Steve Harrington's favorite snack, Peanut Butter Boppers, are back for a limited time.

The former Marvel star is in talks to join Robert Pattinson in the 2027 Matt Reeves DC film.

BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klasse, for so long - fully two years now - that I confess I've become a bit numb to the hype. I'd seen the dashboard-filling displays, talked to engineers endlessly about the completely retooled active safety suite, and even got a go behind the wheel of a prototype machine.
All this for the launch of a crossover SUV, typically the most milquetoast of all the automotive classifications. But after spending the better part of a day wheeling around the final version of the iX3, I'm surprised to say it was all worth it. This little(ish) SUV really is …
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BMW’s first car on its new EV platform has finally arrived. But will a big range, thumping charging tech, and a new driving brain that aims to deliver the ultimate ride be enough to beat China?

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Salesforce showed up to earnings priced like a SaaS relic and left with numbers that finally backed the AI pitch, sending the stock up after hours

The Ukrainian president says a meeting will be arranged once Trump's team return from Moscow, where they held talks with Vladimir Putin.

Missed out on Cyber Monday? Auk Mini's stylish herb garden makes a great gift, and its discount is still live.

As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance.

It’s getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristine images thanks to the sudden surge in satellite launches. Satellite trails could mess up nearly 40 percent of images the Hubble takes and up to 96 percent of those taken by three other telescopes over the next decade, according to a study by NASA researchers published today in the journal Nature.  That could jeopardize scientists’ ability to spot worrisome asteroids or discover new planets, they warn. Our view of space just gets fuzzier without efforts to limit light pollution from new megaconstellations of satellites. The scale of the problem is astounding “My career has been focused on trying to make...

18 years ago, a sneaky bacteria infiltrated some of the cleanest places on Earth. Scientists finally know how.

Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

'Dust Bunny' reunites Fuller with 'Hannibal' star Mads Mikkelsen and hits theaters December 12.

Andrew Ross Sorkin and Dario Amodei speak onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City. | Image: Getty This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Dario Amodei took the stage at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday to throw punches without naming names.
The Anthropic CEO spent a good chunk of the interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin drawing a careful line between his company's approach and that of a certain competitor. When asked about whether the AI industry is in a bubble, Amodei separated the "technological side" from the "economic side" and...

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home upgrades you can make, a smart lock gives you remote control access to your house from anywhere, plus easy, key-free ways to unlock and lock your door. Smart locks also remember everything that happened, so they can tell you when your door was unlocked, and sometimes who did it. For most people, control and convenience are big enough selling points. However, smart locks also work nicely with other smart home devices, including...

Countries are pursuing sovereignty by making themselves more dependent on the very foreign companies they claim to be protecting themselves from

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular “sucks.” “For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a singular front page for everyone,” Huffman says. “You have different interests than I do, and your Reddit should look different from mine. And from your neighbor’s, or your coworker’s, or your best friend’s.” Regarding r/popular, he says that “in theory, it’s what’s most popular on Reddit, but it’s actually what is liked by...

Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving inline-4 motorcycle engines he’s trying to put together too, but unlike 1940s Chrysler, he also has a trombone… and a lot more RPMs to deal with.
The Chrysler flatheads were revving at a few thousand RPM– their redline was almost certainly in the three-thousand range. [Maisteer] is working at 15,000 RPM, which is where the real challenge of this build lies: the trombone in the image is just for fun. He wanted to use a heavy chain to link the crankshafts, but at that rotational speed, a heavy chain becomes really heavy— or at least, it feels a force many...

Louis F., étudiant ingénieur de 23 ans, avait écrit à la bombe des slogans hostiles sur la tombe de l’ancien ministre de la justice le jour de sa panthéonisation. Sa peine a été assortie d’une obligation de soins et de travaux d’intérêt général.

“A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 elephants based on more tentative ‘guesses’. Updated methods provide a clearer, more accurate understanding of the species’ status – revising population figures by an additional 16%, compared to figures published in 2016. Thanks to significant advances in DNA-based survey techniques and expanded monitoring across the species’ range, 94% of all counted African Forest Elephants are now based on scientifically robust estimates, compared to just 53% in 2016.” From EnviroNews Nigeria.
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Summary: Iceland has long thrived through innovation and freedom. Its history is one of transforming scarcity into strength and discovery. Joining the European Union could trade entrepreneurial vitality for bureaucratic constraint and regulation. Iceland’s story proves that wealth flows not from the ground, but from the boundless resource of human imagination. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Iceland, a country of about 390,000 people. The place feels like a mash-up of Hawaii and Alaska, with a land area roughly the size of Kentucky. Iceland has around 130 volcanoes, with about 30 considered active. Along with the volcanoes there are around 500 earthquakes per week. Many of these are microquakes...

