X-59 is designed to achieve supersonic speeds without all that noise.

The concerns that have plagued AI systems elsewhere don't disappear just because the technology is stuffed into a plush bear

On Wednesday, a rumor began popping up in Washington about a momentous policy change: the White House, it was said, would issue an executive order on Friday that would finally preempt state AI laws, handing over those regulatory powers to the federal government. The minute it leaked online, lawyers and policymakers began to scour every sentence of it. There was a lot about it that seemed politically unfeasible; there was even more that seemed overbroad, possibly illegal. There were a lot of agencies that had suddenly been cut out.
But crucially, they noticed how much power would have been handed to a certain South African tech-billionaire-t …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Eva Green, star of 'Penny Dreadful,' as well as Tim Burton's 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children' and 'Dark Shadows,' has joined season three of the Netflix series.

President Trump says the original peace plan has been "fine-tuned", and that he will send his envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow.

Warner Music Group has struck a licensing deal with the AI music creation platform Suno. Under the agreement, WMG will allow users to create AI-generated music on Suno using the voices, names, likenesses, images, and compositions of artists who opt in to the program. WMG, which owns record labels that have signed musicians like Ed Sheeran, Twenty One Pilots, Dua Lipa, and Charli XCX, says participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used, though it doesn’t share how.  “These will be new creation experiences from artists who do opt in, which will open up new revenue streams for them and allow you to interact with them in new ways,” Suno says, adding that users...

Dans la ville de Sées en Normandie, des habitant.es se mobilisent contre l'ouverture prochaine de la Ruche Normande, un bar derrière lequel s'agite l'extrême droite locale dont Victor Aubert, leader du mouvement national-catholique Academia Christiana. -
Initiatives / Academia Christiana, Association Culturelle d'Education Intégrale (Acei), Communitas Christiana

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang wants employees to treat AI as the starting point for every task, saying it’s “insane” not to use the tools

Burry is stitching together familiar red flags — circular money loops, stretched depreciation — and he doesn’t like the shape they make around Nvidia

Vous vous souvenez de Remix OS, de Phoenix OS et de tous ces projets qui promettaient ENFIN de faire tourner Android sur votre PC comme un vrai OS desktop ? Ouais, moi aussi je m’en souviens… Et ce dont je me souviens surtout, c’est de comment ça s’est terminé… Des abandons, des problèmes de mise à jour, du licensing foireux avec Google. Bref, un vrai carnage…
Hé bien cette fois c’est Google lui-même qui se lance dans l’aventure avec un projet baptisé Aluminium OS. Et attention, ce n’est pas juste une rumeur de plus puisque Rick Osterloh, le grand patron de la division Devices de chez Google, a officiellement annoncé le projet en septembre dernier au Snapdragon Summit de Qualcomm....

Huckberry’s Black Friday sale features deals on an eclectic curation of travel clothing, coffee gear, and lock-pick training kits (seriously).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is just one of many shows available on Paramount Plus. | Image: Marni Grossman / Paramount Plus In case you missed it, Paramount Plus is raising prices by $1 a month starting on January 15th, 2026, taking the ad-supported Essential plan from $7.99 to $8.99 and the ad-free Premium plan from $12.99 to $13.99. Thankfully, Paramount’s Black Friday promo has arrived just in time to (somewhat) soften the blow. Now through December 2nd, both new and returning subscribers can sign up for a two-month subscription for just $2.99 a month, dropping the price of the Essential plan by $5 and the Premium plan by a whopping $10.
Paramount Plus (two months) Where to Buy: $7.99 $2.99 at Paramount...

A new ship from the Ryan Gosling-led 2027 'Star Wars' movie has, partially, been revealed.

I Love LA, The Seduction, and It: Welcome to Derry are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this month.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

Le chef de l’Etat s’est s’exprimé mardi soir à l’issue d’une visioconférence de la « coalition des volontaires », qui réunit plus de 30 pays, disposés à apporter des « garanties de sécurité » à Kiev, en cas de conclusion d’un cessez-le-feu ou d’un accord de paix avec Moscou.

"Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys," said Trump.

