Financial advisors say "Trump accounts" may fill a specific niche, but they may not be the right fit for every family's future goals

What if the Fed's interest rate cuts, intended to support a struggling jobs market, end up accelerating the very technology contributing to job losses?

One strategic, year-end maneuver to employ or fine-tune as a kind of organizational cleanse is a Keep-Kill-Change audit. Here's how it works

The JPMorgan Chase boss is pulling in tech titans, ex-generals, and political heavyweights to steer a huge national-security spending drive

Big spending on AI hasn’t won over the public, who worry about safety, jobs, and who really benefits from the tech boom

L’ONG britannique FairSquare a déposé une plainte, lundi, contre le patron de la Fédération internationale de football auprès de la commission d’éthique de l’instance à propos des circonstances dans lesquelles le « prix de la paix de la FIFA » a été décerné au président des Etats-Unis par Gianni Infantino.

You don’t need to be an audiophile to appreciate how great these buds sound.

It's now easier for friends and family who aren't tech savvy or are struggling with app fatigue to share images via your Aura digital photo frame. As the name of the new "text to frame" feature implies, photos can now be shared to an Aura frame through a text message, and they will be automatically added to your library - but only from people you approve.
Allowing others to share photos that automatically appear on your digital picture frames is already a feature Aura offers, but previously, it was handled through the company's mobile app. The setup, including approving who has sharing privileges, is relatively painless, but it does require …
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For a glass artist in Leith, design studio Architecture Office made excellent use of mixed stone and mismatched wood to create a space that’s both cohesive and eclectic.Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality. When glass artist Juli Bolaños-Durman purchased a dated Victorian flat in Edinburgh in desperate need of updates, she knew that the renovated space would mirror her approach to her own creative work, in which she transforms found objects into colorful sculpture. And so began a highly collaborative journey to find offcuts and other leftover materials and repurpose...

Personne ne s’en doutait, mais durant 3 ans, les communications entre la Terre et les sondes de la NASA étaient totalement vulnérables au piratage du moindre script kiddy ! Et personne n’était au courant évidemment, et aucun des multiples audits de code qui se sont succédé depuis 2022 n’avait mis à jour ce problème jusqu’à ce qu’une IA s’en mêle !
La faille découverte au bout de 4 jours d’analyse, se trouvait dans
CryptoLib
, une bibliothèque de chiffrement open source utilisée pour sécuriser les échanges entre les stations au sol et les satellites en orbite. Cette bibliothèque implémente le protocole SDLS-EP (Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures) de la norme...

“The Sydney Morning Herald” expose l’envers du décor de l’expatriation : des milliers de femmes venues des Philippines ou d’Indonésie s’occupent des familles d’expatriés en sacrifiant la leur. Un système aussi efficace que douloureux.

Le scrutin, prévu dans l’après-midi de mardi, s’annonce très serré.

L’Assemblée poursuit l’examen en nouvelle lecture du PLFSS. Après les questions au gouvernement, qui débuteront à 15 heures, les députés voteront sur la partie « dépenses » du texte, puis sur le budget de la « Sécu » dans son ensemble, dans un vote prévu en fin de journée.

La nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine souligne un changement d’approche de Washington vis-à-vis de l’Afrique, mettant l’accent sur des partenariats ciblés et les relations commerciales. Une feuille de route particulièrement observée par la presse du continent.

Le chef d’état-major russe, Valeri Guerassimov, a rapporté que Vladimir Poutine avait ordonné la défaite des soldats ukrainiens regroupés dans la ville de Myrnohrad. Selon lui, l’armée russe a pris possession de 30 % des immeubles de la ville située à l’est de Pokrovsk.

Kyiv is seeking to resist a US push for a deal which would see territory handed over to Russia.

It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.

Plus get a tiny glimpse of 'Supergirl' ahead of its first trailer this week.

