The second day of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia ended after just two hours.

Global stocks are beating the U.S. by the widest margin since 1995. What's behind the "Ex-America" trade?

Une étude montre que le virus chikungunya peut incuber à des températures moindres qu’imaginées auparavant. Conséquence concrète : en Europe, davantage de localisations et sur des périodes plus longues pourraient être concernées par des épidémies de cette maladie, pourtant tropicale.

Plus, Keith David promises his presidential 'Rick and Morty' spinoff is still coming this year.

L’audition du dirigeant de Meta est très attendue, alors que l’affaire examinée par les jurés de Los Angeles devra faire jurisprudence pour de très nombreuses procédures similaires aux Etats-Unis.

L’Américaine de 41 ans est devenue la médaillée d’or la plus âgée de l’histoire des Jeux d’hiver en individuel après sa victoire en monobob aux Jeux olympiques d’hiver 2026. La presse internationale s’amourache de la championne qui multiplie les casquettes : sportive de haut niveau, mère de famille, défenseuse des droits des personnes handicapées.

It's a snake-eat-snake world.

Loin d’œuvrer dans la diplomatie et la discrétion, Bill White, en poste à Bruxelles, a accusé la Belgique d’antisémitisme au motif qu’elle interdit la circoncision rituelle lorsqu’elle n’est pas pratiquée par un médecin. Convoqué par le ministère des Affaires étrangères, il s’en est ensuite pris à un élu qui critique la politique de Donald Trump.

He made the comment on an official visit to Ethiopia, saying it could prove dangerous for a volatile region.

There's a sly cameo from Naru from 'Prey,' but originally it didn't stop there.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Lori Schott didn't care what it took to haul her way from her small town in Eastern Colorado to show up to a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday. "I don't care if I had to hire a pack mule to get me here, I was going to be here," she told The Verge outside the courthouse Tuesday. Schott's daughter Annalee died by suicide at age 18 in 2020, after struggling with body image issues that her mother says were heightened by social media. After her death, Schott found journal entries where Annalee disparaged her own looks and compared herself to other girls' profiles. "I was so worried about what my ch...

La présidente de l’institution monétaire européenne voudrait permettre au président Macron de peser sur la nomination de son successeur avant l’élection présidentielle. Elle abandonnerait son poste avant le terme de son mandat de huit ans, prévu en octobre 2027, révèle, le 18 février, le “Financial Times”.

The aircraft lifted only briefly off the ground, hovering under remote control. Still, the moment mattered. On March 27, 2025, an experimental vehicle called BlackBird rose into the air during its maiden test, powered not by conventional helicopter blades but by six barrel-shaped rotors that spin and change angle at the same time. The flight marked the first time an aircraft with that configuration had taken off, according to Austrian aviation company CycloTech, which built the prototype. For decades, engineers have chased new ways to make vertical flight quieter, more precise, and better suited for crowded cities. Cycloidal propulsion, the technology behind BlackBird, may offer one path forward. The idea...

Rescuers are racing to the scene, which has seen about 30 inches (76cm) of snowfall in the last 24 hours.

Avec l’envoi annoncé de milliers de soldats à Gaza, Jakarta affiche une ambition inédite dans les opérations de maintien de la paix. Mais pour la presse régionale, l’ambiguïté entourant la force multinationale pilotée par Washington pourrait nuire à sa réputation dans le monde musulman et fragiliser sa doctrine diplomatique de non-alignement.

When World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, it became somewhat of a juggernaut in the MMORPG space. Millions of players continue to login every month. [Kelsi Davis] is one such player, but she doesn’t always log in with the regular client anymore. That’s because she put together WoWee—an open-source alternative of her very own.
WoWee is an acronym—World of Warcraft Engine Experiment. Coded in native C++, it’s a homebrewed client that uses a custom OpenGL renderer to display the game world. [Kelsi] notes that it’s strictly an “educational/research” project, built without using any official Blizzard assets, data or code. Instead, it grabs some client data from a legally-obtained install to...

The singing and speaking casts just did their first joint interview for the Oscar-nominated Netflix smash.

My first attempt at quantum coding wasn’t nearly as painful as I’d feared—and it’s probably something you could do too.

Benoît Richaud is working with 16 figure skaters from 13 countries at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. WIRED spoke to him about how he roots for all of them.

