Many people base huge swaths of their lives on foundational philosophical texts, yet few have read them in their entirety. The one that springs to the forefront of many of our minds is The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. Full of many clever and outright revolutionary algorithms and new ways of thinking about how computers work, [Attoparsec] has been attempting to read this tome from cover to cover, and has found some interesting tidbits. One of those is the various algorithms around Gray Codes, and he built this device as a visual aid.
Gray Codes, otherwise known as reflected binary, is a way of ordering an arbitrarily large set of binary values so that only one bit changes between any two of...

Illustration par ChatGPT
La guerre contre l’Iran, déclenchée le 28 février 2026 par une opération militaire conjointe américano-israélienne, offre une leçon de stratégie navale d’une clarté peu commune. Elle mérite d’être énoncée simplement, avant d’être comprise dans sa portée plus large.
Les États-Unis possèdent onze porte-avions. Ils n’en avaient, au moment des premières frappes, qu’un seul en position.
L’USS Abraham Lincoln avait quitté San Diego le 25 novembre 2025 – soit plus de trois mois avant le début des hostilités – opérant en mer de Chine méridionale lorsqu’il reçut l’ordre de se dérouter vers l’océan Indien. L’USS Gerald R. Ford, lui, se trouvait...

His oh-so generous offer was rejected by the government. He must be so mad!

The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.

One of the coolest laptops we saw at CES in January was the new Dell XPS 16, with a unique 1-120Hz variable refresh rate display that can sip power when you don't need the screen to stay speedy. Just how little power might it consume? Notebookcheck has tested a version of the laptop with that LG Display screen and a new Intel Panther Lake chip - and it appears to be the most efficient laptop that's ever gone through its Wi-Fi web browsing test. At idle, the Core Ultra 325 laptop drew as little as 1.5 watts, and lasted nearly 27 hours of web browsing despite only housing a 70 watt-hour pack. That's well shy of the 99.5Wh Dell has sometimes …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Selon le président américain, les négociateurs iraniens, qui « veulent vraiment un accord », nient les discussions par crainte de représailles des « leurs ». Par ailleurs, l’armée américaine dit avoir détruit les « deux tiers » des capacités de production de missiles iraniens.

Suddenly Al Gore doesn't count as "humanoid"?

Un nouveau blackmarket structure la vente de données volées avec une annonce de confidentialité ultime ! 2/3 des données sont françaises.

As the conflict continues, civilians find themselves caught between foreign bombardment and a regime that is violently cracking down.

In the maker world, it’s the Arduino and ESP32 lines that get the lion’s share of attention. However, you can do fantastic things with PIC chips, too, if you put the dev time in—it’s just perhaps less likely another maker has done so before you. A great example is this VGA output project from [grecotron].
A PIC18F47K42 is perhaps not the first part you would reach for to pursue any sort of video-based project. However, with the right techniques, you can get the 8-bit microcontroller pumping out the pixels surprisingly well. [grecotron] was able to get the chip outputting to a VGA monitor at a resolution of 360 x 480 with up to 16 colors. It took some careful coding to ensure the chip could reliably...

A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.

"Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted.”

Amazon’s third annual Big Spring Sale might be a great opportunity to pick up a color ebook reader or an RGB-equipped table lamp, but the pickings are slimmer when it comes to noise-canceling headphones. Sure, the Sony WH-1000XM6 are just over $60 off, though I’d argue the Sonos Ace are a better deal, given they’re currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos’ online storefront for a cool $299 ($100).
Sonos Ace Where to Buy: $399 $299 at Amazon $399 $299 at Best Buy $399 $299 at Sonos
The Sonos Ace are a great product that came at the wrong time. The company’s app crisis pretty much overshadowed their debut in 2024, which is a shame considering they’re a gorgeous pair of over-ear headphones...

Like he's coming out at Wrestlemania, Maul's entrance on his new show is perfectly theatrical.

Amazon loves to manufacture an event. March is historically a dry spell for deals; however, with Amazon’s third annual Big Spring Sale, which starts today and runs through March 31st, the retail behemoth is hoping to lure in would-be shoppers with the promise of steep(ish) savings and discounts on more seasonal, spring-centric items to hold folks over until Prime Day surfaces at the onset of summer. The bulk of the deals we’re seeing right now aren’t quite on par with Black Friday or Prime Day, and, as with most shopping events, not everything on sale is worth picking up. That said, Amazon’s latest sale is one of the first big opportunities we’ve seen this year to save — and bypass some...

It's getting weird, man.

There is indirect contact and channels between the two sides - but a deal may still be a long way off.

