The killing of Alex Pretti over the weekend led MInnesota officials and locals to renew calls for Trump to end his immigration operation there.

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), from left, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), Rep. French Hill (R-AK), and David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto czar, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. | Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, the Verge newsletter about the technology politics happening in our nation's capital. I hope our snowstorm-affected readers are safe, warm, and haven't reenacted The Shining at home yet. Do you know what prevents that? Subscribing to The Verge.
Last week, when I was tracking Coinbase's opposition to the Clarity Act, I kept hearing the same fear from worried DC...

Info stealer, outil pirate discret, vole données et identifiants au cœur du cybercrime moderne et de la protection des données. A l'occasion de la journée des données personnelles, ZATAZ vous propose un outil pas comme les autres !...

Young Iranians able tell the BBC how they saw friends and other people die as security forces crushed protests earlier this month.

The FAA has yet to learn from its mistakes, according to officials.

The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s where I’d like to help; I’ve tested a whole boatload of recent Android phones, and I think there are some real winners in the current batch. It’s all a matter of what you’re looking for, what you’re comfortable spending, and what your definition of a “reasonably sized phone” is. (I have my own, personally.) As you sift through the options, you’ll almost certainly come across tech’s...

Près de 200 personnes se trouvaient à bord. « Il n’y a pas et il ne peut y avoir aucune justification militaire pour tuer des civils dans un wagon de train », a dénoncé Volodymyr Zelensky sur Telegram, appelant à « exercer une pression sur la Russie ».

Smoothie bikes are a great way to make a nutritious beverage while getting a workout at the same time. [Tony Goacher] was approached by a local college, though, which had a problem with this technology. Namely, that students were using them and leaving them filthy. They posed a simple question—could these bikes become something else?
[Tony’s] solution was simple—the bikes would be turned into game controllers. This was easily achieved by fitting a bi-color disc into the blender assembly. As the wheel on the bike turns, it spins up the blender, with the disc inside. An ESP32 microcontroller paired with a light sensor is then able to count pulses as the disc spins, getting a readout of the blender’s...

Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington, with a clear mission: win over viewers on the construction of new data centers. As the New York Times reports, the ad campaign is anchored by short, folksy video spotlights on Meta's data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and Los Lunas, New Mexico. The ads make the case that Meta's data centers create jobs, revitalizing rural communities.
However, they take a fairly idealistic tone. For instance, the Altoona ad portrays a town on the brink of disappearing, but thanks to Meta's data center, its residents …
Read the full story at The Verge.

AI companies face intensifying legal and policy scrutiny over opaque training data, affecting how copyrighted works are used and compensated.

View the world through Prism (or don't).

Linda Ta Yonemoto will begin a no-buy year on Feb. 17 to save $5,000, illustrating a 2026 savings trend with growing relevance.

An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a whole bunch of things, like manage reminders, log health and fitness data, and even communicate with clients. The tool, called Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), runs locally on a variety of devices, and you can ask it to perform tasks on your behalf by chatting with it through WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, and iMessage.
Federico Viticci at MacStories highlighted how he installed Moltbot on his M4 Mac Mini and transformed it into a tool that delivers daily audio recaps based on his activity in his calend …
Read the full story at The Verge.

You know what's cooler than a million dollars? A .jpeg that's been cataloged on an immutable blockchain that no one wants to buy.

A Bel Air mansion billed as the most expensive home for sale in the U.S. reduced its asking price by $40 million, bringing it to under $100 million.

Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, it’s easy to forget that they can just be simple machines that get us from point A to point B. Yes, some bots blow hot air on their bums (mop pads), deftly navigate dog poop, and have arms to pick up your socks, but there are plenty of basic budget robot vacuums that just do a decent job of cleaning your floor autonomously — as long as you tidy up first. Fancier models have obstacle recognition, and some even use AI-powered cameras to tell popcorn from poop and avoid the latter. If you want one of those, check out my best robot vacuum buying guide. But if you think you can manage...

Selon une étude de l’Institut national d’études démographiques, 81 % d’entre eux le prennent au-delà de la semaine obligatoire, et 59 % utilisent les vingt-cinq jours prévus par la loi.

Uber will manage data for its robotaxi tech partners to access and use as they deploy vehicles.

The 1990 original is being released in multiple variants on the old classic: VHS.

Donald Trump proposed importing Japan’s kei cars to address rising U.S. vehicle costs, underscoring a gap between demand and domestic offerings.

