The retailer is reportedly nearing a bankruptcy filing that could result in almost 200 stores closing, while the restaurant industry also contracts

You really, really shouldn’t expect a cheap Steam Machine or Steam Frame headset.

Pinterest's firing of layoff-tracking engineers flies in the face of the CEO's public positioning of the platform. But there's even more to the story

L’éviction de la directrice de la première station de France intervient au moment où l’audiovisuel public est critiqué par l’extrême droite, dans le cadre d’une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur l’audiovisuel public.

The Ukrainian president also said a large number of people were "officially missing", meaning the total death toll is thought to be much higher.

En raison de températures glaciales, les iguanes verts tombent des arbres dans le sud de la Floride, certains morts, d’autres entrés en hibernation. Or, dans cet État, ils sont considérés comme des nuisibles. Si bien que les habitants se sont rués pour les ramasser et s’en débarrasser.

Plus, Mark Ruffalo addresses his Marvel future.

I knew as soon as I laid eyes on Vappeby that I had to have it. Sure, it would be right at home on my desk, given that everything in and around my workstation is from Ikea, from the Skadis on the wall right down to the Spänd desk legs. But there was something else about this nifty little Bluetooth speaker that spoke to me - the promise of a little extra coziness in dark times. Can $15.99 buy me some peace of mind in a time when the federal government is tear gassing peaceful protesters at will? Not at all, but it can buy a perfectly cheery little Bluetooth speaker, and that can make a gray day feel a little brighter.
I'm not suggesting, you …
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Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A group of senators has written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking why his company delayed launching key protections for users under 18. The letter, signed by Brian Schatz (D-HI), Katie Britt (R-AL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Christopher Coons (D-DE), cites court documents unsealed late last year that revealed claims that Meta may have downplayed its platforms' harm in favor of increasing user engagement.
Meta started automatically putting teens on Instagram into private and more restrictive accounts in September 2024, before extending the protections to Facebook and Messenger last year. But an unredacted cou...

Managing humans is hard. Managing AI agents is… also hard. That's why OpenAI is launching a new platform called OpenAI Frontier, which it says will help businesses "build, deploy, and manage" AI agents, even those not made by OpenAI itself. OpenAI's description of Frontier sounds something like HR for AI. "Frontier gives agents the same skills people need to succeed at work: shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning with feedback, and clear permissions and boundaries," OpenAI wrote in a blog post. The similarity makes sense: OpenAI said the product was inspired "by looking at how enterprises already scale people."
Frontier is availabl …
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A door handle on a Tesla Model Y at a charging station in San Francisco, California, in November of 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The mother of 20-year-old man who died after becoming trapped in his burning Tesla Model Y is suing the company over its electronic door handles. It's the latest wrongful death case centering on Tesla's door handles, which have triggered numerous customer complaints over the years and is now under investigation by the federal safety regulators. The lawsuit states that Samuel Tremblett was unable to escape his Model Y after crashing into a tree on October 29, 2025 in Easton, Massachusetts. Tremblett pleaded with 9-1-1 operators to rescue him, saying "I can't breathe. It's on...

Le locataire du 10 Downing Street essuie jeudi 5 février les retombées de sa décision de nommer Peter Mandelson au poste d’ambassadeur à Washington en 2024, en dépit des liens connus du travailliste avec le prédateur sexuel Jeffrey Epstein. La majorité enrage auprès du “Guardian”.

Les présidents de Chine et des États-Unis ont échangé lors d’un appel téléphonique dans la nuit du 4 au 5 février. Derrière les nombreuses amabilités d’usage, Xi Jinping a appelé son homologue à la “prudence” concernant les ventes d’armes américaines à Taïwan.

Dernier volet en date de la très populaire franchise japonaise, “Dragon Quest VII Reimagined” est le deuxième remake d’un titre original de 2000. Le jeu, qui sort ce 5 février, est salué par les critiques comme une belle aventure de fantasy. Et une porte d’entrée pour ceux qui voudraient découvrir “Dragon Quest” sans savoir où commencer.