A svelte smart ring can track important activity, sleep, and health metrics. Unlike some smartwatches, a ring doesn’t need to be charged every day.

Sporting a refined design and incredible integrated GPU performance, the Dell XPS 14 is the return to form I hoped it would be.

We spoke with registered dietitians and tested popular formulas to break down the research behind functional fungi.

AI search startup Perplexity is distancing itself from ads amid fears users won't trust chatbots with an agenda to upsell. The move highlights an emerging crossroads for the AI industry as the sector's biggest players hunt for stable sources of income to bankroll massive spending, with giants like OpenAI leaning into ads and others like Anthropic promising to keep them out. Perplexity began phasing out ads late last year and isn't exploring any new ad deals at the moment, executives said on Monday at a roundtable event, according to Business Insider and the Financial Times. It is a noteworthy U-turn for the US startup, which became one of …
Read the full story at The Verge.

En 2026, le début du ramadan est attendu pour la semaine du 16 février. Il fait partie des cinq piliers de l’islam.

Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible?

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss."

Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences.

A new book provides a twist on the wrongful-conviction genre, showing how deep the rot can be when sexual violence is involved.

Manuel Bompard, le coordinateur de LFI, en a appelé aux « pouvoirs publics » pour « garantir un débat démocratique digne et sain ». Plus tôt, la porte-parole du gouvernement Maud Bregeon avait demandé à LFI d’exclure, au moins « temporairement », Raphaël Arnault de son groupe à l’Assemblée nationale.

Dans ce nouvel épisode de « Réveillez-vous ! », Héloïse Weisz tend son micro à Thomas Huchon, l’un des visages du fact-checking en France.

Tesla is no longer using the term "Autopilot" to describe the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles in California, avoiding a 30-day sales suspension in the state. The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced that Tesla has taken corrective action after finding in December that the EV manufacturer's marketing was violating state law and misleading customers into thinking its cars would drive autonomously. The DMV's complaint is connected to written marketing materials for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) features that Tesla started publishing in May 2021, which later led to the EV maker appending "(Supervised)" …
Read the full story at The Verge.

"There’s a strong correlation between being more educated and receiving higher compensation," one analyst said

The rise of a social network for AI agents exposes how far autonomous AI has come — and how far it still has to go

The best robot vacuums of 2026, based on expert picks from Reader’s Digest and lab-tested performance data from Consumer Reports

Creating conversations with an AI celebrity isn’t difficut, because the AI models are trained on historical data. Here's what you need to know

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Recalbox vient de publier la version 10 de sa distribution open-source française dédiée au rétrogaming. Au programme, le support du Raspberry Pi 5 et du Pi 500, l'arrivée sur Steam Deck en version LCD et OLED, de nouvelles émulations dont la Xbox originale et la GameCube, une interface entièrement revue, et du matériel dédié pour les fans de CRT et de bornes d'arcade. Que du bon. Du Raspberry Pi 5 au Steam Deck
La version 10 de Recalbox élargit donc son catalogue de matériel compatible, et pas qu'un peu. Le Raspberry Pi 5 est désormais pris en charge, y compris dans sa version 2 Go de RAM, tout comme le Raspberry Pi 500. Mais surtout, la...

Alors qu’un homme est porté disparu dans le Maine-et-Loire depuis mardi soir après que son canoë a chaviré, quatre départements de l’ouest de la France sont toujours en vigilance rouge.

Si vous avez grandi dans les
années 90 ou 2000
, il y a de fortes chances que vous ayez connu cette époque un peu étrange où le DVD tentait de devenir le centre de divertissement ultime. On achetait nos films en boite, on les collectionnait fièrement sur nos étagères, et on passait parfois pas mal de temps à naviguer dans des menus (souvent en 4/3) avec notre télécommande.
Mais est-ce que vous vous souvenez de ces fameux "jeux" planqués dans les bonus ?
C'était un truc de fou quand on y repense. Certains éditeurs voulaient absolument exploiter le côté "Digital Versatile Disc" et nous pondaient des mini-jeux interactifs. C'était un peu l'équivalent informatique du bouclier de Captain America,...

