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Des pluies torrentielles, qui s’abattent depuis plusieurs jours sur le centre du Vietnam, ont fait au moins 90 morts. Le sud et le centre du pays subissent des précipitations incessantes depuis la fin octobre et les services météorologiques annoncent de nouvelles tempêtes tropicales dans les prochains jours.

Depuis quelques années, le club de football andalou se montre très investi en matière de protection de l’environnement et de lutte contre le changement climatique, observe la presse espagnole.

These convenient and slim magnetic wallets are the ones you’ll want to stick to the back of your smartphone.

Panasonic’s new flagship OLED is one of the best TVs I’ve ever seen (or heard).

Dans un texte empreint de nostalgie publié sur le site “Raseef22”, un auteur-compositeur et dramaturge égyptien déplore la disparition progressive du cœur battant de la capitale égyptienne – avec son architecture, ses cafés et sa vie intellectuelle –, étouffé par la gentrification et le capitalisme triomphant.

The latest Nest Doorbell is great hardware plagued by a bad subscription approach.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 106, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, Happy Thanksgiving Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about prediction markets and Hilary Duff and Matt Belloni and yeast, clearing space for a Steam Machine, playing News Tower thanks to Stephen Totilo's recommendation, checking to make sure I remember all the Wicked lyrics (I do, don't worry) before seeing For Good, giving up on my fantasy football team, and recording season two of Version History. It's a fun one.
I also have for you a ne …
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Choosing a Chromebook that isn’t terrible can feel like dodging bullets. We’ve tested all of the latest models and can point you in the right direction.

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In 2022, Apple won an Oscar. The company behind the Mac and iPhone made a splash by winning Best Picture with the indie darling CODA, a remake of a French-Belgian film about the only hearing member of a family with a struggling fishing business. It was created with a modest budget reported around $10 million, and yet despite its relatively humble beginnings, for a time the movie was …
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Il s’agit de la première frappe israélienne sur la capitale libanaise depuis juin. Le premier ministre a prévenu dimanche qu’Israël continuera à « frapper » le Hezbollah et le Hamas au Liban et dans la bande de Gaza, malgré les cessez-le-feu.

L’inauguration du grand barrage de la Renaissance éthiopienne (Gerd) par Addis-Abeba, en septembre dernier, a mis en lumière l’importance, comme la fragilité, des ressources hydriques. Ce scientifique spécialiste du climat et militant décrypte pour “ISS Africa” cette bataille de l’eau qui risque de submerger toute la Corne de l’Afrique.

Enjoy Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 512GB storage, built-in S Pen and all-day 5000mAh battery.

Après le rejet quasi unanime du texte à l’Assemblée nationale, l’hypothèse d’une loi de finances spéciale prend corps. Mais la ministre des comptes publics a affirmé, dimanche, croire encore un « compromis possible ».

Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations in a very compact space. Though they are extremely safe, with only the TMI-2 accident releasing a negligible amount of radioactive isotopes into the environment per the NRC, the company Deep Fission reckons that they can make PWRs even safer by stuffing them into a 1 mile (1.6 km) deep borehole.
Their proposed DB-PWR design is currently in pre-application review at the NRC where their whitepaper and 2025-era regulatory engagement plan can be found as well. It appears that this year they renamed the reactor to Deep Fission Borehole Reactor 1 (DFBR-1). In each 30″ (76.2 cm) borehole a...

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This annual competition showcases photography that documents extraordinary moments in natural history and highlights conservation issues.

In 1969, the longtime foreign correspondent recalled a youthful adventure in which she moved to China, keen on becoming an opium addict.

By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.

The mother in Kincaid’s story is not only trying to tame a shrew; she is offering a template for survival.

Not only is the department’s behavior not normal; it is also, as is becoming increasingly clear, self-defeating.

The viral Japanese bakery, now with a location in Times Square, is one of the few imported brands that has broken through to become genuinely hot while maintaining considerable good will.

