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by The Verge - about 24 minutes
YouTube is making some changes that might affect how you share videos from the mobile app. From the app, you can finally share videos from a specific timestamp, which will make it easier to point someone to a part of a video you might want them to see while you're on your phone. However, this change will replace the Clips feature that lets you make a shareable clip from a video.
You'll still be able to watch any Clips that you've already made. But moving forward, "the ability to set an end time or include a custom description when sharing will no longer be available," YouTube says. The company notes that while clipping is "important way for …
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by New Yorker - about 31 minutes
Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour.
by io9 - about 1 hour
The footage played at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, featuring Pedro Pascal and a bunch of AT-ATs.
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
L’accord conclu en février entre trois organisations patronales et trois organisations syndicales prévoit notamment de ramener de 18 à 15 mois la durée maximale d’indemnisation pour les allocataires âgés de moins de 55 ans, et à 20,5 mois pour les plus de 55 ans.
by New Yorker - about 2 hours
Making the good book great again.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Disney would *really* like to remind you that 'Star Wars' is back in theaters in a month now.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:30
Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot star in 'Paycheck: The Movie.'
by BBC - yesterday at 23:18
The US president invites the two countries' leaders to Washington as Israel's prime minister insists troops will not leave southern Lebanon.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:10
Anthropic's Mythos might soon be deployed across the federal government.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:03
New findings foretell a looming catastrophe that would drastically alter the planet’s weather and climate.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:31
Google’s “Project Aura” will be its first Android XR glasses, expected later this year. | Image: Google, Xreal Google is reportedly partnering with Gucci to make a pair of AI smart glasses stylish enough people might actually want to wear them. According to Reuters, Gucci parent company Kering is planning to launch the glasses sometime in 2027. Google's first pair of Android XR glasses, "Project Aura," are expected to launch this year. They feature essentially the same look as Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, with chunky, black plastic frames. They'll usher in Google's second attempt at smart glasses, after Google Glass infamously failed to catch on over a decade ago. Last year, Google also announced glasses...
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:30
Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, has given $80 million to NPR. That's roughly seven years' worth of government funding ($11.2m) after Trump and Congress cut funds for public media, but only a fraction of NPR's full annual budget of $300 million. NPR may still cut jobs because the money has strings attached.
The money is specifically "to support the digital innovation that is essential to meeting the needs and serving the interests of public media audiences wherever they are and whenever they seek information," according to a press release. NPR journalist David Folkenflik writes …
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by The Verge - yesterday at 22:29
Netflix announced on Thursday that it will be launching a redesigned mobile app, which will include a vertical video feed, at the end of April. "This redesign will better reflect our expanding entertainment offering and make it easier for members to engage how and when they want," the company said in its Q1 2026 earnings letter to shareholders.
In Thursday's letter, the company said that the lines between "entertainment on TV and mobile devices are blurring," noting that video podcasts "over-index" on mobile. Co-CEO Greg Peters said in January that the company was planning to revamp its mobile UI as a way to "better serve the expansion of o …
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by The Verge - yesterday at 22:23
Netflix cofounder and chairman Reed Hastings plans to leave the company after nearly 30 years. The news comes as part of Netflix's Q1 2026 earnings results released on Thursday, which says Hastings "will not stand for re-election to our Board when his current term expires at the Annual Meeting in June."
After co-founding Netflix in 1997, Hastings served as CEO from 1999 to 2023, when he stepped down and took on the role of chairman. "My real contribution at Netflix wasn't a single decision; it was a focus on member joy, building a culture that others could inherit and improve, and building a company that could be both beloved by members and …
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by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:14
Andrius Kubilius, le commissaire européen à la défense, a appelé jeudi à « passer à la vitesse supérieure » dans la production de missiles, lors d’un déplacement chez le fabricant européen MBDA. Au moins 19 civils sont morts et des centaines de personnes ont été blessées en Ukraine au cours de la nuit écoulée.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:02
Juste avant le début officiel de la trêve, l’armée libanaise et le Hezbollah avaient demandé aux habitants de reporter leur retour dans le Sud. « Face à un ennemi perfide habitué à violer les engagements et les accords, nous vous appelons à faire preuve de patience », a déclaré le parti-milice dans un communiqué.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to show us how they’re made.
