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by BBC - about 34 minutes
A UN fact-finding mission issued the report after investigating the capture of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces.
by io9 - about 35 minutes
Nintendo has a slew of new early childhood toys, plus an app that harkens back to the N64.
by Le Monde - about 45 minutes
Onze personnes ont été interpellées dans le cadre de l’enquête qui fait suite à l’agression mortelle du militant d’extrême droite. Le maire de Lyon, Grégory Doucet, a demandé à la préfecture d’interdire pour des raisons de sécurité une manifestation prévue pour samedi.
by The Verge - about 48 minutes
New users on the decentralized social network Mastodon could soon have an easier time getting started. Mastodon is running "onboarding experiments" to test ways to improve the new user experience, starting with default server recommendations. Now when new users join Mastodon from the mobile app, they may see a button to "join" a recommended server rather than the default "join mastodon.social" button that's currently displayed. Unlike most other social platforms, Mastodon has hundreds of independent servers users can join, catering to different communities and niches. The addition of default server recommendations could potentially help ne …
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by io9 - about 51 minutes
For the first time, scientists were able to directly detect upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris.
by io9 - about 51 minutes
HBO returns to Westeros this June with a new installment in the war-torn 'Game of Thrones' prequel.
by QZ - about 1 hour
In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked
by QZ - about 1 hour
Several popular vacation destinations do away with the requirement to book a time slot to gain entry
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Après un gros déploiement militaire américain, la presse d’outre-Atlantique évoque une possible intervention imminente en Iran, qui pourrait se prolonger sur plusieurs semaines. On ignore toutefois si le président Trump a pris une décision, alors que les négociations sont encore en cours.
by daryo Bluesky - about 1 hour
Lille • France • November 2019 📷 #flashes
by The Verge - about 1 hour
Nintendo just released a Switch 2 upgrade for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. The upgrade is $4.99 for owners of the Switch game, or $64.99 if you buy the Switch 2 version. Don’t buy the Switch 2 version! Instead, score a deal on the digital Switch version that’s $39.99 (originally $59.99) at GameStop and Amazon. Then, make the upgrade for another $5. The physical version is discounted, too, but buying digitally is the fastest way to jump in.
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Where to Buy: $59.99 $39.99 at Amazon (digital) $59.99 $39.99 at GameStop (digital)
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is far from the only Switch game that’s discounted right now. GameStop, Amazon, and...
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
L’hebdomadaire allemand “Der Spiegel” affirme que le plan de sabotage, en septembre 2022, des gazoducs sous-marins qui relient l’Allemagne à la Russie était connu des services de renseignements américains. Des agents de la CIA auraient même participé à des réunions conjointes sur ce sujet.
by New Yorker - about 1 hour
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by io9 - about 1 hour
A new study suggests that dim lighting may be the underlying reason behind the surge in nearsightedness.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
La commune suédoise de Västeras réclame l’expropriation d’une église russe orthodoxe que le service de la sûreté juge dangereuse pour le royaume, en raison de ses liens présumés avec le Kremlin. Sainte-Mère-de-Dieu-de-Kazan est située près d’un aéroport utilisé pour des exercices militaires. Le gouvernement doit trancher, au risque de détériorer encore plus ses relations avec Moscou.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Moscou s’appuie sur l’Église orthodoxe pour renforcer son influence en Afrique, souligne une enquête publiée par le média américain “Bloomberg”. Au moment où le Kremlin cherche de nouveaux relais d’influence, cette stratégie religieuse complète un dispositif culturel, militaire et informationnel.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Generally speaking, arcane and mostly unenforced FCC rules are not the province of late night talk shows. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems intent on changing that, though; not long after causing a ruckus that briefly took Jimmy Kimmel off the air, his vague threats appear to have been enough to convince CBS to tell Stephen Colbert not to air an interview. Which, of course, became a whole thing. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. On this episode of The Vergecast (which we recorded and published a day early bot …
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by io9 - about 2 hours
As Paul McGann's debut as the eighth Doctor turns 30 this year, the BBC is celebrating in style.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Today on Decoder we’re going to talk about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. The vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nowadays, such companies are paying some of the highest salaries in the history of the tech industry to poach researchers from one another. It feels like every time one of these AI researchers leaves one company for another, they tell us exactly why. Sometimes they’re simply resigning to go be a poet. Sometimes they’re chasing a mission. Sometimes they’re worried that AI is going to imperil humanity, destroy all...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Le 18 février, le Service national de renseignement (NIS) kényan a présenté un rapport estimant à 1 000 le nombre d’hommes kényans engagés pour combattre aux côtés de l’armée russe, à travers un système de recrutement et de corruption élaboré. Ce chiffre, qui révèle l’ampleur du phénomène dans le pays est-africain, a provoqué un choc parmi la population.
