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Samedi 18 avril, après avoir rouvert la veille le détroit d’Ormuz, l’Iran a annoncé à nouveau la fermeture de ce dernier en réaction à la “piraterie” des États-Unis. De quoi démentir l’optimisme affiché la veille par Trump et rendre la situation encore un peu plus confuse.

The country's biggest musician Teddy Afro laments a lack of unity in the country on his new track.

Several liver transplant recipients have stayed off anti-rejection drugs for at least three years following an experimental therapy.

Péter Magyar and his Tisza party are wasting no time preparing for the transfer of power after their dramatic landslide victory.

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...

President Macron said France had "loved, dreamed and grown up" with the stalwart of French cinema.

Une vaste révision législative, qui devait notamment interdire l’élevage en cage, est attendue depuis plus de deux ans. Depuis les manifestations agricoles de l’hiver 2023-2024, la protection animale connaît des reculs.

For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.

A new study explains how dense pockets of matter could have survived over an age-old cycle of multiple ‘Big Bangs.’

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me your Coachella fits, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about restaurant bread and GLP-1s and Lenny Rachitsky and Artemis II fashion, watching the new boy band doc because I will always watch a boy band doc, also watching every clip I can find from Justin Bieber's Coachella set, filling the Schitt's Creek-shaped hole in my heart with Big Mistakes, getting increasingly excited about The Mandalorian and Grogu, and watering my new lawn so it …
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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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« Tout laisse à penser que la responsabilité incombe au Hezbollah », a précisé le chef de l’Etat, en ajoutant que trois autres soldats avaient été blessés. Le premier ministre libanais a condamné cette attaque, et a ordonné une enquête.

Du 14 au 19 avril, la manifestation célèbre son demi-siècle avec des révélations, du rap au reggae, et une création de Dominique A et Philippe Katherine.

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

[Jeremy Bell] loves scratching, but he had a problem. His Hercules DJ controller wasn’t really doing a great job at emulating the kind of action one would get with a real turntable. The solution was both mechanical and electronic in nature!
As stock, the Hercules MIDI rig lets you scratch in a relatively simplistic way. When it detects a finger touching the rotary control, it lets you scratch back and forth with great motion tracking. However, when you let go, playback resumes at regular speed instantaneously, which creates a somewhat inorganic sound.
The fix was to make some mechanical mods to the MIDI controller. [Jeremy] tried out a variety of different methods of using a motor to spin the rotary control...

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.

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

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.

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

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission produced a wealth of data experts will be learning from for years to come.

A “Sesame Street” writer once said it was easier to write an episode about death than one about divorce. Where are the shows that manage to do it well?

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.

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.

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.

Samedi 18 avril, le groupe politique des “Patriotes pour l’Europe” organise une grande manifestation à Milan, à laquelle participeront notamment Matteo Salvini, Geert Wilders et Jordan Bardella, sous le slogan “patrons chez nous”. La crainte d’incidents est forte dans la ville.

Cette variante du billard est étroitement associée à Sheffield depuis 1977. Mais le championnat du monde de snooker, qui s’y ouvre ce 18 avril 2026, a bien failli filer en Arabie saoudite. La presse locale dévoile comment la ville a conservé la compétition, avec une intervention directe mais discrète du Premier ministre Keir Starmer.

La détection du virus de la peste porcine africaine sur le sol espagnol en fin d’année dernière puis au premier trimestre 2026 fait frémir les éleveurs. Ils redoutent que le secteur, qui a connu une croissance importante ces dernières décennies, soit en danger.

The Congolese government stresses those expelled from the US are only in the country temporarily.

Elle s’est appliquée, tout au long de sa carrière, à varier les emplois, passant de la tête d’affiche aux seconds rôles, de la bourgeoise à la prostituée, de la comédie au drame sentimental… La comédienne, qui souffrait de la maladie à corps de Lewy, s’est éteinte vendredi soir, à l’âge de 77 ans.

