We will do it "the easy way" or "the hard way", he said, but Denmark says the territory is not for sale.

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

Matter really Mattered, this year.

Screenwriter Will Tracy on how he shaped the conspiracy-obsessed Teddy in Yorgos Lanthimos' sci-fi thriller.

Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb Orland Park, Illinois voted 6-1 to approve Amazon's proposal to develop 35 acres of land for a 229,000-square foot retail center, as reported by The Information. The development would include a brick-and-mortar supercenter selling groceries, general merchandise, and prepared foods. It would also double as an Amazon fulfillment center, like a department store with an Amazon warehouse in back. Customers would be able to pick up Amazon orders there, as well. The pr …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Robotaxis, concept cars, and a massive touchscreen were just some of the automotive highlights at CES 2026.

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to "coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from the industry as a whole, denying X the benefit of competition between music publishers." In the antitrust lawsuit filed on Friday, X claims that the NMPA and music publishers "weaponized" the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with requests to take down allegedly infringing conte …
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The splitR Auracast transceiver can attach to an iPhone’s MagSafe spot. One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies' lack of support for the Bluetooth technology - Apple being a prime example. With iOS having 58 percent of the market share in North America and nearly 28 percent worldwide, a decision by Apple to enable native Auracast support would potentially put millions of Auracast devices into the world with a firmware update. As of yet, Apple has made no comment on Auracast, and I'm not hopeful that we'll get one anytime soon.
But the audio technology company Atitan thinks it has the solution. It's developing a small disc-shaped transceiver - the splitR - that can...

Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but among the horde of waddling plushies and light-up emoji eyes, two stood out to me. HeyMates and Buddyo are each betting that the collectible figurine boom is going to come back with an AI-powered vengeance, letting us chat to sports stars and superheroes from our desks.
The core concept to both is this: Take a cutesy figurine and stick it onto a smart base with a speaker, microphone, and maybe a flashing ring of light or two. Then use an accompanying app to power a basic LLM chatbot based on the figurine, so you can talk to Albert Einstein about...

The meeting was the latest chapter in Trump's open-ended intervention in Venezuela, a South American nation he has said he wants to control for years

The clip shows the moments before gunfire rang out on a Minneapolis street.

I remember when Conformity Gate was called the Indoctrination Theory.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch8 gets marked down across a variety of colors, sizes, and feature sets.

The small screen meets the big screen.

Double up on LED therapy, because sharing is caring.

The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley's leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are spineless cowards who are terrified of Elon Musk.
Here's the relevant Apple App Store developer guideline: "Apps should not include content that is offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, in exceptionally poor taste, or just plain creepy." Huh! How about that. They sold their principles for power …
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The city where George Floyd was murdered finds itself again at the epicenter of a national crisis.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Before we talk about your book, Catastrophe! How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse, I’d love to talk about your recent excellent article on what people have called the “Loneliness Epidemic.” Americans are increasingly alone, but are they really lonely? This idea has been batted around for about a decade, and it was reinforced by the US Surgeon General about two years ago when they released this advisory saying there’s a loneliness epidemic and we’re lonelier than ever. I was curious to see what the evidence was in support of this idea, and one of the things I noticed was that people kept switching what they were...

The post Chris Ferguson: The Misdiagnosis of American Mental Health appeared first on Human Progress.

Lors d’une prise de parole devant plusieurs invités du secteur à la Maison Blanche, le président américain a aussi déclaré : « Vous traitez directement avec nous, vous ne traitez pas du tout avec le Venezuela ».

You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what [Goosetopherson] thought about, and thus a new project that you can see in the video below was born.
The heart of the project is an I2S chip and an ESP32. Sound energy deforms a plastic film that causes a mirror to move. The moving mirror alters the course of the laser’s beam.
An important part of the project is the 3D printed enclosure designed in Fusion. Some wires are routed through during printing, and there are heat-set inserts.
If you haven’t run into it before, you can think of I2S as I2C for stereo audio. It uses a synchronous protocol to push audio data using three wires. The board in question takes the digital...

Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.

Selon une source au sein de l’exécutif au « Monde », le premier ministre et le président envisagent une dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale en cas de censure du gouvernement. Le RN et LFI ont, chacun de leur côté, déposé une motion en ce sens.

