constant stream of curated content
by io9 - about 12 minutes
Speaking as she departs as Lucasfilm president, Kennedy didn't outright confirm Johnson's potential trilogy of films was truly dead—but suggested the 'Last Jedi' backlash pushed the director away for the forseeable future.
by dwell - about 18 minutes
Architect Randy Brown gave the residence huge windows, a cantilevered living room, a gym, and a barn-like outbuilding.Location: 5550 McKinley Street, Omaha, Nebraska  Price: $1,300,000 Year Built: 2006 Architect: Randy Brown Footprint: 6,450 square feet (4 bedrooms, 6 baths) Lot Size: 10.3 Acres From the Agent: "Sophistication meets modern style situated on 10 acres in private Ponca Hills. This one-of-a-kind design by award-winning architect Randy Brown mixes wood, glass, and concrete elements to merge industrial style with the natural surroundings. Style meets functionality with four bedrooms, six baths, and additional features such as a home gym, office, and guest space. Horses are permitted, and there’s...
by Korben - about 33 minutes
Il y a des combats comme cela auxquels pas grand monde ne pense et qui pourtant sont très importants. Je parle évidemment de la lutte contre le chaos du texte non structuré. Si vous avez déjà essayé d'extraire des données propres d'un tas de PDF (après OCR), de rapports ou de notes griffonnées, vous voyez de quoi je parle : c'est l'enfer ! (oui j'aime me faire du mal en tentant des regex impossibles).
Heureusement, Google a lâché début janvier 2026 une petite pépite en open source (même si c'est pas un produit "officiel") qui s'appelle
LangExtract
. C'est une bibliothèque Python qui utilise la puissance des LLM pour transformer vos documents textuels en données JSON bien rangées. Exemple...
by Le Monde - about 35 minutes
Les onze parlementaires doivent rencontrer la première ministre danoise, Mette Frederiksen, qui a acté l’existence d’un « désaccord fondamental » avec l’administration Trump, en présence du chef du gouvernement groenlandais, Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
by The Verge - about 39 minutes
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I take my feet seriously.
Which was why, in December, I found myself in an office, propping my leg up on a chair as a tech startup CEO used an iPhone to scan my bare tootsies from multiple angles. No, I wasn't angling to become a saucy Victorian ankle flasher for OnlyFans. I was there to get a set of insoles from Groov, a company th …
Read the full story at The...
by BBC - about 40 minutes
The visit comes after high-level talks in Washington failed to dissuade Trump from his plan to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
by dwell - about 45 minutes
How social media, cost of living, and a shifting nightlife blurred the lines between private gathering and public performance.After moving out of her family home, 24-year-old Maya Aristimuño missed sitting around the table and eating her meals with loved ones. So in 2021, once the pandemic restrictions were lifted in New York City, she started inviting friends over to her apartment every Tuesday for dinners. She didn’t have a dining table or matching tableware. Instead, friends would gather around her coffee table, sitting cross-legged on the living room floor. Whatever plates couldn’t fit on the coffee table would be held by one another. Since then, the founder of the marketing agency Maristi Creative...
by Zataz - about 51 minutes
Cyberinfo ZATAZ de la semaine du 16 janvier 2026 : hack, piratage et opérations internationales cyber....
by io9 - about 53 minutes
Around 12,000 satellites are active in orbit today, most of them operated by SpaceX.
by QZ - about 1 hour
The Trump administration and Northeast governors unveil plans for electricity auction to curb surging utility bills as a result of AI data centers
by The Verge - about 1 hour
We know how the next-generation Siri is supposed to work. Apple showed it off in 2024, made commercials about it, and generally promised that AI would change the way we used our gadgets forever. And then, well, none of that came to pass. So Apple made a deal: It tapped Google's Gemini technology to help it turn Siri into the assistant we were promised. This deal's a big one, and it could change the landscape of the AI race going forward.
