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by Courrier International - about 24 minutes
Avec plus de 5 millions de comptes appartenant à des moins de 16 ans désactivés, le gouvernement australien pensait avoir montré la voie en matière de régulation des usages d’Internet pour les plus jeunes. Que nenni. Le système ne fonctionne pas, en raison d’une loi mal construite, jugent les experts.
by Wired - about 49 minutes
In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
by Journal du Lapin - about 2 hours
La manette de Xbox 360, sortie en 2005 en même temps que la console, est plutôt une réussite : elle a servi de base aux manettes suivantes (la manette de Xbox Series est une évolution) et est devenu le standard de facto dans les jeux. Mais elle a quand même un défaut : sa croix directionnelle. Elle est plutôt mauvaise, surtout quand on a l’habitude des modèles de Sony. En 2010, Microsoft a sorti une version modifiée un peu en catimini avec une innovation intéressante : une croix transformable. Une manette de Xbox 360 en haut. La version transformable de 2010 en bas.
C’est une manette assez rare : elle a été proposé dans quelques couleurs (notamment du doré ou du chromé) mais a priori pas...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Vous êtes en terminale ou en première spécialité histoire-géographie, géopolitique et sciences politiques (HGGSP) ? Chaque semaine, Benjamin Daubeuf, professeur agrégé d’histoire-géographie, vous conseille la lecture d’un article d’actualité qui résonne avec votre programme. Ce mercredi, une analyse sur la situation du Somaliland, une république africaine autoproclamée qui attire l’attention de nombreux États mais n’est reconnue que par un seul : Israël.
by Conspiracy Watch - about 2 hours
Mêlant promesses ambitieuses, rhétorique anti-occidentale et alignement sur la Russie, le discours populiste du président burkinabè séduit une large audience en Afrique et au-delà. Portrait.
by Le Taurillon - about 2 hours
Jeudi 26 mars, les députés du Parlement européen, réunis en séance plénière à Bruxelles, ont voté en faveur d'un règlement destiné à installer une législation européenne commune concernant le renvoi des personnes migrantes en situation irrégulière. Fait inédit dans l'histoire parlementaire européenne, le règlement a pu être validé avec le soutien massif des voix des partis d'extrême droite, sollicitées par le Parti populaire européen (PPE). Un texte au parfum d'extrême droite
C'est avec l'énergie du négociateur du Parti populaire européen (PPE - centre-droit/droite), l'eurodéputé français François-Xavier Bellamy, que ce cas inédit à pu se produire dans l'hémicycle bruxellois...
by Korben - about 3 hours
Si votre coeur bat, sachez que la CIA peut vous retrouver n'importe où !
C'est pas moi qui le dis, c'est John Ratcliffe, le directeur de la CIA en personne, qui l'a annoncé ce lundi 7 avril après que ses équipes aient utilisé un outil baptisé Ghost Murmur pour localiser un membre d'équipage américain abattu en Iran, à 65 kilomètres de distance, en captant juste les battements de son coeur.
On dirait vraiment de la SF mais je vais tout vous expliquer.
L'officier des systèmes d'armes d'un F-15E Strike Eagle (oui c'est son titre officiel), nom de code "Dude 44 Bravo", s'est éjecté de son appareil et a du se planquer dans une crevasse en plein désert montagneux du sud de l'Iran, avec les forces...
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Donald Trump a annoncé une trêve de deux semaines en échange d’une réouverture du détroit d’Ormuz. Téhéran a accepté ces conditions, mais dit que « cela ne signifie pas la fin de la guerre ». Le cessez-le-feu a été salué par la communauté internationale, y compris Emmanuel Macron, qui a affirmé qu’il devait inclure « pleinement » le Liban, contre l’avis d’Israël.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just switching between tasks very quickly. But a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) computer is different. Today, [Asianometry] tells us about VLIW computing and its history.
Processors have multiple functional units; for example, you might have separate units each for addition, multiplication and division. But because it runs one instruction at a time, these units tend to spend a large amount of time idle. VLIW aims to address this inefficiency by reinventing what an instruction means. Instead of telling the whole processor what to do, a VLIW instruction tells each functional unit what to do at...
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Un ressortissant chinois a déposé une plainte après des sévices subis au cours de sa garde à vue, dans un poste de police déjà concerné par des faits similaires pour lesquels deux fonctionnaires ont été condamnés en 2024. Une enquête a été ouverte.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Une personne a été tuée et deux autres blessées lors d’une frappe russe sur l’oblast de Zaporijia mardi en fin de journée, a annoncé le chef de l’administration militaire de la région.
by Korben - about 3 hours
Anthropic vient de lâcher une bombe !