The Raspberry Pi has brought digital camera experimentation within the reach of everybody, with its combination of an accessible computing platform and some almost-decent camera sensors. If there’s a flaw in the Pi as a camera though, it lies in the software, which can be slow and frustrating to use. [Martijn Braam] is here with an interesting project that might yield some useful results in this direction, he’s making a Raspberry Pi studio camera.
His camera hardware is very straightforward, a Pi 5 and touchscreen with the HD camera module in a rough but serviceable wooden box. The interesting part comes in the software, in which he’s written a low-latency GUI over an HDMI output camera application....

D’importants problèmes de communication au sein de l’armée d’invasion russe permettent aux Ukrainiens de réussir des contre-attaques opportunistes, en particulier dans la région de Zaporijia.

Kerstin G's boyfriend is accused of leaving her unprotected and exhausted close to the summit during a blizzard.

Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/publishing-my-sites-using-woodpecker-ci.html

Nintendo vient de sortir un nouvel accessoire matériel pour son service Nintendo Switch Online. Après les manettes NES, Famicom, Genesis, Mega Drive, Mega Drive (six boutons), Super Nintendo, Super NES, Super Famicom, Nintendo 64 et Game Cube, Nintendo propose donc le Virtual Boy. C’est un peu particulier : il n’y a pas de manette, mais uniquement deux supports qui acceptent les Switch et Switch 2. Le premier, vendu une vingtaine d’euros, est en carton. Le second, qui vaut 80 €, est une reproduction de l’appareil. Le Virtual Boy est une console rare, pour une bonne raison : elle est sortie au Japon et en Amérique vers 1995, mais pas dans nos contrées. C’est probablement le plus gros flop de...

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Depuis le 8 février et jusqu'au 30 avril se déroule en France un exercice militaire de grande ampleur, le plus important depuis la fin de la Guerre froide. Mobilisant 12 500 militaires français, mais aussi européens, 25 navires et 140 avions et hélicoptères, cette manœuvre est donc à la hauteur du personnage mythologique qui lui donne son nom. Un message opportun envoyé quelques jours avant la Conférence annuelle de Munich sur la Sécurité, qui réunira plus de cinquante chefs d'État et délégations. Orion 26 : un exercice inédit
Les forces militaires du pays d'Arnland doivent faire face au voisin oriental, Mercure, puissance expansionniste voulant annexer une partie du territoire national. Voici...

Making your own laptop can be a challenging project, but a doable one, especially given the large number of options available today for computing. Of course nothing says you need to use a modern component in your build, and in the LT6502 project by [TechPaula] they didn’t go with a modern RPi or the like, nope went right back to about 50 years ago to use a 6502 at the heart of this DIY laptop build.
The 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor from the 1970s, found in the Commodore 64 and Apple II. This wasn’t their first venture into 8 MHz world of the 6502, prior to this laptop build there was a desktop build the PC6502 bringing this chip of old into a PC/104 form factor. The LT6502 adds in the things you’d...

Antenna design is often referred to as a black art or witchcraft, even by those experienced in the space. To that end, [Janne] wondered—could years of honed skill be replaced by bruteforcing the problem with the aid of some GPUs? Iterative experiments ensued.
[Janne]’s experience in antenna design was virtually non-existent prior to starting, having a VNA on hand but no other knowledge of the craft. Formerly, this was worked around by simply copying vendor reference designs when putting antennas on PCBs. However, knowing that sometimes a need for something specific arises, they wanted a tool that could help in these regards.
The root of the project came from a research paper using an FDTD tool running on...

Life feels lighter when you sense you can steer it. That feeling, the quiet belief that your choices matter, sits at the center of a new global study on happiness and well-being. Researchers at Finland’s Aalto University report that autonomy, the sense of freedom of choice and control over how life turns out, links to higher happiness and life satisfaction across the world. Yet the strength of that link shifts with money and culture, growing sharper in wealthier and more individualistic countries. The research tackles a long argument in psychology and social science. Some scholars say autonomy is a universal human need. Others say it is prized most in rich, individualist societies, while people in tougher...

Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. While Meta has long been using Nvidia's hardware for its AI products, this deal "represents the first large-scale Nvidia Grace-only deployment," which Nvidia says will deliver "significant performance-per-watt improvements in [Meta's] data centers." The deal also includes plans to add Nvidia's next-generation Vera CPUs to Meta's data centers in 2027. Meta is also working on its own in-house chips for running AI models, but according to the Financial Times, it has run into "technical challenges and rollout …
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The BBC hears harrowing accounts of assaults appearing to target the sect of former President Assad.