Administrées par Taïwan mais situées à quelques encablures de la côte de Chine continentale, les îles Kinmen et Matsu vont bientôt pouvoir accueillir les touristes shanghaïens. Une innovation saluée par la presse de chaque côté du détroit.

Endless trade wars and Trump's demands for Greenland have stirred debate around the consequences of a "fire sale" of U.S. bonds

Bitcoin briefly fell below the $70,000 price point, a level which it hasn't seen since November 2024. Silver prices fell as much as 16%

Layoffs last month reflected a 118% increase over January 2025 and more than doubled the total layoffs from December

Dans le cadre des négociations d’Abou Dhabi pour mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine, les Etats-Unis et la Russie ont décidé de reprendre « le dialogue entre les armées », considéré comme « un facteur important de stabilité et de paix dans le monde », selon le Commandement européen des forces armées américaines.

We tested some of the most popular automatic dry- and wet-food pet feeders to see which ones are worth the money.

After Brandon Sanderson's 'Cosmere' pickup at Apple TV, series based on hit fantasy books are having a big moment.

Operation Switch off frappe un réseau IPTV illégal, 31 suspects, saisies et blanchiment via cryptomonnaies....

Downloading audio and video from YouTube is generally not allowed, which the video streaming service clearly states in its terms of service.
Despite this explicit restriction, there are numerous ‘stream-ripping’ and “YouTube downloader” tools available on the web that do just that.
These ripping tools can be used to convert YouTube music videos into MP3s for example. This is seen as a major problem by the music industry, which has and is taking legal steps in response. Specifically, music companies argue that using these stream-ripping tools violates the DMCA, as it circumvents YouTube’s copyright protection technology. This ‘rolling cipher’ can be bypassed relatively easily, but it prevents...

Their call comes in the wake of a flurry of visits by Western leaders to China in recent months.

Le nouveau code pénal indonésien publié le 2 janvier dernier remplace le code précédent hérité de la période coloniale après 50 ans de débats. Cette modernisation suscite toutefois de nombreuses réactions et mobilise la société civile. Le nouveau code criminalise l’idéologie communiste, encadre le droit de manifester, limite les droits des femmes et la liberté religieuse. Le débat est désormais porté par différentes associations devant la cour constitutionnelle.

Artist Adam Spizak has boiled Batman's essence down to his chest in this new art series.

Everyone here can think of a cloud-connected product that was killed because the company that made it stopped supporting it. While these corporations have forgotten their products, the US PIRG Education Fund has immortalized them in their Electronic Waste Graveyard.
With an estimated “130,000,000 pounds of electronic waste” produced since 2014, the amount of wasted resources is staggering. The advent of the cloud promised us reduced waste as lightweight devices could rely on remote brains to keep the upgrades going long after a traditional device would have been unable to keep up. The opposite seems to have occurred, wreaking havoc on the environment and pocketbooks.
Of course, we can count on hackers to...

Thread is a mesh networking protocol that connects low-power smart home gadgets, and it’s one of Matter’s underlying technologies.

Skip the sad grocery store bouquet this Valentine’s Day. These online flower delivery services do the heavy lifting for you—just don't forget the card.

Spotify has launched a new feature called Page Match that lets you quickly sync your spot in a physical or ebook with an audiobook. Point your camera at a page, and the Spotify app uses computer vision to match text with audio. If you have to jump behind the wheel for a long drive, but didn't want to put down The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, you can just snap a pic to jump to the spot in the audiobook where you left off in the physical book.
It's not unlike Amazon's Whispersync for Voice, which lets you seamlessly jump back and forth between Kindle books and Audible audiobooks. The difference is that Spotify's version works with physical books an …
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0apt simule-t-il un ransomware et des « fuites » en données aléatoires, pour pousser au paiement....

