What happens if a Waymo runs into an elephant? The world model knows.

The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good's killing—but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations.

Is this what a frothy bubble looks like?

Even with the full rollout of Amazon's Alexa+ and Google's Gemini for Home, it feels like we're still shouting into the void.

An adult cast romance about a poison assassin seeking love loosely riffing on 'Naruto' is about as peak‑shonen a premise as you can get.

A bankruptcy filing could result in almost 200 stores closing, while the restaurant industry also contracts

La journaliste acte son impossibilité de rester sur la même chaîne que Jean-Marc Morandini, deux fois définitivement condamné pour des faits de délinquance sexuelle mais maintenu en poste par sa direction.

CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot of choice instead of Siri. As Bloomberg reports, Apple is working to add support for CarPlay voice control apps from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others. Previously, users who wanted to access third-party chatbots in the car would need to go through their iPhone, but soon they may be able to talk with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini directly in CarPlay. However, Apple reportedly "won't let users replace the Siri button on CarPlay or the wake word that summons the service." So, users will need to manually open their preferred chatbot's app. Developers will be able to set their apps to autom …
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This is the final(ish) design of the T1 Phone, though it’s going to lose the T1 logo. | Screenshot: Dominic Preston / The Verge Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time, surprisingly, we received a response - and an interview.
The Trump phone is real - maybe, sort of, soon? - and I've seen it. Not in the flesh, but during an hourlong video call with two Trump Mobile executives who showed me a phone, and told me more about why it was delayed, when it might actually reach buyers, and why its spec sheet has changed again and again.
I spoke to Don Hendrickson - yes, the one who had seemingly...

Now that is a promotion.

The White House defended the post at first, calling to "stop the fake outrage", as members of both parties condemned the video.

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

Simulator-style video games are designed to scale in complexity, allowing players to engage at anything from a casual level to highly detailed, realistic simulation. Microsoft Flight Simulator, for example, can be played with a keyboard and mouse, a controller, or a huge, expensive simulator designed to replicate a specific airplane in every detail. Driving simulators are similar, and [CNCDan] has been hard at work on his DIY immersive driving sim rig, with this hand brake as his latest addition.
For this build, [CNCDan] is going with a lever-style handbrake which is common in motorsports like drifting and rallying. He has already built a set of custom pedals, so this design borrows heavily from them. That...

Plusieurs personnalités, liées à de grandes institutions norvégiennes, apparaissent dans les documents publiés par l’administration Trump. Outre le choc provoqué par certains échanges avec le prédateur sexuel, des soupçons de corruption planent désormais.

One Palestinian woman said members of the Israel-linked militia searched them and their belongings at an Israeli checkpoint inside Gaza.

The dollar has shed more than 10% of its value since Trump re-entered the Oval Office. The president says the weaker currency is "great"

Almost 170 were injured in the explosion, which took place during Friday prayers in the capital Islamabad.

Forget the Super Bowl, Samsung’s Fantastic S90F QD-OLED TV is on a sweet sale just in time for the Winter Olympics.

Fidget toys are everywhere these days. A particularly popular type simply puts some keyboard switches on a plate to provide a certain type of clicky satisfaction. [wjddnjsdnd] took that concept a step further, building a keychain-sized fidget toy that actually has games on it.
The build is based around six key switches in a 2 x 3 array. The key switches are notable in this case for being magnetic shaft keys. Rather than using a mechanical switch to indicate a keypress, the keycap instead merely moves a magnet which triggers a signal in a hall effect sensor beneath the key. In this case, the build uses A3144 hall effect sensors, which are read by the Arduino Nano running the show. The Nano is also hooked up to...

Saatva is providing a bedding bundle to Team USA hockey and figure skating at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games—here are my thoughts on it as a sleep coach.

Comment le géant automobile en est-il arrivé à passer une provision de 22 milliards d’euros dans ses comptes pour effectuer un rétropédalage industriel concernant le tout-électrique ? L’explication est organisationnelle, commerciale, mais aussi politique.