Le labo derrière Claude a dévoilé le
Projet Glasswing
, une initiative de cybersécurité qui embarque un nouveau modèle, Claude Mythos, tellement efficace pour trouver des failles qu'ils ont décidé de ne pas le rendre public. En gros, l'IA est devenue meilleure que la plupart des humains pour dénicher des vulnérabilités zero-day... et ça va faire mal ^^.
Concrètement, Mythos a trouvé des milliers de zero-days dans tous les OS et navigateurs majeurs ces dernières semaines. Et pas des failles mineures, hein ! Une vulnérabilité dans OpenBSD qui traînait depuis 27 ans, un bug dans FFmpeg vieux de 16 ans qui avait survécu à 5 millions d'itérations de tests...
by Les Décodeurs - about 3 hours
Pour la première fois depuis le début du scandale, des habitants de lieux pollués par les PFAS se sont rencontrés début mars dans la capitale européenne pour suivre une formation à l’action politique. Récit d’un moment historique.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Les principales actualités de ces dernières heures vues par la presse internationale.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Washington et Téhéran se sont mis d’accord mardi pour une trêve en échange d’une réouverture du détroit d’Ormuz, un peu plus d’une heure avant l’expiration de l’ultimatum de Trump qui menaçait de détruire l’Iran. Pour la presse américaine, les déclarations extrêmes du républicain l’ont sans doute aidé à obtenir cette porte de sortie. Mais s’il ne s’agit que d’un répit temporaire.
by Asialyst - about 4 hours
« Cela fait un demi-siècle que j’accompagne, en tant que journaliste, les transformations de notre planète. Huit années que j’analyse, chaque matin au micro de France Inter, la bascule de nos sociétés. Je tente ici de décrypter ce que nous vivons aujourd’hui : la fin d’un monde, celui qui est sorti de la Seconde Guerre mondiale avec ses institutions imparfaites et ses règles de droit souvent malmenées. Et surtout, la naissance d’un nouveau. Qu’en ferons-nous ? Sera-t-il celui des rapports de force et des systèmes autoritaires, ou aurons-nous la sagesse d’en bâtir un meilleur, plus équitable et ouvert ? » Voici comment le journaliste Pierre Haski présente son dernier opus « La fin...
by BBC - about 4 hours
The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.
by BBC - about 4 hours
Crude prices tumbled by as much as 15% on the conditional pause but is higher than before the war.
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
Dans “Romería”, la Catalane Carla Simón explore une fois de plus, par le biais de la fiction, la mort de ses parents, en pleine épidémie de sida. En salle le 8 avril, son long-métrage parvient toutefois à dépasser l’intime pour questionner avec sensibilité les tabous de l’ère postfranquiste, salue le quotidien espagnol “El Mundo”.
by Le Monde - about 5 hours
Détenus depuis 2022, les deux Français ont été libérés en échange de la levée de l’assignation à résidence d’une Iranienne condamnée en France pour « provocation en ligne au terrorisme ».
by BBC - about 5 hours
The provisional truce comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran.
by BBC - about 5 hours
He will serve out the rest of Marjorie Taylor Greene's term, which ends in January 2027.
by io9 - about 5 hours
The system card says it can do things like leak information, cheat on tests, and hide the evidence of its misdeeds.
by QZ - about 5 hours
Trump said he would suspend bombing operations against Iran in exchange for Tehran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
by QZ - about 5 hours
Employees are expected to bring bold ideas but fear career consequences if they fail. Here’s why workplace culture often suppresses creativity
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, it would seem that this time now has finally come. In a Linux patch submitted by [Ingo Molnar] the first concrete step is taken by removing support for i486 in the build system. With this patch now accepted into the ‘tip’ branch, this means that no i486-compatible image can be built any more as it works its way into the release branches, starting with kernel 7.1.
No mainstream Linux distribution currently supports the 486 CPU, so the impact should be minimal, and there has been plenty of warning. We covered the topic back in 2022 when [Linus] first floated the idea, as well as in...
by QZ - about 7 hours
The average brokerage recommendation (ABR) for Rigetti Computing (RGTI) is equivalent to a Buy. The overly optimistic recommendations of Wall Street analysts ma
by QZ - about 7 hours
Based on the average brokerage recommendation (ABR), Microsoft (MSFT) should be added to one's portfolio. Wall Street analysts' overly optimistic recommendation
by QZ - about 7 hours
Teradyne rides on booming AI data center demand, with AI apps driving more than 60% of revenue and new platforms boosting its test solutions portfolio.
by io9 - about 9 hours
Musk also wants Sam Altman out of OpenAI.
by The Brighter Side - about 9 hours
The human gut is alive with activity. Millions of microorganisms compete, cooperate, and coexist in ways that can profoundly affect your health. Yet, for all the research on which bacteria live in our intestines, scientists have only begun to understand the invisible rules that govern their communities. A new study by Pyry Sipilä of the University of Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues sheds light on how these microbial neighborhoods organize themselves and hints at ways they might one day be guided to improve health. The research examined microbial communities not just as collections of species but as dynamic systems. Instead of cataloging who is present, the scientists focused on how these species interact....
