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Coffee subscriptions offer their steepest discounts in December—including on WIRED's two favorite coffee subscriptions.

Prime Video's latest needle-poke into generative AI's bubble comes on the heels of its anime dubbing debacle.

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ago. If you play games on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you have the unenviable task of choosing between several high-quality controllers from Microsoft as well as a plethora of great options from the likes of 8BitDo, PowerA, Razer, Scuf, GameSir, and Hyperkin. Some of them have drift-resistant Hall effect or TMR-based joysticks for improved longevity, yet all of them are good for one reason or another. The days of the cheap “little sibling” controller that looked cool but barely worked are over. We’ve spent a...

A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

Le négociateur ukrainien Mykhaïlo Podoliak dit au « Monde » que cette zone, proposée par les Etats-Unis et acceptée par Volodymyr Zelensky, imposerait un recul des forces ukrainiennes et russes des deux côtés de la ligne de front. Le président ukrainien a dit, jeudi, que toute cession de ces régions devrait être validée soit par une « élection », soit par un « référendum ».

“Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation obesity drug delivered what appears to be the highest weight loss yet in a late-stage trial while reducing knee arthritis pain, clearing the first of several upcoming studies on the weekly injection.  The highest dose of the drug helped patients with obesity and a type of knee arthritis lose an average of 23.7% of their body weight at 68 weeks, when analyzing all participants, including those who discontinued treatment. When evaluating only patients who stayed on the drug, the highest dose delivered 28.7% weight loss on average. The company said some patients lost so much weight that they decided to drop out of the trial.” From CNBC.
The post Obesity Drug...

This is what a Switch 2 looks like with a glossy glass protector attached to its screen. | Image: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge A glass screen protector is one of a few essential accessories that every Switch 2 owner should buy, along with a select few others. In fact, it should be a priority to stick one onto the console’s screen as soon as possible to avoid accidental scratches.  To test the candidates below, I installed and removed Switch 2 screen protectors on my console at an alarming rate, more than any sane person should, and here are the most important takeaways: Do not buy a flimsy plastic screen protector. They are a waste of money and won’t protect your Switch 2 enough. It’s impossible to tell...

“We examine how consumers modify their food purchases after adopting appetite-suppressing GLP-1 receptor agonists, such as Ozempic and Wegovy. Using survey responses on medication adoption linked to transaction data from a representative U.S. household panel, we document the prevalence, motivations, and demographic patterns of GLP-1 adoption. Households with at least one GLP-1 user reduce grocery spending by 5.3% within six months of adoption, with higher-income households reducing spending by 8.2%. While most food categories see spending declines, the largest reductions are concentrated in calorie-dense, processed categories, including a 10.1% decline in savory snacks. In contrast, a small set of categories...

If the system holds out long-term, it could significantly boost AI development in China.

RANÇOIS Hollande a accordé récemment un entretien au Monde, sous le titre suivant, qui le cite : « Le plan de Trump pour l’Ukraine réduit l’Europe au rang de spectatrice assiégée. » Nous avions déjà remarqué les talents militaires de FH, en 2013, quand il était président, et envoyait les troupes françaises guerroyer au Mali ou en Centrafrique, dans la note Hollande Africanus. Au Monde, il regrette la « pusillanimité » de l’Europe face à la Russie (qui fait pourtant partie de l’Europe). Son propos s’inscrit pleinement dans la martiale logorrhée qui se déverse sur nous depuis plusieurs années. Hollande, donc, comme tant d’autres, travaille à la « fabrication de la...

Hoto’s PixelDrive is $20 off. | Image: Hoto You may not have heard of Hoto, but as my colleague Sean Hollister pointed out in his recent profile, the company is quickly becoming a household name thanks to its penchant for high-quality design. Hoto’s new PixelDrive electric screwdriver is a great example of what the company is capable of, and right now it’s on sale for the first time at Amazon, where you can snag it for $59.99 ($20 off).
Hoto PixelDrive Where to Buy: $79.99 $59.99 at Amazon
Despite its small size, the cordless PixelDrive delivers an adjustable 0.5–6Nm of torque, which is strong enough for assembling electronics, putting together furniture, and handling most small home repairs. It also...

Le secrétaire d’État américain, Marco Rubio, a décidé de bannir la police Calibri des documents officiels pour restaurer l’usage du Times New Roman, en vigueur pendant les vingt années précédant le changement de 2023. Un geste perçu comme un nouvel acte idéologique contre l’inclusion et l’accessibilité, selon la presse américaine.

