Launching missiles for defense is fine, apparently.

Avant l’attribution de nouveaux contrats, dans un délai de dix-huit mois, des concessions temporaires ont été accordées au groupe danois Maersk et au géant suisse MSC. Une victoire pour Trump, selon “CNBC”.

As expected, Samsung has taken the wraps off its flagship lineup for 2026. Introduced during the company's recent Unpacked event, the new Galaxy devices - which include the standard S26, the larger S26 Plus, and the high-end S26 Ultra - will be available on March 11th. Preorders are now open ahead of launch, with pricing starting at $899.99 for the base-model S26, $1,099.99 for the Plus, and $1,299.99 for the Ultra.
Overall, the forthcoming S26 lineup looks largely similar to last year's S25 series, only with a handful of notable upgrades. The biggest changes this year are on the software side, with Samsung introducing a privacy display in …
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A new report reveals how much it cost to rewrite the script and how much Neve Campbell was paid to return.

Quel tabou serais-tu disposé à transgresser pour gagner en liberté ?

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

"The real estate market was as brutal as the architecture," says Jeff Gillway. "But here, we could sign a two-year lease," adds Kim Gittleson, "and we basically thought: ‘We’re never leaving.’"Renting doesn’t have to be a consolation prize, but it often feels like one: It’s where we end up when we can’t quite hook onto the property ladder. But in the right conditions, it’s an opportunity to live outside our price point—but within our budget. For architect Jeff Gillway and his wife, Kim Gittleson, it was also a lifeline. The couple uprooted their lives in New York City to move down to Washington D.C. while expecting their first child. A well-timed rental contract offered them the stability to...

Casey Means refused to state her opinion on whether vaccines cause autism and suggested most women are not getting informed consent about the birth control pill.

Selon un rapport publié ce mercredi 25 février par le Comité pour la protection des journalistes, les forces armées de l’État hébreu seraient responsables de la mort de 86 journalistes et travailleurs des médias en 2025. Soit deux tiers du total des journalistes tués dans le monde l’année dernière.

The Galaxy Buds 4 Pro zero in on the basics and knock most of them out of the park.

It's not the flashiest deal, but if you need a new pair of our favorite earbuds for iPhone owners, you can snag them at a slight discount.

Kalshi, the prediction betting market, has disclosed its first fines for insider trading, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In addition to handing down a $20,000 fine to a MrBeast editor, Kalshi also charged a California gubernatorial candidate over $2,000 after a video on X "appeared to show him trading on his own candidacy."
In a notice on Wednesday, Kalshi claims MrBeast editor Artem Kaptur traded about $4,000 on YouTube streaming markets, violating its insider trading rules. "Our surveillance systems flagged his near-perfect trading success on markets with low odds, which were statistically anomalous," Bobby DeNault, legal …
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La mort du chef de cartel ravit le président des États-Unis, qui n’a cessé de pousser le Mexique de Claudia Sheinbaum à agir contre le narcotrafic, quels qu’en soient les risques. Le rôle de Washington dans cette opération est cependant débattu.

Climbing is a cool sport. With that said, like everything, it’s even better if you integrate lots of glowing colorful LEDs. To that end, [Superbender] worked up this fun climbing wall that features interactive lighting built right in.
Structurally, there’s nothing too wild going on here. It’s a wood-framed climbing structure that stands 10 meters long and 2.5 meters high, and can be covered in lots of climbing holds. It’s the electronic side of things where it gets fun. An Arduino Due is installed to run the show, hooked up with a small TFT display and some buttons for control. It’s then hooked up to control a whole bunch of LEDs and some buttons which are scattered all across the wall. It’s also...

The S26 Plus (left) and S26 (right) are mostly software updates. There's a cool new hardware feature debuting at Samsung's annual Unpacked event - but you won't find it on the Galaxy S26 or S26 Plus. While the Ultra model gets a new Privacy Display and avoids a price hike, Samsung's base models are largely software updates that cost more than the outgoing models.
Don't get me wrong, some of those software updates are pretty neat. You can apply Audio Eraser to third-party apps to make voices easier to hear and filter out background noise. Google's Gemini AI will start doing agentic things - like booking an Uber for you - which is a step toward fulfilling the promise of an assistant that actually assists....

