In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory. Not in a supernova that would briefly outshine its entire galaxy. It just faded. The object, known as M31-2014-DS1, sits about 2.5 million light-years away in M31. Kishalay De of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute led the effort to track what happened. The team pulled together data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission and a long list of ground and space telescopes, combing through observations from 2005 to 2023. Their findings were published February 12 in Science. At first, nothing seemed catastrophic. In 2014, the star brightened in mid-infrared light by about 50 percent over two...

WormGPT.AI compromis : fuite revendiquée de 19 000 utilisateurs, e-mails, paiements, abonnements et métadonnées....

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Le dernier bastion
Même si nous acceptons que les propriétés soient relationnelles, que l’émergence soit indépendante du substrat, que K = e/π² régisse les transitions de régime à travers les échelles – nous pourrions encore soutenir que les relations causales font partie du mobilier fondamental du réel. Le monde serait doté d’une structure causale : le feu cause la brûlure, les gènes causent les phénotypes, les taux d’intérêt causent l’investissement. Cette structure causale peut être difficile à découvrir (tout l’édifice de la méthodologie expérimentale et de l’inférence causale existe pour cette raison), mais elle serait là – inscrite dans...

Après 34 heures de voyage, la spationaute française et ses trois coéquipiers de la mission Crew-12 sont arrivés samedi dans la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), où ils resteront huit mois.

Chine : 11 exécutions liées à des centres d’arnaques au Myanmar, "boucherie de porcs", traite humaine et riposte judiciaire extraterritoriale....

Chine : projet de loi cyber avec interdiction de sortie pour les pirates, ciblage des facilitateurs, et portée extraterritoriale contre la fraude transfrontalière....

Arrestation au Minnesota : menaces en ligne contre l’ICE, accusations fédérales, doxxing et climat de tensions à Minneapolis....

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, cheap speakers, and Blu-ray players, but sometimes you find something like the Dash, an educational toy robot. When [Jonathan] came across one of these, he decided to use it as a turtle robot. However, he found the available Python libraries insufficient, and improving on them required some reverse-engineering. While [Jonathan] was rather impressed with the robot as it was – it had a good set of features, and thought had clearly been put into the design – he wanted a more open way to control it. There was already...

92829 V 2.0 : 16 titres signés ZATAZ sur la cyberfraude, le gaming et la prévention numérique....

Lesley Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant. | Image: Jmail The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein's emails into detailed dossiers on his associates. Entries include known visits to Epstein's properties, possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes, and laws that they might have broken. The reports are dense, listing how many emails they exchanged with Epstein, basic biographical information, and details about how they're connected. Beyond that, there are entries for the properties Epstein owns, detailing how they were acquired and the alleged activities that took place there. There are also entries for his business dealings, incl …
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ByteDance's video generator wins the prize for being the splashiest new AI model of the past few weeks.

The former US president didn't name Trump, but lamented the lack of "shame" and "decorum" among public officials.

Le vaisseau lancé vendredi par une fusée SpaceX depuis Cap Canaveral, en Floride, s’est amarré à la Station spatiale internationale, située à 400 kilomètres de la Terre, à 21 h 15 à Paris.

The US secretary of state reassures European leaders that the Trump administration backs the transatlantic alliance.

If you've been nostalgic for some Cartoon Network classics like 'Kids Next Door' and 'Foster's,' Tubi's got you covered starting in March.

OLED screens already feel like magic. Colors pop on your phone. Blacks look truly black on your TV. The panel stays thin, smooth, and flexible. Yet a stubborn problem inside the device keeps engineers from pushing brightness much further without paying a price in power and heat. Researchers at KAIST say they have found a way around that limit. On Jan. 11, the institute announced a new near-planar light outcoupling structure and an OLED design method that can cut internal light loss. The team, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo of the School of Electrical Engineering, reports that the combined approach can more than double light-emission efficiency in small pixels while keeping OLED’s flat form. The idea targets...

Are you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage video titler from the 80s, and [Cameron Kaiser] has written up a journey of repair and reverse-engineering for it. But his work is far more than just a refurbish job; [Cameron] transforms the device into something not unlike 8-bit homebrew computers of the era, able to upload and run custom programs with a limited blister keypad for input, and displaying output on a composite video monitor. Hardware-wise, the Super Micro Script is almost a home computer, so [Cameron] got it accepting and running custom code.A video titler like the Super Micro Script gave people the ability to display...

