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by The Verge - about 24 minutes
LG unveiled a whole new line of gaming monitors ahead of CES on Friday. The UltraGear evo line are all high-end monitors covering a range of technologies, but united by 5K resolution and AI upscaling.
The three flagships under the new branding are the 39GX950B, the 27GM950B, and the 52G930B. The first number in the model name indicates the size. The rest of the letters and numbers, well, I'm sure they mean something to someone. The 39-inch GX9 is an ultrawide 21:9 5K2K dual-mode OLED screen. It can run at its full resolution at 165Hz, or jump to 330Hz for fast-twitch games at WFHD. The 27-inch GM9 uses "New" MiniLEDs, which promise to del …
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by io9 - about 51 minutes
Before hitting the endgame, 'Stranger Things' had to tie off some threads and help the Hawkins gang get their heads in the game.
by HackAdAy - about 1 hour
The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are generally kept in sealed, light-proof containers until they are ready to be developed. But there are a few things that can ruin film even then, most notably because some types of film are sensitive to ionizing radiation as well as light. This was famously how [Henri Becquerel] discovered that uranium is radioactive, but the same effect can be used to take pictures of cosmic rays.
In [Becquerel]’s case, a plate of photographic material was essentially contaminated from uranium by accident, even though the plate was in a completely...
by io9 - about 2 hours
Let's hope there's no lasting damage to the in-game economy.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Do you like the 'Fallout' games or show enough to watch a competition show based on 'Fallout Shelter'?
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. Building atmosphere.
Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog. Creating compelling characters. Not being a racist.
As a fan of horror in general, I can't pretend that Lovecraft isn't an important touchstone. But the man's blatant racism is also impossible to ignore, especially since it often finds its way onto the pages of his stories. One of the most notorious is The Horror at Red Hook, which follows Detective Thomas Malone as he uncovers a sinister cult in the titular Brooklyn neighborhood. The Ballad of Black Tom is a retelling of that story, but from the perspective …
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by The Verge - about 3 hours
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a game using your body instead of just your thumbs - but it was not good. In some ways, its not-good-ness is a key part of the story.
The Power Glove showed up in the late 1980s, at a complicated time for the gaming industry, when Nintendo was a hugely powerful force for the future of fun. But the Power Glove wasn't really even a Nintendo product. It started as a research lark, became a toy, and only wound up with Nintendo's name on it after a part …
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by Korben - about 4 hours
Vous aussi vous avez un dossier « Notes » qui ressemble à un cimetière d'idées ? Des fichiers texte avec des noms genre « truc_important.txt » ou « a_voir_plus_tard.md » que vous n'avez jamais revus depuis 2019 ? Hé bien j'ai ce qu'il vous faut pour enfin donner un sens à tout ce bordel ! Blinko
c'est une app de prise de notes qui utilise l'IA pour vous aider à retrouver ce que vous avez noté, même quand vous avez complètement oublié les mots exacts que vous aviez utilisés. Le principe c'est du RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), c'est-à-dire que l'IA va fouiller dans toutes vos notes et vous ressortir les infos pertinentes quand vous posez une question. Genre « c'était quoi ce truc que...
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete significantly lighter, better insulating, and more resilient to fire. Making it can however be a bit of an issue, often requiring ingredients that aren’t purchased at the average DIY store. This is where [NightHawkInLight]’s method seems rather promising, requiring effectively only xanthan gum and dishwashing detergent.
For the small-scale demonstration, 15 grams of the thickening agent xanthan gum is mixed with enough alcohol to create a slurry. To this 60 mL of the detergent and 1 liter of water is added and mixed until the xanthan gum has absorbed all the moisture, which takes...