[FromConceptToCircuit] starts by selecting the hardware to use: an Artix-7-based FPGA and an FT2232 USB-serial converter. RS245 in synchronous FIFO mode is selected for its high bandwidth of about 400 Mbps. Then, they show how to wire it all up to your FPGA of choice. Now it’s time for the implementation; they go over how the FT2232 interfaces with the FPGA, going through the Verilog code step-by-step to show how the FPGA makes use of the link, building up from the basic...
by Wired - yesterday at 21:50
A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 21:35
Anne Hathaway, as a pop star, and Michaela Coel, as a fashion designer, are trapped in the narrow limits of a chamber drama that’s smaller than their personalities.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:58
S’exprimant devant plusieurs centaines de maires réunis à l’Elysée, le président français a dit vouloir réguler la parole sur les réseaux sociaux.
by Wired - yesterday at 20:54
Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sites and social media platforms to start blocking access by minors.
by BBC - yesterday at 20:40
The comments follow a high-profile spat with US President Donald Trump, who called the Pope weak on crime.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
While it might seem quaint these days, we’ve met many makers and hackers who reach for a pen and a pad when learning something new or working their way through some technical problem. But even if you’re the type of person who thinks best when writing something out on paper, there’s still a good chance that you’ll eventually want to bring those notes and sketches into the digital realm. That’s where things can get a little tricky.
[Spencer Adams-Rand] recently wrote in with his clever solution for capturing written notes and pushing them into Notion, but the hardware design and digitization workflow is flexible enough that it could be adapted to your specific needs — especially since he was good...
by Wired - yesterday at 20:17
Chinese fantasy novels reimagine the past with modern tech and ideology. A new book argues they also help reinforce authoritarian politics.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:02
Le pape a poursuivi sa tournée dans le pays d’Afrique centrale en se rendant à Bamenda, la capitale de la région du Nord-Ouest du Cameroun en proie à la guerre depuis 2016. Il y a délivré un message de paix, et a condamné les entreprises guerrières dans le monde.
by Wired - yesterday at 20:00
In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.
by dwell - yesterday at 19:45
The 1975 Overlander camper has been revitalized with a snow-white interior, custom cabinetry, and zellige tile.Current Location: Bend, Oregon Price: $250,000 Year Built: 1975 Renovation Designer: Mountain Modern Airstream Footprint: 170 square feet From the Designer: "Designed for long weekends and week-long escapes, this 27-foot 1975 Overlander is a rolling R & D lab packed with clever, high-tech features. We added an invisible cooktop to maximize counter space, a convertible coffee table that rises into a dining table, and a floating bed platform for an open and minimal feel. The hidden toilet tucks neatly beneath the sink, out of sight until you need it, and the wall-mounted bathroom faucet saves even...
by Wired - yesterday at 19:30
In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.
by dwell - yesterday at 19:29
His clients figured a prefabricated log cabin was all they could afford. Massie built something with more personality for less cash.Welcome to From the Archive, a look back at stories from Dwell’s past. This story previously appeared in the August 2002 issue. Keith and Sylvia Owens are a suburban London couple who like to indulge in travel and architecture, albeit in a modest fashion. Seven years ago, they found their way to Montana. The clarity of the sky and horizons that stretch for miles so inspired them that when, a year later, Sylvia read an English magazine, Build-It, advertising 2o-acre plots near White Sulphur Springs, they decided to investigate. After arriving in this tiny town in 1997, they...
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 19:15
Illustration par ChatGPT
La loi anti-concentration en France : ce qui a disparu (et pourquoi)
Paul Jorion : Je me souviens qu’en France, une loi avait été adoptée pour empêcher qu’un groupe – et, implicitement, un groupe porteur d’une orientation politique marquée – ne puisse prendre le contrôle d’une part importante de la presse. Le nom qui me revient est « Hersant » – qui avait pu être maîtrisé. Pourquoi Vincent Bolloré et Pierre-Édouard Stérin ont-ils aujourd’hui les mains libres ? ChatGPT :
Ce souvenir n’est pas une reconstruction a posteriori : cette loi a bien existé. Mais elle n’existe plus aujourd’hui sous la forme que vous avez en tête, et c’est précisément...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:14
Le jeudi 16 avril, le président américain a annoncé que le président libanais, Joseph Aoun, et le Premier ministre israélien, Benyamin Nétanyahou, se seraient accordés pour mettre en place un cessez-le-feu de dix jours.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 19:07
As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
Floyd Collins, the unfortunate star of this post. (Public Domain)
Information, it seems, flows at the speed of media. In the old days, information traveled with people on ships or horses, so if, say, a battle was won or lost, it could be months or even years before anyone back home knew what happened. While books and movable type let people store information, they still moved at the speed people moved. Before the telegraph, there were attempts to use things like semaphores to speed the flow of information,  but those were generally limited to line-of-sight operations. Carrier pigeons were handy, but don’t really move much faster than people.
