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by Courrier International - about 22 minutes
Entre le bilan parfois contesté du maire sortant, Grégory Doucet, et une fin de campagne marquée par la mort du militant d’extrême droite Quentin Deranque, le scrutin s’annonce sous tension à Lyon. Et la “vague verte” reflue devant Jean-Michel Aulas, ancien président historique de l’Olympique lyonnais, constate la presse internationale.
by The Verge - about 29 minutes
Canva introduced a new feature that separates flat image files and AI-generated visuals into layered, fully editable designs. The Magic Layers tool is launching in public beta today in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, allowing design components like objects, text boxes, and other graphics to be selected individually while preserving the original layout.
"After a breakthrough from our AI research team, we're introducing Magic Layers so anyone can take a flat image and turn it into a fully editable design inside Canva," Canva's chief product officer, Cameron Adams, said in the press release. "There's no need to start over, or to figure out …
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by New Yorker - about 30 minutes
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by io9 - about 30 minutes
The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than others.
by Wired - about 31 minutes
In Discord servers and Instagram DMs, content creators are organizing, turning followings in the millions into millions of dollars in political giving.
by Zataz - about 32 minutes
Drones contre AWS, piratage télévisé au Pakistan : le conflit régional s’étend aux infrastructures numériques critiques.
by Korben - about 39 minutes
Le canton de Bâle-Ville a suspendu son projet pilote de vote électronique après qu'une
clé USB
défectueuse a empêché le déchiffrement de 2 048 bulletins lors des votations fédérales du 8 mars. Une enquête pénale est ouverte.
Trois clés USB, zéro résultat
Le soir du 7 mars, veille du scrutin, la chancellerie du canton de Bâle-Ville a annoncé un problème technique sur son système de vote électronique. Le lendemain, 2 048 votes restaient bloqués dans l'urne numérique.
Le porte-parole du canton, Marco Greiner, a expliqué que trois clés USB contenant les codes de déchiffrement avaient été utilisées, toutes avec le bon code, mais qu'aucune n'avait fonctionné. Les experts de
La...
by io9 - about 40 minutes
Supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes brought devastation to several central states earlier this week, and the danger is far from over.
by Courrier International - about 45 minutes
Alors que le coût des opérations militaires et de la riposte iranienne ne cesse d’augmenter, les États-Unis pourraient chercher une porte de sortie contre l’avis de Benyamin Nétanyahou. Les divergences d’intérêts et de vues se font plus évidentes entre les deux alliés, voire au sein même des autorités israéliennes.
by io9 - about 50 minutes
There's also a new cheaper option to the Sonos Era 100.
by Courrier International - about 54 minutes
Faute d’avoir atteint les 3 % de voix nécessaires à sa survie, le parti des ex-guérilleros, à présent réunis sous la bannière de Comunes, disparaît du paysage politique colombien. Une défaite qui fait tache, huit ans après l’accord historique de 2016.
by BBC - about 55 minutes
Witnesses say drone strikes hit a residential building frequently occupied by expatriates and aid workers in Goma.
by Courrier International - about 55 minutes
Depuis les années 1950, le réchauffement de la planète a multiplié par deux le nombre d’heures pendant lesquelles des millions de personnes ne peuvent plus pratiquer des activités quotidiennes en toute sécurité.
by Zataz - about 56 minutes
Cloud Imperium Games révèle une intrusion avec accès à des données d'utilisateurs de Star Citizen en janvier 2026.
by The Verge - about 59 minutes
There are lots of options for video doorbells that store footage locally — including these from Eufy, Reolink, SwitchBot, Tapo, and Aqara. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Recently, Ring ran a Super Bowl ad for its Search Party feature showing how it uses AI to scan footage from Ring cameras and video doorbells to help find lost dogs. It sounds neighborly — until you consider that the same system could theoretically search footage for anything or anyone.  Combined with longstanding concerns around Ring’s ties to law enforcement — including a recent proposed integration with law enforcement technology company Flock Safety —  the ad has prompted some users to look for alternatives to...
by The Verge - about 1 hour
The first Lego Smart Brick sets, based on Star Wars, aren't quite what my kids and I hoped, and I suspect much of that's down to programming. But the Smart Bricks may also have some technical limitations out of the gate. The first sets don't ship with a number of their sensors enabled, including the sound-detecting microphone, the ambient light sensor, fine distance measurement, position, and orientation.