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Tombeurs du Mozambique (1-0) pour leur entrée en lice à la Coupe d’Afrique des nations, les Ivoiriens, champions en titre, affrontent les Camerounais dimanche à Marrakech.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Cette rencontre doit être suivie d’un appel avec les dirigeants européens. Donald Trump devrait ensuite s’entretenir avec le président russe, Vladimir Poutine, selon Moscou.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
L’actrice, qui était devenue une icône mondiale après la sortie de « Et Dieu… créa la femme » en 1956, est morte, à l’âge de 91 ans. De nombreux responsables politiques et associatifs ainsi que des figures du monde de la culture lui ont rendu hommage.
by io9 - about 4 hours
And we looked into how Tesla compares to its competition.
by Le Monde - about 5 hours
L’actrice, dont on a appris la mort le 28 décembre, à l’âge de 91 ans, fut l’interprète à succès de nombreux titres, dont ceux écrits pour elle par Serge Gainsbourg.
by io9 - about 5 hours
'Dune: Part 3' and 'Avengers: Doomsday' share the same December 2026 date. Are they another 'Barbenheimer,' or will one movie blink?
by Korben - about 5 hours
Vous avez déjà fait transcrire une interview ou un podcast par un service en ligne ? Vous savez, ces trucs qui vous demandent de créer un compte, de filer votre carte bleue, et d'accepter que vos fichiers audio soient envoyés sur des serveurs quelque part dans le cloud américain pour être analysés par des IA qu'on ne connaît pas. Le tout pour 100 balles par an si vous avez de la chance, et beaucoup plus si vous dépassez le quota ridicule de 20 heures par mois...
Hé bien y'a une alternative qui va vous plaire :
Scriberr
! C'est une app de transcription audio complètement open source et surtout, qui tourne 100% en local sur votre machine. Pas de cloud, pas de données qui se baladent, pas d'abonnement...
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
Plusieurs monastères et couvents de cette ville du sud de l’Espagne proposent des chambres d’hôtes et des appartements aux touristes. Le but est de gagner de l’argent pour financer la rénovation des bâtiments, explique le site espagnol “El Confidencial”.
by BBC - about 5 hours
The annual food fight festival ''Els Enfarinats'' has left the Spanish town of Ibi covered in flour and egg shells.
by Korben - about 5 hours
Vous utilisez Word pour bosser et j’imagine que vous avez vu passer le fameux Copilot de Microsoft à 30 balles par mois pour les pros ? Ouais, ça pique un peu le porte-monnaie surtout quand on a déjà nos propres clés API OpenAI ou Gemini qui traînent et sur lesquelles on claque un smic tous les mois.
Hé bien Word GPT Plus c'est justement un add-in open source qui intègre l'IA directement dans Microsoft Word, et qui vous permet d'utiliser vos propres clés API au lieu de payer un énième abonnement. Avec ça, vous pouvez générer du texte, traduire, résumer, reformuler... le tout sans quitter votre document.
Mais le truc vraiment cool, c'est le mode Agent. Là, l'IA a accès à plein d'outils qui...
by The Verge - about 5 hours
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game's systems, including the ability to ban and unban users, sending custom messages to ban ticker, unlocking all in-game items, and granting every player 2 billion R6 Credits and Renown. Ubisoft sells R6 credits in its store, pricing 15,000 of them at $99.99. That means the actual cash value of 2 billion R6 credits is about $13.33 million. Ubisoft made it clear that nobody would be punished for spending any c …
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by Torrentfreak - about 5 hours
As one of the leading Internet infrastructure companies, Cloudflare finds itself at the center of various copyright disputes.
The American company says it powers nearly 20% of the web. This includes several Fortune 500 companies, but also many pirate sites and services. For years, rightsholders have urged Cloudflare to do something about these pirate sites. However, the company typically doesn’t take action against customers that use its CDN services. Instead, it simply forwarded takedown notices to their respective hosting services.
If customers do use hosting-related Cloudflare services, they will have their content removed. These types of customers have increased significantly over time, and this year,...
by Les Décodeurs - about 5 hours
Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 27 et dimanche 28 décembre ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.
by Korben - about 6 hours
Vous jouez à Rainbow Six Siege ? Hé bien félicitations, vous êtes maintenant virtuellement millionnaire ! Enfin... l'étiez, parce que tout ça va être annulé. Rainbow Six Siege X, le jeu d'Ubisoft victime d'un hack massif
Ce week-end, Ubisoft s'est fait pirater comme des jambons et pas qu'un peu. Des hackers ont réussi à distribuer 2 milliards de R6 Credits à TOUS les joueurs du jeu. Au tarif Ubisoft (15 000 crédits pour 99,99 dollars), ça représente environ 13,33 millions de dollars de monnaie virtuelle offerte gracieusement. Sympa les pirates ^^
Mais attendez, c'est pas tout ! Les attaquants ont également débloqué absolument tous les cosmétiques du jeu pour tout le monde, y compris les skins...