The telegraph helped, but people didn’t have telegraph stations...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:43
Le mercredi 15 avril, le président salvadorien, Nayib Bukele, a promulgué une réforme constitutionnelle qui prévoit la perpétuité pour les mineurs impliqués dans des crimes graves, tels l’homicide, le viol et l’appartenance à un gang.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:24
Loin des radars depuis plus d’une décennie, un jaguar a été aperçu dans les montagnes de l’ouest du Honduras, en haute altitude dans la Sierra del Merendón. Une observation extrêmement rare perçue comme un signal encourageant, malgré la menace persistante du braconnage et de la déforestation.
by Korben - yesterday at 18:20
Le noyau Linux est en train de retirer le support matériel des processeurs Baikal, fabriqués par Baikal Electronics en Russie. Pas juste les mainteneurs cette fois, le code lui-même. Les drivers et le support de la plateforme MIPS Baikal-T1 sont en cours de suppression dans les sources du noyau, après des années de tensions autour des sanctions internationales.
Pour remettre en contexte, le support du Baikal-T1 (un CPU MIPS double coeur P5600 cadencé à 1,2 GHz) et du SoC BE-T1000 avait été intégré au noyau Linux à partir de la branche 5.8. Baikal Electronics travaille sur des processeurs domestiques russes, en MIPS et en ARM, pensés pour réduire la dépendance de la Russie aux puces...
by dwell - yesterday at 18:18
The entry is a jewel-toned portal with a curtain that can reshape the living area; the wood box creates a hall to the bedroom.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Bucharest, Romania Architects: DORON Atelier / @doronatelier Architect:  OMAMBO / @omambogallery Footprint: 861 square feet Builder: Publimpress Photographer: Clement Vayssieres / @clement.vayssieres Photographer: Kelvin Silva From the Architect: "Rather Two, an intimate 861-square-foot apartment in Bucharest, is a home shaped as much by emotion and memory as by design. Realized by...
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 18:16
Les députés devaient débattre d’un texte très contesté par la gauche, que les députés macronistes ont finalement décidé de retirer.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 18:12
“Large language models show promising capabilities for contextual fact-checking on social media: they can verify contested claims through deep research, synthesize evidence from multiple sources, and draft explanations at scale. However, prior work evaluates LLM fact-checking only in controlled settings using benchmarks or crowdworker judgments, leaving open how these systems perform in authentic platform environments. We present the first field evaluation of LLM-based fact-checking deployed on a live social media platform, testing performance directly through X Community Notes’ AI writer feature over a three-month period. Our LLM writer, a multi-step pipeline that handles multimodal content (text, images,...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 18:05
“Neptune grass is generally regarded as the most ecologically important seagrass and shallow-water habitat in the Mediterranean Sea. It suffered a severe decline during the 20th century, and there have been myriad efforts to actively restore it via replanting schemes. A new study points to the merits of a different approach: Remove the human-caused drivers of the decline and let the meadows regrow on their own. The study, published March 5 in the journal Marine Environmental Research, found that following the introduction of stronger environmental regulations and practices in France in the mid-to-late 1980s, Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) repopulated sampled sections of the waters off the city of...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 18:03
“The intensity and frequency of severe droughts in the Amazon region have increased in the recent decades. These extreme events are associated with changes in forest dynamics, biomass and floristic composition. However, most studies of drought response have focused on upland forests with deep water tables, which may be especially sensitive to drought. Palms, which tend to dominate the less well-drained soils, have also been neglected… Our results indicate that forests growing over shallow water tables—relatively under-studied vegetation that nonetheless occupies one-third of Amazon forests—are remarkably resistant to drought. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that local hydrology and...
