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by HackAdAy - about 30 minutes
[Michael Lynch] recently decided to delve into the world of off-grid, decentralized communications with MeshCore, because being able to communicate wirelessly with others in a way that does not depend on traditional communication infrastructure is pretty compelling. After getting his hands on a variety of hardware and trying things out, he wrote up his thoughts from the perspective of a hardware-curious software developer.
He ends up testing a variety of things: MeshCore firmware installed on a Heltec V3 board (used via an app over Bluetooth), a similar standalone device with antenna and battery built in (SenseCAP T-1000e, left in the header image), and a Lilygo T-Deck+ (right in the header image above). These...
by Wired - about 30 minutes
The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.
by Le Monde - about 40 minutes
Les négociateurs ukrainiens et américains se sont retrouvés samedi en Floride pour leur troisième jour de discussions sur le plan de Washington visant à mettre fin à la guerre avec la Russie.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 23:23
La France insoumise « n’acceptera jamais l’entrisme religieux », a affirmé le fondateur du mouvement devant la commission d’enquête parlementaire sur les liens entre mouvements politiques et réseaux islamistes, samedi 6 décembre.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:15
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first 'Lord of the Rings' by watching the longer versions of the trilogy in theaters next month.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:02
Le mouvement islamiste palestinien dit également accepter, dans un communiqué publié samedi, « le déploiement de forces de l’ONU en tant que forces de séparation, chargées de surveiller les frontières et de veiller au respect du cessez-le-feu à Gaza ».
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate many such devices into the world of Home Assistant.
It’s called RTL-HAOS, and it’s intended to act as a bridge. Whatever you can pick up using the RTL_433 tool, you can set up with Home Assistant using RTL-HAOS. If you’re unfamiliar with RTL_433, it’s a multitalented data receiver for picking up all sorts of stuff on a range of bands using RTL-SDR receivers, as well as a range of other hardware. While it’s most closely associated with products that communicate in the 433 MHz band, it can also work with products that talk...
by io9 - yesterday at 21:30
Amid rumors that Tim Cook may leave soon, many of his direct reports are retiring or otherwise moving on.
by BBC - yesterday at 21:18
The Ukrainian leader says he is "determined" to continue working with the US, as Russian strikes continue.
by The Verge - yesterday at 20:55
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook he is “seriously considering” leaving Apple for another company in the near future. It was reported in October that Srouji was “evaluating his future at the tech giant.” While nothing is confirmed, it seems the executive is leaning towards not having a future at Cupertino. If Srouji leaves, he would be just the latest in a string of high-profile shakeups in the company’s C-suite. COO Jeff Williams announced his retirement in July, which led to some shifting of roles. But things have only accelerated in December, with AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, policy lead Lisa Jackson...
by io9 - yesterday at 20:50
Old friends and new (and old) enemies await when 'Trigun Stargaze' premieres in January.
by BBC - yesterday at 20:32
At the same time, the Trump administration is withdrawing free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth.
by BBC - yesterday at 19:39
Images appeared online of unveiled women competing in the race on Friday.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the ROMs required to make a retrocomputer run. Even worse, what if you’re rolling your own firmware? Period-appropriate EPROMs and their programmers aren’t always cheap or easy to get a hold of these days. [Kyo-ta04] had that problem, and thanks to them, we now all have a solution: Pico2ROMEmu, a ROM emulator based on, you guessed it, the Raspberry Pi Pico2. The Pico2ROMEmu in its natural habitat on a Z80 SBC.
The ROM emulator has been tested at 10MHz with a Z80 processor and 12MHz with an MC68000. An interesting detail here is that rather than use the RP2350’s RISC-V or ARM cores, [kyo-ta04] is doing all the work using the chip’s powerful PIO. PIO means...
by BBC - yesterday at 18:59
Drone strikes on a town in South Kordofan on Thursday are said to have killed at least 50 people.
by io9 - yesterday at 18:25
Looks like there's more of 'Fallout: New Vegas' in the show than just the titular town, including at least one other fan-favorite location.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:00
Le trentenaire s’est « évaporé » à Rabat, en avril 2024. Depuis, l’enquête piétine. La dernière hypothèse en date, qui a précipité l’ouverture d’une procédure du Parquet national antiterroriste français, serait la radicalisation islamiste de l’ingénieur.
by The Verge - yesterday at 18:00
It’s a great time to consider buying Nintendo’s latest console. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Cyber week has just about wrapped up, but there are still some amazing Cyber Monday leftovers that you can save money on. The one deal we can’t stop telling readers about is the unexpected $50 discount on Nintendo’s Switch 2 console bundle that includes Mario Kart World, bringing it down to $449.99 (was $499.99). Currently, you can snag the bundle at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. It’s the best Switch 2 console to buy for the holidays because it comes with Mario Kart World, a fun racing game that’s $79.99 to buy outside of the bundle. You’re getting it for free instead. A price drop for the new...
by QZ - yesterday at 17:33
Trump's Made-in-America dream isn't happening for toymakers. Small businesses could be hardest-hit
by io9 - yesterday at 17:10
Will we even remember this absurdity in a few days?
