Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market. "As we have long said, the Court's August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they're forced to," Google's vice president of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said in a blog post. "The decision failed to account for the rapid pace of innovation and intense competition we face from established players and well-funded start-ups. And it disc …
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The final stage of launch preparations officially kicks off tomorrow.

The inevitable is beginning.

Our neighbors to the north are slashing tariffs on Chinese EVs as tensions with the U.S. continue to rise.

It's a shame it's being forced at gunpoint to build the inequality machine.

The four clips got over a billion views online, mostly from Instagram and TikTok instead of YouTube.

The long-maligned Export-Import Bank could serve a key role in Trump's push to drum up private-sector financing for Venezuela's oil sector

The president made the threat while a bipartisan group of US lawmakers were visiting Denmark in the hope of easing tensions over the territory.

“Since 2020, the population of whales has grown by about 7 percent. In 2024, the most recent year for which there is data available, the whale consortium estimated that there were 384 whales, an increase of about 2 percent from the year before. And in 2025, Pettis said, there were zero mortalities of right whales detected. This year’s calving season, which began in November and runs through April, has brought more promising news. So far, 18 new calves have been spotted, including one on New Year’s Day. An aerial survey team identified a calf swimming off the coast of Florida with its mother, Boomerang, named for her boomerang-shaped white scar. ‘We’re having a great year,’ said Ryan Schosberg, a...

“In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years. An autopsy of the permafrost-preserved pup revealed another surprise: its gut contained chunks of grayish meat covered with strands of golden hair. ‘The tissue was so intact, it looked like the wolf had just swallowed it before it died,’ says Camilo Chacón-Duque, an evolutionary geneticist who previously worked at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm and is now at Uppsala University in Sweden.  Ancient DNA retrieved from the wolf cub’s final meal revealed the tissue belonged to a woolly rhinoceros. Chacón-Duque and his team used the devoured morsel to reconstruct the...

This little power station can keep your stuff topped up, plus you can save some cash on solar panels.

“Numbers of critically-endangered flapper skate are beginning to recover in Scotland, new research has suggested. The study, conducted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, involved interviews with commercial fishers from all over Scotland, who reported a significant increase in flapper skate caught while fishing for other species over the past four years. Half of those interviewed had seen them daily.” From BBC.
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Quelque 17 000 Groenlandais vivent au Danemark, soit l’équivalent d’un tiers de la population de l’île. A la veille de manifestations organisées dans le pays en soutien à la souveraineté du Groenland, certains veulent imaginer une réconciliation quand d’autres la jugent impossible.

A lot of retrocomputer enthusiasts have a favourite system, to the point of keeping up 40 year old flame wars over which system was “best”.   In spite of the serious, boring nature of the PC/AT and its descendants, those early IBMs have a certain style that Compaq and the Clones never quite matched. Somehow, we live in a world where there are people nostalgic for Big Blue. That’s why [AnneBarela] built a miniature IBM PC using an Adafruit Fruit Jam board.
If you haven’t seen it before, the Fruit Jam board is an RP2350 dev board created specifically to make minicomputers, with its two USB host sockets, DVI-out and 3.5mm jack. [Anne] loaded a PC emulator by [Daft-Freak] called PACE-32 than can emulate...

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they're "urging" PJM to hold an "emergency" auction for companies to procure electricity over 15-year contracts. The unusually long length of the contracts would ostensibly make it easier to build out new infrastructure by guaranteeing revenue and discouraging speculative requests to connect to the grid by data center developers.
The move comes as power grids scramble to meet...

“As of 2025, about 9.6% of the world’s oceans are now covered by marine protected areas, according to the latest global tracking data by the World Database on Protected Areas. This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up from 8.4% coverage in 2024. There are now 16,608 marine protected areas (MPAs) globally, covering nearly 35 million square kilometers (13.5 million square miles) of the ocean — an area more than twice the size of Russia.” From Mongabay.
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A prize wheel in Steal The Brainrot. Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions. Beginning January 20th, experiences - which Epic Games calls "islands" - will not be able to offer in-island transactions as "a 'spin' or 'increased luck' for a prize wheel," according to an Epic staffer on Reddit.
Epic is adding the rule after Steal The Brainrot, one of the biggest non-Epic games available to play in Fortnite, implemented a prize wheel that let players pay V-Bucks (Fortnite's in-game currency) for spins and luck to acquire in-game items. Steal The Brainrot also added lootboxes …
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“Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch are hailing a historic drop in shootings last year.   ‘In 2025, New York City recorded 688 shooting incidents, the lowest number in the city’s history. That didn’t just break the previous record set in 2018, it shattered it, with 66 fewer shootings than that benchmark year.'” From CBS News.
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L’idée est très répandue qu’il n’y a pas de progrès en philosophie : Untel a dit ceci et Telautre a dit autre chose et à chaque génération qui vient correspond son lot de philosophes, chacun porteur d’une valeur ajoutée qui lui est propre.
Or, une remarque que j’avais faite récemment à propos de GENESIS, que « le plus extraordinaire selon moi est que la clé d’une théorie unifiée de la relativité et de la mécanique quantique se trouvait dans… les Catégories d’Aristote ! », avait conduit mon fils Armel (philosophe et mathématicien de formation) à observer que « ceux qui ont véritablement fait avancer la philosophie ne sont pas ceux qui ont inventé...

