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by BBC - about 24 minutes
Four of seven members of the women's football delegation who originally sought to stay in Australia have now chosen to return home.
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
La télévision d’Etat iranienne a annoncé, samedi soir, le lancement d’une nouvelle salve de missiles sur Israël, au 15ᵉ jour de la guerre déclenchée par des frappes israélo-américaines.
by io9 - about 2 hours
If you have your heart set on AI-generating some John Wick-style action scenes starring celebrities with weird voices, we have some bad news.
by io9 - about 2 hours
A lot of video game movies haven't been good, but to Pike, 'Doom' was bad enough to jeopardize her entire acting future.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
According to Reuters, Meta is looking to offset spending on AI and data centers with a massive round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the matter say the company could lay off as much as 20 percent of its staff, eliminating roughly 15,800 positions. That would be the largest series of layoffs at the company since it terminated 22,000 workers over just a few months between November 2022 and early 2023.
Word of the potential downsizing comes after Meta signaled that it was all but giving up on VR and the Metaverse, slashing budgets and closing studios. Instead, the company has been spending big to attract AI talent, build data centers, and ac …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Battus en Ecosse il y a une semaine, Antoine Dupont et ses coéquipiers remporteront la compétition samedi, lors du crunch face au XV de la Rose, s’ils s’imposent au Stade de France.
by BBC - about 3 hours
Discontent is mounting over rolling blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine, exacerbated by a US blockade.
by BBC - about 3 hours
Tommy Thompson spent more than a decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.
by io9 - about 4 hours
Hulu has put a stake in 'Buffy: New Sunnydale,' which would've seen Sarah Michelle Gellar return to kill vampires with a new, young Slayer.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although it’s made from wood, it has properties that make it much more useful for cooking — including burning at a higher temperature and with more consistent burn rates. It can also be used as a fuel for generating heat and electricity, but since it’s not typically found lying around in the forest it has to be produced, which [Greenhill Forge] has demonstrated his charcoal production system in one of his latest videos.
The process for creating charcoal is fairly simple. All that needs to happen is for wood to be heated beyond a...
by io9 - about 4 hours
The Scrubs star referred to himself as "The guy not dating his chatbot."
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Les États-Unis ont annoncé avoir détruit les installations militaires sur l’île de Kharg, principal terminal pétrolier iranien. Ils espèrent ainsi faire plier le régime de Téhéran pour qu’il rouvre le détroit d’Ormuz. D’autres options sont à l’étude.
by io9 - about 5 hours
Another horror icon makes its way into animation with the 'Friday the 13th' fan film 'Ghosts in the Fog.'
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
L’incompatibilité culinaire apparaît souvent comme un frein dans la quête d’un partenaire, constate la journaliste Clare Finney dans le quotidien britannique “The Guardian”.
by Korben - about 5 hours
Le SEO poisoning, vous connaissez ?
C'est quand votre référencement se fait flinguer parce que votre site se retrouve associé à des sites de casino, de porno et de téléchargement illégal. Et devinez quoi... ça m'arrive depuis bientôt un an !
Tout a commencé l'année dernière quand un nom de domaine reprenant mon pseudo a été enregistré depuis la Chine. Un clone quasi parfait de korben.info, avec tout mon contenu aspiré, sauf que tous les liens avaient été remplacés par des redirections frauduleuses. Mon Patreon, mon Twitter, ma newsletter, mes liens Twitch... tout renvoyait vers des trackers douteux. En fait, ça a été fait via un service de clonage de sites à quelques yuans par mois...
by Le Monde - about 5 hours
Vélo, muscu, course… Pour certains sportifs amateurs, leur passion doit se vivre au quotidien. Quitte à avoir des journées à rallonge, à moins voir leurs proches ou à aménager leur poste de travail. Quand ils ne changent pas carrément de job.
