À l’occasion du procès intenté en mars contre Gerry Adams par trois victimes d’attentats à la bombe commis par l’Armée républicaine irlandaise (IRA), la journaliste et écrivaine Jenny McCartney revient sur les dénégations persistantes de l’ex-président de Sinn Féin quant à son appartenance au groupe armé indépendantiste. Entre témoignages d’anciens proches, audiences judiciaires et versions qui s’opposent, une question demeure : qui écrit encore l’histoire de la guerre nord-irlandaise ?

À un an de l’élection présidentielle de 2027, la France politique se redessine sous nos yeux, analyse le journaliste britannique John Lichfield dans “The Local”. En tentant de s’émanciper des étiquettes traditionnelles, les responsables politiques brouillent les frontières idéologiques entre la gauche et la droite.

En s’enferrant dans un bras de fer avec le souverain pontife à propos de la guerre en Iran, le locataire de la Maison-Blanche a beaucoup à perdre, souligne “The Wall Street Journal”. Ce faisant, Donald Trump se met les catholiques américains à dos tandis que le chaos géopolitique mondial pourrait, in fine, permettre à l’Église catholique de redorer son blason.

Chaque semaine, la chronique phénomène du “New York Times” sur l’amour vous est proposée en exclusivité, traduite en français par “Courrier international”. Aujourd’hui, le récit difficile de la mort d’une amie, choyée jusqu’au bout.

En un peu plus d’un siècle, les relations entre la Chine et la Russie ont toujours tourné au bénéfice de la seconde, en dépit d’un renversement de puissance depuis quarante ans, analysait en décembre dernier l’historien chinois Feng Yujun. Il dénonçait même une “guerre psychologique” exercée depuis Moscou.

Six personnes sont mortes et plus d’une dizaine ont été blessées samedi dans la capitale ukrainienne après qu’un homme a ouvert le feu dans la rue puis dans un supermarché où il a été tué lors d’une tentative d’interpellation, selon les autorités.

The Unity game development platform was first released in 2005, long after the PlayStation had ceased to be a relevant part of the console market. And yet, you could use Unity to develop for the platform, if you so desire, thanks to the efforts of [Bandwidth] and the team behind psxsplash. 
Yes, it really is possible to design games for the original PlayStation using Unity and Lua. Using a tool called SplashEdit, you can whip up scenes, handle scripting, loading screens, create UIs, and do all the other little bits required to lash a game together. You can then run your creation via the psxsplash engine, deploying to emulator or even real hardware with a single click. Currently, development requires a Windows...

Soft robots have long promised something rigid machines cannot easily deliver. They offer the ability to bend, flex, and handle the messy unpredictability of the real world. However, there has been a catch. Once many artificial muscles are built, they are stuck with the motions they were designed to make. A research team in South Korea says it has found a way around that problem. They created an artificial muscle that can be reshaped during use, recover after damage, and even have part of its material reused in another device. This advance could push soft robotics closer to systems that behave less like disposable tools. Furthermore, the systems may become more like adaptable machines. The work came from a...

Ever encountered a minor annoying bug in a video game? How about one dating back to 2018? Usually, you have no hope of fixing it, but this time is different. [Joey Cheerio] shows the first-time programmer approach to (with great difficulty) fixing a bouncy ball prop turning invisible when shot in Team Fortress 2.
It starts with a band-aid solution that hides the problem: just turn off jiggle physics! While that works, it also affects many other models in the game, and doesn’t tackle the root cause. Time to investigate. Because this ball often goes overlooked, [Joey Cheerio] didn’t even realize that it was supposed to have jiggle physics, accidentally removing it. Turns out, after scouring the internet for...

Évolution de la valeur du jeton World Liberty (WLFI) depuis son lancement
J’écrivais ici le 5 février dernier :
Vous connaissez mon opinion que le sort des « cryptos » (jetons commercialisables) et de Trump sont à ce point liés que chacun joue le rôle de baromètre pour l’autre.
Wikipedia :
Le jeton World Liberty (WLFI) est une émanation de la famille Trump. La famille Trump perçoit 75 % du produit net lorsque WLFI vend des jetons.
La société a fait l’objet de nombreux reportages sur les conflits d’intérêts découlant de l’implication de Donald Trump, notamment des accords secrets avec des entités étrangères et des hommes d’affaires ayant déjà fait l’objet d’enquêtes...

