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by BBC - about 25 minutes
The death toll continues to rise and hundreds are missing, as firefighters struggle to put out the fire.
by The Brighter Side - about 46 minutes
Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 diabetes and heart disease. For many people there, these illnesses feel recent and deeply personal, arriving within a single generation. Scientists already knew that part of this risk traces back to genetic traits that helped Inuit ancestors survive long, freezing winters on diets rich in marine fat and protein. What remained unclear was how those genes turn into real disease in real bodies. A new study starts to fill that gap. By tracking how DNA shapes the proteins flowing through the blood of Greenlanders, researchers reveal a detailed picture of how ancient Arctic adaptations now...
by io9 - about 48 minutes
"We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention," Anthropic said earlier this month.
by BBC - about 50 minutes
Firefighters are struggling to put out the flames and say they are unsure when the blaze will be fully contained.
by HackAdAy - about 52 minutes
Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites orbiting overhead, from tiny cubesats to the International Space Station. Of course these satellites are always around, and even though you’ll need specific conditions to view them with the naked eye, with the right radio antenna and only a few dollars in electronics you can see exactly which ones are flying by at any time.
[Josh] aka [Ham Radio Crash Course] is demonstrating this build on his channel and showing every step needed to get something like this working. The first part is finding the correct LoRa module, which will be the bulk of the cost of this project. Unlike those used for most...
by io9 - about 53 minutes
When it came to 'The Mighty Nein,' the Critical Role team wanted to adapt the live show and get its hands dirty in the process.
by New Yorker - about 53 minutes
How the restaurateur Gabrielle Hamilton—of the beloved New York City establishment Prune—became a noted memoirist.
by Torrentfreak - about 57 minutes
In October 2019, an international police operation brought an abrupt end to Share-Online.biz, the largest file-hosting platform in Germany at the time. The raids, which targeted data centers in the Netherlands and France as well as residential addresses in Germany, resulted in the seizure of many servers and the shutdown of a platform that served more than a million registered users.
Files stored on Share-Online were typically promoted through third-party sites such as DDL-Warez, Boerse, Movie-Blog, and MyGully. As a host/cyberlocker, Share-Online did not actively promote pirated content to the public. Suspended Prison Sentence for ‘Neutral’ Host
That seemingly neutral stance did not prevent a criminal...
by The Verge - about 1 hour
Campbell’s says it fired its vice president of information technology after leaked audio allegedly captured him saying the company uses meat that “came from a 3D printer.” The comments led Campbell’s to issue an explanation on its website, insisting its soups aren’t made with 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or bioengineered meat. “A recent video contained false comments about our ingredients,” Campbell’s writes. “The comments heard on the recording about our food are not only inaccurate, they are absurd. We do not use lab-grown chicken or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups.” It adds that the company only uses chicken from “reputable” suppliers in the US...
by io9 - about 1 hour
A recent auction brought in nearly $3 million thanks to collectors hungry for Gelfling puppets and other Jim Henson Company treasures.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Sony’s top-of-the-line A7R V mirrorless camera is at the lowest price it’s ever been, and so is the more video-friendly A7 IV.
by io9 - about 1 hour
A tale of two AI super PACs.
by Wired - about 2 hours
A push by military contractors could alter pending legislation that would have empowered servicemembers to repair equipment. Lobbyists are pitching a subscription service instead.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Military contractors are trying to thwart a widely-supported right-to-repair provision in the annual defense policy bill — and their efforts may pay off. A source familiar with the negotiations tells The Verge that there are significant concerns that the bill’s right-to-repair language will be replaced by a “data-as-a-service” model, potentially requiring the Department of Defense to pay for access to equipment repair information. The move, which right-to-repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann also highlighted last week, would go against the Trump administration’s stance on access to repair materials. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in May that he wants to build right-to-repair...
by Wired - about 2 hours
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.
by daryo Bluesky - about 2 hours
Je n’étais jamais venu au Maroc. C’était une erreur, quel pays magnifique.
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That’s the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What’s the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Watch to find out! https://www.qt.io/ Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like us to interview? Let us know, or have the guest contact us! Take a look at the schedule here. Direct Download in DRM-free MP3.
If you’d rather read along, here’s the transcript for this week’s episode.