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
When LG left the smartphone market, quite a number of strange devices were left behind. While some, like the Wing, made it to consumers, others did not. The strangest of these would have to be their rollable phone concept; a device which would expand by unrolling a portion of the screen like a scroll. This never made it to market, but one managed to make its way to [JerryRigEverything’s] workbench, and we are fortunate enough to see the insides of this strange device. 
There are a few interesting tidbits about the device before even entering the device. Very clearly this phone was ready to be sold, with a tidy user interface for expanding the display, and even animated wallpapers which which expand with it....
by io9 - about 9 hours
CISA issued a new warning on Tuesday.
by Le Monde - about 9 hours
Boris Vallaud et Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol ont dénoncé le refus de la direction de soumettre au vote une résolution proposant que les militants choisissent avant l’été un candidat socialiste à la présidentielle.
by New Yorker - about 9 hours
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse.
by The Verge - about 10 hours
It’s not every day you find a decent pair of wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation, a transparency mode, and app support for less than $20, which is why the current lighting deal on the CMF Buds 2A stands out. Now through 11:15PM ET today, April 7th, Nothing’s budget earbuds are available on Amazon in all three colors for just $19.99 ($29 off), which matches their lowest price to date.
Nothing CMF Buds 2A Where to Buy: $49 $19.99 at Amazon (black) $49 $19.99 at Amazon (white) $49 $19.99 at Amazon (orange)
For the price, the Buds 2A cover the basics and then some. They deliver decent (albeit somewhat tinny) sound and 42 decibels of noise cancellation, along with an IP54 rating and a useful...
by io9 - about 10 hours
The head of Marvel Television explained that there was a disconnect between fans and general audiences.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:50
Everysight's Maverick AI Pro smart glasses are trying to take one of the Vision Pro's best features, but it ain't that simple.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:48
As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation.
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:44
It’s finally the end of the line for the 1st generation Amazon Kindle. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will "no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store," Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke wrote in an email to The Verge. Users will still be able to read books already downloaded to their devices and can access their accounts and Kindle purchases through the Kindle mobile app, Kindle for Web, and newer devices. If the older devices are deregistered or factory reset, users won't be able to re-register them after the May deadline.
The complete list of affected devices...
by Wired - yesterday at 22:59
It’s a better rating than the company has gotten from repairability experts before, at least. Samsung is second worst with a D.
by Wired - yesterday at 22:13
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:13
On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find new shows to listen to. Prompted Playlists were originally launched as a beta feature in December, but previously only worked for music. You can use the feature to effectively generate customized Discover Weekly playlists using text prompts to "steer the algorithm" toward specific genres or themes. Tuesday's update allows you to do the same thing with playlists of podcast episodes. The feature is still in beta, though, and is currently only available in English for Premium users in the U.S., Canada …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 22:07
The sweepers are out front, and curling is trying to move faster than it ever has before. Just over a month after the Winter Olympics put the sport back in front of a huge global audience, the new Rock League opened in Toronto on April 6 to 12. It offers something curling has never had before: a professional league built around franchises, team branding and a broadcast-ready format. The league features six mixed-gender franchises and events across men’s, women’s, mixed team and mixed doubles competition. According to The Curling Group, which operates the league, games run about two hours. The company also owns the Grand Slam of Curling series. Additionally, it has brought in former Olympic champions...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
When you’re programming microcontrollers, you’re likely to think in C if you’re old-school, Rust if you’re trendy, or Python if you want it done quick and have resources to spare. What about Go? The programming language, not the game. That’s an option, too, with TinyGo now supporting over 100 different dev boards, along with webASM.
We covered TinyGo back in 2019, but they were just getting started at that point, targeting the Arduino and BBC:micro boards. They’ve grown that list to include everything from most of Adafruit’s fruitful suite of offerings, ESP32s, and even the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. So now you can go program go in Go so you can play go on the go.
The biggest drawback–which is...
by BBC - yesterday at 21:40
West was due to headline the festival in July but drew criticism over past antisemitic comments.
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:07
Android XR is getting a new feature that turns 2D apps, websites, images, and videos into "3D experiences." The feature, which Google calls "auto-spatialization," was initially announced last year, and it's launching on Tuesday as an experimental feature for Samsung Galaxy XR headsets.
Here's a video from Google that gives you an idea about how auto-spatialization might look in practice: There are a few caveats to auto-spatialization: it supports content up to 1080p or lower at 30fps, it "uses slightly more battery power," and it only works "on the app window currently in focus," Google says. But if you have a Galaxy XR device, it could be …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:05
Making the case for better selfies. The Selfix phone case is a classic example of a great idea in theory that falls apart in practice.
