An early morning eclipse will sweep across North America on March 3, posing a challenge for skywatchers along the eastern half of the continent.
The identities of those on board - including six others who were wounded - is unclear.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for "illegally promoting gambling" through the loot box systems it has built for video games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2, according to a press release. The attorney general seeks to "permanently stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York's laws."
"This loot box model that Valve has developed - charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone - is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York's Constitution and Penal Law," the lawsuit says. Valve …
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"This loot box model that Valve has developed - charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone - is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York's Constitution and Penal Law," the lawsuit says. Valve …
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It highlights the perils of "trusted third parties"—and reminds us what the whole point of decentralized protocols was to begin with.
The is pushing back the global rollout of age checks until later this year.
'A Minecraft Movie' still raked in an alarming amount of money—it just made slightly less than Disney's animated smash.
Nvidia's fourth quarter earnings are expected to be enormous. But that can still disappoint a crowd that paid for a bigger and louder fireworks show
A record quarter met a market priced for perfection, and Nvidia answered with revenue and a forecast that reset the AI math — again
Mené au score, comme lors du barrage aller (3-2), le Paris Saint-Germain a finalement concédé un match nul face à l’AS Monaco (2-2), et décroché sa qualification pour la suite de la compétition, mercredi au Parc des Princes.
BBC international correspondent Quentin Sommerville travelled to Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state following an explosion in violence.
How to succeed in gambling without really trying.
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones introduce a slate of new AI-powered features, including some new photography tools. | Image: Samsung Samsung has just announced its new Galaxy S26 lineup, which includes the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. While they aren't radical departures from last year's models, they bring a handful of notable upgrades. All three run on Qualcomm's Galaxy-centric Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which delivers improved performance and powers a slew of new AI-based features. This includes the ability to screen unknown calls and edit photos by typing what you want changed, along with an update to Google Gemini that can carry out certain tasks in supported third-party apps, like Uber and DoorDash, on your...
La radio publique NPR a rapporté que le ministère de la justice américain avait empêché la publication de documents liés à des accusations contre Donald Trump selon lesquelles il aurait agressé sexuellement une mineure.
The Drop Mythic Journey keyboard from 2022. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge The Drop store, which was acquired by gaming gear giant Corsair in 2023, was a haven for mechanical keyboard enthusiasts and audiophiles to discover and buy hard-to-find gear - sometimes at surprisingly good prices. The company will cease sales after March 25th at 11:59PM PT, which is also the cut off to redeem Drop Rewards. After March 31st, the site will be accessible for a limited time to view order history, but all retail functionality will shift to Corsair.
Corsair's marketing manager Andrew Williams confirmed to The Verge that several products featured on Drop will be integrated into Corsair's site for purchase. Select others...
Corsair's marketing manager Andrew Williams confirmed to The Verge that several products featured on Drop will be integrated into Corsair's site for purchase. Select others...
Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks. [Theory to Thing] recently built a device to generate random numbers using nothing more complicated than simple camera noise.
The heart of the build is an ESP32 microcontroller, which [Theory to Thing] first paired with a temperature sensor as a source of randomness. However, it was quickly obvious that a thermocouple in a cup of tea wasn’t going to produce nice, jittery, noisy data that would make for good random numbers. Then, inspiration struck, when looking at vision from a camera with the lens cap on. Particularly at higher temperatures, speckles of noise were visible in the...
The heart of the build is an ESP32 microcontroller, which [Theory to Thing] first paired with a temperature sensor as a source of randomness. However, it was quickly obvious that a thermocouple in a cup of tea wasn’t going to produce nice, jittery, noisy data that would make for good random numbers. Then, inspiration struck, when looking at vision from a camera with the lens cap on. Particularly at higher temperatures, speckles of noise were visible in the...
The writer discusses a few of the works that influenced his new book, “A World Appears.”
After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.
Arrestation d’un suspect lié à un réseau de SMS frauduleux et d’équipements télécom clandestins....
For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the "Tech Corps," threatens to unravel the agency's original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI - many of which have ties to President Donald Trump.
Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the Peace Corps recruited skilled Americans interested in assisting developing countries in industries like education, healthcare, and agriculture. As noted by the Brookings Institution, the agency was created to "win the …
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Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the Peace Corps recruited skilled Americans interested in assisting developing countries in industries like education, healthcare, and agriculture. As noted by the Brookings Institution, the agency was created to "win the …
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President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans' concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech - and now we're learning that the deals he promised could land next week. Trump claimed that he's negotiated a "rate payer protection pledge" with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI are expected to attend a March 4th event to sign the pledge, Fox News reported today. There are very few details at this point on what the pledge entails, nor how companies would be held ac …
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The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.
Pressée par le premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, depuis plusieurs semaines de quitter le ministère de la culture, Rachida Dati a tenté d’étirer son bail le plus longtemps possible. Elle a annoncé son départ mercredi soir sur BFM-TV.
