He directed classic films including The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally.

Authorities say two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were among the victims.

The 78-year-old UK citizen was convicted of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on HK and China.

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following warnings issued earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot says it is entering Chapter 11 protection and will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotics.
The company says it will continue to operate "with no anticipated disruption to its app functionality, customer programs, global partners, supply chain relationships, or ongoing product support." This should mean that, at least for now, your Roomba will continue cleaning your floors just as it did before.
The Massachusetts …
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Fix stuff, earn big awards? Maybe, if this idea for repair bounties takes off. The group is dubbed the FULU Foundation, for “Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users,” and was co-founded by right-to-repair activist Kevin O’Reilly and perennial Big Tech thorn-in-the-side Louis Rossman. The operating model works a bit like the bug bounty system, but in reverse: FULU posts cash bounties on consumer-hostile products, like refrigerators that DRM their water filters or bricked thermostats. The bounty starts at $10,000, but can increase based on donations from the public. FULU will match those donations up to $10,000, potentially making a very rich pot for the person or team that fixes the problem. So far,...

Les deux assaillants, un père de 50 ans, tué lors de l’attentat, et son fils de 24 ans ont ciblé les célébrations de Hanoukka sur la plage de Bondi, à Sydney. Le plus jeune suspect avait été l’objet d’une enquête des services de renseignement en 2019. Dans le pays, les actes antisémites se sont multipliés depuis le 7 octobre 2023.

Two people died and nine others were injured in the incident in Rhode Island on Saturday.

L’attentat qui a visé dimanche la communauté juive sur la plage de Bondi Beach à Sydney, faisant seize morts, dont l’un des tireurs présumés, a suscité une vive émotion à travers le monde. Et démontre une fois encore que “le fléau de l’antisémitisme est un phénomène mondial”, constate la presse internationale.

Le nombre de vidéos générées par intelligence artificielle explose en ligne, alimenté par des technologies de plus en plus performantes et des outils grand public, comme Veo, Sora ou Grok. Les conseils du « Monde » pour y voir plus clair.

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Après s’être fait connaître en tant qu’acteur dans la sitcom « All in the family » dans les années 1970, il commence une carrière derrière la caméra en 1984 avec « Spinal Tap », le premier de nombreux succès. La police de Los Angeles soupçonne un meurtre.

Le chef de l’Etat élu a promis d’en finir avec l’insécurité, l’immigration irrégulière et les difficultés économiques, évitant d’évoquer la dictature et ses positions ultraconservatrices sur les sujets de société.

Du fait de l’influence des applications de rencontre et des discours masculinisto-misogynes, et des pressions financières et sociales qu’ils semblent subir, de plus en plus d’hommes hétérosexuels ont du mal à envisager des relations amoureuses avec des femmes.

Une statue à la gloire du tsar Ivan IV dit le Terrible a été inaugurée dans la ville de Vologda, à 450 kilomètres au nord de Moscou. Pour ce chroniqueur de “Republic”, une publication russe en exil, cela ressemble à un plaidoyer des autorités locales auprès du Kremlin pour obtenir le droit d’écraser les ennemis intérieurs, “un hommage au principe même du pouvoir absolu”.

La Tunisie de Kaïs Saïed n’en finit pas de plonger dans le despotisme judiciaire, à coups de procès contre des opposants pour de vagues “complots contre la sûreté de l’État”. Une écrivaine et journaliste tunisienne décrit, pour l’édition arabe de “Raseef22”, un État qui se rétrécit autour de la seule figure, sacralisée, du président.

Le président ukrainien doit rencontrer, lundi, les deux émissaires américains, Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner, avant de poursuivre les discussions avec des dirigeants européens, dont le Britannique Keir Starmer et Emmanuel Macron.

He also directed 'Stand By Me,' 'A Few Good Men,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'This Is Spinal Tap,' and many more.

M. Lai « n’a jamais dévié de son intention de déstabiliser le gouvernement » chinois, a déclaré la juge dans ce procès critiqué par plusieurs pays occidentaux. A 78 ans, l’ex-magnat des médias, fondateur du journal aujourd’hui disparu « Apple Daily », risque la prison à vie.

It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that you’d need some percentage of the overall input, though exactly how much that was — 2%, 1%, or less — was an active research question. New research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute shows it is actually a lot easier to poison the well than that.
We’re talking parts-per-million of poison for large models, because the researchers found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM. Now, when we say poison the model, we’re not...