Le 8 mars 2014, le vol Malaysia Airlines 370 disparaissait des radars, avec 239 personnes à bord. L’épave n’a jamais été retrouvée et, à ce jour, les causes de ce présumé accident n’ont toujours pas été éclaircies. Mercredi 3 décembre, les autorités de la Malaisie ont annoncé la reprise des recherches à partir du 30 décembre.

Mercredi 3 décembre, le journaliste français Christophe Gleizes a été condamné en appel à sept ans de réclusion par la justice algérienne. Condamné pour “apologie du terrorisme”, il paie les conflits politiques internes à l’Algérie, mais aussi sa nationalité, estime le quotidien belge “Le Soir”.

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos’ connection to ARM’s SIMD approach? Watch to find out! VectorCamp:https://vectorcamp.gr
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Pour guérir les bleus à l’âme de ton prochain, donne-lui la recette de ce qui a guéri les tiens.

The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far outside gaming.

The investment accounts will start rolling out mid next year, with some employers pledging to chip in money for their workers' kids

Slop Evader rewires searches to ignore anything written before November 2022, pulling users back into the gloriously unvarnished — and human — web

A l’occasion de la journée de la laïcité du 9 décembre 2025, Mathieu Touzeil-Divina, professeur de droit public et co-directeur du master santé à l’Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, animera une conférence sur la laïcité : La laïcité appliquée à l’hôpital : cas pratiques relatifs aux lieux hospitaliers, aux professionnels et aux usagers Mardi 9 décembre 2025 […]

CYCLE LAÏCITÉ 2025-2026LA LAÏCITÉ : UN MYTHE PLUS QU’UN PRINCIPE CONSTITUTIONNEL ? Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences sur la laïcité 2025-2026, à l’occasion de la commémoration du 120e anniversaire de la loi de 1905, l’Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry poursuit sa réflexion sur le principe de laïcité en France. L’objectif de cette conférence de […]

Ce n’est pas la première fois que le président s’en prend aux réfugiés africains. Mais sa dernière sortie sur les Somaliens vivant aux États-Unis, traités d’“ordures”, est particulièrement choquante par son caractère ouvertement raciste et décomplexé, souligne “The New York Times”.

AI robo-advisors are on the rise. But having a platform manage your money may not be the right move for your situation, experts say

Devant les députés, le chef du gouvernement a redit qu’il n’usera pas du 49.3 sur le projet de budget de la « Sécu », à l’avenir très incertain.

Florence and the Machine “Witch Dance”
“Witch Dance” was written about Florence Welch’s experience of nearly dying as a result of an ectopic pregnancy. “The closest I came to death was trying to make life, and you don’t get that without desire,” she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. The song tangles sex and death into knots, starting with an opening scene in which she’s fucking the personification of death, whose “blackberry mouth” tastes like life. Welch has been exploring themes of desire, faith, and nature through her entire career but she’s rarely been so lascivious and primal. The lyrics play out like a dark fairytale, but she keeps the song grounded in equal measures of lust and...

Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet printer, the process is simple: print. Sure, maybe make sure you tick the “color” box, but that’s about it. However, 3D printers are a bit more complicated.
There are two basic phases to printing color 3D prints. First, you have to find or make a model that has different colors. Even if you don’t make your own models (although you should), you can still color prints in your slicer.
The second task is to set the printer up to deal with those multiple colors. There are several different ways to do this, and each one has its pros and cons. Of course, some of...

En Autriche, la découverte du corps d’une influenceuse, dont le meurtre a été avoué par son ex-compagnon, est intervenue seulement quelques jours après l’annonce d’un plan d’action contre les violences faites aux femmes, jugé insuffisant par ses détracteurs, qui dénoncent un débat trop focalisé sur l’immigration.

The best opportunity to view this spectacle will be shortly after sunset on December 4.

