Malgré la répression mise en place par le régime de Nicolás Maduro et les craintes d’une intervention militaire des États-Unis, les habitants de Caracas, capitale du Venezuela, habitués aux crises et aux pénuries, ne se laissent pas abattre, raconte ce photojournaliste du “New York Times”.
À travers le détroit de l’Oresund, un flux discret d’explosifs alimente les guerres de gangs en Suède, explique le quotidien de Stockholm “Dagens Nyheter”. Malgré les arrestations et les contrôles renforcés, douaniers et policiers peinent à comprendre les routes, les réseaux et les méthodes d’un trafic ancien, retors et qui a toujours un coup d’avance.
Un mois après sa sortie de prison, l’ancien président français publie, ce mercredi 10 décembre, un livre retraçant sa courte détention et qui ne laisse pas la presse internationale indifférente. Tandis que pour certains il est difficile de ne pas le “prendre en sympathie”, pour d’autres il est clair qu’il a bénéficié d’un traitement de faveur. Tous, cependant, y voient une volonté de se maintenir sur la scène politique.
His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.
Scuffles broke out during a vote linked to attempts to reduce the former president's jail term.
Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within the near future. The goal here is to create a much improved World Magnetic Model (WMM), which is used by the World Geodetic System (WGS). The WGS is an integral part of cartography, geodesy and satellite-based navigation, which includes every sat nav, smartphone and similar with built-in GNSS capabilities.
Although in this age of sat navs and similar it can seem quaint to see anyone bother with using the Earth’s magnetic field with a compass, there is a very good reason why e.g. your Android smartphone has an API...
Although in this age of sat navs and similar it can seem quaint to see anyone bother with using the Earth’s magnetic field with a compass, there is a very good reason why e.g. your Android smartphone has an API...
It united the world with its shittiness. God bless us, everyone!
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Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego.
NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems," started in 1987 as a purely academic affair. It has since ballooned alongside the hype around AI into a massive industry event where labs come to recruit and investors come to find the next wave of AI startups.
I was regretfully unable to …
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Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego.
NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems," started in 1987 as a purely academic affair. It has since ballooned alongside the hype around AI into a massive industry event where labs come to recruit and investors come to find the next wave of AI startups.
I was regretfully unable to …
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Sam Altman’s appearance on The Tonight Show is part of a larger charm offensive currently being waged by the tech establishment.
La ministre des comptes publics a salué l’adoption « sans 49-3 » du budget 2026 de la Sécurité sociale, par 247 voix pour, 234 contre, et 93 abstentions. Après un passage au Sénat, le texte devrait revenir une dernière fois devant les députés le 16 décembre, ont confié plusieurs sources parlementaires au « Monde ».
Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer "an absolutely unique experience each and every year," according to a blog post.
Black Ops 7 came out in November to mixed reviews, and in Europe, the game had a "disappointing launch," The Game Business reports. Ahead of the game's release, Treyarch Senior Director of Production Yale Miller told CharlieIntel th …
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Black Ops 7 came out in November to mixed reviews, and in Europe, the game had a "disappointing launch," The Game Business reports. Ahead of the game's release, Treyarch Senior Director of Production Yale Miller told CharlieIntel th …
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Henson Razors are engineered to give a spectacular shave with dirt-cheap generic blades.
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[NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line of Ray-Bans. A project in progress, it’s currently focused on how to reliably perform detection without resorting to using a camera itself. Right now, it plays a well-known audio cue whenever it gets a hit.
Once software is nailed down, the device aims to be small enough to fit into glasses.
Currently, [NullPxl] is exploring two main methods of detection. The first takes advantage of the fact that image sensors in cameras act as tiny reflectors for IR. That means camera-toting smartglasses have an identifying feature, which can be sensed and measured. You can see a...
Once software is nailed down, the device aims to be small enough to fit into glasses.
Currently, [NullPxl] is exploring two main methods of detection. The first takes advantage of the fact that image sensors in cameras act as tiny reflectors for IR. That means camera-toting smartglasses have an identifying feature, which can be sensed and measured. You can see a...