If you’re building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a display library from [dejwk] to be particularly useful.
Named roo_display for unclear reasons, the library is Arduino-compatible, and suits a wide range of ESP32 boards out in the wild. It’s intended for use with common SPI-attached display controllers, like the ILI9341, SSD1327, ST7789, and more. It’s performance-oriented, without skimping on feature set. It’s got all kinds of fonts in different weights and sizes, and a tool for importing more. It can do all kinds of shapes if you want to manually draw your UI elements, or you can simply have it display JPEGs, PNGs, or raw image...

The legal battle between X Corp. and the music industry has just escalated from a straightforward copyright lawsuit into a full-blown antitrust war.
The dispute started in 2023, with various music publishers accusing X of ‘breeding’ mass copyright infringement, and appeared to steer toward a settlement last summer. X Sues Music Publishers
That settlement never came. Instead, the legal battle motivated X to gather sufficient evidence for a counterstrike, where many key industry companies and music publishers are accused of a conspiracy to weaponize the DMCA.
In a scathing 53-page complaint filed in the Northern District of Texas today, X Corp. is suing the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and...

The staff writer Jennifer Wilson explores why prenuptial agreements have boomed in popularity among millennial and Gen Z couples.

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”

The largest demonstrations in years have left at least 48 protesters dead, human rights groups say.

The tech that everyone is talking about showed its immaturity at the Consumer Electronics Show, making its coming out party awkward at times

How the best-selling author of “People We Meet on Vacation” channelled her love of rom-coms—and her religious upbringing—into a new kind of romance novel.

There's one inevitable truth about the world of consumer electronics: A lot of it is just plain odd

Depuis la fin du mois de décembre 2025, l’intelligence artificielle d’Elon Musk est utilisée pour générer massivement des deepfakes à caractère sexuel. Face à l’indignation et aux appels à bloquer l’outil, les équipes de xAI ont annoncé, vendredi, un changement à la portée très limitée.

Neglect and mismanagement have left the Venezuelan oil sector in ruins. Restoring it would require huge influx of capital spending

The headline numbers suggest an economy still adding jobs, albeit at a sluggish pace. But dig deeper, and the worrying signs begin to pile up

Abattue par un agent de la police de l’immigration (ICE) le 7 janvier à Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good est devenue un symbole des exactions des services de police fédéraux. Qu’ils soient citoyens du pays ou immigrés, tous les Américains sont désormais “gouvernés par des gens qui estiment que la vie est un privilège accordé par les autorités et que la mort est une punition juste en cas de désobéissance”, s’alarme cette chroniqueuse du “New York Times”.

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times, you’ll only realize your mistake much later. Once the tainted food gets far enough into the digestive system, it’s too late. Your only option is to strap in for the ride as the body voids the toxins or pathogens by every means available, perhaps for several consecutive days.
Proper food storage and preparation are the key ways we avoid food poisoning today. However, a new development could give us a further tool in the fight—with scientists finding a way to actively hunt down and destroy angry little pathogens before they can spoil a good meal. Hunt...

En ce jour de deuil national, la presse helvète rend hommage, comme tout le pays, aux victimes de l’incendie meurtrier de Crans-Montana. Ce vendredi 9 janvier, les Suisses ont vécu un moment de communion “sans étiquette, ni politique ni religieuse”, estime-t-elle.

Tucked behind a massive stone facade and surrounded by private gardens and five rolling acres, this island residence is designed for uninterrupted relaxation.Location: Diseminado Diseminados Var, 161, 07208, Balearic Islands, Spain Price: €6,200,000 (approximately $7,229,076 USD) Year Built: 2002 Architect: Thomas Wegner Site: 5.09 acres Footprint: 6,545 square feet (4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths) From the Agent: "This sculptural home, created by Hamburg architect Thomas Wegner, has received international acclaim for its bold contemporary design, integrated art, and complete privacy. At the heart of Son Almendros is its infinity staircase, which spirals elegantly around the central courtyard and pool. The...

Jacques Moretti is being held as a potential flight risk, Swiss media reports say.

De gauche à droite : Antonio Costa (président du Conseil européen), Ursula von der Leyen (Présidente de la Commission européenne), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Président du Brésil, l'un des membres du Mercosur) et Emmanuel Macron (Président de la France) - Crédits : Palácio do Planalto / Flickr CC BY-ND 4.0 Un cinquième de l'économie mondiale et plus de 700 millions de consommateurs : c'est ce que pèsent aujourd'hui l'Union européenne et les quatre pays fondateurs du Mercosur, à savoir l'Argentine, le Brésil, le Paraguay, et l'Uruguay. De quoi donner une idée des conséquences d'un éventuel accord de libre-échange entre ces deux mastodontes commerciaux. Cet accord a un double objectif : le...

