Kremlin officials describe the five hours of talks as "constructive" but say "a lot of work lies ahead".

Across social media, definitely. In her new memoir, “American Canto,” not so much.

Not every project has to be complicated– reinventing the wheel has its place, but sometimes you find a module or two that does exactly what you want, and the project is more than halfway done. That the kind of project [mircemk]’s Simple Retro Style VFO is — it’s a variable frequency oscillator for HAM and other use, built with just a couple of modules.
Strictly speaking, this is all you need for the project.
The modules in question are the SI5351 Clock Generator module, which is a handy bit of kit with its own crystal reference and PLL to generate frequencies up to 150 MHz, and the Elecrow CrowPanel 1.28inch-HMI ESP32 Rotary Display. The ESP32 in the CrowPanel controls the SI5351 module via I2C;...

One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabers to rattle seems to have lost its edge.

The longevity entrepreneur’s five-and-a-half-hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics.

MechaHItler returns.

« Nous avons pu nous mettre d’accord sur certains points (…), d’autres ont suscité des critiques, mais l’essentiel est qu’une discussion constructive ait eu lieu », a estimé le conseiller diplomatique du Kremlin, Iouri Ouchakov, à l’issue de l’entrevue, mardi soir, entre Vladimir Poutine et l’émissaire américain Steve Witkoff a duré près de cinq heures au Kremlin, à Moscou.

The final outing for the Duffer Brothers' hit Netflix series might just be getting started in the charts.

I love instant cameras because of how they help me slow down and be creative without the distractions of a phone. Holding a real print also feels grounding in a screen-dominated age, which is why I think a lot of people these days are drawn to them — and why models with old-school vibes like the Polaroid Flip make such great gifts. It’s usually pricey, but today you can buy the Flip for $184.99 ($35 off) directly from Polaroid, which is its best price to date. Amazon is also selling the camera with two packs of film for $212.49 ($37 off), which marks a new low too.
Polaroid Flip Where to Buy: $219.99 $184.99 at Polaroid $219.99 $186.99 at Best Buy $249.99 $212.49 at Amazon (with 16 prints)
Polaroid cameras...

« Seule une portion » de ces avions nécessitera une intervention, relativise l’avionneur européen qui avait dû la semaine dernière remplacer en urgence un logiciel de commande vulnérable aux radiations solaires sur ce même type d’appareil.

Indiegogo is planning to launch a new “Express Crowdfunding” campaign format that lets creators ship things while the campaign is on-going instead of forcing creators to wait until the campaign is over. Indiegogo spokesperson Maciej Kuc tells The Verge that the change was spurred by Indiegogo’s recent move to the infrastructure from its new owner, board game crowdfunding company Gamefound: Switching to an entirely new technology is always a major challenge. The technology Indiegogo is currently working on was originally created for Gamefound – a slightly more “typical” crowdfunding platform. Its core assumption was that creators run a campaign to raise funds in order to bring a product to life. The...

“Microbes in the breath of North Atlantic right whales contain valuable information about the animals’ health, a new study has found. Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts used drones to capture spray from the blowholes of the endangered species. They then analyzed the bacteria in the spray and connected that information with other data to gain a clearer picture of the health of individual whales. ‘This is really exciting because we may have just found another way to conduct health checkups of these critically endangered whales,’ says Carolyn Miller, a research associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the lead author of the study, published...

“BG3 players exploit children,” reads a Google AI-generated headline. | Image: Google Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one - but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that. I read a lot of my bedtime news via Google Discover, aka "swipe right on your Samsung Galaxy or Google Pixel homescreen until you see a news feed appear," and that's where these new AI headlines are beginning to show up.
They're not all bad. For example, "Origami model wins prize" and "Hyundai, Kia gain share" seem fine, even if not remotely...

“Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an approach that also holds promise in the search for life beyond our planet. The researchers found evidence of microbial life in rocks about 3.3 billion years old from South Africa, when Earth was roughly a quarter its current age. They also found molecular traces left by microbes that engaged in oxygen-producing photosynthesis – conversion of sunlight into energy – in rocks about 2.5 billion years old from South Africa. The scientists developed an approach, harnessing machine learning, to distinguish in ancient rocks between organic molecules...

