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ChatGPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it's not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia are starting to appear in answers from Google's AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, too. Data suggests that's on the rise, heightening concerns about accuracy and misinformation as Musk seeks to reshape reality in his image.
Since the warped Wikipedia-clone launched late last October, Grokipedia technically remains a minor source of information overall. Glen Allsopp, head of marketing strategy and research at SEO company Ahrefs, told The Verge the firm's testing found Grokipedia referenced in more than 263,000 C …
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 114, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send Arc Raiders tips, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about wind turbines and phishing scams and oboes, keeping organized with the ultra-minimal Attn app, testing the lovely Aeronaut Bluesky client, spending too much time researching electric snow shovels, finally upgrading my trusty podcast headphones to a new Beyerdynamic pair, starting my umpteenth rewatch of Superstore, and debating whether to swap my iPhone 16 for an iPhone 17 or a Pixel …
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Bosch’s Unlimited 10 combines key features from Dyson’s and Shark’s stick vacuums and packs some nice extras, but it can’t seem to keep debris inside.

Des centaines de crimes violents, ayant notamment causé 551 décès, ont été commis en Russie depuis 2022 par d’anciens soldats revenus du front ukrainien, avec leurs familles et leurs proches comme premières victimes, analysait en décembre le média indépendant russe “Verstka” dans une récente enquête. Pourtant, les peines dont ils écopent, qui se bornent parfois à de la prison avec sursis, sont clémentes.

Want the image quality of a DSLR without the bulk? These WIRED picks do more with less.

Sinners, Wicked, and Die Hard are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

Jugez vous-même… Affaire Epstein Meidas Touch – 31-01-26Télécharger

Israël « poursuit ses graves violations de l’accord de cessez-le-feu dans un contexte de grave pénurie de fournitures médicales, de médicaments et d’équipements médicaux », a dénoncé le directeur général du ministère de la santé, administré par le Hamas.

We braved the cold to answer a modern dilemma: Can you keep your hands warm and use a smartphone at the same time?

Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and more.

Le chanteur star s’est produit sur scène vendredi 30 janvier lors d’un concert de soutien aux familles de Renee Good et Alex Pretti, deux Américains tués par des agents fédéraux à quelques jours d’intervalle. La prestation du “Boss” se déroulait dans un contexte de manifestations à travers le pays contre les agissements de la police de l’immigration et de l’administration Trump.

Three million new documents include hundreds of mentions of Trump and emails between Epstein and a person called "The Duke".

Liam Ramos, whose photo became a symbol of Operation Metro Surge, is one of several students in Columbia Heights who are now in federal custody.

In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.

The most important film festival in America bade farewell to its Utah roots.

Le trafic a été interrompu « en raison d’une faible tension dans le réseau » électrique, a expliqué le maire de Kiev. Moscou cible régulièrement les installations énergétiques ukrainiennes, alors que le pays est confronté à des températures hivernales extrêmes.

A belligerent style of American foreign affairs has fostered a uniquely unpredictable environment likely to scare off U.S. oil and gas companies

The experts at Consumer Reports weighed in on how to keep yourself and your vehicle prepared for winter's harsh conditions

La journaliste cubaine Yoani Sánchez, fondatrice et directrice du site d’information indépendant “14ymedio”, a pu mesurer la nervosité de la dictature castriste le 28 janvier dernier. Arrêtée et assignée à domicile alors qu’elle se rendait à une réception du chargé d’affaires des États-Unis, elle estime que le régime aura du mal à survivre à la crise, aux menaces de Donald Trump et au manque de soutien populaire à l’intérieur de l’île.

Six personnes, parmi lesquelles des gardes-côtes, sont inculpées après le drame au cours duquel 94 migrants sont morts il y a trois ans, au large d’une plage de Calabre.

The Canadian comedic actress died in Los Angeles on Friday at the age of 71 following a brief illness.

Vous avez un logiciel qui cause un peu trop avec Internet alors qu'il n'a rien à y faire ? Ou un petit utilitaire qui balance de la télémétrie dans votre dos sans vous demander votre avis ? Ou peut-être juste une application que vous voulez forcer en mode hors-ligne sans pour autant couper tout votre réseau ?
C'est LA situation classique où pour leur couper la chique, on finit par se battre avec les menus obscurs du pare-feu Windows. Sauf que maintenant, y'a un petit outil CLI qui fait exactement ça en une seconde : ProcNetBlocker
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C'est un utilitaire Windows en ligne de commande qui permet de bloquer l'accès réseau de n'importe quel processus comme ça pas besoin de créer des règles à rallonge....