The FX series, with its Wikipedia-page-like narrowness on the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette, excises all that contemporary drama that makes the Kennedy story, one of a relationship to a greater culture, so compelling.

The viewers have spoken, and Glitch has decided to continue 'Knights of Guinevere' with new episodes for the near future.

An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength and delicacy has always looked a little mysterious, especially because elephants have thick skin and relatively poor eyesight. A new study says part of the answer sits on the trunk itself. Along the dorsal and lateral surfaces, roughly 1000 whiskers act like a sensing array. Researchers report that these whiskers are built with “functional gradients” that make contact feel different depending on where it happens along each whisker. The work, published in Science, comes from an interdisciplinary German collaboration led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute...

Is dynamic pricing the future of grocery stores?

The shadow of adaptation hovers over two of the more surprising State of Play reveals.

Le parquet a par ailleurs annoncé avoir été saisi de trois dossiers, à la suite de plaintes ou de signalement, visant le diplomate Fabrice Aidan, le chef d’orchestre Frédéric Chaslin et un recruteur de mannequin.

Très grièvement blessé jeudi, le jeune homme de 23 ans avait été hospitalisé et placé dans le coma. Le parquet a ouvert une enquête pour violences aggravées. Le ou les auteurs de l’agression ne sont pas identifiés.

The lovely thing about the x86 architecture is its decades of backwards compatibility, which makes it possible to run 1990s operating systems on modern-day hardware, with relatively few obstacles in the way. Recently [Yeo Kheng Meng] did just that with Windows 98 SE on a 2020 ThinkPad P12s Gen 1, booting it alongside Windows 11 and Linux from the same NVMe drive.
Naturally, after previously getting MS-DOS 6.22 from 1994 running on a 2020 ThinkPad X13, the step to doing the same with Windows 98 SE wasn’t that large. The main obstacles that you face come in the form of UEFI and hardware driver support.
Both ThinkPad laptops have in common that they support UEFI-CSM mode, also known as ‘classical BIOS’, as...

At the smallest scales of matter, nature behaves in ways that feel almost counterintuitive. Individual particles follow simple rules, but when they interact together, entirely new behaviors can emerge. This collective behavior sits at the heart of condensed matter physics, a field that tries to explain why materials act the way they do. One of the most puzzling and influential examples of this phenomenon is the Kondo effect, a quantum interaction that has shaped decades of research into magnetism and electronic materials. A new study now shows that this famous effect does not behave the same way in all cases. Instead, its outcome depends on something surprisingly simple; the size of a particle’s spin. By...

I use an FX Pocket Chronograph V2 to help monitor the power output of my air rifles.
It's a small radar based device which hangs below the barrel and links to my phone to write readings into the FX Radar app.
Although obviously quite useful while shooting, I also wanted to be able to monitor behaviour over time. For example, if the rifle's output trends down, it might suggest worn seals, whereas trending up could raise significant legal concerns.
So, like most other things that I monitor, I wanted to get the data into InfluxDB so that I could visualise and alert using Grafana.
This post describes the script that I wrote to process FX Radar exports and ingest them into InfluxDB.
Although I use this for airguns,...

There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.

Un simple verre et les vacances peuvent tourner au cauchemar. Souvent profondément traumatisées, des femmes racontent la soumission chimique et les violences sexuelles qu’elles ont subies hors de France.

Buying a pre-assembled gaming desktop makes sense for some. It can save you time and money, too, compared to buying PC components piecemeal. If you’re weighing your options, consider some Presidents Day offers on iBuyPower’s pre-built desktops, including the $1,899 RDY Element 9 Pro R07 and the $2,099.99 Slate — both of which are stocked with high-end AMD processors and GPUs that can tear through most games at 1440p with fast frame rates. They also come with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and 2TB of storage, along with a mouse and keyboard. Digging into the Element 9 Pro R07, it features AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, a Radeon 9070 XT graphics card with 16GB of VRAM (roughly on-par with the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti),...