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
Le 15 mars, les citoyens kazakhs doivent se prononcer par référendum sur une Constitution dont le texte, adopté en 1995, serait largement réécrit. Présentée par le pouvoir comme un tournant “juste et progressiste”, la réforme suscite pourtant de vives critiques, qui dénoncent un renforcement du pouvoir présidentiel.
by Le Monde - about 5 hours
L’abstention au premier tour du scrutin sera scrutée comme un signe potentiel de lassitude des électeurs, bien que la confiance envers les maires se maintienne autour de 70 %. Les édiles sont, eux, confrontés au décalage entre l’aura dont ils jouissent et leur pouvoir réel. De quoi alimenter leur résignation.
by Korben - about 5 hours
Google Antigravity, c'est gratuit. Enfin... c'était gratuit. Puis c'est passé à +20 balles par mois. Et maintenant, pour un usage sérieux, comptez 275 € par mois. Bienvenue dans le bait and switch version Google.
En novembre,
je vous présentais l'IDE agent-first de Google
et à l'époque, c'était en preview publique, gratuit, avec des quotas "très généreux" selon Google. Même
Linus Torvalds s'en servait
pour ses projets perso en mode vibe coding. La hype était bien réelle !
Sauf qu'un lecteur, FX, m'a envoyé son retour d'expérience et à vrai dire, c'est édifiant. En décembre, il teste l'outil sur sa machine, profite de l'accès gratuit aux modèles Gemini Pro, Claude Opus et Sonnet. Le gain...
by The Verge - about 5 hours
Happy Saturday, all! This week, we found a number of deals that should help you unwind and relax over the next few days (and beyond). If you’re planning to stream the Oscars on Sunday, there’s still time to take advantage of a great deal on Hulu and Disney Plus, as well as Google’s latest 4K streaming device. Speaking of Google, you can also currently save $60 on the Pixel Watch 4; there are also savings to be had on microSD Express cards, ice cream makers, and a host of other great tech this weekend. So, without further ado, let’s get to it. Hulu and Disney Plus recently launched a terrific promo that drops the price of the ad-supported bundle for new and returning subscribers to just $4.99 a month...
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
Le Péruvien Fernando Valencia rêve de doubler “Le Roi Lion” en quechua. Son combat pour préserver cette langue indigène, la plus parlée d’Amérique latine et cible de fortes discriminations, a débouché sur le documentaire “Runa Simi”, réalisé par son compatriote Augusto Zegarra. Le film, inédit en France, vient d’être présenté au Festival du film et forum international sur les droits humains (FIFDH), à Genève. Interview.
by daryo Bluesky - about 6 hours
Thoiras-Corbès • France • September 2021 📷 #flashes
by Courrier International - about 6 hours
Des Grecs anciens aux philosophes modernes, tous se sont penchés sur la façon d’exprimer les différents degrés de certitude que les mathématiciens quantifient avec des nombres. Mais c’est un analyste de la CIA qui, dans les années 1960, a trouvé une façon de les relier, raconte l’hebdomadaire “New Scientist”. Une solution bien utile dans un monde qui se réchauffe “très probablement” de plus de 1,5 °C.
by The Verge - about 6 hours
Though it was weird to see the Golden Globes partner with Polymarket for its most recent awards show, the collaboration wasn't shocking given the way that people have begun using prediction markets to gamble on basically anything. Prediction markets are being used to bet on everything from when wars might break out to who will win the Nobel Peace Prize, so why wouldn't people also be interested in placing wagers on more entertaining and less consequential things, like celebrities' chances of winning industry accolades?
But this "everything is gambling" culture has given prediction market firms an opportunity to insert themselves into other …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - about 6 hours
Neo to the left of me. Pros are to the right. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Not much has changed in the new MacBook Air for 2026: It now has the M5 chip, Wi-Fi 7, and faster storage starting at 512GB instead of 256GB. It's just as outstanding a computer as last year's model, even if it's a shame it's $100 more expensive. The bigger change has happened to the Air. The MacBook Neo now exists, and it's an awesome little computer for $500 less than the base 13-inch Air. The Neo's existence doesn't invalidate the Air or make it pointless, and I doubt the Neo will cannibalize too much of the Air's sales. The Air is a more capable, faster, and sleeker machine. Having the Neo sit beneath it does paint...
