If there's one thing 'Star Trek' loves, even in times of peace, it's a scrap between Starfleet and the Klingons.

Pete Hegseth, le chef du Pentagone, a affirmé que « beaucoup d’ennemis » avaient été tués dans ce qu’il qualifie de « déclaration de vengeance », après l’attaque qui a tué deux militaires et un traducteur américains, samedi 13 décembre, en Syrie.

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.

On Friday, retro and arcade game publisher ININ Games surprisingly announced it's been able to "recalculate production" on offering a physical version of R-Type Dimensions III for the Switch 2 because "Two days ago Nintendo announced two new smaller cartridge sizes for Nintendo Switch 2." Physical games on the Switch 2 have been something of a contentious topic; full physical games are reportedly expensive for developers, while game-key cards don't actually have the game on the cart.
But later in the day, ININ removed that line from its post and published a significant correction: "There has been no official announcement or confirmation fro …
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Gemini on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google isn't quite ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices. The company said on Friday that it will "continue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into 2026," instead of its original plans to make the switch by the end of 2025.
"We're adjusting our previously announced timeline to make sure we deliver a seamless transition," Google says. Once the transition away from Google Assistant is complete, users will no longer be able to access the voice assistant on devices that meet the minimum requirements to run Gemini. Users also won't be able to download the Google Assistant app. Google has already …
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In a new interview, Cameron gave details about the parts of 'Avatar 2' that inspired changes in 'Avatar 3.'

The Webb telescope confirmed one of the fastest moving celestial objects ever detected.

Three-dimensional modeling sits at the heart of modern design, engineering, and fabrication. Yet for blind and low-vision programmers, it has long remained one of the most difficult creative tasks to access independently. Unlike photo editing or coding, which can now be handled with screen readers and large language models, 3D modeling depends heavily on visual feedback. Every rotation, scale change, or placement decision usually requires seeing how shapes relate in space. That gap is now beginning to narrow. A new AI-assisted system called A11yShape offers blind and low-vision programmers a way to create, inspect, and verify 3D models on their own. Developed through participatory design, including a blind...

President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 Thursday with measures that further the bipartisan push for next-generation nuclear power plants. The Trump administration has embraced the technology as a new energy source for data centers demanding greater amounts of electricity for AI. Many Democrats, meanwhile, have championed smaller and ostensibly cheaper and easier-to-build nuclear reactors as a carbon pollution-free energy source that can help fight climate change. The US military has also been interested in microreactors to power off-grid operations
The defense bill, which Congress passed e …
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The Default Effect kept us locked into legacy browsers for a decade. It's finally time to change. Produced in partnership with Shift Browser

Two men say they experienced the kind of abuse highlighted in recent reports on Israel's treatment of prisoners, which Israel denies.

Apple’s AirTag is great way to keep tabs on your keys or bag if they get lost. Let’s face it, it’s easy to fixate on the big gifts that crowd around the Christmas tree. However, we’d argue that the true treasures are the small, useful, and thoughtful gifts tucked within stockings. That’s why, for this guide, we’ve pooled together a bunch of tried-and-tested gadgets and goods to help bolster someone’s everyday carry or, at the very least, provide them with something that comes in clutch every once in a while. It certainly isn’t about gag gifts and cheap trinkets. The good news is that many of the items we’ve highlighted in our guides to the best gifts under $25, best gifts under $50, and best...

In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.

Russia's leader said during a TV marathon that claims that an attack on Europe was planned were "nonsense".

OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want "more" or "less" of these personality traits, or stick with the default.
There are also options to tweak how often ChatGPT uses emoji, headers, and lists. You can find these settings by tapping the menu at the top left corner of the ChatGPT app, selecting your profile, heading to Personalization, and choosing Add Characteristics. Alongside these options, you can pick a "personality" for the AI chatbot, including whether it's quirky, professional, friendly, cynical, and m …
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The U.S. military-backed project is now on the way to integrated system testing, the company said.

Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law.

Sony just purchased a controlling stake in the iconic brand featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and more.

The Trump administration is proceeding with its plan to issue a $1 coin next year bearing the president’s likeness. Democrats are aghast

3D printers are built for additive manufacturing. However, at heart, they are really just simple CNC motion platforms, and can be readily repurposed to other tasks. As [Arseniy] demonstrates, it’s not that hard to take a cheap 3D printer and turn it into a viable wood engraver.
The first attempt involved a simple experiment—heating the 3D printer nozzle, and moving it into contact with a piece of wood to see if it could successfully leave a mark. This worked well, producing results very similar to a cheap laser engraving machine. From there, [Arseniy] set about fixing the wood with some simple 3D-printed clamps so it wouldn’t move during more complex burning/engraving tasks. He also figured out a neat...

