“Less than a decade ago, the Balkan country had just one breeding pair of the eastern imperial species of raptor left. Now things are changing, thanks to the dogged work of conservationists.” From The Guardian.
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“The Supreme Court cast aside the bulk of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs Friday, obliterating a canon of his economic strategy in ruling that his use of an emergency statute to remake global trade was unlawful… Though it marks a significant defeat for the president, he retains avenues to still push through his tariff agenda. Congress has constitutional authority to impose new tariffs, and Trump may try to justify tariffs under another existing law.   Ilya Somin, a lawyer for several businesses that challenged Trump’s tariffs, celebrated the decision as a ‘major victory.’ ‘Today, the Supreme Court rightly ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the President...

The Oscar nominee praises the 'perfect script' that still brought unexpected moments to the screen.

Chipotle chairs are now design collectibles, much of the concrete contributing to L.A.’s heat grid may be unnecessary, and more.Dallas is considering demolishing its I.M. Pei-designed City Hall for a "full-blown entertainment district," and relocating the government to nearby vacant office buildings. Here’s why, to some, the idea feels out of touch with what makes downtowns thrive and have a sense of identity. (The Atlantic) As it turns out, Chipotle chairs are incredibly chic. The chain restaurant’s original 1990s dining chairs, built for burrito bowls and barbacoa spills, have become unlikely cult design collectibles, being hunted, hoarded, and even flipped at vintage auctions. Here’s what makes the...

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

Starbase, Texas, has grown to over 580 people.

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s hottest eras to see how rain behaved when the planet ran far warmer than today. What they found challenges existing knowledge regarding climate change and rainfall. The research examines the early Paleogene, roughly 66 to 48 million years ago. During that stretch, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels sat about two to four times higher than modern levels. The team used that deep-time heat as a test case for how a hotter world can reshape the water cycle. Instead of asking only how much rain fell in a year, the...

The Supreme Court has weakened Trump's hand in dealing with other nations, writes Anthony Zurcher.

The comedian and television host talks about the decline of late night, the death of Rob and Michele Reiner, and why he loves when things go wrong onstage.

Dhruv Khullar on the latest research on GLP-1 drugs, which, though typically used to manage diabetes and obesity, are showing promise as groundbreaking treatments for addictions of all kinds.

Rejoice: a smart speaker that can... identify objects on a table.

Le Norvégien a remporté, à 28 ans, son premier grand succès sur le circuit international, vendredi, en décrochant l’or sur la mass start. Avec sa 3ᵉ place, Quentin Fillon Maillet est devenu le Français le plus médaillé aux Jeux, toutes éditions confondues.

Bulldogs and pugs are far from the only dog breeds at high risk of breathing problems, new research shows.

Le « M. Internet » de Nicolas Sarkozy, Nicolas Princen, a rencontré, le soir du 1ᵉʳ octobre 2011, Jeffrey Epstein, dans son appartement parisien. Ce rendez-vous « sans aucune suite », assure l’ex-conseiller, illustre les tentatives du multimillionnaire pédocriminel pour approcher l’ex-chef de l’Etat.

Americans shouldn't bet on getting refunded for the tariffs they have paid up to now. For companies, it's a different story

New data showing sluggish economic growth and stubborn inflation means it’s less likely that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month

Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

Texas could become the world’s top data center market by 2030, as the cloud stops floating and starts buying land, power, and permits — fast

The court said the president does not have unilateral authority to impose import taxes. The U.S. government may still be obligated to issue refunds

Branch makes excellent office essentials, and our top picks are discounted.

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. This week, we explain how the presidential phone company connects to an older company that's really running the show.
We've long known that Trump Mobile was linked to Liberty Mobile, a carrier that's traded for years using freedom-themed branding to sell cheap mobile plans to a conservative crowd. Turns out, the two businesses are even closer to one another than it had initially appeared. And as we wait for the launch of the Trump phone - potentially as soon as next month, having been delayed from August - it's worth understanding who's actually behind the device, reg …
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Prediction markets will let you bet on just about anything, from how many tweets Elon Musk will post this week to the next president of the United States, with predictions sometimes showing shockingly (or suspiciously) spot-on accuracy. Polymarket’s CEO Shayne Copland has even claimed that prediction markets are “the most accurate thing we have as mankind right now.” However, these platforms blur the lines — in terms of both function and regulation — between gambling and stock trading. As Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal said on The Vergecast, “All of the lines between trading, speculating, [and] gambling are just being completely torn apart.” There are also ethical concerns surfacing around...