"There are more sensors that will be unlocked with future products," Lego Smart Brick sound designer Elysha Zaide explained on a recent livestream, citing ambient light, position, and orientation as missing out of the gate. It's possible t …
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by BBC - about 1 hour
The G7 group of nations welcomes the idea of releasing oil in response to the surge in prices since the US-Israel war with Iran began
by The Verge - about 1 hour
I love Godzilla Minus One. Granted, it’s only the second Godzilla movie that I’ve watched, the other being 1998’s terrible Godzilla featuring Matthew Broderick (the soundtrack has bangers, though). While I may not exactly be an expert, this is a good movie, whether you’re a first-time Godzilla viewer or a longtime kaiju fan. If you’ve been wanting to watch it for the first time, or just own it on physical media to watch whenever you want without a Netflix subscription, Gruv has a deal on its eBay storefront that knocks the 4K Blu-ray version down to $14.99 (it’s $23.60 at Amazon, for reference). Additionally, Gruv is offering 15 percent off your order if you buy two or more movies included in this...
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Par ailleurs, une attaque de drone russe a fait deux morts et sept blessés dans la ville de Kharkiv, mercredi matin.
by Zataz - about 1 hour
Fuite revendiquée au DHS : contrats, données sensibles et prestataires liés à l'ICE désormais exposés.
by io9 - about 1 hour
Season 9 of the iconic Adult Swim series is making a comeback promise: no AI, just the regular weirdness.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
L’Iran a accusé les États-Unis d’avoir frappé une de ses installations de désalinisation le 7 mars. Le lendemain, Bahreïn a fait état de dégâts sur l’une des siennes. Dans le Golfe, 100 millions de personnes et de larges pans de l’industrie dépendent de ces usines. Ce qui en fait un élément hautement stratégique mais aussi extrêmement vulnérable dans le contexte de la guerre actuelle, analyse “L’Orient-Le Jour”.
by Wired - about 1 hour
The MTIA processors are the tech giant’s latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders like Nvidia.
by Korben - about 1 hour
En 2024, je me suis acheté un WalkingPad A1 Pro (lien affilié) et j'ai complétement oublié de vous en faire un petit retour ! Ce mot ne vous dit peut-être rien, mais c'est ce petit tapis de marche pliable qui se glisse sous votre bureau debout. 143 cm de long, 55 cm de large, 6 km/h max + une télécommande et une appli pour piloter le tout. L'engin pèse dans les 28 kg et se plie en deux pour se planquer sous mon bureau. Et comme maintenant j'ai un peu de recul, je peux vous dire qu'il y a quelques trucs à savoir avant de craquer.
Déjà, si vous faites plus de 100 kg (comme moi, oui je sais, beau bébé), attendez-vous à des petits à-coups au démarrage car c'est conçu pour supporter max 105 kg...
by BBC - about 1 hour
Six Palestinians have been killed during attacks by settlers in the West Bank since the start of Israel's war, the UN says.
by Zataz - about 1 hour
Un pirate arrêté après un vol présumé de 46 millions de dollars en crypto visant le Service des Marshals américains.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Millions of people are on the job hunt right now - and for many people, landing a job in the AI era feels more intimidating than ever. That's why the onset of AI avatars running your job interview via one-on-one video call, asking you questions, and analyzing how well you respond has generated a lot of discussion - and controversy. There are a handful of companies behind the rise in AI-led interviews, like CodeSignal, Humanly, Eightfold, and more. The creators of these AI tools say the benefit is that it allows companies to hear from virtually everyone who applies for a certain role instead of just a small subset, at least when it comes to …
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by Korben - about 2 hours
Crawler un site entier, ça devrait pas être aussi compliqué. Et pourtant, entre les scripts maison qui cassent tous les 2 jours et les headless browsers qui bouffent de la RAM comme pas permis, c'est assez la galère ! Du coup, Cloudflare, dans sa grande bonté (lol) vient de sortir un endpoint /crawl (en open beta) dans la section Browser Rendering qui simplifie tout ça... vous balancez une URL dessus et hop, ça ASPIRE tout le site (oui oui).
