U.S. TikTok users were experiencing service disruptions Tuesday related to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure issue. Something similar happened almost exactly a month ago.

Le spécialiste de l’énergie, Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, estime que la crise au Moyen-Orient pourrait profiter à Moscou en renforçant l’importance des hydrocarbures russes.

Loin de l’utopie égalitariste prônée par le régime castriste, l’île communiste se divise entre ceux qui ont assez de devises étrangères pour échapper à la crise, et les autres, qui vivent dans le plus grand dénuement. Un reportage du quotidien britannique “Financial Times”.

C’est une comédie originale qui débarque en salle mercredi 4 mars. “Pillion”, premier long-métrage du Britannique Harry Lighton, met en scène la relation BDSM entre un biker à la beauté ravageuse et un jeune novice dans ce domaine. Alexander Skarsgard et Harry Melling forment un duo irrésistible qui a conquis les médias outre-Manche.

En donnant son feu vert à l’opération Fureur épique, le président américain a pris un énorme risque, estime “The Economist”. Car s’il a été en mesure d’annoncer très rapidement l’élimination de l’ayatollah Khamenei, la suite des événements pourrait lui échapper.

Four of the six - ranging in age from 20 to 42 - have been named after the drone strike in Kuwait.

The AI giant is in the middle of a consumer backlash after it made a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense.

“The Genius Act is being threatened and undermined by the Banks, and that is unacceptable — We are not going to allow it,” the president wrote.  

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known. Earlier estimates put it at roughly 1,540 times the Sun’s radius. It also sheds mass at an unusually high rate and sits inside a thick, dusty environment that partly hides what is going on. Then, around 2014, the star did something rare: it changed in a way that did not bounce back. A new study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, argues that WOH G64 shifted away from its red supergiant state and into a warmer, short-lived phase that resembles a yellow hypergiant. That kind...

Astronomers watched as the supergiant WOH G64 reshaped itself into a different type of star.

Le bureau national du PS appelle, dans un communiqué, les militants LFI à se désolidariser de leur leader après les récentes polémiques autour de patronymes juifs. M. Mélenchon a réagi en dénonçant, lui aussi, des accusations « intolérables ».

Dans une allocution solennelle, mardi soir, Emmanuel Macron a annoncé, notamment, l’envoi du porte-avions « Charles-de-Gaulle » en Méditerranée orientale, confirmant le scénario d’un embrasement régional au Proche-Orient.

If you’ve ever used a ballpoint pen with a clip on the top, you’ve probably noticed they bend pretty easily. The clip relies on you only bending it a small amount to clip it on to things; bend it too far, and it ends up permanently deformed. [Craighill] decided to develop a pen clip that didn’t suffer this ugly malady. 
The wire clip design easily opens wide because the spring wire is not actually deforming much at all. Credit: YouTube video, via screenshot
The problem with regular pen clips comes down to simple materials science. Bend the steel clip a little bit, and the stress in the material remains below the elastic limit—so it springs back to its original shape. Push it too far, though, and...

L’avion affrété par Air France est arrivé dans la nuit, mercredi, peu avant 3 heures à l’aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle en provenance d’Oman. Une centaine de places ont été réservées pour les personnes les plus « vulnérables », dont des familles avec des enfants en bas âge et des personnes avec une « situation médicale ».

Researchers in Finland have found "robust evidence" of a link between pollen and worse academic performance.

Anker’s last-gen earbuds are tiny and lightweight, making them comfy to wear while sleeping. | Image: Anker Bad news: most Americans are about to lose an hour of sleep next week. Good news: if you have trouble falling (or staying asleep), Newegg is currently selling Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A20 earbuds for $113.99 ($66 off) when you use coupon code MMSF88 at checkout, which drops them to just $6 shy of their lowest price to date.
Anker Soundcore Sleep A20 Where to Buy: $179.99 $113.99 at Newegg (with code MMSF88)
A couple of us here at The Verge are fans of Anker’s last-gen sleep buds, which do a good job of muffling disruptive noises (including snoring). They’re lightweight and comfortable enough to...

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists' use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed a "flywheel" of power that forced venue customers to stay within its ecosystem. It threatened or retaliated against them when they considered leaving. To even attempt to win business, Dahlquist said, ticketing rivals needed to offer "retaliation insurance" to venues worried …
Read the full story at The Verge.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

The Cypriot government suspects the Iran-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon targeted the UK's RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus.

