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by io9 - about 32 minutes
"When I got the call I said, wow, it’s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling, how big is that?"
by Wired - about 37 minutes
The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.
by QZ - about 40 minutes
Oracle’s mass layoffs sparked conversation about how companies deliver bad news—and why honest communication matters more than perfect messaging
by QZ - about 41 minutes
Sen. Elizabeth Warren grilled the nominee over $100 million in undisclosed assets and his willingness to defy the president on interest rates
by QZ - about 42 minutes
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says ChatGPT gave the alleged gunman advice on weapons before the 2025 attack that killed 2 people
by QZ - about 42 minutes
Asked whether companies such as Apple and Amazon had avoided refund requests to avoid offending him, Trump said, "Brilliant if they don't do that"
by QZ - about 42 minutes
Anthropic also committed to spending more than $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next 10 years, including custom AI chips
by The Verge - about 42 minutes
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood - meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear.
The platform's likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake content and flags it for public figures enrolled in the program. Public figures can use it to keep track of AI content on YouTube of themselves or request removal (takedowns are evaluated against YouTube's privacy policy, and not every request will be approved). YouTube began testing the feature with content creators last fall; in March, the company expanded the program to politicians and journalists. YouTube says the tool will cover celebriti …
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by The Verge - about 42 minutes
Twelve South’s PowerBug supports Apple’s Standby mode, which allows you to turn your phone into an ad hoc smart display. | Image: Twelve South If you’re tired of dealing with a cluttered desk or nightstand, the Twelve South PowerBug cuts down on cables by plugging directly into the wall and handling multiple devices at once. And right now, it’s down to a new low price, starting at $35.05 ($15 off) at Amazon.
Twelve South PowerBug Where to Buy: $49.99 $35.05 at Amazon (black) $49.99 $46.26 at Amazon (white)
All you need to do is plug it in, and it turns any wall outlet into a charger that can power two devices at once, without the clutter of loose cables and bulky wall chargers. The 15W Qi2 pad...
by Courrier International - about 45 minutes
Le retour de bâton contre la tech, ou “Techlash”, a-t-il commencé ? La presse américaine s’interroge après le jet d’un cocktail Molotov visant le domicile du patron d’OpenAI, Sam Altman. Arrêté à la mi-avril et inculpé de tentative de meurtre, l’incendiaire s’est explicitement réclamé de Luigi Mangione, accusé du meurtre, en 2024, du patron de l’assureur santé UnitedHealthcare.
by The Verge - about 46 minutes
Nearly four years after Philips Hue launched its Go portable table lamp, Govee has announced its own version for less than half the price. While the Hue Go is currently listed for $175.99, the new Govee Table Lamp Classic has launched at $79.99. Assuming you're okay with never using it outside, Govee's alternative may be the better buy.
Govee's cordless lamp is a bit brighter producing up to 500 lumens of light compared to just 370 lumens from Hue's. However, being dimmer allows the Hue lamp to run for up to 48 hours without external power, while the Govee's 4,800mAh battery will only last for up to 30 hours with colored lighting, or up to …
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by The Verge - about 52 minutes
The Mac reached a series of low points in the Tim Cook era: the fiasco of the butterfly keyboard, the clunky transition to USB-C, the underutilized potential of the Touch Bar, and the occasionally lackluster Intel chip performance. For a while, it seemed like Apple had shifted all of its attention, innovation, and care toward the iPad. For Mac users, it was a rough stretch of time.
And then, with the transition to Apple Silicon in 2020, everything changed. The line was revitalized with hugely capable new chips, and Apple began prioritizing usability over thinness at all costs. The Mac is now in a new golden era, and yesterday's changes at A …
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by dwell - about 58 minutes
Designed by James Hubbell, Robert Thiele, and Rhoda Lopez, the organic residence has adobe walls, custom woodwork, and handmade ceramic details.Location: 16512 Wilderness Road, Poway, California Price: $2,500,000 Year Built: 1979 Designers : Earth Form Builder (architect Robert Thiele and artists James Hubbell and Rhoda Lopez) Footprint: 2,232 square feet (4 bedrooms, 2 baths) Lot Size: 1 acre From the Agent: "Nestled in a granite boulder field in Poway’s Green Valley, the organic architecture of the Stonehill Residence (1979) by Earth Form Builder is unlike any home in the surrounding area. Arriving for the first time, visitors are struck by the organic, curvilinear walls that connect the structure to its...
by The Verge - about 1 hour
The Apple Watch was the first new product in the post-Jobs era. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Granted, 19th-century proverb writers were talking about the fruit, but Tim Cook helped give new meaning to the adage with the release of the very first Apple Watch. In fact, I'd argue that when he hands the reins to John Ternus in September, it won't be iPhones, Macs, AirPods, or the Vision Pro that defines Cook's legacy. It'll be how the Apple Watch set the course for modern health tech.