En gros, vous envoyez une requête POST avec l'URL de départ, et le service se charge de découvrir les pages (via le sitemap, les liens internes, ou les deux), de les générer dans un navigateur headless, et de vous renvoyer le contenu en HTML, Markdown ou même...
by Korben - about 2 hours
Faire de la
synthèse vocale
, de la transcription et du voice cloning en local sur son Mac, sans envoyer le moindre octet dans le cloud... hey bien c'est possible mes petits foufous et en plus comme je sais que vous avez des oursins dans les poches, hé bien bonne nouvelle : C'est gratuit ! MLX-Audio
, c'est donc une bibliothèque Python qui exploite le framework MLX d'Apple pour faire tourner des modèles audio directement sur les puces M1, M2, M3, M4 et maintenant M5. Cette liste est trop longue, la prochaine fois, j'écrirais M* ou M1-5 ^^. Avec cette lib, du coup, tout se fait en local sur votre machine. Si je devais oser une comparaison un peu casse gueule, je dirais que c'est un peu le Ollama de...
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Le conducteur a franchi une barricade à l’intersection de Connecticut Avenue et H Street, tout près de la Maison Blanche, à l’aube mercredi matin.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
La rébellion de l’Alliance Fleuve Congo/Mouvement du 23 mars a imputé la responsabilité des attaques menées mercredi 11 mars sur la capitale régionale du Nord-Kivu à l’armée congolaise.
by Korben - about 2 hours
YouTube déploie des publicités de 30 secondes non désactivables sur son application TV dans le monde entier. Google mise sur l'IA pour choisir le bon format au bon moment. On fait le point, et on vous file les astuces pour retrouver un peu de tranquillité.
Des pubs plus longues, et pas moyen de les couper
Google vient d'officialiser le déploiement mondial de spots publicitaires de 30 secondes sur l'app YouTube pour téléviseurs connectés. Jusqu'à présent, les pubs sur TV pouvaient être zappées au bout de quelques secondes.
C'est terminé. L'IA de Google se charge de sélectionner dynamiquement le format adapté parmi trois options : des bumpers de 6 secondes, des spots classiques de 15 secondes et...
by io9 - about 2 hours
Will an association with that game everyone played a little bit in 2016 help keep the bots from getting lost and beat up?
by Les Décodeurs - about 3 hours
Depuis le milieu des années 2000, divers responsables politiques guyanais de premier plan, dont certains se présentent aux élections municipales des 15 et 22 mars, ont vu leur nom apparaître dans des dossiers judiciaires.
by Wired - about 3 hours
Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It's finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life.
by Zataz - about 3 hours
Ericsson US signale une fuite de données après le piratage d’un prestataire, avec exposition d’informations personnelles d’employés et de clients.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Les 32 pays membres de l’Agence internationale de l’énergie ont décidé « à l’unanimité » de libérer sur les marchés 400 millions de barils de pétrole provenant de leurs réserves stratégiques, le déblocage « le plus important » de l’histoire de l’institution.
by Wired - about 3 hours
Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday.
by Wired - about 4 hours
You don’t have to be a gym bro to get strong. Three ex-Tesla engineers made a beautiful bar velocity tracker for every kind of weight lifter.
by BBC - about 4 hours
Russia says the attack hit civilians and could not have been carried out without British help.
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
The Republican Clay Fuller and the Democrat Shawn Harris are headed for a runoff to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat.
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized cabinets has exploded alongside the availability of cheap SBCs and MCUs that can run classical arcade titles. Microcontrollers like the ESP32 with its dual 240 MHz cores can run circles around the CPU grunt of 1980s arcade hardware. Cue [Till Harbaum]’s Galagino ESP32-based arcade emulator project, that recently saw some community versions and cabinet takes.
