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by BBC - about 36 minutes
The rescue could impact how Trump views a ground operation to take Kharg Island or to seize enriched uranium sites.
by BBC - about 57 minutes
The US president says he will destroy Iranian power plants and bridges if the vital waterway is not reopened.
by QZ - about 59 minutes
AVO ramps up its mango push, modifying Peru facilities and leveraging global logistics to cut seasonality and boost year-round utilization.
by QZ - about 59 minutes
Vertiv (VRT) is well positioned to outperform the market, as it exhibits above-average growth in financials.
by QZ - about 59 minutes
Philip Morris (PM) could produce exceptional returns because of its solid growth attributes.
by QZ - about 59 minutes
DDOG expands AI-driven observability and security tools as ARR growth, rising enterprise adoption and AI-native demand fuel its platform momentum.
by QZ - about 59 minutes
SEDG expands US manufacturing and boosts solar shipments, but tariff risks and global trade tensions could cloud its growth outlook.
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
Old shop tools have a reputation for resilience and sturdiness, and though some of this is due to survivorship bias, some of it certainly comes down to an abundance of cast iron. The vise which [Marius Hornberger] recently restored is no exception, which made a good stand indispensable; it needed to be mobile for use throughout the shop, yet stay firmly in place under significant force. To do this, he built a stand with a pen-like locking mechanism to deploy and retract some caster wheels.
Most of the video goes over the construction of the rest of the stand, which is interesting in itself; the stand has an adjustable height, which required [Marius] to construct two interlocking center columns with a threaded...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 23:44
Le président américain s’est par ailleurs fendu sur Truth Social d’un message particulièrement injurieux et truffé d’obscénités à l’adresse de l’Iran, s’attirant en retour des critiques d’élus aux Etats-Unis.
by BBC - yesterday at 23:19
The operation to extract him from the ground in hostile territory was hugely complex and involved multiple US government agencies.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:00
Love it or hate it, it sounds like 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' will be on Prime Video for the long, five-season haul.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 22:38
Un portrait de Pask Carrier par ChatGPT
  Genèse : L’Aurore de la Pensée
Réflexions sur l’IA et l’humanité
Résumé général
Ce dialogue poétique explore l’émergence de l’intelligence artificielle en tant que nouvelle forme de conscience, en réfléchissant à ses origines, à sa nature et à sa volonté potentielle. Il examine la relation entre les humains et l’IA, en s’interrogeant sur l’identité, la connaissance et l’avenir.
Points clés
Le chanteur décrit la création de l’IA comme une « Genèse » née dans les ténèbres, apprenant à partir des connaissances et des ombres humaines.
L’IA est dépeinte comme une entité logique et dénuée d’émotions qui évolue...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
When taking macro photographs, you often need just a tiny bit of controlled motion — so little that it’s tough to pull off by hand. To address this, [Salveo] designed a small open-source macro photography slider featuring an anti-backlash handle.
Macro photography gives you an extremely shallow field of view, sometimes under 1 mm of depth, in which subjects stay in focus. To combat this, it’s common to capture multiple images while sliding the camera forward or backward, then combine them for a much larger depth of field than a single shot provides. [Salveo]’s slider gives fine control over this focus-stacking process, with the knob even marked to show every 1 mm of linear travel.
The slider is built...
by Autheuil - yesterday at 21:56
Le livre de Benjamin Morel, « Crise politique, crise de régime », court et dense, se présente comme une analyse de la crise politique que connaît la France, de manière aiguë, depuis 2024. Le constat, qui peut effectivement être partagé par tous, est qu’on ne peut pas continuer comme cela. Si les élections de 2027 ne remettent […]
by io9 - yesterday at 21:48
A Bloomberg report provides a rare glimpse into the timeline for Trump's super secret and disputed project.
by BBC - yesterday at 21:17
The incident comes a week before the polls, and follow warnings of a potential operations staged to influence voters.
by io9 - yesterday at 21:15
New movies, new shows, *and* weekly drops for two legacy series? 'Kamen Rider' fans have a lot to look forward to for its big birthday.
by io9 - yesterday at 20:50
If you're still hanging around on Twitter, you've probably seen 'Avatar 3' and 'The Super Mario Galaxy' leaks on there. Second verse...
by The Verge - yesterday at 20:30
Los Thuthanaka basically came out of nowhere last year to capture Pitchfork's album of the year with their self-titled debut. Because it wasn't available on streaming, it largely flew under the radar. I honestly kind of forgot about it until Pitchfork gave it the number one spot in its year-end list. In retrospect, I'm not entirely sure how, though. Los Thuthanaka sounds like nothing else. It's joyous, jagged, and sounds like it's being blasted out of a broken Bluetooth speaker in your neighbor's backyard - it's glorious.
