News flash: Upgrading your beauty routine with products that actually do what they say they will doesn't have to drain your bank account.View Entire Post ›

"It’s easy to tell people to repopulate the world when you’ve never had to decide between medication and milk."View Entire Post ›

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok.” On the same day, Tesla announced a new 2025.26 update rolling out “shortly” to its electric cars, which adds the Grok assistant to vehicles equipped with AMD-powered infotainment systems, which have been available since mid-2021. According to Tesla, “Grok is currently in Beta & does not issue...

The US president warned both trading partners would face additional tariffs if they retaliated.

La star mondiale du reggaeton a donné vendredi 11 juillet le concert inaugural de sa résidence “historique” à Porto Rico, son île natale, un spectacle de trois heures célébrant “la culture et l’identité” portoricaines.

Différentes figures de la culture, de la science et de l’engagement citoyen rejoignent les récipiendaires de la Légion d’honneur cet été.

Display technology has come a long way since the advent of the CRT in the late 1800s (yes, really!). Since then, we’ve enjoyed the Nixie tubes, flip dots, gas plasma, LCD, LED, ePaper, the list goes on. Now, there’s a new kid on the block — water.
[Steve Mould] recently got his hands on an OpenDrop — an open-source digital microfluidics platform for biology research. It’s essentially a grid of electrodes coated in a dielectric. Water sits atop this insulating layer, and due to its polarized nature, droplets can be moved around the grid by voltages applied to the electrodes. The original intent was to automate experiments (see 8:19 in the video below for some wild examples), but [Steve] had far more...

Witnesses say Israeli troops opened fire as people were trying to get food. The IDF says there were no known injuries.

The studio behind the 'Dune' movies will partner up with the 'Hunger Games' studio before potentially buying it entirely.

If you’ve worked with germanium transistors, you’ll know that many of them have a disappointingly low maximum frequency of operation. This has more to do with some of the popular ones dating from the earliest years of the transistor age than it does to germanium being inherently a low frequency semiconductor, but it’s fair to say you won’t be using an OC71 in a high frequency RF application. It’s clear that [Ken Yap]’s project is taking no chances though, because he’s using a vintage germanium transistor at a very low frequency — 1 Hz, to be exact.
The circuit is a simple enough phase shift oscillator that flashes a white LED, in which a two transistor amplifier feeds back on itself through an...

Toonami and Shonen Jump have caught 'Dan Da Dan' fever and want to get audiences in on the high.

Face à l’instauration de droits de douane supplémentaires de 30 % à partir du 1ᵉʳ août, Bruxelles appelle la Maison Blanche à poursuivre les négociations, tout en assurant être « prêt à défendre les intérêts de l’Union européenne ».

Agnès Pottier-Dumas, maire de Levallois-Perret, est âgée de 39 ans, l’une des plus jeunes de France. Elle succède à Patrick Balkany dont la gestion de la ville a été pour le moins contestée. Fille d’une DRH de France Telecom, son histoire est empreinte de fraîcheur et de dynamisme. « Mes parents cherchaient à acheter, nous sommes arrivés à Levallois il y a 25 ans, un peu par hasard, » confiait la jeune femme peu après son élection à un média français. La jeune mère de famille a su bouter les Balkany hors de son équipe. Elle le raconte sans détour. Après qu’elle a été́ choisie comme la successeure de « Patrick, » empêché par ses différentes affaires, elle lui avait...

There are many ways to learn, but few to none of them compare to that of spending time standing over the shoulder of a master of the craft. This awesome page sent in by [JohnU] is a fantastic corner of the internet that lets us all peek over that shoulder to see someone who’s not only spent decades learning the art of of creating cable harnesses, but has taken the time to distill some of that vast experience for the rest of us to benefit from. This page is focused on custom automotive and motorcycle modifications, but it’s absolutely jam-packed with things applicable in so many areas. It points out how often automotive wiring is somewhat taken for granted, but it shouldn’t be; there are hundreds of...