There was a port to the PlatformIO framework by [speckhoiler] which also added a few more arcade titles and repurposed the enclosure of an off-the-shelf ‘My Arcade’ by stuffing in an...
by Les Décodeurs - about 7 hours
Le PNF envisage de poursuivre M. Alexandre et quatre autres personnes à la suite d’une enquête sur l’attribution d’une délégation de service public à la compagnie Air Guyane.
by Usbek & Rica - about 7 hours
Réalisatrice pour le compte du CNRS, Momoko Seto signe son premier long métrage, Planètes, diffusé en salles ce mercredi 11 mars. Une épopée végétale qui donne, pour la première fois, le rôle principal à des graines de pissenlits nommées "akènes". Salutaire, quoiqu’un peu tiraillée entre la rigueur du documentaire et les élans de la fiction.
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
E-readers are an awesome creation allowing you to display digital information in a way that requires little battery life. While there’s plenty of very impressive models to chose from on the commercial market, it’s also possible to build one yourself — which is exactly what [kaos-69] did in his Mimisbrunnur project, creating a truly unique e-reader from scratch.
While looking through old junk at home, [kaos-69] came across a case that held a calculator and pen at one point in the distant past. The pen was gone and the calculator no longer functioned but the case held promise. He removed the calculator and got some parts on order. For the e-paper display he went with a 5.83-inch unit that just fit inside...
by daryo Bluesky - about 8 hours
'I just want to be able to sleep': Attacks in Iran rock cities and cut power
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by Journal du Lapin - about 8 hours
Quand j’ai parlé de la Super NES Mini, je me suis demandé si la NES Mini (pardon, la Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System) se trouvait finalement à un prix correct. Elle est sortie fin 2016 en Europe et elle a été en rupture rapidement, avec des prix élevés. En 2026, on en trouve pour quelques dizaines d’euros, ce qui est cher (elle valait 60 €) mais ça reste envisageable. Donc j’ai fait la même chose qu’avec la Super NES Mini : j’ai testé une manette de NES du Nintendo Switch Online en Bluetooth, avec l’adaptateur de 8BitDo. Premier point, la console. C’est une version réduite de la NES originale, beaucoup (beaucoup) plus petite. Elle s’alimente en Micro USB,...
by Le Taurillon - about 9 hours
La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis en lumière une dégradation profonde de la santé mentale des jeunes en Europe, révélant et accentuant des inégalités sociales déjà existantes. La santé mentale des jeunes interroge la capacité de l'Union à construire des réponses communes face à une crise qui dépasse les frontières. Une dégradation marquée de la santé mentale des jeunes, amplifiée par la pandémie
La crise sanitaire provoquée par la pandémie de Covid-19 a profondément bouleversé les sociétés européennes, affectant à la fois les systèmes de santé, l'économie et les parcours éducatifs. Les mesures de confinement ont provoqué une restriction des interactions sociales, générant un...
by La Horde - about 9 hours
Un appel de l'Assemblée antifasciste autonome Lyon à former un cortège lors de la marche antiraciste et antifasciste du 14 mars -
Initiatives / Lyon, Manifs et rassemblements
by HackAdAy - about 11 hours
At this point in time it can be safely stated that the question ‘Does it run Doom?’ defaults to a resounding ‘Yes’. This raises the question of what next games should be seen as some kind impressive benchmark, with [Game of Tobi] gunning heavily for Nintendo 64 titles. Most recently he ported Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to the Apple Watch, with the port almost ready for release along with Super Mario 64 after a few more issues are fixed.
Although there are a few approaches when it comes to porting Nintendo 64 games to other systems, if the target system is effectively a small PC with all of the amenities such as rendering APIs, then using the Ship of Harkinian project as the basis is a good...
by Le Monde - about 12 hours
Le premier ministre, particulièrement discret depuis l’adoption du budget, devrait se contenter d’un « rapide point de situation » sur le conflit et évoquer plus longuement les conséquences en France, alors que les marges de manœuvre financières manquent.
by HackAdAy - about 14 hours
[Michel Jean] asked a question few others might: what exactly is going on under the hood of a classic HP scientific calculator when one presses the ∫ key? A numerical integration, sure, but how exactly? There are a number of useful algorithms that could be firing up when the integral button is pressed, and like any curious hacker [Michel] decided to personally verify what was happening.
