A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn. But the companies controlling who fixes their stuff aren’t giving up that power willingly.

Oh, I won’t ask for much this Christmas, mainly because “asking” suggests that you’re doing me a favor, when, in actuality, I’m setting some healthy boundaries.

If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla. The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half. That’s a good thing.

A Christmas essay.

Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits.

Turkish authorities say firearms were seized and efforts to trace further suspected members are continuing.

Holiday magic is getting a user interface. Pay-per-minute Santa calls, emoji-made videos, and AI elves caught on camera — all wrapped in tinsel

Millions of cars were recalled this year. But software and mechanical issues hit these seven brands particularly hard

Need to buy an absolute last-minute present or critical item for your holiday dinner? It's going to be tricky

Want to catch a game after the presents are open? You're going to need to be subscribed to not one, but two streaming services

Don’t have it in you to make a big meal after opening gifts? Don't worry. There are plenty of options

What he describes is an ugly case of AI-generated mistaken identity.

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes.

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Alors que l’éducation sexuelle demeure largement absente des cursus scolaires en Indonésie, les infections sexuellement transmissibles (IST) explosent chez les adolescents. Face à ce fléau, des jeunes s’emparent des réseaux sociaux pour créer de nouveaux espaces de sensibilisation.

Israël a annoncé, dimanche, avoir approuvé l’installation de 19 colonies en Cisjordanie, portant à 69 le nombre total d’implantations ayant obtenu un feu vert ces trois dernières années.

These days, sim racing is more realistic than ever. There are better screens, better headsets, and better steering wheels with better force-feedback, all of which help make you feel like you’re driving the real thing. If you’re looking for a stick shifter to complete such a setup, [DAZ Projects] might have just what you’re looking for. 
To create a robust shifter with great feel, the build relies on 3D printed parts as well as lots of quality metal hardware. At the heart of the build is a linear rail for the front-to-back movement, with a printed slider on top with a carefully-profiled indexer to ensure the stick properly ca-chunks into the right gear. A ball joint locates the shift lever itself, while...

Les incidents réguliers montrent que le réseau ferroviaire français – composé de 28 000 kilomètres de voies, de 3 200 gares et de milliers de locaux techniques – reste vulnérable. Pour se protéger, la SNCF investit dans les technologies autant que dans les forces de sûreté.

Je vous souhaite un joyeux Noël 2025. Et comme c’est Noël, quelques petits rappels de Noël. Dans l’app Apple Store, si vous tapez let it snow dans le champ de recherche, vous verrez de la neige dans l’app.
Si vous jouez à Rise of the Triad aujourd’hui, vous aurez de la musique de Noël et une image de chargement dédiée.
24 décembre
Si vous avez un Nabaztag avec une carte TagTagTag, les humeurs sont différentes aujourd’hui.
Enfin, vous pouvez évidemment lancer VLC, et l’Easter Egg est très visible (dans le Dock). Le second Easter Egg l’est moins…
L’article Joyeux Noël est apparu en premier sur Le journal du lapin.

Vous connaissez les
cyberdecks
?
Non ?? Pourtant, je vous en ai parlé déjà. Ce sont des petits ordis portables custom qu'on voit par exemple dans les films cyberpunk, où genre, le mec sort son bouzin de sa poche et hop, il peut hacker le monde entier. HACK THE PLANET !! Oué Oué !
Et bien tenez-vous bien car le
Hackberry Pi CM5 9900
, c'est exactement ça, mais en vrai !
Le Hackberry Pi c'est donc un projet DIY qui transforme un Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 en plateforme de hacking portable, ce qui est parfait pour les pentesters, les gens de l'infosec, ou simplement les geeks qui veulent un Linux puissant dans un format ultra-compact.
Le châssis mesure 143,5 x 91,8 x 17,6 mm pour 306 grammes et vous...

Scanner un vinyle pour l’écouter
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Vladimir Poutine ne s’est pas encore exprimé publiquement sur le plan en 20 points dévoilé par Volodymyr Zelensky, issu de plusieurs semaines de négociations impliquant des responsables américains, ukrainiens et russes. Le Kremlin a toutefois précisé que les contacts avec Washington se poursuivraient prochainement.