It's a case for the iPhone 17 Pro with a circular screen on the back. It mirrors the middle of your main phone screen, making it easier to frame up selfies using your phone's higher-quality rear cameras rather than the selfie camera. A nice concept! I wish it worked better.
Selfie cameras have come a long way, and the updated sensor in the iPhone 17 series' front-facing camera is more than capable in good lighting. But there are still ways that the bigger sensors and lenses in your phone's rear cameras outperform them: They can do slow-motion …
Read the full story at The...
by Wired - yesterday at 20:49
The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 20:45
Un ultimatum de plus. Face à la mise sous tension du marché des hydrocarbures, le président américain a usé à nouveau d’une de ses techniques de négociation préférées en donnant à l’Iran jusqu’au 7 avril pour rétablir la circulation des navires dans le détroit d’Ormuz.
by Wired - yesterday at 20:34
The first images from Artemis II reveal what the moon looks like just 7,000 km from the surface—and confirm that NASA is ready to return to Earth’s satellite.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
Adding another item on the list of things you probably shouldn’t be trying at home, we got [Brainiac75] giving magnetic levitation a shot using an unmodified induction cooktop and aluminium foil. Although not ferromagnetic, it turns out that aluminium can be made to do interesting things in the magnetic field created by the powerful electromagnet that underlies the induction principle.
Interestingly, although there’s a detection circuit in these units that should detect the presence of an appropriate (ferromagnetic) object, it appears that even a thin sheet of aluminium foil can completely deceive it. The effect is that of a force pushing the foil away from the cooktop’s surface, with foil areas that...
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 20:07
A change to one labor rule can ripple far beyond a single page of legislation. That is the central message of a new study examining Oman’s Labor Law of 2023, which treats the law less like a list of isolated articles and more like a tightly connected system. Using artificial intelligence tools, researchers at Sultan Qaboos University mapped how parts of the law link to one another and found that some provisions carry far more structural weight than others. The study, published in The Journal of Engineering Research, argues that legal reform often misses these hidden links. When lawmakers revise one article, they may also affect provisions tied to wages, workplace safety, social protection, immigration, or...
by Zataz - yesterday at 19:24
KFC France alerte sur une fuite de données Colonel Club et sur le risque de phishing, SMS frauduleux et usurpation.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:15
Summary: Trade tends to reduce prejudice by fostering cooperation, competition, and repeated interaction across groups. Economic theory and empirical research show that economic freedom and globalization are consistently associated with lower levels of nationalism, ethnocentrism, and discrimination. By enabling mutually beneficial exchange and expanding social contact, markets help cultivate tolerance and weaken “us versus them” thinking. In earlier essays, I argued that trade makes us richer, more trusting, more honest, and more fair. Yet over the past decade or so, we have witnessed a growing populist backlash against globalization and international trade. Many critics portray international trade as an...
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 18:07
Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before symptoms appear. New research suggests that what happens in those earlier years, especially how often the brain is challenged, may shape how well it holds on later. A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has found that long-term mental stimulation can help preserve memory and brain connections in Alzheimer’s disease. The findings, published in iScience, come from studies in animal models that mimic key features of the condition. The work offers a hopeful idea. Even as Alzheimer’s progresses, the brain may retain some ability to resist damage. That...
by Korben - yesterday at 17:30
Retrouver un vieil article sur korben.info, c'est pas toujours simple. La home s'arrête à 5 pages (site statique oblige) et après, fallait se débrouiller avec les catégories ou le moteur de recherche. Alors pour vous faciliter un peu la vie, je vous ai mis à dispo des
pages d'archives
accessibles via le footer.
Ainsi, vous scrollez en bas de n'importe quelle page, vous cliquez sur "Archives" ou sur une année, et vous tombez sur un index chronologique complet. Chaque mois est listé avec tous ses jours, et pour chaque jour, un petit nombre entre parenthèses vous indique combien d'articles ont été publiés ce jour-là. Vous cliquez, vous avez tout. C'est vrai qu'avec plus de 19 000 articles publiés...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 17:04
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by Korben - yesterday at 17:04
Un passionné a tenté de récupérer son Pokémon coincé dans un Pokéwalker, ce petit podomètre vendu avec Pokémon HeartGold sur DS en 2009, après avoir perdu la cartouche de jeu.
Entre reverse engineering du protocole infrarouge et manipulation du générateur de nombres aléatoires, la tentative est bien technique. Et le résultat est plutôt cruel, pour une raison que personne n'avait anticipée…
Un Pokémon sans cartouche, un vrai problème
Le Pokéwalker, pour ceux qui ne s'en souviennent pas, c'était ce petit podomètre vendu avec Pokémon HeartGold et SoulSilver sur Nintendo DS en 2009. Le principe était simple : vous transfériez un Pokémon de votre partie vers cet accessoire, vous le...