Un couple arrêté pour vishing : usurpation de numéro bancaire, 14 victimes, 22 000 $ volés et 68 cartes-cadeaux saisies....

Après l’aval donné vendredi 9 janvier par une majorité d’États européens à la signature de l’accord de libre‑échange avec le Mercosur, de nombreuses manifestations d’agriculteurs ont eu lieu à travers l’Europe. - Crédits : Nano Banana / Wikimedia Commons Une étape supplémentaire. Ce vendredi après-midi, le Conseil de l'Union européenne a validé par une procédure écrite le vote des ambassadeurs de l'UE sur l'accord UE-Mercosur. "Le Conseil a adopté aujourd'hui deux décisions autorisant la signature de l'accord de partenariat UE-Mercosur (EMPA) et de l'accord commercial intérimaire (iTA) entre l'UE et le Mercosur", indique le communiqué. Ces accords marquent un moment important...

Colorado is teaching high schoolers to build modular homes, Trump hits pause on tariff increases for furniture, and more.After Eric Adams’s effort to stack the Rent Guidelines Board failed, Zohran Mamdani is now better positioned to appoint a majority to the board, clearing a realistic path to his campaign promise of freezing rent for rent-stabilized tenants across the city. Here’s how it could work. (Curbed) Affluent Londoners have been installing an increasing number of woodburning stoves in their households in recent years, favoring them over open-flame fireplaces for their safety and the feeling of "cozy domesticity." But now making a fire at home is under threat, as activists and officials warn that...

Avec les visées de Donald Trump sur le Groenland, le Canada redoute de faire les frais d’une nouvelle guerre froide dans l’Arctique et s’y prépare. Les experts craignent désormais une incursion de la marine américaine dans le passage du Nord-Ouest.

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so.
On What’s That Sound, Kristina had no idea what was going on, but [Flippin’ Heck] knew it was a flip dot display, and won a Hackaday Podcast t-shirt! Congratulations!
After that, it’s on to the hacks and such, with not one but two ways of seeing sound.  We also take a look at benchmarking various Windows releases against each other on 12-year-old hardware.
We also talk about painting on floppies and glitching out jpegs in a binary text editor. Finally, we discuss the history and safety of autopilot,...

En juin 2023, l'actuel président brésilien Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva avait été reçu à Paris par Emmanuel Macron, dans le cadre d'un Sommet pour un nouveau pacte financier mondial - Crédits : Palácio do Planalto / FlickR - CC BY 2.0 Malgré le rejet de la France et d'autres États européens (Irlande, Pologne, Hongrie, Autriche), les ambassadeurs de l'UE, réunis ce vendredi 9 janvier à Bruxelles, ont donné leur feu vert au traité commercial avec quatre pays du Mercosur (Argentine, Brésil, Paraguay et Uruguay). Les dirigeants réticents étaient trop peu nombreux pour pouvoir constituer une minorité de blocage, qui doit regrouper quatre États représentant au moins 35 % de la population de l'UE....

Les images montrant la prise à partie d’une femme par une foule d’hommes dans la grande ville du sud du pays le soir du Nouvel An ont été largement relayées sur les réseaux sociaux. Certains y voient une illustration du traitement réservée à la gent féminine dans la très conservatrice société irakienne.

“OpenAI just announced a suite of new products designed for health care professionals that will roll out to leading medical institutions on Thursday, a company spokesperson told Axios. Why it matters: Although over 40 million users already use ChatGPT for health information daily, providers using the tab must be careful to ensure that the sometimes hallucinatory chatbot gives professionals accurate advice and maintains patient privacy laws. How it works: ChatGPT for Healthcare is powered by GPT‑5 models that OpenAI says were built for health care and evaluated through physician-led testing across benchmarks, including HealthBench⁠ and GDPval⁠. Physicians will also be able to review patient data, with...

Le ministère de la Défense russe a annoncé avoir frappé le territoire ukrainien dans la nuit du 8 au 9 janvier en ayant recours à un missile balistique Orechnik. Les responsables russes ont présenté ces bombardements comme une réponse à une “attaque terroriste” contre une résidence de Vladimir Poutine, démentie par Kiev. La presse ukrainienne rapporte une campagne de frappes dirigées contre les infrastructures énergétiques, nouvelle tentative de paralyser le pays en période hivernale.