An AI-generated scene created by Flow. Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too.
Flow uses Google's AI video generation model Veo 3.1 to generate eight-second clips based on a text prompt or images. You can stitch together the clips to create longer scenes, as well as access a bunch of other tools that allow you to change the lighting, adjust the "camera" angle, and insert or remove objects in scenes. Earlier this week, Google added vertical video support inside Flow.
Google broug …
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Former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh's stock is now rising again following the Trump DOJ's probe into Fed chair Powell

Following up on user-reported cases of Battle Born LiFePO4 batteries displaying very hot positive terminals, [Will Prowse] decided to buy a brand new one of these LFP batteries for some controlled cycle testing.
Starting with 30 cycles with a charging current of 49 A and a discharge current of 99 A, this put it well within the 100 A continuous rating for the battery. There is also a surge current rating of 200 A for thirty seconds, but that was not tested here. What’s interesting about the results here is that instead of the positive terminal getting visibly discolored as with the previous cases that we reported on, [Will] saw severe thermal effects on the side of the negative terminal to the point where the...

As we predicted, the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs - not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and not from AMD. But if you dig deep, AMD said two things at this year's show that are worthy of attention. Did you catch that the company's about to make socketed mobile chips again? Or that its answer to Intel is to lower the price of its monster Strix Halo silicon?
Publicly, AMD barely acknowledged consumers at the Consumer Electronics Show. "AMD failed us," decried Gamers Nexus, pointing out that the compa …
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Les autorités ukrainiennes font état d’une intensification des attaques russes contre les infrastructures énergétiques du pays, au cœur d’un hiver particulièrement rude pour les habitants. De nombreux médias partent à la rencontre de la population, éprouvée par le froid et qui emploie les moyens du bord pour se chauffer.

Le premier ministre a abattu de nouvelles cartes pour éviter la censure, vendredi, en présentant de nouvelles mesures pour le budget de l’Etat, sans annoncer par quelle voie, 49.3 ou ordonnance, il comptait procéder pour son adoption, après avoir acté, la veille, l’impossibilité d’un vote à l’Assemblée.

Villas, actifs financiers, bijoux… Les enquêtes menées en France, notamment par le parquet de Paris, ont permis en quatre ans la saisie de biens d’une valeur record, appartenant à des personnalités russes de la politique ou des affaires soupçonnées de blanchiment ou de fraude fiscale.

Reza Pahlavi, a US-based opposition figure, called on the world to target Iran's Revolutionary Guards leadership.

The opposition leader says she has a mandate to lead the country after the US seized its president.

A left-wing, atheist reality-TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channelling outrage with MAGA and with Democrats she views as complacent.

The reporter Danny Funt discusses his new book, “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.”

S’appuyant sur de nouvelles archives, un chercheur américain montre que la première enquête, passionnante, à la base de cette théorie, publiée en 1956 et devenue un classique de la psychologie sociale, a été manipulée par ses auteurs.

They splashed out on a social kitchen, but used tricks of their respective trades to find thrifty solutions for punching up spaces and improving flow.When they started looking to buy an apartment a few years ago, Brooklyn residents Graci Mills and Andrew Keck knew a space that required a renovation would help them get their dream home within their budget. "We wanted something that we could tear into pieces," Graci says. This led them to a dated two-bedroom railroad apartment in a pre-war building in Bed-Stuy. It became an exercise in updating a fairly typical plan into something more livable and distinct for about $175 per square foot. In the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, Graci Mills, an architect and...

OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

As job cuts rip through the economy, a new analysis finds that women walk away with less

Le polar n’est pas le plus célèbre d’Agatha Christie, disparue il y a 50 ans. En adaptant “Les Sept Cadrans”, Netflix s’écarte d’Hercule Poirot et Miss Marple. Mais pas de panique : il y a bien une affaire de meurtre mystérieux dans la bonne société de l’Angleterre des années 1920. Les critiques britanniques ne sont pas unanimes devant la série mise en ligne ce 15 janvier.

