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by The Verge - about 13 minutes
NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft rest on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 31, 2026, ahead of the crewed lunar mission. | Image: AFP via Getty Images With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on. The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel around the Moon before returning to Earth in 10 days' time. They'll be testing out the hardware and systems that could soon see Americans standing on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years in the Artemis IV mission scheduled for 2028. NASA isn't ready to land people on the Moon just...
by io9 - about 18 minutes
Ahead of the 'Smiling Friends' series finale, claymation artist Lee Hardcastle explained how a throwaway gag morphed into an 11-minute avant-garde short.
by Wired - about 22 minutes
Eli Lilly’s once-daily Foundayo is the second obesity pill to receive FDA approval. It will compete with Novo Nordisk’s pill version of Wegovy.
by io9 - about 23 minutes
Over 500 Oracle workers are being laid off in Kansas City alone.
by dwell - about 27 minutes
The owner architects and their parents kiln-fired clay sourced on-site to form the domes, which they use as bedrooms and workspaces.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: Kanagawa, Japan Architect: AATISMO / @aatismo Footprint: 1,420 square feet Builder: Yukari Kensetsu Structural Engineer: Tectonica Lighting Design: Daisuki Light Table Production: Sasaki Research Institute Plastering: Imajo Sakan Photographer: Shinya Sato / @shinyasato_hello From the Architect: "Haniyasu House is a two-family residence designed for our parents, who are ceramic artists,...
by Le Monde - about 32 minutes
Israël a riposté et frappé Téhéran, mercredi. L’armée israélienne dit avoir frappé « 15 sites de fabrication d’armes, dont un complexe central du ministère de la défense iranien ».
by HackAdAy - about 47 minutes
We’ve seen our fair share of audiophile tomfoolery here at Hackaday, and we’ve even poked fun at a few of them over the years. Perhaps one of the most outrageously over the top that we’ve so far seen comes from [Pierogi Engineering] who, we’ll grant you not in a spirit of audiophile expectation, has made a set of speaker interconnects using liquid mercury.
In terms of construction they’re transparent tubes filled with mercury and capped off with 4 mm plugs as you might expect. We hear them compared with copper cables and from where we’re sitting we can’t tell any difference, but as we’ve said in the past, the only metrics that matter in this field come from an audio analyzer.
But that’s not...
by Wired - about 48 minutes
A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind.
by QZ - about 50 minutes
A public stock listing for Elon Musk's rocket company could happen as early as June, with a valuation that may exceed $1.75 trillion
by QZ - about 52 minutes
The once-daily pill costs $149 a month for cash-paying patients, putting it in direct competition with Novo Nordisk's Wegovy pill
by Wired - about 52 minutes
The HP OmniBook 5 is a better laptop than the MacBook Neo in almost every way. Right now, it's also $100 cheaper.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.
by The Verge - about 1 hour
This is part of our package about Apple's 50th anniversary. Read more here.
The thing about the iPhone is that everyone knew it was going to be a big deal, and then it was an even bigger deal than that. Hell, it's still the biggest thing going.
It's hard to remember, but almost 20 years ago Apple's first iPhone really was that good. The trick that Steve Jobs and Jony Ive kept pulling off in that era was turning the limitations of the available technology into focal points of the products they made. The first iMac was built around a big, heavy CRT display - but Ive made the translucent case wrap around it, transforming the internals into a …
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by io9 - about 1 hour
We've picked out the best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and beyond.
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Depuis un mois et le déclenchement de la guerre américano-israélienne contre l’Iran, c’est toute l’industrie dépendant de la chimie qui subit de plein fouet un choc des prix avec la flambée des cours des hydrocarbures et le quasi-blocage du détroit d’Ormuz.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Vante sans vergogne et sans retenue tes mérites, tes qualités et tes succès. Nul ne le fera mieux que toi.
by The Verge - about 1 hour
Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company with any kind of social media, internet, or AI chatbot presence in 2026, you really, truly only have four options on April Fools’ Day: Don’t do an April Fools’ joke. Put the time and energy into doing something productive that will materially benefit the world (or, less idealistically, your business) instead. Or just don’t do anything. Abstaining entirely would still be a net positive over the drain of resources and mental energy. Do an April Fools’ “joke,” but actually follow through on your stunt. This is arguably not a...