by Paul Jorion - about 6 hours
Quinzaines, N° 1273, janvier-février 2026, pages 21 à 23
En 1993, James E. Files, ancien associé de la mafia et ex‑soldat, accorda depuis sa prison une interview enregistrée, dans laquelle il affirmait avoir tiré le coup fatal qui tua le président John F. Kennedy le 22 novembre 1963. Selon Files, l’assassinat fut le résultat d’une opération coordonnée impliquant des éléments du crime organisé et des services de renseignement américains. Malgré le niveau de détail apparent et la cohérence interne de son récit, sa confession fut rejetée aussi bien par les historiens officiels, les experts universitaires que par la plupart des partisans de théories alternatives ou conspirationnistes. Le...
by Le Monde - about 7 hours
Ce théoricien, qui n’hésitait pas à intervenir dans le débat public, fut un des premiers à harmoniser la tradition analytique anglo-saxonne, axée sur la logique et la langue, et la tradition continentale, centrée sur les idées.
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a screen, keyboard, and mouse and use it as your daily driver? That was the question posed by [ETA Prime] in a video essay and attempt to do so.
Our consensus was that it’s the Android operating system holding it back. Some of the applications you might want to run just aren’t there, and on the open side of the world, even more are missing. Is the platform usable if you can’t get the software you need to get your work done?
But that’s just the computer-as-a-tool side of the equation. The other thing a...
by The Verge - about 7 hours
You may recognize Jonathan Djob Nkondo's work from animated projects like the surreal sci-fi series Scavengers Reign or the recent Gorillaz short film The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God. But before that the French artist and animator made self-published comics that depicted strange alien worlds and future societies. Now he's revisiting that work with a lush release of two graphic novels. "I think most of the people who follow my work don't necessarily know that I published comics," Nkondo tells The Verge. "I am mainly known for my work in animations, so revisiting those books and promoting them again was a good way to spread the wor …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - about 8 hours
The Palestinian group also affirms Tehran's right to defend itself from "aggression" by the US and Israel.
by BBC - about 8 hours
The reinforcements will come from an amphibious ready group that is usually based in Japan, an official told CBS, the BBC's US partner.
by Les Décodeurs - about 9 hours
Désignés en même temps que les maires et les conseillers municipaux, les conseillers communautaires exercent des compétences décisives pour la vie de leurs administrés.
by Wired - about 10 hours
Save money and reduce your carbon footprint with these tips to snag the best deals on quality refurbished and used electronics.
by HackAdAy - about 10 hours
[My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of collaboration can speed technological advancement.
You’ve probably heard of Stirling Engines, but what’s this “thermoacoustic” business? Hot sound? Well, that’s the translation, and it’s not a bad starting point for understanding what’s going on: the engine converts heat into high-amplitude sound waves — that is, waves of pressure — which means the engine itself has no moving parts. Well, almost. Obviously moving parts are required to get power out. In [My Engines] case he’s using a piston and linear generator, but...
by Wired - about 10 hours
Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles?
by Wired - about 10 hours
There's not much else groundbreaking about the company's latest flagship, but the built-in privacy display works well without much trade-off.
by Wired - about 11 hours
Here's the best advice I have for protecting your identity online.
by Wired - about 11 hours
Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people’s Signal accounts, and more.
by Chez Foucart - about 11 hours
Dans le cadre de la rubrique « Au Conseil d’Etat » du JCP A – Semaine Juridique – Edition Administration & Collectivités territoriales, j’ai l’honneur de chroniquer – chaque semaine – quelques arrêts et jugements de la jurisprudence administrative. Voici un extrait du prochain numéro : CÉ, 12 mars 2026, Ministre de l’économie et des […]
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
As Donald Trump offers U.S. asylum to Afrikaners, thousands are already working in the country on agricultural visas.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
An eyewitness recalls the fraught encounter between a precocious American college student and a titan of German literature.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
The Trump Administration wants Claude to act like an obedient soldier. But, if you ask for a killer robot, the company argues, you might get more than you bargained for.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima, has photographed some of the biggest films of the last decade, capturing actors in between takes, sometimes at sensitive, stressful moments.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.
by HackAdAy - about 13 hours
The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a mass defection of employees and precipitated the birth of the Silicon Valley we know, and his later descent into promoting eugenics. This was not the sum of his work though, and [David Prutchi] has been experimenting with a now-mostly-forgotten device that bears the Shockley name (PDF), after finding one used in an early heart pacemaker circuit.  His findings are both comprehensive and fascinating.