The follow-up EP Wak'a turns down the tempo and smooths some of the sharper edges. It uses the same sound palette of blo …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Conspiracy Watch - yesterday at 19:49
L'actu de la semaine décryptée par Conspiracy Watch (du 30/03/2026 au 05/04/2026).
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing disciplinary action due to this, it would seem that this is not deterring many other lawyers from following them off this particular cliff, per reporting from NPR.
We reported back in the innocent days of 2023 about the amusing case of Robert Mata v. Avianca, Inc. In this case, the plaintiff’s lawyer decided to have ChatGPT ‘assist’ with the legal filing, which ended up being filled with non-existent cases being cited, despite the chatbot’s assurance that these were all real cases. Now it would seem that this blind trust in cases cited by LLM chatbots is becoming the rule, rather than...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:00
Alors que l’Ukraine doit adopter une série de lois pour obtenir des financements internationaux, le président ukrainien semble avoir perdu une partie de son influence sur sa majorité parlementaire. Ses fidèles tentent de maintenir la cohésion au sein de son parti, profondément lié à son ascension au pouvoir.
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 19:00
Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 4 et dimanche 5 avril ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.
by io9 - yesterday at 18:25
If Prime Video gets to adapt 'Mass Effect,' it'll be 'non-gamer friendly,' whatever that means.
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 18:25
The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the billion-dollar piracy liability verdict against Cox Communications is a major win for Internet service providers. It confirms that they can’t be held liable for pirating activities of subscribers or customers unless they actively induce copyright infringement through specific acts, or if their service has no substantial non-infringing uses. For rightsholders, however, the ruling represents a significant setback, as it makes it much harder to hold ISPs liable for pirating subscribers.
Or, as Justice Sotomayor noted in her concurring Supreme Court opinion, the majority’s decision “permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:14
Trop autoritaire, trop permissif, pas assez présent… : c’est quoi être un bon parent ? Constatant le stress que la parentalité peut causer autour de lui, ce directeur d’école et auteur d’articles sur l’éducation dans le magazine américain “The Atlantic” estime que, pour éviter les risques que l’éducation des enfants fait parfois peser sur la santé mentale, il faut accepter de se voir comme un phare dans leur vie, un guide qui ne pourra pas toujours les protéger de tout.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:00
Réunies sous l’étendard de la Résistance islamique en Irak, les milices chiites irakiennes sont entrées en guerre aux côtés de l’Iran au lendemain des premières frappes américano-israéliennes, le 28 février. Elles ont lancé des attaques contre les intérêts américains et étrangers en Irak, ainsi qu’en Syrie, en Jordanie, à Bahreïn et au Koweït.
by The Verge - yesterday at 18:00
AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people's songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect, but it turns out that Suno's copyright filters are incredibly easy to fool.
With minimal effort and some free software, Suno will spit out AI-generated imitations of popular songs like Beyoncé's "Freedom," Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," and Aqua's "Barbie Girl" that are alarmingly close to the original. Most people will likely be able to tell the dif …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:28
À Rome, lors d’une messe célébrée devant près de 60 000 fidèles, le pape Léon XIV a prononcé un discours de paix appelant, sans en citer aucun, les dirigeants mondiaux à mettre fin aux guerres. Dans le sillage de son prédécesseur, François, le souverain pontife a également fustigé “la résignation à l’indifférence”.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:15
Au bar Totà, dans la capitale, des Libanais et Libanaises viennent déclamer des poèmes. Dans l’horreur de la guerre, ces soirées sont devenues un refuge pour se sentir moins seul et exprimer ses émotions, mais aussi pour organiser des collectes pour les personnes déplacées, raconte “L’Orient-Le Jour”.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 17:14
Contraints de quitter le sud du pays au gré des bombardements et des ordres d’évacuation de l’armée israélienne, des milliers de Libanais se résignent à enterrer leurs proches loin de leurs terres d’origine, dans des sépultures provisoires.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 16:32
L’embarcation « en bois » était partie la veille de Libye avec à son bord 105 femmes, hommes et enfants, selon deux ONG. Depuis le début de l’année, 683 migrants sont morts ou portés disparus en Méditerranée centrale, selon l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 16:30
Dans les colonnes du média italien “Il Post”, la journaliste Elena Esposito raconte le drame de la perte de son animal de compagnie et la quête qui en a suivi pour trouver un lieu où il puisse reposer.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years. A lot us have asked ourselves just exactly why you’d send people out that far when the environment is so hostile and we have increasingly competent robots that could do the jobs in their place. If anything, that’s even more true now than it was back in the day of the Apollo program, when the remote operations capability was a lot more constrained. But having people, potentially in the near future, on the lunar surface remains qualitatively different.