by The Verge - about 1 hour
2027 EV3 | Image: Kia At the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday, Kia announced that its compact electric SUV, the EV3, will be available in the US "in late 2026." The EV3 has been available overseas since 2024, when it launched in South Korea and Europe. The 2027 model coming to the US appears to have the same slightly boxy design as the current 2026 model, and it looks like Kia updated the center console to remove the much-mocked "chopping board" armrest in the original design. The North American version will also have a new glossy black "Nightfall" appearance package option. The EV3 will be available in standard and long-range configurations, offer …
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by Wired - about 2 hours
You can grab a nice discount on the Nothing CMF Watch 3 Pro for a limited time.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Le chef de l’Etat français, accompagné de son épouse, abordera notamment « les défis soulevés par l’actualité internationale », a souligné l’Elysée.
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“There’s no question that finally putting driverless semi trucks into regular interstate runs will be a turning point for the industry. A driver’s salary is 26 percent of the per-mile cost of operating a truck, Truckers Report says, while other studies have found it to be around 40 percent. Going driverless would result in considerable savings for the U.S. freight-truck business, which generates more than $900 billion in annual revenue. An acute driver shortage — frequently mentioned as a motivation for going autonomous — is no longer a major factor in the United States, though some cite a global shortage last year of 3.6 million drivers. ‘Currently there is not a big U.S. shortage,’ said Bob...
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Le gouvernement a annoncé vouloir consacrer une partie des recettes fiscales issues la hausse du prix des carburants à la décarbonation, alors que les oppositions réclament plutôt une baisse des taxes et un élargissement des aides.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
La fusée Space Launch System de la NASA doit décoller jeudi à 00 h 24 avec à son bord quatre astronautes. Cette mission de neuf jours autour de notre satellite naturel est une première depuis cinquante-trois ans. L’objectif, édicté par Donald Trump et l’agence spatiale américaine, est le retour des humains sur la Lune en 2028.
by Les Décodeurs - about 2 hours
Alors que la nouvelle mission lunaire dirigée par la NASA doit décoller dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi, Les Décodeurs font le point sur les vols spatiaux habités depuis les années 1960.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Sustain Space’s Xiyuan-0 satellite carried out its first in-orbit demonstration for satellite servicing.
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
Summary: The perceived “autism epidemic” is largely driven by broadened diagnostic criteria and increased identification of mild, non-impairing cases rather than a true increase in severe autism. Cultural and institutional factors—like overdiagnosis and shifting norms in child psychiatry—play a significant role. Public health efforts are being misdirected by alarmist narratives and should instead focus on genuine health crises and more consistent, clinically meaningful diagnostic standards. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the prevalence of autism. Various culprits have been named, including the well-investigated but unsubstantiated claim that vaccines cause...
by The Verge - about 2 hours
The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 deliver good bass for a pair of bone conduction headphones. | Image: The Verge As the days get warmer, it’s tempting to take your workouts outside. Bone conduction headphones let you listen while staying aware of your surroundings, making them ideal for runs, walks, and more. Through April 7th, Shokz is discounting several models during its spring sale, from the Shokz OpenFit Air Earbuds to the OpenDots One clip. The best deal, however, is on the Shokz OpenRun Pro 2, which are on sale for $139.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Shokz. That’s their best price since December and $15 shy of their all-time low.
Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 Where to Buy: $179.95 $139.95 at Amazon...
by QZ - about 2 hours
Freedom Capital Markets' Chief Market Strategist Jay Woods discusses the Fed’s latest remarks on oil prices
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
There’s a great debate these days about what the current crop of AI chatbots should and shouldn’t do for you. We aren’t wise enough to know the answer, but we were interested in hearing what is, apparently, Microsoft’s take on it. Looking at their terms of service for Copilot, we read in the original bold:
Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.
While that’s good advice, we are pretty sure we’ve seen people use LLMs, including Copilot, for decidedly non-entertaining tasks. But, at least for now, if you are using Copilot for non-entertainment purposes, you are...
by Journal du Lapin - about 2 hours
Je vais être honnête : j’ai peut-être trouvé la meilleure façon de faire tourner un site tech en 2026. Et cette méthode révolutionnaire consiste globalement à ne plus faire grand-chose moi-même. Avant, il fallait tester du matériel, brancher des trucs, vérifier si un adaptateur marchait vraiment, prendre des photos, refaire les photos parce qu’elles étaient ratées, recommencer un test parce qu’un comportement bizarre venait d’un câble défectueux, et ensuite seulement écrire un article. C’était objectivement une perte de temps.