On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay talk about the news that publishers are suing Google en masse on the heels of its adtech antitrust trial, including The Verge's parent company, Vox Media. T …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by QZ - about 1 hour
New analysis finds federal agencies halted or limited enforcement and prosecution, including many involving companies and individuals with ties to President Donald Trump
by io9 - about 1 hour
Elon Musk remains at large.
by Korben - about 1 hour
Vous pensiez avoir tout vu en matière de projets geeks complètement déjantés ?
Hé bien accrochez-vous à vos slips, parce que des chercheurs, menés par le neuro-ingénieur Viktor Tóth, ont réussi à faire "jouer" des rats à DOOM. Pas en appuyant sur des boutons au hasard, non non, mais avec un casque de réalité virtuelle sur mesure, une boule de déplacement sous leurs pattes, et même une gâchette pour tirer sur les démons !
Je vous jure que c'est vrai. Le projet s'appelle "
Rats Play DOOM
" et c'est à la croisée de la neuroscience, de la robotique et du game design. L'idée de base, c'est de prouver qu'on peut entraîner des rongeurs à interagir avec des environnements virtuels contrôlés...
by The Verge - about 1 hour
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 are among the wireless headphones affected by the Fast Pair vulnerability. Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw that can allow attackers to listen in on conversations or track devices that use Google's Find Hub network, as reported by Wired.
Researchers from KU Leuven University's Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group in Belgium discovered several vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol that can allow a hacker within Bluetooth range to secretly pair with some headphones, earbuds, and speakers. The attacks, which the researchers have collectively dubbed WhisperPair, can even be used on iPhone users...
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Située à quelques encâblures des côtes vénézuéliennes, l’histoire de cette île – qui fait partie du Royaume des Pays-Bas – est forcément liée à celle de Caracas. Depuis l’agression américaine, Curaçao se préparait à tirer profit du marché pétrolier. Un premier tanker est arrivé le 15 janvier.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Sorti vendredi 16 janvier, “Britpop” est un joyeux hommage aux années 1990. La presse britannique se plonge avec bonheur dans cette madeleine de Proust que lui offre Robbie Williams.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Plus, Cate Blanchett will return for the live-action 'How to Train Your Dragon' sequel.
by Wired - about 2 hours
The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Après plus de vingt ans de débats, l’Indonésie s’est dotée d’un nouveau Code pénal pour remplacer un texte hérité de la période coloniale. Mais certaines clauses font encore débat, dont l’élargissement de la criminalisation de l’adultère aux relations hors mariage, confiant aux familles l’initiative de poursuites.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
L’analyse de poissons vivant dans des lacs chinois, complétée par des expériences en laboratoire, montre les effets néfastes du chlorpyrifos, un insecticide largement employé en agriculture et interdit en Europe depuis 2020.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Le don fait par la Vénézuélienne María Corina Machado de son prix Nobel de la paix à Donald Trump, jeudi 15 janvier, suscite gêne et incompréhension à Oslo. Et la réputation de la récompense attribuée par un comité norvégien risque d’en sortir ternie, estiment certaines voix critiques.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
En raison de l’impossibilité de trouver une majorité à l’Assemblée nationale, le premier ministre doit faire des propositions aux groupes parlementaires et décider s’il aura recours à l’article 49.3 de la Constitution ou à une ordonnance pour faire adopter le budget.
by BBC - about 2 hours
The pair discussed economic opportunities and preventing Venezuela becoming a place for "America's adversaries", a US official said.
by Autheuil - about 2 hours
La notion de journalisme d’investigation m’a toujours un peu heurté. Qu’un journaliste enquête, cherche des informations, y compris non publique ou que certains voudraient cacher, c’est son métier. Mais le but est de présenter des faits honnêtement, sous toutes les facettes, sans donner son opinion, en laissant chaque lecteur tirer les conclusions qu’il souhaite. Certains […]
by The Verge - about 2 hours
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.
Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024. Despite OpenAI's repeated attempts to throw it out, the case is now headed to a jury trial on April 27th in Northern California federal court.