“Scientists claim to have ‘rejuvenated’ human eggs for the first time in an advance that they predict could revolutionise IVF success rates for older women. The groundbreaking research suggests that an age-related defect that causes genetic errors in embryos could be reversed by supplementing eggs with a crucial protein… The decline in egg quality is the main reason IVF success rates drop steeply with female age and is why the risk of chromosome disorders such as Down’s syndrome increases with maternal age… The latest approach targets a vulnerability in eggs linked to a process called meiosis, in which sex cells (eggs or sperm) jettison half their genetic material so they can join together to make...

Les Vingt-Sept ont approuvé, à la majorité qualifiée, le texte sur lequel Bruxelles et les pays sud-américains s’étaient entendus fin 2024. Dans un contexte de fortes tensions, Ursula von der Leyen évoque une mise en application du texte avant le vote des eurodéputés.

“The European Union, overcoming deep dissension among its members, gave the green light to a sweeping trade pact with four South American countries on Friday that would create one of the largest free-trade zones in the world, connecting markets with more than 700 million people… Ms. von der Leyen could travel to Paraguay next week to formally sign the agreement. The European Parliament will also have to approve the treaty. The accord is set to cut tariffs on European products exported to South America and on South American goods shipped to Europe. Proponents have argued that the agreement will also provide access to a source of critical raw materials aside from China.” From New York Times.
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Une confirmation de la condamnation de Marine Le Pen, lors du procès en appel qui s'ouvrira le 13 janvier prochain, compromettrait sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle de 2027 - Crédits : Parlement européen / Melanie WENGER Le président du tribunal judiciaire de Paris, Peimane Ghaleh-Marzban, a mis en garde, mardi 6 janvier, contre une éventuelle "ingérence inacceptable et intolérable", après des menaces de sanctions américaines contre des magistrats qui ont traité le dossier pénal du Rassemblement national. "Si de tels faits étaient avérés ou devaient se réaliser, ils constitueraient une ingérence inacceptable et intolérable dans les affaires internes de notre pays, qui devrait...

Si vous avez installé une app récemment, vous avez surement remarqué le petit popup RGPD qui vous demande votre consentement pour les cookies et le tracking. Vous cliquez évidemment sur "Refuser" en vous disant que c'est réglé... Ben en fait... non.
Des chercheurs ont passé au crible 400 applications mobiles populaires (200 sur Android, 200 sur iOS) et résultat, 100% d'entre elles violent au moins une exigence du RGPD. Et près de la moitié de ces apps continuent à contacter des trackers MÊME APRÈS que vous ayez dit non.
Sympa le "consentement" !
Du coup, plutôt que de vous laisser vous faire gauler par ces mouchards, je vous propose un petit guide pour auditer vous-même les apps que vous...

L'administration américaine semble hésiter sur la meilleure manière de réaliser la volonté de Donald Trump d'intégrer le Groenland aux États-Unis - Crédits : Hacer Keles / iStock Et si le projet d'annexion du Groenland qui agite les plus hautes sphères du pouvoir américain pouvait réellement se concrétiser ? C'est en tout cas ce qu'a laissé entendre, mercredi 7 janvier, la porte-parole de la Maison-Blanche, Karoline Leavitt. Selon elle, Donald Trump étudie "activement" un "achat" du Groenland avec ses équipes, tout en refusant une nouvelle fois d'exclure l'option militaire pour obtenir l'île, territoire autonome danois. Une perspective fermement rejetée par les dirigeants danois et de nombreux...

BreachForums, Shiny Hunters, James : analyse cyber d’un manifeste en ligne mêlant renseignement, intimidation informationnelle... et diffusion de la base de données de BreachForums....

Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultra-rich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.

La France n’ayant pas pu empêcher son adoption, l’accord commercial doit être officiellement signé lundi. Mais des doutes subsistent sur son entrée en vigueur.

December 2016 📷 #flashes

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us who use traditional Netscape-based browsers like Pale Moon the use of plugins has never gone away, for the rest of the WWW’s users their choice has been limited to increasingly more restrictive browser extensions, with Google’s Manifest V3 taking the cake.
Although most browsers stopped supporting plugins due to “security concerns”, this did nothing to address the need for executing code in the browser faster than the sedate snail’s pace possible with JavaScript, or the convenience of not having to port native code to JavaScript in...