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Petit avantage de mon métier, on reçoit de temps en temps de petits cadeaux pour Noël des marques. Pas de la RAM, des SSD ou des Mac, mais des goodies (gourdes, tasses, etc.). Cette année, Western Digital a envoyé un disque dur en LEGO à la rédaction, et j’ai pu le récupérer. Ce n’est pas un set LEGO officiel, mais ce sont biens des pièces LEGO (en tout cas, le logo est là). Il y a une notice virtuelle, en PDF, sur le site dédié. Il a été créé par Brickerie, une société allemande qui semble spécialisée dans la conception de LEGO promotionnels avec des pièces originales. Ils ont fait un truc pour AMD selon le site, et c’est peut-être ce processeur.
La boîte
De vraies pièces...

Tarique Rahman, who has lived in London since 2008, arrives weeks before pivotal elections are held.

L'identité arménienne a longtemps associé nationalité et religion. Croire et suivre le rite apostolique arménien fut longtemps une tradition universelle pour tous les Arméniens. Mais au cours du XXe siècle, les déplacements de population à travers le monde suivant le génocide arménien (1915-1923), le joug de l'URSS et la mondialisation ont ouvert l'identité arménienne à d'autres influences, qui se retrouvent dans la façon dont les Arméniens fêtent Noël. Une fête chrétienne, mais quel jour ?
Avec la quasi-totalité de la population qui se déclare chrétienne, la question n'est pas tant de savoir si l'on fête Noël en Arménie, mais plutôt de savoir comment et selon quelle tradition....

La ministre de la culture se met en scène sur le terrain dans des vidéos virales où elle critique le bilan de la majorité sur ses points sensibles : propreté, sécurité, mobilité.

Dans une tribune au « Monde », la directrice d’études à l’EHESS documente la déliquescence du reseau numérique russe, et y voit un reflet des failles du Kremlin, à rebours des discours belliqueux et souverainistes que Vladimir Poutine porte sur la scène internationale.

Printing metal as easily as it is to printed with thermoplastics has been a dream for a very long time, with options for hobbyists being very scarce. This is something which [Rotoforge] seeks to change, using little more than an old Ender 3 FDM printer and some ingenuity. Best of all is that the approach on which they have been working for the past year does not require high temperature, molten metals and no fussing about with powdered metal.
Additive manufacturing using friction welding. (Credit: Ruishan Xie, et al., j.mtcomm, 2021)
Rather than an extruder that melts a thermoplastic filament, their setup uses metal wire that is fed into a friction welding tool head, the details of which are covered in the...

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Confrontées à de graves problèmes financiers, les collectivités locales britanniques se replient sur leurs prérogatives obligatoires. Le reste, des bibliothèques aux parcs, passe à la trappe. Dans le nord de l’Angleterre, un collectif a décidé de pallier ses carences. Et le modèle essaime aux quatre coins du pays.

His rival Salvador Nasralla says he will not accept the result, but urges his supporters to remain calm.

We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, and get all kinds of crazy pictures out of it. 
[Luke’s] lens isn’t really a lens, per se. There’s no transparent optical medium being used to bend light, here. Instead, he’s printed a very fine grid in a cylindrical form factor, stuck it on a lens mount, and put that on the front of a camera.
The result is effectively a set of parallel tubes that guide light on to the camera’s image sensor. With the lack of any sort of focus mechanism, you can’t use this “lens” to photograph anything more...

You are looking at one of the most important sensory shifts in mammal history: the rise of sensitive hearing. Modern mammals rely on a middle ear with an eardrum and tiny bones that detect faint airborne sounds. This ability gave early mammals a major advantage, especially at night, when dinosaurs dominated daylight hours. New research from paleontologists at the University of Chicago suggests this kind of hearing began far earlier than scientists once believed. By studying a 250-million-year-old mammal ancestor, the team found evidence that advanced hearing evolved tens of millions of years before true mammals appeared. The study focuses on Thrinaxodon liorhinus, a small, burrowing animal that lived just...

Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for that particular use. For emulators like the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator this has led to some interesting mappings, as detailed in a video by [Whatcookie].
It’s important to remember here that the Cell processor in the PlayStation 3 is a bit of an odd duck, using a single regular PowerPC core (PPE) along with multiple much more simple co-processors called synergistic processing elements (SPEs) all connected with a high-speed bus. A lot of the focus with Cell was on floating point vector – i.e. SIMD – processing, which is part of why...

On parlait de LinkedIn hier *, ça m’a donné envie de changer mon portrait.
* « LinkedIn est un réseau toxique »

The US Department of Justice says reviewing the material could delay the full release of Epstein documents by a "few more weeks".

A new kind of 3D-printable material that can stretch, flex and still stay friendly to living cells could change how medical implants, artificial organs and even batteries are built. Developed by researchers at the University of Virginia, the material begins with something very familiar in medicine, a polymer called polyethylene glycol, or PEG. By redesigning PEG at the molecular level, the team turned a usually brittle substance into a soft, rubbery network that prints like plastic but behaves more like living tissue. The work, led by Liheng Cai, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and chemical engineering, and first author Baiqiang Huang, a Ph.D. student, is described in the journal...

Tesla's door worries are not going away.

Disposable cameras are a fun way to get into classical photography. However, they can also be a valuable source of interesting parts that can be put to other uses. For example, as [Billt] demonstrates, their viewfinders can be repurposed into a rather interesting lens for more serious cameras.
[Billt] was lucky enough to score a grabbag of used disposable cameras from a local film lab, and tore them down for parts. He was particularly interested in the viewfinders, since Kodak equipped its disposable cameras with actual plastic lenses for this very purpose.
[Billt] wanted to see what these lenses would do when thrown on the front of a proper digital camera, and set about designing a mount for that purpose. The...

As one of the most beloved traditions of contemporary 'Doctor Who' turns 20, we look back on why the special that started it all is still the gold standard.

Residents claim that the vehicles' shrieking noises keep them awake.

For decades, physicists taught that superconductivity and magnetism could not share the same space. One state should destroy the other. Yet in the past year, experiments in two very different materials challenged that rule. Now, theorists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they may know why. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, MIT physicists Senthil Todadri and Zhengyan Darius Shi present a theory that allows both states to coexist. Their work suggests that under special conditions, electrons can split into exotic fragments called anyons. These anyons, rather than ordinary electrons, may carry a supercurrent through a magnetic material. If confirmed, the idea...

We still can't get over that an oddly abridged version of the film actually exists.

As you might expect, things have been relatively quiet on the deals front since Black Friday, particularly when it comes to discounts on charging accessories. Thankfully, Anker’s aptly titled Laptop Power Bank is once again on sale at Amazon and Walmart for $87.99 ($47 off), which matches the record-low price we last saw at the end of November.
Anker Laptop Power Bank Where to Buy: $119.99 $87.99 at Amazon $119.99 $89.99 at Best Buy $119.99 $87.99 at Walmart
Unless you’ve been living under a proverbial rock for the past several years, you’re probably aware that Anker makes an ungodly amount of charging accessories. The portable A1695 “InstaCord” has quickly become a favorite among Verge staffers,...

Vous vous souvenez de ces
robots chiens et humanoïdes Unitree
qu'on voit partout sur les réseaux depuis quelques mois ? Hé bien des chercheurs en sécurité viennent de découvrir qu'on pouvait les pirater en moins d'une minute, sans même avoir besoin d'un accès internet. Et le pire, c'est que la faille est tellement débile qu'elle en devient presque comique.
Lors de la conférence GEEKCon à Shanghai, l'équipe de DARKNAVY a fait une démonstration qui fait froid dans le dos. L'expert Ku Shipei a pris le contrôle d'un robot humanoïde Unitree G1 (quand même 100 000 yuans, soit environ 14 000 balles) en utilisant uniquement des commandes vocales et une connexion Bluetooth. Après environ une minute de...