Alors que le régime castriste, privé du pétrole vénézuélien et mexicain, est de plus en plus perçu comme étant “au pied du mur” par la presse d’opposition, la répression, les arrestations et les intimidations se multiplient contre les dissidents.

« Bien que je sois fermement en désaccord avec la décision rendue aujourd’hui par la Cour, celle-ci pourrait ne pas restreindre de manière significative la capacité d’un président à imposer des droits de douane à l’avenir », a déclaré le président américain devant la presse.

For today’s podcast Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, and we’re pushing the limits of mobile connectivity as Jenny’s coming to us from a North Sea ferry. We start by looking forward to the upcoming Hackaday Europe, with a new location in Lecco, Italy. We hope you can join us there!
There’s a bumper collection of hacks to talk about, with a novel soft pneumatic display, a CRT-based VR headset, an LCD photographic aperture, and a novel time-of-flight sensor array in the line-up.Then there are 3D printed PCBs, Scotch tape for a lens, and a project to map farts. We kid you not. Finally we wrap up with mind controlled toys, and a a treatise on requirements and specifications in an age of AI. Or...

Magnet placement tools are great because they remove finger fumbling while ensuring correct polarity every time. [EmGi] has made a further improvement by making a version that auto-feeds from an internal stack of magnets.
A stack of magnets auto-feeds with every press of the plunger.
That is a trickier task than one might imagine, because magnets can have a pesky habit of being attracted in inconvenient ways, or flipping around and sticking where they should not. [EmGi] solves this with a clever rack and pinion mechanism to turn a single plunger press into a motion that shears one magnet from a stack and keeps it constrained while the same magnet responsible for holding it to the tip takes care of dragging it...

Quarante jours après la répression dans le sang du mouvement de révolte, les proches des manifestants tués ont organisé des cérémonies festives pour exprimer leur douleur mais aussi leur profond rejet du pouvoir en place, raconte “Middle East Eye”.

The couple behind Working Holiday revamped the nondescript house from top to bottom with brick and oak floors, limewash and Roman clay walls, and a checkerboard-tiled bathroom.Location: 16727 Pineridge Drive, Granada Hills, California Price: $2,200,000 Year Built: 1962 Renovation Date: 2023 Renovation Designer: Working Holiday Footprint: 2,727 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 0.48 Acres From the Agent: "This reimagined Granada Hills residence by Working Holiday Studio presents a master class in elevated modernism. A complete infrastructure overhaul includes new electrical and plumbing systems, HVAC, and a tankless water heater, while upgraded insulation and All Weather Architectural aluminum-clad...

New York City’s $16 billion plan to close Rikers Island involves four smaller facilities that tout a more humane vision of carceral buildings. Some activists think that’s an oxymoron.In the fall of 2024, Chloë Bass opened her email to see a congratulatory subject line from Percent for Art, the arm of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs that ensures one percent of the budget for city-funded construction projects is spent on public artwork. She was a semifinalist, the email read, being considered to create art for five yet-to-be designed projects around the city. She hadn’t applied or signed up for this, but as a born-and-raised New Yorker and multidisciplinary artist, it’s not surprising...

In Halifax, Nova Scotia, two architects designed a turquoise house with an office and connected apartment that’s surprisingly referential to its context.In 2019, Sara L’Esperance and Michael Putman’s nearly 10 years in London were coming to an end. With plans to grow their family, and feeling nostalgic for their nature-filled childhoods in Canada, they accepted an offer for Michael to teach at a university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, relocating to the small but lively maritime city on Canada’s Atlantic coast. Sara L’Esperance and Michael Putman, cofounders of the architecture firm SUPERBLK Studio, designed a flexible forever home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with three distinct programs: a rentable town...