Fanttik’s X9 Pro is $20 off, which is its best price since July. | Image: Fanttik If you’ve ever had to deal with a flat tire, you know how quickly it can derail your day. That’s why it’s worth considering a portable inflator like the Fanttik X9 Pro. The small, rechargeable air pump that can quickly inflate tires on cars and bikes is down to $59.98 ($20 off) at Amazon and directly from Fantikk as a part of Amazon’s Big Spring sale. This sale price is the best we’ve seen since July.
Fanttik X9 Pro Portable Tire Inflator Where to Buy: $79.97 $59.98 at Amazon (with on-page coupon) $79.97 $59.98 at Fanttik (with code X9PRO1) $79.99 at Best Buy
Fanttik’s portable pump can inflate a compact car tire...

Meta is laying off hundreds of employees across its company, according to reports from The New York Times, NBC News, and The Information. The job cuts impact workers on Meta's recruiting, social media, and sales teams, along with Reality Labs, the division that develops the company's smart glasses and virtual reality headsets.
"Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they're in the best position to achieve their goals," Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton says in an emailed statement to The Verge. "Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted."
Clayton declined …
Read the full story at The Verge.

The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

Digital clock projects have been with us since the 1970s, when affordable LEDs and integrated circuits became available. In 2026 most of them use a microcontroller, but for the AliExpress fans there’s one that goes straight back to the ’70s with a pile of logic chips. You can make it on the supplied PCBs, but that wasn’t for [ALTco]. Instead, he made the circuit in free form, using six metres of brass wire.
The construction is anchored together by a set of busbars that carry sockets for a set of seven-segment and driver modules. The circuit is typical for the day, with a crystal oscillator and divider chain feeding the counters for the displays. There are a few clever tricks that older engineers might...

The “Round House” and “Python’s Kiss” author discusses a few books that examine the psychological terrain of growing up without parents.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Artless,” by Brenda Shaughnessy, and her own poem “The World Was All Before Them.”

I tested more than 30 air fryers this past year. The Typhur Dome 2 is the one I recommend, and it’s uncommonly cheap right now.

L’islamologue suisse a été reconnu coupable par défaut de viols et de viol sur personne vulnérable. La cour a ordonné qu’il fasse l’objet d’une mesure de suivi judiciaire pendant huit ans, lui interdisant d’entrer en relation avec les victimes.

Après le succès de l’émission de télé-réalité, Loana Petrucciani a tenté plusieurs reconversions – chanteuse, puis mannequin et styliste –, avant d’alterner des disparitions inquiétantes et des retours tonitruants.

Quelle bonne farce pourrais-tu te jouer pour te libérer d’une peur absurde ?

L’ancien policier et rugbyman, séparé de la mère de son fils, se campait en « victime » de la justice, multipliant les coups d’éclat. Il a été interpellé en compagnie de ses deux enfants. Deux corps ont été découverts, mercredi, enterrés dans un lieu isolé.

Cette 26e journée de conflit a été marquée par les discussions autour des négociations entre Téhéran et Washington. Les États-Unis auraient proposé un plan de paix à l’Iran par le biais d’intermédiaires, mais auraient reçu en retour une fin de non-recevoir.

With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most importantly, how do you run your own self-hosted Pangolin install? Watch to find out! GitHub: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
How Pangolin Works: https://docs.pangolin.net/about/how-pangolin-works
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Si par le passé les politiques n’étaient que rarement inquiétés pour leurs pas de côté avec la légalité, aujourd’hui plusieurs d’entre eux sont rattrapés par la justice. Le journal suisse “Le Temps” y voit l’“aboutissement d’une exigence de probité nouvelle” de la part de l’électorat français.

L’annonce de l’ouverture d’une enquête, en France, sur l’ancien patron de Frontex pour complicité de crimes contre l’humanité fait réagir la presse de gauche en Europe. Pour la première fois, un tribunal national se penche sur “l’éventuelle responsabilité d’un haut fonctionnaire de l’UE pour les pratiques abominables qui ont lieu en Méditerranée”.

Arnaque amoureuse : comment une faux lien sentimental et des images crédibles piègent une victime sur les applis. Le pirate est une femme !

Ce jugement crée un précédent pour des milliers de plaignants qui accusent les plateformes d’être responsables d’une épidémie d’addiction aux réseaux sociaux. Meta, la maison mère d’Instagram, et Google, propriétaire de YouTube, ont annoncé leur intention de faire appel.

In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. They even disabled their own functionality when gaslit by humans.

The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options.

“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.

The JBL Bar 500MK2 boasts Dolby Atmos support and easy setup and streaming.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such as Coca-Cola, Radio Shack, GE, E. W. Scripps, and the media giant Belo Corporation. So what did all these companies want, and why didn’t it catch on? If you are old enough, you might remember the :CueCat, but you probably thought it was Radio Shack’s disaster. They were simply investors.
The Big Idea
The :CueCat was a barcode scanner that, usually, plugged into a PC’s keyboard port (in those days, that was normally a PS/2 port). A special cable, often called a wedge, was like a Y-cable, allowing you to use your...