The Chrome team at Google recently built a new browser. It takes a query or prompt, opens a bunch of related tabs for you, and then builds you a custom app for whatever you're trying to do. Ask it for travel tips and it'll build you a planner app; ask it for study help and it'll build you a flashcard system. It's Googling meets vibe coding. The concept is called GenTabs, and the browser is called Disco (evidently, both for fun reasons and because it's short for "discovery"). Google is launching both as experiments in the Search Labs today, to see if they might have a place in the future of the web.
Before we get too far: No, this is not som …
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We've seen NSFW offerings from Grok and other chatbots, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been teasing adult content within ChatGPT for a while. Now, we have a timeline. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, told reporters during a Thursday briefing about GPT-5.2 that she expects "adult mode" to debut within ChatGPT in the first quarter of 2026, adding that the company wants to get better at age prediction before introducing the new feature. OpenAI is currently in the early stages of testing its age prediction model, which is designed to automatically figure out when to apply certain safeguards and content restrictions for users under 18 …
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Alors que les discussions sur le cessez-le-feu se poursuivent, la population de Gaza subit des conditions humanitaires dramatiques.

Taiwan’s digital payment infrastructure is tactile, decentralized, and completely distinct from China’s QR code-dominated model.

Back in the mid 1990s, the release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system cemented the Redmond software company’s dominance over most of the desktop operating system space. Apple were still in their period in the doldrums waiting for Steve Jobs to return with his NeXT, while other would-be challengers such as IBM’s OS/2 or Commodore’s Amiga were sinking into obscurity.
Into this unpromising marketplace came Be inc, with their BeBox computer and its very nice BeOS operating system. To try it out as we did at a trade show some time in the late ’90s was to step into a very polished multitasking multimedia OS, but sadly one which failed to gather sufficient traction to survive. The story ended in the...

A year after the animation studio filed for bankruptcy, Gainax has shut down.

The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.

“Raccoons living wild in cities in the United States are beginning to show physical changes that resemble early signs of domestication, according to a recent study. The study found that urban raccoons had developed shorter snouts than rural raccoons, with the research produced by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and published in Frontiers in Zoology. This is an example of a physical trait that appears across domesticated animals that have adapted to living in close proximity to humans over long periods of time, along with other traits such as smaller teeth, curlier tails, smaller brains and floppier ears.” From The Guardian.
The post City Life Is Nudging Raccoons Toward Domestication appeared...

Comme le veut la tradition, cette année aussi, le célèbre bimensuel américain “Time Magazine” a désigné sa “personne de l’année”. Cette fois-ci, les heureux gagnants sont ces grands dirigeants et experts du secteur de la tech que le média d’outre-Atlantique désigne comme les “architectes de l’Intelligence artificielle”.

A police department in a suburb of Phoenix has used ChatGPT twice this year to generate images of crime suspects.

Des tentes emportées par les vents forts, d’autres effondrées sous l’effet des intempéries ou devenues inhabitables… Les pluies diluviennes, qui s’abattent depuis mercredi 10 décembre sur la bande de Gaza, ajoutent une “couche de misère” à la vie, déjà largement précaire, de centaines de milliers de Palestiniens.

Producer James Gunn, director Craig Gillespie, and star Milly Alcock talked about the DC Studios film coming June 26, 2026.

Après ArcelorMittal, Michelin, Teisseire, la fin annoncée du champion de l’électroménager illustre la crise qui frappe de nombreux secteurs de l’industrie, grands groupes comme sous-traitants, depuis plus d’un an.

“Seabirds, the IUCN Endangered Palau Ground Dove (Pampusana canifrons), and other native species have significantly increased in number thanks to a successful restoration campaign on Ulong Island, Republic of Palau in the Western Pacific Ocean.  Island Conservation, the Koror State Government, the Koror State Department of Conservation and Law Enforcement (DCLE), and the Koror State Rangers worked together in 2023-2024 to remove introduced, damaging invasive rats which devoured native bird eggs and young, decimated native plant populations through seed predation, preyed on native crabs, and disrupted food webs—ultimately threatening ecosystem collapse.   Now, after one full year of rigorous...

For Southwest, having lounges would attract business and frequent flyer customers, who have grown accustomed to the perk at other carriers

“Decades of research, collaboration, advocacy, and legislative and policy actions have transformed the outlook for cancers affecting children and adolescents. According to the AACR Pediatric Cancer Progress Report 2025: In the United States, the five-year survival rate for all pediatric cancers combined has increased from 63% in the mid-1970s to 87% in 2015-2021. Pediatric cancer mortality in the United States declined by 57% between 1970 and 2000, and by a further 19% from 2001 to 2023, reflecting advances in risk-stratified therapy, precision medicine, and supportive care. Over the past few decades, research has uncovered the unique biological underpinnings of pediatric cancers, which are rare compared...