Le collaborateur de « So Foot » et de « Society » avait été condamné en première instance, le 29 juin, à sept ans de prison ferme pour apologie du terrorisme. La grâce accordée à Boualem Sansal, le 12 novembre, avait soulevé l’espoir d’une libération du reporter.

Une revue confidentielle est à l’origine du sondage controversé de l’IFOP sur les musulmans de France, dont le second volet, centré sur les Frères musulmans, devait paraître prochainement. Les liens de son fondateur avec les Emirats arabes unis soulèvent des interrogations.

Une revue confidentielle est à l’origine du sondage controversé de l’IFOP sur les musulmans de France, dont le second volet, centré sur les Frères musulmans, devait paraître prochainement. Les liens de son fondateur avec les Emirats arabes unis soulèvent des interrogations.

When the young writer began analysis with Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work together would have a transformative impact.

Samedi 6 décembre aux Frigos (19 rue des Frigos, Paris 13). -
Initiatives / Initiative culturelle

TRIBUNE // Nos démocraties connaissent une forte accélération sociale du temps, sous l’effet d’innovations technologiques et scientifiques majeures qui promettent de redéfinir notre quotidien dans le monde de demain. Pour s’y préparer, le collectif RADAR publie Menaces 2035, un remarquable panégyrique des mutations auxquelles les Français vont être confrontés, et affirme l’anticipation comme moyen de dompter l’incertitude. Présentation de Anne Muxel, Directrice de recherche CNRS, Directrice déléguée du Centre de recherches politiques (CEVIPOF).

An unlikely hit of the last few months’ consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first gained attention in backpacking circles because of its high capacity for a reasonable weight, and since then has been selling like the proverbial hot cakes. Now Amazon have withdrawn it from their store over “A potential safety or quality issue”. The industrial imaging company Lumafield have taken a look at the power bank with a CT scanner, to find out why.
As you might imagine, the power bank is all battery inside, with pouch type lithium ion cells taking up all of the space. Immediately a clue appears as to why Amazon withdrew them, as the individual layers of the...

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Russia's president looks determined to continue his war in Ukraine - even as the country's economic problems grow.

December 2018 📷 #flashes

Investigations continue into a fire last week at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex, which killed at least 159 people.

When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involved checking out books and things to patrons, and it was focused primarily on pulling out the little card and adding a date-due stamp.
Of course, if you’ve been to a library in the last 20 years, you know that most of them don’t work that way anymore. Either the librarian scans special barcodes, or you check materials out yourself simply by placing them just so, one at a time. Either way, you end up with a printed receipt with all the materials listed, or an email. I ask you, what’s the fun in that? At least with the old way, you’d usually get a bookmark for...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Sans jamais endosser explicitement l’idée d’un complot interne, Benyamin Netanyahou et plusieurs figures de la droite israélienne multiplient depuis le 7-Octobre les sous-entendus sur un supposé « coup d’État silencieux » orchestré par la gauche et des élites sécuritaires déloyales.

Vous vous rappelez de
Proton
, cette couche de compatibilité magique qui permet de jouer à des jeux Windows sur Linux ?
Hé bien Valve récidive avec Lepton, qui fait exactement la même chose… mais pour Android. Et devinez quoi, c’est basé sur
Waydroid
, ce projet open source qui permet de faire tourner Android dans un conteneur Linux.
L’idée derrière tout ça, c’est le Steam Frame
, le fameux casque VR que Valve va sortir début 2026 et contrairement au Steam Deck qui utilise un processeur AMD x86, ce bidule tourne avec un Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 et 16 Go de RAM. Oui vous l’aurez compris, c’est de l’ARM !
Du coup, plutôt que de demander aux développeurs de porter leurs jeux un par un (ce...

Egypt denies it is co-ordinating with Israel to reopen the crossing, insisting that passage should be in both directions.

En présence de l'auteur Sascha Lange, à la librairie Libertalia (12 Rue Marcelin Berthelot). -
Initiatives / Mémoire, Rencontres et débats

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The inquiry centres on allegations of favouritism in EU funding for a training programme at a school headed by Federica Mogherini.

Voici le document présentant le Parlement fict(ch)if de cette année :

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December 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Plusieurs émergences détectées dont l’une se dissipera Plusieurs émergences détectées, qui sont toutes stables Pas d’émergence détectée