by Courrier International - about 6 hours
L’année 2025 a été riche en sorties musicales. “Courrier international” vous propose une sélection de cinq albums marquants à réécouter durant les fêtes pour finir l’année en musique.
by daryo Bluesky - about 6 hours
Italia • April 2012 📷 #flashes
by Courrier International - about 7 hours
Depuis cinq décennies, les requins ont souffert d’une image de terribles prédateurs avides de sang, mais les mentalités commencent à changer, constatent les chercheurs. Cela pourrait aider à protéger le roi des océans, longtemps négligé en matière de protection, espère le magazine américain “Nautilus”.
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
There’s a seemingly unending list of modifications or upgrades you can make to a 3D printer. Most revolve around the mechanical side of things, many are simple prints or small add-ons. This upgrade is no small task: this 17-year-old hacker [Kai] took on designing and building his own 3D printer control motherboard, the Cheetah MX4 Mini.
He started the build by picking out the MCU to control everything. For that, he settled on the STM32H743, a fast chip with tons of support for all the protocols he could ask for, even as he was still nailing down the exact features to implement. For stepper drivers, [Kai] went with four TMC stepstick slots for silent motor control. There are provisions for sensorless homing...
by Korben - about 8 hours
Vous connaissez l'histoire de la NES ? Celle du petit robot R.O.B. qui a aidé à ressusciter l'industrie du jeu vidéo américaine en 1985 ? Hé bien la
Video Game History Foundation
vient de sortir un documentaire d'une heure qui raconte tout ce qu'on ne vous a jamais dit sur le lancement de cette console mythique. Et dedans, y'a des révélations qui font mal ^^.
Frank Cifaldi, le fondateur de la VGHF, a passé des années à fouiller cette histoire. Il a rencontré des gens qui étaient chez Nintendo à l'époque, il a déterré des documents que personne n'avait jamais vus, il a même manipulé des prototypes qui n'auraient jamais dû survivre. Et le résultat, c'est cette plongée incroyable dans les...
by Courrier International - about 8 hours
Deux voies ferrées vont bientôt connecter le petit royaume himalayen du Bhoutan au reste du monde via l’Inde. Un chantier éminemment stratégique pour New Delhi, qui a mis l’argent nécessaire sur la table pour combattre l’influence grandissante de la Chine.
by BBC - about 9 hours
The actress was a symbol of sexual liberation in the 1950s but became increasingly controversial after making homophobic and racist slurs.
by BBC - about 9 hours
Thousands of homes in parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway have been left without power.
by Wired - about 9 hours
Many people rely on the sleep aid melatonin to help them get a more restful night’s sleep. But is it safe? And how much is too much?
by The Verge - about 9 hours
In this new era of console… inclusivity? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. Indeed, the top-performing games year after year on both PlayStation and Xbox are multiplatform releases, and often the best games of the year, like 2025 GOTY winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, similarly launch on most everything. (Once again, like in all things, Nintendo is the exception.)
But while lists like this will probably disappear as we get deeper into the era of everything being an Xbox, Sony still seems committed to high-quality exclu …
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by Courrier International - about 9 hours
En Russie, les restrictions imposées aux éditeurs et aux libraires se sont durcies depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine en 2022. Des ouvrages sont retirés des rayons ou expurgés comme des documents secrets. Mais à Saint-Pétersbourg, la “capitale du Nord”, les librairies demeurent des lieux de rencontre essentiels, comme en témoigne ce reportage paru dans le quotidien américain “The New York Times”.
by Wired - about 10 hours
Whether you want to battle Star Wars spaceships or shoot a cinematic masterpiece, one of these drones is going to be perfect for you.
by HackAdAy - about 10 hours
Every system administrator worth their salt knows that the right way to coax changes to network infrastructure onto a production network is to first validate it on a Staging network: a replica of the Production (Prod) network. Meanwhile all the developers who are working on upcoming changes are safely kept in their own padded safety rooms in the form of Test, Dev and similar, where Test tends to be the pre-staging phase and Dev is for new-and-breaking changes. This is what anyone should use, and yet Cloudflare apparently deems itself too cool for such a rational, time-tested approach based on their latest outage.