The Artemis 2 astronauts will venture deeper into space than any human has gone before. That presents some seriously exciting research opportunities.

From world-class athletes to the stars of Heated Rivalry, torchbearers are selected for their inspiring stories. Here’s what to know about the people carrying the flame for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

How this four-time Paralympic medalist controls her controllables under the spotlight.

« Nos produits sont des ventilateurs, vendus sur catalogue (…) qui n’embarquent aucune technologie sensible », a dit au « Monde » Thomas Bernard, PDG de cette PME.

Vous faites des sauvegardes régulières de vos données ? Non ?
Bon, je ne vais pas vous faire la morale, mais le jour où votre disque dur décidera de rendre l'âme ou que votre serveur VPS partira en fumée, vous allez vraiment regretter de ne pas avoir investi dix minutes dans un système de backup sérieux.
Alors, ouiiii, c'est vrai, on a souvent la flemme parce que c'est chiant à configurer. Entre les scripts bash qui plantent sans prévenir et les crontabs illisibles, y’a de quoi s'arracher les cheveux. C'est là qu'intervient Zerobyte
, un projet open source qui veut réconcilier les allergiques du terminal avec la sécurité de leurs données. Zerobyte est donc une plateforme d'automatisation de...

Four images seen by BBC Verify show partially clothed women with their faces and bodies unredacted.

Les deux anciens « insoumis » doivent remédier à l’absence d’une grosse écurie à leur service, tout en marquant leur différence. Tous deux rêvent de pouvoir compter sur les forces vives du Parti socialiste et des Ecologistes en cas de victoire à la primaire.

A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper phone line. First the corded landline phone was replaced by cordless, then the phone migrated to a mobile device, and finally DSL connections are being supplanted by fiber. This leaves copper-era infrastructure in houses, which [TheHFTguy] decided to use for Ethernet.
The hack here isn’t that he bought some specialized network boxes from Germany, though knowing they exist is useful. Instead it comes in his suggestion that they use the same technology as mains networking. Mains network plugs are a dime a dozen, but noisy power lines can make them of limited use. Our hacking curiosity is whetted by...

Lundi 2 février, Blaise Mao, directeur de la rédaction d’Usbek & Rica, était au micro de l’émission « La Science, CQFD », sur France Culture, pour parler du lien de corrélation entre la consommation excessive de vidéos ultracourtes sur les réseaux sociaux et la baisse des capacités cognitives.

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avec Incogni
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Les data brokers, ces intermédiaires invisibles du Web, ont transformé votre vie numérique en produit de consommation courante. Ils collectent, recoupent et monétisent des milliers de détails sur vous : adresse précise, numéros de téléphone, emails secondaires, habitudes d'achat, revenus estimés, présence sur les réseaux, même des inférences sur votre santé ou vos orientations politiques ou sexuelles. Incogni s'attaque à ce rouleau compresseur en demandant, à votre place et en continu, la suppression de ces informations chez plus de 420 courtiers, pour que votre profil cesse enfin d'être un actif coté en bourse.
Le Web aspire vos infos plus vite que...

11-Septembre, 7-Octobre, Bondi Beach... : Bassem Youssef en roue libre chez Candace Owens
https://www.conspiracywatch.info/11-septembre-7-octobre-bondi-beach-bassem-youssef-en-roue-libre-chez-candace-owens.html

Il y a quelques semaines, Apple a mis en vente les traditionnels AirPods du Nouvel An chinois. Pour 2026, ce sont des AirPods Pro 3 avec un émoji de cheval (). Il y a eu le buffle en 2021 (AirPods Pro première version), le tigre en 2022 (AirPods Pro deuxième version), le lapin en 2023 (AirPods Pro 2 Lightning), le dragon en 2024 (AirPods Pro 2 USB-C) et le serpent en 2025 (AirPods 4 avec réduction de bruit).
Les AirPods pro 3
Ce n’est pas un test des AirPods Pro 3, mais je peux tout de même noter qu’il n’y a pas de câble USB-C dans la boîte. Visuellement, la boîte reprend la même structure : un marquage rouge métallisé, avec l’emoji sur une des flancs. Ce n’est pas l’emoji du cheval...