The suspect's spree began at Taipei's main metro before he moved to another station nearby.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Let’s start with the broader picture. It is my sense that popular narratives about the state of the American worker are much darker than the data support. Am I terribly wrong in this assessment? There are surveys that look at economic anxiety or insecurity among Americans. And if you look at a question that has been asked for 25 years or so, about how people feel about their own personal finances, about half the population says their finances are “excellent or good.” We might wish that number were higher, but the main thing is it’s not any lower than it was 25 years ago. It’s been pretty steady over time. However, if you ask people how they...

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From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.

Il y avait, vendredi après-midi, « 93 actions, qui réuniss[ai]ent un peu moins de 4 000 personnes et 900 engins agricoles », selon Laurent Nuñez. Les représentants des quatre principales organisations agricoles ont été reçus à Matignon pour parler dermatose nodulaire et accord UE-Mercosur.

Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris a jugé que les propos tenus dans une vidéo publiée lors de l’entrée de Nicolas Sarkozy en détention ne constituaient pas des « menaces de mort ».

High on a bluff above the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan, a ghost city lies just beneath the grass. From the surface you would only see low, rectangular earthen mounds. Yet under that quiet landscape, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a vast Bronze Age settlement that reshapes how you think about life on the steppe. The ancient site, called Semiyarka, dates to around 1600 B.C. and spreads across about 140 hectares. An international team co-led by researchers from UCL, Durham University and Toraighyrov University has now produced the first detailed survey of the city. Their work shows that this was not a loose camp of roaming herders. It was a carefully laid out urban center that likely...

Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

The writer, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1958, has chronicled turning a hundred in the same year as the magazine’s centennial.

The veteran and Senate candidate from Maine talks about the affordability crisis, his campaign’s controversies, and why he isn’t ashamed about his past offensive comments.

A family’s cluster of shed-roofed structures on a small lot bucks the conventions of the traditional mountain retreat.David Tang and Edith Tom, both software engineers, had an interesting take on their cross-continental move. Back when they lived in Sydney, Australia, they would routinely travel five hours to visit the Snowy Mountains, reveling in its rugged outdoor beauty. When their company offered to relocate them to San Francisco in September 2017 to assist with a new project, they said yes. The way they saw it, the California city is only three hours from the Sierras. After moving from Sydney to San Francisco, David Tang and Edith Tom built a family ski cabin in South Lake Tahoe designed to fit within...

After years of preparations, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will kick off this Sunday at Rabat’s Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Morocco.
Hosts Morocco will get the tournament underway by taking on Comoros in the opening match, where a win would extend Morocco’s winning streak to 19 consecutive matches. The hosts are favored to come out on top in Africa’s biggest sporting event, which is expected to attract around two billion viewers across 180 countries. How many will watch the tournament via an illegal IPTV or web-based streaming platform is naturally a hot topic.
IPTV Piracy Rampant, Achievable Enforcement “Not Adequate”
In a January 2025 report to the Office of the United States Trade...

Details are scarce and questions abound about the much touted investments, which are supposed to total $1.5 trillion

Comme fin 2024, une loi spéciale va être soumise aux parlementaires, pour éviter un blocage financier alors que le budget de l’Etat n’a pas été voté. Ce texte ne constitue qu’une rustine provisoire, prévient le gouvernement : impossible de tenir l’année sans projet de loi de finances.

Sony has acquired a majority stake in the 75-year-old comic strip universe, adding to the entertainment giant's ballooning IP inventory

Conservatives traded criticims at this year's annual Turning Point USA America Fest conference.

In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peak at its CMOS implementation.
This is a multipart series with five parts done and more to come. The PIC12F683 is an 8-pin flash-based, 8-bit microcontroller from Microchip. [Andrew] picked the PIC12F683 for decapsulation because back in 2011 it was the first microcontroller he broke read-protection on and he wanted to go back and revisit this chip, given particularly that his resources and skills had advanced in the intervening period.
The five videos are a tour de force. He begins by taking a package cross section, then decapsulating and delayering. He collects high-resolution photos as he goes along....