Fuel cut-off switches were flipped seconds after take-off, a preliminary report finds.

Despite how it's always seemed to 'Star Wars' fans, Johnson has no bad blood about what went down in 'Rise of Skywalker.'

La Polonaise a remporté, samedi, le tournoi londonien (6-0, 6-0), son sixième titre du Grand Chelem. Son expérience a fait la différence face à l’Américaine, qui disputait sa première finale en Majeur.

Brothers and creative collaborators Chris and Paul Weitz know their way around humor, in all forms. Consider the way they deftly pivoted from the broad raunchiness of American Pie in 1999, to the subtle dramedy of 2002’s About a Boy, the latter of which earned the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Though the Weitz brothers also enjoy successful solo careers, they find themselves united again for the Apple TV+ series Murderbot (just renewed for a second season) based on All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. The series stars Alexander Skarsgård as a security robot who gains free will and becomes obsessed with a schlocky show called Sanctuary Moon. The Weitzes give...

Will Packer, the superstar producer behind box office favorites like Girls Trip, Ride Along, and Night School, is no stranger to making waves in Hollywood. He also produced the highly publicized 2022 Academy Awards (famously remembered as “the year of the slap”). He recently added author to his resume by releasing the book Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big. In it, Packer opens up about his early beginnings, the highs and lows of his career, and the lessons he’s picked up along the way. More: Producer Will Packer on dreaming big and writing his memoir (The Treatment, 2025) For his Treat, Packer tells us about drawing inspiration from Frank Darabont’s 1994 drama The...

Filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau has spent a lot of time studying Steven Spielberg’s work and collaborators. This has translated to multiple projects including last year’s documentary Music by John Williams and the 2023 book Spielberg: The First Ten Years. He continues his prolific output with the new Nat Geo documentary Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story. The film features an extensive conversation with Spielberg about the colossal undertaking of the 1975 summer blockbuster, complete with further insight about the personal impact Jaws had on filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh, Jordan Peele and Guillermo Del Toro. Bouzereau tells The Treatment about being nervous to take on such an iconic subject, finding...

Le président américain Donald Trump a posté samedi 12 juillet sur son réseau social les deux lettres annonçant, et justifiant, l’augmentation de droits de douane à 30 % pour les produits en provenance de l’Union européenne et du Mexique. Les négociations sont encore possibles.

The crypto mogul is getting in deep with the Trump family's digital assets.

Amazon’s first four-day Prime Day technically ended yesterday, but a few deals have stuck around a little longer. You won’t see a bright red “Prime Day Deal” tag anymore, which can make these stragglers a little hard to find, so we’ve collected them for you. These deals could end at any time, and we wouldn’t expect them to last very long. Still, if you sat out Prime Day this year, there’s still a chance to get that big-screen TV, a robot vacuum, or a pair of wireless earbuds at a steep discount. Smart home dealsVacuum dealsHeadphone and earbud dealsCharger and cable dealsSmartwatch and fitness tracker dealsSmartphone dealsMovies and TV show dealsDesktop and laptop dealsTablet and e-reader dealsTV...

It was the latest missive in a week full of tariff saber-rattling. Stocks fell on the latest trade tensions

France • August 2018 📷 #flashes

Trump's tariff threats are prompting countries to disentangle themselves from the U.S. and buy and sell more elsewhere

The White House's play at bandwagoning on the 'Superman' hype highlights just how fast the right-wing grift machine runs.

Depuis 2018, le régime des époux Ortega-Murillo “a plongé le pays dans la pire crise de son histoire”, analyse le quotidien nicaraguayen “La Prensa”. Faute de presse indépendante, des youtubeurs en quête d’aventure qui s’y sont rendus représentent de précieux témoins de la dictature nicaraguayenne.