Films four and five, if they even happen, would tell a whole other saga.

Rohit Prasad, Amazon's SVP of AGI. This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Amazon's AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards.
"I want real-world utility. None of these benchmarks are real," Rohit Prasad, Amazon's SVP of AGI, told me ahead of today's announcements at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. "The only way to do real benchmarking is if everyone conforms to the same training data and the evals are completely held out. That's not what's happening. The evals are frankly getting noisy, and they're not showing the real power …
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Prior to last week, only highly specialized political insiders knew the extent of David Sacks' influence in the Trump White House: tech policy hawks, lobbyists, reporters, and right-wing operatives infuriated that the billionaire venture capitalist was turning Donald Trump toward artificial intelligence and against the interests of the MAGA base. A deeply reported New York Times article published on Sun …
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PC component prices are really out of control right now.

You've been giving Google the tools it needs for decades.

Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project.
PVC pipe houses a self-contained LoRa repeater, complete with a big stack of D-size alkaline cells.
LoRa is a fantastic solution for long-range and low-power wireless communication (and popular, judging by the number of projects built around it) and LoRaTube provides an autonomous repeater, contained entirely in a length of PVC pipe. Out the top comes the antenna and inside is all the necessary hardware, along with a stack of good old D-sized alkaline cells feeding a supercap-buffered power supply of his own design. It’s weatherproof, inexpensive,...

Dans ce 99ème numéro de Complorama nous revenons avec Rudy Reichstadt et Tristan Mendès France sur l'affaire Epstein devenue un mythe central et increvable au sein de la complosphère internationale.

The errors in one of the most beautiful shows ever made continue a modern tradition of reformatting things that are better off left alone.

In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world.

Apple has a new AI boss, a delayed Siri reboot, and edgy investors. Now, Gemini veteran Amar Subramanya must turn invisible AI into visible upside

The Beatles Anthology, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and Fire and Water: Making The Avatar Films are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.

Arrêté le 25 novembre sur un chantier à Laval, l’homme âgé de 39 ans, déjà condamné à six reprises pour diverses infractions, a été mis en examen pour vol en bande organisée et association de malfaiteurs en récidive.

Cyber Monday is over, but many deals are still available, at least for now. These are the absolute best discounts on gear we've tested ourselves.

Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete 30-minute training film, which, what it lacks in glitz, it makes up for in mathematical rigor.
We appreciated that it started out talking about numbers and significant figures instead of jumping right into the slide rule. One thing about the slide rule is that you have to sort of understand roughly what the answer is. So, on a rule, 2×3, 20×30, 20×3, and 0.2×300 are all the same operation.
You don’t actually get to the slide rule part for about seven minutes, but it is a good idea to watch the introductory part....

Illustration par ChatGPT « Le monde n’est pas fait de choses, mais de processus. »
— Alfred North Whitehead Introduction : L’illusion classificatoire
Java est un excellent langage de programmation. Il est robuste, performant, et a prouvé son efficacité dans d’innombrables systèmes critiques — banques, hôpitaux, infrastructures. Ce n’est pas Java le problème. C’est ce que Java présuppose sur la nature du monde.
Car derrière chaque langage de programmation se cache une ontologie — une théorie implicite de ce qui existe et de comment les choses s’articulent entre elles. Et l’ontologie de Java, comme celle de la plupart des langages orientés objet, est profondément ancrée dans une...

“Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch today announced that in the first 11 months of 2025, New York City saw the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims in recorded history. During the 11-month stretch, the city recorded 652 shooting incidents and 812 shooting victims, compared to the previous all-time lows of 696 and 828 respectively, set in 2018. For the month of November, murders were also at the lowest level in recorded history with 16 murders, tying the previous record set in 2018. There were zero murders in all of Queens and Staten Island, and overall murder was down 46.6% in November 2025 compared to November 2024.” From New York City Police Department.
The post NYPD Announces Record-Low...