You don't have to take my word for it. In 2019, Cook himself told told Mad Money host Jim Cramer, "…If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, 'What was Apple's greatest contribution...
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Face aux prix élevés des carburants, Matignon élargit aux PME du BTP les aides déjà lancées, et y ajoute une mesure destinée aux « grands rouleurs » disposant de faibles revenus. Comme en 2023, mais de façon bien plus restrictive.
by io9 - about 1 hour
Everyone remembers the creepy kid at the center of the 1976 horror classic—but he’s only part of the problem.
by HackAdAy - about 1 hour
There are plenty of electronic components out there, but the one we tend to forget is the most basic: wire. Sure, PC boards have largely replaced wire with copper traces, but most projects still need some kind of wire somewhere. Once you need any wire, there’s a good bet you will need longer wire, and that means splicing one wire to another. Simple, right? Not really. There are a variety of ways to splice wires, and which one you use depends on what you want to do and the type of wire you are using.
If the wires touch, good enough, right? Not necessarily. You need enough contact area for the current you are drawing through the wire to flow. It is also nice if the splice can survive some amount of mechanical...
by io9 - about 1 hour
The Lyrid displays will peak later today and continue until April 26.
by New Yorker - about 1 hour
When asked by a reporter whom the arch would be for, Trump said, “Me.”
by BBC - about 2 hours
US envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have travelled to Moscow several times, but never to Kyiv.
by Wired - about 2 hours
A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Lawmakers in the UK are raising concerns over the government’s contracts with the controversial, Peter Thiel-backed data company.
by BBC - about 2 hours
Two soldiers will be removed from combat duty and receive 30 days of military detention, Israel's military says.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Eleven missing or dead scientists are now at the center of a federal investigation, and three had direct ties to NASA.
by The Brighter Side - about 2 hours
A stone tomb near Paris held generations of dead, but the people buried there did not all belong to the same world. That is the striking picture emerging from new genetic work on 132 individuals buried at Bury, a large Neolithic megalithic site about 50 kilometers north of Paris. The tomb was used in two separate phases, first around 3200 to 3100 BC. Then it was used again across much of the third millennium BC until about 2450 BC. Between those periods, something appears to have gone badly wrong. The break is not subtle. The people buried in the earlier phase were not closely related to the later group. Instead, the DNA points to a major population turnover. This fits into a broader pattern of demographic...
by BBC - about 2 hours
The impact is being felt by manufacturers, retailers and the digital sector, amid warnings it could get worse if the war resumes.
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“Balachandran and his team published the results of the Phase 1 clinical trial last year. At the time, the patients, all of whom had early-stage disease before they joined the trial, had only been tracked for just over three years, and it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer, he said. New data collected during the trial’s six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive, along with two of the eight people who did not respond. Two of the...
by Wired - about 2 hours
The five new Formula 1 watches are driven by light—and we have a definite favorite.
by Asialyst - about 2 hours
La K-Beauty booste aujourd’hui l’industrie coréenne des cosmétiques qui a explosé à l’international ces dernières années. Cet engouement mondial, associé à la vague du soft power coréen à travers la K-pop et les séries coréennes, est au cœur d’une exposition du musée Guimet - du 18 mars au 6 juillet - qui retrace la genèse culturelle de ce phénomène.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Une plateforme participative permet de recenser anonymement les victimes d’arrestation ou de détention extrajudiciaires, afin d’accumuler des preuves et demander l’ouverture d’une enquête auprès de la Cour pénale internationale.