The iFixit app rolls together its guides, battery health tools, and a new AI chatbot. DIY repair site iFixit has launched its own app for iOS and Android, featuring its extensive library of repair guides and resources, a battery health monitor, and a new AI "FixBot" tool that's been trained on those same guides to help with repairs.
The heart of the new app is the company's existing library of repair guides, optimized for your mobile device. You can save the devices you own, giving you quick access to the relevant resources, and buy both tools and replacement parts from within the app.
What's entirely new is FixBot, an AI helper designed to talk you through repairs and troubleshooting. "You tell it what's...

FixBot can check on the health of your devices and talk you through necessary repairs. You can even point your phone's camera at broken gear to get started.

Want to wade into the world of mechanical keyboards? We break down the terminology, phrases, and materials to make the experience less overwhelming.

Selon le “Financial Times”, c’est l’ancien envoyé spécial des Nations unies pour le processus de paix au Moyen-Orient, Nikolaï Mladenov, qui sera chargé de superviser l’après-guerre à Gaza. Une immense consécration, estime la presse de Sofia, qui rappelle l’ascension internationale de cet enfant du pays.

Rançongiciel chez Poltronesofà : fuite de données anciennes, risques de fraude et interrogations sur la conservation des informations clients à l’ère du RGPD....

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over the past decade, data from the Gaia space telescope and massive sky surveys have given astronomers an unusually sharp view of those records. With millions of stars tracked for motion, age and composition, a strange pattern has stood out: the stars in the Milky Way’s disc do not follow one smooth chemical trend. Instead, they fall into two main groups. When astronomers measure iron and magnesium inside stars, they find that one group has much more magnesium compared with iron, while the other does not. These two...

US lawmakers could withhold Pentagon travel funds until unedited video of a controversial incident is made public.

There's no reason you should have to spend time vacuuming your home.

From the best air fryer to frying pans to knife sharpeners anyone can use, these ideas will keep the curious home chef in your life tinkering away.

Switch to Mint Mobile's unlimited talk and text and high-speed data for just $15 per month and add one of these great phones at incredible prices, now through Dec. 31.

Treat yourself or someone else to days of little gifts, ranging from sweet treats and savory beverages to beauty products and toys. We found a tiny door for everyone.

It sometimes seems as though we are in a constant tussle over privacy between governments and the governed, with each year bringing fresh attempts to extend surveillance, and consequent battles. For Brits the big news at the moment comes in a new digital ID scheme, something that will be required for anyone wishing to work in the country, as well as for certain government services. It’s something that has attracted a lot of opposition, and now the EFF have produced an analysis  of why they think it won’t work.
From the perspective of a British writer it would be easy to write screeds about the flaws in the scheme, the way it over-reaches, and about the historical distrust of Brits for their government’s...

The star of the hit Apple TV show knows how season one ends and loves it.

As he called the House Judiciary Committee into session on a cold and snowy February day in Washington, DC, Chairman Jim Jordan was ready to take a victory lap. American free speech had been critically threatened, and now it was saved - in large part thanks to him and his committee.
"What a difference a few years make," the Republican congressman for Ohio's 4th district told those present. "Four years ago, President Trump was banned from all platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. Today, he has his own platform. He's back on all the others. And of course, he's president of the United States."
Donald Trump was expelled from the major social …
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In theory, you just @ it and it gets to work.

Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to "approved customers" in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the deal comes with "conditions that allow for continued strong national security," and that the US will take a 25 percent cut of the GPU sales - higher than the 15 percent cut that was demanded in August.
Nvidia's H200 chips are an upgrade to the scaled-down H20 chips that Nvidia is already permitted to sell in China, but are less powerful than its latest flagship Blackwell GPUs.
"This policy will support American jobs, stre …
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Les troupes de l’ancien Premier ministre devraient s’abstenir ce mardi 9 décembre lors du vote du budget de la Sécurité sociale. “Je ne suis pas un artisan du chaos”, assure Édouard Philippe. Cela ne l’empêche pas de songer à son propre avenir, commente le quotidien belge “Le Soir”.