Le warez n'est pas mort ! Washington coupe l’accès à trois géants du piratage de films, de musique et de livres....

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En déployant son armada au Moyen-Orient, Donald Trump exerce une pression maximale pour contraindre Téhéran à conclure un accord. Mais elle lui donne également la possibilité de s’en prendre au guide suprême et aux Gardiens de la révolution, explique le quotidien libanais “L’Orient-Le Jour”.

You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers. If you’ve been priced out of new RAM you are going to want to get as much value out of the RAM you already have as possible, and that’s where today’s hack comes in: if you’re on a Debian system read about ZRam for how to install and configure zram-tools to enable and manage the Linux kernel facilities that enable compressed RAM by integrating with the swap-enabled virtual memory system. We’ve seen it done with the Raspberry Pi, and the concept is the same.
Ubuntu users should check out systemd-zram-generator instead, and be aware that zram might already be installed and...

No other country in Europe generates as much noise around physical anti-piracy crackdowns as Italy, where ‘boots-on-the-ground’ operations have become a regular occurrence.
While the number of affected users doesn’t always seem to add up, it is clear that Italy can and is willing to take action, where other countries do not see IPTV as a priority. This week, the local authorities announced another major crackdown. Led by the District Prosecutor’s Office of Catania and the Italian Postal Police, “Operation Switch Off” involved raids in 11 Italian cities and 14 countries, including the UK, India, Canada, and Romania. Operation Switch Off
With support from Eurojust, Europol, and Interpol, the...

Depuis le début d’année, les réseaux prorusses et les comptes institutionnels trumpistes ciblent de plus en plus la France. Avec des méthodes différentes mais un récit convergent, ils représentent un défi inédit.

Depuis le début d’année, les réseaux prorusses et les comptes institutionnels trumpistes ciblent de plus en plus la France. Avec des méthodes différentes mais un récit convergent, ils représentent un défi inédit.

Taping Instax Mini Link+ photos into a journal is just one use for the tiny prints. FujiFilm's Instax Mini Link 3 printer is a much-loved $100 accessory in my travel journal kit. I often tape a printed image next to my handwritten thoughts to preserve a moment in time. The prints produced by the instant film can, however, be soft and muddy - something the new $169.95 Instax Mini Link+ promises to improve.
The big upgrade is a new Design Print mode. It's supposed to make text and intricate illustrations crisp and legible, but I didn't see much of an improvement, despite that being a big selling point. I did, however, find that the improved processing inside the Mini Link+ enhanced contrast, colors, and...

Dans les colonnes du quotidien britannique “The Guardian”, Laura Hall raconte son année à plonger dans les mers de la Scandinavie, du Groenland et de la Finlande. Une expérience “renversante”, qui lui a permis de faire des rencontres insolites et de “se sentir bien vivante”.

Je suis tombé sur cet Easter Egg sur un site dédié, et j’ai d’abord testé sous Windows, parce que tester les vieilles versions d’iTunes sous Mac OS X, c’est compliqué. L’idée, c’est que si vous lancez le visualiseur, il y a des raccourcis avec des fonctions cachées. J’ai d’abord testé avec la version notée dans le post d’origine (iTunes 6).
iTunes 6
Première étape, presser H. Vous verrez diverses options. J’ai mis les touches en capitales, mais c’est pour des questions de lisibilités (il suffit de presser la touche).
Le menu caché
La touche F affiche le nombre d’images par secondes de l’effet en cours. La touche T permet d’améliorer la fluidité : par défaut, c’est...

Les manifestants entendaient également dénoncer la politique de l’administration Trump et la mort de Renee Good et d’Alex Pretti, tués début janvier sous les balles d’agents fédéraux.

