constant stream of curated content
by QZ - about 22 minutes
Security experts are raising red flags about the questions people are asking their AI chatbots and agents
by QZ - about 23 minutes
Trump devoted much of his Davos address to a meandering case for U.S. control of Greenland, which he twice confused with Iceland. He later backed down from his all-or-nothing gambit
by io9 - about 24 minutes
And it didn't even take a two-thirds majority.
by Courrier International - about 34 minutes
De plus en plus de chambres d’hôtels sont dépourvues de véritables portes séparant la chambre du petit coin, constate “The Wall Street Journal”. Au point qu’une campagne en ligne, intitulée “Remettez les portes”, a été lancée. Une contestation moins anodine qu’il n’y paraît, puisqu’elle dénonce le sacrifice de l’intimité au profit de la réduction des coûts.
by The Verge - about 34 minutes
Ubisoft is making some massive changes to its business: As part of a reorganization, the company will focus its efforts on the big open-world games it's famous for along with live service titles, and it has canceled six in-development games, including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It's all part of a recent trend of the industry's biggest publishers, including companies like EA and Sony, making fewer but bigger games to avoid risk.
Under its new structure, Ubisoft games will be developed by five "Creative Houses" focused on specific genres and franchises. The previously announced Vantage Studios, for example, will develop Ubiso …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Courrier International - about 45 minutes
Des start-up américaines et européennes encouragent désormais leurs employés à laisser leurs chaussures à l’entrée de leurs immeubles. Cette “économie du pyjama en action” enthousiasme certains, mais en fait sourciller d’autres.
by BBC - about 47 minutes
Denmark and Greenland have made it clear they will not relinquish sovereignty of the world's largest island.
by BBC - about 53 minutes
US envoy Steve Witkoff said he was optimistic about a deal ahead of talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Upgrade your locks with fingerprint-scanning or a keypad, whether it’s at the front door or a sliding glass entryway.
by io9 - about 1 hour
Have you ever seen a display with a horizontal resolution of one pixel? Neither have we.
by QZ - about 1 hour
Plenty of parents wish they could they stay home with their kids, but what does it actually take to afford to live off one income instead of two?
by io9 - about 2 hours
The team-up between MAD Magazine and DC Comics is guest-edited by Chip Zdarsky and arrives (when else?) April 1.
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
Although already having entered the territory of ‘retro gaming’, the Sony PlayStation 3 remains a notoriously hard to emulate game console. Much of this is to blame on its unique PowerPC-based Cell processor architecture, which uses a highly parallel approach across its asymmetric multi-core die that is very hard to map to more standard architectures like those in today’s x86 and ARM CPUs. This makes it even more amazing that the RPCS3 emulator team has now crossed the 70% ‘playable’ threshold on their compatibility list.
This doesn’t mean that you can fire up these games on any purported ‘gaming system’, as the system requirements are pretty steep. If you want any kind of enjoyable performance...
by io9 - about 2 hours
The amazing holiday deals for new Mint Mobile customers, including a year of Unlimited for 50% off, are still ready for the taking.
by Wired - about 2 hours
The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.
by Wired - about 2 hours
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Monthly injections, once-daily pills, and even lifelong gene therapies could soon become options for people looking to lose some weight.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
De son côté, le Kremlin a annoncé que Vladimir Poutine discuterait jeudi de ‍la guerre ​en Ukraine avec Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner, l’envoyé spécial et le gendre du président américain.
by Korben - about 2 hours
Vous vous souvenez de l'époque où rien que de lire un texte sur un écran noir suffisait à notre bonheur ? C'était un temps où chaque pixel comptait et où la souris était encore en option... Alalala, hé bien, pour ceux qui ont gardé cette âme pure ou qui passent la plupart de leur temps dans un shell, je vous ai déniché Bookokrat
, un lecteur EPUB conçu EXCLUSIVEMENT pour votre terminal.
Vous allez voir c'est super pour lire des livres pendant le boulot discretos ^^.