A bad year for the United States, a better one for China.

Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry - and they're about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt of skyrocketing memory prices, but the shockwaves will soon impact a wider range of products as suppliers pour resources into a far bigger and more lucrative endeavor: AI.
The biggest names in the AI industry are buying up DRAM memory for their sprawling data centers, and memory makers are prioritizing their demands over everyone else's. DRAM is embedded "in every part of our digital society today," Jeff Janukowicz, research VP at IDC, tells The Verge. That's everything from laptop …
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This meal is full of macros. What are macros? Who cares? You don’t need to know. What you need to know is that you are the alpha of this fast-healthy-adjacent bowl purveyor.

Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.

Le tirage au sort du prochain Mondial a eu lieu le 5 décembre à Washington en présence de Donald Trump. Quarante-huit équipes réparties en douze poules. N’est-ce pas trop ? se demande ce journaliste suisse qui soupçonne Gianni Infantino, le président de la Fifa, de vouloir gagner des voix sous un faux-semblant humaniste.

En plaidant, dans son « Journal d’un prisonnier », pour un « esprit de rassemblement le plus large possible, sans anathème et sans exclusive », l’ancien chef de l’Etat laisse entendre qu’une alliance avec l’extrême droite est inéluctable, rompant avec le testament politique de son ancien mentor Jacques Chirac.

The roots of the South East Asian neighbours' dispute go back more than a century.

Prix spécial du jury au dernier Festival de Cannes, le film du jeune prodige chinois Bi Gan suit un « Rêvoleur », personnage qui s’obstine à rêver dans un monde qui ne le permet plus… Un tourbillon créatif vertigineux, en salles ce mercredi 10 décembre.

In common with many countries in Europe, rightsholders in Sweden are attempting to tackle demand for pirate IPTV services and the many suppliers more than willing to meet it.
Assisted by rightsholders, Swedish law enforcement only has the resources to pursue a relatively small number of cases all the way to prosecution and trial. The case against a man said to be behind one of the most popular platforms was among a select handful of similar cases in recent years.
Indicted for Copyright Violations
In 2023, the man was indicted for his alleged ‘involvement’ in Viking IPTV, a pirate IPTV service popular in Sweden and recognized across the Scandinavian region. Viking provided access to a wide range of content,...

Ukraine barely has a hold on Pokrovsk, but its forces are keen to show they are still resisting Russia's advance.

An hourglass tells you what it is in the name — a glass that you use to measure an hour of time passing by. [EDISON SCIENCE CORNER] has built a digital project that mimics such a thing, with little beads of light emulating falling sand in the timekeepers of old.
The build is designed around the Arduino platform, and can be constructed with an Arduino Uno, Nano, or Pro Mini if so desired. The microcontroller board is hooked up with an ADXL335 three-axis accelerometer, which is used for tracking the orientation and movement of the digital hourglass. These movements are used to influence the movement of emulated grains of sand, displayed on a pair of 8×8 LED matrixes driven by a MAX7219 driver IC. Power is...

Depuis 2021, Apple prévient certaines cibles d’opérations de surveillance sophistiquées. Le CERT-FR vient de lancer une recherche auprés de français impactés....

Forget the ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ Remake, There Might Be a ‘KOTOR II’ Remake Too
https://gizmodo.com/kotor-ii-remake-aspyr-lucasfilm-star-wars-2000697000

Après le Black Friday, Satechi a proposé de belles réductions sur une station d’accueil pour les anciens Mac mini (et les Mac Studio). C’est un produit en fin de vie, très clairement, mais j’ai payé le mien 24 € au lieu des 80 € d’origine. Il existe en gris et et en argent. Je prépare un peu en avance, mais la version sombre est à 28 €, la version argenté à 37 € et dans les deux cas, un code (EELD8P0NM58D) donne 15 % de réduction.
Il y a un emplacement pour un Mac
C’est une station d’accueil pour les Mac mini d’anciennes génération, idéalement pour les modèles 2018 (Intel), M1 et M2. Ça marche aussi avec les Mac Studio, et avec les anciens Mac mini si vous avez un...