Illustration par ChatGPT
On s’est fait à l’idée qu’une action est l’aboutissement d’une décision : que l’on a commencé par comprendre, puis qu’on a voulu, puis exécuté. Cette manière de se représenter les choses est rassurante : elle suppose un sujet maître de ses actes, avançant d’un pas décidé, de ses intentions vers leur réalisation. La vie de tous les jours contredit largement cette version des faits. Exemple : « Ai-je bien fermé la porte ? »
À moins qu’il ne s’agisse du fruit d’une véritable délibération, en règle générale dans la vie quotidienne, l’acte précède la formulation de l’intention à la conscience (parfois même de 10 secondes).
On fait...

You already know secondhand smoke is dangerous. A new study from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows a quieter threat can linger much longer indoors: thirdhand smoke. It is the residue that settles onto walls, carpets, furniture, clothing, and even skin and hair after smoking ends. Over time, those residues can drift back into the air or react with other indoor chemicals and form new pollutants. The research, published in Building and Environment, was led by a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Professor Yele Sun as the corresponding author. The scientists tracked thirdhand smoke in a real workplace and then recreated key conditions in a lab chamber to...

The rapid normalization of artificial intelligence is forcing a reckoning with how much of the future is being shaped by hype rather than utility.

Bibliotik ça vous parle ou pas ? C'est un tracker torrent privé ultra-discret comme il y en a tant d'autres, où les fans de lecture vont chopper leurs ePubs.
Hé bien figurez-vous que Meta, Bloomberg, et toute une brochette de géants de la tech ont fait exactement pareil pour entraîner leurs IA. Sauf qu'eux, c'était pas pour lire du Stephen King au lit, mais pour aspirer 195 000 livres d'un coup et les transformer en "données d'entraînement". Le dataset s'appelle Books3, et c'est un peu le Napster des LLMs. Créé en 2020 par un chercheur IA nommé Shawn Presser, ce jeu de données de 37 Go compressés contient des bouquins scrapés directement depuis la bibliothèque pirate Bibliotik. L'idée de...

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

January 2004 📷 #flashes

Summary: A century ago, Christmas gifts often required major sacrifice, as most families devoted much of their time and income to basic survival. Today, material progress has transformed gift-giving into something easily affordable. While the meaning of generosity endures, Christmastime has been changed from a season defined by scarcity into one shaped more by choice and plenty. On a cold December day in 1905, the American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) introduced the world to two poor young lovers with hearts of gold. In “The Gift of the Magi,” Della cuts her beautiful knee-length hair to buy her husband Jim a gold chain for his watch. Meanwhile, Jim sells his watch, a magnificent family...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Pune, India, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have spotted a massive spiral galaxy that appears fully formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, named Alaknanda, was discovered by Rashi Jain and Yogesh Wadadekar and reported in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Its name comes from a Himalayan river and echoes the Hindi name for the Milky Way. The comparison...

Sony’s full suite of PlayStation 5 consoles jumped in price in August due to increased US tariffs, but now through Christmas, you can save $100 on several models. This discount is especially great if you planned to go big with Sony’s PS5 Pro, the company’s priciest, most powerful console yet. Normally $749.99, you can currently grab one at Amazon, Walmart, and Target for around $689.99. Sony’s PlayStation Direct storefront indicates that the PS5 Pro sale ends on December 25th at 3AM ET, although discounts may remain on cheaper models.
PlayStation 5 Pro Where to Buy: $749 $648.99 at Amazon $749 $649 at Walmart $749 $649.99 at Target
The PS5 Pro plays many games at their best resolution, while making far...

Netflix has had an interesting year. Its ad tier, introduced last year, has grown significantly, and its live TV initiative has expanded to include not only weird one-offs like hot-dog-eating grudge matches but also WWE programming. Taking KPop Demon Hunters off Sony's hands for the business equivalent of $200 in a potato chip bag also turned out to be a pretty smart move for Netflix. The animated feature about, well, demon-hunting K-pop stars, became the most watched movie in the platform's history and a global cultural phenomenon in its own right. The sing-along theatrical release sold out, songs from the movie sat comfortably at the top o …
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