Places to follow the FLOSS Weekly Podcast: Spotify RSS Theme music: “Newer Wave” Kevin MacLeod...
by BBC - about 3 hours
Efforts to control the blaze are continuing as locals wait for news of missing loved ones.
by QZ - about 3 hours
Retailers have largely given up on luring customers into stores on turkey day, but grocery options should be plentiful
by QZ - about 3 hours
Sure, it's a holiday that's all about food on the table, but there's no rule that says you have to be the one to cook it
by Wired - about 3 hours
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Mardi 25 novembre, les députés transalpins ont approuvé définitivement une nouvelle loi qui introduit dans le Code pénal le crime spécifique de féminicide. Une avancée significative, mais qui a tout de même été accompagnée de son lot de polémiques, liées à la non-approbation d’une autre loi.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Quels trésors de débrouillardise déploieras-tu pour prospérer en temps de disette ?
by The Verge - about 3 hours
A decade after it first premiered, Netflix’s most impactful show is coming to an end. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is being split apart into a three-part event that spans multiple holidays: it premieres on November 26th, with a second batch of episodes on Christmas, followed by the final episode on December 31st. While there are spinoffs on the way, the end of Stranger Things marks a pivotal shift for Netflix, as the streaming service moves into a new era that’s less defined by singular blockbusters. You can keep up with all of our coverage of Stranger Things 5 right here. Stranger Things is ending, and so is Netflix’s reliance on tentpole shows The Stranger Things series finale is...
by The Verge - about 3 hours
Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 6 is still relatively hot off the presses, having just launched in October. But thanks to Black Friday, you can pick up a copy on the PlayStation 5 for just $52.99 ($17 off) at Amazon. The price has also dropped at Best Buy to $59.99 ($10 off) for PS5 and Xbox Series X, giving you more ways to shop.
Battlefield 6 Where to Buy: $69.99 $52.99 at Amazon (PS5) $69.99 $59.99 at Best Buy (PS5) $69.99 $59.99 at Best Buy (Xbox Series X)
With a lot on the line for EA, Battlefield 6 is off to a pretty good start, becoming the best-selling title in the franchise’s history. Considering how fiercely competitive the online shooter space is, that’s good news after 2021’s Battlefield 2042...
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
“Coyote,” a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.
by Korben - about 3 hours
Bon alors là on atteint un niveau de chelou assez exceptionnel. Des chercheurs ont eu l’idée d’utiliser des trompes de moustiques morts comme buses pour faire de l’impression 3D haute résolution. Et ils ont baptisé ça le “necroprinting”… gloups !
Le principe c’est que la trompe du moustique (le proboscis pour les intimes) est une structure naturelle incroyablement fine, optimisée par des millions d’années d’évolution pour pénétrer la peau et aspirer le sang. Niveau précision, c’est donc du costaud et cette buse biologique serait 100% plus fine que les meilleures buses fabriquées par l’homme. Du coup, l’avantage est triple : c’est ultra-fin (donc impression haute...
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
When you’re designing a bounty hunter game for a five-day cyberpunk live-action-role-play out in the middle of the Mojave desert, you’ve got to bring something extra cool. But [Elli]’s Hackaday Supercon talk isn’t just about the hardware; it’s as much about the design philosophy behind the game – how you bring something immersive and exciting to hundreds of players.
Sandbox Systems
The game itself is fairly simple: bounty hunters try to find the bounty, and when they do, they have a quick-draw to see who wins. Everyone is issued a color-coded Portable Data Node device, and when a hunter jacks into a bounty’s Node, a countdown begins, and the first to press the button after the display say...
by QZ - about 4 hours
The study simulated over 151 million U.S. workers interacting with AI tools to measure automation potential
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Refrigerator, 1957,” by Thomas Lux, and her own poem “Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It.”
by Les Décodeurs - about 4 hours
Le Sénat a détricoté plusieurs mesures votées par les députés, mais certains points ont reçu l’aval des deux assemblées. Le point sur l’état du texte avant la suite de la navette parlementaire.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Le Sénat a détricoté plusieurs mesures votées par les députés, mais certains points ont reçu l’aval des deux assemblées. Le point sur l’état du texte avant la suite de la navette parlementaire.
by Human Progress - about 4 hours
“Fire-resistant seeds offer promise, at a low cost, for restoring areas devastated by burning in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, a project by biologist Giovana Cavenaghi Guimarães shows. Guimarães, a doctoral candidate at São Paulo State University (UNESP), focused on five species of Cerrado-native seeds, including jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril), amendoim-bravo (Pterogyne nitens), mulungu (Erythrina mulungu) and canafístula (Peltophorum dubium). All are naturally adapted to extreme heat. According to Guimarães, these plants can survive in adverse conditions such as the high temperatures caused by wildfires, which makes their seeds ideal for environmental recovery after such events. The species also have a...