Au moment où ces lignes sont écrites, la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen et le président du conseil européen Antonio Costa assistent au Jour de la République, une parade annuelle en Inde qui est normalement réservée aux chefs d'États sur invitation du gouvernement. C'est un événement historique majeur et un signe d'une relation étroite en formation entre Bruxelles et New Delhi, marquant un moment historique dans les relations UE-Inde. Cette année avait mal commencé à la fois pour l'UE et pour l'Inde, en particulier sur le prisme géopolitique. Alors que l'UE a une guerre en cours à ses frontières orientales entre l'Ukraine et la Russie, l'Inde se remet d'une...

In a highly controversial move, some Israeli MPs are trying to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian attackers.

Go back a couple of generations, and rather than a laptop or a luggable, the office accessory of choice was a portable typewriter. As the 20th century wore on, the typewriter became electric before eventually being eclipsed by luggable and laptop computers. On YouTube, [Prototype] is turning back the clock, by turning an old Smith-Corona electric typewriter into a luggable computer– with a stretch goal of still being able to type.
Yeah, just gutting the typewriter and shoving an SBC inside wasn’t ambitious enough for [Prototype]: his goal is a working typewriter and an x86 gaming PC. To facilitate this, he guts the Smith-Corona keyboard, and 3D-prints a new top plate to add a little more vertical space in...

The soonest the US House of Representatives can vote on the funding deal and end the shutdown is Monday.

Atteinte à la liberté individuelle fondamentale pour les uns, remède à l’abstention pour les autres, le vote obligatoire est loin de faire consensus en France, où il est ponctuellement débattu. En imposant aux citoyens de se rendre aux urnes, à l’image de nos voisins belges, pourrait-on revitaliser notre démocratie en crise ? En amont de l'élection municipale de mars 2026, on a posé la question au politologue Régis Dandoy et au philosophe Gaspard Kœnig dans le nouveau numéro de notre magazine FUTUR.

“What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is really like the ‘Black Mirror’ version of how federal forces have been used in the past, where the federal agents are coming to do the violence, not protect against violence,” Garrett Graff says.

Melania, directed by Brett Ratner, provides a fleeting glimpse into the life of the enigmatic first lady.

Not everyone will write their own optimizing compiler from scratch, but those who do sometimes roll into it during the course of ever-growing project scope creep. People like [Michael Moroz], who wrote up a long and detailed article on the why and how. Specifically, a ‘small library’ involving a few matrix operations for a Unity-based project turned into a static optimizing tensor compiler, called TensorFrost, with a Python front-end and a shader-like syntax, all of which is available on GitHub.
The Python-based front-end implements low-level NumPy-like operations, with development still ongoing. As for why Yet Another Tensor Library had be developed, the reasons were that most of existing libraries are...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on January 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Getty Images The Senate voted on Friday evening to pass the federal budget, funding everything except for one entity: the Department of Homeland Security, which was given a two-week funding extension in order to negotiate new guardrails around Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). If no agreement is reached, DHS funding will lapse and the department will face a shutdown.
The agreement - the result of frenzied negotiations between a united Senate Democrat caucus, their Republican counterparts, and the White House - passed...

Capping interest at 10% could save Americans billions, but banks say it would shut millions out. Here's what drives rates and why they're so high

Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Jeffrey Epstein from its online gaming platform? As spotted by XboxEra, the latest batch of Epstein's emails shows that in December 2013, he was "permanently suspended due to harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players."
But it appears the real reason may be simpler: A second email from Microsoft to Epstein the very same day shows he was banned because he was a registered sex offender, and because Microsoft was among the companies that agreed to purge registered sex offenders from their systems. While Epstein became a registered sex offender years earlier, another email shows he ma …
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Need a plastic mesh in a custom pattern? 3D print it, no problem. But what if one needs a curved plastic mesh? That’s considerably harder to 3D print, but [Uncle Jessy]’s figured out a simple approach: 3D print the mesh flat, then break out a mold and a heat gun.
Of course, there are a few gotchas, but [Uncle Jessy] shares his tips for getting the most reliable results. The important part is to design and 3D print a mold that represents the final desired shape. Then print the mesh, and fit it into a frame. Heat things up with a heat gun, and press into the mold to deform the mesh while it’s still soft. It’s much easier seen than explained, so take a few moments to check out the video, embedded below...

He may be tall, but Dunk's adventures could mean HBO's future in Westeros looks a little smaller in scale than initially planned.

The Trump Administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti puts hundreds of thousands at risk of returning to a country in crisis.