Illustration par ChatGPT
Hier à Blois, des amoncellements de branchages sur les voies rapides, en des endroits stratégiques, pour perturber la circulation au maximum => du coup les gendarmes qui bloquent ces voies sans doute pour éviter que les agriculteurs y mettent le feu, et abîment la voirie mais aucun tracteur en vue..
=>  40mn à 1h de retard sur toutes les lignes et pas mal de protestations et de discussions dans les bus.
Un jeune garçon de 14 ou 15 ans qui a l’air un peu simple et de condition modeste,  s’approche de la cabine et me dit très sérieusement : « C’est la fin du monde de toutes façons …».
Je l’invite à développer, il ajoute : « Tout ce qui se passe là… c’est...

This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you!
In the news this week is NASA’s Maven Mars Orbiter, which may sadly have been lost. A sad day for study of the red planet, but at the same time a chance to look back at what has been a long and successful mission.
In the hacks of the week, we have a lo-fi camera, a very refined Commodore 64 laptop, and a MIDI slapophone to entertain you, as well as taking a detailed look at neutrino detectors. Then CYMK printing with laser cut stencils draws our attention, as well as the arrival of stable GPIB support for Linux. Finally both staffers let loose; Elliot with an epic...

Cartes SIM bloquées, difficultés de paiement, équipements obsolètes… Les premiers voyageurs à se rendre en Russie depuis que Moscou a mis en place une exemption de visa pour les touristes venus de Chine ont vécu des expériences pour le moins compliquées, peut-on lire sur la plateforme Weixin (WeChat).

While Nike beat analysts' forecasts, digging beneath the top line reveals a thornier picture of tariff pressures and weak sales in China

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood discuss how, for thirty years, they've crafted the visuals that helped define Yorke’s band, many of which are now on view at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.

A billionaire investor spearheads an affordable housing project in Colorado, how Frank Gehry became a household name, and more.Netflix is betting that immersive, in-person fan experiences can help revive struggling malls, rolling out massive attractions inside shuttered department stores. The strategy is similar to escape rooms or themed bars in that it strives to get viewers off their couches and into the real world. (Bloomberg) A Colorado billionaire bought a 104-unit apartment complex in Steamboat Springs for $95 million and listed its units at prices well below market rate. Here’s how the purchase, backed by tech investor and philanthropist Mark Stevens, turned existing luxury apartments into affordable...

Amblyopia, often called lazy eye, develops when the brain fails to receive balanced input from both eyes early in life. One eye becomes dominant, while the other lags behind. Standard care relies on patching or blurring the stronger eye so the weaker one works harder. That method can help young children, but it only works during a short developmental window. Once that critical period ends, treatment options are limited, especially for severe cases caused by long-term visual deprivation. Yet clinicians have long noticed something unexpected. When adults lose vision in their stronger eye due to injury or disease, the amblyopic eye sometimes improves on its own. That puzzle has driven decades of research and now,...

We do a disservice to modernist homes—and the public—when they are priced as private portfolio pieces for the rich.As any regular reader of this publication is likely aware, there is a robust economy for modernist houses by significant architects. The most recent home to come to market is the iconic Stahl House for $25 million, designed by Pierre Koenig in the late 1950s as part of the well-known Case Study Houses, which advocated for mass-produced, affordable housing in the postwar period. Like many modernist houses, the Stahl House’s quiet story as an affordable and experimental model home for the postwar working class has bifurcated from its current, very audible, very unaffordable sale price. From a...

Confrontée à l’inflation, aggravée par la chute du yen, la Banque centrale de l’archipel a revu à la hausse ses taux directeurs. Désormais fixés à 0,75 %, ils “n’ont jamais été aussi élevés” depuis 1995, rapporte la presse japonaise.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

“India’s Parliament approved new legislation Thursday that enables opening the tightly controlled civil nuclear power sector to private companies. The government termed it a major policy shift to speed up clean energy expansion while the opposition political parties argued that it dilutes safety and liability safeguards. The lower house of parliament passed the legislation Wednesday and the upper house on Thursday. It now needs the assent from the Indian president, which is a formality, to come into force. The move carries global significance as India seeks to position itself as a major player in the next wave of nuclear energy, including with small modular reactors at a time many nations are reassessing...