Gemini can now prep a rideshare or grocery order, though you’ll have to submit the order yourself. | Image: Google Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant. Starting with some Pixel 10 phones and the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, Gemini will be able to hail an Uber or put together a DoorDash order on its own.
It's called task automation, and it starts with a prompt to Gemini - something like "Get me an Uber to the Palace of Fine Arts." Gemini then launches the app in a virtual window on your device and goes through the process step-by-step. You can watch it all happen, with options to stop the automation or take control if necessary, or just let it run in the...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “Almost Home.”

It’s kind of a Galaxy S26 Plus Plus. Maybe it's a reflection of just how slow hardware innovation has been, but the Galaxy S26 Ultra's new Privacy Display, which limits the screen's viewing angle to keep any would-be peepers away, left me totally impressed.
It's not a brand-new technology - we've seen it before in laptops - and it was leaked thoroughly before Samsung's announcement. But seeing it work on the S26 Ultra for the first time was cooler than I expected, especially given that hardware thrills are hard to get these days. It's not just one of those special screen protectors; you can turn it on or off. There are two sets of pixels in the display: one that projects the …
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Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

Samsung’s new phones all get AI enhancements, and the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra has a Privacy Display that can block the screen from nosy neighbors.

Larry Summers, devenu président de l’université Harvard dans les années 2000, a annoncé sa démission de l’université après la publication de sa correspondance électronique avec le financier et criminel sexuel américain.

A new roof addition transforms the attic into a living area, complete with splashy colors and a surprising bathroom fresco.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Bagnolet, France Architect: 127af / @127_a_f Footprint: 592 square feet Builder: Renobati Structural Engineer: StructuraLab Photographer: Filip Dujardin / @filipdujardin From the Architect: "The project concerns the first house in a row of four terraced dwellings, built along a narrow plot. Originally conceived as modest workshops made with ordinary materials, typical of the fabric of Bagnolet,...

L’institution du Palais-Royal examinait, mercredi, le recours de La France insoumise contre la décision du ministère de l’intérieur de sortir le mouvement de Jean-Luc Mélenchon du « bloc de gauche » pour les élections municipales.

Garrison Architects gave the midcentury-inspired home floor-to-ceiling windows, a large deck, and the requisite woodburning stove.Location: 120 Cauterskill Avenue, Catskill, New York Price: $1,275,000 Year Built: 2025 Architect: Garrison Architects Footprint: 3,115 square feet (3 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 18.42 Acres From the Agent: "Welcome to Sylvan Wald House, a newly built midcentury-inspired home set at the end of a long, private driveway on 17+ wooded acres in the northern Catskills. The 3,115-square-foot residence includes a first-floor primary suite, white oak millwork throughout, and a wall of large picture windows with views that shift with each season. The first-floor primary suite offers a...

Deux semaines après la mort de l’étudiant Abdoulaye Ba lors d’une opération de la police sur le campus universitaire de Dakar, le Premier ministre était sur le gril mardi 24 février, à l’occasion des questions d’actualité à l’Assemblée nationale.

Some major tech companies are taking steps to finance their own power generation so Americans don't get stuck with the bill from new AI data centers

Après avoir épluché quelque 2 000 amendements en un peu plus d’une semaine lors de cette deuxième lecture, les députés ont adopté mercredi deux textes : l’un, consensuel, sur le développement des soins palliatifs ; l’autre, plus discuté, sur l’aide à mourir.

453 200 infractions numériques en France en 2025 : arnaques, cyberviolences, vols de données et profils des victimes....