The Shockley diode, or 4-layer diode as it later became known, is as its name suggests a two terminal device with a 4-layer...
by daryo Bluesky - about 14 hours
Agents IA et cybersécurité : le scénario OpenClaw
https://www.zataz.com/agents-ia-et-cybersecurite-le-scenario-openclaw/
by Journal du Lapin - about 14 hours
C’est entre l’Easter Egg et le souci du détail de la part de Nintendo, mais si vous lancez les émulateurs du Nintendo Switch Online avec les manettes officielles, l’interface change. On commence par la NES. Sans manettes particulières, la barre latérale est rouge. Avec une manette de NES, ça passe au gris et l’icône de votre compte affiche la manette. Si vous avez une manette de Famicom japonaise, ça fonctionne aussi : vous aurez le rouge de l’époque. En bonus, les effets sonores changent.
Sans manette
La NES
La Famicom
Pour la Super NES, même chose. Du rouge en standard, du gris si vous avez une manette de Super Famicom ou de Super Nintendo (européenne) et des notes de violet avec la...
by Les Décodeurs - about 16 hours
Les « Epstein Files » lèvent le voile sur la relation étroite entre le financier déchu Jeffrey Epstein et le milliardaire Leon Black, figure majeure du marché de l’art. Correspondances, documents financiers et témoignages dessinent une amitié qui soulève de nouvelles questions sur les liens entre l’homme d’affaires et le réseau du prédateur sexuel.
by HackAdAy - about 16 hours
Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using expansion cards that were effectively self-contained computers. This way an Apple IIe owner, for example, could install an Intel 8088-based AD8088 co-processor card by ALF Products and run CP/M-86 as well as MS-DOS. Unfortunately, as [Seth Kushniryk] discovered while digging into this MS-DOS option, there don’t seem to be any remaining copies of the accompanying MS-DOS 2.0 software.
The obvious response to this is of course to try and port it once again, which [Seth] did. So far he got it to boot, though it’s not quite ready for prime-time yet. Although the AD8088 card is fairly...
by Les Décodeurs - about 16 hours
Après la mort d’un soldat français au Moyen-Orient, le débat s’intensifie sur la position « strictement défensive » de la France. Les clés pour comprendre les enjeux.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 22:43
“In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many images of which are available for download. And it’s not alone—other institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, among others, make pieces in their collections accessible to all. The thing is, digital images don’t always give us the full picture, so to speak. Even two-dimensional paintings and...
by Human Progress - friday at 22:39
“Infections from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the most common cause of travelers’ diarrhea, and they commonly cause childhood diarrhea in low-income regions. In children below the age of five, whose immune systems are still developing, the infections can lead to malnourishment; they cause up to 42,000 deaths annually. Soon there may be a vaccine to protect against these infections. In the Lancet Infectious Diseases last month, scientists shared the results of the first study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an ETEC-controlling vaccine in a large pediatric population in Gambia. The vaccine—called ETVAX—is among several in development to reduce ETEC infections in both...
by Human Progress - friday at 22:35
“A government study has found that access to education, housing and nutritious food has improved nationwide… 81.4% of the population had access to education in 2024 and the use of basic supplies for studying at home — electricity, television, internet — reached 70.2% of students between 3 and 17 years old. This represented an increase of 33.5 percentage points compared to 2016. 92.1% of Mexico’s population reported access to decent housing without a lack of quality and space, while 85.9% had access to basic services in 2024. On the other hand, access to water within the home fell to 53.4% in 2024, as compared to 54.8% in 2016… 85.6% of the population did not experience a lack of access to...
by Human Progress - friday at 22:33
“BYD has reduced its EV charging times to as little as five minutes with its newly released Blade Battery 2.0 and 1.5-megawatt (1,500kW) Flash charger. The Chinese automotive giant’s Blade Battery 2.0 can charge from 20% to 97% in just 12 minutes in temperatures as low as -30°C. Under standard weather conditions, a 10% to 70% top-up is achievable in five minutes, and a 10% to 90% charge takes nine minutes. In addition to returning charging speeds comparable to refuelling a petrol or diesel car at a fuel station, the BYD Blade Battery 2.0 offers a range of over 621 miles, albeit on the generous Chinese CLTC efficiency cycle.” From EV Powered.
