Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that will fold WBD's studio, linear channels, streaming service, and gaming segment into Paramount.
Though WBD initially signed onto an $83 billion agreement to merge part of Warner Bros. with Netflix, Paramount persisted with a hostile takeover bid, followed by a series of offers. That persistence paid off, as WBD determined that Paramount's "best and final" offer is "superior" to Netflix's deal. On Thursday, Netflix declined to match Paramount's bid, calling it "no longer fina …
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OpenAI and Anthropic are raising enormous sums of campaign cash and mobilizing to leave a mark on the November midterm elections

The President said the AI startup is filled with "leftwing nut jobs."

President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to "STRONG-ARM" the Pentagon and directing federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE" use of its products. At issue is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal of an updated agreement with the US military agreeing to "any lawful use" of Anthropic's technology, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mandated in a January memo, to the frustration of many tech workers across the industry.
As we explained earlier this week, that agreement would give the US military access to use the company's services for mass domestic surveillance and …
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Who is Ghostface? What was their objective? Did any of it make sense? Let's dig in.

Recently the Myrient game video archive announced that they’re shutting down on March 31st of this year, for a couple of reasons, but primarily the skyrocketing financial costs of hosting the archive. One advantage of Myrient over e.g. Archive.org is that – per the FAQ – every game on the site is curated and checked against a checksum of a known good copy. The site also focuses on fast downloads, making it a good resource if you’re trying to find ROMs of some more obscure old gaming system.
Amidst the mourning it seems also pertinent to address the reasons behind this shutdown. Although finances are the main reason for this hobby project to be shut down, it’s due to (paywalled) download managers...

The JUICE mission snapped photos of Comet 3I/Atlas after surviving its closest approach to the Sun.

The Roku Ultra isn’t just speedier, it also offers some advanced features that some viewers will find really handy.

A leaked list of Bohemian Grove camp attendee list shows some surprising guests and a noticeable absence of tech titans.

We've picked out the best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and beyond.

“Stem cells applied to the exposed spinal cords of fetuses in utero could treat infants with a severe birth complication that affects movement and continence. Researchers report that the therapy is safe, following a small clinical trial in six people. Spina bifida, a condition in which the spinal cord is not properly enclosed during gestation, affects fewer than 1 in 1,000 births globally, but occurs at higher rates in low-income countries. The most severe form, called myelomeningocele, can cause excess fluid accumulation in the brain and potential brain damage, as well as paralysis and issues with bladder and bowel control… Six pregnant women underwent surgery at 24–25 weeks of gestation. During the...

President Trump said he was not happy with Iran's stance, but had not yet decided whether to attack.

Ce drone a été brouillé mercredi à environ 13 kilomètres du « Charles-de-Gaulle » dans le détroit d’Oresund, près de la ville de Malmö, où le navire amiral français est arrivé pour une escale avant de participer à des exercices de l’OTAN.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Today, I’ll be speaking with Brink Lindsey, an American political writer and Senior Vice President at the Niskanen Center. Previously, he was Cato’s Vice President for Research and a dear colleague. Today, we’ll be discussing his latest book, The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transformation from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing. I want to start by congratulating you on your excellent book. It is concise, thoughtful, and beautifully written. As a published author, I’m envious of your style, and I really recommend the book to our listeners. Let’s start with the most obvious question. What is the permanent problem? I stole that line from the...

 
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Cities want to stop kids from getting hurt. A lawmaker thinks warning them away from legal gray-area “e-motos” could help.

Animatronic displays aren’t just for Halloween, and hackers today have incredible access to effective, affordable parts with which to make spectacles of light, sound, and movement. But the hardware is only half the battle. Getting everything synchronized properly can be a daunting task, so get a head start on your next holiday display with the Hauntimator by [1031-Systems].
Synchronizing control channels to audio is at the heart of solid animations.
After all, synchronizing movements, sound, and light by trial and error can get tiresome even in small setups. Anyone who makes such a display — and contemplates doing it twice — tends to quickly look into making things modular.
At its heart, Hauntimator...

The HTC U24 Pro may not be gold, but its design is otherwise awfully similar to the Trump phone’s. | Image: HTC Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts, and have stopped getting a response. This week, thanks to a reader tip, we think we've found the original phone the T1 is based on.
A long time ago, back when the Trump phone was but a single, inaccurate render and a contradictory spec sheet, we tried to figure out what other phone it might be based on. Now, eight months, two spec overhauls, and one redesign later, I have a good guess: the HTC U24 Pro.
I didn't spot this by myself. A reader first tipped...

The Supreme Court tariff ruling set off a blitz of lawsuits — which now number 2,000 and counting. The fate of the refunds, however, is another story

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by ABC, less than a year after Madhu Gottumukkala took charge of the agency as deputy director and acting director in May 2025. CISA's executive assistant director for cybersecurity, Nick Andersen, will become the agency's new acting director while Gottumkkala will now be serving as director of strategic implementation at DHS. The leadership change comes just a month after reports that Gottumkkala uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT. Gottumkkala had requested special permiss …
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The crowded tram was travelling in the centre of Milan at rush hour when it appeared to crash into the side of a building.