If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer. This causes the head to drag through the top of the part, emitting a small amount of plastic to smooth the surface. [Make Wonderful Things] asserts that you don’t need to do this time-consuming step. Instead, he proposes using statistical analysis to identify the optimal settings to place the top layer correctly the first time, as shown in the video below.
The parameters he thinks make a difference are line width, flow ratio, and print speed. Picking reasonable step sizes suggested that there were 19,200 combinations of settings to test. Obviously, that’s too many, so he picked up techniques...
The parameters he thinks make a difference are line width, flow ratio, and print speed. Picking reasonable step sizes suggested that there were 19,200 combinations of settings to test. Obviously, that’s too many, so he picked up techniques...
Avant l’attribution de nouveaux contrats, dans un délai de dix-huit mois, des concessions temporaires ont été accordées au groupe danois Maersk et au géant suisse MSC. Une victoire pour Trump, selon “CNBC”.
Quel tabou serais-tu disposé à transgresser pour gagner en liberté ?
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
Selon un rapport publié ce mercredi 25 février par le Comité pour la protection des journalistes, les forces armées de l’État hébreu seraient responsables de la mort de 86 journalistes et travailleurs des médias en 2025. Soit deux tiers du total des journalistes tués dans le monde l’année dernière.
TRIBUNE // Et si, à l’heure où son PIB est en panne, la France considérait enfin l’économie de la longévité comme un véritable relais de croissance ? C’est la proposition de Charlotte Calvet, la co-fondatrice du Longevity Culture Club, un cercle privé qui ambitionne de devenir un laboratoire d’idées sur cet enjeu sociétal majeur.
It's not the flashiest deal, but if you need a new pair of our favorite earbuds for iPhone owners, you can snag them at a slight discount.
La mort du chef de cartel ravit le président des États-Unis, qui n’a cessé de pousser le Mexique de Claudia Sheinbaum à agir contre le narcotrafic, quels qu’en soient les risques. Le rôle de Washington dans cette opération est cependant débattu.
Climbing is a cool sport. With that said, like everything, it’s even better if you integrate lots of glowing colorful LEDs. To that end, [Superbender] worked up this fun climbing wall that features interactive lighting built right in.
Structurally, there’s nothing too wild going on here. It’s a wood-framed climbing structure that stands 10 meters long and 2.5 meters high, and can be covered in lots of climbing holds. It’s the electronic side of things where it gets fun. An Arduino Due is installed to run the show, hooked up with a small TFT display and some buttons for control. It’s then hooked up to control a whole bunch of LEDs and some buttons which are scattered all across the wall. It’s also...
Structurally, there’s nothing too wild going on here. It’s a wood-framed climbing structure that stands 10 meters long and 2.5 meters high, and can be covered in lots of climbing holds. It’s the electronic side of things where it gets fun. An Arduino Due is installed to run the show, hooked up with a small TFT display and some buttons for control. It’s then hooked up to control a whole bunch of LEDs and some buttons which are scattered all across the wall. It’s also...
Le candidat écologiste, Stéphane Baly, battu de 227 voix en 2020, affronte le successeur de Martine Aubry, Arnaud Deslandes, et une troisième liste menée par LFI.
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “Almost Home.”
Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.
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Deux semaines après la mort de l’étudiant Abdoulaye Ba lors d’une opération de la police sur le campus universitaire de Dakar, le Premier ministre était sur le gril mardi 24 février, à l’occasion des questions d’actualité à l’Assemblée nationale.
Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.
Some major tech companies are taking steps to finance their own power generation so Americans don't get stuck with the bill from new AI data centers
453 200 infractions numériques en France en 2025 : arnaques, cyberviolences, vols de données et profils des victimes....
One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word. If your system isn’t totally locally-hosted, that can raise some privacy eyebrows. Perhaps that’s part of what inspired [SpannerSpencer] to create this 24th century solution: a Comm Badge straight out of Star Trek: The Next Generation he uses to control his smart home.
This hack is as slick as it is simple. The shiny comm badge is actually metal, purchased from an online vendor that surely pays all appropriate license fees to Paramount. It was designed for magnetic mounting, and you know what else has a magnet to stick it to things? The M5StickC PLUS2, a handy ESP32 dev kit. Since...
This hack is as slick as it is simple. The shiny comm badge is actually metal, purchased from an online vendor that surely pays all appropriate license fees to Paramount. It was designed for magnetic mounting, and you know what else has a magnet to stick it to things? The M5StickC PLUS2, a handy ESP32 dev kit. Since...
Très actif sur les réseaux sociaux, le Comité Trump France est plus qu'un simple mouvement d'opinion. Son objectif est clair : trumpiser la France en hystérisant le débat public.
“NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled explorer its own version of GPS… with the new upgrade, called Mars Global Localization, Perseverance can match its own panoramic imagery to orbital terrain maps onboard, calculate its precise position and continue along its planned route without waiting for Earth-based confirmation. An onboard algorithm performs the comparison in about two minutes and can pinpoint the rover’s location to within roughly 10 inches (25 centimeters), all without assistance from human planners, NASA said. This capability allows the...