Rudy Reichstadt et Tristan Mendès France décryptent et analysent, dans ce nouveau numéro de Complorama comment la complosphère voit le Forum Economique Mondial.

Joel Guerriau received a four-year prison sentence, 18 months of which are to be served behind bars.

Prominent CEOs have largely avoided criticizing Trump, yet some are now carefully addressing ICE's actions in Minnesota after the death of Alex Pretti

The US border tsar has long been a ferocious defender of Donald Trump's immigration policies.

La condamnation à de la prison ferme n’a pas été assortie d’une exécution provisoire et est donc suspendue le temps d’un procès en appel, que l’avocat de l’ancien sénateur a dit souhaiter dès la fin de l’audience.

Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be replaced. Yet when the manufacturer wants you to toss out the entire roller and pay $80 for the privilege, that feels rather steep and unnecessary. In the case of [Mark Furneaux], the roller in the power head of his Filter Queen brand vacuum felt particularly over the top to toss, since it’s all fancy wood with very durable brushes.
One of the bearings had stopped being a bearing, resulting in the plastic that held it in place beginning to melt. Fortunately the damage hadn’t progressed to the point where printing a replacement was necessary, so instead it was...

Une filiale américaine du groupe de services informatiques, très impliquée auprès du gouvernement, aide à rechercher les personnes en situation irrégulière pour le compte de l’ICE.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Pitt, and Industry are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this month.

Illustration par ChatGPT
On parle du Nirvana comme d’un mystère oriental, d’un au-delà spirituel ou d’un idéal réservé aux sages. Soyons plus directs, plus pratiques.
Si l’on prend au sérieux ce que nous savons aujourd’hui de l’information et de la décohérence, la définition du Nirvana va presque de soi.
L’univers n’est pas une chose, mais un processus : celui par lequel une information initialement intriquée se différencie, se localise et se matérialise, au prix d’une perte irréversible. C’est ce processus que nous appelons le temps, l’existence, la vie – et aussi la mort. Exister, c’est entrer dans la décohérence.
Le Nirvana désigne exactement l’inverse : non pas...

The new owners of this patchwork ’70s residence outside Warsaw loved its form so much, they actually spent more on saving it than replacing it.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: Skubianka, Poland Designer: SZCZ Jakub Szczesny / @szcz.art Footprint: 1,744 square feet Structural Engineer: Artur Wiśniewski Photographer: Nate Cook / @natecookphotography From the Designer: "The house is located near Warsaw, close to a river and surrounded by a gently sloping mixed forest. The owners bought it by accident when they met a real estate agent while walking...

When you can buy something at a low price in one location, and sell it at a higher price somewhere else, you’re engaged in what economists call “arbitrage”. We’re not sure if desoldering DDR5 chips from laptop SO-DIMMs to populate a custom PCB to create much-more-expensive desktop memory counts as arbitrage, but it certainly counts as a hack. [VIK-on], who built the cards, claims he’s getting DDR5 performance at almost DDR3 prices. Nice!
Installed, the RAM apparently works well, though [VIK-on] has not shared benchmarks.Specifically, he’s put together a 32 GB UDIMM from donor chips from two 16 GB SO-DIMMs. The memory chips themselves aren’t enough to make a stick of RAM, however: the part where...

The US federal agency says it will not play an immigration role at February's event in Milan-Cortina.

Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it. Here’s how to change it back.

Anker knocks almost half the cost off its already budget-friendly earbuds.

At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.

Research from the ride-hail aggregator Obi finds Waymo is starting to edge up on Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Tesla, which operates a ride-hail service with human drivers, is winning the price wars.

The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing process begins. Break a bone, and the body will knit it back together as long as you keep it still enough. But teeth? Our adult teeth get damaged all the time, and yet the body has almost no way to repair them at all. Get a bad enough cavity or knock one out, and it’s game over. There’s nothing to be done but replace it.
Finding a way to repair teeth without invasive procedures has long been a holy grail for dental science. A new treatment being developed in Japan could help replace missing teeth in the near future. The Tooth
Using an antibody treatment to suppress USAG-1 in ferrets...

