HelloFresh’s budget subsidiary surprised me with its basic but tasty vegetarian meal selection.

Surveillance technology intended to protect endangered species is weaponized against locals, with repercussions that range from harassment to physical violence.

Enlèvements crypto : analyse sur le rôle des fuites de données dans des cas français !...

Checking up on the claims of water filter makers can be a discomfiting maze. Here's how to verify independent water filter certifications.

Iran has retaliated with a missile barrage towards Israel, while explosions have been heard in Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Elles craignaient à juste titre d’être en première ligne des frappes de représailles iraniennes en cas d’attaque américaine. À Bahreïn, au Qatar, au Koweït, aux Émirats arabes unis et en Arabie saoudite, partout des impacts de missiles sont d’ores et déjà rapportés.

Apple hasn’t released a new iPod product since 2019. But the iPod reboot vibe is real. Music and cultural experts point to a few factors

Humanoid robots for the home are still years away, but you can now have one mow your yard in the dog days of summer

Based on data from Reader’s Digest, here are six practical strategies that help travelers consistently pay less for flights

Purchasing one of these new SUVs now can save you thousands of dollars off the MSRP

Tout en polarisant le débat public, le candidat à la présidentielle veut incarner un « arc antifasciste » qui, espère-t-il, fonctionnera encore face au Rassemblement national en 2027.

Branded intimidating and scary, this full-face Ruroc headgear for the slopes made me a pariah on the piste.

S’il a affirmé vouloir “défendre les Américains”, le président des États-Unis s’est adressé au peuple iranien qu’il a appelé à prendre le pouvoir à la suite des bombardements menés avec Israël. Un message risqué, qu’a envoyé aussi Benyamin Nétanyahou.

La question que tout le monde se pose évidemment : Mediapart était-il de bonne foi dans ses négociations avec Mélenchon ? Ou s’agissait-il d’une simple diversion, une opération de plus grande ampleur étant de toute manière en préparation ?


Longtemps présentée comme une destination de rêve pour expatriés, la Nouvelle-Zélande voit un nombre inédit de ses propres citoyens s’en aller. Explications de la “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.

US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown.

Sodium Chloride has a melting point of 801 C (1,474 F), putting it comfortably between commonly-cast materials like aluminum and bronze. Which led to [Robinson Foundry] asking the question: can you cast salt like a metal? The answer, surprisingly, was yes!
[Robinson] tries casting the salt with two different methods: like it was glass, and like it was metal. In the glass-like casting, he packs a ceramic mold with salt and tosses it into an electric kiln, there to melt and very slowly cool. In metal-like casting, he just tosses salt into a crucible and melts it in the same beer-can kiln we saw when we featured his lost-pla casting a while back. The molten salt is poured very carefully into sand casting molds....

Dans ce texte écrit avant les frappes conjointes des États-Unis et d’Israël sur l’Iran, le 28 février 2026, un éditorialiste saoudien du quotidien panarabe “Asharq Al-Awsat” estimait que chute ou la transformation du régime ouvrirait une ère de stabilité et de croissance au Moyen-Orient.

Ce samedi 28 février, cela fait quarante ans que le Premier ministre suédois Olof Palme a été assassiné par balle sur une avenue de Stockholm. Alors que ses fils se souviennent de lui dans la presse, les théories les plus diverses circulent quant à l’identité et au mobile d’un meurtrier toujours introuvable.

La mesure figure dans le projet de loi de lutte contre les fraudes sociales et fiscales, dont l’examen a été interrompu dans la nuit du vendredi 27 février au samedi 28 février. Les débats reprendront après les élections municipales, à une date qui n’est pas encore arrêtée.

The CGO Compact electric bike twists and folds to create a wall-hugging profile. Good electric bikes are expensive. So why not buy one and share it? That's the idea behind the Tenways CGO Compact e-bike I've been sharing with my wife and teenage daughter for the last two weeks. It adapts in seconds without any tools to comfortably fit riders of varying heights thanks to its low-entry frame, quick-release seat post, and height-adjustable handlebar.
It also takes up less space than an ordinary bike with its 20-inch wheels, folding pedals, and a handlebar that twists to create a slim, wall-hugging profile that goes flat inside a car or train. The CGO Compact's geometry puts riders into a comfortable upright body...

Le groupe allemand Welle: Erdball met souvent des messages cachés et autres programmes dans ses disques. Dans Film, Funk Und Fernsehen, il y a un programme pour Commodore 64 mais aussi du code Morse. Bon, je vais vous passer les essais ratés, mais j’ai d’abord tenté la même méthode que pour le Morse dans Wolfenstein 3D (sans succès, donc). Mais comme j’avais une idée de ce que je devais obtenir, je suis parti sur un décodage visuel simple. J’ai récupéré la fin du morceau dans Audacity (45 secondes), j’ai filtré assez fort sur la fréquence (j’avais estimé la fréquence en question en faisant Analyse -> Tracer le spectre) avec des filtres passe-bas et passe-haut (3 600 Hz et 3 400 Hz...