Un militaire français, le sergent-chef Florian Montorio, a été tué samedi, et trois autres ont été blessés, dont deux grièvement, au Liban sud, lors d’une attaque des casques bleus de la Force intérimaire des Nations unies (Finul).

The Mexican president says there were never tension over Spainish colonisation, which had become a thorny issue.

Iran is blaming a US blockade for the closure, saying it breaches the ceasefire reached between the two countries.

According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030.
The world's largest memory makers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron - are all working to add new fabrication capacity, but almost none of it will be online until at least 2027, if not 2028. SK opened a fab in Cheongju in February, but that is the only increase in production among the three for 2026.
Nikkei says that production would need to increase by 12 percent a year in 2026 and 2027 to meet demand. But according to Counte …
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Everyone's got their eye on 'Avengers: Doomsday,' but Kevin Feige thinks 'Secret Wars' will be Marvel flexes its creative muscles.

The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered because paleontologists suspected they were looking at something unusual, a baby Lystrosaurus that may have died before hatching. But suspicion is not proof, and this question had lingered for decades, not just for this fossil, but for a much bigger mystery in evolution. Did the ancestors of mammals lay eggs? A new analysis of a tiny Lystrosaurus specimen from South Africa now gives the clearest answer yet: yes, they did. The fossil, dating to roughly 250 million years ago, appears to preserve an embryo still inside its egg, making it the first known egg from a mammal ancestor. That matters...

When Ridge Racer hit the arcades in the early 1990s, it came in a few different versions. The last variant used three large CRTs to create a wraparound display for the player. Incredibly rare, it’s believed that only a single-digit number of machines remain in existence. [beaumotplage] has secured a remaining example, and been working to preserve this historical artifact.
The first mission when it comes to this machine was to dump the ROMs, which have thus far not been preserved in any major archive. With that done, [beaumotplage] worked to hack a version of MAME that could emulate the Three Monitor Version’s unique mode of operation. As it turns out, each screen is driven by its own arcade board, with...

In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous remove.

It may look silly as hell, but that's not stopping 'Street Fighter' from happily carrying itself like it's a big deal.

The attacker, who took hostages inside a supermarket, was killed after a shoot-out with police, officials say.

Analysts expect the stablecoin market to balloon, an "ETF palooza," and legal bets on "essentially anything"

Discover the top 12 countries where retirees can stretch their savings and find affordable living, quality healthcare, and vibrant lifestyles

The White House is in a tricky position with Anthropic right now.

Before you spend $50,000 or more on a new SUV, here are the 7 luxury models that Consumer Reports says deliver real value for the money

There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so he did. After a lot of work, of course, which is described in a detailed blog post, and, a YouTube video by [TheScienceElf] we’ve embedded below.
The UNIVAC is a seriously weird architecture by modern standards: it’s got eighteen-bit words — yeah, not even a power of two — and one’s compliment arithmatic with a weird signed zero thing going on. There’s one 36-bit and one 18-bit register, and only 40,960 words of memory. Eighteen-bit words. Yeah, it was the 1960s and they were making it up as they went along.
[Nathan] wasn’t,...

Désinhibés par l’anonymat du numérique, certains « gameurs » jonglent d’un sexe à l’autre en fonction de leur avatar et s’aventurent vers de nouveaux rivages érotiques. Des expériences virtuelles qui favorisent parfois un coming out, une transition de genre ou l’adoption de pratiques sexuelles dans la vraie vie.

The pontiff says his remarks have been misinterpreted after a spat with the US president.

In some Minneapolis neighborhoods, nearly every house has an anti-ICE sign. | Photo by Jack Califano / The Verge Jorge L. Alonso, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois, said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps. Judge Alonso granted the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado, who runs the ICE Sightings - Chicagoland Facebook group, and Kreisau Group, the developers of Eyes Up, a preliminary injunction.
Judge Alonso cited a unanimous Supreme Court decision from a 2024 case that pitted the NRA against the former superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, Maria Vullo. In...

Charles Dance already played a bastard dad once, will 'The Batman Part II' have him do it again? ...Probably, yeah.