Musk's main allegation is that OpenAI and its leaders abandoned the company's original nonprofit mission that he funded. In turn, OpenAI has treated Musk's claims as sour grapes. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers recently decided that the case warranted going to trial, saying in court that "part of this …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - about 2 hours
Canola oil and electric cars are at the centre of the deal agreed by Mark Carney and Xi Jinping after years of strained ties.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
La plus haute juridiction de l’ordre judiciaire avait à répondre à une question : un meurtre avoué – et élucidé – trente-six ans après les faits peut-il rester impuni, dans le cadre de l’affaire Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti, disparue en 1986 et dont l’auteur des faits a avoué le meurtre en 2022.
by io9 - about 3 hours
Bertie Carvel, who plays the sympathetic Baelor Targaryen in the new HBO series, breaks it down.
by Wired - about 3 hours
Don’t suffer the buffer. These WIRED-tested home routers will deliver reliable internet across your home, whatever your needs or budget.
by Wired - about 3 hours
Smart plugs can add controls to any outlet, but they aren’t perfect for everything. Here’s our guide to using one and which ones to buy.
by The Verge - about 4 hours
The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and blaming "incomplete information" from its own Asus PR representatives.
"The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL)," says an Asus statement. "Asus has no plans to stop selling these models."
That's quite the opposite of what Asus told Hardware Unboxed, with the YouTube channel reporting that Asus "explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as s …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - about 4 hours
The BBC speaks to Iranians at the border with Iraq, as authorities continue to block the flow of information with an internet blackout.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
One of the joys of writing for Hackaday comes in following the world of new semiconductor devices, spotting interesting ones while they are still just entries on manufacturer websites, and then waiting for commonly-available dev boards. With Chinese parts there’s always a period in which Chinese manufacturers and nobody else has them, and then they quietly appear on AliExpress.
All of which brings us to the WCH CH32M030, a chip that’s been on the radar for a while and has finally broken cover. It’s the CH32 RISC-V microcontroller you may be familiar with, but with a set of four half-bridge drivers on board for running motors. A handy, cheap, and very smart motor controller, if you will.
There’s been...
by Wired - about 4 hours
The “Joining” seems to connect people via radio waves. Let’s dig into the physics at play.
by Wired - about 4 hours
DJI's new action camera brings a larger sensor, a variable aperture lens, 8K video, interchangeable lenses, and more.
by Korben - about 4 hours
Youssef Sammouda, un chercheur en sécurité connu sous le pseudo sam0, vient de publier
un article détaillant pas moins de 4 vulnérabilités de type XS-Leaks
qu'il a découvertes chez Meta. Pour vous la faire courte, ce genre de faille permet à un site malveillant de déduire des informations sur vous sans même avoir besoin de pirater quoi que ce soit. Heureusement, tout a été patché depuis !
La première faille concernait Workplace (la version entreprise de Facebook) et son intégration avec Zoom. En gros, un attaquant pouvait créer une page web qui chargeait le callback Zoom de Workplace dans une iframe, et selon que l'utilisateur était connecté ou non à Meta Work, la redirection se comportait...
by Korben - about 4 hours
TikTok vient de lâcher une info qui va faire grincer des dents tous ceux qui comme moi tiennent à leur vie privée. Le réseau social chinois va prochainement déployer dans l'Union européenne une nouvelle technologie d'intelligence artificielle dont le but est d'estimer si un compte appartient à un utilisateur de moins de 13 ans en analysant... votre comportement.
Fini le simple formulaire où l'on tape une date de naissance bidon, TikTok passe à la vitesse supérieure sous la pression des régulateurs européens. Le système va donc scanner vos infos de profil, les vidéos que vous postez, mais surtout des "signaux comportementaux".