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“Centuries after they were wiped out, the reintroduction of beavers to the UK is gathering pace. Following a government announcement allowing beavers to be released in the wild, a flurry of reintroductions are planned for 2026 and beyond… Dr. Rob Stoneman, director of landscape recovery at The Wildlife Trusts, says that … ‘If other applications go to plan, Wildlife Trusts hope to be able to release around 100 beavers into seven rivers this year.'” From Phys.org.
The post 100 Beavers Set to Be Reintroduced to the UK This Year appeared first on Human Progress.
by QZ - about 2 hours
Amazon has overtaken Walmart as the world’s largest company by revenue. But Walmart is playing a different game now
by QZ - about 2 hours
It's the largest raise in history, but it's still just a drop in the bucket for what the ChatGPT maker is spending these days
by QZ - about 2 hours
Shares of the cheap computer maker top 400 pence per share after a social media post by a retail trader
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal development, has announced the successful completion of an appraisal drilling campaign at a new greenfield geothermal site, Project Blanford, located in Millard County, Utah. The drilling results confirm resource temperatures above 555°F at approximately 11,200 feet deep, exceeding the requirements for commercial viability. Drilled in under 11 days, the vertical appraisal well marks the hottest well drilled in company history, further de-risking and expanding Fervo’s industry-leading pipeline of enhanced geothermal projects.” From Fervo Energy.
The post Fervo Sets New Heat Record at Its Largest Geothermal Project appeared first on Human Progress.
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“Software on board driverless Waymo vehicles makes realtime driving decisions. But the vehicles have the ability to ‘phone home’ and get assistance from humans if they encounter situations they don’t understand. How often does this happen? Until this week, Waymo kept numbers like this confidential. But on Tuesday, Waymo provided an important clue, revealing that “at any given time, there are approximately 70 Remote Assistance agents on duty worldwide.” That’s a surprisingly small number given that Waymo has more than 3,000 vehicles in its fleet. And it has big implications for Waymo’s commercial viability.” From Understanding AI.
The post Key Waymo Stat: 70 People Oversee Its 3,000-Vehicle...
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“New Delhi: Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday announced the birth of three cubs to South African cheetah Gamini at Kuno National Park… With the latest additions, the country’s total cheetah population has increased to 38.” From The Economic Times.
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by Korben - about 2 hours
– Article invité, rédigé par
Vincent Lautier

Mark Zuckerberg a témoigné devant un tribunal de Los Angeles dans un procès important. Le sujet ? Les effets d'Instagram et Facebook sur la santé mentale des adolescents, avec près de 1 600 plaintes de familles et de districts scolaires américains regroupées dans cette affaire. Des documents internes accablants ont été dévoilés à l'audience.
Un procès hors norme
C'est devant la Cour supérieure de Los Angeles que le patron de Meta s'est présenté pour répondre aux accusations. Ce procès test doit déterminer si Instagram et Facebook ont contribué à dégrader la santé mentale des adolescents qui les utilisent. L'audience a démarré avec...
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Ariane Mnouchkine, sa fondatrice et directrice, a décidé de prendre la parole à travers une lettre adressée au public.
by The Verge - about 3 hours
Gaming accessory company Abxylute has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming N6 and GameCube-style N9C Switch 2 dock-style controllers. If the ergonomics of Nintendo's Joy-Cons don't jibe with you, these aim to be solid alternatives, particularly for people with medium-to-large-size hands. Both of Abxylute's new controllers have bigger, more comfortable grips than Joy-Cons offer, along with longer-lasting Hall effect joysticks. I tested a functioning prototype of the N6, and it has almost everything that people might be looking for to level up their gaming experience: full-size sticks, vibration, motion controls, customizable bac …
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by Les Décodeurs - about 3 hours
Plusieurs vocables sont souvent utilisés de manière interchangeable pour discréditer les mouvements appartenant à la gauche de la gauche. Mais derrière ces étiquettes se dissimulent des réalités historiques et politiques différentes, dont le sens a évolué au fil du temps.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Après trente-six jours de pluie consécutifs, cinq départements sont toujours placés en vigilance rouge : la Loire-Atlantique, la Gironde, le Lot-et-Garonne, la Charente-Maritime et le Maine-et-Loire. Le premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu réunit ministres, préfets et professionnels « sur le suivi des tempêtes, inondations et crues » ce jeudi.
by Wired - about 4 hours
We sifted through the fine print to figure out how to score the best deal on all the major carriers in 2026
by Wired - about 4 hours
The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a portable screen).
by Wired - about 4 hours
Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find the ones worth your money.
by Langue Sauce Piquante - about 5 hours
L’ex-prince à son mariage princier.