Loose ends bother some minds more than others. When the world feels messy, a story that ties every thread into one knot can feel like relief. That pull toward order sits at the center of a new study led by Flinders University. The work suggests that a person’s “systemizing” style, a strong drive to find patterns and consistent rules, can predict who is more drawn to conspiracy beliefs. The researchers argue this matters because conspiracy beliefs can shape vaccine uptake, trust in institutions, and how people respond during emergencies. “People often assume conspiracy beliefs form because someone isn’t thinking critically,” says Dr Neophytos Georgiou from Flinders University’s College of...

Markets react as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies and concerns grow over how long it will last.

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House as joint US-Israeli military strikes on Iran continue. Washington, DC, on March 1st, 2026. | Photo: Getty Images Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questions about whether the war would increase energy costs for Americans, put more pressure on power grids, and push companies to pump out more oil and gas in the US. If conflict drags on, that could potentially play into Donald Trump's plans to "drill, baby, drill" - but that doesn't necessarily protect Americans from higher energy prices. Keep in mind that it's still too early to tell what kind of war the US may have sparked. The spike...

Trump lashed out after Spain barred the US from using its military bases to carry out strikes on Iran.

Economists, researchers, and workers are increasingly asking what happens to an economy built around a premium on human intelligence when that premium vanishes

Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social about Iran echoed a conspiracy theory that has been circulating online for years.

The cheapest show on the list cost Amazon $8 million per episode to make

Plus, Trump's election win could take the U.S.-China chip war to a new level

If all you want is just a basic WiFi extender that gets some level of network connectivity to remote parts of your domicile, then it might be tempting to get some of those $5, 300 Mbit extenders off Temu as [Low Level] recently did for a security audit. Naturally, as he shows in the subsequent analysis of its firmware, you really don’t want to stick this thing into your LAN. In this context it is also worrying that the product page claims that over a 100,000 of these have been sold.
Starting the security audit is using $(reboot) as the WiFi password, just to see whether the firmware directly uses this value in a shell without sanitizing. Shockingly, this soft-bricks the device with an infinite reboot loop...

The AirPods Pro 3 are currently on sale for $219 ($30 off), which is about $10 more than their typical sale price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while more recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday delivered some of the steepest discounts we’ve seen, there are still good deals to be found on every model. Below, we’ve rounded up the best deals currently available on each set of AirPods, including both iterations of the AirPods 4, the third-gen AirPods...

The data analytics software platform raised its revenue guidance for the full year above Wall Street's expectations

The US version of TikTok is once again experiencing issues due to an Oracle outage, just a month after coming back online from a similar outage in February. The service disruption, impacting Oracle's Ashburn, Virginia data center, began early Tuesday afternoon, with Downdetector reports spiking around 1PM Eastern. TikTok USDS confirmed in a post on X that US users "may temporarily experience lags in posting content while Oracle works to resolve the issue." An issue with an Oracle data center is impacting some parts of the TikTok U.S. user experience. Creators may temporarily experience lags in posting content while Oracle works to resolv …
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One of the ongoing rumors and scandals in professional cycle sport concerns “motor doping” — the practice of concealing an electric motor in a bicycle to provide the rider with an unfair advantage. It’s investigated in a video from [Global Cycling Network], in which they talk about the background and then prove its possible by creating a motor doped racing bike.
To do this they’ve recruited a couple of recent graduate engineers, who get to work in a way most of us would be familiar with: prototyping with a set of 18650 cells, some electronics, and electromagnets. It uses what they call a “Magic wheel”, which features magnets embedded in its rim that engage with hidden electromagnets. It gives...

Year-round training has become normal for many young athletes chasing scholarships or professional dreams. New research suggests that narrow focus may come with physical costs that appear years later. Two studies presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons examined how early single-sport specialization affects the body over time. One focused on college-age athletes and hip health. The other analyzed injury patterns among National Football League players. Together, the findings point in the same direction: athletes who diversify their sports during adolescence may face fewer injuries later. Signs of Strain Emerging in Early Adulthood Michael C. Willey, MD, FAAOS, an...

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

Pour les défenseurs de la maire sortante, la ville est devenue plus verte, tournée vers les circulations douces. Ses détracteurs, eux, retiennent une voirie en mauvais état et une végétalisation qui relève surtout d’effets de communication.

La guerre au Moyen-Orient ne semble pas ralentir, mais bien plutôt s’étendre. Ce qui a provoqué une grande nervosité sur les marchés mondiaux ce mardi et la fermeture de plusieurs ambassades des États-Unis.

A jump in energy prices turns a stock selloff into an inflation trade, lifting the 10-year and dragging the rate-cut calendar further out — again

The Razer BlackShark V3 Pro has excellent noise-canceling and spatial audio for focused gamers.

