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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...

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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.

Les dirigeants populistes sont tiraillés entre leur proximité affichée avec le président américain et la défense de la souveraineté des Etats. Si Viktor Orban ou Giorgia Meloni font profil bas, d’autres assument leur soutien au projet américain ou, au contraire, comme Jordan Bardella, dénoncent une « logique de vassalisation ».

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L’annonce a suivi un discours critique sur l’Europe à Davos et une discussion avec Mark Rutte, le secrétaire général de l’OTAN.

Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” vous propose l’horoscope poétique de Rob Brezsny, un des astrologues les plus atypiques de la planète. Verseau est le signe de la semaine.

Après la “vague rose” du début du XXIᵉ siècle, le continent a en grande partie basculé à droite en 2025. La faute au désenchantement face aux promesses progressistes, mais aussi à une évolution des priorités, analyse le site latino-américain “Connectas” : les électeurs souhaitent l’ordre, la sécurité et la croissance économique.

At Davos, the US president said he would not use force to take the island and later floated a possible "forever" deal.

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...

Egisto Ott, 63, denies charges of handing over information to Russian agents.

U.S. middle management job postings were about 42% lower in late 2025 than at their April 2022 peak, according to Revelio Labs.

Rats, cafards, cellules vétustes et violences : le dernier rapport de l’organisation de défense des droits de l’homme sur le Vieux Continent évoque des conditions d’incarcération « indignes ».

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...

The move follows renewed tensions between the US and EU, as Donald Trump pushes to acquire Greenland.

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...

Hot Toys' new sixth-scale collectible of Lee Jung-jae's haunted Seong Gi-hun, aka Player 456, comes with a lot of accessories—but you'll have to BYO baby.

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...

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...

Si vous voulez pimper votre propre QR Code pour vous différencier un peu des autres nazes qui font aussi leur QR Code, je vous invite à tester rapidos un petit outil qui m'a tapé dans l'œil.
Je vous ai déjà parlé des QR Codes générés par IA via
ControlNet
y'a un petit moment. Il sont visuellement dingues, mais là, on retourne aux sources, aux vraies mathématiques de quand vous étiez petit (enfin jeune quoi...lol).
Ce site, que je viens de découvrir c'est QArt Coder
, un projet de Russ Cox (oui, LE Russ Cox de l'équipe Go chez Google, calmez vous les groupies) et comme d'hab, le gars n'est pas là pour enfiler des perles puisqu'il nous proposer de générer des QR codes qui intègrent une...

The iPhone maker might be preparing to battle OpenAI's own family of AI gadgets.

J'avoue, j'ai un peu de mal avec l'univers des start-ups. Vous savez, ce petit monde des levées de fonds à rallonge, des pitchs sur LinkedIn et des banquiers qu'il faut brosser dans le sens du poil... C'est clairement pas mon truc. Je préfère rester dans mon coin, avec mon petit site, mon clavier et des gens qui aiment me lire.
La liberté quoi (en théorie ^^).
Mais bon, c'est pas parce que je n'aime pas l'écosystème que je ne respecte pas le boulot abattu, bien au contraire ! Monter une boîte, c'est un sacerdoce et pas mal de mecs et de filles s'y brûlent les ailes et beaucoup finissent par se planter.
C'est moche, mais c'est la réalité du business, surtout dans la tech !
Toutefois si vous avez...

The president says he "assumes" Denmark knows about the deal.

Nicholas Galitzine stars as He-Man in the upcoming movie, directed by Travis Knight.

(Creed voice) Head-phone wide op-ahn.

Apple is working on an AI-powered wearable pin with cameras and microphones designed to pick up a user's surroundings, according to a report from The Information. The rumored device is reportedly the size of an AirTag, with "thin, flat, circular" housing made from aluminium and glass.
The Information reports that Apple's rumored AI pin will have a standard lens and a wide-angle lens, along with three microphones, a speaker, a physical button on one of its sides, and support for wireless charging. The device is still in the "early stages" of development and could arrive as soon as 2027, according to The Information.
Along with this rumored …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Le Pentagone a informé ses alliés européens du prochain retrait de quelque 200 personnels américains de certaines structures dépendantes de l’organisation de défense collective.

OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to become America's health advisor, and not everyone's buying into it

Vous rêvez de lancer Claude sur un projet et de le laisser bosser tout seul pendant que vous faites autre chose, du genre jouer à Animal Crossing en attendant la fin de la journée ? Hé bien c'est exactement ce que propose Auto-Claude, un outil open source qui transforme l'assistant IA préféré des devs en armée de développeurs plus autonomes que votre mère quand il s'agit d'échanger un billet de train.
J'avais déjà parlé de
Claude Engineer
c'est vrai. C'est un framework CLI en Python qui permettait de faire bosser Claude en autonomie. Mais Auto-Claude, alalalala, c'est un autre délire les amis ! Déjà c'est une vraie application desktop avec interface graphique, tableau Kanban pour gérer vos...