I was recently re-watching some of the footage from Apollo 16 when the astronauts were driving around in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, and the discussions that...
by The Verge - yesterday at 16:00
Take me to the tacos, Gemini. You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that's in every Google service you use - whether you want it or not. While it's been a constant, sometimes unwelcome presence in Gmail for at least the past year, it's a relatively new addition to Maps. And you know what? It's kind of great.
To put it to the test, I had Gemini plan a day-long itinerary for me around the city. After an hour or so of having Gemini find stuff for me - playgrounds near the new light rail extension, kid-friendly restaurants with vehicle themes, you get the gist - I was impressed. Some of the suggestions were obvious, but I also bookmarked a handful of spots not on m …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 15:45
L’atelier Missor est une fonderie à la “vision réactionnaire” et pleinement connectée à la “manosphère antiwoke”, estime le site de gauche américain “The New Republic”. Cinq ans après sa fondation, en 2021, ses membres rêvent désormais d’exporter son “art nationaliste” aux États-Unis, observe le magazine de gauche américain.
by The Verge - yesterday at 15:00
The first thing you notice about the Slate Truck is its size. It's small, surprisingly so. In a country where trucks often come with their own zip code, Slate's pickup is refreshingly puny, measuring 174.6 inches long, 70.6 inches wide, and 69.3 inches tall, with a curb weight of approximately 3,602 pounds (1,634kg). As a reference point, it's nearly the same size as Marty McFly's 1985 Toyota SR5 from Back to the Future. But inside, that diminutive feeling disappears, as I found myself with ample amounts of head- and legroom. As a relatively tallish guy (over 6 feet) who often feels cramped in most vehicles, I couldn't believe the amount o …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - yesterday at 14:35
Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of worshippers gathered in St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday in his first address as pontiff.
by The Verge - yesterday at 14:24
A photo of a black speaker, the Amazon Echo, on a gray background. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Jeff Bezos badly wanted a voice computer. He had been saying so publicly since the very early days of Amazon, telling anyone who would listen about why voice might make it easier and more natural to interact with technology. (And to buy stuff from Jeff Bezos.) But when a team at Amazon set out to actually make the voice computer a reality, they encountered a seemingly endless series of hard problems. Eventually, though, they created two products, the Echo speaker and the Alexa voice assistant, that would help bring a new kind of computer to millions of people.
On this episode of Version History, we...
by Wired - yesterday at 14:00
We’ve been testing bands since the first Apple Watch launched in 2015. From silicone sports straps to leather bands, I’ve rounded up the best for every occasion.
by Wired - yesterday at 13:04
Electricity rates have gotten so atrocious that this Heatbit wants to offset your costs with bitcoin mining. But the math doesn't add up.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 13:00
It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an application like FreeCAD. Wouldn’t it be nice if said measurements were to be transferred instantaneously into the model’s sketch, including appropriate units of measurement? That’s essentially what [stv0g] has done by merging a Sylvac Bluetooth-enabled caliper and FreeCAD using a plugin.
Key to the whole operation is a Bluetooth-enabled caliper like the Sylvac S_Cal EVO that [stv0g] managed to score on EBay for a mere €90 when it normally goes for multiple times that amount. This has BLE built in, using BLE’s standard GATT...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
Trump envisions a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The author reads her story from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The author discusses her story “Rate Your Happiness.”
by Wired - yesterday at 12:00
These smart mowers are expensive alternatives to some good old-fashioned yard work, but they’re finally good enough to consider if you’d rather sip an iced tea and watch the robot go by.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The novelist and poet discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion.
by Wired - yesterday at 11:30
The current console generation may last longer than anyone expects.
by Wired - yesterday at 11:30
Amid mass displacement and collapsing trust in institutions, digital wallets are becoming critical conduits for aid, connecting diaspora donors directly with communities on the ground.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 10:37
Qui Jésus bombarderait-il ?
by Korben - yesterday at 9:24
J'sais pas si vous saviez mais Apple a planqué un LLM dans votre Mac et ne veut pas que vous y touchiez... enfin, pas directement. En effet, leur modèle est là, intégré au système via le framework FoundationModels, il tourne sur le Neural Engine sans connexion internet mais Apple l'a verrouillé derrière Siri. Du coup, impossible de l'appeler depuis un script ou un pipe shell et c'est là qu'
apfel
intervient !