Par une dépêche AFP, nous apprenons que le frère du roi Charles troisième d’Angleterre, « prince déchu » (le frère, pas le roi), a été arrêté dans son pays. Et nous lisons : « De nouveaux documents semblant montrer que l’ancien prince avait transmis des documents confidentiels à Jeffrey Epstein ont émergé », etc. Non, l' »ancien prince » était encore « prince » au moment des faits. C’est une erreur récurrente dans la presse désormais de qualifier d’ex- ou d’ancien un individu qui était en poste au moment des faits. Grave télescopage historique. On comprend que c’est après avoir été déchu que ledit prince a transmis les...
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
Getting PCBs made is often the key step in taking a dodgy lab experiment and turning it into a functional piece of equipment. However, it can be tedious to wait for PCBs to ship, and that can really slow down the iterative development process. If you’ve got a 3D printer, though, there’s a neat way to make your own custom PCBs. Enter PCB Forge from [castpixel].
The online tool.
The concept involves producing a base and a companion mold on your 3D printer. You then stick copper tape all over the base part, using the type that comes with conductive adhesive. This allows the construction of a fully conductive copper surface across the whole base. The companion mold is then pressed on top, pushing copper tape...
by Wired - about 5 hours
There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $600—stood up to WIRED’s testing.
by daryo Bluesky - about 5 hours
September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯
by Wired - about 5 hours
Lifting weights can keep you carrying groceries and riding bikes even as you get older. Here’s our guide to a simple home setup.
by New Yorker - about 6 hours
When Manuela’s husband texted her that he’d been apprehended on the street, her life in New York instantly capsized.
by New Yorker - about 6 hours
The writer looms large in the public imagination. But does the monument we’ve built of Morrison do justice to her work?
by New Yorker - about 6 hours
On your phone, on the street, on Taxi TV—you've been seeing New York’s new leader wherever you turn, whether you want to or not.
by Les Décodeurs - about 7 hours
L’organisation météorologique mondiale délègue à cinq organismes régionaux le choix des prénoms, qui doivent alterner masculin et féminin.
by BBC - about 7 hours
Yoon Suk Yeol's December 2024 martial law bid fundamentally damaged South Korea's democracy, a judge told the court.
by Le Monde - about 7 hours
La CGT et FO mènent, depuis le 20 janvier, un mouvement de grève reconductible sur les deux sites français du poudrier, à Sorgues (Vaucluse) et à Bergerac (Dordogne), avec un appel à la mobilisation par semaine. Le dernier court du mardi 17 février au jeudi 19 février.
by Korben - about 8 hours
Aujourd'hui j'aimerais vous parler un peu de bidouille et plus particulièrement de domotique. Hé oui, si comme moi, vous en avez marre que tous vos objets connectés passent par des serveurs chinois (souvent à la sécurité douteuse) ou américains (souvent directement connecté à la NSA) pour vous dire qu'il fait 22°C dans votre salon, on va voir comment ensemble créer ses propres capteurs 100% locaux avec ESPHome
.
ESPHome, c'est un framework open source qui transforme n'importe quel ESP32 ou ESP8266 en appareil connecté intelligent sans vous prendre la tête. Vous écrivez un petit fichier YAML, vous flashez la puce, et hop, vous avez un capteur qui cause directement avec Home Assistant. Comme ça...
by Usbek & Rica - about 8 hours
On entend souvent dire qu'il est plus facile d'imaginer la fin du monde que celle du capitalisme. Avec leur nouveau livre Mondes postcapitalistes, qui sort ce 19 février aux éditions La Découverte, l’historien Jérôme Baschet et le sociologue Laurent Jeanpierre défient cet adage à la peau dure et esquissent les contours de sociétés alternatives défaites de l'emprise du capitalisme. Entretien.
by BBC - about 8 hours
The president's comments come just a day after the US gave its official backing to the UK's Chagos deal.
by HackAdAy - about 8 hours
Are you ready to feel old? Lemmings just turned thirty-five. The famous puzzle game first came out in February of 1991 for the Commodore Amiga, before eventually being ported to just about everything else out there, from the ZX Spectrum to the FM Towns, and other systems so obscure they don’t have the class to start with two letters, like Macintosh and DOS. [RobSmithDev] decided he needed to commemorate the anniversary with a real floating lemming.