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday, he did so with a team that appeared to be wearing Meta's camera-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses. Judge Carolyn Kuhl was concerned. According to CNBC, Kuhl warned anyone recording with the glasses, "If you have done that, you must delete that, or you will be held in contempt of the court." Kuhl also ordered everyone wearing AI smart glasses to remove them. Even after the warning, at least one person was seen wearing the glasses around jurors in a courthouse hallway, although plaintiff attorney Rachel Lanier was told the glasses weren't recording at the time. Glas …
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The Baduanjin exercise has been practiced for hundreds of years as a way to achieve relaxation and improve mental and physical health through gentle movement. Recently, scientists completed a large clinical study to evaluate whether performing Baduanjin has any cardiovascular health benefits. According to the results, researchers found that practicing Baduanjin reduces blood pressure to a similar degree as brisk walking in people with high blood pressure. The reduction in blood pressure occurs after three months of practicing Baduanjin. The reduction is also sustained for 12 months following cessation of practice. These findings were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. High blood...

Changer de vie, échapper à la routine et au confort ? Encore faudrait-il les avoir connus ! Dans un article personnel, publié en mai 2024 sur le site d’information “The Cut”, cette chroniqueuse canadienne se rendait compte qu’elle avait vécu dans la précarité depuis ses 20 ans.

Nasa sets the launch date following a successful "wet dress rehearsal" of the Artemis II mission.

Le média russe indépendant « Viorstka » a recueilli les témoignages de soldats ayant assisté au meurtre, aux humiliations ou au passage à tabac par leurs supérieurs, d’autres militaires refusant d’obéir à leurs ordres.

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

La Cour suprême a tranché : le président américain ne pouvait pas imposer seul des taxes à l’importation à ses partenaires commerciaux. En les jugeant illégales, elle fragilise un levier central de sa diplomatie.

Régulièrement critiquée depuis sa nomination en décembre dernier, la coalition gouvernementale dirigée par le populiste Andrej Babis a déclaré la guerre aux médias, s’inquiète l’hebdomadaire libéral “Respekt”. Suppression de la redevance audiovisuelle et financement de la télévision et de la radio publiques tchèques avec le budget de l’État sont plus que jamais à l’ordre du jour.

La Cour suprême vient d’invalider une grande partie des tarifs douaniers imposés par le locataire de la Maison-Blanche. Elle a jugé qu’il avait outrepassé les pouvoirs conférés par la Constitution, soulignent les médias américains.

Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage to one system in December as a result of its AI coding assistant Kiro's actions, according to the Financial Times. Numerous unnamed Amazon employees told the FT that AI agent Kiro was responsible for the December incident affecting an AWS service in parts of mainland China. People familiar with the matter said the tool chose to "delete and recreate the environment" it was working on, which caused the outage.
While Kiro normally requires sign-off from two humans to push changes, the bot had the permissions of its operator, and a human error there allowed more access than expected.
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OpenAI's first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like "items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity," The Information says, and it will have a Face ID-like facial recognition system so that people can purchase things.
OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's hardware company last May in a deal worth nearly $6.5 billion. Details about their hardware products have been trickling out since then, including that the first device won't be a wearable and that it won't be released to customers …
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Tesla’s stainless-steel moonshot gets a lower rung and a trimmed flagship as sales crater — a clear bid to turn attention into actual orders

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration’s signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds.

There was a period from the 1970s to the mid-2000s or so when a fixture underneath the family TV set was a VHS videocassette recorder. These were a masterpiece of cramming a color video signal into the restricted bandwidth of an affordable 1970s helical-scan tape deck, which was achieved by clever use of frequency shifting and FM carrier modulation. Very few of us will have had the ultimate iteration of the VHS format though, W-VHS, which managed the same trick but with HD video. But how? [Superchromat] is here with the answer.
W-VHS used a frequency modulated carrier, but instead of splitting luminance and chrominance in the frequency domain like its VHS ancestor, it did so in the time domain in the same way...

La DGFIP du Ministére des finances l'avait annoncé, des courriels allaient être envoyés aux personnes impactées par le piratage de données FICOBA. Les premiers courriels arrivent....