Disney is hedging against the future. OpenAI is clearing a path for Sora. And together they’ve made a blueprint for how AI and Hollywood can move forward.

Oracle stock fell as much as 16% as earnings made it painfully clear that the AI grid is wired to a very nervous bond market

Gratitude doesn’t affect only happiness. In the workplace, it affects performance, where the more precise idea is whether employees feel appreciated

Des soupçons de plus en plus lourds pèsent sur le président israélien, Isaac Herzog, soupçonné d’avoir monnayé une amnistie du Premier ministre, Benyamin Nétanyahou, en échange d’un soutien du Likoud nationaliste à l’élection présidentielle de 2021.

Meta is reportedly is working on a new AI model code-named Avocado, which could move the company away from the open-source model it has used

Looking for an educational microcontroller board to get you or a loved one into electronics? Consider the tinyCore – a small and nifty hexagon-shaped ESP32 board by [MR. INDUSTRIES], simplified for learning yet featureful enough to offer plenty of growth, and fully open.
The tinyCore board’s hexagonal shape makes it more flexible for building wearables than the vaguely rectangular boards we’re used to, and it’s got a good few onboard gadgets. Apart from already expected WiFi, BLE, and GPIOs, you get battery management, a 6DoF IMU (LSM6DSOX) in the center of the board, a micro SD card slot for all your data needs, and two QWIIC connectors. As such, you could easily turn it into, say, a smartwatch, a...

Voyageant déguisée et de nuit en voiture, puis à bord d’une barque de pêche, l’opposante vénézuélienne, qui vivait cachée au Venezuela depuis seize mois, a quitté clandestinement son pays pour recevoir le prix Nobel de la paix qui lui a été décerné cette année.

Poursuivi pour agressions sexuelles, viols et corruption de mineur, pour des faits présumés sur trois jeunes filles, le metteur en scène a fait l’objet d’une nouvelle mise en examen le 24 novembre.

The move is a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government.

The latest draft includes proposals on territorial concessions, Germany's chancellor says.

Praha • Česko • January 2022 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

A seized tanker accused of smuggling sanctioned oil has long hidden its true location. BBC Verify examines how.

After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to use it. Although simply directing them to the source code on GitHub or similar is an option, not every project lends itself to the traditional configure && make && make install, with often dependencies being the sticking point.
Asking the user to install dependencies and set up any filesystem links is an option, but having an installer of some type tackle all this is of course significantly easier. Typically this would contain the precompiled binaries, along with any other required files which the installer can then copy to their final location before tackling any remaining tasks, like updating...

Rosen Zhelyazkov's dramatic move came ahead of a vote of no confidence in parliament, and 20 days before Bulgaria joins the euro.

La plaignante, qui s’exprime publiquement pour la première fois dans « Le Monde », défend la démarche des membres du collectif #NousToutes qui ont perturbé un spectacle du comédien, samedi à Paris, et regrette la réaction de Brigitte Macron, qui les a traitées de « sales connes ».

Ostensiblement, l’Amérique de Donald Trump a annoncé le 5 décembre lâcher l’Europe dans un document officiel qui fera date tandis que d’autres signaux du président américain semblent confirmer son intention de pactiser à tout prix avec Pékin, une bascule politique dont la Chine et la Russie seront probablement gagnantes et les perdants les alliés des États-Unis.

A similar ban for girls under 10 was struck down by the Constitutional Court for specifically targeting Muslims.

Sculpture vivante, objet d’expression identitaire ou artistique, tu, bruyant, fragmenté, augmenté… Le corps est un langage. Au CENTQUATRE-Paris, dans l’exposition Beaux Gestes dans le cadre du festival éponyme qui se déroule jusqu’au 14 décembre 2025, une quinzaine d’artistes interroge la richesse et la complexité de cet idiome et dessine une cartographie sensible du corps contemporain.

Communiqué du Lyon Antifa Fest, la préfète du Rhône fait interdire les quatre dernières soirées du Lyon Antifa Fest -
Repères / Solidarité antifasciste, Lyon

It’s happened to all of us: you find the perfect model for your needs — a bracket, a box, a cable clip, but it only comes in STL, and doesn’t quite fit. That problem will never happen if you’re using Iteration3D to get your models, because every single thing on the site is fully-parametric, thanks to an open-source toolchain leveraging 123Dbuilds and Blender.
Blender gives you preview renderings, including colors where the models are set up for multi-material printing. Build123D is the CAD behind the curtain — if you haven’t heard of it, think OpenSCAD but in Python, but with chamfers and fillets. It actually leverages the same OpenCascade that’s behind everyone’s other favorite open-source CAD...