There’s a playable henge of fiddles. | Image: Georgia Tech / The Verge Georgia Tech has announced the finalists in its annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Every year, for the last 28 years, the school invites inventors from around the world to submit new instruments of their own design to compete for $10,000 in prizes. Past finalists have included founding members of Teenage Engineering, Artiphon, and Roli. And last year KOMA Elektronik won for their creation the Chromaplane. This year's finalists are an impressive collection of oddballs. There's Amphibian Modules, a modular synth that swaps patch cables for a dish of saltwater. The Gajveena, which combines a double bass with a traditional Indian...

Cette ville du sud de la Gironde vit ces jours-ci une crue historique de la Garonne. Même si certaines leçons ont été tirées des précédentes inondations de 2021, un sentiment de fatalité prédomine.

Giving some newborns in Guinea-Bissau an established hepatitis B treatment but not others is "unethical", it says.

Un jeune Barcelonais a décidé sur un coup de tête de faire ses valises pour l’Australie, où il a enchaîné les petits boulots durant quatre mois. Une expérience décisive qu’il évoque avec enthousiasme dans le quotidien “La Vanguardia”.

Malgré son ton conciliant, le chef de la diplomatie américaine a délivré ce samedi 14 février un discours empreint de nationalisme et de critiques à l’encontre des démocraties européennes. Pour la presse internationale, la relation transatlantique ne sera pas sauvée lors de la Conférence de Munich sur la sécurité.

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À Marseille, le football est presque une religion. Et son club, l’OM, continue d’affirmer une identité populaire et engagée, à rebours des standards actuels de ce sport.

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to about 773,000 years ago, give or take 4,000 years. That level of precision is rare for fossils this old, and it pulls you closer to a moment near the split that later led to modern humans, Neandertals, and Denisovans. The research is led by an international team including Jean-Jacques Hublin of Collège de France and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, David Lefèvre of Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry, Giovanni Muttoni of Università degli Studi di Milano, and Abderrahim Mohib of...

Musician Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are like a Tarot card deck full of whimsical ideas meant to break up a creative-block situation, particularly in the recording studio. They’re loads of fun to pick one at random and actually try to follow the advice, as intended, but some of them are just plain good advice for creatives.
One that keeps haunting me is “Honor thy error as a hidden intention”, which basically boils down to taking a “mistake” and seeing where it leads you if you had meant to do it. I was just now putting the finishing touches on this week’s Hackaday Podcast, and noticed that we have been honoring a mistake for the past 350-something shows. Here’s how it happened.
When Mike...

My ongoing quest to turn my iPhone into one of my favorite consoles of all time has led me to a curiously named controller. GameSir's Pocket Taco is only barely pocketable, and distinctly lacking in taco fillings, but for $35, it's an excellent and easy way to turn your phone into a Game Boy-inspired handheld for playing retro games that don't require a pair of thumbsticks.
Unlike the Abxylute M4 mobile controller that attaches to phones using magnets, or the Backbone Pro that sandwiches your device between a split gamepad, the Pocket Taco uses a hinged mechanism that, for lack of a better description, bites onto the bottom half of your sma …
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In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots - and a second follows. They appear to fire nine more shots as Pretti lies on the ground.
The Trump administration has claimed Pretti was shot because of his legally carried gun - that the agents, later identified in records viewed by ProPublica as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer Raymundo Gutierrez, acted in self-defense. But the tool he was visibly holdin …
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L’opposant russe, qui est décédé le 16 février 2024, aurait été empoisonné avec une toxine de grenouille venimeuse. Un assassinat dont l’État russe est responsable, affirme le ministère des Affaires étrangères du Royaume-Uni dans un communiqué.

Should you splurge on the new Series 11, or will the SE 3 do? Let us help you figure out which version to get (and which to avoid).

There are many applications where you have limits on how much you can cram into a particular space. There are also many applications where you need as much battery as you can get. At the intersection of those applications, you may soon be able to 3D print custom batteries to fit into oddly shaped spaces that might otherwise go to waste.
Commercial batteries are typically cylindrical or rectangular. In theory, you could build tooling to make batteries of any size or shape you want, but it’s an expensive process in small quantities. [Lawrence Ulrich] on Spectrum talks about a new process, developed by [Gabe Elias], that can print anodes, cathodes, separators, and casings for custom battery shapes with no...

With over a decade of experience in reviewing gaming laptops, here’s my rundown of what to consider before pulling the trigger.

Whether you have privacy concerns or you just want to freely tinker, these are our favorite alternatives to stock Android.