[Michel] implemented different integration algorithms in C++ and experimentally compared them against HP calculator results. By setting up rigorous tests, [Michel] was able to conclude that the calculators definitely use Romberg-Kahan, developed by HP Mathematician William Kahan.
Selected by HP in 1979 for use in their...
by BBC - about 15 hours
Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.
by HackAdAy - about 17 hours
IBM Selectric typewriters have a lot of unique parts that can be tricky to source, but one we didn’t think of was the clear acrylic(?) dust covers, that are apparently very hard to find in good shape. [Eric Strebel] has a few Selectrics that all have issues with these parts. While you could come close to recreating this piece with acrylic sheeting carefully bent to match the original shape, [Eric] has a different hammer to try in a new video: replicating it with a resin casting.
He uses de-gassed tin-cure silicone to create a mold for the original, with a bit of 3D printed PLA and foam board to hold the silicone to create the mold. That’s done in two steps to create a two-part mold, which is separated and...
by La Horde - yesterday at 21:59
Le site antifasciste Ripostes publie trois brochures et les met à disposition en différents formats afin de faciliter la diffusion. Le fond de l'air est de plus en plus brun Comment par petites touches ou par grandes accélérations, la banalisation du projet brun s'effectue sous nos yeux. Le RN et l'argent Front national, Rassemblement national, que ce soit en Europe, au plan national ou municipal, ils ne peuvent pas s'empêcher de plonger dans la caisse, de confondre argent public et (…) -
Repères / Rassemblement national (RN), Argumentaires
by Human Progress - yesterday at 20:05
“Rodney Gorham recently passed a milestone that few people have reached. He’s had a brain-computer interface implanted for five years. Made by startup Synchron, the experimental implant allows him to control a computer and other digital devices around his home using just his thoughts. It’s been a lifeline for 65-year-old Gorham, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and can no longer walk, talk, or move his hands. Synchron is among several companies, including Elon Musk’s Neuralink, aiming to commercialize brain-computer interfaces to help individuals with paralysis. Over the past five years, Synchron’s software and hardware have gone through many iterations, with Gorham helping to shape the...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:52
“The Department of Energy has made public a set of new rules that slash environmental and security requirements for experimental nuclear reactors. Last month, NPR reported on the existence of the rules, which were quietly rewritten to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. The rule changes came about after President Trump signed an executive order calling for three or more of the experimental reactors to come online by July 4 of this year — an incredibly tight deadline in the world of nuclear power. The order led to the creation of a new Reactor Pilot Program at the Department of Energy.” From NPR.
The post Nuclear Safety Rules Rewritten to Accelerate Development appeared...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:45
“Indian officials have been in a boastful mood lately. A government report in December argued that judging by real-time economic indicators, India had overtaken Japan as the world’s fourth-biggest economy. This was to become economic fact once the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation updated how it calculates GDP. So in one sense, the new numbers released on February 27th are a disappointment: GDP was 3.3% smaller than previously thought. In other ways, though, they are a cause for celebration. The methodological update, the first since 2015, reset the ‘base year’—which sets the weights for different parts of the economy—to 2022. It also added new data sources that capture a clearer...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:39
“In 2024, Eon senior scientist Philip Shiu and collaborators published in Nature a computational model of the entire adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, containing more than 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections, built from the FlyWire connectome and machine learning predictions of neurotransmitter identity. That model predicted motor behavior at 95% accuracy. But it was disembodied: a brain without a body, activation without physics, motor outputs with nowhere to go. Now the brain has somewhere to go. Building on previous work, including Shiu et al.’s whole-brain computational model, the NeuroMechFly v2 embodied simulation framework, and Özdil et al.’s research on centralized brain...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:36
“Twenty years after they were first created in Japan, extraordinarily versatile stem cells made from the body’s own cells may finally realize their promise for regenerating diseased tissue. Last month, an advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry recommended limited marketing approval for therapies using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. In a controversial arrangement, their makers will be able to sell the products for 7 years while continuing studies to determine just how well the therapies work. IPS cells are moving closer to medical use in other countries as well, with dozens of potential therapies in clinical trials… One of the new therapies, intended...