The post BYD Blade Battery 2.0 Slashes Charging Times to Just...
by Human Progress - friday at 22:30
“Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to a historic new low, Cancer Research UK has announced. The charity, which analysed figures, said death rates had fallen by 11% in the past decade. It added that 247 in every 100,000 people in the UK are thought to die from cancer in any given year. That is a 29% drop on the peak in 1989, which was 355 per 100,000, it said. The data also showed ovarian cancer rates had fallen by 19% in the past decade, from 2012-2014 to 2022-2024, with stomach cancer dropping by 34% and lung cancer by 22%. Bowel cancer has fallen by 6%, breast cancer by 14%, cervical cancer by 11%, leukaemia by 9% and oesophageal cancer by 12%. But some cancer death rates have increased, with...
by dwell - friday at 19:29
After the first firm turned them down, a couple hired Elements Architectural Group to reimagine the house from top to bottom while preserving its charm.When Kris Rey and Kev Cahill started meeting with architects in 2021 for their house remodel, they had lived in their Chicago bungalow for several years and had a good grasp of its pain points. The main floor was cramped with small rooms. The second floor only had two bedrooms—one for them, and one shared by their two children—but now they had a baby on the way. The basement was a Tiki bar leftover from the 1960s—and although it was admittedly fun for karaoke parties, it wasn’t working for the whole family. "Our daughter was too afraid to go down...
by dwell - friday at 18:22
Set just outside Denver, the midcentury Ditto Residence is surrounded by forest and wrapped in timber inside and out.Location: 5185 N Lariat Drive, Castle Rock, Colorado Price: $1,099,000 Year Built: 1964 Architect: James T. Ream Footprint: 2,962 square feet (2 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 2.33 Acres From the Agent: "This is a truly rare property with exceptional architectural pedigree, original integrity, and over two private acres with mountain views.  You enter the property from a bridge adjacent to the garage that mirrors the same architectural details as the home. A spacious dining area (or flexible den) offers additional built-ins and warmth from the combination of cedar, walnut, and glass. The primary...
by Usbek & Rica - friday at 17:44
TRIBUNE // Les élections municipales offrent une occasion rare de remettre la beauté au cœur du débat démocratique, défend Paul Klotz, expert associé à la Fondation Jean-Jaurès et haut fonctionnaire. Sa proposition : assumer politiquement les effets sociaux, psychiques et civiques du beau, de l’accès aux espaces verts à la préservation du patrimoine et à la végétalisation des villes.
by Paul Jorion - friday at 17:43
Illustration par ChatGPT
Ce qui s’est cassé, Jean-Baptiste, c’est précisément cette posture de réception humble face à une pensée plus ancienne et plus dense. Plusieurs ruptures successives :
•⁠ ⁠La Révolution scientifique du XVIIe a marginalisé Aristote comme « pré-scientifique » : Descartes, Bacon, puis Newton. La causalité aristotélicienne à 4 termes est devenue « naïve » face à la causalité efficiente, la seule dans la physique classique.
•⁠ ⁠Le positivisme du XIXe a achevé le travail : ce qui ne se mesure pas n’existe pas.
•⁠ ⁠Et aujourd’hui le machine learning a hérité de ça : un monde où seule la causalité efficiente compte, formalisée en descente...
by dwell - friday at 17:26
Two real estate stars and their brother are convicted of sex trafficking, whimsical home decor brand cofounder Victoria MacKenzie-Childs dies at 77, and more.A London appeals court ruled in favor of Zaha Hadid Architects in its dispute with the Zaha Hadid Foundation. The decision allows the architecture firm to end a licensing agreement, made before the late architect’s death, that required it to pay a six percent royalty to the Foundation in order to use her name. Here’s what the decision means for both the firm and the foundation. (Wallpaper)  Former top real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, along with their brother, Alon, a security executive, were just found guilty by a jury in Manhattan of...