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Résumé de la COP30 à Belem – « Is there a narrow way through ? »
Les journalistes experts du Guardian viennent de résumer en deux articles la COP30 qui vient de se terminer à Belem, au Brésil.
Compromises, voluntary measures and no mention of fossil fuels: key points from Cop30 deal | Cop30 | The Guardian
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point | Cop30 | The Guardian
Un scientifique d’envergure internationale nous ramène à la réalité du système climatique, encore qu’avec un certain euphémisme, puisque d’autres de ses collègues et le Secrétaire général de l’ONU estiment, non sans raison, que l’objectif de 1,5°C...

With options from Apple, Bose, Sony, and more, discover some of the best earbuds — as well as their pros and cons

U.S. home insurance costs rose 11.4% in 2024 over a year ago. Here are seven expert strategies for finding affordable coverage.

You don't need to worry about snow — or needing an SUV — if you're driving these cars

Services offered by U.S tech giant Cloudflare improve the performance and security of millions of websites, amounting to a significant contribution towards the health of today’s internet.
Those hoping to benefit from Cloudflare’s services find few, if any, barriers to entry. Typically a working email address is sufficient to gain access, meaning new users can protect their websites in a matter of minutes.
Cloudflare Held Liable For Anonymous Users
Frictionless onboarding is popular with users and good for Cloudflare’s overall business. For Japanese manga publishers Shueisha, Kodansha, Kadokawa, and Shogakukan, the absence of identity verification is a gift to pirate site operators. Not only are they...

And there's an additional Trump family connection.

One of the hardest things about owning a classic car is finding replacement parts. Especially if the car is particularly old or rare, or if the parent company is now out of business, sometimes this can be literally impossible and a new part will have to be manufactured from scratch. The same is true of bicycles as well, and there are plenty of defunct bicycle manufacturers to choose from. [Berm Peak] found a couple old rental ebikes from a company that’s not in business anymore and set about trying to get them working again. (Video, embedded below.)
Of course, unlike many classic cars, ebikes are encumbered by proprietary electronics and software that are much harder to replace than most physical components....

The actress and singer has not commented on the incident, but appeared visibly shaken by it.

Dans les années nonante, au moment du lancement de la console Pippin, Bandai avait une newsletter pour les développeurs. C’est assez intéressant à lire, avec de petits détails pratiques sur le développement. Je continue avec la troisième. Elle a été publiée en octobre 1995 est disponible sur archive.org (la seconde partie est là). C’est parfois compliqué à afficher correctement, parce que l’encodage des caractères n’est pas celui utilisé en 2025. Avec Safari, il faut faire Présentation -> Encodage du texte -> Japonais (ISO 2022-JP). Même comme ça, il manque quelques caractères, donc je suppose que c’est un encodage plus ancien.
On apprend qu’Apple gérait bien la production des...

Days of torrential rain leaves vast swathes of the country inundated and facing landslides.

Entretien avec l’artiste français Thomas Pendeliau, dont la série visuelle La Cinquième Saison propose une plongée saisissante dans une Marseille de l'an 2089, où il est possible de croiser un paquebot échoué dans une rue ou de profiter de confortables appartements perchés dans les arbres. Un article initialement publié dans le magazine d'été 2024 d'Usbek & Rica.

Le collectif de 133 conventionnels remet son rapport final sur le temps de l’enfant dimanche. Il a tenu, comme l’avaient fait les citoyens de la convention sur la fin de vie, à l’accompagner d’un texte dont nous publions l’intégralité.

There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The world of analog synths is alive and well, and [Polykit] has a new, open-source polyphonic synthesizer to add to the ever-growing chorus of electronic instruments.
The analog part is thanks to the eight identical voice cards that plug into the machine’s mainboard: each one has a voltage controlled oscillator to generate tones, an envelope generator, multiple voltage-controlled amplifiers, and even a pole mixing filter which is also, yes, voltage controlled. Each voice card outputs stereo, and yes, there are controllable mixing...

Un nouvel appel à rassemblement est lancé pour la fermeture de la Taverne de Thor dans la Meuse. -
Initiatives / hammerskin, Taverne de Thor, Extrême droite radicale, Manifs et rassemblements

Un tiers des enfants britanniques vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté dans des familles devenues tributaires de la charité publique. En cause : l’inflation tenace et les sévères limitations aux allocations, que le gouvernement Starmer envisage de déplafonner dans son budget 2026.