“Almeria has been farmland since the time of the Umayyad caliphate—Campo de Dalías is derived from the Arabic word daliyah, meaning “vine”. But the geography of the region has historically been unkind to farmers. The towering peaks of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gádor mountain ranges to the north block rain clouds from reaching the coastal plains. Water is scarce (rain falls on average fewer than 50 days a year), and the Levanter wind tears across the plains, sometimes at over 100kph (62mph). The plastic sea developed in response to these unfavourable conditions, beginning as a handful of simple shelters to shield local crops against the elements. In the 1960s pioneering farmers realised that...
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“A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor. Hugo Powell was delivered at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital in London weighing 3.09kg (6lb 13oz), after his mother, Grace Bell, received a transplanted womb from someone who had died. It is the first birth in the UK using a womb from a deceased donor, with only two previous cases reported in Europe. Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare condition resulting in an underdeveloped or missing womb. She was told as a teenager she would be unable to carry a child, and has described Hugo’s birth as a ‘miracle’. She said:...
“Restoration efforts including a dam and water use controls are helping Kazakhstan revive part of the shrinking Aral Sea… On a recent session of the people’s assembly, the National Kurultai, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev emphasised the significance of preserving the North Aral Sea and reaffirmed it as one of the key priorities of the country’s water policy. In his address to the nation he also emphasised the restoration gains already made. He noted that in 20 years of systematic efforts, the surface area of the Northern Aral grew by 36 per cent, the water volume nearly doubled, and salinity decreased by half.” From Euronews.
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“Since the Industrial Revolution, our jobs have gradually improved, becoming better paid, more interesting, and less dangerous. Economists Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hamermesh detail another aspect of this development: that fewer and fewer Americans are working in the evenings and at night… Together, these studies suggest that the share of Americans working in the middle of the night has fallen by more than 50 percent since the 1970s.” From The Update.
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A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
The next round of talks between the US and Iran in Geneva on Thursday could be decisive in the president's decision-making.
The kit includes assorted grilling gear, gardening tools, and other outdoor equipment
It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days, from Florida to Maine. For the past two days, that order has included military aircraft, including those certified “all weather” – with one notable exception. A few miles offshore, rocking and bucking in the gales, a U.S. Navy airship braves the storm. Sleet pelts the plexiglass windscreen and ice sloughs off the gasbag in great sheets as the storm rages on, and churning airscrews keep the airship on station.
If you know history you might be a bit confused: the rigid airship USS Akron was lost off the...
If you know history you might be a bit confused: the rigid airship USS Akron was lost off the...
New earnings reports and consumer confidence data show that affordability remains a major worry for Americans
Jean-Luc Mélenchon a choisi de faire relayer ses prises de parole par des influenceurs et des médias amis, excluant certains médias qu’il considère comme lui étant hostiles. Cela ne me choque absolument pas, et les protestations (parfois ridicules, comme celle de la porte-parole du gouvernement) sont d’une grande hypocrisie. Au lieu d’instrumentaliser cela, à des […]
A newspaper reports Gates apologised to staff over his links to Epstein and said: "I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit."
Sur TikTok, un faux hacker terrorise des préados en live grâce à des données fuitées, pour extorquer et intimider....
La publication de 3 millions de documents liés au criminel sexuel américain a emballé les sphères complotistes et réveillé des mythes déclinants, comme QAnon, le « Pizzagate » et l’« adrénochrome », sur fond d’antisémitisme larvé.
Quatre suspects arrêtés en Espagne, soupçonnés de DDoS Anonymous Fénix, avec un pic après les inondations de Valence....
En Russie, un logo Instagram sur un site web vaut 15 jours de prison, et un « like » sur YouTube coûte 300€ d'amende !...
Vous allez halluciner... Le Pentagone américain vient de poser un ultimatum à Anthropic. C'est Pete Hegseth, le patron du désormais "Department of War" (oui, Trump a rebaptisé le Pentagone par executive order... no comment...), exige que la boite de Dario Amodei lève toutes ses restrictions éthiques sur Claude d'ici ce vendredi.
Et la menace, c'est pas du bluff puisque ça parle du
Defense Production Act
, une loi de 1950 qui permet au gouvernement de réquisitionner une entreprise privée. Sinon, l'autre option sur la tabled de ces dingos, c'est de coller Anthropic sur une liste noire "supply chain risk", à côté de Huawei et Kaspersky. Ah ça c'est la classe.
En fait faut savoir qu'Anthropic a signé...
Et la menace, c'est pas du bluff puisque ça parle du
Defense Production Act
, une loi de 1950 qui permet au gouvernement de réquisitionner une entreprise privée. Sinon, l'autre option sur la tabled de ces dingos, c'est de coller Anthropic sur une liste noire "supply chain risk", à côté de Huawei et Kaspersky. Ah ça c'est la classe.
En fait faut savoir qu'Anthropic a signé...