Islamabad a nié la chute de l’appareil et la capture du pilote. Le Pakistan a bombardé vendredi plusieurs grandes villes afghanes, notamment la capitale, Kaboul, et son gouvernement a affirmé une « guerre ouverte » aux autorités talibanes.

Les Etats-Unis et Israël ont annoncé samedi avoir lancé plusieurs frappes sur l’Iran, après des semaines de menaces d’intervention militaire. Des missiles iraniens ont notamment visé en riposte des bases américaines de la région.

A l'appel de différentes organisations et associations, manifestation contre la montée de l'extrême-droite le 28 février -
Initiatives / Manifs et rassemblements

Dans le juste milieu démocratique et pro-européen allemand, une explication courante de la montée de l'Alternative pour l'Allemagne (AfD) consiste à considérer ses électeurs comme des enfants peu instruits : dépourvus de réelle capacité d'action politique, sensibles à la rhétorique la plus élémentaire et votant sur la base d'émotions irrationnelles. Si l'on adhère à cette lecture, la solution logique serait alors de simplement mieux expliquer ses propres politiques. En pratique, cela a conduit à une rhétorique encore plus simpliste que celle dont leurs adversaires les accusent. Le Parti social-démocrate d'Allemagne (SPD), autrefois représentant de la classe ouvrière, est aujourd'hui le...

Police fire tear gas to disperse crowds allegedly trying to take banknotes from the crash site.

[Joshua Clay] recently unveiled his newest RC Nerf Dart Robot and talks through his design choices, pointing out that in his aim to have it launch darts fast and hard he may have somewhat overshot the mark. He found out first hand during testing that it shoots hard enough to leave welts through a sweatshirt and probably should be downgraded a bit. Thankfully, one of the features of his new unit is a highly modular design that makes iterating easier than ever.
A modular, glue-free assembly that leaves wiring accessible helps make design iterations faster and easier.
This model is an evolution of his first Nerfbot, and the new one is a smaller, tighter design that trades a wheeled base for a tracked one, among...

La lune glacée de Saturne, Encelade, fait régulièrement les gros titres de la presse scientifique en raison de son océan d'eau glacée, qui contiendrait les éléments essentiels au développement de la vie. L'astre semble ainsi être le meilleur candidat dans notre Système solaire pour la recherche de vie extraterrestre.

Communiqué de presse de Visa Finistère : Rassemblement et pique-nique antifasciste - Samedi 28 février – 11h Place de la Liberté. -
Initiatives / Brest, Manifs et rassemblements

La mort du député LR, en juillet 2025, alimente les fantasmes sur de prétendus secrets d’Etat. Des rumeurs qui ont fait bondir les ventes de son livre posthume, une critique du macronisme intitulée « Dissolution française ».

Is the Supreme Court really checking Trump’s power?

The move announced on social media comes after a standoff between Anthropic's boss and the US Department of Defense.

The former president told the committee that he would never have flown on Epstein's plane if he "had any inkling of what he was doing".

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business when early radios were all battery-operated. But in the 1920s, line-powered radios threatened to shrink their customer base, so they pivoted again. This time, they started making radios. So what happened? [The Last Shift] has the story, and you can see the video below.
Philco used advanced manufacturing techniques to make radios more affordable. By 1930, they were the number one radio maker in the world. After World War II, they moved into everything electric: mostly appliances, but also the new king of the electronics market, the television. Philco faced...

US President Donald Trump (R) looks on as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela | AFP via Getty Images Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step further and announced that he was now designating the AI company as a "supply-chain risk," which Anthropic says it is willing to challenge in court.
The decision could immediately impact numerous major tech companies that use Claude in their line of work for the Pentagon, including Palantir and AWS. It is not immediately clear to what extent the Pentagon may...

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras, but their soft images and imperfections are often a big part of the allure. Yet not all instant cameras are the same, and some of them are better suited for different needs and budgets. That’s why we tested some of the most popular instant cameras on the market from brands like Fujifilm, Polaroid, Leica, Canon,...

The move came after Anthropic rebuffed the Pentagon's offer to resolve a standoff over deploying Anthropic's Claude AI system for military purposes without restriction

The two countries are repairing a strained relationship as they also seek to reduce their trade reliance on the US.

Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with tasks asynchronously. Enter zclaw. It gives you the option to have a personal assistant on an ESP32 backed by Anthropic, OpenAI, or OpenRouter. The whole thing fits in 888KB, and while it doesn’t host the LLM, it does add key capabilities to monitor and control devices connected to the ESP32.
You communicate with the assistant via telegram. You can say things like “Remember the garage sensor is on GPIO 4.” Then later you might say: “In 20 minutes, check the garage sensor and if it is high, set GPIO 5 low.” It has an RTOS for scheduling tasks and...

Q Hayashida’s blend of fantasy, sci‑fi, and dark humor deserves far more recognition.

NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it's delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, was originally going to attempt to land on the Moon but will now be a test flight instead. NASA also says it's "increasing its cadence of missions," including adding a second test flight in 2027 and aiming for "at least one surface landing every year thereafter," including the Artemis IV landing. The overhaul to the Artemis launch schedule follows a report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) earlier this month that highlighted serious safety risks with NASA's p …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Coming soon to a LAN party near you: a Petri dish.

