country of about 390,000 people. The place feels like a mash-up of Hawaii and Alaska, with a land area roughly the size of Kentucky. Iceland has around 130 volcanoes, with about 30 considered active. Along with the volcanoes there are around 500 earthquakes per week. Many of these are microquakes...

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos’ connection to ARM’s SIMD approach? Watch to find out! VectorCamp:https://vectorcamp.gr
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The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far outside gaming.

The investment accounts will start rolling out mid next year, with some employers pledging to chip in money for their workers' kids

Slop Evader rewires searches to ignore anything written before November 2022, pulling users back into the gloriously unvarnished — and human — web

A l’occasion de la journée de la laïcité du 9 décembre 2025, Mathieu Touzeil-Divina, professeur de droit public et co-directeur du master santé à l’Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, animera une conférence sur la laïcité : La laïcité appliquée à l’hôpital : cas pratiques relatifs aux lieux hospitaliers, aux professionnels et aux usagers Mardi 9 décembre 2025 […]

CYCLE LAÏCITÉ 2025-2026LA LAÏCITÉ : UN MYTHE PLUS QU’UN PRINCIPE CONSTITUTIONNEL ? Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences sur la laïcité 2025-2026, à l’occasion de la commémoration du 120e anniversaire de la loi de 1905, l’Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry poursuit sa réflexion sur le principe de laïcité en France. L’objectif de cette conférence de […]

Florence and the Machine “Witch Dance”
“Witch Dance” was written about Florence Welch’s experience of nearly dying as a result of an ectopic pregnancy. “The closest I came to death was trying to make life, and you don’t get that without desire,” she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. The song tangles sex and death into knots, starting with an opening scene in which she’s fucking the personification of death, whose “blackberry mouth” tastes like life. Welch has been exploring themes of desire, faith, and nature through her entire career but she’s rarely been so lascivious and primal. The lyrics play out like a dark fairytale, but she keeps the song grounded in equal measures of lust and...

Une revue confidentielle est à l’origine du sondage controversé de l’IFOP sur les musulmans de France, dont le second volet, centré sur les Frères musulmans, devait paraître prochainement. Les liens de son fondateur avec les Emirats arabes unis soulèvent des interrogations.

When the young writer began analysis with Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work together would have a transformative impact.

Samedi 6 décembre aux Frigos (19 rue des Frigos, Paris 13). -
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TRIBUNE // Nos démocraties connaissent une forte accélération sociale du temps, sous l’effet d’innovations technologiques et scientifiques majeures qui promettent de redéfinir notre quotidien dans le monde de demain. Pour s’y préparer, le collectif RADAR publie Menaces 2035, un remarquable panégyrique des mutations auxquelles les Français vont être confrontés, et affirme l’anticipation comme moyen de dompter l’incertitude. Présentation de Anne Muxel, Directrice de recherche CNRS, Directrice déléguée du Centre de recherches politiques (CEVIPOF).

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

December 2018 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Sans jamais endosser explicitement l’idée d’un complot interne, Benyamin Netanyahou et plusieurs figures de la droite israélienne multiplient depuis le 7-Octobre les sous-entendus sur un supposé « coup d’État silencieux » orchestré par la gauche et des élites sécuritaires déloyales.

Vous vous rappelez de
Proton
, cette couche de compatibilité magique qui permet de jouer à des jeux Windows sur Linux ?
Hé bien Valve récidive avec Lepton, qui fait exactement la même chose… mais pour Android. Et devinez quoi, c’est basé sur
Waydroid
, ce projet open source qui permet de faire tourner Android dans un conteneur Linux.
L’idée derrière tout ça, c’est le Steam Frame
, le fameux casque VR que Valve va sortir début 2026 et contrairement au Steam Deck qui utilise un processeur AMD x86, ce bidule tourne avec un Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 et 16 Go de RAM. Oui vous l’aurez compris, c’est de l’ARM !
Du coup, plutôt que de demander aux développeurs de porter leurs jeux un par un (ce...