One of the tropes of the space race back in the 1960s, which helped justify the spending for the part of the public who thought it wasn’t worth it, was that the technology developed for use in space would help us out here back on earth. The same goes for the astronomical expenses in Formula 1, or even on more pedestrian tech like racing bikes or cinematography cameras. The idea is that the boundaries pushed out in the most extreme situations could nonetheless teach us something applicable to everyday life.
This week, we saw another update from the Minuteman project, which is by itself entirely ridiculous – a 3D printer that aims to print a 3D Benchy in a minute or less. Of course, the Minuteman isn’t...

There’s a new AI in the house. I've waited two years to try out the new Alexa, which was first announced way back in 2023, and this week I finally got access to Alexa Plus. I've now spent 24 hours with Amazon's generative AI-powered voice assistant, and it's not just an improvement on the original; it's an entirely new assistant.
Alexa Plus knows more, can do more, and is easier to interact with because it understands more. I can ramble, pause, sigh, cough, change my request mid-sentence, and it can adapt and respond appropriately. No more, "Sorry, I'm not sure about that." Miraculous.
I'm impressed, but I found a few flaws. It's no secret that Amazon has been strugglin …
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Un concours d’un nouveau type se déroule aujourd’hui, le samedi 12 juillet, à New York : des chèvres vont s’affronter pour le titre de la meilleure mangeuse. Rendez-vous dans un parc de la ville, où ces animaux à cornes se retrouvent chaque année pour désherber.

Everybody begrudgingly say, "thank you, TikTok," for this magical $5 foot-peeling spray and game-changing nausea relief inhaler.View Entire Post ›

This global language translation tool works whether you’re connected to the network or not.

The Playdate is easy to forget about. It's colorful and weird, but it's also tiny. Like the Game Boy Micro before it, sometimes I toss it in a bag and then can't remember where I put it. But over the past few weeks, the yellow handheld has been in constant rotation in my house, despite being up against big distractions like Mario Kart World and Death Stranding 2, thanks to the Playdate's now-complete second season of games.
The seasonal structure is one of the unique aspects of the Playdate. When the handheld first launched in 2022, owners got access to a curated selection of 24 games that were released over time. It was a great introductio …
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Après s’en être pris aux femmes, aux médias, aux universitaires et aux défenseurs des droits humains, les talibans ciblent les religieux. Plusieurs détentions récentes pourraient être le signe d’une répression plus large des voix religieuses dissidentes ou non alignées en Afghanistan.

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find those worth your money.

Just four years after Rivian began selling its R1T truck, 2025 marks the beginning of the R1T and R1S' second generation. Considering they look essentially the same on the outside, it might be hard to decipher what warrants a new generation. But underneath, it's actually quite easy: all-new electric architecture, a new motor arrangement, retuned suspension, and more. Kicking off at $107,700, here's how all these revisions make the 2025 Rivian R1S Premium Tri-Motor a true frontrunner in the modern EV space.
Specs
The tri-motor arrangement fits in between the base dual and top-level quad, and was my tester's powertrain for a whole week. All …
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Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture !
Un chiffre d’affaires de 90 millions de dollars, et un service client qui répond au téléphone. Non, je ne vous parle pas de la dernière scale-up parisienne mais de DarkSide, le groupe criminel qui a réussi à transformer le ransomware en service premium.
En mai 2021, ce groupe de cybercriminels ont réussi un exploit que même les scénaristes d’Hollywood n’auraient pas osé imaginer : paralyser l’approvisionnement en carburant de toute la côte Est américaine avec quelques lignes de code.

Carolina Wilga, 26, survived by drinking from puddles and sleeping in a cave, police said.

Sometimes, all you need to make something work is to come at it from a different angle from anyone else — flip the problem on its head, so to speak. That’s what [Keizo Ishibashi] did to create his Cantareel, a modified guitar that actually sounds like a hurdy-gurdy.
We wrote recently about a maker’s quest to create just such a hybrid instrument, and why it ended in failure: pressing strings onto the fretboard also pushed them tighter to the wheel, ruining the all-important tension. To recap, the spinning wheel of a hurdy-gurdy excites the strings exactly like a violin bow, and like a violin bow, the pressure has to be just right. There’s no evidence [Keizo Ishibashi] was aware of that work, but he...