Altman told OpenAI employees to ramp up work on improving its chatbot, amid forward leaps by Google's Gemini in recent weeks

Trump said he expected to unveil his pick for the next Fed chair sometime in early 2026

Model/Actriz “Diva”
The first time I saw Model/Actriz live I was surprised to learn that a lot of the sounds I assumed were coming from “electronic” instruments were in fact being played on guitar by Jack Wetmore. Of course, this is a guitar running through various pedals and devices, so it’s effectively a more traditional conduit for “electronic music,” but the physicality does change the feel significantly. There’s an immediacy and implied violence in how Wetmore plays guitar, and it adds to the malevolent atmosphere of a track like “Diva.” Cole Haden’s vocal relies on this tension in the spoken verses; the most mundane details of his European travelogue imbued with a sense that...

Alors que le dépouillement des bulletins de vote continue au Honduras, où ont été organisées des élections générales (présidentielle, parlementaires et municipales) dimanche 30 novembre, Donald Trump gracie l’ex-président de droite Juan Orlando Hernández, condamné aux États-Unis à quarante-cinq ans de prison pour trafic de drogue.

As the AI boom overwhelms grids, Google is sketching a 10-year shift toward space-based data centers, starting with hardware racks launching in 2027

During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners needed to guarantee a solid supply of fuel to keep the mechanized army functional. Tanks, trucks, jeeps, and aircraft all drink petroleum at a prodigious rate. The challenge, then, was to figure out how to get fuel over to France in as great a quantity as possible.
War planners took a diverse approach. A bulk supply of fuel in jerry cans was produced to supply the initial invasion effort, while plans were made to capture port facilities that could handle deliveries from ocean-going tankers. Both had their limitations, so a third method was sought to back them up. Thus...

La Fédération internationale de judo vient de réintégrer les sportifs russes, sans condition, dans ses compétitions. Une décision qui porte la marque de son très russophile président.

En déplacement en Chine jusqu’au vendredi 5 décembre, le chef de l’État doit s’entretenir avec Xi Jinping, dont le pays conserve de bonnes relations avec la Russie, notamment sur la question de la guerre en Ukraine. Paris souhaite également “apaiser” sa relation avec Pékin, observe la presse étrangère, dans un contexte de tensions commerciales croissantes ces derniers mois.

Un nouveau texte sur l’exemption des haredim, assoupli sous la pression des partis ultraorthodoxes appartenant à la majorité gouvernementale, a été présenté à la Knesset, suscitant la colère de certains membres du Likoud et de leurs alliés d’extrême droite. Le sort de la coalition au pouvoir est en jeu alors que se profilent les élections prévues en octobre 2026.

Toujours largement répandue outre-Manche, la présence des citoyens aux côtés des magistrats va être réservée aux affaires dont les peines encourues dépassent trois années d’emprisonnement. La presse déplore une attaque contre les fondations de la justice du pays.

“A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. The mass killings — defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer — are tracked in the database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Fox, who manages the database, says mass killings were down about 24% this year compared to 2024, which was also about a 20% drop compared to 2023.” From ABC News. The...

While many Ukrainians believe they have sacrificed too much for their country to lose territory to Russia, others are desperate for the war to end.

Le président français effectuera une visite d’Etat en Chine du mercredi 3 au vendredi 5 décembre, alors que les contentieux s’accumulent entre Pékin et Paris, avec des positions souvent irréconciliables : la Chine, qui continue de soutenir Moscou dans sa guerre en Ukraine, représente presque la moitié du déficit commercial français.

Le gouvernement français espère toujours pouvoir faire voter un budget. Mais même pour faire adopter un texte très loin des économies initialement recherchées, il pourrait être contraint de passer en force, observe “Le Soir”, à Bruxelles.

Pope Leo XIV demanded justice for the more than 200 victims of the disaster, at the end of his three-day visit to Lebanon.

Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jotting things down in your notebook. Alternatively, you could save a lot of hassle by just building this moon and tide clock from [pjdines1994] instead.
The build is based on a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which is hooked up to a real-time clock module and a Waveshare 3.7-inch e-paper display. Upon this display, the clock draws an image relevant to the current phase of the moon. As the write-up notes, it was a tad fussy to store 24 images for all the different lunar phases within the Pi Pico, but it was achieved nonetheless with a touch of compression. As for tides, it covers those...

France • August 2018 📷 #flashes

The strikes, authorised by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, have raised fresh legality questions - but the White House says laws have been followed.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The gifts will go to children up to 10 years old that live in certain zip codes

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, 27 novembre 2025, Mme A. (req. 469793) Précisions […]

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J’ai dû abandonner mon iPhone habituel pour une quinzaine de jours, le temps de prendre en main et de tester en profondeur le tout nouveau smartphone
Realme GT8 Pro pour Mac4Ever
. Si la transition vers Android s’est faite sans heurts sur mes usages quotidiens, un manque s’est rapidement fait sentir : la localisation de mes affaires. Mes AirTags étant devenus inopérants dès lors que j’ai changé de carte SIM, il me fallait une solution équivalente et fiable compatible avec l’OS de Google. C’est dans ce contexte que j’ai mis la main sur le pack de
quatre traceurs UGREEN FineTrack G
, une solution qui...

Si vous aviez une Game Boy Advance en 2001, vous avez forcément joué à Mario Kart Super Circuit. C’était LE jeu pour les trajets en bus trop longs, les vacances à la mer chiantes avec les parents, les heures à tuer le weekend… Eh bien figurez-vous que pendant tout ce temps, on jouait à un jeu “cassé” sans même le savoir.
Le truc, c’est que Mario Kart Super Circuit affiche bien 60 fps… mais uniquement pour les personnages et les décors. Le circuit lui-même, qui tourne avec l’effet Mode 7 comme sur Super Nintendo, ne se rafraîchissait qu’à 30 fps. Et c’est un détail que personne n’a vraiment remarqué pendant presque un quart de siècle.
Et là, y’a un moddeur du nom...

Je pense que comme moi, vous n’avez jamais vu un fauteuil roulant monter des escaliers ? Hé ça va changer en lisant cet article puisque Toyota vient de présenter un truc complètement dingue lors du Japan Mobility Show 2025. Il s’agit d’un fauteuil roulant autonome avec des pattes articulées qui lui permettent de se déplacer comme un crabe. Le bestiau s’appelle “Walk Me” et c’est pas juste un concept de designer sous acide puisque ce machin dispose de quatre pattes repliables inspirées de la locomotion animale, notamment celle des chèvres, des crabes et des petits vieux chez Auchan le mardi matin à 8h30. Et quand je dis inspirées, c’est pas du bullshit marketing car les ingénieurs de...

Some of the medium’s all-time best shows ended, but a crop of new contenders is keeping meaningful audio alive.

Nausea can be a sign that labor is approaching, but it’s also a sign of so many other things—reading the news, for example.

Matt Locke observe depuis plus de trente ans la façon dont nos attentions se transforment à l’ère numérique. Invité du KIKK Festival dont Usbek & Rica est partenaire, il assure qu'il existe de vraies raisons d’être optimiste sur notre capacité collective à reprendre la main sur nos écrans. On l'a rencontré.

L’accessibilité web c’est comme le tri sélectif… tout le monde dit que c’est génial mais azy, j’ai pas le temps. Et pourtant, c’est super important car près de 80% des pages web ont des problèmes de contraste de texte.
C’est le souci noumber ouane détecté sur le million de sites analysés chaque année par
WebAIM
. En gros, si vous avez un site, y’a de fortes chances que certains visiteurs galèrent à lire votre contenu, et je ne vous parle pas uniquement des personnes malvoyantes, hein… y’a aussi le daltonisme qui touche environ 8% des hommes et 0,5% des femmes. Rajoutez à ça les gens qui lisent leur téléphone en plein soleil, ceux qui ont une dalle de laptop toute pourrie, et...

India wants all smartphone makers to pre-install new devices with a state-owned cyber security app.