Kurtis David Harder’s follow-up to his 2022 horror hit stars Cassandra Naud as a shifty, seductive, tech-savvy villain.
The man was consuming three times the maximum daily dose of caffeine recommended for an adult.
The two chip companies have signed a term sheet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement.
Microsoft, AWS, and Saleforce are also supporting the initiative.
Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you're David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed to signing some sort of executive order that would do something that would give him some federal control over AI regulation. I state this in the vaguest of terms for two reasons: First, there's still no good constitutional rationale for an executive order to override laws that states pass for themselves, let alone on artificial intelligence, and the vers …
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If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, and putting up a Christmas tree, each of which goes wrong somehow. The ad concludes by telling viewers to "hide out in McDonald's until January's here." McDonald's has unveiled its own AI-generated Christmas ad that somehow looks even worse than Coca-Cola's.Terrible AI vi …
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The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform "puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior" and will "make our fighting force more lethal than ever before." In a video, Hegseth says that "the future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled A-I." Today, we are unleashing https://t.co …
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform "puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior" and will "make our fighting force more lethal than ever before." In a video, Hegseth says that "the future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled A-I." Today, we are unleashing https://t.co …
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We’ve used all of these down comforter picks on our own beds, and they’re excellent for winter (or year-round).
Les partenaires de Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ont remporté in extremis leur troisième match dans cette phase de ligue, mardi. L’Olympique de Marseille entrevoit ainsi les barrages des huitièmes de finale du tournoi. L’AS Monaco, vainqueur de Galatasaray (1-0), s’est aussi relancé.
Prosecutors have released bodycam footage showing the initial interaction between officers and the suspected CEO killer.
The UK praises Europe's "strength" after Trump says countries fail to control migration or take action to end the Ukraine war.
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Dans une interview à Politico, Donald Trump a estimé que l’Ukraine, qui « a perdu beaucoup de territoires », devrait organiser des élections. Le président américain a accusé Kiev d’« utiliser la guerre » pour s’en abstenir.
Financial advisors say "Trump accounts" may fill a specific niche, but they may not be the right fit for every family's future goals
What if the Fed's interest rate cuts, intended to support a struggling jobs market, end up accelerating the very technology contributing to job losses?
Policy experts say Trump’s Nvidia plan weakens America’s only clear advantage in AI compute — even as Beijing limits H200 access and backs local chips
One strategic, year-end maneuver to employ or fine-tune as a kind of organizational cleanse is a Keep-Kill-Change audit. Here's how it works
Some investors are keeping a wary eye on Hassett, who hasn't been timid in demanding Trump-style policy changes at the central bank
The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that people squeeze in don’t have a disc drive anymore though, so [EasternBloc Engineering] has fitted a retractable MagSafe charger into the drive bay of the machine.
In this example, the iMac has become simply a monitor, instead of an entire all-in-one computer, and the original 15″ display has been replaced with a lightweight 22″ monitor on a 3D printed VESA mount. The narrow confines of the iMac neck meant [EasternBloc Engineering] had to sever the connectors from the HDMI and power cable before reconnecting them once they were fed through.
The really novel part...
In this example, the iMac has become simply a monitor, instead of an entire all-in-one computer, and the original 15″ display has been replaced with a lightweight 22″ monitor on a 3D printed VESA mount. The narrow confines of the iMac neck meant [EasternBloc Engineering] had to sever the connectors from the HDMI and power cable before reconnecting them once they were fed through.
The really novel part...
Sébastien Lecornu a réussi à passer un obstacle de taille, ce 9 décembre, avec l’adoption du PLFSS, en nouvelle lecture, par les députés. 247 voix contre 234, la marge n’est pas énorme, mais après l’adoption définitive du projet de loi de finances de fin de gestion, c’est le deuxième texte financier qui passe le cap. […]
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado is in hiding, and her current whereabouts are still unknown.
Des éducateurs du foyer Jenner dans le 13ᵉ arrondissement de Paris ont rasé un enfant de 8 ans, en février, en guise de « sanction ». Puis ils ont diffusé et commenté les images sur un groupe WhatsApp. L’association Jean-Cotxet, qui gère les lieux, affirme n’avoir été informée de l’intégralité des faits qu’en septembre.
Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? Well, if you work at [Deep Drive], the compromise position is a dual-rotor setup that they claim can be up to 20% more efficient than standard designs. In a recent video, [Ziroth] provides a deep dive into Deep Drive’s Twin-Rotor Motor.
This is specifically a radial flux permanent magnet motor, like most used in electric vehicles today — and don’t let talk of inrunners and outrunners fool you, that’s the size of motor we’re talking about here. This has been done before with axial flux motors, but it’s a new concept for team radial. As the names imply,...
This is specifically a radial flux permanent magnet motor, like most used in electric vehicles today — and don’t let talk of inrunners and outrunners fool you, that’s the size of motor we’re talking about here. This has been done before with axial flux motors, but it’s a new concept for team radial. As the names imply,...
Le PLFSS 2026 a été adopté par les députés, mardi, par 247 voix contre 234, avec 93 abstentions. Découvrez les résultats détaillés du vote.
[Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its chocolate-brown and 9u space bar-havin’ glory.
Image by [Jean] via GitHubThis Arduino Pro Micro-based brain transplant began as a sketch, and [Jean] reports it now has proper code in QMK. But how is a person supposed to use it in 2025, almost 2026, especially as a programmer or just plain serious computer user?
The big news here is that [Jean] added support for missing characters using the left and right Shift keys, and even added mouse controls and Function keys that are accessed on a layer via the Shift Lock key. You can see the key maps over on GitHub.
I’ll...
Image by [Jean] via GitHubThis Arduino Pro Micro-based brain transplant began as a sketch, and [Jean] reports it now has proper code in QMK. But how is a person supposed to use it in 2025, almost 2026, especially as a programmer or just plain serious computer user?
The big news here is that [Jean] added support for missing characters using the left and right Shift keys, and even added mouse controls and Function keys that are accessed on a layer via the Shift Lock key. You can see the key maps over on GitHub.
I’ll...
Le procureur général du Honduras a demandé l’arrestation immédiate de l’ancien président du pays, Juan Orlando Hernández, amnistié par Donald Trump, et le parti au pouvoir demande l’annulation de la présidentielle du 30 novembre 2025, dans laquelle le président des États-Unis s’est immiscé.
“The European Union has agreed a new set of rules for plants created using genomic technologies, Euronews reports. The new framework covers key issues such as how such products should be labelled in supermarkets and whether they can be patented. New genomic technologies, such as gene editing, are breeding techniques that allow small parts of the genetic material of animals, plants or microorganisms (such as yeast or bacteria). They do not require the introduction of foreign genetic material or DNA from another species. This distinguishes them from older methods used to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which involve inserting foreign genetic material into an organism to create a hybrid.” From...
“Today, helium is an essential cooling component in nuclear reactors, rockets and medical diagnostic equipment such as MRI machines. The gas keeps fiber optics, superconductors, quantum computers and semiconductors cool, but skyrocketing demand has pushed supply chains to their limit, resulting in a global shortage that has persisted for more than a decade. Helium extraction also has a huge carbon footprint — almost equivalent to the U.K.’s per year — because currently, it is exclusively produced together with natural gas. However, in recent years, pioneering discoveries have led to a pivotal change in scientists’ understanding of the geology that helps helium accumulate. Researchers have uncovered...
“Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world’s first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor – technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) project – a public-private collaboration between Southern Company, TerraPower, CORE POWER, and the US Department of Energy (DOE) – is planned to be the first reactor experiment hosted at the Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the United States (LOTUS) test bed being built at the lab by the DOE’s National Reactor Innovation Center. It uses liquid salt as the fuel and the coolant, allowing for high...
La France célèbre ce mardi 9 décembre les 120 ans de la loi de séparation des Églises et de l’État, un texte fondateur du modèle français de laïcité. Ce dernier est souvent mal compris à l’étranger, constatait cet universitaire italien en 2023 dans les colonnes du quotidien progressiste “Domani”.