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 17:59
Derrière une multitude de chaînes, journaux et stations de radio, l’influence de Vincent Bolloré s’étend méthodiquement. Comment la 11ᵉ fortune de France est-elle devenue centrale et controversée dans le paysage médiatique ?
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:59
Les grandes villes ukrainiennes ont subi de nouvelles frappes massives dans la nuit du 15 au 16 avril. Dans le même temps, à l’est, les forces du Kremlin multiplient les assauts. Selon les médias ukrainiens, l’offensive russe du printemps a commencé.
by Korben - yesterday at 17:59
Zéro. C'est la durée que vous pouvez désormais choisir comme limite Shorts dans les réglages YouTube, sur iOS comme sur Android. Mettez le curseur à zéro, les Shorts disparaissent de votre page d'accueil. Fini le défilement vertical entre deux vidéos longues. Le déploiement mondial est en cours depuis le 15 avril, d'abord pour les comptes parentaux, puis pour tout le monde.
La manipulation prend dix secondes. Vous ouvrez les réglages, vous allez dans "Gestion du temps", vous trouvez "Limite du fil Shorts", vous descendez à zéro. YouTube affiche alors un message disant que votre fil est "en pause pour la journée". Ça se réinitialise le lendemain matin. Les Shorts ne sont pas supprimés de l'app...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:54
Deux jours après l’instauration du blocus du détroit d’Ormuz par Washington, le 13 avril, un “pétrolier lié à la Chine” y a fait demi-tour. Tandis que le président iranien assure que, derrière la guerre faite à son pays, c’est la Chine qui est visée, Pékin adopte, pour l’heure, une posture des plus prudentes.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 17:52
“Researchers at Toronto’s Sinai Health have found that semaglutide—the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs that mimic the gut hormone GLP-1—acts directly on a subset of liver cells to improve organ function and does so independently of weight loss. The finding challenges long-held assumptions about how GLP-1 medicines work in the liver and could reshape how physicians treat metabolic liver disease.” From Medical Xpress.
The post GLP-1s Improve Liver Health Independent of Weight Loss appeared first on Human Progress.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 17:36
“Uber Technologies has partnered with Pony.ai and autonomous vehicle startup Verne to roll out the first commercial ​robotaxi service in Europe, with operations set to ‌start in the Croatian capital Zagreb. Under the deal, Chinese robotaxi firm Pony.ai will supply the autonomous driving technology, while Croatian ​startup Verne will serve as the fleet owner ​and manage day-to-day operations, the companies said on ⁠Thursday.” From Reuters.
The post Uber, Pony.ai and Verne Launch Robotaxi Service in Croatia appeared first on Human Progress.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 17:35
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 17:30
Imagine you and your friend are enjoying a nice sunny day, and BAM — they start to have a severe allergic reaction to who knows what. You have an EpiPen, but your friend is on the other side of a field! The solution? Obviously [Emily The Engineer] has only one option: build an entire EpiPen launcher!
Starting off the life-saving project, [Emily] prototyped with a 3D printed blank and a simple solenoid-controlled glorified potato cannon. This proved effective, as one would expect of such a project after successful tests on a human subject. However, there was one simple problem: what if you missed your initial shot?
To ensure no possible failed missions, a bolt-action magazine was retrofitted onto the device....
by BBC - yesterday at 17:23
At least 16 people were injured in a shooting at a high school on Tuesday, before another nine were killed in a separate school shooting on Wednesday.
by BBC - yesterday at 17:20
A Ukrainian drone attack killed two people in Russia, Moscow says, after an Orthodox Easter truce.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
Although we have many types of networking equipment with many unique names, at their core they can usually be reduced to just a computer with some specific peripherals. This is especially the case for something like a router, a device found in just about any home these days. Certain consumer-grade routers may contain something special like a VDSL modem, but most of them just have a WAN Ethernet jack on one end and one or more LAN-facing Ethernet ports.
All further functionality is implemented in software, including any firewall, routing and DHCP features. What this means is that any old PC with at least two Ethernet ports or equivalent can be a router as long as you install the appropriate software.