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word. If your system isn’t totally locally-hosted, that can raise some privacy eyebrows. Perhaps that’s part of what inspired [SpannerSpencer] to create this 24th century solution: a Comm Badge straight out of Star Trek: The Next Generation he uses to control his smart home.
This hack is as slick as it is simple. The shiny comm badge is actually metal, purchased from an online vendor that surely pays all appropriate license fees to Paramount. It was designed for magnetic mounting, and you know what else has a magnet to stick it to things? The M5StickC PLUS2, a handy ESP32 dev kit. Since...

Très actif sur les réseaux sociaux, le Comité Trump France est plus qu'un simple mouvement d'opinion. Son objectif est clair : trumpiser la France en hystérisant le débat public.

“NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled explorer its own version of GPS… with the new upgrade, called Mars Global Localization, Perseverance can match its own panoramic imagery to orbital terrain maps onboard, calculate its precise position and continue along its planned route without waiting for Earth-based confirmation. An onboard algorithm performs the comparison in about two minutes and can pinpoint the rover’s location to within roughly 10 inches (25 centimeters), all without assistance from human planners, NASA said. This capability allows the...

“Almeria has been farmland since the time of the Umayyad caliphate—Campo de Dalías is derived from the Arabic word daliyah, meaning “vine”. But the geography of the region has historically been unkind to farmers. The towering peaks of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gádor mountain ranges to the north block rain clouds from reaching the coastal plains. Water is scarce (rain falls on average fewer than 50 days a year), and the Levanter wind tears across the plains, sometimes at over 100kph (62mph). The plastic sea developed in response to these unfavourable conditions, beginning as a handful of simple shelters to shield local crops against the elements. In the 1960s pioneering farmers realised that...

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

“A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor. Hugo Powell was delivered at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital in London weighing 3.09kg (6lb 13oz), after his mother, Grace Bell, received a transplanted womb from someone who had died. It is the first birth in the UK using a womb from a deceased donor, with only two previous cases reported in Europe. Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare condition resulting in an underdeveloped or missing womb. She was told as a teenager she would be unable to carry a child, and has described Hugo’s birth as a ‘miracle’. She said:...

“Restoration efforts including a dam and water use controls are helping Kazakhstan revive part of the shrinking Aral Sea… On a recent session of the people’s assembly, the National Kurultai, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev emphasised the significance of preserving the North Aral Sea and reaffirmed it as one of the key priorities of the country’s water policy. In his address to the nation he also emphasised the restoration gains already made. He noted that in 20 years of systematic efforts, the surface area of the Northern Aral grew by 36 per cent, the water volume nearly doubled, and salinity decreased by half.” From Euronews.
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“Since the Industrial Revolution, our jobs have gradually improved, becoming better paid, more interesting, and less dangerous. Economists Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hamermesh detail another aspect of this development: that fewer and fewer Americans are working in the evenings and at night… Together, these studies suggest that the share of Americans working in the middle of the night has fallen by more than 50 percent since the 1970s.” From The Update.
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A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The kit includes assorted grilling gear, gardening tools, and other outdoor equipment

It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days, from Florida to Maine. For the past two days, that order has included military aircraft, including those certified “all weather” – with one notable exception. A few miles offshore, rocking and bucking in the gales, a U.S. Navy airship braves the storm. Sleet pelts the plexiglass windscreen and ice sloughs off the gasbag in great sheets as the storm rages on, and churning airscrews keep the airship on station.
If you know history you might be a bit confused: the rigid airship USS Akron was lost off the...

New earnings reports and consumer confidence data show that affordability remains a major worry for Americans

But at least the President thinks everything is going great.

Chris Baghsarian, 85, was taken from his home and murdered, in what authorities believe was a case of mistaken identity.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon a choisi de faire relayer ses prises de parole par des influenceurs et des médias amis, excluant certains médias qu’il considère comme lui étant hostiles. Cela ne me choque absolument pas, et les protestations (parfois ridicules, comme celle de la porte-parole du gouvernement) sont d’une grande hypocrisie. Au lieu d’instrumentaliser cela, à des […]

A newspaper reports Gates apologised to staff over his links to Epstein and said: "I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit."