L'outil propose une interface en "split-view" avec les EPUB de votre répertoire courant à gauche et votre lecteur à droite. Et malgré le côté austère du terminal, Bookokrat ne fait pas de compromis puisqu'il gère comme un chef...
by BBC - about 2 hours
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the Russian president has shown no commitment to peace in Ukraine.
by BBC - about 2 hours
Residents have been told to stay indoors and avoid the area of the shooting.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Les techno-utopistes voient dans l’île danoise un potentiel géostratégique, mais aussi un laboratoire qui pourrait servir de tremplin à des aventures expansionnistes encore plus ambitieuses, analysait “Politico” dès janvier 2025.
by Asialyst - about 2 hours
La Première ministre japonaise Sanae Takaichi a pris la classe politique japonaise par surprise en annonçant le 19 janvier la dissolution imminente de la Chambre des représentants et la tenue d’élections législatives anticipées le 8 février prochain. Une décision rare par son calendrier, audacieuse par ses implications et révélatrice d’une stratégie politique assumée : transformer une popularité exceptionnelle en mandat politique renforcé pour mener son programme de relance économique avec autorité.
by Wired - about 2 hours
There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body.
by Korben - about 2 hours
-- Article en partenariat avec LockSelf --
Il faut bien se rendre à l'évidence qu'une bonne partie des fuites de données en entreprise passent par des fichiers mal sécurisés. Par exemple ce fameux document Excel avec les salaires qui traîne sur le serveur depuis 2019, le ZIP envoyé via WeTransfer "parce que c'est plus simple", ou encore le dossier client partagé sur Google Drive avec le lien accessible à quiconque a l'URL.
Bref, c'est le Far West total en matière de sécurité et de confidentialité !
Maintenant si vous avez lu mon article sur
LockPass
(le gestionnaire de mots de passe certifié ANSSI), vous savez déjà que LockSelf fait les choses sérieusement. Et c'est pourquoi, aujourd'hui je...
by Korben - about 2 hours
Si vous avez envie de refaire un peu votre déco chez vous, sans forcément raquer des fortunes chez des designers scandinaves en claquettes chaussettes, j'ai trouvé un petit soft qui va vous plaire. Ça s'appelle maptoposter et c'est un script Python qui permet de transformer la plupart des villes en une affiche minimaliste plutôt jolie
Vous lui donnez le nom d'une ville et son pays (c'est obligé pour pas que le script se perde), et il va piocher dans les données d'OpenStreetMap via la bibliothèque
OSMnx
pour vous dessiner un plan aux petits oignons au rendu propre généré par matplotlib avec des calques pour les routes, les parcs et l'eau. On est loin du screenshot Google Maps repassé au stylo Bic...
by Wired - about 3 hours
A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Chroniqueur du “Guardian”, établi en France, le journaliste américain Alexander Hurst revient sur la première année du mandat de Donald Trump. Il constate un délitement de la démocratie, mais aussi un retour à une politique étrangère impérialiste.
by Korben - about 3 hours
Je suis complètement passé à côté car j'étais en vacances lors de leur dernière mise à jour... mais j'ai franchement halluciné en retombant sur NeoCities ces jours-ci. Si vous avez connu l'époque bénie de GeoCities
, quand le web était moche mais vivant, alors vous allez kiffer.
NeoCities, c’est tout simplement l’héritier spirituel de cette époque... mais en mieux ! Leur philosophie c'est de redonner le contrôle aux gens et ramener la créativité brute sur le web, tout ça sans publicité, sans trackers ni cookies et sans vendre vos données à des IA aux dents pourries. L'interface de NeoCities - sobre, efficace et sans fioritures (
Source
)
Vous l'aurez compris parce que vous êtes malin,...
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
La marine iranienne a pu participer à des exercices dans les eaux sud-africaines, en dépit des consignes du président Cyril Ramaphosa. Une enquête a été ouverte.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Depuis le retrait des gardes kurdes du camp de détention d’Al-Hol, où se trouvent plusieurs milliers de djihadistes et leurs familles, la sécurisation du camp est devenue un enjeu majeur du pouvoir syrien.
by QZ - about 3 hours
Some careers adapt to remote work far better than others. These 10 fields lead in remote job availability, according to FlexJobs’ latest research
by Korben - about 4 hours
Et c'est reparti pour une journée de moine à écrire sur le meilleur site tech de l'univers et aujourd'hui, j'ai envie de vous parler de Core War et de cybersécurité.
