Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite fragments, where the mineral lonsdaleite appeared. Lonsdaleite was theorized to have formed due to immense impact pressures on carbon-rich rocks from cosmic impacts. However, the evidence supporting this theory has generally been inconclusive due to its small size and contamination with other carbon forms. Additionally, there has been some skepticism about whether hexagonal diamond exists as an actual mineral. Recent experimental results indicate that lonsdaleite is real and can be manufactured in a pure form. Shoulong...

The BBC visited the facility and saw more than 30 bodies being carried out on stretchers.

Les Soulèvements de la terre Normands organisent un carnaval antifasciste, la journée se terminera par une soirée No Pasaran en soutien à l'Antifascisme -
Initiatives / Caen, Initiative culturelle

Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on a car from the ’60s or before — worked? [Jonelsonster] has some answers.
For most people in 2026 an old car perhaps means one from the 20th century, now that vehicles from the 1990s and 2000s  have become the beloved jalopies of sallow youths with a liking for older cars and a low budget. But even a 1990s vehicle is modern in terms of its technology, because a computer controls the show. It has electronic fuel injection (EFI), anti-lock braking system (ABS), closed loop emissions control, and the like.
Go back in time to the 1970s, and you’ll find minimal electronics in the average car. The ABS...

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Trois quartiers de Beyrouth ont été frappés, mardi matin, par des missiles israéliens, alors qu’une installation pétrolière sur la côte est des Emirats arabes unis a été ciblée par les Iraniens. Une attaque a également visé l’ambassade américaine à Badgad.

Tsahal a annoncé lundi avoir lancé des “opérations terrestres limitées” contre le Hezbollah dans le sud du Liban. Ces incursions pourraient permettre à l’État hébreu de redéfinir le rapport de force avant des discussions diplomatiques avec le Liban, souligne la presse internationale.

L’Etat hébreu considère que les campagnes militaires précédentes n’ont pas été suffisantes pour démanteler l’infrastructure du Hezbollah dans le sud du pays. Quelque 110 000 réservistes ont été mobilisés et le nombre continue d’augmenter.

Le PS a renoncé à demander des « clarifications » à LFI après ce qu’il qualifiait de « propos antisémites intolérables ». Lundi soir, le premier secrétaire, Olivier Faure, a fait le distingo entre le leader du mouvement et ses élus locaux et il a dit « comprendre parfaitement les choix » d’union de ses propres troupes.

La guerre a engendré une grave crise démographique en Ukraine, où l’on enregistre environ une naissance pour trois décès. Pourtant, nombreuses sont les femmes qui ne renoncent pas à donner la vie. Même dans une ville comme Zaporijjia, située à seulement quelques kilomètres du front.

La Chine est présente dans 78 des 231 ports africains en activité. Parmi ceux-ci, certains peuvent déjà potentiellement accueillir des navires de guerre chinois, affirme “The Daily Telegraph”. Cette ceinture portuaire, qui encercle l’Afrique, offre à Pékin une capacité d’approvisionnement en matières premières indépendante des marchés occidentaux. Et imperméable à toute velléité d’isolement.

Située dans le sud de l’Albanie, l’île de Sazan, quasi inhabitée, a été rachetée par Jared Kushner et son épouse, Ivanka Trump, la fille du président américain. L’objectif : en faire un sanctuaire haut de gamme réservé aux millionnaires. “Il Venerdì” s’est rendu sur place pour raconter l’histoire de ce petit paradis qui pourrait bientôt devenir inaccessible.

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Le président américain, Donald Trump, exige que ses alliés l’aident à débloquer le passage pour les pétroliers du Golfe. La France entend bien mener une coalition internationale pour libérer la navigation, mais une fois les hostilités terminées.

And honestly, this observation is a little unfair to Veggie Tales.

You would be very hard pressed to find any sort of CPU or microcontroller in a commercial product that uses anything but binary to do its work. And yet, other options exist! Ternary computing involves using trits with three states instead of bits with two. It’s not popular, but there is now a design available for a ternary processor that you could potentially get your hands on.
The device in question is called the 5500FP, as outlined in a research paper from [Claudio Lorenzo La Rosa.] Very few ternary processors exist, and little effort has ever been made to fabricate such a device in real silicon. However, [Claudio] explains that it’s entirely possible to implement a ternary logic processor based on RISC...

A jury found that Kouri Richins killed her husband in March 2022 by poisoning him with a fentanyl-laced drink.

The odds of a quick resolution to the war appear to be dwindling by the day, and the political stakes for the president are only growing.

Some 50,000 people are told to flee their homes as the army warns of a huge military offensive in Jonglei state.

After a chaotic week following the Justice Department's mid-trial settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, the antitrust trial picked back up surprisingly smoothly on Monday - this time, with dozens of states leading the case. This isn't the outcome the states originally wanted. Out of concerns about being able to effectively take over the case and fear that the jury would be prejudiced by the shakeup, they requested a mistrial, which would have restarted the court battle at an unknown future date. But an irritated Judge Arun Subramanian seemed likely to deny the request, and once the states figured out how to retain the DOJ's expert witn …
Read the full story at The Verge.