Maintenant, j’ai découvert les IA, et franchement, ça simplifie tout.
Le principe est assez simple : au lieu de passer deux heures à vérifier si un...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Au début de la guerre en Iran, Benyamin Nétanyahou aurait dû s’adresser au peuple israélien et prononcer un discours churchillien “de sang, de sueur et de larmes”. Mais dès le premier jour, il a crié victoire. Or, le pari militaire du Premier ministre israélien risque de se solder par un échec politique retentissant, estime le quotidien de droite “Yediot Aharonot”.
by Human Progress - about 3 hours
“Today, nearly all data centers are designed around AC utility power. The electrical path includes multiple conversions before power reaches the compute load. Power typically enters the data center as medium-voltage AC (1 to 35 kilovolts), is stepped down to low-voltage AC (480 or 415 volts) using a transformer, converted to DC inside an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for battery storage, converted back to AC, and converted again to low-voltage DC (typically 54 V DC) at the server, supplying the DC power computing chips actually require… That setup worked well enough for the amounts of power required by traditional data centers. Traditional data center computational racks draw on the order of 10 kW...
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Après leur retour du front, des participants à la guerre en Ukraine réclament à leurs anciennes compagnes les salaires, primes de combat ou indemnités pour blessures qu’ils leur avaient laissé gérer pendant leur absence. Le média indépendant russe “Verstka” a retrouvé des dizaines de procédures judiciaires qui témoignent de ces nouveaux conflits familiaux nés de la guerre.
by QZ - about 3 hours
The five-year agreement would give 30,000 cabin crew their first raises since 2020 and close out post-pandemic airline contract talks
by BBC - about 3 hours
Trump has criticised Nato members for showing a lack of support for US objectives in Iran.
by BBC - about 3 hours
Fifty-seven people were killed when two trains collided in 2023 in the worst rail accident in Greek history, with 36 accused in a trial expected to last years.
by QZ - about 3 hours
Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt shares his biggest cybersecurity takeaways from the RSAC conference held in San Francisco
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Dans un contexte de crise énergétique et de “relations imprévisibles” avec les États-Unis, le président français est en visite au Japon et en Corée du Sud cette semaine. Pour la presse sud-coréenne, le fait qu’il s’agisse du premier déplacement d’un président français en onze ans dans le pays illustre la “méconnaissance” par Paris de “l’ascension rapide de la Corée”.
by Journal du Lapin - about 3 hours
Il y a des projets qui traînent dans un coin de la tête pendant des années. Pour moi, le DVB-H en faisait partie. La télévision numérique terrestre sur mobile, la grande promesse du milieu des années 2000, celle qui devait révolutionner l’usage de la vidéo sur téléphone avant qu’un certain Steve Jobs présente l’iPhone et que tout le monde décide que le streaming via réseau cellulaire était finalement plus pratique. En France, l’aventure a été brève et calamiteuse — quelques années d’expérimentation, un service commercial lancé en 2010, enterré en 2012 — mais j’avais gardé dans un coin de mon labo le matériel pour y rejouer un jour. Ce jour est arrivé. J’avais mis la...
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
La vidéo d’un médecin frappant une jeune femme, juste après son accouchement, choque la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) depuis sa diffusion, le 26 mars. Pour la presse, cette affaire est révélatrice de profonds dysfonctionnements dans le secteur de la santé du pays.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
Although the jogging stroller is a fixture of suburban life, allowing parents the opportunity to get some exercise while letting their young children a chance for some fresh air, it would seem like the designers of these strollers have never actually gone for a jog. Requiring a runner to hold their hands at fixed positions can be incredibly uncomfortable and disrupts most people’s strides and cadence — so [John] attempted to solve the problem after finding one of these strollers on the secondhand market.
While there are some purpose-built strollers that attempt to address these issues, they can be pricey. Rather than shell out for a top-dollar model, [John] got to work with his 3D printer and created a...
by Korben - about 4 hours
Vous faites tourner des LLMs en local comme le gros fifou de Hipster IA que vous êtes et, Ô drame, la VRAM de votre ordinateur explose dès que le contexte dépasse 8000 pauvres malheureux tokens ?