Assiste-t-on à la deuxième mort des éditions Grasset ?, s’interroge l’historien Pascal Fouché, qui rappelle, dans une tribune au « Monde », que cette maison avait été condamnée à disparaître pour faits de collaboration, avant d’être graciée par le président de la République Vincent Auriol.

Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin. Yet after decades of effort, nobody has caught it directly. That gap between certainty and absence has helped turn modern cosmology into a field of giant machines, giant budgets and giant collaborations. So there is something striking about a recent axion search that went in the opposite direction. A team of then-undergraduate students at the University of Hamburg built a compact cavity detector. They ran it inside a powerful magnet and used it to probe one narrow slice of the dark matter problem. They did not find a signal. However, what they did find was a way to rule out axions with...

« Hémiplévie ». La journaliste et écrivaine Isabelle Monnin, victime d’un AVC en 2023, explique chaque semaine comment elle a apprivoisé cette nouvelle existence, avec un corps « à moitié fichu ». Sans ses amis, elle n’aurait pas supporté l’épreuve des huit mois d’hospitalisation.

No relief in sight from the RAMpocalypse.

As EV subsidies fade, e-bikes are filling the gap. Consumer Reports picked the best Class 1 models to help you find the right ride

From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, everything, we’re well aware that not everyone can spend that kind of money right now. So, as we did last year, we asked The Verge staff to share some of their favorite gadgets under $50. These are the gizmos that don’t fall apart after a few weeks, as cheap stuff often does, and quietly improve our lives. Some are practical purchases, like portable power banks and backup bulbs, while the rest are useful in other ways. After...

Consumer Reports picked 10 affordable cars its members actually recommend — here are the sedans, hatchbacks, and small SUVs that made the cut

Light crossed the gap between two machines in an Oxford laboratory, and with it came a result that pushes quantum computing into new territory. Researchers built a system in which two separate quantum computers worked together as a single device, even though the modules sat about two meters apart. They did not rely on a direct wired transfer of quantum information. Instead, the machines shared it through photons, using a method known as quantum gate teleportation. That distinction matters. For years, one of the biggest problems in quantum computing has been scale. It is hard enough to control a small number of qubits, the quantum version of bits. Trying to pack huge numbers of them into one processor only...

There is a currently ongoing debate in the neuropsychology world about how we relate to the tools that we use. The theory of “tool embodiment” says that when we use some tools frequently enough, our brain recognizes them similarly to how it recognizes our own hands, for instance. There is evidence and counter-evidence from experiments with prosthetics, trash-grabber arms, and rubber dummy arms, just to name a few. It’s fair to say the jury is still out.
All I know is that today my trackball broke, and using a normal gaming mouse to edit the podcast was torture. It would be an exaggeration to say that I felt like I’d lost a hand, but I have so much motor memory apparently built up in my use of the...

Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally ducking into their cars to enjoy a blast of AC. Dyson’s new $99.99 handheld fan would have provided some much-needed relief then, although I’m not sure I would have been comfortable powering it up during the service or reception. The HushJet Mini Cool is as slim and sleek as Dyson’s recent thin vacuum and hair dryer, but it’s not quiet enough to earn the name “Hush.” That’s unfortunate because the HushJet Mini Cool is yet another product Dyson has redesigned to look and perform better than what’s already on the market. All of its components — including the motor, 5,000mAh...

With a vacation comes a big choice: What game should I focus on during the trip? I thought about grinding out the harder levels of Super Meat Boy 3D, but I was looking for something more chill. I could have dabbled more with Slay the Spire II, but I already know that's a game I'll be playing for a long time. I wanted something that I could really get lost in and finish in a little over a week. People of Note, a new music-focused RPG from Annapurna Interactive and Iridium Studios, turned out to be exactly what I needed.
In the game, you play as aspiring pop singer Cadence. What starts as a journey to outperform a popular boy band turns into …
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The jets do not move in a straight, obedient line. Around Cygnus X-1, a black hole and a massive supergiant star circle each other every 5.6 days. The black hole’s jets get shoved sideways by the star’s powerful wind. Over time, that pressure makes the outflow twist and bend. This creates what one researcher called “dancing jets.” Now, by tracking those bends in fine detail, astronomers have pulled off something that has long been out of reach. They have made a direct, instantaneous measurement of how much power the jets carry away from a feeding black hole. That matters well beyond one binary system. Black hole jets are thought to help shape galaxies and larger cosmic structures by stirring gas,...