by Wired - about 2 hours
From calculators to simple daily beaters, these are my favorite Casio watches on sale today.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Suspensions répétées du réseau mobile, blocages de messageries et applications populaires, contrôle de l’usage des VPN : au nom de la sécurité nationale, les autorités russes s’emploient à exercer un contrôle général d’Internet. Une erreur, selon le quotidien “Nezavissimaïa Gazeta” : dans cet éditorial, ce journal − pourtant intégré au système médiatique autorisé − estime que l’offensive des services de sécurité empêche la Russie de s’inscrire dans le “nouvel ordre technologique”.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Le pivot français a été sacré, lundi 20 avril, meilleur défenseur de l’année. Dans l’Hexagone, les matchs de Victor Wembanyama sont la plupart du temps diffusés en pleine nuit, ce qui en dit long sur la façon dont la NBA perçoit ses fans étrangers, observe le média américain “Bloomberg”.
by Toute l'Europe - about 2 hours
Signé en 1995 puis entré en vigueur en juin 2000, cet accord constitue la base légale des relations entre l'UE et Israël - Crédits : MicroStockHub / iStock La question alimente de nouveau les débats : faut-il, ou non, suspendre l'accord d'association liant l'UE à Israël ? Après la cosignature, le 17 avril, d'une lettre par l'Espagne, l'Irlande et la Slovénie adressée à la Commission européenne en ce sens, puis l'appel lancé le 19 avril par le Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sánchez, lors d'un meeting de campagne dans la province de Huelva, exhortant l'UE à mettre fin à cet accord, celui-ci a été discuté le 21 avril à l'occasion d'un Conseil des Affaires étrangères. En conférence de...
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“After last month’s expiry of Indian exclusivity on the patent for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, she expects even greater demand as the world’s largest producer of generic medicines also becomes a big consumer of weight-loss drugs… Analysts at Nomura estimated Indian drugmakers could charge Rs3,500-Rs8,000 ($37-$85) a month for disposable pen injections, far lower than the Rs11,000-Rs16,000 for western branded versions.” From Financial Times.
The post Indian Weight-Loss Market booms as Drugmakers Pile In appeared first on Human Progress.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Dans une enquête vidéo, “Proekt” démonte l’architecture opaque des laboratoires liés aux armes chimiques en Russie, qui opèrent sous le couvert d’instituts aux missions officiellement civiles. Le média d’investigation russe met au jour des pratiques qui pourraient aller jusqu’à des expérimentations sur des soldats.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
If you’ve got a modern car, truck, or tractor, it’s probably got a CAN bus or three that is bouncing data all around the vehicle. Listening in on these transmissions can enlighten you to what’s going on with sensors and modules which can aid in troubleshooting. You might find [Chanchal]’s latest work to be helpful in this regard — a CAN bus visualizer that runs right in your browser.
CANviz, as the project is known, is designed to work with any one of a number of cheap USB CAN reader modules. To use it, you simply run the Python “pip” tool to install it, and then you have a live CAN bus frame analyzer running on your local machine. Point your browser to localhost:8080 and you can see the data...
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Face aux perturbations actuelles dans les pays du Golfe, la Chine réoriente vers l’Afrique du Nord sa stratégie énergétique. Pékin accélère ainsi sa coopération entamée notamment avec l’Algérie, le Maroc et l’Égypte. Trois pays qui offrent également des voies maritimes alternatives à celle du détroit d’Ormuz.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
André, spécialiste français de la cybersécurité, a été emprisonné durant deux cent soixante-quatre jours au Qatar. Il dénonce, auprès du « Monde », le système judiciaire « partial », ses conditions d’incarcération et l’« inaction » d’Emmanuel Macron.
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by The Brighter Side - about 4 hours
A person can seem healthy and still carry subtle biological signs of trouble long before the first tremor or slowed movement appears. In Parkinson’s disease, one of those early signals may be living in the gut. A new study led by researchers at University College London found that people with Parkinson’s have a distinct pattern of gut microbes, and that similar patterns also appear in some people who do not yet have the disease, including those with a known genetic risk. That raises a striking possibility: changes in the microbiome could help flag elevated Parkinson’s risk before symptoms begin. Parkinson’s is already one of the world’s fastest-growing neurological disorders. By the time doctors can...
by Torrentfreak - about 4 hours
A little over a week ago, an unreleased version of the movie Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender leaked online.
The Paramount Pictures production was not scheduled to come out before October, but that changed when copies of the film began spreading online.
The trouble started on April 12 when X user @ImStillDissin posted two clips from the film, misleadingly claiming that someone at Nickelodeon had “accidentally emailed me the entire Avatar Aang movie.” Both clips were taken down via DMCA notices shortly after. The initial leaker later told the Hollywood Reporter that he actually received the film through a contact from his “hacker days.” He didn’t realize what it was until he looked it up, and decided...