The criminally slept-on sci-fi noir animated film understands that its genre is a warning, not an aspiration.

Apparently the paycheck isn't enough.

After torpedoing Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros., Paramount Skydance is poised to have multiple major news organizations under its control.

Illustration par ChatGPT (DALL•E) Trump contre le Wall Street Journal ? Jusqu’ici Trump y a laissé des plumes – et à mon avis, ce n’est pas fini.
Trump contre la US Chamber of Commerce ? Là, Trump a pris une raclée, dont on n’a pas encore saisi toute l’ampleur.
Trump contre l’IA ? Là aussi un combat qui s’annonce très inégal … vu le QI des ministres que s’est choisi le Président. (On doit sabler le champagne à Pékin devant un tel auto-sabordage !).
J’allais faire une vidéo à ce sujet demain, mais les choses se précipitent. Je vais d’abord un peu observer.

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that will fold WBD's studio, linear channels, streaming service, and gaming segment into Paramount.
Though WBD initially signed onto an $83 billion agreement to merge part of Warner Bros. with Netflix, Paramount persisted with a hostile takeover bid, followed by a series of offers. That persistence paid off, as WBD determined that Paramount's "best and final" offer is "superior" to Netflix's deal. On Thursday, Netflix declined to match Paramount's bid, calling it "no longer fina …
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Recently the Myrient game video archive announced that they’re shutting down on March 31st of this year, for a couple of reasons, but primarily the skyrocketing financial costs of hosting the archive. One advantage of Myrient over e.g. Archive.org is that – per the FAQ – every game on the site is curated and checked against a checksum of a known good copy. The site also focuses on fast downloads, making it a good resource if you’re trying to find ROMs of some more obscure old gaming system.
Amidst the mourning it seems also pertinent to address the reasons behind this shutdown. Although finances are the main reason for this hobby project to be shut down, it’s due to (paywalled) download managers...

“Stem cells applied to the exposed spinal cords of fetuses in utero could treat infants with a severe birth complication that affects movement and continence. Researchers report that the therapy is safe, following a small clinical trial in six people. Spina bifida, a condition in which the spinal cord is not properly enclosed during gestation, affects fewer than 1 in 1,000 births globally, but occurs at higher rates in low-income countries. The most severe form, called myelomeningocele, can cause excess fluid accumulation in the brain and potential brain damage, as well as paralysis and issues with bladder and bowel control… Six pregnant women underwent surgery at 24–25 weeks of gestation. During the...

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Today, I’ll be speaking with Brink Lindsey, an American political writer and Senior Vice President at the Niskanen Center. Previously, he was Cato’s Vice President for Research and a dear colleague. Today, we’ll be discussing his latest book, The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transformation from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing. I want to start by congratulating you on your excellent book. It is concise, thoughtful, and beautifully written. As a published author, I’m envious of your style, and I really recommend the book to our listeners. Let’s start with the most obvious question. What is the permanent problem? I stole that line from the...

 
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Culture of Bathe-ing’s first event, in Brooklyn, brought in DJs, poetry readings, and performance art to shift how we collectively sweat it out.About a month ago I was sweating in a thirty-year old concrete temazcal, built into the bathroom of a house in Oaxaca—an ancient sweat lodge ritual led by a temazcalero named Larissa. Today I’m sitting in an Airstream trailer that’s been converted into a sauna, parked on the shore of the Hudson River in Williamsburg’s Domino Park. Steeping in 180-degree heat can be transformative, and at the very least, zen. But despite the slight head high, there’s something about this sauna event I’m attending that feels very New York. Maybe it’s the throng of helpful...

A war with the U.S. would be catastrophic for Iran. But some Iranians believe it may be the only way to topple the regime.

The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the United States to pursue regime change in Iran, once again.

Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of the financial drama, explain what “finance bros” misunderstand about capitalism’s allure.

The 1955 home comes with original wood paneling, new built-ins, and a separate unit on the lower level.Location: 635 West Summit Ave, Fergus Falls, Minnesota Price: $310,000 Year Built: 1955 Footprint: 3,128 square feet (4 bedrooms, 2 baths) Lot Size: 0.24 Acres From the Agent: "Step inside this beautiful, expansive four-plus bedroom, two bath home and fall in love with its warm character and thoughtful design. The midcentury-modern style shines through with vaulted and beamed ceilings, custom touches, and lots of natural light streaming through the new windows. The bright, main-floor living room invites you to relax and soak up the sunshine, while the two family rooms—each featuring a cozy fireplace—offer...

An outdoors-loving couple DIY’d a 180-square-foot retreat in the woods where they plan to eventually put a primary residence.Lauren Bell and Joey Parent were persistent. When they first considered buying land in Fayette County, West Virginia, they were set on building a home from scratch in the woods somewhere between where they both grew up. They had a lot of details in mind for the kind of land they wanted, but in order to narrow down their search, they agreed on one in particular: There had to be running water. "As it turns out, finding a place where running water intersects a paved road in a rural county is not easy," Lauren says. All of the wood in the cabin is locally sourced cherry, which the...