“In a study published in Nature, the scientists analysed the health records of more than 280,000 adults in Wales between the ages of 71 and 88 years old. They were aiming to understand the effects of a shingles vaccination programme that began in 2013. They found that older adults (aged 79–80) who had received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia by 2020, compared to those who hadn’t been eligible to receive it. What’s more, in a recent follow-up study published in Cell, the same scientists discovered that the shingles vaccine seemed to have a protective effect even among those who’d already been diagnosed with dementia by 2013.” From BBC Science Focus.
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La justice cherche à cerner le rôle du Libanais, considéré comme une source de très haut niveau par les services antidrogue français et américains depuis vingt ans, dans le scandale qui éclabousse l’office anti-stupéfiants de Marseille. Sa cinquième demande de remise en liberté sera examinée mercredi.
L’ancien parlementaire a reconnu devant le tribunal un détournement d’une partie de son enveloppe de frais de mandat pour des dépenses personnelles. Il a reçu une peine de dix mois de prison avec sursis, assortie d’une amende et de cinq ans d’inéligibilité.
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Vladimir Poutine a été accueilli en grande pompe à New-Delhi les 4 et 5 décembre derniers pour célébrer les 25 ans du partenariat stratégique indo-russe. Sa délégation était vaste, les thèmes de discussion nombreux, mais pas d’annonce majeure sur l’énergie ou les contrats de défense. Narendra Modi garde manifestement des cartes en main pour finaliser ses négociations avec Washington.
Vous vous souvenez des cassettes audio ? Mais siiii, ces trucs de nous les vieux quand on était jeune (spoiler : je suis toujours jeune !). Il fallait même rembobiner avec un crayon quand le lecteur bouffait la bande !!
Hé bien des chercheurs chinois viennent de ressusciter ce format… mais version ADN. Et au lieu de stocker 90 minutes de musique, leur cassette peut théoriquement embarquer des quantités astronomiques de données.
L’équipe de Xingyu Jiang, ingénieur biomédical à la Southern University of Science and Technology de Shenzhen, a développé une bande pas comme les autres. Au lieu de la traditionnelle couche d’oxyde de fer, c’est de l’ADN synthétique qui est déposé sous forme de...
Hé bien des chercheurs chinois viennent de ressusciter ce format… mais version ADN. Et au lieu de stocker 90 minutes de musique, leur cassette peut théoriquement embarquer des quantités astronomiques de données.
L’équipe de Xingyu Jiang, ingénieur biomédical à la Southern University of Science and Technology de Shenzhen, a développé une bande pas comme les autres. Au lieu de la traditionnelle couche d’oxyde de fer, c’est de l’ADN synthétique qui est déposé sous forme de...
Personne ne s’en doutait, mais durant 3 ans, les communications entre la Terre et les sondes de la NASA étaient totalement vulnérables au piratage du moindre script kiddy ! Et personne n’était au courant évidemment, et aucun des multiples audits de code qui se sont succédé depuis 2022 n’avait mis à jour ce problème jusqu’à ce qu’une IA s’en mêle !
La faille découverte au bout de 4 jours d’analyse, se trouvait dans
CryptoLib
, une bibliothèque de chiffrement open source utilisée pour sécuriser les échanges entre les stations au sol et les satellites en orbite. Cette bibliothèque implémente le protocole SDLS-EP (Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures) de la norme...
La faille découverte au bout de 4 jours d’analyse, se trouvait dans
CryptoLib
, une bibliothèque de chiffrement open source utilisée pour sécuriser les échanges entre les stations au sol et les satellites en orbite. Cette bibliothèque implémente le protocole SDLS-EP (Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures) de la norme...
Le scrutin, prévu dans l’après-midi de mardi, s’annonce très serré.
Rançongiciel chez Poltronesofà : fuite de données anciennes, risques de fraude et interrogations sur la conservation des informations clients à l’ère du RGPD....
This meal is full of macros. What are macros? Who cares? You don’t need to know. What you need to know is that you are the alpha of this fast-healthy-adjacent bowl purveyor.
The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.
Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.