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.

A war with the U.S. would be catastrophic for Iran. But some Iranians believe it may be the only way to topple the regime.

Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of the financial drama, explain what “finance bros” misunderstand about capitalism’s allure.

The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the United States to pursue regime change in Iran, once again.

Ces annonces interviennent au lendemain d’une troisième session de pourparlers à Genève sous médiation omanaise entre l’Iran et les Etats-Unis, perçue comme l’une des dernières chances pour éviter une guerre.

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association, the world's largest maker of cameras. It's still the second largest after Apple.
Samsung handed me the microphone first. I asked: We see a divide in society between people who want AI to do impressive things with their photos and videos, and those who don't want AI to do anything with photos and videos because it's eroding our ability to believe that what we have seen is real, destroying the concept of photographic evidence.
Metadata tools like C2PA have utterl …
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Netflix left the bidding war and gained something else: a double-digit stock pop from investors who were relieved to avoid a sprawling media merger

On “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” a reclusive woman confronts the inhospitality of the world beyond her door.

La Commission européenne a annoncé, ce vendredi 27 février, que l’accord de libre-échange avec le bloc sud-américain serait appliqué de façon provisoire, avant même que la Cour de justice de l’UE ne se prononce sur sa légalité. Pour la presse internationale, il s’agit avant tout de se serrer les coudes face aux États-Unis de Donald Trump.

Several popular vacation destinations do away with the requirement to book a time slot to gain entry

Paramount Skydance is now poised to control a huge swath of streaming, studio, and TV assets, after Netflix declined to raise its offer

La publication de la nouvelle salve d’archives liées à l’affaire Epstein révèle de nouveaux détails sur les relations entre le pédocriminel et Joichi Ito, figure influente de la tech japonaise. Si rien n’indique qu’Ito a participé à un acte illégal, ces révélations embarrassent le gouvernement japonais, qui l’avait engagé pour un de ses projets phares, avance le journal américain “The New York Times” dans une enquête.

La plus haute juridiction administrative a rejeté, vendredi 27 février, le recours du mouvement de Jean-Luc Mélenchon contre la décision du ministère de l’intérieur de sortir ses candidats du « bloc de gauche » pour les élections municipales.

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the list. From crazy intricate automata to surprising problems in Peltier cooler designs, there’s a little bit of everything.
Should bikes have chains? What’s the hardest thing about Star Trek computers to duplicate? Can you make a TV station from a single microcontroller? The podcast this week answers these questions and more. Plus, weigh in on the What’s That Sound contest and you might just score a Hackaday Podcast T-shirt.
For the Can’t Miss segment, Elliot had airships on his mind, while Al’s sick of passwords. But is he sick enough to take electronic pills...

L’éviction, en janvier, du général le plus haut gradé de l’Armée populaire de libération témoigne de la volonté du président Xi d’assurer sa prééminence politique et de lutter contre la corruption, bien réelle, des élites, décrypte le chercheur James Char dans un entretien au « Monde ».

La présidente de la Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, en a précipité l’annonce vendredi, au grand regret de la France.

Fuite de données chez Réglo Mobile après une attaque visant un sous-traitant en février 2026....

You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. Could you read a stack of punch cards or a 9-track tape right now? Probably not, and those are just a handful of decades in the past. Fast forward a few centuries, and punch cards will decay, and tapes will lose their coating. More modern storage is just as bad. It simply isn’t made to last for thousands of years. Microsoft has Project Silica, which aims to store data in quartz glass with a potential lifetime of many thousands of years.
As you might expect, this is a write-once technology. Lasers write the data, and polarization-sensitive microscopes read it...

Privée de pétrole vénézuélien, confrontée à des pénuries massives et à l’effondrement du tourisme, Cuba sombre peu à peu dans une pauvreté orchestrée par Washington. Explications en vidéo.

“Violent crime dropped sharply across America’s biggest cities — including San Francisco — in 2025, according to data reviewed by Axios… Zoom in: Homicides in San Francisco fell 20% from 2024 to 2025, per preliminary data analyzed by the Major Cities Chiefs Association, which examined statistics for 67 of the nation’s biggest police departments. Rape dropped nearly 38%, while robberies decreased by about 25% and aggravated assault by almost 13%.” From Axios.
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“After over 40 years of recovery efforts, one population of the wood stork (Mycteria americana)is being removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife… The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has determined that the birds are no longer in immediate danger of extinction. The FWS estimates that the wood stork breeding population has 10,000 to 14,000 nesting pairs across roughly 100 colony sites. They are now found on the coastal plains of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.” From Popular Science.
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Le groupe britannique est de retour, plus en forme que jamais. Avec “The Mountain”, Damon Albarn et Jamie Hewlett émerveillent les critiques outre-Manche en explorant le deuil avec une joie et une sagesse inspirées de leurs voyages en Inde. Un vibrant hommage à la vie et à ceux qu’on aime.

