The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows that life, particularly marine life, recovered much more quickly than previously thought. New genera of plankton began to appear within thousands of years after the event. Chris Lowery, an associate research professor at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics in the Jackson School of Geosciences, conducted this study in a way that allowed for the investigation of a critical point in Earth’s history, the aftermath of the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period. After that, life underwent a re-organization of ecosystems globally. Prior to this research,...

Si vous pensiez que votre Wii ne servait plus qu'à caler un meuble ou à prendre la poussière au fond du placard, détrompez-vous, car cette dernière vient de retrouver une utilité totalement inutile donc indispensable : Commander des pizzas.
Un rétro-gamer du nom de Pete de la chaine Retro Game Attic a réussi l'exploit de se faire livrer une Domino's Pizza en passant commande directement depuis sa console de 2006. Et ça c'est pas grâce à Nintendo puisque la société japonaise a d'abord coupé les serveurs WiiConnect24 en 2013, puis le service Demae-Can (la chaîne de livraison) a cessé de fonctionner en 2017.
Mais c'était sans compter sur la communauté homebrew qui visiblement avait faim !!
Des...

Of course ad agencies love AI commercials, this Kalshi ad only cost $2,000 to make. I'll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads. Artsy ones, funny ones, weird ones, emotional ones - TV commercials were my childhood TikTok before any of us were using terms like "short-form video." But like most creative things in my life, AI is sucking the joy out of it. And it's only going to suck harder this year.
Ads are mini-movies, posters, illustrations, and photoshoots with an underlying purpose: to burn whatever product they're flogging into your brain as quickly as possible. It requires a great deal of creativity, and in some cases, a substantial production budget. And while the creative in me loves...

It's not perfect, but it's one tool to help users spot AI manipulation.

« J’ai demandé au gouvernement d’engager la procédure accélérée pour que ça puisse aller le plus vite possible », déclare Emmanuel Macron dans une vidéo diffusée samedi par BFM-TV.

Le président américain accuse Ottawa de complaisance à l’égard du Parti communiste chinois, lui qui, depuis son retour à la Maison Blanche, a régulièrement répété qu’il souhaitait que le Canada devienne le 51ᵉ Etat américain.

One person died and 35 were injured as trilateral discussions in Abu Dhabi were set to resume.

President Xi has been accused of using investigations to purge political rivals.

There's a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station's Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she's recently moved to a place simply called "the City" from the middle of nowhere, and like me, she's an avid writer. But these biographical details aren't the important thing; it's the way she's painted by the game's incredibly sharp writing where I start to feel uncomfortably seen. There are a lot of characters in media that are awkward or socially anxious, but few that are drawn with such piercing specificity. The point-and-click game is minimalist in its mechanics. Consisting mostly of conversations, it's broken up by a few puzzles, object in …
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Thousands of people are affected when heating plants are targeted by Russian forces.

I respect Gemini using the royal “we” here. By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple's business. So last week's news that it was enabling something called Personal Intelligence felt like a victory lap. Personal Intelligence allows Gemini to reference past conversations and access your data in other Google services, including Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and search history, without you specifically prompting it to look in those sources. It's entirely opt-in, and you choose which apps Gemini can access and which it can't. It's in beta and only available to people with AI Pro and Ultra subscrip …
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send hot cocoa to my freezing-cold house, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about private garbage collectors and vintage watches and My Favorite Murder, watching The Running Man (which was not great) and Sinners (which was extremely great), giving my Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses another whirl, nostalgia-tripping my way through The Format's new album, sitting in the audience for the first Star Search on Netflix, finally reading Dungeon Crawle …
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Responsibly dispose of your food scraps with one of these indoor, (mostly) odor-free, WIRED-tested devices.

A common cold can feel like a small thing until it is not. One day you feel fine, and the next you wake up congested, drained, and foggy. You may blame the virus. New research suggests you should also look at your own early defenses. In a paper, researchers report that the body’s first response to rhinovirus often predicts whether you get sick, and how severe symptoms become. Rhinovirus is the most frequent cause of the common cold. It also plays a major role in breathing problems for people with asthma and other long-term lung conditions. “As the number one cause of common colds and a major cause of breathing problems in people with asthma and other chronic lung conditions, rhinoviruses are very important...