In their post-mortem on the December 5th outage, they describe how they started doing a roll-out...
by Wired - about 11 hours
Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.
by Wired - about 11 hours
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
The man from Kabul had warned about the number of men assigned to each room. “I won’t lie to you,” he had said. “You’ll be uncomfortable. You’ll have to adjust.”
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
The author discusses her novella “The Ice-Skater.”
by Wired - about 11 hours
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.”
by BBC - about 12 hours
The cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality who swept away the cinematic cobwebs of the 1950s.
by QZ - about 12 hours
The path out of holiday debt starts with changing how you think about money — not just how you spend it. Here are expert tips to get you started
by QZ - about 12 hours
These tips will help couples plan and execute a budget that reflects their shared objectives
by HackAdAy - about 13 hours
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for printers. Luckily, as that port became obsolete we got the Raspberry Pi, which has the GPIO and a number of other advantages over huge desktop computers from the 90s and 00s as well. But if you really miss that form factor or as yearn for the days of the old parallel port, this build which puts a Raspberry Pi into a mini ITX desktop case is just the thing for you.
There are a few features that make this build more than just a curiosity. The most obvious is that the Pi actually has support for PCIe and includes a single...
by daryo Bluesky - about 14 hours
Livres, cinéma, musique... Les coups de cœur culturels 2025 de la rédaction
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/livres-cinema-musique-les-coups-de-coeur-culturels-2025-de-la-redaction
by BBC - about 14 hours
Observers say the vote, accompanied by a renewed crackdown on dissent, is meant to entrench the junta's power.
by Journal du Lapin - about 15 hours
Dans les années nonante, au moment du lancement de la console Pippin, Bandai avait une newsletter pour les développeurs. C’est assez intéressant à lire, avec de petits détails pratiques sur le développement. Je continue avec la cinquième. Elle a été publiée en février 1996 (elle indique 1995 par erreur) est disponible sur archive.org. C’est parfois compliqué à afficher correctement, parce que l’encodage des caractères n’est pas celui utilisé en 2025. Avec Safari, il faut faire Présentation -> Encodage du texte -> Japonais (ISO 2022-JP). Même comme ça, il manque quelques caractères, donc je suppose que c’est un encodage plus ancien.
Cette newsletter est dédié au lancement de la...
by Usbek & Rica - about 17 hours
Située à Ginza, quartier huppé de la capitale japonaise réputé pour ses grands magasins, la librairie Morioka Shoten ne met en vente qu’un seul ouvrage par semaine. Une curation méticuleuse au sein d’un écrin minimaliste, qui invite à ralentir et à redonner leur place aux échanges entre auteurs et lecteurs. On vous racontait dans le numéro d'hiver 2024 de notre magazine.
by Le Monde - about 18 hours
La robotique humanoïde suscite un engouement grandissant dans la tech californienne, portée par les prophéties d’Elon Musk. Nombre d’experts de ces technologies soulignent toutefois que le passage de l’IA au monde physique reste semé d’obstacles technologiques et logistiques.
by Paul Jorion - saturday at 20:42
Perry Bamonte, guitariste de The Cure
by QZ - saturday at 20:40
Discover budget-friendly beaches, lodging, dining, and activities that let you enjoy sun and sand without overspending on your vacation
by Zataz - saturday at 17:38
Mondial Relay et colis privé signalent un accès non autorisé : données de contact et suivi colis potentiellement exposés....
by La Horde - saturday at 12:15
Portrait par le REMED de l'une des figures de l'extrême droite française de la fin du XXe siècle. -
Repères
by New Yorker - saturday at 12:00
The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content.
by New Yorker - saturday at 12:00
This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.
by QZ - saturday at 11:10
The Motley Fool surveyed 2,000 American adults to find out what people’s most common financial resolutions are
by daryo Bluesky - saturday at 8:40
tu veux quoi pour Noël ? un porte-avions !
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/correcteurs/2025/12/23/tu-veux-quoi-pour-noel-un-porte-avions/