En gros, l'algorithme va analyser comment vous interagissez avec l'app...
by Korben - about 4 hours
– Article invité, rédigé par Vincent Lautier, contient des liens affiliés Amazon –
Le marché des
batteries externes
est devenu une véritable jungle où il est parfois compliqué de distinguer l'innovation du simple gadget marketing. Pourtant, de temps en temps, un produit arrive sur mon bureau et coche absolument toutes les cases, au point de rendre obsolète tout ce que j'ai pu utiliser auparavant. C'est exactement le cas de la
KUXIU S3
, une batterie magnétique de 10 000 mAh qui ne se contente pas de recharger votre téléphone, mais qui embarque les toutes dernières technologies comme le Qi2.2 et surtout une conception "Solid-State" franchement rassurante. Si vous cherchiez le compagnon de route...
by New Yorker - about 5 hours
Also: Jodie Foster’s new movie, New York City Ballet’s winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, and more.
by New Yorker - about 5 hours
After a year under siege, the city’s police department contends with the tactics of federal immigration agents.
by New Yorker - about 5 hours
Britain still relies on the U.S. for so much. How long can it hold on?
by QZ - about 5 hours
The long-maligned Export-Import Bank could serve a key role in Trump's push to drum up private-sector financing for Venezuela's oil sector
by QZ - about 5 hours
Trump has been on an acquisition spree, taking direct stakes in 14 companies spanning steel, rare earth minerals, semiconductors, and more
by QZ - about 5 hours
If you're going to be stuck on a boat for a long period of time, you want to make sure you choose the ship for your vacation
by Torrentfreak - about 6 hours
Anna’s Archive has had its fair share of domain troubles over the past two weeks.
First, the site lost control over its original annas-archive.org domain after the U.S.-based Public Interest Registry (PIR) placed it on serverHold. PIR typically only takes these kinds of measures based on a court order. However, when we asked for more details, the registry informed us that it was “unable to comment on the situation at this time,” only adding to the mystery. A few days ago, the domain trouble continued when Anna’s Archive’s .SE domain suddenly became unresponsive after being operational for years. For this domain, the registrar took action, as the site was put on clientHold. While we tried to get...
by Le Monde - about 6 hours
Alors qu’il avait relâché la pression sur la population depuis l’été, le régime a choisi la force brute face à un mouvement de contestation inédit. Pour survivre, le pouvoir, isolé par l’affaiblissement de « l’axe de la résistance », a opté pour une féroce répression.
by Zataz - about 7 hours
Aprés trois mois de silence, les pirates du groupe PayoutsKing revendiquent 39 victimes (dont deux françaises) et 48,3 To de données volées, illustrant une cyberextorsion structurée et orientée renseignement....
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
Sony’s original Playstation wasn’t huge, and they did shrink it for re-release later as the PSOne, but even that wasn’t small enough for [Secret Hobbyist]. You may have seen the teaser video a while back where his palm-size Playstation went viral, but now he’s begun a series of videos on how he redesigned the vintage console.
Luckily for [Secret Hobbyist], the late-revision PSOne he started with is only a two-layer PCB, which made reverse engineering the traces a lot easier. Between probing everything under the microscope and cleaning the board off to follow all the traces in copper, [Hobbyist] was able to reproduce the circuit in KiCAD. (Reverse engineering starts at about 1:18 in the vid.)
With a...
by daryo Bluesky - about 8 hours
Cette technique controversée de géo-ingénierie propose de plonger des arbres dans l’Arctique pour éliminer du CO₂
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/cette-technique-controversee-de-geo-ingenierie-propose-d-immerger-des-arbres-dans-l-ocean-pour
by Journal du Lapin - about 9 hours
L’USB, c’est parfois surprenant. On pense connaître toutes les variantes, entre l’USB-C, l’USB-B et l’USB-AB (ça existe). Et puis on tombe sur une carte avec du PoweredUSB. Le PoweredUSB, c’est une version professionnelle, semi-propriétaire, qui a une vingtaine d’années. Elle sert essentiellement dans le matériel qu’on peut voir dans les magasins, comme les lecteurs de codes-barres. La différence principale entre le PoweredUSB et l’USB classique vient de la tension. Une prise classique (avant l’USB-C) peut fournir 5 V, avec une intensité de 0,5 A (parfois un peu plus). Le PoweredUSB monte à 12 V (en bleu canard, teal en anglais), 24 V (rouge), 19 V (en violet) et aussi 5 V mais avec...