La France, l'Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni, le trio européen dit UE Trois (UE-3), ont récemment engagé la procédure d'activation du mécanisme de « snapback », instauré par la résolution 2231 du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies (2015) et intégré à l'accord de Vienne sur le nucléaire iranien (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA). Ce dispositif permet à n'importe quelle partie signataire de rétablir automatiquement l'ensemble des sanctions levées avant le JCPOA si l'Iran est jugé en manquement majeur, sans qu'un nouveau vote au Conseil de sécurité soit nécessaire. Si cette mesure venait à être mise en place, elle marquerait un tournant majeur dans les relations entre l'Europe et...

Suspension de la réforme des retraites, nouveau congé de naissance, hausse de la CSG sur les revenus du capital… Les Décodeurs font le point sur les mesures qui figurent dans le texte soumis au vote des députés mardi 9 décembre.

Ever want a microcontroller addon for your laptops? You could do worse than match one of the new and powerful microcontrollers on the block to one of the most addon-friendly laptops, in the way the Framework RP2350 laptop card does it. Plug it in, and you get a heap of USB-connected IO coming out of the side of your laptop – what’s not to love?
The card utilizes the Framework module board space to the fullest extent possible, leaving IO expansion on SMD pads you could marry to a male or female header, your choice. With about seventeen GPIOs, power, and ground, there’s really no limit on what you could add to the side connector – maybe it’d be a logic analyzer buffer, or a breadboard cable, or a flash...

La loi de séparation des Eglises et de l’Etat a été adoptée le 9 décembre 1905. L’occasion de revenir sur ce concept certes familier, mais souvent méconnu dans son application et son histoire.

Un rapport alerte sur le risque que font peser sur l’Union européenne les procédures d’arbitrage lancées par les oligarques et entreprises russes visés par des sanctions.

Although most people manage to navigate roads without major issues during the day, at night we become very reliant on the remaining navigational clues. The painted marks on the asphalt may not be as obvious in the glare of headlights, not to mention scuffed up and/or covered by snow and hidden by fog. This is where cat’s eyes are a great example of British ingenuity. A common sight in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, they use retroreflectors embedded in the road. Best of all, they are highly durable and self-cleaning, as [Mike Fernie] details in a recent video on these amazing devices.
Invented in the 1930s by [Percy Shaw], cat’s eyes feature a sturdy body that can take the abuse of being driven over by...

Earth’s earliest atmosphere may have done more than shield the planet from the Sun. New research suggests the sky itself helped supply early life with key sulfur-based molecules, long thought to appear only after biology took hold. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that Earth’s ancient air likely produced important sulfur compounds before life existed. Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and their partners recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that light and common gases could make molecules tied to today’s living cells. “Our study could help us understand the evolution of life at its earliest stages,” said Nate Reed, the...

These days, Internet connectivity is ubiquitous, so you can look up live weather data on just about any device around you. Regardless, [Jozerworx] wanted a simple, clean, independent weather display, and came up with this simple design. 
The build is based on the Lilygo T5 EPD devboard, which combines an ESP32-S3 microcontroller with a nice 4.7-inch e-paper display. This display has the benefit that it only uses power when it’s being updated, making it particularly suitable to run off a battery for extended periods of time. Meanwhile, the ESP32 and its inbuilt Wi-Fi connectivity allow it to query the internet for updated weather forecasts. Weather data is sourced via the OpenWeather API, which [Jozerworx]...

All it takes is a little loyalty.

Je croyais avoir trouvé la bonne méthode pour qu’elle refasse des fleurs, mais là : Enfer et Damnation ! elle a pris une voie tout à fait différente !