Nvidia's fourth quarter earnings are expected to be enormous. But that can still disappoint a crowd that paid for a bigger and louder fireworks show

A new study found that the states where people spend the greatest percentage of their income on groceries weren't actually those with the highest prices

One of the more promising 3D printing technologies that hasn’t quite yet had its spotlight is volumetric 3D printing. Researchers from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, have developed a new method that uses a high-speed periscope instead of rotating the printing volume — resulting in print times of less than one second.
Normal volumetric printing uses a rotating volume of photosensitive resin to print nearly any geometry desired. However, this method presents issues when printing at high speeds. If you rapidly rotate a liquid, it won’t exactly stay still. So why not rotate the projector itself? This change also allows the use of less viscous resins, which is particularly useful if you...

Sur TikTok, un faux hacker terrorise des préados en live grâce à des données fuitées, pour extorquer et intimider....

Fabricant du traitement contre l’obésité Wegovy et de l’antidiabétique Ozempic, le laboratoire danois est en perte de vitesse aux Etats-Unis, son principal marché, où il fait face à la concurrence de l’américain Eli Lilly.

A book of reportage on kinky subcultures describes how “deviant desire” can be transcendent —and completely mundane.

La publication de 3 millions de documents liés au criminel sexuel américain a emballé les sphères complotistes et réveillé des mythes déclinants, comme QAnon, le « Pizzagate » et l’« adrénochrome », sur fond d’antisémitisme larvé.

Quatre suspects arrêtés en Espagne, soupçonnés de DDoS Anonymous Fénix, avec un pic après les inondations de Valence....

En Russie, un logo Instagram sur un site web vaut 15 jours de prison, et un « like » sur YouTube coûte 300€ d'amende !...

The BBC's Anthony Zurcher says the US president appealed to his base and taunted his opponents in a marathon speech.

The Darkest Web montre comment des indices minuscules, pas les algorithmes, peuvent sauver des enfants....

Vous allez halluciner... Le Pentagone américain vient de poser un ultimatum à Anthropic. C'est Pete Hegseth, le patron du désormais "Department of War" (oui, Trump a rebaptisé le Pentagone par executive order... no comment...), exige que la boite de Dario Amodei lève toutes ses restrictions éthiques sur Claude d'ici ce vendredi.
Et la menace, c'est pas du bluff puisque ça parle du
Defense Production Act
, une loi de 1950 qui permet au gouvernement de réquisitionner une entreprise privée. Sinon, l'autre option sur la tabled de ces dingos, c'est de coller Anthropic sur une liste noire "supply chain risk", à côté de Huawei et Kaspersky. Ah ça c'est la classe.
En fait faut savoir qu'Anthropic a signé...

The Yamaha DX7 is one of the most iconic synthesizers that emerged in the early 1980s, and is still very popular today. That said, with even the newest of these having left the factory back in 1989, the average DX7 can use a bit of tender love and care. In particular the battered DX7 that [Drygol] recently got handed to ‘just fix the PSU voltage switch’. As it turned out, this poor DX7 had a few more issues than just a busted voltage selector.
Just a hint of cosmetic damage on this Yamaha DX7.
In addition to missing slider caps and a vanished key, the paint of the case also had clearly lost a fight with various hard surfaces in addition to a thick coating of unidentifiable dust and grime inside the...

Si vous bossez sur des serveurs distants, vous connaissez cette douleur... D'un côté, vous avez votre terminal local aux petits oignons, vos alias, vos plugins... et hop, un petit ssh root@serveur et vous vous retrouvez avec un shell tout pourri, tout basique. Mais c'était sans compter sur Joknarf qui a pondu
TheFly
, un gestionnaire de plugins shell qui téléporte votre environnement via SSH ou sudo en un instant.
Le principe est pas bête du tout vous allez voir. En fait, vous installez vos plugins et dotfiles dans ~/.fly.d/ sur votre machine, et quand vous lancez flyto user@serveur, tout est empaqueté et envoyé dans /tmp/.fly.$USER/ distant. Prompt perso, alias, fonctions... tout débarque avec vous,...