Colossal Biosciences, une start-up texane, tente de faire renaître le dodo, ce volatile qui a disparu de l’île Maurice après l’arrivée, au XVIᵉ siècle, des premiers Occidentaux, et aussi le mammouth laineux et le thylacine. Mais de nombreuses difficultés techniques – et possiblement éthiques – se dressent sur sa route, racontait début 2023 “CNET”, site spécialiste des nouvelles technologies.

Yves Chatain, qui a avoué en 2022 le meurtre de la jeune femme disparue en 1986 à Pontcharra (Isère), ne peut être poursuivi, ni jugé, trente-six ans après les faits.

La presse russe souligne l’impuissance des Européens devant l’opiniâtreté de l’administration Trump à annexer le Groenland, territoire constitutif du Danemark. Vue de Russie, cette crise diplomatique est l’illustration la plus saisissante de la scission de l’Occident. Dans une tentative de ménager le président américain, le Kremlin, lui, se tient en retrait.

Huit ans après une hausse des tensions avec Pékin, dans le cadre de l’affaire Huawei, le Canada a conclu un nouveau partenariat stratégique avec la Chine, mettant un terme à la guerre des droits de douane entre les deux pays. Mais la presse canadienne se demande si le pays à la Feuille d’érable ne risque pas de perdre de sa souveraineté.

The White House has another idea to blunt Americans' concerns that everyday life has gotten too expensive: mortgaging their future

Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they swap their favorite hacks and stories from the week. In this episode, they’ll start off by marveling over the evolution of the “smart knob” and other open hardware input devices, then discuss a futuristic propulsion technology you can demo in your own kitchen sink, and a cheap handheld game system that get’s a new lease on life thanks to the latest version of the ESP32 microcontroller.
From there they’ll cover spinning CRTs, creating custom GUIs on Android, and yet another thing you can build of out that old Ender 3 collecting dust in the basement. The episode wraps up with a discussion about putting Valve’s Steam Deck to work and a look...

Depuis 2025, ce compte iconoclaste enchaîne les punchlines et les coups d’éclat sur le réseau social X. Une manière assumée de contrer les tentatives d’ingérence étrangère, qui convainc les experts, malgré des réserves quant à son utilité à long terme.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Candidate de La France insoumise à la Mairie de Paris, la députée de Paris, qui dénonce une intention de « nuire » à sa campagne, doit comparaître le 12 mai devant le tribunal correctionnel de la capitale. Le rapport d’enquête de la brigade financière, que « Le Monde » a pu consulter, détaille les faits qui lui sont reprochés.

OK les amis, là faut qu'on parle de ce qui se passe chez Rockstar. Je pense que vous passez probablement trop de temps à errer dans Los Santos au lieu de bosser, mais ce qui vient de tomber est bien plus inquiétant qu'un braquage de banque qui foire. En effet,
d'après une enquête de Variety
, Rockstar vient de supprimer des missions créées par des joueurs qui recréaient l'assassinat réel de Charlie Kirk, un fasciste américain tué en septembre dernier.
Le truc, c'est que ce n'est pas juste une petite polémique politique de plus. C'est LE SIGNE que Rockstar Games est en train de réaliser, un peu tard, qu'ils ne contrôlent plus leur propre bébé. Car même si les outils de création existent depuis...

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Quand l’explicabilité rattrape la précision en chimie moléculaire
GENESIS n’a jamais été conçu comme une théorie de la chimie.
Il s’agit, à l’origine, d’un cadre général visant à comprendre comment des structures organisées émergent, se stabilisent et deviennent explicables – que l’on parle d’intelligence artificielle, de cognition humaine ou de systèmes naturels. C’est précisément pour cette raison que le résultat que je présente ici mérite d’être signalé publiquement.
En travaillant à partir de GENESIS, Jean-Baptiste Auxietre a développé un modèle analytique explicable permettant de prédire les angles de valence moléculaires avec une...

The plan, which is still in its early stages, is spearheaded by former USDS administrator Mikey Dickerson.

When it comes to the term ‘Raspberry Pi clones’, the most that they really clone is the form factor, as nobody is creating clones of Broadcom VideoCore-based SoCs. At least not if they want to stay safe from Broadcom’s vicious legal team. That said, the Walnut Pi 1B single-board computer (SBC) that [Silly Workshop] recently took a gander at seems to be taking a fairly typical approach to a Raspberry Pi 4 form factor compatible board.
Part of Walnut Pi’s line-up, the Allwinner H616/H168-equipped 1B feels like it takes hints from both the RPi 4B and the Asus Tinkerboard, especially with its nicely colored GPIO pins. There’s also a beefier Walnut Pi 2B with an Allwinner T527 SoC that’s not being...