300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who purchased the legendary publication in 2013, has driven his reputation into the ground by using his vast empire to churn out content designed to make President Donald Trump happy: Amazon MGM Studios spent $40 million to produce a fawning documentary about Melania Trump, which premiered days before the Post sent out mass layoff notices. And yet, he's gotten nothing out of his attempts to suck up to Donald Trump - at least, nothing that's a net positive to his bottom line. Which begs the cynical question: …
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“Argentina and the United States agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on each other’s goods in an expansive trade deal that boosts a drive by President Javier Milei to open up Argentina’s protectionist economy… After imposing sweeping tariffs on its trading partners, the Trump administration changed its tune last November in announcing framework deals with four Latin American countries, including Argentina. The White House argued that the reduction of tariffs on Argentine beef and Ecuadorian bananas, among other imports, would improve the ability of American firms to sell products abroad and relieve rising prices for American consumers. The announcement also came as Trump’s steep tariffs drew...

Snowboard, luge, patinage artistique ou biathlon : les Jeux olympiques d’hiver de 2026 débutent ce vendredi 6 février à Milan-Cortina. Voici une petite sélection des athlètes à suivre.

“Ranchers can spend hundreds of thousands per year moving cattle between fields. GrazeMate builds autonomous drone software to guide cattle – doing the work of helicopters and motorbikes with AI that understands animal behaviour.” From Y Combinator.
The post GrazeMate: Drones That Herd Cattle appeared first on Human Progress.

Fortnite developer Epic Games says the account some people believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a "ruse." In a reply on X, the developer writes, "an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username" to "littlestjeff1," an alias spotted in several emailed receipts from YouTube in the Epstein files.
The email suggests that "littlestjeff1" may have been connected to Epstein's YouTube account, prompting online sleuths to search for the username on other platforms. Users later uncovered a "littlestjeff1" account on Fortnite, along with a 2019 email that mentions purchasing VBucks in Fortnite - though the sender and recipient are red …
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“Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa, according to a new paper published in the journal Science Advances. That would make this the oldest direct evidence of using poisons on projectiles—a cognitively complex hunting strategy—and pushes the timeline for using poison arrows back into the Pleistocene.” From Ars Technica.
The post These 60,000-Year-Old Poison Arrows Are Oldest Yet Found appeared first on Human Progress.

The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in MAGA media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him.

A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opinions; she now sees a vastly greater threat from the Trump Administration.

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

De 2019 à 2024, plus de 300 millions d’euros provenant d’activités criminelles auraient été blanchis à l’aide d’un système sophistiqué impliquant des sociétés françaises et des biens immobiliers en Roumanie.

“The Don River in Toronto was once so polluted with waste, garbage and chemicals that it caught on fire. The water itself, which flows towards Lake Ontario, was so inhospitable that it hosted life’s very antithesis. Now, after huge efforts to renaturalize the area, researchers are seeing a rebirth. The river has gone from being pronounced dead in 1969 to a place that is attracting fish and other aquatic species. This month, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) shared its findings from the Don River in 2025, which include more than 20 fish species documented in its waters. For the first time since 2012, an Atlantic Salmon was found in the area, along with the first-ever Emerald Bowfin — a...

“The Government of India in partnership with States/UTs is implementing the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) to provide functional tap water connections to every rural household (at 55 lpcd, BIS:10500 standard). Progress has been substantial: starting from 3.24 crore (16.71%) connections in August 2019, the number has surged to over 15.79 crore (81.57%) households as of January 29, 2026, providing water supply to the majority of rural India.” From Ministry of Jal Shakti.
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The entry-level AirPods are about $100. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday delivered some of the steepest discounts we’ve seen, there are still good deals to be found on every model in January. Below, we’ve rounded up the best deals currently available on each set of AirPods, including both iterations of the AirPods 4, the third-gen AirPods Pro, and the AirPods Max. The best AirPods 4 deals
Apple AirPods 4 Where to Buy:...

La Catalane Ivet Lloansí vit depuis plus de quatre ans à Hawaii, où elle fait de la recherche à l’université et gagne sa vie comme kinésithérapeute tout en trouvant le temps de jouer au foot tous les jours. Au quotidien “La Vanguardia”, elle confie : “Je n’ai plus envie repartir.”