The umbrella-equipped lemming is certainly an iconic aspect of the game franchise, so it’s a good pick for a diorama. Some people would have just bought a figurine and hung it with some string, but that’s not going to get your project on Hackaday. [Rob]...
by daryo Bluesky - about 9 hours
Lauren Groff on Masters of Short Fiction
https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/lauren-groff-on-masters-of-short-fiction
by Le Monde - about 9 hours
Le secrétaire général adjoint des Nations unies, chargé du Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires, défend le rôle des agences de l’ONU dans les crises mondiales, et demande un accès sans entrave à la bande de Gaza.
by Asialyst - about 10 hours
L’ombre de la guerre plane sur l’Iran. La population fait face à une vague d’arrestations sans précédent, et pourtant, la société civile reste vivante et déterminée. Les communiqués publiés régulièrement par des personnalités civiles et politiques de tous horizons en sont la preuve. Ils se fondent sur trois refus : ni compromission avec le pouvoir, ni guerre, ni dépendance face aux puissances étrangères.
by Journal du Lapin - about 10 hours
Comme j’ai récupéré des AirPods Pro 3 (ceux de l’année du cheval), je me suis posé une question : est-ce que la localisation est meilleure qu’avec les AirPods Pro 2 ? La réponse va dépendre de vos appareils. Si vous avez un iPhone jusqu’au 14, il n’y a pas de différence. Si vous avez un iPhone 15 (ou plus), la portée est un peu améliorée : le boîtier des AirPods Pro 3 intègre une puce U2 pour la localisation précise, qui améliore la précision et la portée avec les iPhone modernes. Les AirPods pro 3
La portée est assez grande
Dans la pratique, j’ai une portée un peu plus élevée avec mon iPhone 15 : ils sont vus dans tout mon logement, contrairement aux AirPods Pro 2. Dans les...
by Le Taurillon - about 10 hours
Le 3 février 2026 à Erevan, capitale de l'Arménie, s'est tenu le troisième dialogue politique et sécuritaire de haut niveau entre l'Union européenne et l'Arménie. Ce dialogue a réaffirmé l'ambition stratégique du partenariat UE-Arménie et son engagement commun à faire progresser la coopération et l'alignement en matière de politique étrangère, de sécurité et de défense. Le dialogue a également souligné l'importance de la poursuite d'échanges réguliers et structurés sur les questions politiques et de sécurité ; pilier de l'accord de partenariat global et renforcé entre les deux parties. Ce rendez-vous entre les deux pays, co-présidé par le vice-Ministre des Affaires étrangères...
by BBC - about 11 hours
US media reports that Trump has discussed attack options with advisers, and a strike could happen as early as Saturday.
by HackAdAy - about 11 hours
A lot of hacks get inspired by science fiction. When that inspiration is taken from the boob tube or the silver screen, the visual design is largely taken care of by the prop department. If, on the other hand, one seeks inspiration from the written word– like [Math Campbell] did for his smart pocket watch inspired by The Diamond Age— the visuals are much more up to the individual hacker. Though no nanotechnology was involved in its creation, we think [Math] nailed the Victorian High-Tech vibe of [Neil Stephenson]’s cult classic.
The build itself is fairly simple: [Math] started with a Waveshare dev board that got him the 1.75″ round touch display, along with an ESP32-S3 and niceties such as a six-axis...
by Les Décodeurs - about 11 hours
Ce collectif, né au moment de l’accord de Paris, ne compte dans ses rangs quasiment aucun spécialiste des sciences du climat. Certains de ses membres bénéficient pourtant d’une importante visibilité, notamment dans les médias libéraux et d’extrême droite.
by HackAdAy - about 14 hours
Typically, when we want to take images, we use an image sensor paired with some sort of lens assembly to make a picture that’s sharply in focus. However, [okooptics] is here to show us there’s another way—using Scotch tape in place of a typical lens element.
If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special “lensless imaging” techniques. In particular, [okooptics] shows how to recreate the so-called coded aperture techniques which were previously demonstrated in [Laura Waller]’s DiffuserCam paper.
It’s complicated stuff,...
by FluxBlog - about 14 hours
Arlo Parks “Heaven”
There’s a sound in this song that first shows up at the 00:02 mark. I’m calling it a “sound” because I don’t know exactly what it is. It’s probably a vocal snippet that’s been processed through a few filters, but who knows. The mysterious quality is part of the allure, a lot of the reason it catches your ear. As it reoccurs, you sorta end up chasing it around the song. It shows up, it fades away, it reappears. It’s like an audio firefly flitting around the negative space of the song. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on in the music. Arlo Parks is singing about a beautiful moment watching a friend DJ at Under the K Bridge park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The beat is...