L'autre jour, je m'amusais à regarder ce qu'une petite application Android que j'avais installée
envoyait comme infos à ses serveurs
, et j'ai encore galéré avec une tripotée d'outils différents. Entre ADB pour récupérer le fichier, Apktool pour le désassembler, Jadx pour lire le code et les scripts de signature à rallonge, y'a de quoi se taper la tête contre les murs. On est en 2026, et le reverse engineering Android ressemble encore parfois à de la spéléologie sans lumière dans une grotte remplie de goudron.
Puis c'est là que je suis tombé sur apk.sh, et ça m'a sauvé ma soirée. C'est un script Bash tout simple, mais qui joue le petit chef d'orchestre pour automatiser toutes les tâches...

Fears of quantum computing breaking the back of blockchains are getting more realistic.

The LED devices we'd actually buy with our own money.

Cette réunion a été décrite comme « constructive », par le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky. Le bilan provisoire des dernières attaques sur le territoire ukrainien est d’un mort et une trentaine de blessés.

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Sulnoon, restaurant prisé dans la ville de Chiba, à l’est de Tokyo, attire chaque jour nombre de clients grâce à ses nouilles froides, grande spécialité nord-coréenne. Mun Yeon-hui, la patronne du lieu, a fui jadis la Corée du Nord au péril de sa vie. Le quotidien “Asahi Shimbun” relate son histoire.

Le 17 janvier, le parti d’extrême droite autrichien FPÖ a lancé sa propre station de radio numérique, “Austria First”, “libre de toute censure gouvernementale, de l’idéologie de gauche, des absurdités woke et de la folie des genres”. À peine lancé, le média suscite de vives réactions dans la presse autrichienne et dans les journaux allemands.

Ces dernières semaines, Emmanuel Macron s’est montré bien virulent envers Donald Trump et ses velléités sur le Groenland. Une posture qui trahit une inquiétude pour ses territoires d’outre-mer, dont certains disposent d’importantes ressources en minerais qui pourraient éveiller les convoitises américaines, estime le journal suédois “Dagens Nyheter”.

Depuis qu’une violente répression s’est abattue sur les manifestants de la République islamique, des Iraniens viennent chaque jour chercher de l’autre côté de la frontière une connexion à Internet, réseau coupé par le régime. Ils décrivent un pays « en état de choc ».

Selon le mensuel “Bloomberg Businessweek”, Donald Trump a passé l’année écoulée à bouleverser les règles établies dans les relations entre la Maison-Blanche et les géants de l’industrie. Après la sidération, ceux-ci tentent de composer avec un président interventionniste et imprévisible.

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition. If such excitement is not really your thing, you can opt for an isolation transformer and other types of safeties. In the case of [Michał Słomkowski], he opted to take a few steps further by modding a vintage East-German isolating variac with a broken amp meter into an isolated AC/DC power supply and testing station. The core is formed by the isolated variable transformer, to which a configurable DC output section, a current limiter and digital voltage and current read-outs were added. This enables a variable AC output of 0 – 330 VAC and 0 – 450 VDC on their respective...

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is no mere test flight. The crew will partake in some seriously mind-blowing science during their 10-day trip around the Moon.

Most gaming laptops under $1,000 aren’t great, but these three machines stand out above the rest.

The Rip, Frankenstein, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Stranger Things, and His & Hers are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

Si vous bidouillez un peu avec des modèles CoreML sur votre Mac Silicon, vous savez que c'est vite la croix et la misère comme je dis souvent... Car dès qu'il s'agit de tester un truc rapide, faut ouvrir Xcode, pisser du Swift, ou se battre avec des scripts Python... Bref, l'usine à gaz juste pour vérifier une prédiction vite fait.
Hé bien bonne nouvelle les amis, un petit outil en ligne de commande vient de sortir pour nous éviter de trop galérer.
Ça s'appelle coreml-cli et comme son nom l'indique, c'est une interface pour inspecter et lancer vos modèles depuis le terminal. L'objectif c'est de pouvoir manipuler vos fichiers .mlmodel sans jamais avoir besoin de lancer l'IDE d'Apple.
Si vous êtes...