“Putting together the Thanksgiving dinner cost from the Farm Bureau and median weekly earnings back to 1986, we see perhaps a shocking trend for many weary grocery shoppers: 2025 is the most affordable year for the median worker to buy Thanksgiving dinner. It is much more affordable than in the past three years, and it even slightly beats 2020—that very weird year in our lives and for economic data, which had held the previous affordability record. Gale Pooley performs a similar analysis at Human Progress using a different measure of income (blue-collar worker wages) and finds a similar trend with 2025’s Thanksgiving meal requiring the fewest hours of work to purchase it. Where can you find this mythical...

Bolstered by Apple’s iPadOS 26 update, this discounted tablet is more versatile than ever before.

“UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers bacteria to form biofilms that enable nitrogen fixation. This breakthrough could cut fertilizer use, reduce pollution, and increase yields… The research was published in Plant Biotechnology Journal.” From ScienceDaily.
The post CRISPR Wheat That Makes Its Own Fertilizer appeared first on Human Progress.

In Dune, the Fremen people of Arrakis practice an odd future hybrid religion called “zensunni.” This adds an extra layer of meaning to the title of [Mark Rehorst]’s Arrakis 3.0 sand table, given that the inspiration for the robotic sand table seems to be Zen gardens from Japan.
The dunes on the tabletop version of Arrakis owe nothing to sand worms, but are instead created a rolling metal ball. With all workings happening below, it looks quite magical to the uninitiated, but of course it’s not magic: it’s magnets. Just beneath the tabletop and its sands, the steel ball is being dragged along by the magnetic field of a powerful neodynium magnet.
That magnet is mounted in a CoreXY motion system that...

The Switch 2 can be enjoyed right out of the box, but it’s even better with the right accessories. Some of these add-ons are more crucial than others, especially if you’re deciding what to buy early on. For example, a case and a screen protector can keep your console safe from scuffs, scratches, and drops, so both are what I’d consider to be essential. If you’re not a fan of how the Joy-Con 2 feel to use, a cheap but good wireless controller wouldn’t hurt, either. On the other hand, a microSD Express card lets you add even more digital games to your library, although the console’s somewhat generous 256GB of internal storage means you may not need one right away (unless you buy a lot of games that...

Perplexity is ramping up its AI shopping experience going into the holiday season, just like OpenAI and Google, with a free AI-powered shopping feature that is available now to US users. Its AI assistant looks similar to what we’ve seen from ChatGPT’s shopping research, as users type in what they’re looking for and refine the results with follow-up questions. The recommended products show up as cards with specs and reviews, and users can buy products directly through Perplexity from merchants that support PayPal.  If you ask for a jacket to wear on your commute by ferry across the Bay to San Francisco, Perplexity says the chatbot will remember this past interaction to inform its recommendation when you...

Des documents judiciaires viennent d’être rendus publics dans le cadre d’une procédure tentaculaire. Les plaignants y accusent le groupe Meta de nuire à ses plus jeunes utilisateurs, parfois en toute connaissance de cause.

The capsule will fly a cargo mission to the ISS early next year, with no crew on board this time.

A new policy has led to an exodus of male citizens. Will they return if the war ends?

With a loop of light on the front and great overall value, this Alienware prebuilt gaming PC is an easy way into desktop gaming.

L’International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) a annoncé ne pas être en mesure de déchiffrer les résultats de l’élection de ses dirigeants. En cause : la perte de l’une des clés de chiffrement nécessaire. Un comble, s’amuse la presse étrangère.

Selon nos informations, un audit de sécurité mené en 2018 avait mentionné très précisément le balcon utilisé par les cambrioleurs, et même évoqué l’usage d’un monte-charge.

La mesure pourra être rétablie par l’Assemblée nationale par la suite, mais l’opposition du Sénat risque d’acter l’absence de compromis possible entre les deux chambres du Parlement sur le projet de loi de finances de la « Sécu ».

Plus de 400 sacs contenant des restes humains ont été trouvés ces derniers mois au Mexique, dans les environs d’un stade qui accueillera des matchs de la Coupe du monde de football 2026. Les familles des quelque 130 000 disparus regrettent l’indifférence des autorités.

Google stock has shot up almost 35% in the last six weeks, adding about $1 trillion in market value and putting it in striking distance of Nvidia

Freezing temperatures make it harder for your car to run, so you'll want to make sure everything's in order before the snow and ice hit

If you are a schoolkid of the right age, you can’t wait to lose a baby tooth. In many cultures, there is a ritual surrounding it, like the tooth fairy, a mouse who trades your tooth for a gift, or burying the tooth somewhere significant. But in 1958, a husband and wife team of physicians wanted children’s teeth for a far different purpose: quantifying the effects of nuclear weapons testing on the human body.
A young citizen scientist (State Historical Society of Missouri)
Louise and Eric Reiss, along with some other scientists, worked with Saint Louis University and the Washington School of Dental Medicine to collect and study children’s discarded teeth. They were looking for strontium-90, a nasty...