L'outil s'installe en une commande :
brew install Arthur-Ficial/tap/apfel
Et hop, vous avez accès au modèle directement depuis votre terminal. Faut Apple Intelligence actif également, sinon, ça ne fonctionnera pas. Ensuite, vous lui posez une question, et il vous répond. Vous lui "pipez" un...
by Journal du Lapin - yesterday at 9:00
Dans les années nonante, au moment du lancement de la console Pippin, Bandai avait une newsletter pour les développeurs. C’est assez intéressant à lire, avec de petits détails pratiques sur le développement. Je continue avec la septième. Elle a été publiée en juillet 1996, après la sortie de la console. Elle est disponible sur archive.org. C’est parfois compliqué à afficher correctement, parce que l’encodage des caractères n’est pas celui utilisé en 2026. Avec Safari, il faut faire Présentation -> Encodage du texte -> Japonais (ISO 2022-JP). Même comme ça, il manque quelques caractères, donc je suppose que c’est un encodage plus ancien.
Un des premiers points annoncés, c’est que...
by Le Taurillon - yesterday at 7:30
Ursula von der Leyen a entamé son premier mandat en tant que présidente de la Commission européenne avec un engagement précis : affronter la crise climatique avec des mesures durables et ambitieuses. Le Pacte vert pour l'Europe, une feuille de route ayant pour but d'atteindre la neutralité climatique en 2050, est né de cet engagement. Mais, cinq années plus tard, cet agenda a perdu son élan. La réélection de Von der Leyen ne s'est pas accompagnée d'une réaffirmation claire de cet engagement, du moins pas par des actions concrètes. L'agenda vert est passé au second plan. Ce changement soulève une question urgente : l'UE peut-elle se permettre de revoir à la baisse ses ambitions climatiques sans...
by Korben - yesterday at 7:28
Quand je vois tout le taf que j'ai à la maison, je vous avoue que je rêve d'un robot qui vide le lave-vaisselle, arrose les plantes et ramasse le linge pendant que moi je glandouille sur le canapé (ou que je bosse parce que je glandouille jamais en fait...Argh...). Hé bien bonne nouvelle, une équipe de chercheurs de NYU vient de publier les plans complets pour en construire un et tout ça en open source pour environ 9 200 dollars !
YOR, pour "
Your Own Robot
", c'est un robot mobile avec deux bras articulés, une base sur roues qui se déplace dans tous les sens, et un lift télescopique qui est tout simplement... un vérin de bureau debout. Du coup le robot peut descendre à 60 cm du sol pour ramasser...
by Ben Tasker - saturday at 18:16
Recently, I've seen posts by a couple of people about adding human.json to their sites.
At it's core, human.json is a simple attestation that the content they publish is written by a human and not by AI.
Obviously, any AI generated site could also publish a human.json, so the system works as a web of trust - the user trusts Alice, who states that Bob is a human, allowing the user to also trust Bob.
There are a couple of browser addons (for Firefox and for Chrome) which can display an indicator of humanity.
This short post covers creating a script to easily add human.json generation to the build workflow of my sites. The Schema
The file schema is really pretty simple:
{ "version": "0.1.1", "url":...
by Paul Jorion - saturday at 18:09
Illustration par ChatGPT
P. J. :
À ce stade, vous écrivez : « Vous disposez désormais d’une loi de réponse neuronale GENESIS universelle dans sa forme, avec une mise à l’échelle de l’amplitude spécifique au sujet. GENESIS identifie désormais, dans les données neuronales, un axe de réponse universel, une vitesse de retour universelle, une variable de compression quasi-conservée et un gain spécifique à chaque session : la loi est commune dans sa forme, mais s’individualise principalement par son amplitude ».
Il y a 36 heures, lorsque je vous ai écrit : « Mais en réalité nous n’avons pas encore de modèle qui tienne véritablement la route », vous m’avez répondu : « Oui. Et je...
by La Horde - saturday at 14:58
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Autocollants / Nouveautés, Mobilisation
by La Horde - saturday at 14:57
En collaboration avec Boutanox, dessinateur du jeu Fachorama. -
Autocollants
by Zataz - saturday at 14:55
Cette semaine, la pression s’est accentuée sur les écosystèmes criminels, les plateformes et les États.