by Le Taurillon - about 9 hours
Le Parlement européen a révélé le 7 octobre 2025 les cinq créations cinématographiques en lice au Prix LUX du public dont la cérémonie de remise du prix aura lieu le 14 avril 2026. Ce choix éclectique nous permet de réfléchir à des questions de société auxquelles nous pouvons nous identifier. Découvrons ensemble ces œuvres originales. Prix LUX de l'UE : mise à l'honneur d'oeuvres expérimentales du cinéma européen
Créé en 2007par le Parlement européen, l'objectif du prix LUX est de promouvoir les valeurs européennes et de sensibiliser à des thèmes de société à travers des créations originales du septième art par et pour les Européens, qui n'auraient pas forcémen été diffusés...
by BBC - about 9 hours
This is the first of the verdicts in the four trials linked to Yoon's shock decree in 2024.
by HackAdAy - about 10 hours
While some may see amateur rocketry as little more than attaching fins to a motor and letting it fly, it is, in fact, rocket science. This fact became very clear to [BPS.space] when a parachute deployed on a rocket traveling at approximately Mach 1.8. 
The rocket design is rather simple — essentially just 3D printed fins glued onto a motor with a nose-cone for avionics. A single servo and trim tab provide a modicum of roll control, and a parachute is mounted in the nose along with a homing beacon for faster recovery. Seemingly, the only thing different about this flight is properly validated telemetry and GPS antennae.
After a final ground check of the telemetry and GPS signal quality, everything is ready...
by Le Monde - about 10 hours
Révélé lors de la pandémie de Covid-19, l’ex-militaire Henrique Gouveia e Melo, s’est lancé dans la course à l’élection présidentielle du 18 janvier. Malgré sa faible maîtrise des codes politiques, il séduit par ses propos sur la nécessité de réformer le pays.
by HackAdAy - about 13 hours
There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”. However, Lorentz invariance – the theory that the same rules of physics apply in the same way in all frames of reference, and an essential component of special relativity – has been questioned for some time by researchers trying to unify general relativity and quantum field theory into a theory of quantum gravity. Many theories of quantum gravity break Lorentz invariance by giving photons with different energy levels very slightly different speeds of light – a prediction which now looks less likely since researchers recently analyzed gamma ray data from pulsed astronomical...
by FluxBlog - about 13 hours
Father John Misty “The Old Law”
Josh Tillman has stopped making sense. “The Old Law” departs from his usual narrative clarity and witty bon mots in favor of scrambled, vaguely unnerving nonsense. It’s psychedelic, but mostly in an acid casualty sort of way. But it’s not exactly gibberish. You can sorta parse all of it – the phrases are almost familiar, the odd juxtapositions are oddly intuitive. It’s like encountering vernacular language from another point in time, probably the not-too-distant future. Consider all the phrases and vocabulary that are common now that would’ve seemed alien 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. Are these words from the future? Buy it from Bandcamp.
Sault “Fulfill Your...
by New Yorker - about 15 hours
The President may have started out by trash-talking America; one year into his second term, he is simply trashing it.
by HackAdAy - about 16 hours
Whenever you buy used computers there is a risk that they come with unpleasant surprises that are not of the insect variant. From Apple hardware that is iCloud-locked with the original owner MIA to PCs that have BIOS passwords, some of these are more severe than others. In the case of BIOS passwords, these tend to be more of an annoyance that’s easily fixed by clearing the CMOS memory, but this isn’t always the case as [Casey Bralla] found with a former student-issued HP ProBook laptop purchased off Facebook Marketplace.
Maybe it’s because HP figured that locking down access to the BIOS is essential on systems that find their way into the hands of bored and enterprising students, but these laptops write...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:18
Lewd, rude, and dangerous to know.