Core War, c'est un jeu de programmation hyper culte qui est devenu populaire dans les
années 80
et dans ce jeu, y'a des sortes de guerriers numériques qui se foutent sur la gueule pour
prendre le contrôle d'une machine virtuelle
. Et je vous avoue que c'est assez kiffant à voir. Et croyez le ou non, des chercheurs de Sakana AI et du MIT se sont appuyés sur ce concept pour créer leur Digital Red Queen (DRQ)
, c'est à dire un algorithme qui utilise des LLM pour faire évoluer ces programmes de "combat" de façon totalement...
by Droit Administratif - about 4 hours
Parmi les sujets qui montent fortement dans le droit processuel, notamment le droit du contentieux administratif, figure celui des recours juridictionnels générés par des outils d’intelligence artificielle (IA). De tels outils sont en effet de plus en plus sollicités pour confectionner entièrement le recours soumis au juge. Même si, pour l’heure, cette utilisation semble le plus souvent réservée aux requérants solitaires, non accompagnés par un professionnel du droit, certaines affaires font apparaître que les avocats eux-mêmes peuvent être amenés à produire au juge des recours générés par de l’IA[1]. Il faut dire que les requérants sont libres de recourir à des outils d’IA pour...
by BBC - about 4 hours
Heavy rains have ravaged the country's North Island, with a minister comparing it to a "war zone".
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
The Nintendo Wii first launched in 2006, and quickly became a fixture in living rooms around the world. It offered motion-controlled bowling, some basic internet features, and a pretty decent Zelda game. On top of all that, though, you could also use it to order a pizza, as [Retro Game Attic] demonstrates.
The Wii used to organize different features of the console into “channels.” Way back in the day, you could install the Demae Channel on your Wii in Japan, which would let you order fast food from various outlets using the Demaecan service.
The Demae Channel service was discontinued in 2017. However, it has since been resurrected by WiiLink, which is a homebrew project which replicates the functionality...
by Le Monde - about 5 hours
Outre le secrétaire d’Etat américain, Marco Rubio, l’envoyé spécial américain, Steve Witkoff, et Jared Kushner, le gendre du président, de nombreux dirigeants et hauts diplomates assistent à la cérémonie de lancement de cet organisme.
by Torrentfreak - about 6 hours
Originally the home of The Pirate Bay, Sweden has a long and well-documented history when it comes to online piracy.
As in other countries, however, many Swedish pirates have made the switch from relatively cumbersome torrents to on-demand streaming. That includes pirate IPTV services.
According to recent estimates, some 700,000 Swedish households have access to illegal IPTV services. These low-cost subscriptions are substantially cheaper than those offered by legitimate streaming services, but they nonetheless bring in serious revenue for the operators. To curb the IPTV problem, Sweden has convicted operators and issued blocking orders. In addition, the Government plans to update local law to make it possible...
by daryo Bluesky - about 6 hours
TEPCO Restarts Nuclear Reactor First Time Since Fukushima
https://humanprogress.org/japans-tepco-restarts-nuclear-reactor-first-time-since-fukushima/
by Journal du Lapin - about 7 hours
Realtek, ces dernières années, a visiblement décidé d’accélérer un peu les choses. Alors que la puce RTL8153 est intégrée dans la majorité des adaptateurs USB (et dans pas mal de stations d’accueil, aussi), la société propose aussi la RTL8156 (2,5 Gb/s), la RTL8157 (5 Gb/s) et maintenant la RTL8159 (10 Gb/s). La RTL8156, elle est courante : les adaptateurs Ethernet 2,5 Gb/s en USB existent depuis un moment et on en trouve vers 20 € sans soucis. La RTL8157 est plus récente, et les adaptateurs se dénichent vers 30 € en noname. La RTL8159, elle, est vraiment récente. J’ai acheté mon adaptateur sur Alibaba, c’est un sample pour les sociétés qui veulent en vendre sans développer le...
by Le Taurillon - about 7 hours
Lorsque la France et l'Allemagne ont signé le nouveau traité d'amitié franco-allemand à Aix-la-Chapelle en janvier 2019, le symbolisme était fort : exactement 56 ans après le traité de l'Élysée de 1963, le traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle devait donner un nouvel élan au « moteur franco-allemand » de l'Europe. À une époque marquée par une incertitude géopolitique croissante, des tensions internes en Europe et des doutes grandissants quant à la capacité d'action de l'Union européenne, la promesse était la suivante : plus de coopération, plus de souveraineté, plus d'Europe, portée par son noyau historique. Sept ans plus tard, en 2026, le bilan est mitigé. Le traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle a donné des...
by HackAdAy - about 8 hours
Creative clocks are a dime a dozen, even clocks that use binary have been created in nearly every format. [typo] promises a clever adaptation to the binary format, and it promises a more usable display. Using a combination of both traditional binary and digital gradients creates a usable and yet still nerdy fun clock.
