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by BBC - about 31 minutes
The US president earlier said if peaceful protesters are killed, Washington "will come to their rescue".
by Korben - about 37 minutes
Avez-vous un Echo Show qui traîne dans un coin ? Mais si, vous savez, cet écran connecté d'Amazon qui s'est mis à afficher des pubs sur l'écran d'accueil depuis peu. Le genre de truc qui rend dingue 🤪.
Et bien bonne nouvelle puisqu'un développeur nommé Roger Ortiz a trouvé comment libérer ces petites bêtes. Du coup, grâce à ce merveilleux jeune homme, vous pouvez maintenant virer Fire OS, installer
LineageOS 18.1
, et faire ce que vous voulez de votre appareil. Hop, plus de pubs, plus de flicage Amazon, juste du bon vieux Android AOSP. L'Echo Show 8 libéré de Fire OS - enfin un écran connecté qui vous appartient (
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Ce qui a énervé tout le monde de ce que j'ai compris, c'est...
by Korben - about 1 hour
Vous avez déjà écrit un programme qui affiche ces deux mots magiques ?
HELLO WORLD
Évidemment que oui. Tout le monde est passé par là car c'est le rite initiatique universel de la programmation, le premier truc qu'on tape quand on découvre un nouveau langage.
Mais est-ce que vous vous êtes déjà demandé d'où venait cette tradition bizarre de saluer le monde avant de faire quoi que ce soit d'utile ?
Hé bien ça remonte au début des années 70, aux Bell Labs. Brian Kernighan, chercheur canadien qui bossait aux côtés de Dennis Ritchie (le créateur du C) et Ken Thompson, devait rédiger un tutoriel pour le langage B. Le document s'appelait "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B", et c'est...
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong, took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the "Best Game You Suck At" award, which, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. Given the relentless fawning over Silksong since its release in September, an event that nearly brought the entire digital video game distribution system to its knees, that it would win Game of the Year felt like something of a forgone conclusion. The Best Game on Steam Deck was awarded to Hades II (an award we'd already unofficially granted it). The mechanics of Hades lend it to being played in sh …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - about 2 hours
The plushies bring "emotional value" to Chinese youth navigating economic uncertainty.
by BBC - yesterday at 23:55
Donald Trump said the US would "run" Venezuela until a "safe" transition after his forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 23:16
Une vidéo montre un homme cagoulé et menotté, sous escorte du FBI, sortant d’un avion à l’aéroport Stewart International, près de New York, où il devrait être inculpé pour trafic de drogue. Donald Trump affirme que les Etats-Unis vont « diriger » le Venezuela et y installer des compagnies pétrolières américaines.
by Wired - yesterday at 23:10
Donald Trump says that Venezuela's governance will remain in the hands of senior US officials until a "proper and judicious transition" can take place. The rest of the region is on notice.
by Autheuil - yesterday at 22:51
Les États-Unis viennent de franchir un cap dans la violation du droit international, en attaquant le Vénézuéla, un État souverain, et en kidnappant son président. On savait que l’administration Trump faisait peu de cas du droit international, mais on sait maintenant qu’ils sont capables de passer à l’acte et d’aller très loin, sans que personne […]
by io9 - yesterday at 22:35
A riveting 55-minute YouTube video will show you where the GPU wafers come from.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 22:35
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
by BBC - yesterday at 22:20
It comes after a preliminary investigation found the likely cause was sparklers on champagne bottles being carried too close to the ceiling.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 22:16
What comes after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela?
by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:16
Le président vénézuélien, Nicolas Maduro, a été enlevé par les forces spéciales américaines. Il doit être jugé par un tribunal fédéral de New York pour « conspiration narcoterroriste ». Donald Trump a annoncé que les Etats-Unis comptaient « diriger » le Venezuela jusqu’à une « transition sûre » et exploiter ses réserves de pétrole.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping the bits of the tube with humans inside it at temperatures and pressures that keeps them alive and happy. Case in point the Boeing 777, of which [Michel] of Le Labo de Michel on YouTube recently obtained the Cabin Pressure Control System (CPCS) for a teardown.
The crucial parts on the system are the two Nord-Micro C0002 piezo resistive pressure transducers, which measure the pressure inside the aircraft. These sensors, one of which is marked as ‘backup’, are read out by multiple ADCs connected to a couple of FPGAs....
by Le Monde - yesterday at 21:55
Les alliés de Caracas ont dénoncé une « agression illégale », tandis que les pays proches des Etats-Unis ont ménagé Donald Trump tout en appelant à « la retenue ».