L’Olympique de Marseille, actuel 25ᵉ du classement de la poule unique, est déjà dos au mur. Pour espérer poursuivre leur aventure dans le tournoi, les Phocéens doivent viser la victoire face aux Anglais de Newcastle, 6ᵉˢ, mardi au Stade-Vélodrome.

Zeynab Javadli's ex-husband has lodged a criminal complaint with Dubai police, accusing her of kidnapping their three daughters.

The remains will be transferred to Israeli forces, who will take them to Israel's forensic medicine institute for identification.

“A daily pill could soon be available as an alternative to Wegovy and Ozempic injections after a trial found it led to substantial weight loss and improved blood sugar levels in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Orforglipron, developed by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, is designed to work in the same way as semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic, which mimics a hormone called GLP-1. A prior trial found that orforglipron enabled people with obesity but without type 2 diabetes to lose about 11 per cent of their body weight, on average, over 72 weeks. This is less than the 15 per cent typically achieved over a similar period with injectable semaglutide, but taking medication as a...

Stupeur dans le monde littéraire : le romancier et essayiste canado-américain Thomas King, qui a construit sa renommée internationale avec des œuvres sur la vitalité de la culture autochtone, n’a aucune ascendance cherokee comme il l’a cru et fait croire. L’écrivain se dit “sous le choc” et estime que sa carrière est terminée.

“Fervo is a buzzy geothermal-techno­logy startup backed by Google and other high-powered tech investors that wants to turn a once-neglected source of energy into a powerhouse. The privately held firm, valued at some $1.4bn, will start producing electricity next year in the first phase of a 500-megawatt deal with the power division of Shell, an oil company, and with a Californian utility. That is the largest commercial contract agreed for geothermal electricity in the industry’s history. It is the first shot in an incipient geothermal revolution. Today, less than 1% of global (and American) energy comes from geothermal. But researchers at Princeton University predict that technical innovations mean widely...

La presse russe rapporte la création, à Moscou, d’une “réserve spéciale” destinée aux livres retirés des bibliothèques des régions ukrainiennes occupées et au contenu jugé hostile à la Russie. Plus de 10 000 ouvrages y seraient déjà conservés.

“A three-year-old boy has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with his devastating disease to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy. Oliver Chu has a rare, inherited condition called Hunter syndrome – or MPSII – which causes progressive damage to the body and brain. In the most severe cases, patients with the disease usually die before the age of 20. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood dementia. Due to a faulty gene, before the treatment Oliver was unable to produce an enzyme crucial for keeping cells healthy. In a world first, medical staff in Manchester have tried to halt the disease by altering Oliver’s cells using gene therapy.”...

Rares sont les éditorialistes et les observateurs qui, en Ukraine, approuvent le “plan de paix” américain actuellement débattu à grand bruit. De leur point de vue, le pays ne peut qu’en sortir perdant, et ce projet ignore un élément pourtant incontournable : les Ukrainiens eux-mêmes.

[Big Clive] picked up a tiny heater for less than £8 from the usual sources. Would you be shocked to learn that its heating capacity wasn’t as advertised? No, we weren’t either. But [Clive] treats us to his usual fun teardown and analysis in the video below.
A simple test shows that the heater drew about 800 W for a moment and drops as it heats until it stabilizes at about 300 W. Despite that, these units are often touted as 800 W heaters with claims of heating up an entire house in minutes. Inside are a fan, a ceramic heater, and two PCBs.
The ceramic heaters are dwarfed by metal fins used as a heat exchanger. The display uses a clever series of touch sensors to save money on switches. The other board is...

27/11 Face aux attaques de librairies. Riposte antifasciste -
Initiatives / Paris, Manifs et rassemblements

Two men and two women from Paris are the latest to be questioned as part of the ongoing investigation.