Le choix de l’actrice Lupita Nyong’o, pressentie pour interpréter le personnage d’Hélène dans le prochain film “L’Odyssée” de Christopher Nolan, a été vivement critiqué. La presse grecque vole au secours du réalisateur et défend le message universel de l’épopée d’Homère.

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so.
We found no news to speak of, except that Kristina has ditched Windows after roughly 38 years. What is she running now? What does she miss about Windows? Tune in to find out.
On What’s That Sound, Kristina thought it was a jackhammer, but [Statistically Unlikely] knew it was ground-tamper thingy, and won a Hackaday Podcast t-shirt! Congratulations!
After that, it’s on to the hacks and such, beginning with 3D printing on the nano scale, and a couple of typewriter-based hacks.  Then we take a look at...

Abbas Aragchi spoke after hours of talks in Oman ended, which the two countries entered with significantly different positions.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s latest album, produced with his partner, Elizabeth, was made amid financial hardship and illness’s mounting toll.

Le nombre de diagnostics de dépression et de trouble anxieux augmente régulièrement en Russie, tout comme la consommation de médicaments pour les traiter. Une évolution que les spécialistes attribuent autant à la “peur de l’inconnu”, sur fond de guerre en Ukraine, qu’à un meilleur accès aux soins.

La chercheuse Virginie Collombier évalue, dans un entretien au « Monde », les conséquences pour la Libye de la mort du fils du dictateur Mouammar Kadhafi, dont les funérailles se sont tenues vendredi 6 février à Beni Walid, dans l’ouest du pays.

Face à leur propension à ne jamais y répondre, envoyer un texto à un homme a tout d’une aventure. Un comportement qui accroît le sentiment de solitude et le mal-être masculin. Pour ce journaliste de “The Atlantic”, il y a urgence à ce que les hommes apprennent à répondre aux SMS.

Le coup d’envoi officiel des Jeux olympiques a été donné, vendredi soir, au stade de San Siro à Milan, en conclusion d’une cérémonie organisée, en simultané, à Cortina d’Ampezzo, mais aussi à Livigno et Predazzo où des athlètes ont défilé.

Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev is a senior figure in the main directorate of Russia's military general staff.

The joy of camera hacking lies for many at the low end of the market. Not working with many-thousand-dollar Leicas, but in cheap snapshot cameras that can be had for next to nothing at a thrift store. [Marek Sokal] has a perfect example, in a 3D printed 35mm camera body using the lens and shutter assembly from a vintage Soviet Lomo Smena 8M.
The build is a work in progress, a printed assembly that holds the 35mm film cartridge, provides the focal plane for the film, and houses the take-up reel. It fits together with M2 screws, as per the Lomo lens.
We like this build, because we can see beyond the Lomo. In a box above the desk where this is being written there is a pile of old plastic snapshot cameras from the...

Les Jeux olympiques d’hiver 2026 de Milan-Cortina démarrent vendredi 6 février. Dans quelles disciplines les athlètes français ont-ils le plus de chances de remporter des médailles ?

Kotulo ward • Kenya • May 2011 📷 #flashes

Et si les meilleures techniques de game dev des années 2000 revenaient dans votre navigateur ?
ArcadeGPU, c'est un moteur de jeu complet qui tourne dans le navigateur grâce à WebGPU. C'est une vraie architecture de jeu avec walkmesh, hitbox BSP, moteur de script, pipeline graphique à la PS1 et même la physique Jolt intégrée (un moteur open source utilisé dans certains gros jeux). Le truc c'est que le dev derrière, un Français qui bosse seul sur le projet, a pris le parti de ressusciter des techniques qu'on utilisait entre 2000 et 2010 dans le développement de jeux. Du walkmesh pour la navigation des personnages, du hitmesh pour les collisions, du draw call only pour le rendu... Des trucs qu'on ne...

Many popular vehicles are actually selling for more than their MSRP, according to data from Consumer Reports and TrueCar

When it comes to seaborne propulsion, one simple layout has largely dominated over all others. You pair some kind of engine with some kind of basic propeller at the back of the ship, and then you throw on a rudder to handle the steering. This lets you push the ship forward, left, and right, and stopping is just a matter of turning the engine off and waiting… or reversing thrust if you’re really eager to slow down.
This basic system works for a grand majority of vessels out on the water. However, there is a more advanced design that offers not only forward propulsion, but also steering, all in the one package. It may look strange, but the Voith Schneider propeller offers some interesting benefits to...