Le problème c'est le KV cache les amis ! Le KV cache c'est ce truc qui stocke les clés et valeurs d'attention et qui grossit linéairement avec la longueur du prompt. C'est pour gérer ce problème que Google a annoncé sous la forme d'un whitepaper uniquement un algo qui compresse tout ça de 3,8 à 6,4 fois... et youpi pour nous, y'a un dev qui l'a déjà implémenté dans
un fork de llama.cpp
.
Concrètement ça donne :
llama-server -m model.gguf -ctk turbo3 -ctv turbo3 -fa on
Et vous venez de diviser la...
by Journal du Lapin - about 4 hours
J’ai reçu l’iPhone 17e il y a quelques jours, et je dois d’abord parler de la couleur. Parce que oui, le mien est jaune — un jaune soleil, vif, sans ambiguïté, le genre de teinte qui vous saute à la figure quand vous ouvrez la boîte et qui tranche radicalement avec les coloris passe-partout habituels d’Apple. Je sais bien que le modèle officiel n’existe qu’en noir, blanc et rose pastel, mais j’ai mis la main sur cette version via un revendeur qui propose une finition custom, et franchement, c’est une bonne idée. Apple réserve maintenant les coloris vraiment originaux aux iPhone standard, et les versions abordables héritent de teintes très sages — ce jaune vif, lui, rappelle ce que...
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
by dwell - about 5 hours
Arya Douge overhauled the Notting Hill property with a sculptural staircase, crisp interiors, and a pair of bedroom suites.Location: Colville Mews, Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom Price: £2,250,000 (approximately $2,978,831 USD) Year Built: Mid-1800s Renovation Date: 2026 Renovation Architect: Arya Douge Footprint: 1,327 square feet (2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths) From the Agent: "A pair of garages have been entirely reimagined by architects Arya Douge, who opened up the footprint to create an extraordinary sense of volume. Inside, the house is organized around a dramatic double-height living volume, with a sculptural central staircase rising through the space and linking the two levels. Bedrooms sit more...
by Journal du Lapin - about 5 hours
Tout a commencé par une annonce sur un forum de pièces détachées : un MCU de Tesla Model 3 en bon état, vendu pour pièce suite à un accident carrosserie. Le vendeur ne savait pas trop quoi en faire. Moi, si — enfin, pas tout de suite. C’est en rentrant chez moi avec le boîtier sous le bras que l’idée un peu tordue a germé. Le MCU (Media Control Unit) de la Model 3, c’est en gros un PC x86 déguisé en tableau de bord. À l’intérieur, on trouve un processeur Intel Core i3 de huitième génération, 8 Go de RAM, un SSD eMMC, et un écran tactile 15 pouces. Sur le papier, c’est tout à fait la définition d’un Hackintosh potentiel. Il m’a fallu quelques soirées pour cartographier les...
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
Nothing ever made is truly perfect and indeed, CPU architectures like x86, RISC-V, ARM, and PowerPC all have their own upsides and downsides. Today, I aim to make an architecture that learns from all these mistakes and improves architecture design for everyone.
I’ve consulted with many people opinionated on the matter, both from a software perspective, and from a hardware perspective. I have taken all their feedback in mind while creating this initial draft of the WheatForce architecture (PDF). It is inspired by pieces from many architectures: segmentation inspired by x86, hash table-like paging from PowerPC, dynamic endianness control from RISC-V and PowerPC, and more. Let’s look into each feature in a...
by BBC - about 6 hours
Magyar represents the biggest threat to Viktor Orban's rule in Hungary since he won the first of four consecutive victories in 2010.
by io9 - about 6 hours
Follow along with Gizmodo as NASA prepares to launch its first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years.
by Journal du Lapin - about 6 hours
Il y a quelques mois, les rumeurs allaient bon train : Samsung allait abandonner les SSD SATA pour se concentrer sur le NVMe et le marché enterprise. La firme coréenne avait d’ailleurs fini par démentir officiellement, affirmant que la rumeur était « fausse ». Et pour mieux enfoncer le clou, voilà qu’elle élargit discrètement sa gamme dans l’autre sens — vers le haut. Samsung a en effet ajouté un modèle 8 To à sa série 870 EVO, plus de cinq ans après le lancement initial de la gamme en 2021, qui s’arrêtait jusqu’ici à 4 To. Ce n’est pas une révolution technique : on retrouve les mêmes débits SATA plafonnés à 560 Mo/s en lecture et 530 Mo/s en écriture, avec de la NAND TLC...
by Korben - about 6 hours
Le code source de Claude Code a fuité hier, et au-delà du buzz, y'a, je trouve, quelques leçons concrètes à tirer de tout ça.