Set in a Dorset woodland, the RIBA-recognized retreat is available fully furnished, with 13 acres and a pond.Location: Woodland Workshop Yonder Hill, Holditch TA20 4NL, United Kingdom Price: Offers accepted in excess of £2,000,000 (Approximately $2,735,510) Year Built: 2016 and 2021 Designers: Guy Mallinson and Keith Brownlie Footprint: 1,130 square feet (3 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 13.25 Acres From the Agent: "After 15 years of creating our wonderful oasis and welcoming guests to our magical woodland, the time has come to pass it on. Mallinson’s Woodland Retreat is officially for sale! It’s a rare opportunity to take on a truly special place that blends design, craftsmanship, and nature in perfect...

Les informations, parues dans la presse, sur la présence pour les Jeux olympiques d’agents de la très controversée police de l’immigration américaine ont provoqué la confusion en Italie. Le fait que leur venue soit habituelle pour ce genre d’événements n’a été que tardivement communiqué par le gouvernement qui, gêné par sa portée symbolique dans le contexte actuel, est resté englué dans la polémique.

Sans avoir communiqué sur le sujet, Moscou a commencé à retirer ses troupes de l’aéroport de Qamishli, dans le nord-est de la Syrie, selon la presse internationale. Cette manœuvre intervient alors que le président du gouvernement de transition, Ahmed El-Charaa, est attendu ce mercredi 28 janvier à Moscou pour rencontrer son homologue russe.

Le rapatriement de la dépouille de Ran Gvili scelle le retour “jusqu’au dernier” de tous les otages du 7 octobre 2023 sur le sol israélien. Mais le Hamas est encore présent dans l’enclave palestinienne, contrairement au deuxième objectif de la guerre fixé par le gouvernement de Benyamin Nétanyahou.

À l’approche des élections législatives du 8 février, les partis japonais proposent des mesures de réduction d’impôts susceptibles d’aggraver la dette du pays, qui caracole déjà à 235 % du PIB. Un “populisme fiscal” qui inquiète plusieurs journaux nippons.

“After nearly two decades of negotiations, India and the European Union announced Tuesday they have reached a free trade agreement to deepen economic and strategic ties. The accord, which the EU chief described as the ‘mother of all deals,’ could affect as many as 2 billion people… The accord will see free trade on almost all goods between the 27 members of the EU and India, covering everything from textiles to medicines and bringing down high import taxes for European wine and cars.” From Associated Press.
The post India and the EU Announce a Free Trade Deal Affecting Billions appeared first on Human Progress.

In 1993, DOOM was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, you can play it on a set of earbuds instead, if for some reason that’s something you’ve always dreamed of doing.
The project comes to us from [Arin Sarkisian], who figured out that the Pinebuds Pro had enough processing power to run one of the seminal FPS games from the 1990s. Inside these earbuds is a Cortex-M4F, which is set to run at 100 MHz. [Arin] figured out it could easily be cranked up to 300 MHz with low power mode switched off, which would come in handy for one main reason. See, the earbuds might be able to run the DOOM engine, but they don’t have a display.
Thus, [Arin] figured...

Le premier ministre indien, Narendra Modi, et les représentants de l’Union européenne ont conclu, mardi 27 janvier, un accord commercial après près de vingt ans de négociations intermittentes.

Lancé en septembre 2025 par le ministère des Affaires étrangères français, ce compte a pour objectif de défendre les intérêts de la France sur les réseaux sociaux en reprenant les codes d’Internet face à la prolifération des fausses informations. Une initiative qui attire une importante audience et que salue la presse internationale.

Vous savez combien de services américains vous utilisez sur votre site web utilise sans que vous ne le sachiez réellement ??? Aucun ? Bah et les Google Fonts pour la typo, Cloudflare pour le CDN, YouTube pour les vidéos embarquées, Google Analytics pour les stats et j'en passe des vertes et des pas mûres... ??? Faudrait pas les oublier !
Ainsi même si votre hébergement est chez O2Switch ou Scaleway en France, vos visiteurs peuvent envoyer des données aux USA sans que vous le réalisiez.
Et ça pose un vrai problème juridique car je sais pas si vous vous souvenez du Privacy Shield mais c'était ce fameux accord qui permettait de transférer légalement des données vers les États-Unis ? Hé bien il a...

In "Dream Facades," Dwell managing editor Jack Balderrama Morley unpacks the deeper meaning of the architecture on your favorite unscripted shows.What does Lauren Berlant have to do with The Hills? What connects the Kardashians and white flight? What can RuPaul’s Drag Race and Fire Island teach us about the colonial mentality? Dwell managing editor Jack Balderrama Morley’s upcoming book, Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV, holds the answers. Building from their long-held obsession with reality television, Jack connects the genre’s shows and the architectural styles that populate them to the broader political issues that shape life in the United States. Throughout there are...