Diffusé depuis le 23 février sur Disney+, le deuxième volet de la série “Paradise” continue d’explorer une Amérique postapocalyptique. Mais l’action se déroule hors du bunker pour les élites de la première saison. “The Hollywood Reporter” a discuté avec l’un des scénaristes.

July 2010 📷 #flashes

Fuite chez Cegedim Santé, millions de données patients exposées et zones d’ombre persistantes. ZATAZ vous raconte l'histoire folle d'une fuite de données qui date de plusieurs semaines....

Last weekend, a blog post about Booklore crossed my feed and piqued my interest.
I've long used Calibre to manage my e-books and, in June last year, even containerised Calibre-server so that I could read (parts of) my library in a web browser.
As fantastic as Calibre is, its interface is showing its age and I don't love that they've been diverting energy into adding AI features. I'm sure that they're probably useful to someone, but I tend to view reading as an escape rather than an opportunity to further immerse myself in industry hype.
Booklore though, looks shiny and new. One of its features - Kobo sync support - also caught my eye. This masquerades as the Kobo store, allowing physical e-readers to fetch...

Il fait trembler le web français depuis des mois. Le pirate Batista explique comment il aurait fait plier certaines des plus importantes sociétés françaises....

Malgré l’opposition de la France, le traité commercial franchit une nouvelle étape avec l’application provisoire annoncée par Ursula von der Leyen. Son entrée en vigueur définitive dépend encore du vote du Parlement européen.

An auspicious anniversary passed for me this week, as it’s a decade since I started writing for Hackaday. In that time this job has taken me all over  Europe, it’s shown me the very best and most awesome things our community has to offer, and I hope that you have enjoyed my attempts to share all of that with you. It’s worth a moment to reflect on the last ten years in terms of what has made our world during that time.
What Sticks In My Mind?
The gift that keeps on giving: the inept reactions of the British police to a drone report.
With quite a few thousand articles under my belt I’ve sadly reached the point at which I can’t remember them all, indeed a hazard when thinking of new ones is that any...

Gaël Musquet, mon copain hacker, me parlait déjà de tracking TPMS en 2020. Du coup, quand je vois des chercheurs publier un document de recherche en 2026 pour "découvrir" qu'on peut pister une voiture via ses capteurs de pneus, bon, comment dire... je suis pas tombé de ma chaise.
Mais faut reconnaître que l'étude en question va quand même plus loin qu'une discussion entre 2 stands au FIC. En effet, une équipe d'IMDEA Networks et d'armasuisse (le labo de défense suisse, rien que ça) a posé 5 récepteurs SDR dans une ville pendant 10 semaines. Coût du matos, environ 100 dollars par capteur, qui est en gros un Raspberry Pi 4 avec un dongle
RTL-SDR
à 25 balles. Et grâce à cela, ils ont capté plus...

The latest attacks by Pakistan follow months of clashes between the two countries. despite agreeing to a fragile ceasefire in October.

Bombings by Pakistan are the most significant development in tensions between the two neighbours - though the physical impact remains unclear.

Will a worsening internal crisis create the conditions for the Cuban Revolution to unravel from within?

Flava Works is an Illinois-based adult entertainment company specializing in content featuring Black and Latino men. The company has pursued copyright infringers aggressively for years, including a $1.5 million damages award against a defendant who shared its films on BitTorrent and a high-profile clash with an unnamed television executive that was eventually settled.
Last March, Flava, together with Blatino Media, filed a new lawsuit targeting an alleged Canadian leaker of its videos alongside 47 John Doe defendants. The rightsholders claim the maximum of $150,000 in statutory damages from each defendant, bringing the total damages claim to over $8 million.
This case stands out from the typical torrent...

PragerU, a fount of Judeo-Christian edutainment, is now a key partner in the Trump Administration’s “civic education” campaign.

Les britanniques viennent à nouveau de confirmer, lors d’une élection législative partielle, l’évolution politique déjà aperçue lors des élections générales de 2024. Tories et Labour, qui dominaient la vie politique depuis 80 ans, sont en train de se faire dégager par plus radicaux qu’eux. Un mouvement qui ressemble un peu à ce qu’on voit chez […]

2>&1, >, >>, 2>/dev/null... Si ces symboles dans votre terminal Linux ou macOS vous font autant flipper qu'un regex, respirez un grand coup ! Quand vous aurez lu cet article, vous verrez qu'en fait c'est super simple à comprendre, et en 5 minutes vous saurez enfin ce que vous copiez-collez depuis des années depuis StackOverflow.
En fait, dans les shells Unix (bash, zsh, etc.), y'a 3 canaux de base : stdin (entrée, numéro 0), stdout (sortie normale, numéro 1) et stderr (les erreurs, numéro 2). Tout le reste, de > à 2>/dev/null, découle de ces 3 numéros.
> - Écrire dans un fichier (et tout écraser)
echo "Salut" > fichier.txt
Ça redirige stdout vers fichier.txt. Si le fichier existe déjà... c'est...