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, seems to play host to a rare type of planetary environment. While many small planets orbiting distant stars are categorized as either gas dwarfs or ocean worlds, this one has been classified as something different. L 98-59 d is roughly 1.5 times larger than Earth’s diameter. Unlike most planets of this size discovered by astronomers to date, L 98-59 d appears to be a very active and dynamic body. It likely sits atop an extremely extensive molten lava ocean, estimated to be hundreds of miles deep. The lava ocean continually supplies and removes sulfur from the atmosphere of L 98-59 d and...

From an OpenClaw partneship to new inference-focused chips, Jensen Huang is betting on agentic AI hype.

« Nous n’oublierons pas la guerre en Europe, et notre détermination sans faille à soutenir l’Ukraine reste inébranlable », a déclaré le ministre de la défense britannique, John Healey, devant les députés.

Recycling plastic at home using 3D printed molds is relatively accessible these days, but if you do not wish to invest a lot of money into specialized equipment, what’s the most minimal setup that you can get away with? In a recent [future things] video DIY plastic recycling is explored using only equipment that the average home is likely to have around.
Lest anyone complain, you should always wear PPE such as gloves and a suitable respirator whenever you’re dealing with hot plastic in this manner, just to avoid a trip to the emergency room. Once taken care of that issue, there are a few ways of doing molding, with compression molding being one of the most straightforward types.
With compression molding...

Un marché du darkweb vend des cartes bancaires volées. Plus de 30 000 Français figurent dans ces bases de données criminelles.

Huang’s GTC keynote pitched an AI economy built on inference, tokens, and agentic systems — with Nvidia selling the factory floor where all of that work runs

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Dario Amodei, patron d’Anthropic, père de l’IA « Claude » – l’une des trois dans le peloton de tête avec « ChatGPT » d’OpenAI et « Gemini » de Google, décrit avec justesse dans un essai récent intitulé The Adolescence of Technology, le décalage croissant entre la puissance technologique et la maturité institutionnelle des sociétés humaines. L’image de l’adolescence est parlante : force prématurée par rapport au faible pouvoir de réalisation dont elle dispose, absence de retenue et prédisposition à agir hors des clous et, face à elle, des institutions constamment en retard d’une longueur sur les capacités qu’elles...

Some MAGA fans are encouraging an off-ramp. Newt Gingrich thinks nukes are the answer.

Paul Atreides returns in December for the final film in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi trilogy.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say ChatGPT is 'cannibalizing' their traffic.

Nvidia announced DLSS 5 on Monday during its GTC conference, and based on early reactions, it's going to be a divisive update, with some reactions calling it "slop" that unacceptably alters artistic intent. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling this the "GPT moment for graphics - blending hand-crafted rendering with generative AI to deliver a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression."
In games that support DLSS 5, the tools can immediately provide noticeable boosts to lighting and shadows, but unlike previous versions of upscaling that used machine learning to close the gap between high …
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Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI over claims that the company's Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of themselves as minors, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses Musk and other xAI leaders of knowing that Grok would produce AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) when launching its "spicy mode" last year.
The plaintiffs include two minors and an adult who was underage when the events in the lawsuit took place. One of the victims, identified as "Jane Doe 1," alleges that last December, she learned that explicit, AI-generated images of …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Ireland INC pres. Ian Hyland on 250 Irish companies powering the U.S. economy

Financial analyst Maggie Vo on female founders during Women’s History Month

Base Power co-founder Justin Lopas empowers customers with below-market rates

Discover the best winter and snow tires of 2024, tested by Consumer Reports for traction, ice braking, and durability across cars, SUVs, and trucks

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Deepfake rumors started after social media users claimed Netanyahu is depicted in this video with six fingers on his right hand (seen left). | Image: Israel Government Press Office Social media platforms are currently awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generated deepfakes. Between clips that supposedly show the Israeli prime minister sporting extra fingers and drinking from a bottomless, gravity-defying cup of coffee, only one thing is apparent: Reality used to be much easier to prove.
There's very little credible evidence to suggest that Netanyahu isn't alive. But credibility is a rare commodity now that AI can convincingly clone real...

Rdv à 18h sur le parvis du Palais des Arts de Vannes. -
Initiatives / Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Manifs et rassemblements, Vannes

The prominent lawyer says that Democrats should get behind the President, and make sure that he finishes the job.

À 18h30 à la Bourse du Travail, 23 bd Nedelec. -
Initiatives / Marseille, Assemblée

In the Dolby Theatre, I saw a win-win night for the studio behind “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another”—and a lose-lose situation for the industry.