KPop Demon Hunters, Lost in Starlight, and Barbarian are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Deep Cover, Conclave, and Challengers are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

Overcompensating, Reacher, and The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

In a lawsuit filed at a New York court in June 2024, publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier, and McGraw Hill, bemoaned Google’s ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies of their copyrighted textbooks.
The complaint alleged that Google Shopping ads placed by third parties used unauthorized images of the publishers’ genuine textbooks to promote sales of pirated copies; a ‘bait-and-switch’ by Google, the publishers said. Further allegations of infringement concerned Google search results that allegedly returned piracy-heavy results in response to searches for the publishers’ products, rendering the original content more difficult to find. The publishers...

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Éjecté de notre dernier boulot, perdu sur une barque au milieu de l’océan, on se dit que rien ne pourrait être pire… Jusqu’à ce qu’on se retrouve aspiré dans un genre de “puits” naturel dans lequel il semble impossible de sortir. Ça commence bien !
Heureusement, d’autres bateaux sont coincés, et on est mécanos : réparons tout ça et faisons remonter le niveau de l’eau pour s’en sortir. 🐸 Bienvenue dans Sea Frog, un mélange de Metroid et de Tony Hawk, en 2D super choupi. 🤩

Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.

If human workers don’t have to read, write, or even think, it’s unclear what’s left for them to do.

Each year, Britain sends forth its best young men and women, no matter how good at tennis they actually are.

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” finding a sense of purpose that transcended ordinary coursework.

As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.

The AI chipmaker TSMC accounts for about 40% of the returns so far this year for the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets index

In May, the Trump administration said it would revoke student visas from some Chinese nationals. Now some LA Chinese students feel vulnerable and unsure about their future.

Tom Morello's new song, “ Pretend You Remember Me ,” is part of his first solo rock project in conjunction with the nonprofit CHIRLA.

Susan B. Glasser on the Deficit, and Why “We Are the Boiled Frog”
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/susan-b-glasser-on-the-deficit-and-why-we-are-the-boiled-frog

Apple a proposé des tas d’adaptateurs et de dongles au fil du temps, et c’est parfois un moyen de se moquer de la marque. On a eu des 30 broches vers micro USB (pour charger avec un câble micro USB), des Lightning vers 30 broches (pour utiliser les vieux accessoires) mais il y en a un qu’Apple n’a pas proposé, mais que les accessoiristes chinois proposent encore, un 30 broches vers Lightning. J’en avais parlé lors du test d’un casque Lightning, le Sony MDR1-ADAC : l’adaptateur permet dans certains cas de relier un iPod ou un iPhone avec un connecteur 30 broches à un accessoire en Lightning. De même, il est possible de charger les appareils en question avec un câble Lightning. Ça se trouve...

Satire biopunk, odyssée galactique, novella cyberpunk... Usbek & Rica a sélectionné trois romans de science-fiction parus cette année, à lire les doigts de pied en éventail durant vos vacances estivales.

Défini par la convention de 1948, le génocide exige à la fois des actes matériels criminels et une intention génocidaire. Si, à Gaza, le premier élément est établi, l’existence du second divise les juristes. Une plainte contre l’Etat hébreu a été déposée par l’Afrique du Sud devant la Cour internationale de justice de La Haye.

Depuis le début de la guerre, en février 2022, 250 000 Ukrainiens fuyant l’invasion russe ont été accueillis aux Etats-Unis. Donald Trump a mis fin au programme d’accueil spécifique dont ils bénéficiaient. Dans le flou provoqué par la nouvelle politique migratoire américaine, les Ukrainiens n’ont plus de certitude sur leur avenir. Certains décident de retourner en Europe.

Two of Iman al-Nouri's five sons were killed outside a clinic in Deir al-Balah on Thursday, while a third was seriously wounded.

Elon Musk n’est pas Nazi : eux savaient faire de bonnes voitures.