[typo]’s clock fits the traditional binary counting method with the hours on the left side of its face. On the other hand, its right side presents a lighting gradient depending on the completion of the hour. While this is simple in principle, [typo] chose to correct what many don’t consider when deploying visual gradients. The human eye doesn’t see everything exactly as it is, which creates...
by The Verge - about 9 hours
Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call "theft at a grand scale" by AI companies. The signatories of the campaign - called "Stealing Isn't Innovation" - include authors George Saunders and Jodi Picoult, actors Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, and musicians like the band R.E.M., Billy Corgan, and The Roots. "Driven by fierce competition for leadership in the new GenAI technology, profit-hungry technology companies, including those among the richest in the world as well as private equity-backed ventures, have copied a massive amount of creative content online without authori …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Le Monde - about 9 hours
Essor de l’enseignement privé, explosion du prix du logement, stagnation des aides de l’Etat : la poursuite d’études après le bac représente une charge de plus en plus lourde pour les foyers.
by Le Monde - about 9 hours
Selon l’enquête, le meurtre de Chloé Aldrovandi, tuée à la place de son petit ami à Ponte-Leccia (Haute-Corse) en février 2025, trouverait son origine dans la vendetta à laquelle se livrent depuis des années deux familles proches de la pègre insulaire.
by HackAdAy - about 11 hours
One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, you might use a potentiometer or a pot to provide an adjustable value. However, as [Ralph] discovered, there’s no pot component in LTSpice. At first, he cobbled up a fake pot with two resistors, one representing the top terminal to the wiper, and the other one representing the wiper to the bottom terminal. Check it out in the video below.
At first, [Ralph] just set values for the two halves manually, making sure not to set either resistor to zero so as not to merge the nets. However, as you might guess, you can make the values parameters and then step them. 
By using .step you can...
by QZ - about 13 hours
U.S. middle management job postings were about 42% lower in late 2025 than at their April 2022 peak, according to Revelio Labs.
by HackAdAy - about 14 hours
Normally, if you want to blast out samples to a DAC in a hurry, you’d rely on an FPGA, what with their penchant for doing things very quicky and in parallel. However, [Anabit] figured out a way to do the same thing with a microcontroller, thanks to the magic of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2.
The design in question is referred to as the PiWave 150 MS/s Bipolar DAC, and as the name suggests, it’s capable of delivering a full 150 million samples per second with 10, 12, or 14 bits of resolution. Achieving that with a microcontroller would normally be pretty difficult. In regular linear operation, it’s hard to clock bits out to GPIO pins at that sort of speed. However, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 serves as a special...
by The Verge - about 14 hours
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off at Launch Complex 36 in its second launch attempt at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 13, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Getty Images SpaceX has the most internet-beaming satellites in its constellation, but the competition is coming, and now Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, has announced the TeraWave network. It says TeraWave will offer bandwidth of up to 6Tb available anywhere on Earth, for both upload and download.
The only wrinkle? Even after satellite deployments are scheduled to start near the end of 2027, you probably won't be able to connect directly. That's by design, as former Amazon Alexa boss...
by The Verge - about 15 hours
Sennheiser’s new Auracast transmitter can be purchased as part of a bundle with its new wireless headphones. | Image: Sennheiser As we've previously lamented, one of Bluetooth's best modern features isn't being embraced by the tech world, but that's changing. Sennheiser has announced a new pair of wireless headphones and a transmitter designed for private TV watching that both use a Bluetooth feature called Auracast. Like tuning into a radio station broadcast from a tower, multiple headphones, earbuds, hearing aids, and even speakers can tune into audio from the Sennheiser BTA1 digital transmitter without the hassles and limitations of pairing - if they're Auracast compatible.