La Chine fait monter les enchères avec pour thème central la fin du soutien américain à Taïwan à l’approche de la visite officielle prévue début avril en Chine de Donald Trump. De son côté l’administration américaine poursuit activement ses livraisons d’armes à l’île rebelle tout en s’en prenant ouvertement à des pays clé de la sphère d’influence chinoise, une évolution géopolitique de nature à inquiéter Pékin.

Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) are a fascinating display technology that has been largely abandoned outside of retro gaming and a few other niche uses. They use magnets to steer a beam of electrons rapidly across a screen, and while a marvel of engineering for their time, their expense, complexity, and weight all led to them being largely replaced by other displays like LCDs and LEDs. They were also difficult to miniaturize, but there were a few companies who tried. [dooglehead] located a few of the smallest CRT displays he could find and got to work putting them in the most unlikely of situations: a virtual reality headset.
The two displays for his headset come from Sony Watchmans, compact over-the-air...

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic representative from Texas. During his opening monologue on Monday night, Colbert says the network's lawyers told him in "no uncertain terms" that he couldn't have Talarico on the show, forcing him to post the interview on YouTube instead, hours after news broke that Anderson Cooper is leaving his position at the network as a 60 Minutes correspondent.
"He [Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast," …
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In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own.

Light can hit a lead halide perovskite crystal that is anything but pristine and still end up as useful electric current. That mismatch has bothered solar researchers for more than a decade. Silicon needs an almost spotless lattice. Perovskites, grown cheaply from solution, are packed with defects, strain, and disorder. Yet their solar-cell efficiencies have climbed into the same neighborhood. A new paper in Nature Communications from physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) argues that the mess is not a side issue. It is the mechanism. Postdoc Dmytro Rak and assistant professor Zhanybek Alpichshev report that perovskites such as MAPbBr3 host dense networks of microscopic domain...

The owners mixed and matched to strike a balance with curving counters and mirrors.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: Warsaw, Poland Architect: Lyre Studio Footprint: 1,400 square feet Photographer: Mood Authors / @moodauthors From the Architect: "This is the latest project by Diana Żurek and Gutek Girek from Furora Studio. It was created for a lovely couple with two young children, who dreamed of a vibrant, pattern-filled home. To make it possible, the original layout was completely redesigned—making room for a spacious kitchen and a living area...

When soft music is playing in the background, a brief exchange with a robot can evoke unexpected feelings of intimacy. Researchers were surprised to discover how much of a role the background music played in the interaction. A team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, led by Professor Johan Hoorn, investigated how emotional cues affect human-machine interactions over multiple contacts. Emotional Cues In Human-Machine Interaction The focus of this investigation was loneliness, which is one of today’s fastest-growing concerns related to mental health, particularly as more people are becoming socially isolated. If we want artificial robots that have the ability to recognize and respond appropriately to...

VPNs have long been a thorn in the side of LaLiga, as they are used to circumvent the ISP blocking measures it has spent years securing in local courts. To address this problem, the Spanish football league has recently gone to court to target the VPNs themselves.
Today, the Commercial Court No. 1 of Córdoba granted LaLiga and its broadcasting partner Telefónica Audiovisual Digital (TAD) an emergency injunction, targeting NordVPN and ProtonVPN. The VPN companies must block IP addresses linked to illegal streaming of LaLiga matches, making these inaccessible from Spain. The orders offer no immediate appeal option, according to El Economista, and there is one significant caveat. Neither VPN company was present...

La réorientation de l’offre des gares secondaires vers les gares principales et l’allongement des trajets expliquent, selon la société ferroviaire, la hausse des prix pratiqués par sa filiale censée être à bas coût.

A locker room can look united from the outside. Players wear the same jerseys, run the same plays, and share the same goals. Yet beneath that surface, differences in pay can shift how people cooperate, especially when the gaps exist among the teammates who matter most. That dynamic sits at the center of new research examining how compensation differences influence team success. The study draws on professional basketball data but points toward lessons that extend far beyond sports arenas. “If the variability in pay is based on variability in performance, there’s no reason for anyone to feel there is unfairness,” said Jeremy Beus, a professor in the Department of Management, Information Systems, and...