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Un incendie d’une violence rare a ravagé plusieurs immeubles en rénovation dans le quartier hongkongais de Tai Po. Les quelque 700 pompiers mobilisés peinent à maîtriser le feu, laissant les 4 600 habitants pris au piège.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Les joueurs de Luis Enrique, défaits face au Bayern Munich (1-2) lors du précédent match de la phase de ligue, reçoivent les Spurs, mercredi, au Parc des Princes.
by Korben - about 4 hours
Une grosse lacune de Signal sur iPhone c’est qu’il était impossible de sauvegarder proprement son historique de messages. Par exemple, si vous changiez de téléphone ou si vous deviez réinstaller l’app, pouf, tout disparaissait.
Hé bien maintenant c’est terminé puisqu’ils viennent
de lancer les Secure Backups sur iOS
avec la version 7.86.
Techniquement, rien de magique, c’est simplement une sauvegarde chiffrée de bout en bout de tous vos messages et médias, protégée par une clé de récupération de 64 caractères générée localement. Et comme cette clé n’est jamais partagée avec les serveurs de Signal, cela veut dire que personne (même pas Signal) ne peut lire ou restaurer vos...
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Alors que les secours peinent à maîtriser les flammes, l’incertitude demeure quant au nombre de personnes encore piégées dans les tours en feu.
by Korben - about 4 hours
Vous vous souvenez de Chat Control ? Ce projet de règlement européen qui voulait scanner tous vos messages privés pour détecter des contenus pédocriminels ? J’en avais
parlé à l’époque
et je m’étais bien énervé dessus. Hé bien après plus de 3 ans de négociations, de votes ratés,
de blocages par l’Allemagne
, les Pays-Bas et l’Autriche… le Conseil de l’UE a enfin trouvé un accord.
Et devinez quoi ? Bah c’est du vent.
Le grand compromis trouvé ce 26 novembre c’est donc de rendre le scanning… (roulements de tambours)… volontaire ! Oui, oui, volontaire. Ainsi, au lieu d’obliger toutes les messageries à scanner vos conversations, on leur demande gentiment si elles veulent...
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Incarcéré après avoir tenté de couper son bracelet électronique, l’ancien président d’extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro a commencé, mardi 25 novembre, à purger sa peine de vingt-sept ans et trois mois de prison pour tentative de coup d’État. Si certains observateurs voient dans cette étape inédite de l’histoire politique brésilienne une avancée démocratique, d’autres se font plus prudents.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
« Il s’agit d’un processus sérieux. A l’heure actuelle, il n’y a probablement rien de plus important que cela », a commenté le porte-parole de la présidence russe, Dmitri Peskov, à propos des efforts diplomatiques autour du plan américain, avant une visite prévue la semaine prochaine à Moscou de l’émissaire américain, Steve Witkoff.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
La Cour de cassation a rejeté le pourvoi de l’ancien président de la République, condamné en appel à un an d’emprisonnement dont six mois avec sursis et le reste sous forme aménageable. En décembre 2024, il avait déjà été condamné définitivement dans l’affaire dite « des écoutes ».
by The Verge - about 4 hours
Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop offers beautiful hardware and starts at just $549.99. If you’re a Windows user looking for something that comes close to Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Microsoft’s newest 13-inch Surface Laptop — officially called the Surface Laptop 13-inch 1st Edition with Snapdragon — is a great option. Right now, you can pick up the model with an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage for $549.99 ($350 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Microsoft, which marks a new all-time low.
Microsoft Surface Laptop, 13-inch
Microsoft’s slightly smaller, entry-level Surface Laptop trims some of the size and a few features from its bigger...
by Human Progress - about 5 hours
“Engineered immune cells are being used to successfully treat people with a range of debilitating autoimmune conditions, such as ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Researchers say positive results from around a dozen studies over the past three years suggest CAR-T-cell therapy could eventually be used treat any disease in which the immune system attacks the body… Earlier this year, Bing Du, an immunologist at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and his team published the results of a CAR-T pilot study using immune cells from a donor to treat drug-resistant lupus. Donor-derived cells could act like a generic version of CAR-T treatment that could be mass-produced, cutting...
by QZ - about 5 hours
HBO, Disney, and more are offering discounts as large as 50% to returning and new subscribers, which can save you hundreds
by The Brighter Side - about 5 hours
The first time a fingertip meets VoxeLite, the feeling is strangely familiar. The surface under your finger is flat and smooth, yet your skin reports ridges, bumps and even the drag of a rough fabric. For the first time, a tiny wearable device is speaking to your sense of touch with the same detail and speed your skin expects from the real world. Bringing Touch Into the Digital Age Engineers at Northwestern University have created VoxeLite, a paper thin, flexible haptic device that wraps around your fingertip like a small bandage. It weighs less than a gram and bends with your skin, yet it recreates textures and patterns with what the team calls “human resolution”. That phrase means something important....