Summary: Comparing nominal price changes to changes in average hourly wages from 2000 to 2025, we can see that many goods with rising dollar prices have become more affordable in time prices. Professor Mark Perry from the American Enterprise Institute recently posted an updated version of his “Chart of the Century,” featuring price and wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The chart tracks 14 items over the 25-year period from January 2000 to December 2025. It also includes the overall inflation rate and changes in average hourly wages. To examine the data from a different perspective, we calculated the change in the time prices of these 14 items relative to the change in the average...

"I thought it would either be super weird or super cool."Welcome to Different Strokes, a look at unique home design choices that beg for further explanation. In the 1890s, the Great Northern Railway connected St. Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, stretching through Stevens Pass near Washington’s Lake Wenatchee. It brought more development to the mountainous area, resulting in a construction boom of lakeshore summer lodgings. That history is a point of pride for Pat and Sara, who have cherished memories of visiting their 1915 lakefront cabin for the last 25 years with their two (now grown) children. But staying at the cabin, which lacked a foundation and insulation, and had underground pipes that would freeze in...

August 2017 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Les retombées de l’assassinat d’un contre-manifestant à Minneapolis tournent à l’avantage du patron du Wall Street Journal.

Bon, je vais pas vous mentir, YouTube et moi en ce moment c'est compliqué. Ce matin encore, j'ai passé une bonne heure à debug mes scripts Python pour choper de la musique pour mes lives Twitch. Et yt-dlp qui rame de plus en plus, alors qu'avant ça prenait 3 secondes chrono... Pffff, j'ai l'impression que Google a décidé de nous pourrir la vie.
Et là, en cherchant pourquoi mes scripts plantaient, je suis tombé sur un truc qui m'a bien fait rire jaune. Vous savez le fameux message "An error occurred. Please try again later" qui s'affiche parfois quand vous matez une vidéo ? J'ai d'abord cru que c'était un bug côté serveur chez Google mais QUE NENNI !
C'est VOULU !!
WTF?! Du coup voilà le délire......

Un documentaire de Felix Moeller, avec Rudy Reichstadt, directeur de Conspiracy Watch.

"Est ce que ce truc peut faire tourner Doom ???"
C'est LA question qui hante les développeurs depuis 1993 et à chaque fois qu'on pense avoir atteint le fond, quelqu'un creuse encore un peu. Arin Sarkisian, un développeur australien vient en effet de porter le FPS culte d'id Software sur... des écouteurs. Oui, des écouteurs !
J'ai d'abord cru à une connerie quand j'ai vu passer le projet sur GitHub mais non. Le délire est bien réel et plutôt technique puisqu'il a flashé ses
PineBuds Pro
, des écouteurs sans fil qui acceptent un firmware open source (y'en a pas des masses sur le marché). Le CPU a été overclocké à 300 MHz au lieu des 100 MHz d'origine, le mode basse consommation a été...

Si vous bossez avec des LLM ou des systèmes de recherche sémantique, vous connaissez forcément la galère de jongler entre différentes bases de vecteurs... Entre Pinecone, Qdrant, pgvector et j'en passe, y'a de quoi perdre la tête. Il nous faudrait un truc aussi simple à prendre en main que DBeaver mais pour les bases vectorielles en fait...
AAAAH mais ça tombe bien parce que ça existe et que ça s'appelle
VectorDBZ
!
C'est une app desktop open source qui permet de connecter TOUTES vos bases vectorielles depuis une interface unique. En fait au début je pensais que c'était juste un viewer basique, mais non. Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, ChromaDB, Pinecone, pgvector... tout est accessible au même endroit....

Faut-il confier la gestion des déchets radioactifs aux seuls experts ? Dans le cadre du débat public piloté par la Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP) sur la gestion des matières et déchets radioactifs, le Tribunal pour les Générations Futures d'Usbek & Rica s’est réuni à l’École des Mines pour instruire la question.

Les attaques contre l’audiovisuel public se sont intensifiées avec l’ouverture d’une commission d’enquête parlementaire. Au prix de certaines confusions sur les missions qui lui sont confiées par la loi.

Un pirate revendique l’attaque d’une clinique esthétique et menace de vendre les données médicales de plus de 10 000 patients. Chaque patient est "vendu" 2€ !...