Italia • May 2012 📷 #flashes

L’exposition « Chine, empreintes du passé » a ouvert ses portes au musée Cernuschi à Paris jusqu’au 15 mars. Cette passionnante plongée dans l’art de l’estampe de 1786 à 1955 permet de découvrir la véritable révolution que l’étude renouvelée de l’estampage, « l’art des métaux et des pierres » (jinshixue), a entraîné dans les domaines de la calligraphie et de la peinture chinoises.

It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it on the first day and installed it on my trusty HP Omnibook 800 laptop, and until this year I’ve used it ever since. Yet after all this time, I’m ready to abandon it for another browser. In the previous article in this series I went into my concerns over the direction being taken by Mozilla with respect to their inclusion of AI features and my worries about privacy in Firefox, and I explained why a plurality of browser engines is important for the Web. Now it’s time to follow me on my search for a replacement, and you may be surprised by one aspect of my eventual choice.
Where...

UE de souffrance ici-bas : Nicolas Sarkozy (NS) en sait quelque chose, lui l’innocente victime d’une cabale ourdie par une camarilla de juges rouges. Nous apprenons par la presse que ledit NS a écrit un livre dans son ergastule — ou un opuscule ? il n’est resté incarcéré que vingt jours —, et que sa prose devrait paraître chez Fayard le 10 décembre, suffisamment tôt pour Noël, mais trop tard pour le Goncourt. La littérature carcérale mondiale va donc s’enrichir d’une nouvelle expérience, après celles, littéraires, de Casanova (douze jours aux Plombs de Venise et une évasion… mieux que NS), Edmond Dantès, Ivan Denissovitch ou réelles, nous pensons à Victor Serge (cinq ans à la...

The general manager of a Buddhist temple was startled to see her "opening her eyes" as the coffin opened, AP news agency says.

Dans Bugonia, nouvelle comédie noire du réalisateur de Pauvres Créatures, deux cousins kidnappent la PDG d’une grande entreprise pharmaceutique, convaincus qu'elle est un extraterrestre. Faussement provocant, le film se contente de recycler le nihilisme de ses prédécesseurs.

Jeremy Bamber has a new opportunity to clear his name. But will the British justice system acknowledge that it might have gotten this famous case wrong?

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to  get something up and running in Python, it’s performance compared to other languages is generally lacking. Often, when starting out, we’re just happy to have our code run successfully. Eventually, though, performance always becomes a priority. When that happens for you, you might like to check out the nifty tips from [Evgenia Verbina] on how to make your Python code faster.
Many of the tricks are simple common sense. For example, it’s useful to avoid creating duplicates of large objects in memory, so altering an object instead...

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Le
UGREEN NASync DH2300
n’est clairement pas le boîtier le plus connu du marché, mais il a une mission simple : offrir une solution de stockage compacte, silencieuse et abordable pour ceux qui veulent centraliser leurs données ou monter un petit serveur multimédia sans se prendre la tête. UGREEN m’a envoyé le modèle DH2300 accompagné de deux disques durs de 4 To pour le mettre à l’épreuve. Pour ce test, j’ai choisi de l’utiliser comme “second NAS” branché à mon Mac mini M4 (via ma Livebox), uniquement dédié à Plex et au stockage de films en 4K. Et disons-le tout de suite : il a largement...

L’Assemblée a fini par rejeter en première lecture, sans surprise et presque à l’unanimité, le budget sur lequel les députés travaillaient depuis fin octobre. Mais certaines des mesures qui avaient été votées, à la faveur de coalitions de voix parfois baroques, devraient rester au cœur des débats.

Bonne nouvelle, les amis, Tor vient d’implémenter CGO (Counter Galois Onion) !
Si ça ne vous dit rien, c’est normal, moi non plus je ne connaissais pas, mais je vais tout vous expliquer !
Jusqu’à maintenant, le réseau Tor protégeait votre anonymat avec du chiffrement en oignon. Plusieurs couches de crypto, une par relais et ça marche bien… sauf qu’il existe une technique vicieuse qu’on appelle les attaques par tagging.
Le tagging c’est quand un attaquant modifie votre trafic chiffré à différents endroits du réseau (genre en ajoutant un marqueur invisible dans certains noeuds), puis il observe ce qui sort de l’autre côté pour vous tracer. C’est comme quand vous collez un traceur...

If you manage to make it through the swim, and to peel off your starchy bathing suit, you’ll begin a hundred-and-twelve-mile uphill bike ride to the most crowded grocery store in America.

Life after Trump may not be what we expect.

Revisiting a comic strip by The New Yorker’s first art editor.