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:44
Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The prediction market had been running bets on when or if Maduro would be removed from power, with prices for "out by January 31, 2026" as low as $0.07 late Friday evening. But within 24 hours of the military action, a newly created account invested tens of thousands of dollars, racking up several hundred thousand in profits.
The account was created less than a week ago, and invested over $30,000 the day before the assault, turning a profit of over $408,000. The activit …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 21:30
In the summer of 2015, the then 29-year-old Priyank Pardeshi was arrested by the police in Pune, a large city in western India. The authorities and rightsholders saw Priyank as a kingpin in the local piracy scene, and these allegations were widely repeated by many news sites at the time.
Priyank was certainly not a typical pirate site operator. He worked at IBM in California. However, during a work-related visit to his home country, he was suddenly arrested, after investigators found pirated movies on his system while they were collecting evidence in an unrelated matter. TellyTorrents and Camcording
In addition to Priyank, the authorities also accused two others of being involved in the scheme, which also...
by BBC - yesterday at 21:23
Will the US push for elections or will it try to depose more members of the government, asks the BBC's Ione Wells.
by io9 - yesterday at 21:00
Gen Z or older, it doesn't matter: the two needle drops in 'Stranger Things' reignited interest in Prince's music catalog.
by io9 - yesterday at 20:06
...and made the steering wheel less wheel-like.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:47
Alors que le président des États-Unis se targue d’avoir fait enlever Nicolás Maduro, “The New York Times” dénonce dans son éditorial le piétinement du droit américain et international. L’attaque du 3 décembre, fondée sur un prétexte ridicule, signe en fait le retour de l’impérialisme en Amérique latine, écrit le quotidien. En voulant prendre en main le Venezuela, Donald Trump risque de répéter les erreurs de la guerre en Irak, qu’il a tant dénoncées.
by Wired - yesterday at 19:14
From seemingly AI-generated videos to repurposed old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:13
Donald Trump affirme que les Etats-Unis vont « diriger le pays », et y installer des compagnies pétrolières américaines.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:12
Le général Dan Caine a précisé, lors d’une conférence de presse conjointe avec Donald Trump, les détails de l’opération américaine de la nuit dernière.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and short-lived history is covered in the video. The machine itself uses “trits” (ternary digits) instead of “bits” (binary digits).
When your digits have three discrete values there are a multiplicity of ways of assigning meaning to each state, and the Setun uses a system known as balanced ternary where each digit can be either -1, 0, or 1 and otherwise uses a place-value system in the normal way.
An interesting factoid that comes up in the video is that base-3 (also known as radix-3) is the maximally...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:04
Depuis des mois, Washington n’a cessé de faire monter la pression sur le président vénézuélien, qui aurait été fait prisonnier le 3 janvier. Officiellement menée contre le narcotrafic, cette campagne a visé de plus en plus ouvertement un changement de régime. Au risque de plonger le Venezuela dans la violence.
by The Verge - yesterday at 18:00
We posted a couple of times about Meta’s Quest 3S during the holidays. The virtual reality headset that typically sold for $299.99 was — and still is — available for $249.99. Better yet, you can get in on a promotion at Amazon that includes a $50 digital account credit with purchase. You can find a similar sale price of $249.99 at other retailers, but it seems like Amazon is the only one that includes a gift card. The Quest 3S is a wonderful device for first-time virtual reality explorers. It builds on what made the Quest 2 so good (comfortable, easy to use, surprisingly capable) and adds more power. In fact, it has the same chipset as the pricier Quest 3, but with similar optic materials and screens as...
by Ben Tasker - yesterday at 17:37
In one form or another, Firefox Sync has been around for years (in fact, it's not that far off being decades...).
It allows you to share tabs, history and bookmarks between browsers on different devices (though, frustratingly, it doesn't sync settings or extension config).
Although sending that data via a 3rd party server might sound concerning, Mozilla are unable to see the content that's being synced because the data is end-to-end encrypted.
All the same, I like to self host where possible (and, frankly, needed something to keep me out of trouble), so decided to look at the feasibility of self-hosting a sync server.