On vit une époque formidable (non), car d’un côté,
5,6 millions de sites web bloquent maintenant le GPTBot d’OpenAI
,
5,8 millions bloquent ClaudeBot
alors que de l’autre côté, ce sont
13,26% des bots IA qui se contrefoutent royalement des robots.txt
. Les webmasters sont tous en PLS, et plantent des pancartes “Propriété privée - IA interdit” partout… Mais je vous le donne en mille Émile, ça ne sert strictement à rien !
Il y a quand même des gens très intelligents qui se penchent sur le sujet et hier, c’est un nouveau standard qui vient de sortir pour dire stop à cette comédie ! Cela s’appelle
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0
et ça propose quelque chose de radical : Arrêter de...

Google et le CA/Browser Forum viennent d’annoncer la mise à mort de 11 méthodes de validation de domaine pour les certificats HTTPS. Bye bye les emails, les coups de fil, les fax (oui, y’en avait encore qui utilisaient ça) et le courrier postal pour valider les certificats car d’ici mars 2028, tout ça sera du passé.
Car quand vous demandez un certificat SSL/TLS pour votre site, l’autorité de certification doit vérifier que vous êtes bien le proprio du domaine. Historiquement, ça pouvait se faire via un email envoyé à l’adresse WHOIS, un coup de téléphone, ou même un courrier papier mais le problème, c’est que ces méthodes sont faciles à falsifier.
Des chercheurs en sécurité ont...

As a crucial negotiating deadline looms, envoys from three countries are scrambling to preserve a continent-wide economy.

A wave of high-concept murder mysteries has revived the classic genre—and proved to be catnip for modern audiences. Why can’t we get enough?

“I must hire this reviewer to write the screenplay for my next project!”

Amazon vient d’annoncer un truc qui va faire plaisir à tous les lecteurs d’ebooks. A partir du 20 janvier 2026, les auteurs auto-édités pourront proposer leurs ebooks sans DRM en formats EPUB et PDF via la plateforme KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). Vous pourrez enfin télécharger vos achats dans un format lisible ailleurs que sur Kindle et ça, ça fait plaisir parce que
DeDRM
ça commençait à bien faire ^^.
Toutefois, cette décision d’activer ou non le DRM reste entre les mains des auteurs et vu les réactions sur les forums KDP, beaucoup risquent de garder les verrous en place. Pour les titres déjà publiés, rien ne change automatiquement et les auteurs qui le souhaitent devront se connecter...

Vous vous souvenez de Revolt ? Cette alternative open source à Discord que je vous avais présentée et qui promettait de vous libérer des griffes des plateformes qui monétisent vos données ? Et bien accrochez-vous, parce que Revolt vient de se prendre un joli coup de bambou juridique. Le projet s’appelle maintenant Stoat, et ce n’est pas un choix marketing savamment orchestré.
Le 1er octobre dernier, l’équipe a reçu
un cease & desist
concernant l’utilisation du nom “Revolt”. Pas de détails sur qui a envoyé la lettre (pour éviter le shitstorm et ne pas plomber les négociations…), mais le message est clair : Changez de nom ou ça va mal se passer ! Et comme personne n’a envie de finir...

Anti-piracy groups provide regular reminders that pirate sites expose users to malware and related security risks. In some cases, no action is required for users to come to harm, all they have to do is visit a malicious site.
While not the most common route of infection, under the right circumstances that can indeed happen. Yet something we saw for ourselves this week may go even further than that. When blocking measures are deployed against dozens of sites, there’s a period of uncertainty in which many pirates are traditionally less cautious about visiting alternative sites. For those who benefit from internet users clicking first and thinking later, there’s arguably no better time to target pirates. In...

Si vous pensiez que LEGO se contentait de mouler du plastique comme dans les années 50, vous vous gourez car la marque danoise vient de franchir un cap historique en commercialisant sa toute première pièce fabriquée par impression 3D dans un set grand public.
Et il leur a fallu neuf ans de R&D pour y arriver ! La pièce en question se trouve dans le set Holiday Express Train (10361) de la gamme LEGO Icons, disponible depuis octobre. C’est une mini locomotive bleue avec des roues qui tournent et une petite cheminée qui monte et qui descend quand le train avance. Bref, un petit élément décoratif en apparence, mais qui représente un sacré tournant pour l’entreprise. Alors pourquoi neuf ans de...