Plus: Meta plans to add face recognition to its smart glasses, Jared Kushner named as part of whistleblower’s mysterious national security complaint, and more.

Filing taxes is a pain. Here’s how H&R Block DIY performed against other services I tested.

I spent years searching for a livable secular world view, but none of them quite offered the value of belief.

Arthur Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969,” provides a view into a world otherwise all but invisible to passersby.

Summary: Chocolate and roses began as rare, prestigious goods, but industrialization and global trade have made them far more affordable, freeing up more time for what matters most. Long before heart-shaped boxes lined supermarket aisles, cacao was consumed as a bitter ceremonial drink in Mesoamerica and valued enough to function as a medium of exchange. Among the Aztecs, cacao beans could be traded for everyday goods, and the beverage prepared from them was associated with wealth and status. Chocolate entered Europe in the 16th century as a rare and expensive commodity, with high prices of sugar and spices helping to keep the elaborately prepared drink from the hands of ordinary people. Only with the rise of...

AI promises to fix dating apps’ swipe fatigue and first-message dread. It may just turn love into something smoother, safer — and strangely less human

Plan the perfect girls’ trip with this list of the best weekend destinations in the U.S. — for music, food, and fun

These five lines offer prime amenities and extra touches that will let you live the life of luxury — often in child-free environments

J'sais pas si parmi vous, y'en a qui ont déjà pris des cours de dactylographie genre à l'école où vous deviez taper "asdf jkl;" durant des heures en regardant un écran tristounet mais j'imagine que c'était chiant à mourir ! Hé bien quelqu'un a eu l'idée de transformer ça en jeu de course arcade façon Outrun sous stéroïdes !
TypeToRace, c'est un jeu de course 3D gratuit qui tourne directement dans votre navigateur et où votre vitesse dépend de votre capacité à taper des mots rapidement. Plus vous tapez vite, plus votre voiture accélère et vous vous retrouvez donc à foncer sur une route synthwave avec des néons roses et bleus partout pendant que vous tentez de taper "algorithm" sans faire...

Médiapart, ICE et le « régime étasunien »
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/correcteurs/2026/01/28/le-regime-etasunien/

Like most other countries, South Korea has a persistent piracy problem. Online streaming platforms in particular have flourished in recent years.
While several large piracy platforms such as Noonoo and TVWIKI have been shut down, new threats continue to emerge. To deal with this problem, Korean rightsholders use advanced OSINT tools to track down offenders and hold them responsible. In addition, dedicated anti-piracy groups deployed advanced AI monitoring systems. While anti-piracy efforts increasingly turn into an AI-assisted arms race, human involvement remains valuable too. In fact, the Korea Copyright Protection Agency (KCOPA) is actively recruiting more people to help monitor foreign language pirate...

Nous sommes le 14 février, c’est l’anniversaire de Lara Croft. C’est un Easter Egg tout simple, dans le jeu que tous les journalistes qui testent des Mac connaissent : Shadow of the Tomb Raider. C’est un portage efficace avec un benchmark de test. Si vous jouez le 14 février, le jour de l’anniversaire de Lara Croft, donc, vous verrez un petit message pendant l’écran de chargement. Pour l’anecdote, je l’ai découvert par hasard en 2019 en testant une carte graphique. Je ne sais pas si c’est dans toutes les versions du jeu, mais je suppose que c’est le cas.
Joyeux anniversaire, Lara!
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Les droits de l'Homme, en particulier ceux de la communauté LGBTQ+, ont été érodés ces cinq dernières années. Au vu de la position de la Hongrie, elle ne remplirait aujourd'hui plus les conditions requises pour adhérer à l'UE. Cette dernière peut-elle simplement rester passive et ne pas intervenir ou va-t-elle faire la différence ? Les rues de Budapest étaient très animées, il n'y avait pas que des personnes de la communauté queer, mais aussi des retraités et des familles, comme l'a expliqué Ármin (27) : « À ma grande surprise, c'était noir de monde, calme et il n'y avait pas beaucoup de policiers. » Jamais autant de personnes ne s'étaient rendues au CSD [Christopher Street Day,...

Caen Antifa fait une mise au point sur la venue du média Frontières à la fac et la mobilisation antifasciste qui a pu empêcher leur présence. -
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