This post talks about the process of setting the sync server up: it's been tested as working...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:32
La laine et le savoir-faire artisanal britanniques ont le vent en poupe, se réjouit la presse londonienne. La hausse de la demande s’explique autant par les changements d’habitudes de consommation que par la popularité de séries télévisées comme “Peaky Blinders” et “The Crown”, qui donnent à voir un certain “look british”.
by Wired - yesterday at 17:03
Some AI chatbots have a surprisingly good handle on breaking news. Others decidedly don’t.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 16:57
Le 2 janvier, Volodymyr Zelensky a annoncé qu’il confiait la direction de son cabinet au très populaire général Boudanov, chef du renseignement militaire ukrainien. Celui-ci a accepté, mais les médias ukrainiens se demandent s’il s’agit d’une promotion, ou d’un piège politique pour écarter un rival potentiel.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
📷 #flashes
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 16:35
Illustration par ChatGPT
P.J. :
En général, pour les risques, ce sont les compagnies d’assurance qui, pour des raisons évidentes liées à leur propre rentabilité, sont les premières à modéliser avec exactitude les mécanismes et à en faire prendre conscience. Pour ce qui est, par exemple, du retrait des côtes, la disparition de plages, l’envahissement par la mer d’agglomérations trop proches du niveau de la mer, ce sont elles qui ont pleinement conceptualisé le problème et l’ont reflété dans leur modèle économique. Comment se fait-il que dans le cas présent, les compagnies d’assurance ne semblent pas avoir intégré la différence entre un embrasement généralisé et un incendie...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
While we’re 100 years past Edison’s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap one’s head around. It’s just so honest in its directness. AC, though? It can be a little shifty, and that results in some unexpected behaviors, as seen in this video from [The Action Lab].
He starts off with a very relatable observation: have you ever noticed that when you plug in a pickle, only half of it lights up? What’s up with that? Well, it’s related to the asymmetry he sees on his Jacobs ladder that has one side grow hotter than the other. In fact, it goes back to something welders who use DC know about well: the Debye sheath.
The arc of a welder, or a Jacobs...
by The Verge - yesterday at 16:00
The parking lot was packed. That's the first Strange Thing.
A little background. Just about every mall is struggling now, but the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania is more or less comatose. As Defector's Dan McQuade, a lifelong Pennsylvanian and mall fan, wrote in his fond remembrance of the shopping center, the once bustling complex is mostly a shuttered ghost town, with half of it set to be demolished. There are only two real reasons to go there: a well-stocked Barnes & Noble and the AMC movie theater. And people do go there for the movie theater. It's one of only three theaters in the Philly area with an IMAX screen, making it a …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 15:56
Illustration par ChatGPT Le Cœur de GENESIS
Voilà le renversement conceptuel fondamental :
Paradigme actuel ÉNERGIE → INFORMATION ↓
L'énergie se conserve
L'information est dérivée (entropie = désordre) Paradigme GENESIS INFORMATION → ÉNERGIE ↓
L'information se conserve
L'énergie est dérivée (manifestation de la redistribution) L’axiome unique
L’information ne se crée ni ne se détruit, elle ne fait que se redistribuer.
Ce que ça change
L’énergie n’est plus fondamentale. Quand on observe un « transfert d’énergie », on observe en réalité une redistribution d’information qui se manifeste comme énergie : L’information quitte un système → l’énergie apparente...
by The Verge - yesterday at 15:00
The Mui Board is a minimalist, screen-free interface for controlling tech in your home. One of the fun parts of being a tech journalist for over a decade is that occasionally you get to watch a truly unique gadget go from concept to reality - and, eventually, into your living room. That's the case with the Mui Board, a smart home controller built into a piece of wood.
The Mui was first demoed at CES in 2019, and I've seen it at several shows over the years, in various iterations, always with the promise that it would ship soon. Well, this year it did (in limited quantities!), and I finally got to try one out in my living room. Mui Board
A minimalist smart home controller made from a piece of wood, the Mui...
by Wired - yesterday at 14:00
With upgradable graphics, the Framework Laptop 16 achieves what PC nerds have only ever dreamed of.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 13:18
Vénézuéla. Trump s’en prenant aux Etats-Unis à ceux qui condamnent les actions d’Israël. Et en France, aux juges qui ont condamné Marine Le Pen pour malversations. Interdisant l’accès de son pays à ceux qui critiquent d’une manière ou d’une autre sa direction fasciste.