“Grocery shopping could soon look much different in Orlando. On Tuesday, the city announced that a drone delivery service is expected to be available to residents next year… The drone delivery service, Wing, is partnering with Walmart to bring this service to Orlando in early 2026. With hundreds of thousands of home deliveries under its belt, Wing said it is the first drone delivery company with the FAA’s approval to get that flight permission.” From WFTV Channel 9.
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“Taiwan has achieved its hepatitis C elimination targets ahead of schedule and plans to apply for World Health Organization certification by year’s end… Taiwan was the first country to introduce universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns in 1986, sharply reducing hepatitis B prevalence and liver cancer rates among younger generations. The hepatitis C virus was identified by the international medical community in 1989. Taiwan launched a second major campaign against hepatitis with HCV treatment programs in 2003 and accelerated progress under a national policy framework in 2016. The government set a target of eliminating hepatitis C by the end of this year. Health Promotion Administration...

Le président de Corée du Sud, Lee Jae-myung, a créé un petit tollé dans son pays en demandant à son gouvernement d’étudier la possibilité de faire rembourser par l’assurance-maladie les traitements contre la calvitie. La presse d’opposition dénonce une manœuvre bassement populiste.

Sur le sol américain, le réseau social chinois sera géré par une coentreprise majoritairement américaine. L’accord a été signé avec Oracle, l’entreprise du proche de Donald Trump Larry Ellison, la société d’investissement Silver Lake et un fonds émirati.

En quoi consiste le « congé supplémentaire de naissance », qui doit entrer en vigueur l’an prochain ? Si les modalités du dispositif seront précisées par décret, certains détails sont déjà connus. Nos réponses à vos questions.

L’incendie tragique de Hong-Kong le 26 novembre dernier est le plus meurtrier depuis 1948. La presse et la société civile mettent en avant l’archaïsme des échafaudages en bambou et surtout la collusion et l’absence de concurrence dans les marchés publics. Le gouvernement promet un renforcement de la sécurité tout en réprimant brutalement les critiques ouvertes. Les élections législatives du 7 décembre ont eu l’un des taux de participation les plus faibles de la « région administrative spéciale. »

The Kodak Charmera is a tiny keychain camera produced by licencing out the name of the famous film manufacturer, and it’s the current must-have cool trinket among photo nerds. Inside is a tiny sensor and a fixed-focus M7 lens, and unlike many toy cameras it has better quality than its tiny package might lead you to expect. There will always be those who wish to push the envelope though, and [微攝 Macrodeon] is here to fit a lens mount for full-size lenses (Chinese language, subtitle translation available).
The hack involves cracking the camera open and separating the lens mount from the sensor. This is something we’re familiar with from other cameras, and it’s a fiddly process which requires a lot of...

Angata Nayokie ward • Kenya • May 2011 📷 #flashes

Les députés et sénateurs réunis en commission mixte paritaire ne sont pas parvenus à s’entendre, vendredi 19 décembre, sur un compromis autour du projet de loi de finances 2026. S’il n’y a pas de risque de “shutdown” à l’américaine, cet échec inquiète la presse étrangère, alors que la France reste engluée dans une forte instabilité politique et économique.

Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts about 97.7 degrees relative to its orbit, so the planet spends long stretches with its spin axis aimed almost directly at the Sun. At other times, that axis lies nearly sideways. These extreme seasons are expected to reshape how the solar wind pushes against the planet’s magnetic field. Uranus’s magnetism adds another layer of complexity. The main dipole part of its magnetic field tilts about 60 degrees away from the rotation axis and appears offset from the planet’s center. Scientists interpret this shift as evidence that higher-order magnetic components play a strong role. The...

There’s something immensely satisfying about taking a series of low impact CVEs, and stringing them together into a full exploit. That’s the story we have from [Mehmet Ince] of Prodraft, who found a handful of issues in the default PostHog install instructions, and managed to turn it into a full RCE, though only accessible as a user with some configuration permissions.
As one might expect, it all starts with a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). That’s a flaw where sending traffic to a server can manipulate something on the server side to send a request somewhere else. The trick here is that a webhook worker can be primed to point at localhost by sending a request directly to a system API.
One of the...

Vous développez un truc en local et vous avez besoin de le montrer à quelqu'un au travers d'Internet, genre pour tester un webhook, faire une démo rapide, ou juste impressionner votre collègue à distance ? Hé bien au lieu de vous farcir une config nginx + certificats SSL + ouverture de ports sur le routeur (Beurk !), y'a
Tunnl.gg
qui fait tout ça en une SEULE ligne de commande.
Vous tapez une commande SSH, et hop, vous avez une URL publique qui pointe vers votre serveur local. Pas de client à installer, pas de compte à créer, pas de token à configurer, juste SSH, que vous avez forcément déjà sur votre machine.
Donc pour exposer votre app qui tourne sur le port 8080, vous faites :
ssh -t -R...