Parma • Italia • May 2010 📷 #flashes

Si le Vieux Continent exporte massivement ses biens, il apparaît aussi comme un bon client des services américains.

Rudy Reichstadt et Tristan Mendès France décryptent et analysent, dans ce nouveau numéro de Complorama, comment l'intelligence artificielle générative transforme la diffusion des théories du complot. "Le complotisme boosté à l’IA” c'est le 104è numéro de Complorama.

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Je vous disais cela ici, le 25 janvier 2026, il y a moins d’un mois : « Ce n’est pas la gauche – trop en ordre dispersé, qui fera tomber Trump mais la droite classique : US Chamber of Commerce devant la Cour Suprême, ou Wall Street Journal devant l’opinion. »
Le Wall Street Journal, le 20 février 2026 à 16h07 : « La Cour suprême invalide les tarifs douaniers mondiaux imposés par Trump
La décision estime que le président a outrepassé ses pouvoirs en imposant des tarifs douaniers sans autorisation claire du Congrès. » Mon billet du 5 novembre 2025 :
Trump a peut-être trouvé adversaire à sa taille
Quand je dis : « Trump a peut-être trouvé véritable...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary. That is what an international team brought up at Crary Ice Rise, a grounded ice dome at the inner edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. After drilling through 523 meters of ice, the group recovered a sediment core 228 meters long, made of layered mud, gravel, and rock. By their account, it is far longer than any sediment core previously drilled from beneath an ice sheet, where earlier efforts were under 10 meters. The aim is blunt and unsettling. If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt completely, global sea level would rise about four to five meters....

During the Cold War, the specter of a nuclear “dead man’s switch” was central to the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). In the event that one side was annihilated by the other, an automated system would be triggered to deliver a revenge strike that would ultimately destroy the attacker. It was the ultimate defense, as your enemy will never attack if they know doing so will inevitably lead to their own destruction.
The same idea has occasionally been employed by whistleblowers and journalists as well. Should the individual fail to check in regularly, a series of predetermined events will be set into motion. Again, the idea is defensive in nature. If somebody is in possession of information so...

Quentin Griffiths co-founded Asos in 2000 and remained a significant shareholder after leaving the firm five years later.

Ari Lennox “Deep Strokes”
It’s a slow jam called “Deep Strokes;” you know what it’s about. But still, I appreciate Ari Lennox’s commitment to a flimsy double entendre. Sure, it’s about painting! Literal painting. Your walls have been looking kinda empty these days! And you know, the body is something like a canvas – of course you want to get some paint on it. Makes sense! Lennox’s kayfabe makes it funny, but also keeps this gorgeous ballad from dipping into “joke song” territory. There might be a wink in the lyrical conceit, but everything else about the song is earnest and straightforwardly sexy. Buy it from Amazon.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

La visite à Alger du chef de la junte nigérienne, Abdourahamane Tiani, les 15 et 16 février, met un terme à une brouille qui a commencé en 2023, et pourrait annoncer un apaisement similaire avec le Mali.

We used particle size analysis and real-world testing to find the best conical burr, flat burr, and blade grinders for every budget and style of coffee drinker.

Juan Pablo Guanipa announces that he has been freed after "almost nine months" of imprisonment.

A single protein in your blood can rise for years before Alzheimer’s symptoms appear. In a new study, researchers argue that rise is steady enough to function like a clock. Not a perfect clock, and not one meant for personal forecasting yet. Still, the promise is hard to ignore: one blood draw, taken once, could help estimate when symptoms are likely to begin. The work comes from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and was published in Nature Medicine. The team reports that their models predicted the onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms with a median absolute error of about three to four years. More than 7 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, and the Alzheimer’s Association...

Every year, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) invites governments and copyright holders to share input for its Special 301 Report, which identifies countries that fail to protect copyrights. For many years, Ukraine was a regular entry on this list, seen as a safe haven for pirate sites by rightsholders. The IIPA, for one, called for sanctions and the suspension of trade benefits, while the MPAA and RIAA routinely flagged Ukraine-hosted sites in their annual filings.
In previous years, Ukraine has made progress on the anti-piracy front, but, since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the USTR has suspended its annual review of Ukraine. The country had other, more existential...