Avec Poutine et Trump, le monde est aux mains de pirates : il est temps que nous disions non autrement que par des pétitions et des déclarations solennelles.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 13:00
An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as tends to be the case with holy grails, it’s proven stubbornly elusive. If you have the resources to build it, though, it’s possible to replicate the professional approach with a selective laser melting (SLM) printer, such as the one [Travis Mitchell] built (this is a playlist of nine videos, but if you want to see the final results, the last video is embedded below).
Most of the playlist shows the process of physically constructing the machine, with only the last two videos getting into testing. The heart of the printer is a 500 Watt fiber laser and a galvo scan...
by Wired - yesterday at 13:00
It’s called Handy, and it uses AI models to accurately convert your speaking voice into text—all for free.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 12:40
France • August 2019 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯
by Zataz - yesterday at 12:34
Les actualités cyber de cette premiére semaine de l'année 2026 : piratage, hacking, action judiciaire, découvertes zataz et un easter egg :)...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.
by Zataz - yesterday at 11:55
Un génat du streaming a coupé tous ses lives après une attaque ayant injecté du contenu pornographique....
by Zataz - yesterday at 11:25
Trois Ukrainiens arrêtés avec Flipper et K19. Ils sont soupçonnés de fraude informatique et risque pour des systèmes liés à la défense....
by QZ - yesterday at 11:10
AI will be all over the place at the closely watched consumer electronics show, with major tech companies trying to differentiate their offerings
by QZ - yesterday at 11:10
You don't need to spend $40,000 to buy a solid new car. You don't even need to spend $30,000. These affordable options are worth checking out
by Zataz - yesterday at 10:44
Wi-Fi et CSI pour estimer la posture sans caméra, avec API et analytics, un progrès technique aux risques de surveillance....
by Zataz - yesterday at 10:27
Un internaute de 19 ans, chef présumé d’un gang de sextorsion, risque 60 ans de prison....
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 10:00
Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any computer of the pre-DOOM era was Zork. This was a text-based adventure game first published in the late 70s that could run on a number of platforms thanks to a virtual machine that interpreted the game code. This let the programmers write a new VM for each platform rather than porting the game every time. [smbakeryt] wanted to see how far he could push this design and got the classic game running on one of the oldest computers ever produced.
The computer in question is the ubiquitous Intel 4004 processor, the first commercially available general-purpose microprocessor...
by Korben - yesterday at 9:00
Vous développez une app et vous devez intégrer des paiements ? Alors vous connaissez sûrement l'enfer des webhooks... Ces petits événements asynchrones qu'il faut capter, parser, dont il faut vérifier la signature, stocker dans votre base, sans oublier de prier pour qu'il n'y ait pas eu de doublon ou de perte entre temps. Bref, le genre de truc qui transforme un samedi après-midi en séance de débogage intensive. Flowglad
c'est une plateforme de paiement open source qui promet d'en finir avec cette galère. Son idée c'est qu'au lieu de synchroniser votre base avec Stripe via des webhooks fragiles, vous interrogez directement Flowglad qui devient votre source de vérité unique pour tout ce qui touche...
by Journal du Lapin - yesterday at 8:00
Dans Microsoft Office 2004, sur Mac, Microsoft avait caché le jeu Asteroids. L’Easter Egg repose sur Microsoft Office Notifications. Et pour pouvoir lancer Microsoft Office Notifications, qui se trouve dans le dossier Office du dossier Microsoft Office 2004, j’ai d’abord dû lancer Entourage. Dans ce dernier, j’ai fait Entourage -> Désactiver les notifications Office, puis Entourage -> Aciver les notifications Office. Sans cette manipulation, le programme se coupe automatiquement.
Le programme
Une fois qu’il est lancé, il faut presser control, option et command en même temps, et choisir Notifications Office -> À propos des Notifications Office. Si tout se passe bien, vous verrez une petite...
by La Horde - yesterday at 7:02
Un appel à mobilisation est lancé pour permettre au plus grand nombre de s'organiser contre la menace de l'extrême droite en Bretagne et ailleurs. -
Initiatives / Assemblée
by La Horde - yesterday at 6:45
RLF Voiron organise une journée de rencontres, d'échanges et de réflexion autour de L'extrême droite : “On n'a jamais essayé ?” -
Initiatives / Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 6:00
Du troisième opus de Dune au documentaire de Raoul Peck sur George Orwell en passant par le nouveau Spielberg, la rédaction d’Usbek & Rica a sélectionné, en toute subjectivité, les films annoncés pour 2026 qui lui donnent le plus envie. Du moins sur le papier…