Gus Lamont was last seen playing outside his home on a remote sheep station on 27 September.

J'ai souvent des tas d'idées à la con, mais comme vous le savez, pris par le tourbillon de la vie, on ne pense pas forcément à les noter et encore moins à les exploiter plus tard.
Il y a plein d'outils pour prendre des notes comme le célèbre Notion ou tout simplement l'app Notes d'Apple ou ce genre de trucs. Mais si vous êtes amateur de logiciel libre et inquiet par votre vie privée, le mieux c'est encore d'auto-héberger un outil comme
Memos
.
Voici le tutoriel que j'ai réalisé pour les patréons : Memos est un outil développé en Go + React.js, qui peut tourner dans un Docker et qui permet en quelques secondes de noter votre prochaine idée de startup ou l'idée repas que vous venez d'avoir pour...

​​Paris n'est jumelée qu'avec une seule ville au monde : Rome, depuis 1956. Soixante-dix ans après la signature de ce pacte singulier, l'anniversaire n'est pas une simple célébration. Il met en lumière une diplomatie des villes, concrète et durable, qui dialogue aujourd'hui avec la relance plus stratégique de la coopération franco-italienne. Le 29 janvier à Rome, le 30 janvier à Paris. Deux dates, deux capitales, un même récit. En 1956, quand Paris et Rome scellent leur jumelage, l'Europe institutionnelle n'existe pas encore telle que nous la connaissons. Les villes, elles, prennent les devants. Elles misent sur les liens culturels et humains pour ancrer la réconciliation. Soixante-dix ans...

Quentin, fidèle lecteur de Korben, développe en solo depuis presque un an un outil qui va parler à tous ceux qui cherchent un appart ou une maison et qui en ont marre de jongler entre quinze onglets pour avoir une vision claire d'un quartier. 1dex.fr
c'est une plateforme qui agrège un paquet de données géographiques et immobilières sur n'importe quelle adresse en France. Prix de vente au m², transactions DVF, permis de construire, qualité de l'eau, pollution de l'air, travaux à proximité, écoles... Le tout sur une interface cartographique plutôt bien foutue. Concrètement, vous entrez une adresse, vous cliquez sur "Analyser cette zone" et hop, la carte se remplit de données. On peut alors...

Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment, we can also sympathize with the view that (when possible and practical) certain antique electronics should be restored rather than gutted. [David] has this inclination for his 1948 GE radio, but there are a few issues with it that prevented a complete, period-correct restoration.
The main (pun intended) issue at the start of this project was safety. The original radio had a chassis that was just as likely as not to become energized, with the only protection being the plastic housing. [David] set up an isolation transformer with a modern polarized power cable to help solve this issue, and then...

Hé les anciens, vous allez kiffer pusique GOG offre en ce moment la trilogie originale Alone in the Dark, complètement gratuite et à garder pour toujours. Oui, les 3 jeux qui ont posé les bases du survival horror bien avant que Resident Evil ne pointe le bout de son nez.
Il s'agit donc ici du premier Alone in the Dark sorti en 1992, suivi des épisodes 2 et 3 de 1993 et 1995. Y'a même Jack in the Dark en bonus, ce petit spin-off qu'Infogrames avait sorti pour faire la promo du deuxième opus. Et le tout tourne nickel sur Windows 10 et 11 grâce au boulot de préservation de GOG.
Cette offre s'inscrit dans le cadre du
GOG Preservation Program
où l'idée c'est de sauver les jeux classiques de...

L’assassinat de l’ex-leader nationaliste Alain Orsoni, tué en janvier par un sniper lors de l’enterrement de sa mère dans son village de Corse-du-Sud, est le dernier épisode en date d’une histoire familiale révélatrice de l’évolution de l’île ces dernières décennies, entre ambitions politiques et dérives mafieuses.