Architect Randy Brown gave the residence huge windows, a cantilevered living room, a gym, and a barn-like outbuilding.Location: 5550 McKinley Street, Omaha, Nebraska  Price: $1,300,000 Year Built: 2006 Architect: Randy Brown Footprint: 6,450 square feet (4 bedrooms, 6 baths) Lot Size: 10.3 Acres From the Agent: "Sophistication meets modern style situated on 10 acres in private Ponca Hills. This one-of-a-kind design by award-winning architect Randy Brown mixes wood, glass, and concrete elements to merge industrial style with the natural surroundings. Style meets functionality with four bedrooms, six baths, and additional features such as a home gym, office, and guest space. Horses are permitted, and there’s...

Il y a des combats comme cela auxquels pas grand monde ne pense et qui pourtant sont très importants. Je parle évidemment de la lutte contre le chaos du texte non structuré. Si vous avez déjà essayé d'extraire des données propres d'un tas de PDF (après OCR), de rapports ou de notes griffonnées, vous voyez de quoi je parle : c'est l'enfer ! (oui j'aime me faire du mal en tentant des regex impossibles).
Heureusement, Google a lâché début janvier 2026 une petite pépite en open source (même si c'est pas un produit "officiel") qui s'appelle
LangExtract
. C'est une bibliothèque Python qui utilise la puissance des LLM pour transformer vos documents textuels en données JSON bien rangées. Exemple...

An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary optimizations. A strong case can be made that the initial design benefits massively from optimizations that prevent well-known issues later on, while unnecessary optimizations are those simply do not make any significant difference either way. Meanwhile ‘premature’ optimizations are harder to define, with Knuth’s often quoted-out-of-context statement about these being ‘the root of all evil’ causing significant confusion.
We can find Donald Knuth’s full quote deep in the 1974 article Structured Programming with go to Statements, which at the time was a contentious optimization...

How social media, cost of living, and a shifting nightlife blurred the lines between private gathering and public performance.After moving out of her family home, 24-year-old Maya Aristimuño missed sitting around the table and eating her meals with loved ones. So in 2021, once the pandemic restrictions were lifted in New York City, she started inviting friends over to her apartment every Tuesday for dinners. She didn’t have a dining table or matching tableware. Instead, friends would gather around her coffee table, sitting cross-legged on the living room floor. Whatever plates couldn’t fit on the coffee table would be held by one another. Since then, the founder of the marketing agency Maristi Creative...

Cyberinfo ZATAZ de la semaine du 16 janvier 2026 : hack, piratage et opérations internationales cyber....

The Trump administration and Northeast governors unveil plans for electricity auction to curb surging utility bills as a result of AI data centers

Vous pensiez avoir tout vu en matière de projets geeks complètement déjantés ?
Hé bien accrochez-vous à vos slips, parce que des chercheurs, menés par le neuro-ingénieur Viktor Tóth, ont réussi à faire "jouer" des rats à DOOM. Pas en appuyant sur des boutons au hasard, non non, mais avec un casque de réalité virtuelle sur mesure, une boule de déplacement sous leurs pattes, et même une gâchette pour tirer sur les démons !
Je vous jure que c'est vrai. Le projet s'appelle "
Rats Play DOOM
" et c'est à la croisée de la neuroscience, de la robotique et du game design. L'idée de base, c'est de prouver qu'on peut entraîner des rongeurs à interagir avec des environnements virtuels contrôlés...

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost.

La notion de journalisme d’investigation m’a toujours un peu heurté. Qu’un journaliste enquête, cherche des informations, y compris non publique ou que certains voudraient cacher, c’est son métier. Mais le but est de présenter des faits honnêtement, sous toutes les facettes, sans donner son opinion, en laissant chaque lecteur tirer les conclusions qu’il souhaite. Certains […]

Canola oil and electric cars are at the centre of the deal agreed by Mark Carney and Xi Jinping after years of strained ties.

Developers are buying up U.S. trailer parks to build more expensive housing, how Zohran Mamdani plans to update Gracie Mansion, and more.In New York City, sleek bathhouses are popping up block by block from the Flatiron District to Williamsburg, competing for members with a a menu of hot-cold rituals. But beyond the rival steam rooms and sound baths, the bigger question is whether this trend can evolve into a true culture of communal sweating, like in Japan or Northern Europe. (Vanity Fair) Miami’s Li’l Abner mobile home park—once a rare pocket of a kind of affordable homeownership—has been wiped off the map as developers cash in on the land, evicting hundreds of low-income families with nowhere else...

Don’t suffer the buffer. These WIRED-tested home routers will deliver reliable internet across your home, whatever your needs or budget.