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 17:07
Quant à vous, les trolls de blog, souvenez-vous que le Père Fouettard vous fera manger du charbon ! Bon appétit ​ !
by The Verge - yesterday at 17:00
It's been a few years since the official introduction of the Bluetooth technology Auracast, which allows devices like earbuds, headphones, speakers, and hearing aids to connect to a single source without the need for pairing. Like a radio picks up your local radio stations, all you have to do is connect to the right broadcast. These could be flight announcements from your gate at the airport, the microphone a teacher is using during a presentation, or the TV you're watching while on the treadmill at the gym.
By letting you link directly into one of these broadcasts, Auracast can increase auditory accessibility for those who are hard of hear …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - yesterday at 16:43
Multiple homes were left damaged after a wildfire swept through a coastal area north of Sydney.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
France • September 2021 📷 #flashes
by Courrier International - yesterday at 16:03
L’arrêt temporaire des exportations d’armes allemandes vers Israël, en août dernier, a tendu les relations entre Berlin et Tel Aviv. À l’occasion de sa première visite officielle dans l’État hébreu depuis son arrivée au pouvoir, le chancelier conservateur Friedrich Merz espère apaiser les tensions.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
The site is called Hackaday, and has been for 21 years. But it was only for maybe the first half-year that it was literally a hack a day. By the 2010s, we were putting out four or more per day, and in the later 20-teens, we settled into our current cadence of eight hacks per day, plus some original pieces over the top. That’s a lot of hacks per day! (But “Eight-to-Ten-Hacks-a-Day” just isn’t as catchy.)
With that many posts daily, we also tend to reach out to a broader array of interests. Quite simply, not every hack is necessarily going to be just exactly what you are looking for, but we wouldn’t be writing it up if we didn’t think that someone was looking for it. Maybe you don’t like CAN bus...
by Wired - yesterday at 16:00
Frankenstein, Troll 2, and A House of Dynamite are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.
by The Verge - yesterday at 16:00
Everyone had a good laugh at HBO Max this week when the new 4K Mad Men remaster debuted with a number of glaring errors that should have been caught before the show was uploaded to the streamer's servers. Episodes went live with incorrect titles, and in one instance you could still see members of the show's production crew who shouldn't have been visible on-camera. The mistakes were reportedly the result of Lionsgate Television - Mad Men's original production company - sending over the incorrect set of exported files.
It is wild to think that no one at HBO noticed that the remastered "Red in the Face" episode still included a clear shot of …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Wired - yesterday at 16:00
Stranger Things, The Beast in Me, and Last Samurai Standing are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.
by The Verge - yesterday at 15:30
It was only in June that Jeremy Carrasco uploaded his first videos to TikTok and Instagram. In that short time, he's amassed over 300,000 followers on each platform. No, it's not exactly Charli D'Amelio numbers, but that does make him one of the biggest names in AI literacy on social media. Jeremy told The Verge that he always wanted to try his hand at being a YouTuber. Instead, he found himself behind the camera, working as a producer and director on multicamera livestreams. But he finally decided to take the plunge after realizing that most of the dialogue around generative AI was being driven by the tech companies. "We need other people …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Zataz - yesterday at 15:26
Piratage de 120 000 caméras sud-coréennes et enquête sur les risques pour la vie privée et la cybersécurité domestique....
by Asialyst - yesterday at 14:37
Le président français a achevé vendredi une quatrième visite d’Etat en Chine où il a fait chou blanc puisque son homologue chinois Xi Jinping a poliment décliné ses deux principales demandes : faire pression pour que la Russie mette fin à la guerre en Ukraine et donner des garanties pour permettre à la France de combler son déficit commercial abyssal avec ce pays.
by Zataz - yesterday at 14:18
Plus de 200 faux sites de transports publics mis en place par des pirates informatiques. Ils vous promettent des cartes de bus pour 2 €....
by Wired - yesterday at 14:00
This premium gaming handheld loads up with features, but Windows still holds it back from being the easy option.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 13:00
If you wanted to build an electronic dice, you might grab an Arduino and a nice OLED display to whip up something fancy. You could even choose an ESP32 and have it log your rolls to the cloud. Or, you could follow the lead of [Axiometa] and do it the old-school way. The build is based around the famous 555 timer IC. It’s paired with a 4017 decade counter IC, which advances every time it receives a clock signal from the 555. With the aid of some simple transistor logic, this lights the corresponding LEDs for the numbers 1 to 6, which are laid out like the face of a typical six-sided die. For an added bit of fun, a tilt sensor is used to trigger the 555 and thus the roll of the dice. A little extra tweak to...
by Wired - yesterday at 13:00
Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.
by Zataz - yesterday at 12:32
Enquête ZATAZ sur la prolifération de faux sites administratifs et leurs risques d’usurpation d’identité, avec un décryptage cyber précis et des conseils de protection....