These locks, lights, and other smart home upgrades let you add automation without messing up your home’s vibe.

Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there. Give your music a proper bath with this handy guide.

The Queen of Pop makes a guest appearance during the Espresso singer's headline set.

Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up.

A gaming laptop without a discrete graphics card feels revolutionary, but the TUF Gaming A14 doesn't quite take full advantage of AMD's daring new silicon.

Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more.

The photographer has said, of his images of his wife Edith’s extended clan, “I wanted to pay attention to the body and personality that had agreed out of love to reveal itself.”

With Season 3, the HBO drama feels like it’s clicked into its final, hardened form: a thrilling, disturbing horror show, delivered with a sneer and a smile.

It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasphemy-themed A.I. image.

The former child star, who, now past thirty, often gestures at a deep well of discontent, wants us to know that he’s got his own ideas.

Les processeurs Core Series 3 d'Intel sont en vente, et ce qui est intéressant ici, c'est moins les specs que l'endroit où ils sont fabriqués.
Ces puces sortent des usines Intel de Hillsboro (Oregon) et Chandler (Arizona), sur le procédé 18A, l'équivalent du 2 nm chez Intel. Pas de TSMC dans la boucle. En 2024, une bonne partie des processeurs Intel pour PC portables était encore gravée chez le fondeur taiwanais. Ce n'est plus le cas.
Côté technique, on est sur de l'entrée de gamme assumée. 6 coeurs (2 performance Cougar Cove + 4 basse consommation Darkmont), 2 coeurs GPU Xe3, un NPU à 17 TOPS et une prise en charge mémoire en simple canal. Du budget pas cher donc.
Les fréquences montent entre...

L'interface web de Proxmox (l'outil de virtualisation que tout bon homelabber connaît), c'est bien... pour UN serveur. Dès que vous commencez à empiler les nodes et les clusters, ça devient vite le bazar avec 15 onglets ouverts.
PegaProx
, c'est tout simplement un dashboard open source qui unifie tout ça dans un seul écran. Et vous allez voir, le truc cool, c'est que ça gère aussi les clusters XCP-ng ! L'interface de PegaProx - une vue unifiée de tous vos clusters Proxmox et XCP-ng
Concrètement, vous branchez tous vos hyperviseurs sur cette interface web (port 5000) et hop, vous avez la vue complète. VMs, conteneurs, métriques de perf... tout remonte en temps réel via Server-Sent Events. Du coup,...

Lapsus$ relance sa vitrine de recrutement
https://www.zataz.com/lapsus-relance-sa-vitrine-de-recrutement/

Encore un autre Easter Egg dans un tableau de bord d’une vieille version de Mac OS. C’est dans Synchrinisation de fichiers (File Synchronization en anglais) et MacKiDo n’a pas de capture. Pour une bonne raison, je pense : c’est un Easter Egg avec du mouvement. La mise en place est classique : il faut presser option en cliquant sur À propos de « Synchronisation de fichiers »… dans les menus. Et à droite du bouton OK, vous verrez des noms défiler, a priori les développeurs. Il y a Jeff Hokit, Maxine Ghaffari, Alex Kazim, Ron Barr, Bob Krause, Kevin Hester, Mark Pontarelli, Kristie Lindholm, Michal Anne Quakenbush, Paula Z. Brown, Tim Oey, Cheryl Laton, Scott A. Johnson, Erik Sea, Susan...

Tout semblait réuni pour une contestation post-électorale à la Trump. Mais en Hongrie, l’ampleur de la victoire de Péter Magyar a contraint Viktor Orbán à reconnaître sa défaite.

Du fait des alliances, unions et candidatures imprévisibles, les sondages menés un an avant l’élection se trompent dans la moitié des cas étudiés depuis 1995.

La guerre en Iran a fait s’envoler le cours du pétrole et pèse sur les prix à la pompe.

“Nearly 20 million measles-related deaths have been averted in Africa since 2000 thanks to increasing vaccination coverage, according to the first-ever detailed analysis of immunization targets on the continent.  The analysis, by World Health Organization (WHO) in the African region, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, also found that alongside the 19.5 million measles deaths averted, more than 500 million children in Africa have been protected through routine immunization between 2000 and 2024.” From World Health Organization.
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