Depuis plusieurs jours, dans les aéroports aux États-Unis, les temps d’attente sont « les plus longs de l’histoire », avec des passagers devant parfois piétiner pendant quatre heures. En cause, un blocage budgétaire à Washington qui empêche de payer les agents de sécurité. La situation pourrait ne pas être complètement revenue à la normale lors de l’ouverture de la Coupe du monde de football, dans moins de trois mois.

The US presenter says terrifying thoughts wake her at night as she imagines what happened.

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Après des années de galère avec un NAS bruyant puis un miniPC pas beaucoup mieux, j'ai fini par trouver la configuration Plex idéale.
Un Mac Mini M4
, deux
SSD Lexar SL500
, et le silence absolu. Retour d'expérience.
Le bruit, l'ennemi numéro un
J'ai un serveur Plex depuis des années. Un serveur que je partage avec ma famille et mes amis les plus proches, et qui me sert à stocker des films et des séries souvent introuvables sur les plateformes légales, ou des versions numérisées de DVD et Blu-Ray que j'ai achetés, mais que je veux pouvoir streamer sur mon Apple TV. Vous voyez l'idée. Pendant longtemps, tout ça tournait sur un NAS Synology d'entrée de...

“Last summer, scientists in China reported promising results from clinical tests of a new drug for people with the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The compound, rentosertib, performed well in the phase 2 trial, being safe and well tolerated, and is set for phase 3 and possible approval. So far so good. But why has this drug been labeled as a breakthrough that could ‘change drug discovery forever’? The answer is that it was discovered not by a diligent chemist or through an arduous trial-and-error assay but by several smart artificial intelligence (AI) models. Both the drug target and the small-molecule compound were identified by generative AI platforms from Insilico Medicine in Boston,...

When a Virginia jury ordered internet provider Cox to pay $1 billion in damages for failing to take appropriate actions against pirating subscribers, shockwaves rippled through the ISP industry.
The verdict, in favor of major record labels including Sony and Universal, was a catalyst for many other ‘repeat infringer’ lawsuits. This resulted in yet more multi-million dollar claims and awards, with many still in the pipeline today.
Meanwhile, Cox did everything it could to fight the verdict, all the way up to the Supreme Court, which formally heard the case last December. The panel had to decide whether an ISP can be held liable for not taking any action in response to piracy notices, which the Court...

“A line of electric vehicles (EVs) plugged into rechargers as their drivers wait patiently for their batteries to be topped up has become a familiar sight at many service stations. Though some of the latest EVs can recharge in 20 minutes, many take much longer. Yet some EV drivers could soon be back on the road much more quickly. Companies are developing ultra-fast charging systems which can refill a battery almost as fast as a fossil-fuel car can be filled up. Rapid recharging could dispel one of the last remaining obstacles to widespread EV adoption. One such system will be unveiled in Paris on April 8th by BYD, a Chinese firm that is the world’s biggest EV maker. It consists of a powerful 1,500kW...

“The population of monarch butterflies in Mexico increased 64% this winter, compared with the same period in 2025, offering a glimmer of hope for an insect considered at risk of extinction. The figures, released this week by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mexico, showed that the area occupied by monarchs expanded to 2.93 hectares (7.24 acres) of forest from 1.79 hectares (4.42 acres) the previous winter, the largest coverage since 2018.” From The Guardian.
The post Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Population Jumps 64 Percent appeared first on Human Progress.

Faux freelances, pubs opaques, applis massives : comment l’espionnage économique vise la France au quotidien.

Un mec de 54 ans vient de plaider coupable pour avoir siphonné 8 millions de dollars aux artistes musicaux en utilisant 10 000 bots et de la musique générée par IA. Michael Smith, résident de Cornelius en Caroline du Nord, a monté pendant des années une ferme à streams qui écoutait en boucle des centaines de milliers de fausses chansons sur Spotify et Apple Music.
Le truc, c'est que ces plateformes ne paient pas un tarif fixe par écoute. Elles fonctionnent avec un pot commun mensuel qu'elles redistribuent proportionnellement au nombre de streams. Du coup, chaque fausse écoute générée par les bots de Smith grignotait directement la part des vrais artistes. En gros, c'est pas Spotify qui se faisait...

“Scientists have used stem cells to make bioengineered oesophagi that they successfully implanted into pigs, restoring the animals’ ability to swallow and eat. Similar lab-grown structures could be used to treat people with cancer and other conditions affecting the muscular tube that connects the throat to the stomach, researchers say. Paolo De Coppi, a paediatric surgeon and researcher at University College London, says his team has been investigating minimally invasive ways to treat children born with a large hole in their oesophagus, a condition called long-gap oesophageal atresia. The current treatment is to move the child’s stomach up to their neck and join it directly to the back of their throat,...