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
Inuuteq Storch set out to rediscover Inuit culture that was suppressed by Danish colonizers, by finding its traces in the everyday.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The thriller series on Netflix, starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, is internally confused—stylish, but uneven—despite its pretensions to real storytelling.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
Our staff expert recommends a collection of grinders, kettles, and other devices worth poring over.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The comedian is chafing against playing a pretty girl in a wig on “S.N.L.” In her new HBO special, “Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh,” the focus is body horror.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 11:56
En quelques jours, une série de féminicides et de tentatives de féminicide ont fait la une des médias brésiliens. Des spécialistes dénoncent une recrudescence de la haine des femmes, alimentée par des mouvements masculinistes très actifs en ligne.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 11:55
L’arrivée de l’IA pousse les géants de la tech à implanter massivement des centres de données aux États-Unis. Ce nouveau type de voisinage touche le porte-monnaie et affecte le quotidien des habitants aux alentours.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 11:55
Un an après l’arrivée au pouvoir du président Prabowo Subianto, le chantier de la nouvelle capitale Nusantara patine, les priorités ne cessent de changer… Et l’inquiétude monte, dans la presse indonésienne, de voir une ville désertée avant même qu’elle ne soit achevée.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 11:55
Dans les rues de la métropole belge, 80 fusillades ont fait 7 morts et 38 blessés entre le 1er janvier et le 31 octobre, sur fond de narcotrafic. De nombreux tireurs, tout comme leurs victimes, sont de jeunes garçons marginalisés à peine majeurs, qui tuent parfois pour “quelques milliers d’euros”, raconte “L’Écho”.
by Zataz - yesterday at 11:51
Analyse d’une opération d’espionnage automatisée utilisant une IA agentique. 007 en plein chamboulement !...
by La Horde - yesterday at 11:32
goûter antifa ce dimanche 14 décembre, -
Initiatives / Paris, Manifs et rassemblements, Antifasciste Paris 20e
by La Horde - yesterday at 11:24
Cette année, en plus de ses habituelles soirées de concert, le Lyon Anti Fest s'associe avec des collectifs locaux pour organiser une semaine aux couleurs de l'antifascisme. -
Initiatives / Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats
by QZ - yesterday at 11:11
AI might pull information from the previous availability and hours, but many places have different availability or hours during the holidays
by Langue Sauce Piquante - yesterday at 8:50
OUS avons ici chanté les louanges de plusieurs sémillantes artistes, Dua Lipa étant la dernière en date. À laquelle donner la préséance, ie l’illustration de cette note ? Nous voilà confrontés au choix de Pâris, cruel et non sans danger. Aya Nakamura ?GieDré ?Marianne Faithfull ?Sappho ? Lina Rodopoulou ?Mayra Andrade ?Par pusillanimité, nous éviterons de choisir, et, d’ailleurs, pourquoi choisir ? Aucune n’est la meilleure, elles le sont toutes. 
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 8:40
WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, and Amazon’s AI Ambitions
https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-wired-roundup-doge-facebook-dating-amazon-artificial-intelligence/
by Journal du Lapin - yesterday at 8:00
Le tableau de bord Cache Switch, présent sur les Mac équipés d’un processeur 68040, cache un petit secret. Cache Switch permet de désactiver la mémoire cache du processeur 68040, pour des questions de compatibilité. Certains (rares) programmes modifient leur code en mémoire directement, et la mémoire cache peut bloquer ça. Attention, désactiver la mémoire a un impact important sur les performances. L’Easter Egg est simple : si vous presser option tout en cliquant sur le numéro de version, il y a une petite animation. Et c’est donc Rober Polic qui a écrit le logiciel. L’article Le petit Easter Egg du Cache Switch est apparu en premier sur Le journal du lapin.
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 7:00
OpenAI planche sur une nouvelle technique, baptisée « Confessions », pour entraîner son célèbre chatbot à reconnaître ses erreurs. L’objectif ? Identifier et diagnostiquer toutes ses bévues afin d'améliorer les modèles futurs.
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 6:30
Cette ligne d’écoute est depuis plusieurs mois au cœur d’une campagne de lobbying discrète mais intense. Un collectif d’associations de protection des enfants et des pères milite pour son ouverture aux hommes.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 6:00
Depuis qu’il a accueilli une boutique Shein au BHV, Frédéric Merlin est très critiqué. Le patron de 34 ans, se présentant comme un « self made man » issu de la classe moyenne, est en réalité un homme d’affaires multipliant opérations immobilières juteuses et impayés.
by QZ - friday at 23:01
Elon Musk's space company is sketching out a late-2026 IPO — while also testing an $800 billion valuation, according to The Information
by QZ - friday at 22:06
The deal is still subject to regulatory approval, and it's likely to set off an antitrust fight. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined others in criticizing it
by QZ - friday at 22:06
Warner Bros. Discovery will still spin off its TV networks, including CNN, into a separate company. The deal could face intense government scrutiny