Amazon’s earnings showed momentum across AWS and ads. Then, the company dared AI-hungry investors to underwrite its $200 billion long game

The crypto downturn has occurred against a backdrop of widening losses across high-growth tech stocks and other risk assets

In appointing Ronald Hicks to the most prominent post in the U.S. Church, is Leo XIV assembling his own Team U.S.A.?

VirtualBox, le bon vieux logiciel de virtualisation d'Oracle, vient de franchir un cap plutôt inattendu. Le code de développement supporte désormais KVM comme backend sur Linux ! En gros, au lieu de s'appuyer uniquement sur son propre module noyau (qui, soyons honnêtes, a toujours été un poil galère à maintenir), l'outil de virtualisation peut maintenant utiliser l'hyperviseur natif de Linux.
Et c'est pas rien quand on sait que le logiciel d'Oracle et KVM se marchaient dessus depuis des années. C'était impossible de faire tourner les deux en même temps... Du coup, plutôt que de continuer à se battre, Oracle a décidé de faire copain-copain avec KVM. C'est pas bête !
L'idée vient à l'origine...

De la taxe Zucman à l’abattement fiscal des retraités, les Décodeurs retracent l’itinéraire d’une vingtaine de mesures ayant fait l’objet d’intenses discussions six mois durant, avant d’être abandonnées.

Akinola Davies, Jr.,’s début feature, scripted by his older brother, Wale, follows two brothers and their father during Nigeria’s historic 1993 election.

On parle souvent de sobriété numérique, mais c'est assez rare de voir ça appliqué concrètement dans le monde du jeu vidéo car d'ordinaire, c'est plutôt la course aux téraflops et aux textures 4K qui font pleurer votre carte graphique. Du coup, quand un projet comme Trois-Rivières déboule, je trouve que ça mérite qu'on s'y arrête 2 minutes. L'idée de Richard Hanna et de son équipe, c'est de proposer un jeu d'action-aventure en pixel-art qui ne se contente pas d'être joli, mais qui porte un vrai message engagé. On y suit Maï, une randonneuse qui arrive dans un village paisible où trois affluents se rejoignent. Sauf que voilà, la flotte est polluée et il va falloir remonter à la source pour...

Dans un long article publié le samedi 31 janvier, le mensuel américain The Atlantic revient sur un projet en apparence extravagant visant à construire un gigantesque mur sous-marin pour protéger le glacier Thwaites, qui borde l’ouest de l’Antarctique. Comment ? En bloquant les courants d’eau chaude qui rongent progressivement le glacier et le rendent instable.

Aujourd'hui, on va aller un peu plus loin que les simples bidouilles habituelles car je vais vous présenter Reinstall
, un outil qui va peut-être vous changer la vie si vous gérez des serveurs distants.
Vous connaissez la chanson... vous avez un VPS sous Debian et vous voulez passer sous Arch pour faire votre malin. Sauf que pour opérer ce changement, c'est la galère assurée !! Faut passer par l'interface web de l'hébergeur, booter sur une ISO via une console VNC qui rame sa maman, et prier pour que le réseau revienne après le reboot.
Eh bien ça c'est terminé grâce à ce script Reinstall. Vous lui balancez une commande, le script s'occupe de tout, et hop, votre serveur redémarre sur le nouvel OS...

Anna’s Archive has faced a barrage of domain takedowns in recent weeks, after Spotify and several major record labels filed a high-profile lawsuit. The music industry giants filed the case after the shadow library planned to release hundreds of terabytes of scraped Spotify data, including full tracks. While Anna’s Archive has since taken its initial Spotify metadata release offline, the legal pressure hasn’t been lifted. On the contrary, the preliminary injunction issued by the New York court, targeting domain registries, registrars, and other intermediaries, has proven to be quite effective. The .org domain was the first to fall, followed by the .se and .in variants. However, not all intermediaries were...