Sennheiser's $299.95 RS 275 TV...
by The Verge - about 15 hours
The aptly titled Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition is currently on sale as part of a bundle starting at $327.97. When it comes to finding a device to read ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a tablet or use your phone, but those devices are multipurpose and can be used for a ton of things, like surfing the web or doomscrolling on X or Bluesky. If you are looking for something to strictly read books, e-readers, while niche, are designed to store all of your books in a virtual library with limited functionality.   Amazon, one of the pioneers of the e-reader, has dominated the space for years with its ever-expanding Kindle lineup, which consists of several unique models with their...
by FluxBlog - yesterday at 21:47
Kim Gordon “Not Today”
After a few years exploring very modern electronic sounds, Kim Gordon has circled back to Sonic Youth aesthetic territory without actually sounding like anything Sonic Youth ever made. “Not Today” has a hypnotic motorik groove and woozy shoegaze guitars, both of which I’d say are adjacent to that band’s sound without ever really being something they actually did. This makes the song feel both familiar and slightly off, like a random person you know appearing in your dream in some peculiar context doing something that doesn’t quite make sense outside of dream logic. And it sounds dreamy too. The music whooshes along, but it’s all velocity and no weight. Gordon is there in...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 20:10
“Tokyo Electric Power on Wednesday restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after inspections were completed, its first such move since the Fukushima disaster in 2011. TEPCO put online the 1.36 gigawatt (GW) reactor No. 6, one of seven at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s biggest nuclear power station capable of producing 8.2 GW of electricity when at full capacity.” From Reuters.
The post TEPCO Restarts Nuclear Reactor First Time Since Fukushima appeared first on Human Progress.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 20:05
“The UK is poised to extend the life of Sizewell B, a nuclear power station that supplies around 3 per cent of the country’s electricity, for a further 20 years as it seeks to bridge a gap in nuclear generation before new plants come online.” From Financial Times.
The post UK to Extend Life of Sizewell B Nuclear Plant by 20 Years appeared first on Human Progress.
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 18:05
Mardi 13 janvier, la NASA a signé un protocole d'accord avec le département américain de l’Énergie afin de s’engager à implanter un réacteur nucléaire sur la Lune avant 2030. Un scénario imaginé dès 1940 par l'écrivain de science-fiction Robert A. Heinlein dans l’une de ses nouvelles, comme le rappelait Usbek & Rica dans le numéro d’octobre 2025 de son magazine FUTUR.
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 17:59
Selon la députée LFI Mathilde Panot, les compromis acceptés par les socialistes concernant le budget de l’Etat sont bien en deçà des mesures que le parti à la rose défendait il y a encore quelques mois dans son propre programme. Décryptage.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 17:46
Summary: The bicycle, once a costly luxury, has become a symbol of how innovation transforms scarcity into abundance. What began as a marvel of mechanics in the 19th century is now affordable to nearly everyone, thanks to rising productivity and human ingenuity. Over time, free markets and technological progress have multiplied access to tools of freedom and mobility. In 1885, John Kemp Starley invented the modern bicycle with two wheels of the same size and a rear wheel connected and driven by a chain. Interest in the new innovation exploded. By the 1890s, Europe and the United States were in the midst of a bike craze. A New York Times article from 1896 gushed that “the bicycle promises a splendid extension...
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
France • May 2020 📷 #flashes
by Human Progress - yesterday at 15:53
“Japan has launched the world’s first test to extract rare earth elements from deep-sea mud, aiming to reduce its reliance on Chinese supplies amid rising geopolitical and trade tensions. Chikyu, a government-backed Japanese mining vessel set sail on Monday for waters near Minamitori Island, a remote coral atoll in the Pacific, to study seabed mud rich in rare earth elements at a depth of about four miles. If successful, the project would mark the first sustained attempt globally to lift rare-earth-bearing sludge from the ocean floor directly onto a ship.” From MINING.COM.
The post Japan Launches World’s First Deep-Sea Rare Earth Mining Test appeared first on Human Progress.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 15:42
“Wall Street is finding an unexpected beneficiary of America’s weight loss boom: airlines. With the first GLP-1 weight loss drug now available in pill form, analysts at Jefferies say broad adoption across society could quietly lower fuel bills — airlines’ single largest cost — and lift earnings for the carriers. ‘A slimmer society = lower fuel consumption. Airlines have a history of being vigilant around aircraft weight savings, from olives (pitless, of course) to paper stock,’ the Wall Street firm said in a note to clients. Jefferies contended that a 10% reduction in average passenger weight could translate into roughly 2% total aircraft weight savings, up to 1.5% lower fuel costs and as much as...