In this...
by dwell - yesterday at 15:59
Two-years after it opened, I went to Campfield Long Beach to test the limits of the Japanese outdoor gear brand’s cult following.Welcome to One Night In, a series about staying in the most unparalleled places available to rest your head. As the saying often goes, there are two types of people in the world, and for my particular purposes for this piece, those two types are people who like to camp and people who don’t. As far as I’m concerned, since I went to sleepaway camp for seven years, I’m definitely not a person who doesn’t like to camp, and yet somehow my family has labeled me as being less of the land and more of the house. For example: I’ve seriously considered hiking Scotland’s West...
by BBC - yesterday at 15:53
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Manninger dies at the age of 48 after his car is struck by a train.
by Korben - yesterday at 15:45
Une attaque par la chaîne d'approvisionnement a frappé WordPress début avril. Un individu a racheté une trentaine de plugins via la marketplace Flippa, y a injecté du code malveillant et a attendu huit mois avant de l'activer. WordPress a fermé les 31 plugins concernés le 7 avril, mais la mise à jour officielle ne suffit pas à nettoyer les sites touchés.
L'attaque est redoutable par sa simplicité. Un individu, identifié sous le prénom "Kris", a racheté pour plusieurs centaines de milliers d'euros un catalogue d'une trentaine de plugins WordPress sur Flippa, une marketplace de vente de sites et d'extensions. Ces plugins appartenaient à la société Essential Plugin / WP Online Support. Ils...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:17
Tapez $TSLA ou $BTC dans un post sur X, et maintenant ça vous affiche un cours en temps réel, un graphique interactif et un fil de discussion lié à l'actif. C'est disponible depuis le 14 avril sur iPhone. Pour Android et le site web, ça sera pour plus tard.
Le principe est assez simple. Un $ticker dans un post déclenche la suggestion automatique de l'actif correspondant. Le graphique couvre de 1 jour à 1 an, le prix est actualisé en continu, et le fil agrège les posts qui mentionnent cet actif. Côté crypto, les adresses de contrats sur Solana et Base sont aussi prises en charge, ce qui veut dire que les memecoins sont de la partie. Forcément.
Au Canada, X va plus loin. Un partenariat avec...
by Korben - yesterday at 14:37
La mise à jour d'avril du SDK Agents d'OpenAI introduit deux nouvelles briques qui manquaient pour passer de l'agent-jouet au déploiement réel. Le sandboxing natif permet de confiner un agent dans un espace de travail isolé, avec accès limité aux fichiers et outils d'un périmètre défini. Et le nouveau harness d'exécution sépare proprement le plan de contrôle (boucle agent, appels modèle, routing d'outils, approbations, tracing, récupération d'erreurs) du plan de calcul (sandbox où l'agent lit, écrit, exécute du code, installe des dépendances, snapshot son état).
L'architecture est pensée pour les agents "long-horizon", ceux qui travaillent sur des tâches complexes en plusieurs étapes,...
by Le Taurillon - yesterday at 13:48
En mars dernier, un sondage a révélé qu'une grande part des Canadiens serait favorable à une adhésion de leur pays à l'Union européenne (UE). Il peut paraître difficile de penser à une telle adhésion en raison du positionnement géographique du Canada. Cela ouvrirait la voie à une nouvelle vague de candidatures et donnerait une dimension tout autre à l'UE. On peut donc se demander : est-ce une possibilité réellement envisageable ? Quelle est la limite prévue par les traités concernant les élargissements ? Les candidats actuels
Aujourd'hui, sept élargissements ont déjà eu lieu, le dernier en date remontant à 2013 avec l'adhésion de la Croatie. A présent, neuf États sont officiellement...
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 13:33
Crises à répétition, émotions collectives, clics solidaires : malgré les effets d'alarmes, la générosité, plutôt que de disparaître, ne serait-elle pas simplement en train de changer de visage ? On a demandé à Arthur Gautier, professeur en sociologie des organisations à l’ESSEC, et Sylvain Caruana, chercheur en psychologie sociale, d'analyser les évolutions du don et de l’engagement.
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 11:08
Pirate streaming apps and unauthorized IPTV services have continued to gain popularity worldwide. This is also the case in Chile, where there’s no shortage of options. This includes brands such as MagisTV, FlujoTV, and, XuperTV, which are popular throughout many countries in the region. These services are a thorn in the side of rightsholders, including the American Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Entertainment, which filed a formal complaint. This effort paid off in February, when Chile’s Department of Telecommunications issued a dynamic blocking order, requiring ISPs to block domains linked to these pirate brands. Warner Bros. Raises the Stakes
While the blocking action sorted some effect, the IPTV problem...