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
Once the microcomputer era got going in earnest, the floppy disk quickly supplanted the tape as the portable storage method of choice. They were never particularly large, but they were fine for the average user to get by.
At the same time, it wasn’t long before heavier-duty removable storage solutions hit the market for power users who needed to move many megabytes at a time. In the 1980s, these were primarily the preserve of big print shops, corporate users, and governments. By the 1990s, even the mildly savvy computerist was starting to chafe against the tyrannical 1.44 MB limit of the regular 3.5″ diskette. Against this backdrop launched the SuperDisk—the product which hoped to take the floppy format...
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Le trafic ferroviaire sera réduit pendant quatre jours, avec des arrivées et des départs reportés vers d’autres gares de la capitale et en région parisienne.
by Wired - about 5 hours
Get those lost minerals back with the help of our top electrolyte powders, tablets, drops, and chews for athletes, partiers, and everyone in between.
by Korben - about 5 hours
Une IA a rooté une télé Samsung tournant sous KantS2, la plateforme logicielle d'un ancien modèle de la marque. C'est Codex, le modèle de code d'OpenAI, qui a trouvé un driver laissé avec des droits d'écriture sur le firmware, mappé la mémoire physique, et est passé root en quelques étapes. Les chercheurs de
califio
lui ont juste fourni un accès shell et le code source du firmware. À partir de là, c'est Codex qui a enchaîné la chaîne d'exploitation tout seul.
Et ce qui est marquant dans cette histoire, je trouve, c'est pas tellement la faille mais le fait qu'un driver laissé en accès libre sur un firmware embarqué des années 2018-2020, ça se trouve à la pelle. Heureusement, Samsung a...
by Korben - about 5 hours
Si vous étiez abonné à un magazine de jeux PC dans les années 90 et 2000, vous vous souvenez forcément des CD fournis avec chaque numéro de votre petit journal.
Démos jouables de jeux en cours de dev, mods, patchs, bonus, cartes supplémentaires pour les Doom et autres Quake de l'époque : les cover discs étaient un peu la seule façon de tester un jeu avant achat quand le téléchargement à 56k ne permettait pas grand-chose.
L'Internet Archive vient d'intégrer à sa collection 758 des disques du magazine PC Gamer, soit environ 1,2 To de contenu. La préservation a été orchestrée par Jason Scott (déjà à l'origine de pas mal de sauvetages numériques sur le site) avec une flopée de...
by Korben - about 5 hours
- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon -
Prolonger la durée de vie d'un AirTag de quelques mois à plusieurs années, c'est la promesse du boîtier DuHeSin vendu autour de 20 euros sur Amazon. L'accessoire remplace la CR2032 d'origine par deux piles AA classiques, ce qui multiplie l'autonomie par 14 selon le fabricant. De quoi passer d'environ un an d'usage à plus d'une décennie. Le principe est direct : vous dévissez le couvercle métallique de l'AirTag, vous placez la puce dans le logement dédié, vous insérez les deux piles AA dans le boîtier, et vous refermez l'ensemble avec la clé Allen de 4 mm fournie. Deux minutes. Le tout est en ABS noir, annoncé étanche.
Le fabricant mise aussi sur le côté...
by Korben - about 5 hours
Il a zoné au-dessus de votre jardin durant 3 minutes la semaine dernière. Vous l'avez entendu, vous avez levé la tête, mais trop tard ! Encore un putain de drone. Mais lequel ? Et surtout, qui le pilotait ?
Alors voilà un projet qui tente de répondre à ces questions pour le prix d'un week-end entre potes !
DroneAware Node
, c'est une station de détection de drones à bricoler soi-même à base de Raspberry Pi. Il vous faut un Pi, 2 dongles USB, une microSD, et vous avez un truc qui écoute les signaux Remote ID autour de chez vous. Son créateur, DroneAwareDan, annonce une portée allant jusqu'à 8 km, mais en conditions idéales, au-dessus de l'eau et avec de grosses antennes. Dans la vraie vie,...
by Korben - about 5 hours
Payer 15 euros par mois pour un chat d'équipe du genre de Slack, 20 pour un wiki pro, 10 pour un kanban... Et au bout d'un an, vous avez filé l'équivalent d'un MacBook d'occasion à des SaaS qui vivent sur votre dos. C'est ce constat qui a poussé 37signals à ouvrir ONCE.