Helium is inert, which makes it useful in a lot of different industries. But helium’s colorless and odorless non-reactivity also means traditional gas sensing methods don’t work. Specialized detectors exist, but are expensive and fussy. Thankfully, researcher [Li Fan] and colleagues found a physics-based method of detecting helium that seems as elegant as it is simple.
The new sensor relies on a topological kagome structure, and doesn’t depend on any chemical reaction or process whatsoever. The cylinders in the structure are interconnected; air can flow in and speakers at the three corners inject sound.
Sound waves propagate through the air within the structure at a fixed rate, and as helium enters the...

While Apple weren’t the first to invent high-DPI displays or to put them into consumer electronics, they did popularize them fairly effectively with the Retina displays in the early 2010s and made a huge number of them in the following years. The computers they’re attached to are getting up there in age, though, and although these displays are still functional it isn’t quite as straightforward to use them outside of their Apple-approved use. [David] demonstrates one way of getting this done by turning a 5k iMac into an external monitor.
The first attempt at getting a usable monitor from the old iMac was something called a Luna Display, but this didn’t have a satisfying latency. Instead, [David] turned...

Bon, vous me direz que Lolita Cercel, n’existe pas. Oui, c’est vrai, mais il y a pire : elle est Rom !

“China has granted the world’s first commercial licences for autonomous flying taxis, marking a significant milestone in the global push for urban air mobility… The announcement signals the start of what China has called ‘a new era in low-altitude economy’ with ambitions to lead in a sector still in experimental stages elsewhere. Chinese planners are preparing the groundwork for a business that could generate up to CNY2 trillion ($280bn) in annual output as soon as 2030, Urban Land reports. Guangzhou-based EHang received a type certificate for its EH216-S model in October 2023, and was awarded its production certificate in April 2024. On December 28, the CAAC granted the company an operational...

“NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the demonstration used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance, a complex decision-making task typically performed manually by the mission’s human rover planners… During the demonstration, the team leveraged a type of generative AI called vision-language models to analyze existing data from JPL’s surface mission dataset. The AI used the same imagery and data that human planners rely on to generate waypoints — fixed locations where the rover takes up a new set of...

“The EU grew 1.4% over last year, Eurozone 1.3% Fastest: Ireland (6.7%, mostly pharma export), Spain (2.6%), Lithuania (2.5%), Czechia (2.4%), Portugal (1.9%. Among EU member states that reported Q4 2025 GDP data, all now exceed pre-COVID GDP!” From Joey Politano.
The post EU GDP Grew 1.4 Percent over Last Year appeared first on Human Progress.

“At first glance the global economy looks more uneven than ever: billionaires’ fortunes keep breaking records, asset prices have soared and voters across rich countries insist that life is getting harder and more expensive. Yet in the 21st century the world economy has kept getting more equal. Data released on January 20th, covering 194 countries and economies, and compiled by the World Data Lab, a research firm, show that the ratio between spending by the world’s richest 10% and the poorest 50% has more than halved since 2000. Back then, the rich spent about 40 times more than the poor; today the figure is closer to 18. Over the same period, the richest 1% have also seen their share of consumption...

“Over the long run, global inequality has declined dramatically across many dimensions as living standards have improved. While a substantial reduction in worldwide inequality occurred between 1990 and 2021, the last two years in that range reveal far slower progress, reflecting pandemic-era stagnation. These findings underscore the vital role of undisturbed markets in sustaining the trajectory of human progress, as well as the vulnerability of political liberty in times of perceived crisis. The Inequality of Human Progress Index reveals that pandemic-driven shocks to the global economy slowed advances, halting the momentum of earlier growth across many measures of human well-being and stalling progress...

Russia's gains on the battlefield have forced Natalia to rebury her husband.