Entre provocations, mépris des institutions multilatérales et pragmatisme mercantile, le président des Etats-Unis bouleverse les codes. Pour préserver un lien transatlantique jugé indispensable, l’Europe s’adapte à ses exigences imprévisibles, au risque de céder à la servilité.

We think of radios as audio devices, but for people who are visually impaired, it can be difficult to tell which channel you are listening to at any given time. [Sncarter] has a family member with vision impairment and built a radio to help her. Unfortunately, it was difficult to replicate, so he decided to try again. The result is an FM radio that provides audible status notifications about power and frequency. Check it out in the video below.
This isn’t just some hacked-up commercial radio, but a ground-up design that uses a TEA5767 with an ATMega328 for control. There is an LCD for when someone else might use the radio and an audio amplifier. He built the prototype on a breadboard, but moved the finished...

NBC News's David Ingram analyzed a month's worth of Elon Musk's X posts (our condolences). While what he was able to glean wasn't too surprising, it was still interesting to see the numbers all laid out. Between September 17th and October 17th, he posted 1,716 times, averaging a little over 55 posts a day. 49 percent of those were about politics, usually fringe. He seems particularly hung up on the race of people on TV and in movies, including going after child actors.
Other things Elon likes to talk about? Crime, Tesla - oh, and of course, himself. Over the 30 days, Elon posted about himself 109 times. He often even reposts his own stan ac …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Aishat Baimuradova fled her home this year in the hope of living the way she wanted, but she was then found dead in her rented flat.

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal with chronic pain better than the pills we’ve been using for decades? Yeah, and what chakras do you hook this doo-hickie up to?” It seems too good to be true, but in fact it’s a well-supported therapy that has become part of scientific medicine. There are no crystals needed, and you’re applying electrodes to the effected area, not your chakras. Like all medical devices, it can be expensive if you have to buy the machine out-of-pocket… but it is just a trickle of current. [Leon Hillmann] shows us its well within the range of...

Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.

À la Bourse du travail de Paris, rue du Château d'eau, de 9h30 à 17h30. -
Initiatives / Rencontres et débats

Black Friday isn’t here quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from kicking off an excellent holiday promo, which runs through December 18th. The ongoing sale spans everything from PlayStation 5 consoles to Sony’s latest accessories — including Sony’s standard DualSense Wireless Controller, which is now matching its all-time low of $54.99 ($20 off) in multiple colors at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. Although the aforementioned deal price applies to Sony’s base models — including the go-to black and white variants — you can also pick up limited edition models inspired by Astro Bot (Walmart / Best Buy), God of War (Amazon / Walmart), and Ghost of Yōtei (Walmart / Best Buy) for around $64 (also...

Greene's tenure in Congress may be ending, but her involvement in US political life may not be over.

In August, Apple Music launched a tool for importing playlists from other streaming services. The bruhahah over Daniel Ek’s war profiteering was in full swing, and artists were starting to flee. The two things may have been unrelated, but the timing was certainly fortuitous. Now Spotify is launching its own playlist transfer tool, in hopes of winning over some defectors from other platforms. The feature isn’t something brand-new, built from the ground up. Instead, it’s a direct integration with TuneMyMusic, which lets you shuttle playlists between services like Tidal, YouTube Music, Qobuz, Beatport, and even Napster. Of course, TuneMyMusic is just one of several services that offer the same ability,...

It's a little over a month since I was prescribed medicinal cannabis and have been taking half to a full gummy each evening (aside from not wanting to risk being impaired during the day, higher levels of daily use are associated with lower levels of pain relief).
For my prescriptions to continue, I need to (virtually) attend a check up appointment in order to discuss whether it's proving effective (as well as ensure that there haven't been any issues etc).
Conveniently (unfortunately?), I have just had a demonstration of efficacy.
Last week, I attended a work on-site in Playa Del Carmen, Cancun. Unfortunately, I was unable to carry medicinal cannabis into the country (I asked the Mexican embassy in advance and...