During the President’s second term, he and his staff have made the media briefing his signature rhetorical form.

The pundit’s contrarianism has swerved into openly racist and antisemitic tropes. What does his rise mean for the future of MAGA media?

When Sweden named its national treasures, the list was condemned as blinkered and dated. But it was also a chance to see the country anew.

In his show “The Last Dyes,” the photographer presents a world that feels fictional but fact-based.

Rdv à 13H00, salle Ogival, Maison du temps libre -
Initiatives / Rencontres et débats

Rendez-vous à 10h devant l'hôtel de police, place Notre-Dame. -
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Reniez-vous à 15h Place Marengo ! -
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Rendez-vous à 14h à la Maison des Associations de Sainte-Pezenne à Niort ! Depuis plusieurs mois, les activistes du Rassemblement National arpentent les marchés de Niort pour mobiliser et tracter. Iels sont souvent repoussé·es par les militant·es antiracistes et la détermination des personnes qui n'hésitent pas à manifester leur mécontentement et à les en expulser. [...] Le Rassemblement National de Niort s'organise pour tenir une série de réunions publiques en soutien à Céline (…) -
Initiatives / Manifs et rassemblements

The no-buy challenge helps you cut spending, pay down debt, save more and consume less. Experts share their top strategies to make it work

These generators can power your home safely and reliably when needed — but most models don't come cheap

Vous connaissez Sonic Pi, ce logiciel génial pour coder de la musique que je vous ai déjà présenté ? Hé bien Sam Aaron, son créateur, remet le couvert avec son nouveau projet baptisé Tau5.
Si vous avez déjà testé le live coding, vous savez comme moi que c'est une joie totale de pouvoir balancer des boucles en tapant quelques lignes de code, mais là Sam pousse le délire beaucoup plus loin. Ce nouveau joujou, c'est un peu le grand frère de Sonic Pi, pensé dès le départ pour la collaboration, mais aussi la sécurité et la compatibilité web. Sam Aaron lors de sa keynote GOTO 2025
L'ambition de Tau5 c'est que l'outil puisse à terme intégrer des agents IA via le protocole MCP. Bien sûr,...

On s'en Mêle 69 et d'autress appellent à se rassembler à 15h, Palais de Justice 24 colonnes. -
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If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power for such a project are a solved problem. What’s left is how to package it. The solution, in this case, was using recycled plastic containers, and it looks surprisingly effective.
A Raspberry Pi Pico W has the processing capability and connectivity for a project like this. A large power bank battery provides the power. Off-the-shelf sensors for magnetic field (to measure anemometer spins), air quality, temperature, and humidity are easy to acquire. The plastic tub that protects everything also has PVC pipe and plastic covers for the sensors. Those covers look suspiciously like the...

Qui n'a jamais eu envie de savoir si "KikouLolDu93" avait aussi un compte sur un site de rencontre ou un forum obscur de haxx0rs ? C'est humain, c'est de la curiosité... ou de l'OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) si vous voulez faire genre vous êtes un pro. Et pour ça, j'ai l'outil qu'il vous faut : Social Analyzer
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Ce script est un détective privé numérique qui va frapper à la porte de plusieurs centaines de sites (Facebook, X (ex-Twitter), Instagram, Tinder, et des trucs bien plus niches) pour vérifier la présence d'un pseudo. Développé par qeeqbox, Social Analyzer ne se contente pas de tester une URL. Il analyse les pages, vérifie les métadonnées, et vous sort un score de confiance de 0 à 100....