Well there’s your problem. (Credit: Mark Funeaux, YouTube)
Akin to the razor-and-blades model, capsule-based coffee machines are an endless grind of overpriced pods and cheaply made machines that you’re supposed to throw out and buy a new one of, just so that you don’t waste all the proprietary pods you still have at home. What this also means is a seemingly endless supply of free broken capsule coffee makers that might be repairable. This is roughly how [Mark Furneaux] got into the habit of obtaining various Nespresso VertuoLine machine for attempted repairs.
The VirtuoLine machines feature the capsule with a bar code printed on the bottom of the lip, requiring the capsule to be spun around so that it...

Seven Muslim-majority countries accept an invitation to Trump's new organisation, while Russia's Putin says he's considering joining.

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...

Here’s how to pick the best mattress for your sleep needs, straight from a professional mattress tester.

J'sais pas vous, mais moi je trouve super dur quand j'utilise des outils comme VS Code ou ce genre de truc, de bien choisir les couleurs de son environnement. En général on prend un peu au pif et on finit souvent avec un mélange de thèmes sombres disparates entre toutes nos applications, qui piquent les yeux à 3h du matin. Ce genre de dev quoi...
Mais ça, c'était avant.
Car si vous cherchez à unifier votre setup avec quelque chose de vraiment propre, va falloir regarder cet outil : Catppuccin.
Catppucin, c'est un thème communautaire aux tons pastels qui se définit lui-même comme quelque chose d'"apaisant pour les esprits vifs". Et vu l’engouement des devs pour ce truc, faut croire que c'est vrai....

The ball is in the court of European leaders ahead of Thursday's emergency EU meeting in Brussels, writes Nick Beake.

This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is it so blazingly fast for some operations? Listen to find out! https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14551410/
https://github.com/openriak/
https://join.slack.com/t/postriak/shared_invite/zt-3i0e8alkg-hUKkWVcJQhWt5IzmQQ9I0w
https://files.tiot.jp/riak/
https://www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/
https://www.meetup.com/tokyo-openriak-meetup-group/ 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...

Up until now, no president has attempted to fire Federal Reserve officials since the central bank was established in 1913

“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.

“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.

As marketers lean on AI video to feed the posting grind, more than a third of consumers say it dents their perception of a brand

Les eurodéputés ont choisi de saisir la Cour de justice de l’UE sur le traité de libre-échange, ce qui gèle le processus de ratification. La Commission peut néanmoins décider d’une application provisoire.

La filière photovoltaïque a dépassé celle de l’hydraulique pour la première fois en termes de puissance installée, mais les appels d’offres de nouveaux projets sont suspendus depuis plusieurs mois, dans l’attente d’une nouvelle feuille de route énergétique.

Le futur du jeu vidéo va être génial ! J'en suis convaincu !
Souvenez-vous, je vous avais parlé de
Voyager
, ce petit robot qui explorait Minecraft tout seul comme un grand grâce à GPT-4. Eh bien, l'équipe de MineDojo (avec des chercheurs de chez NVIDIA, Caltech et Stanford) ont remis le couvert avec un truc encore plus costaud : NitroGen.
Là où les anciens modèles tâtonnaient ou avaient besoin de lire des tonnes de texte, cette nouvelle IA se base uniquement sur ce qu'elle voit à l'écran. C'est un modèle "vision-action". Schéma de fonctionnement du modèle NitroGen (
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En gros, elle regarde les pixels du jeu comme vous et moi, et elle en déduit sur quel bouton (virtuel) de gamepad...

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.

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.

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...

France • May 2020 📷 #flashes

“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.

“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...

September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Rassemblement à 18h. Les Alpes et la Méditerranée sont antifascistes ! -
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L'AG antifasciste donne rendez-vous à 18h devant le hall L de R2. -
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Illustration par ChatGPT
Ce livre est né d’un développement théorique inattendu. Ce qui avait commencé comme une enquête générale sur les conditions d’émergence de l’intelligence et du sens dans les systèmes complexes a progressivement révélé des conséquences bien au-delà de son champ initial. Un cadre élaboré pour formaliser la persistance de systèmes organisés capables d’apprentissage a produit, au fil de son propre développement interne, une série de résultats précis et non triviaux dans des domaines où de tels aboutissements n’étaient nullement recherchés à l’origine – en particulier en physique fondamentale. Ces résultats n’ont été ni postulés à l’avance ni...

Le président américain pouvait-il imposer des taxes à l’importation à ses partenaires commerciaux ? La réponse de la haute instance judiciaire pourrait non seulement redéfinir l’étendue des pouvoirs présidentiels en matière économique, mais aussi remettre en cause son principal levier diplomatique.

Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources.
However, in December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify, which came as a shock to the music industry.
While Anna’s Archive initially released only Spotify metadata, and no actual music, the industry was on high alert. Over Christmas, Spotify and the major labels prepared a legal response in U.S. federal court.
Music Companies File Complaint Under Seal
On December 29, Spotify, UMG, Sony, Warner, and other labels filed their complaint at the Southern District of New York. They accuse Anna’s Archive of mass copyright infringement, breach of...