Alors que la campagne des municipales bat son plein, tous les regards sont déjà tournés vers une autre échéance électorale : la présidentielle. Pour la presse étrangère, les résultats du scrutin local des 15 et 22 mars promettent d’être riches en enseignements en vue de la course à l’Élysée.

Nobody likes power cords, and batteries always need recharging or replacing. What if your device could run on only the power it could gather together by itself from the world around it? It would be almost like free energy, although without breaking the laws of physics.
Hackaday’s 2026 Green-Powered Challenge asks you to show us your devices, contraptions, and hacks that can run on the power they can harvest. Whether it’s heat, light, vibration, or any other source of energy that your device gathers to keep running, we’d like to see it.
The top three entries will receive $150 shopping sprees courtesy of the contest’s sponsor, DigiKey, so get your entry in before April 24, 2026, to be eligible to...

Si vous utilisez
ExifTool
sur macOS, j'ai une mauvaise nouvelle pour vous ! Une faille critique vient d'être découverte dans cet outil que tout le monde (moi y compris) utilise pour lire et modifier les métadonnées des fichiers et c'est pas joli joli.
Cette vulnérabilité, référencée en tant que
CVE-2026-3102
, touche toutes les versions jusqu'à la 13.49 et c'est spécifique à macOS. Cela permet à un attaquant de planquer des commandes système dans les tags de métadonnées d'un fichier image et quand ExifTool traite le fichier avec le flag -n... les commandes s'exécutent directement sur votre machine. L'exploitation est ridiculement simple et 2 étapes suffisent. On vous envoie une image qui a...

Je connaissais pas la chaine YouTube Branch Education, et je suis content d'être tombé là dessus parce qu'il ont eu une idée un peu dingue qui devrait vous plaire. En fait, ils ont démonté physiquement plus de 60 ordinateurs, consoles et smartphones, dessoudé les puces des cartes mères, pris des centaines de photos, et tout reconstruit en modèles 3D... ou plutôt, en reproductions ultra-détaillées. Et comme résultat, ils ont sorti une vidéo de 33 minutes qui retrace 80 ans d'évolution informatique... et vous allez voir, c'est plutôt classe.
En fait, quand je dis "modèles 3D", je vous parle pas de schémas vaguement animés... Non, chaque machine a été modélisée, de l'ENIAC de 1945 jusqu'à...

A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That signal comes from HATLAS J142935.3–002836, also called H1429-0028, a violently merging, gas-rich system at redshift z = 1.027. In new MeerKAT observations, astronomers detected hydroxyl (OH) maser emission from the galaxy, making it the highest-redshift hydroxyl megamaser yet found. The team’s paper has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, with a preprint posted on arXiv. A “space laser” that works in radio Hydroxyl megamasers are sometimes described as...

Before it became viable to distribute and play music tracks on home computers, the use of FM and Wavetable synthesis was very common, with MIDI Wavetable-based devices like the Roland MT-32 and SC-55 still highly sought after today. The Creative Midi Blaster MB-10 that [Yeo Kheng Meng] reviewed and tore down for an analysis isn’t quite as famous or sought after, but it provides a good example of what Creative Labs was doing at the time in this space.
Released in 1993, it definitely has more of a popular style vibe to it than the utilitarian Roland devices, even if this means highly impractical curves. In the list of features it claims Roland MT-32 emulation, which would have made it quite a bit more useful...

Clickout Media, une société de marketing, a racheté plusieurs sites de presse gaming (The Escapist, Videogamer, GamesHub) pour y virer les journalistes, les remplacer par des auteurs fictifs générés par IA et inonder les pages de contenus sur les casinos en ligne. Metacritic a dû retirer un test écrit par une IA.
Le rachat, puis le saccage
Clickout Media est une société assez discrète qui se présente comme une classique agence marketing. Depuis 2025, elle a racheté une série de sites spécialisés dans le jeu vidéo : GamesHub en Australie, Videogamer au Royaume-Uni, The Escapist, Esports Insider, et d'autres. À chaque fois, le schéma est identique. Les rédactions sont réduites, les budgets...

Its attack on Israel in support of Iran has led to fresh mass displacements and Israeli bombing, to the fury of many Lebanese.