A conversation about the country’s unique Jewish community and rising levels of antisemitism.

Many believe Kast will be the most right-wing president since Augusto Pinochet, who oversaw a 17-year dictatorship in Chile from 1973.

My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds new ways to sculpt the sound of her violin, contorting it in defiance of expectations. Athena found her in conversation with it, leaving its timbre largely recognizable and organic, veering from experimental pop to more ambient passages. Natural Brown Prom Queen embraced the aesthetics of sound collage, samples, and modern R&B, blending her violin with more expressly electronic elements. The BPM has identifiable violin passages, but it fully embraces the more technological elements o …
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L’actu de la semaine décryptée par Conspiracy Watch (du 08/12/2025 au 14/12/2025).

Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely - including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.
In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be …
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A fresh new face with similar tastes could take the reigns for the return of 'Paranormal Activity.'

If you live in a major city, you’ve probably seen a street performer with some variety of slapophone. It’s a simple musical instrument that typically uses different lengths of PVC pipe to act as resonant cavities. When struck with an implement like a flip-flop, they release a dull but pleasant tone. [Ivan Miranda] decided to build such an instrument himself and went even further by giving it MIDI capability. Check it out in the video below.
[Ivan’s] design uses a simple trick to provide a wide range of notes without needing a lot of individual pipes. He built four telescoping pipe assemblies, each of which can change length with the aid of a stepper motor and a toothed belt drive. Lengthening the cavity...

Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein,

Pour frapper les esprits quant à la puissance de GENESIS, il fallait une entreprise hors du commun. Et quoi de plus spectaculaire que le projet d’unifier les deux modèles physiques auxquels nous recourons : la relativité générale pour le macroscopique et la mécanique quantique pour le microscopique. Le projet a réussi. Nous préparons un article pour la revue Nature. Je vous tiens bien évidemment au courant.

If Arcanauts has its way, it won't be too long of a wait for 'Fate of the Old Republic'...but you're gonna do some waiting regardless.

Abynth 6’s very pretty, but questionably useful preset explorer. Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience among the growing cadre of people making music on computers. But its last major update, Absynth 5, was released in 2009, and Native Instruments officially discontinued the instrument in 2022, citing a lack of resources to continue supporting software in desperate need of modernization. But now the Absynth is making a grand return with version six, created in collaboration with the original designer Brian Clevinger, and featuring presets from Brian Eno and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
The core of what made it so beloved...

Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 13 et dimanche 14 décembre ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces quarante-huit dernières heures.

Grok has lost it. Again.

One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches to level-shifting.
In the video, the specific voltage domains of 3.3 volts and 5 volts are given, but you can apply the same principles to other voltage domains, such as 1.8 volts, 2.5 volts, or nearly any two levels. Various approaches are discussed depending on whether you are interfacing 5 V to 3.3 V or 3.3 V to 5 V. The first way to convert 5 V into 3.3 V is to use a voltage divider, made from two resistors. This is a balancing act: if the resistors are too small, the circuit wastes power; if they are too large, they...

Mercredi dans la soirée, le SAMU m’a emmené au CHU de Vannes : une septicémie m’avait complètement désorienté, rendu aveugle, etc. Un grand merci au personnel de soins intensifs pour m’être réveillé jeudi matin : la partie n’était pas gagnée d’avance. Merci ensuite au personnel de maladies infectieuses de m’avoir laissé dormir 48 heures de suite, une fois débranché de trois perfusions et de sept câbles me reliant à des moniteurs de fonctions vitales.
Je me remets doucement aux affaires !

Andy Muschietti let longtime fans know he's still got a supercut of the 'It' duology on his mind that he wants to make happen.

By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea - the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! - but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were going to change the way we did pretty much everything.
Apple was also already on an annual launch strategy, so we all knew there was another iPhone coming. Then an Apple employee left a prototype in a bar. Gizmodo bought it, took it apart, published all the sordid details, and pretty much broke the internet. And thus, the story of the iPhone 4 began well before the launch of the iPhone 4. And that's just the beginning of the drama! For this epis …
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These compact walking pads fit under your desk and make staying active so much easier.