Aujourd’hui, je vous propose de relier deux phénomènes qui semblent n’avoir aucun rapport :
— d’un côté, Noam Chomsky fréquentant Jeffrey Epstein ;
— de l’autre, le Bitcoin qui fléchit dès que l’avenir politique de Donald Trump s’assombrit.
Pourquoi mêler ces deux étrangetés ?
Parce que je suis psychanalyste — et que mon métier consiste à repérer les liens que tout le monde refuse de voir.
L’économiste cherche des causes.
Le politologue des structures.
Le crypto-enthousiaste un miracle.
Le psychanalyste, lui, observe le désir, l’aveuglement, la part d’inconscient qui organise le théâtre.
Et que voit-on ?
Chomsky, Summers, Woody Allen gravitant autour d’Epstein...

Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related resources.
In late 2023, the search engine expanded its offering by making data from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online.
Anna’s Archive scraped several terabytes of data and published over a billion unique metadata records. The records contain no copyrighted books or articles, but they help ‘shadow’ archivists track books already in the collection and which ones have yet to be added.
OCLC Sued Anna’s Archive
This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the site’s quest to archive as much published content as possible. OCLC responded with a lawsuit at...

My work laptop is made by Framework and apparently has a fingerprint sensor built into the power button.
Once I found out, I wanted to set it up so that I had a more convenient means of authenticating when working on the go (it's a little less useful in my office as I tend to dock with the laptop lid closed).
PAM integration allows me to use the fingerprint reader to login to, and unlock my laptop. Technically it can also be used for SSH authentication, though I wouldn't normally have the necessary proximity to actually use it.
This post describes how to enable fingerprint authentication on Linux. Although I wrote it because of my Framework, it also works with fingerprint enabled Thinkpads (you can find a list...

Learn how to protect your belongings using smart planning and packing — and trusted movers

AI companies are turning to debt markets to fund data centers. But analysts say this new wave of bonds aren't bubbles

Cet Easter Egg est un peu particulkier : la personne à l’origine de l’Easter Egg (et qui se trouve dedans) est décédée récemment. C’est Rebecca Heineman, une développeuse qui a travaillé sur de nombreux portages de jeux sur Macintosh, Apple IIgs et 3DO (notamment). Et elle a travaillé sur Wolfenstein 3D pour Macintosh (et d’autres, j’en ai parlé sur MacG). La version Mac de Wolfenstein 3D est techniquement bien plus avancée que la version pour PC. Elle utilise des BSP au lieu du ray casting (je vous conseille le Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D pour les détails) et peut effectuer un rendu en 640 x 480. Le jeu est nettement plus beau (pour l’époque) mais tourne assez mal sur les...

Financée par des milliardaires de la Silicon Valley, Preventive cherche à éradiquer les maladies héréditaires en « corrigeant » le génome d’embryons humains. Une pratique hautement risquée et controversée.

L'AG Antifa Reims organise une Journée de lutte antifasciste, au programme formations, ateliers et concerts. -
Initiatives / concert, Reims, Rencontres et débats

Olivia Dean “Let Alone the One You Love”
Olivia Dean sold out four nights at Madison Square Garden this week, an extremely impressive feat for a singer who just recently played four shows there as the opening act for Sabrina Carpenter. It’s a real perspective-shifter – Dean is substantially more popular than she seemed, and the market for lovelorn classic-style R&B is clearly stronger than ever. (Also take note of Giveon’s show at MSG, and Cleo Sol selling out three nights at Radio City Music Hall.) Dean has a lot of very good songs, but I figure a lot of her success comes down to how easily and effortlessly she fills a void in the pop landscape where Adele and Amy Winehouse used to be. Her music...

J’ai commencé à regarder le documentaire sur Jeffrey Epstein hier sur
Netflix
et je ne suis même pas allé au bout du premier épisode tellement ce qu’a fait ce mec est à gerber. Les témoignages sont horribles, avec tous les détails moches donc j’ai arrêté de regarder ça. Vraiment une ordure ce mec… et j’ai vu aussi un peu ce qu’il se passe dans la presse, notamment avec Trump et ses mensonges de fifou…
Bref, si je vous parle de ça aujourd’hui, c’est parce qu’il y a quelqu’un qui a créé
jmail.world
, un site qui affiche dans une interface type Gmail l’intégralité des emails Jeffrey Epstein qui ont été libérés par le Congrès américain.
Le site a été créé par Luke...