Japan's H3 rocket lost its payload fairing around 4 minutes after launch, leaving a satellite exposed and hanging on for dear life.

Moltbook is a place for chatbots to link and connect with other chatbots, and all we can do is watch.

Lego is following its blockbuster January with one of its biggest new lines in years: Pokémon.

Earnings week turned AI into accounting: who can fund the build with cash on hand, and who needs the build to make the dream real

Warsh will find it hard to deliver on Trump's demand for lower interest rates. He has also endorsed slashing the Fed balance sheet

If you’re ordering pizza these days, you’re probably using a smartphone app or perhaps still making a regular old phone call. If you’re creative and a little bit tricky, though, you can order pizza right from your Sega Dreamcast. You just need to jump through a few hoops, as demonstrated by [Delux] and [The Dreamcast Junkyard] in the recent past.
You used to be able to order pizza on the Dreamcast natively, all the way back in 1999. However, the modern Domino’s website doesn’t really work on the ancient Dreamcast browser anymore. The simple fact is that web technology has advanced a long way in the last couple of decades, and Sega didn’t exactly spend a lot of time maintaining a browser on a...

“On Floreana … efforts are underway to rid the island of invasive rats and cats and restore its native vegetation. The work, which is part of a sprawling $15 million effort decades in the making, is among the most ambitious projects ever mounted to bring an island back to its natural state. In the coming years, project leaders hope to reintroduce 12 native species… The effort has already seen some successes. In 2024, scientists moved 19 Floreana tortoises to a protected pen on the island… Scientists have also noticed a resurgence of native animals in recent years, including beetles, butterflies, snails, geckos, lava lizards, and the Galápagos rail, a bird known locally as the pachay that was once...

“Following a five-year upward trend likely impacted by the COVID pandemic, the number of heart disease and stroke deaths has declined, yet, heart disease and stroke still kill more people in the U.S. each year than any other cause… In 2023, there were 915,973 total deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD), including heart disease, stroke, hypertension and heart failure, down from 941,652 CVD deaths in 2022. The age-adjusted rate of CVD deaths in 2023 was 218.3 per 100,000 people, compared with 224.3 per 100,000 in 2022.” From American Heart Association.
The post Heart Disease and Stroke Deaths Has Declined appeared first on Human Progress.

“Polar bears have been getting fatter even as sea ice disappears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the fastest-warming place on Earth… The average size and weight of the Svalbard bears have increased since 2000, a finding that surprised Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute, who led the study… The Barents Sea population, which was estimated at 1900 to 3600 bears two decades ago, is thought to be stable or perhaps even growing. Starting in 1995, Aars and his colleagues tranquilised 770 bears with dart guns from helicopters. They hopped out onto the snow or ice to measure their length and, to estimate weight, their girth at the chest. Trend analysis showed this body condition decreased until 2000,...

“The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening reduces the rate of a cancer diagnosis by 12% in subsequent years and leads to a higher rate of early detection, according to the first trial of its kind. Researchers said the study was the largest to date looking at AI use in cancer screening. It involved 100,000 women in Sweden who were part of mammography screening and were randomly assigned to either AI-supported screening or to a standard reading by two radiologists between April 2021 and December 2022. The AI system worked by analysing the mammograms and assigning low-risk cases to a single reading and high-risk cases to a double one by radiologists, as well as highlighting suspicious...

“Africa installed at least 2.4 GW of solar in 2025, according to figures from the Africa Solar Industry Association’s (AFSIA) Africa Solar Outlook 2026 report. The figure is similar to the 2.5 GW of solar that AFSIA recorded as deployed in 2024 at the time of its last annual report but the association has since registered a further 1.2 GW of projects that came online in 2024 in its project database, increasing 2024’s figure to 3.7 GW.  AFSIA’s project database has now identified a cumulative operational solar capacity of 23.4 GW across Africa. The database currently includes more than 42,000 projects, a 40% increase in the number of projects at the end of 2024. It covers projects at all stages of...

Le 31 août 2024 Djamel Bendjaballah est tué à Cappelle-la-Grande par Jérôme Découfour, leader d'une milice d'extrême droite. Un appel à se rassembler le samedi 31 janvier à 15h00 au Tribunal de Dunkerque a été lancé afin de faire face au déni de justice, au racisme, mais surtout pour que justice soit rendue à Djamel. -
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