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Today, I’m pleased to have with me Steven Pinker, a world-renowned Harvard University psychologist and author of best-selling books including The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Enlightenment Now, and of course, most recently, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. Highly recommend all of them. Let’s start at a high level and look at how Americans think about the country. Gallup shows that 80 percent of Americans are either satisfied or very satisfied with their lives, but only 20 percent are satisfied with the way that America is going. That’s a bit of a discrepancy. What does a psychologist have to say about that? It’s a...

SynthID, le filigrane invisible que Google injecte dans chaque image Gemini, c'était censé être incassable. Sauf qu'un dev a eu l'idée toute bête de générer des images noires et blanches avec Gemini, puis de regarder ce qui restait dans le domaine fréquentiel. Et là, surprise... le watermark est apparu en clair avec toutes ses fréquences porteuses !
Le projet
reverse-SynthID
documente le truc de A à Z où on comprend en gros, que le marquage IA de Google fonctionne en injectant de l'énergie à des fréquences bien précises dans le spectre de l'image via une
transformation de Fourier
. Le chercheur a identifié 6 fréquences porteuses principales, toutes avec une cohérence de phase supérieure à...

Des chercheurs de l'université de Californie du Sud viennent de publier une étude improbable : demander à un modèle d'IA de jouer les experts dégrade ses performances sur les tâches factuelles. Commencer un prompt par "Tu es un expert en programmation" produit de moins bons résultats que de poser la question directement.
Le piège du "tu es un expert"
L'étude, intitulée "Expert Personas Improve LLM Alignment but Damage Accuracy", a mesuré l'impact des instructions de rôle sur les réponses des modèles de langage.
Sur le benchmark MMLU, qui teste les connaissances générales et le raisonnement, les modèles avec une persona d'expert ont obtenu 68 % de bonnes réponses contre 71,6 % sans aucune...

Dirt 3 qui passe de 110 à 860 FPS sous nunux, non, j'ai pas fumé la moquette ! En fait c'est surtout grâce au fameux module de synchronisation kernel NTSYNC promis avec
Wine 11
qui est enfin dispo dans certaines distros. Et la bonne nouvelle c'est que les premiers benchmarks développeurs viennent de tomber, donc on va regarder ça ensemble !
Concrètement, Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04 et SteamOS 3.7.20 beta embarquent maintenant le module par défaut avec le kernel 6.14. Du coup Resident Evil 2 bondit de 26 à 77 FPS, Call of Juarez grimpe de 99 à 224 FPS, et Tiny Tina's Wonderlands passe de 130 à 360. Et Call of Duty Black Ops est maintenant devenu... jouable ! Woohoo !
Alors attention, ces benchmarks...

Phishing UPS : faux avis de livraison, domaine piégé, tokens opaques et signaux utiles pour repérer l’arnaque.

Dans un long article publié le 12 mars, le Los Angeles Times révèle une tendance émergente en Californie : des travailleurs sont désormais rémunérés pour filmer leurs tâches quotidiennes, transformées en données précieuses pour entraîner les robots de demain. Derrière ces gestes ordinaires se développe un marché en pleine expansion, porté par les ambitions de l’IA physique, mais qui repose sur une main-d’œuvre précaire, invisible et mondialisée.

France has been at the forefront of the fight against online piracy for years. It pioneered the three-strikes “graduated response” system back in 2009, where the Hadopi agency tracked, warned, and fined online pirates, mostly those using BitTorrent. As piracy shifted to streaming, however, enforcement became more complicated. Unlike BitTorrent, IPTV services don’t broadcast users’ IP addresses publicly, which has made individual subscribers difficult to identify and prosecute.
However, IPTV operators and resellers keep records. When investigators reach those records, subscribers can find themselves exposed.
19 IPTV Subscribers Fined
Last week, the French football league LFP announced that the Arras...

Vu sur leboncoin, des trucs issus de chez Violet avant la fermeture. Il y a deux Mother (pas par Violet…), un Karotz (pas Violet), un Mir:ror, des Ztamps mais aussi quelques Nabaztag. On peut voir un Nabaztag noir (je dirais peint à la main, sans certitudes)
Un Nabaztag noir Sur les Nabaztag/tag, on peut voir des oreilles qui me semblent de la même couleur que celles de test de chez Violet (encore).
La totale
Le vert/bleu des oreilles Et dans les cinq Nabaztag/tag, deux sont en version démo. On peut aussi noter le marquage qui change selon les modèles.
Démo
L’article Quelques Nabaztag issus de chez Violet est apparu en premier sur Le journal du lapin.