Pour ceux qui rompichent fort depuis des années, 37signals c'est la boîte derrière Basecamp et HEY, avec Jason Fried comme CEO et David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH, le créateur de Ruby on Rails) comme CTO.
Depuis 2023, ils rament contre l'abonnement à vie façon Microsoft 365, et vendent certains de leurs outils en paiement unique façon Photoshop version boîte physique. Leur modèle commercial n'a pas vraiment décollé, alors le 16...
by BBC - about 6 hours
The EU's top court finds that the reforms breached EU values on a number of levels and broke the founding values of the EU treaty.
by Usbek & Rica - about 6 hours
TRIBUNE // L'intelligence artificielle s’infiltre vite dans les entreprises. Mais entre adoption et transformation, l'écart reste immense. Car un outil, même puissant, ne corrige ni un flux mal conçu, ni des données dégradées, ni une organisation incapable d'identifier son goulot d'étranglement. Au mieux, il accélère une partie des process. Au pire, il rigidifie le reste. C'est l'avertissement que porte Thibault Fritsch , créateur du cabinet de conseil en innovation Robinswood.
by The Brighter Side - about 6 hours
An astronaut can hold a tool in space, loosen their fingers, and watch it stay put. Nothing drops. Nothing tugs downward. Yet the brain does not simply forget gravity because the body has left Earth. That mismatch sits at the center of a new study on how people grip and move objects in orbit. The research found that even after months in weightlessness, astronauts still handled objects as if gravity might interfere. Their hands applied too much force, especially during movement, suggesting the brain kept predicting a pull that was no longer there. The work, led by Philippe Lefèvre and colleagues at Université catholique de Louvain and Ikerbasque, looked at one of the most ordinary actions people perform,...
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
APRs is an amateur radio protocol allowing the exchange of short packets of data. It’s commonly used to transmit a GPS position, though it can find other applications. The Flipper Zero RF hacker’s multi tool normally needs to be hooked up to an external transmitter to do APRS, but [Richard YO3GND] has made his Flipper do the job without any external parts at all.
One of the the Flipper’s radios sits in the 435 MHz ISM band, meaning that the rest of the 70 cm amateur band is well within its reach. There only remains the subject of modulation, in which the Flipper’s FSK and APRS’s FM are similar on paper if not on a waterfall display. Some software hackery ensues, and the Flipper is an APRS station....
by daryo Bluesky - about 8 hours
France • October 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯
by Toute l'Europe - about 8 hours
L'ambassadeur Avraham Nir, chef de la mission d'Israël auprès de l'Union européenne, à gauche, donnant ses lettres de créance à la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, en présence d'António Costa, président du Conseil européen, le 30 septembre 2025 - Crédits : Dati Bendo / Commission européenne "Il revient sur la table. L'accord d'association de l'UE avec Israël va être rediscuté ce mardi 21 avril à Luxembourg lors d'un [Conseil des Affaires étrangères], a indiqué la veille la cheffe de la diplomatie de l'UE" [TF1 Info]. "Ce débat est organisé à la demande de l'Espagne, de l'Irlande et de la Slovénie, qui ont cosigné une lettre à la Commission européenne,...
by BBC - about 8 hours
This clears the way for Japan to sell weapons to more than a dozen countries.
by Toute l'Europe - about 8 hours
En 2025, l'Union européenne compte un peu plus de 450 millions d'habitants. Le total est stable depuis quelques années, mais la dynamique est enrayée. Depuis 2012, le nombre de décès dépasse celui des naissances. Et si rien ne change, l'Union pourrait perdre près de 12 % de sa population d'ici 2100 et passer sous la barre des 400 millions d'habitants, selon les dernières projections d’Eurostat. À LIRE AUSSIL'Union européenne devrait perdre près de 12 % de sa population d'ici 2100 Moins d'enfants et une population vieillissante Cette situation est la conséquence de deux évolutions. D'une part, la fécondité est au plus bas.  Avec seulement 1,34 enfant par femme, l’Union est loin du seuil de...
by New Yorker - about 8 hours
The plots of these shows usually center on a murder, which occurs not so much to end a human life as to inconvenience our star, who must postpone a brunch or a media event to conceal an inconvenient corpse.