Warszawa • Polska • October 2018 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Envoyer un mot de passe par email en clair, on l'a tous fait au moins une fois dans notre vie (oui, oui vous aussi !!). C'est pourquoi
ITYLOS
propose une alternative radicale où vos messages s'autodétruisent après lecture afin que personne, pas même le serveur, ne puisse les lire. Vous écrivez votre message sur itylos.com, vous choisissez une durée de vie (1h, 24h ou 7 jours), et youpla, vous récupérez un lien unique à envoyer. Et ensuite, une fois lu, le message est détruit ! Tout ça, sans compte à créer, sans app à installer... Vous ouvrez juste le site, vous collez votre texte et c'est parti.
Côté technique, c'est du lourd puisque le chiffrement se fait ENTIÈREMENT dans votre navigateur...

Artificial intelligence systems now breeze through many academic tests that once challenged both machines and people. That success created an unexpected problem. The benchmarks used to measure AI progress stopped being useful because top models were scoring too high. A massive international research effort set out to fix that. Nearly 1,000 experts from more than 50 countries collaborated to build a new assessment called Humanity’s Last Exam, or HLE, a 2,500-question test covering more than 100 subjects. The project, described in the journal Nature, aims to measure how far modern AI still falls short of expert human knowledge. “When AI systems start performing extremely well on human benchmarks, it’s...

Vous avez des photos en résolution pourrie qui traînent sur votre Mac ?
Du genre, des souvenirs de 2003 de vous et votre ex, en 640x480 que vous n'osez même plus ouvrir tellement c'est pixelisé de fou ? Hé bien
HiPixel
va vous aider car c'est une app macOS gratuite qui les upscale grâce à l'IA... et comme vous allez le voir, le résultat est plutôt cool.
C'est donc une app native SwiftUI qui utilise les modèles d'
Upscayl
pour faire de l'upscaling x2, x4 ou carrément x8 sur vos images, sauf que contrairement à Upscayl qui tourne sous Electron (et qui bouffe de la RAM parce que c'est du Chrome déguisé), c'est du 100% natif macOS. Le GPU est exploité directement via Metal, que vous soyez sur Apple...

Summary: When Bjorn Lomborg challenged environmental doomsday narratives, he was met not with open debate but with efforts to discredit and silence him. Two decades later, many of his core arguments have quietly entered the mainstream. The convergence of his views with those now voiced by leading figures offers a lesson about the cost of treating scientific disagreements as moral heresies rather than opportunities for empirical inquiry. When the Danish scholar Bjorn Lomborg published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, the reaction from the environmental establishment was not debate but an attempted excommunication. Scientific American devoted a special package to attacking the book as biased and...

“As of February 17, 2026, Waymo has approximately 70 remote assistance agents on duty worldwide at any given time… The fact that 70 agents can cover 3,000 vehicles tells you the system is handling the vast majority of driving situations on its own, without requesting human input. Anyone still arguing that these are “just remote-controlled cars” now has hard data to contend with. To appreciate how far ahead this puts Waymo, it is worth benchmarking against other significant players. In China, regulators long mandated a ratio of roughly 1:3, one remote safety operator for every three vehicles on the road, driven by traffic safety concerns and the politically sensitive issue of potential job losses among...

Apple also announced two new pricey Studio Display computer monitors. If you're waiting on that rumored entry-level MacBook, the company seems to be saving it for its March 4 media event.

“Waymo is accelerating its rollout of robotaxis in the U.S., adding four new cities in Texas and Florida this week as self-driving technology begins to penetrate mainstream America… The newest markets are Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando. The service will start slowly, with riders invited on a rolling basis until Waymo adds more cars to its fleet and scales up necessary operations like vehicle charging, service and maintenance. By later this year, it will be more widely available, Waymo says… It’s laying the groundwork for service in at least 20 cities, and is on track to provide more than one million driverless rides per week by the end of the year.” From Axios.
The post Waymo Robotaxis Now...

The UV light built into Shark’s newest robot vacuum is on a quest to embarrass me with how many stains it's spotted.

Illustration par ChatGPT
J’ignore ce qu’il en est pour vous, mais pour moi qui ne connaît pas grand-chose au dossier, il m’a fallu attendre le quatrième jour du conflit pour comprendre son enjeu et la manière dont il se déroule.
Ce ne sont pas les explications en provenance de Washington qui auraient pu m’aider : la presse considère à l’heure qu’il est que les facteurs justifiant, selon les officiels, l’entrée des États-Unis dans la guerre se montent désormais à 6 ou 7, allant de la destruction de la capacité nucléaire de l’Iran au changement de régime, en passant par des représailles pour des interférences dans les élections américaines ou, comme l’a expliqué hier le...

Hold up . . . do you even own an oven mitt?

The British photographer spent his career examining appetites and the contradictions they engender.

Senator John Cornyn and state attorney general Ken Paxton face a prolonged contest that will be settled in May. The Democrats James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett are in a tight race.