PLA (polylactic acid) has become the lowest common denominator in FDM 3D printing, offering decent performance while being not very demanding on the printer. That said, it’s often noted that the supposed biodegradability of PLA turned out to be somewhat dishonest, as it requires an industrial composting setup to break it down. Meanwhile, a potential alternative has been waiting in the wings for a while, in the form of PHA. Recently, [JanTec Engineering] took a shot at this filament type to see how it prints and tests its basic resistance to various forms of abuse.
PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates) are polyesters that are produced by microorganisms, often through bacterial fermentation. Among their advantages are...

Whether you’re going off-grid or safeguarding against blackouts, these beefy, WIRED-tested batteries can keep the lights on.

The innovative smart baby monitor ecosystem adds a tablet to its lineup. Is it worth overlooking some quirks?

Stay strong, fair-weather friends—you can keep biking to work even through the darkest, coldest days.

In a report published this month, French telecoms regulator Arcom highlights the many challenges faced by those combating online piracy, particularly live sporting events.
Arcom reports big plans for fighting piracy in 2026 but begins by reviewing progress since 2009 when France launched its controversial ‘three strikes’ model to tackle once-dominant peer-to-peer file-sharing. Citing an 80% decrease in P2P use over the past 16 years, and the 75% of ‘first warning’ notice recipients who don’t go on to receive a second, Arcom says that the impact of the French system on behavior “is undeniable.” Arcom further reports that the overall audience for illicit services in France “is now at the lowest...

A little more accessible than the Apple Vision Pro, this Android XR headset could use more polish.

Our restaurant critic rounds up her favorite menu items from a year of eating out.

Despite our best efforts, we were going to be, in the end, two more thirtysomethings from Brooklyn getting married in the Hudson Valley.

The author reads his story from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine.

Workplace experts say the complex numbers show it’s way better to start stacking career hay right now than waiting for the holiday smoke to clear

If you want to avoid a clunker, Consumer Reports suggests avoiding these brands

Plusieurs réformes seront inaugurées lors des élections des 15 et 22 mars, dont l’élection directe du conseil municipal à Paris, Lyon et Marseille, ainsi que le scrutin de liste paritaire dans les petites communes.

Séminaire en droit des fonctions publiques hospitalières (2025-2026)
http://www.chezfoucart.com/2025/12/03/seminaire-en-droit-des-fonctions-publiques-hospitalieres-2025/

Dans les disques très rares pour la Pippin, celui de Subaru se place probablement dans le top. Je l’ai découvert avec une mauvaise photo en 2020 et j’avais trouvé quelques images dans un magazine (sur CD-ROM). J’en ai vu passer un récemment, mais je l’ai raté. C’est a priori un programme pensé pour les concessions Subaru, mais je n’ai pas réellement plus d’informations. Il était en vente avec une console, et le prix était trop élevé pour moi. Mais bon, je trouverais peut-être une copie un jour, j’ai bien récupéré quelques versions bêta avec le temps. Et au moins, j’ai une photo plus propre.
Le disque
Il y a visiblement un folder avec quelques informations
L’article Le CD-ROM...

Ex-employé de Google, Max Hawkins a mis ses talents de programmeur informatique au service du hasard. Des vêtements qu’il enfile le matin à la musique qu’il écoute en voiture en passant par son adresse postale, le jeune homme a laissé durant deux ans les algorithmes décider de chacune de ses actions. À l'été 2021, Usbek & Rica l'avait rencontré à San Francisco. Nous republions ici l'intégralité de ce portrait.

     
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The general belief in Hollywood is that piracy causes billions of dollars in lost revenue and is predominantly harmful.
However, if research has shown anything over the years, it’s that piracy can have positive effects too. Indeed, a new study from researchers at Monash University and San Jose State University, published in Research Policy, provides fresh evidence for this. It suggests that, under the right conditions, piracy can boost box office ticket sales. The paper, titled “Avengers assemble! When digital piracy increases box office demand”, uses a dataset that matches U.S. box office revenue with the timing of high-quality piracy releases between 2004 and 2020.
The paper: Avengers assemble!
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Petit retour sur la panique morale lancée par des syndicats policiers et qui a assuré à notre jeu une diffusion et une visibilité bienvenues. -
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The Fed cut interest rates again, but don't expect mortgage rates to follow suit. Here's why — and the factors that do move them

Consumer Reports ranked car brands across four metrics — road-test scores, predicted reliability, safety, and owner satisfaction

Discover top U.S. museums offering free admission days, from Brooklyn to the Bay Area and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.