The Loch Capsule in a tiny house that lacks space for a built-in dishwasher. A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can't live without. It's one of the first major kitchen devices I bought just as soon as I could afford one, and the appliance I thought I'd miss most in my nomadic vanlife pursuits.
Loch sent me its $459.99 / €459.99 countertop Capsule dishwasher to review in a tiny home on a remote beach and inside a van on a two-month roadtrip. It's an excellent product that washes and dries two place settings quickly at bacteria-killing temperatures up to 75 degrees Celsius (167F) in as little as 20 minutes. It'll even kill bacteria and neutralize viruses on your gadgets with a waterless blast of UV-C...

The US will also offer “more limited” support to US allies, according to a new national defence strategy document.

De 1995 à 2025, comment la néoréaction des Lumières sombres s’est imposée
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/de-1995-a-2025-comment-la-neoreaction-des-lumieres-sombres-s-est-imposee

Ce n’est pas l’Easter Egg le plus visuel sous Mac OS, mais comme j’aime bien les appareils photo QuickTake d’Apple, pourquoi pas. Si vous lancez le tableau de bord dédié aux appareils (ça se télécharge là) et que vous cliquez sur le numéro de version en bas à droite de la fenêtre, vous verrez une petite fenêtre avec le nom des développeurs. Il y a visiblement plusieurs versions.
Il faut cliquer sur le 1.0
L’Easter Egg
L’article Le (petit) Easter Egg du programme des QuickTake est apparu en premier sur Le journal du lapin.

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube channel “Project KegRocket” saw a beer keg, the first thing he and his friends saw was a pressurized rocket body.
You wouldn’t be crazy if the first thing you thought of was something designed by a massive company or university. Liquid rockets are far from simple to develop, with Keg Rocket being no exception. Liquid oxygen and alcohol is the oxidizer/fuel mixture of choice. Liquid oxygen in particular is a problem with its cryogenic temperatures and tendency to do what rocket fuel does best, burn. This problem causes a large amount of work to simply connect the pipes. Traditional...

De la mer Méditerranée aux abords de la mer Morte, la route numéro 1 traverse l’Etat hébreu d’ouest en est, puis la Cisjordanie. Emprunté par les travailleurs et les vacanciers israéliens, cet axe historique et hautement stratégique contribue à invisibiliser sous son asphalte et sa signalétique toute présence palestinienne.

The National Weather Service warns the winter blast "will pose a life-threatening risk of hypothermia".

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors that emerge when a polymer is exposed to water. Although the paper itself is sadly paywalled with no preprint available, it’s fairly easily summarized and illustrated with details from the Supplementary Data section. The polymer used is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), which when exposed to an electron beam (electron-beam lithography) undergoes certain changes that become apparent when said water is added.
The polymer is hygroscopic, but the electron beam modifies the extent to which a specific area swells up, thus making it possible to create...

The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt to discuss where President Trump’s turbulent week on the world stage leaves U.S. relations with Europe.

There is often no straightforward explanation for the various types of violence that occur around the world. In fact, even when using clear definitions (such as “Civil War,” “Invasion,” or “Local Uprisings”), these labels imply certain assumptions regarding their causes as well as their eventual outcomes. A recent article published in the journal Royal Society Open Science by a group of researchers from the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, who partnered with the University of Waterloo and Princeton University, takes a new approach. Researchers are using machine learning techniques to classify conflicts based on the manner in which they develop and continue throughout time. This study found that...

Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and all kinds of other things in between. But the standard lithium ion battery has a few downsides, namely issues operating at temperature extremes. Lead acid solves some of these problems but has much lower energy density, and if you want to split the difference with your own battery you’ll need to build your own lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) pack.
[Well Done Tips] is building this specific type of battery because the lead acid battery in his electric ATV is on the decline. He’s using cylindrical cells that resemble an 18650 battery but are much larger. Beyond the...

Security and privacy experts warn that oversharing with AI chatbots exposes personal, medical, and corporate data, raising fraud and safety risks.

A Public Citizen report says federal agencies canceled or froze enforcement actions against 166 corporations in the first year of Trump’s second term

The Los Angeles-area home used as the Banks residence on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was listed for $29.5 million, its first sale since 1978.

The 'Evil Dead' legend just loves making superhero movies, apparently.

Just what everyone wants, their own personal tail.