by QZ - about 5 hours
A playful term has become both Silicon Valley's most hyped programming methodology — and a cautionary tale
by Human Progress - about 5 hours
Summary: A family group chat about Thanksgiving dinner reflects centuries of extraordinary advancement. The same journey that once separated families by months can now be made in hours. A meal that was once a rare luxury has become highly affordable. From instant communication to abundant food, everyday conveniences serve as a reminder that human ingenuity has transformed hardship into prosperity. Two weeks before Thanksgiving, my sister sent a link to our family group chat. It wasn’t an RSVP form; it was closer to an online wedding gift registry. All the Thanksgiving classic foodstuffs were on the list—turkey, honey baked ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, candied yams, green bean...
by New Yorker - about 5 hours
The man who’s been called “America’s hardest-working nerd” joins Tyler Foggatt live onstage at The New Yorker Festival.
by Korben - about 5 hours
Bon, j’étais un petit peu occupé aujourd’hui parce que c’est mercredi et c’est le jour des enfants, mais je ne pouvais pas finir ma journée sans vous parler de cette histoire incroyable.
Si vous faites partie des gens qui utilisent des sites comme JSONFormatter ou CodeBeautify pour rendre votre JSON lisible ou reformater du code, et bien figurez-vous que des chercheurs en sécu viennent de découvrir que ces outils ont laissé fuiter des tonnes de données sensibles durant des années. Et quand je dis tonnes, c’est pas une figure de style puisque ce sont plus de 80 000 extraits de code contenant des credentials en clair qui ont fuité, soit plus de 5 Go de données.
En effet, les chercheurs...
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
Le directeur de la sécurité informatique du groupe américain fait l’objet d’une enquête en interne après le dépôt d’une plainte par un ancien salarié. Celui-ci affirme, enregistrement à l’appui, avoir été licencié pour avoir voulu dénoncer la façon dont son supérieur dénigrait une production maison destinée aux “pauvres gens”, mais aussi les Amérindiens.
by Wired - about 5 hours
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
In a recent video, [Jason Jacques] demos the Busch Electronic Digital-Technik 2075 which was released in West Germany in the 1970s.
The Digital-Technik 2075 comes with a few components including a battery holder and 9 V battery, a push button, two 1 K resistors, a red LED, a 100 nF ceramic capacitor, a 100 µF electrolytic capacitor, a quad NAND gate IC, and a counter module which includes an IC and a 7-segment display. The kit also comes with wires, plugs, a breadboard, and a tool for extracting modules.
The Digital-Technik 2075 doesn’t use the spring terminals we see in other project labs of the time, such as the Science Fair kits from Radio Shack, and it doesn’t use modular Denshi blocks, such as we saw...
by Les Décodeurs - about 5 hours
Les déclarations inquiétantes du général Mandon et les annonces à venir d’Emmanuel Macron sur le service national volontaire suscitent des interrogations sur un scénario qui paraissait jusqu’alors impensable.
by New Yorker - about 6 hours
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
by daryo Bluesky - about 6 hours
Sarkozy : condamnation confirmée dans l'affaire Bygmalion. Il sera de nouveau sous bracelet électronique avant d'autres yaourts et jouissances. Heureusement qu'il a deux chevilles et deux mollets.
by daryo Bluesky - about 6 hours
France • August 2018 📷 #flashes
by BBC - about 6 hours
The Trump administration seems serious about reaching a deal despite all the apparent chaos around its efforts.
by The Brighter Side - about 7 hours
In the heart of the Mojave Desert, far from snowcapped peaks or roaring rivers, a narrow crack in the rock has quietly stored half a million years of climate history. Now, scientists have learned to read that record, and it tells a story that matters to you if you live anywhere in the water stressed West. A Cave That Remembers Ice Ages The site is called Devils Hole, a flooded fissure in southern Nevada. For hundreds of thousands of years, groundwater has flowed through this crack and left thin layers of calcite on the cave walls, a bit like hard water building scale inside a pipe. Each new layer trapped a chemical snapshot of the climate outside at that time. Kathleen Wendt, a paleoclimatologist who led the...
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
Headlights. Indicators. Trunk releases. Seatbelts. Airbags. Just about any part of a car you can think of is governed by a long and complicated government regulation. It’s all about safety, ensuring that the car-buying public can trust that their vehicles won’t unduly injure or maim them in regular operation, or in the event of accident.
However, one part of the modern automobile has largely escaped regulation—namely, the humble door handle. Automakers have been free to innovate with new and wacky designs, with Tesla in particular making waves with its electronic door handles. However, after a series of deadly incidents where doors wouldn’t open, regulators are now examining if these door handles are...