Alors rassurez-vous, je vais pas vous balancer du code TypeScript à copier-coller (on n'est pas des cochons), ni des leçons de morale sur ce qu'on peut ou pas pousser sur un dépôt Git, mais plutôt vous lister des patterns d'architecture / bonnes pratiques que vous pouvez implémenter dès maintenant dans votre fichier settings.json via le système de
hooks de Claude Code
.
Je reste vague techniquement, volontairement pour 2 raisons. D'abord parce qu'il y a eu fuite de code, donc je peux pas poster du code propriétaire ici. Et ensuite parce que chaque projet / boite à outil...
by Torrentfreak - about 7 hours
Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to pirate sites have been commonplace in France for years. By blocking pirate domains through ISP DNS resolvers, subscriber access is effectively cut off. However, the measures were only partially effective, as many users simply switched to third-party DNS resolvers to get around them.
In 2024, an order from the Paris Judicial Court, requested by football and rugby rightsholder Canal+, aimed to patch that loophole. The order required Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco to actively block access to pirate sites through their own DNS resolvers, confirming that third-party intermediaries can be required to take responsibility.
Article...
by dwell - about 7 hours
Overhead power lines coursing through the city’s backyards are forcing some to shift plans around, sometimes with out-of-the-box solutions.Like true love, the practice of architecture doesn’t always run smoothly. But Ben Warwas faced a sizable hitch when designing a backyard house, or ADU, in L.A.’s Mar Vista neighborhood: the power lines overhanging the rear lot line. Since the architectural designer’s clients were committed to converting their garage into a two-story ADU, placing it in proximity to the L.A. Department of Water & Power’s height restrictions, Warwas now had to find a way to work around the lines. Though overhead power lines pose a challenge to architects and designers around the...
by Le Taurillon - about 7 hours
Dans une ville comme Strasbourg, les élections municipales comportent une dimension supplémentaire : celle de la coopération transfrontalière. Située au cœur d'un espace frontalier dynamique, Strasbourg s'inscrit dans une région particulièrement ouverte sur ses voisins européens. La région Grand Est, qui totalise près de 800 kilomètres de frontières et compte plus de 203 000 travailleurs frontaliers, constitue d'ailleurs la deuxième région exportatrice de France. Historiquement, les élections municipales mobilisent une part importante des citoyens et enregistrent généralement des taux de participation élevés. Cette mobilisation s'explique notamment par la proximité entre les élus locaux...
by Usbek & Rica - about 8 hours
Alors qu'Apple souffle sa cinquantième bougie ce mercredi 1er avril, Usbek & Rica s'est entretenu avec l'ancien journaliste du Walt Street Journal Walt Mossberg, qui y a tenu pendant 13 ans une rubrique consacrée aux nouvelles technologies. Au programme : bilan des années Steve Jobs, révolution de l'iPhone et rendez-vous manqué avec l'IA.
by BBC - about 8 hours
Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.
by Usbek & Rica - about 8 hours
La marque à la pomme fête ses 50 ans aujourd'hui. L'occasion de regarder dans le rétro et de revenir sur ses plus gros échecs commerciaux.
by HackAdAy - about 8 hours
Some projects need no complicated use case to justify their development, and so it was with [Janne]’s BeamInk, which mashes a Wacom pen tablet with an xTool F1 laser engraver with the help of a little digital glue. For what purpose? So one can use a digital pen to draw with a laser in real time, of course!
Pen events from the drawing tablet get translated into a stream of G-code that controls laser state and power.
Here’s how it works: a Python script grabs events from a USB drawing tablet via evdev (the Linux kernel’s event device, which allows user programs to read raw device events), scales the tablet size to the laser’s working area, and turns pen events into a stream of laser power and movement...
by daryo Bluesky - about 9 hours
France • October 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