Entre 17h et 19h à la Maison des syndicats. -
Initiatives / Reims, Assemblée

Every Saturday, Todd Baum drives his daughter to the rink. She laces up, steps onto the ice, and plays hockey. Then they go get lunch on the way home. That ritual sounds ordinary. It is anything but. Maria Baum is 22 years old and was born with Williams syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder that carries a strong link to cardiovascular disease. Before she could walk, doctors were already mapping out the limits of her life. She was failing to thrive as an infant. Her heart was struggling. A transplant, they said, was likely necessary. “We heard that she would never throw a ball,” her father recalled. “She’d never walk properly.” She never needed that transplant. And she plays ice hockey. Maria...

Every ham radio shack needs a clock; ideally one with operator-friendly features like multiple time zones and more. [cburns42] found that most solutions relied too much on an internet connection for his liking, so in true hacker fashion he decided to make his own: the operator-oriented Ham Clock CYD.
A tabbed interface goes well with the touchscreen LCD.
The Ham Clock CYD is so named for being based on the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD), an economical ESP32-based color touchscreen LCD which provides most of the core functionality. The only extra hardware is a BME280 temperature and humidity sensor, and a battery-backed DS3231 RTC module, ensuring that accurate time is kept even when the device is otherwise powered...

Kitchen scales are plentiful and cheap, but their accuracy and measuring speed often leave a lot to be desired. In particular the filtering out of noise can make small changes a nightmare as e.g. adding a little bit of weight slowly can result in the result never updating. This frustrated [Mark Furneaux] enough that he dug up the load cell and metal base of a scrapped laboratory scale and added a strain gauge amplifier to build a better kitchen scale around it.
The only purpose-bought part was an HX710-based strain gauge amplifier module for $7 with LED display, with the metal base getting some metal bits welded onto it to hold said module as well as a push button and toggle switch. Existing wiring from the...

Chemotherapy hurts. That’s not a metaphor or a clinical footnote. For Jude Baker, a kid from Georgia who was twelve years old when doctors found Ewing sarcoma growing in his body, it was the most immediate, physical truth of his young life. “It wasn’t even knowing I could die,” Jude said later. “The chemo… it hurt.” Ewing sarcoma is a rare and aggressive cancer that forms in bones or the tissue surrounding them. It is not a disease that eases you in gently. Treatment is brutal, and for a kid just entering middle school, the weight of it lands differently. His father watched from the side of the hospital room and felt it too. “I could feel his pain,” his father said. “And as a dad, that...

Analyse cyber d’un message lié à ShinyHunters et à la fin de BreachForums, entre intimidation, propagande et stratégie de réputation dans l’écosystème cybercriminel.

European leaders are hesitant to help Trump secure the Strait of Hormuz, but they know inaction on the Iran war is not really an option.

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J’avais besoin de remplacer mon chargeur de piles, et comme j’utilise depuis des années les excellentes piles de la gamme Eneloop, je me suis dit que j’allais prendre un chargeur de la même marque, pour rester dans l’écosystème.
Parce que oui, Panasonic propose plusieurs chargeurs, dont
ce BQ-CC65
, qui est un chargeur intelligent pour piles AA et AAA qui surveille chaque emplacement de manière indépendante. Écran LCD avec données en temps réel, fonction Refresh pour redonner vie aux accus fatigués, dix protections intégrées et port USB : le tout pour une cinquantaine d'euros. Une charge individuelle...

Suite de la chronique sur le « temps long » proposée par Cécile Wendling, à la tête du cabinet Pan-or-amiques.com et chercheuse associée au CSO (Sciences po Paris – CNRS). Dans ce nouvel épisode, la prospectiviste partage son regard sur trois pièces de théâtre à découvrir en mars à Paris qui, chacune à sa façon, propose une réflexion prospective originale.

Randal Linden est le développeur qui avait réussi l'exploit de faire tourner DOOM sur la Super Nintendo en 1995. Trente ans plus tard, il s’est associé à Limited Run Games pour ressortir une version améliorée sur cartouche, avec un processeur Raspberry Pi caché à l'intérieur.
Dans un long échange accordé à Kotaku, il revient sur ce projet un peu fou et sur les coulisses techniques du portage.
Reverse-engineerer son propre code, trente ans après
À l'époque, Linden bossait chez Sculptured Software, un studio basé à Salt Lake City. L'idée de départ était assez artisanale : acheter des cartouches Star Fox en magasin, les ouvrir, et remplacer la ROM par de la RAM pour tester les capacités de...

Hay fever sufferers have attempted various treatments and techniques. They have tried antihistamines, nasal sprays, air purifiers, and staying indoors when pollen counts are at their highest. The number of partial solutions is extensive. A recent study by Hiroshima University in Japan, however, indicates a very nonclinical solution: matcha, the finely powdered green tea originating in Japan and used in everything from lattes to baked goods. Professor Osamu Kaminuma from the Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine conducted the research. He discovered that after receiving matcha over a course of several weeks, mice engineered to express symptoms of hay fever showed a dramatic decrease in sneezing....

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Doom-laden humor at the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony obscures the courageous innovation of much of the work it celebrated.

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