There’s something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well to fly well, and with only the limited power of a rubber band, it needs a good, high-lift design without much superfluous drag to maximize flight time. There’s also something to be said for modernity though, and prolific hacker [Tom Stanton] puts them together with this supercapacitor plane.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because [Tom] did this before back in 2023. But for that first attempt he converted a commercial R/C toy rather than a plane optimized for low-power free flight. Just like with the best rubber-band machines, his goal for the new production is more flight time than...

Dans sa chronique, Guillemette Faure met en lumière les transformations invisibles de notre époque. Cette semaine, les débats aristocratiques suscités par l’idylle entre Jordan Bardella et l’héritière.

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...

Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser diode to ramp up its output. While this can be a necessary solution to eke out a bit more life out of a clearly dying laser diode, this can actually massively shorten the lifespan of a good diode that’s just held back by bad capacitors. This is demonstrated by [Skawo] with a fix on a GameCube that stopped reading discs.
While it’s absolutely true that laser diodes have a limited lifespan, so do the capacitors and other components in the system. Thus, after tearing down this Japanese GameCube, [Skawo] accesses the optical PCB for some...

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.

Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model. [Evalyn] shows us why and how to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), a new standard by the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group.
Of course, it would be silly to omit the fact that Linux received patches first. But that isn’t the interesting part; after all, Linux is often the first place to have support for this kind of thing. No, what’s interesting is [Evalyn]’s implementation, to our knowledge among — if not the first — non-Linux operating system to support it.
The kernel confirming that FRED has been detected and enabled
To know why we should switch to FRED, we...

Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were the pinnacle of mirror technology. Due to the laborious process required these mirrors saw use essentially only by the affluent. That said, how hard would it be to make a bronze mirror today with all of the modern technologies that even a hobbyist can acquire for their shed? Cue [Lundgren Bronze Studios] giving it a shot, starting by casting something flat-ish to start polishing.
Just getting that initial shape to start polishing is a chore, with hammering out the shape possibly being also a viable method. When casting metal it’s tricky to avoid having air...

The company announced the coming of 'Infinity Vision' with its September re-release of 'Avengers: Endgame,' building up to December's 'Avengers: Doomsday.'

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company moves to focus more on coding and enterprise use.
As part of a note Peebles posted on X, he said: I am immensely grateful to Sam, Mark, Aditya and Jakub for fostering a research environment that allowed us to pursue ideas off-the-beaten path from the company's mainline roadmap. It's tempting in life to mode collapse to the most i …
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Anand Sheth’s presentation at the San Francisco Art Fair shows how designers are thinking about adaptability and reuse.This story is part of Fair Take, our reporting on global design events that looks up close at the newest ideas in fixtures, furnishings, and more. For the second year in a row, Dwell has partnered with architect and curator Anand Sheth on an exhibition at the San Francisco Art Fair, held at Fort Mason. Called "Inheriting San Francisco," the show celebrates San Francisco’s historic adaptability and explores what Sheth calls the city’s "aesthetics of vacancy" and the values shaping its urban landscape today. "It speaks to a kind of resourcefulness and innovation that feels very true to the...

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through a pilot program in Japan last year. It's now expanding the service to "select markets, including Japan and the United States." To verify that they're not a bot or an AI agent, users have to physically visit one of World's orbs in person. According to World, the orb "takes pictures of your face and eyes, then encrypts and sto …
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“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.
The post Nearly 20 Million Saved in Africa Through Measles Vaccinations appeared first on Human Progress.

“Dutch regulators approved the use of Tesla’s self-driving software with required human supervision on highways and city streets in a European first for the electric car maker, which hopes to see similar action from the rest of the European Union. The Netherlands’ approval for the technology, called Full Self‑Driving Supervised, which can steer, brake and accelerate a car, follows more than 18 months of tests and analysis by the Dutch vehicle authority RDW. ‘Proper use of this driver assistance system makes a positive contribution to road safety,’ RDW said in a statement on Friday, adding that it would also submit an application for the technology to be used throughout the EU.” From Reuters.
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“D.C.’s years-late report on how to implement robotaxis is expected this summer. Why it matters: The D.C. Council is holding up a bill that would green-light robotaxis like Waymo until the study is finished. Driving the news: Amid D.C.’s stalled robotaxi rollout, DDOT published on Wednesday a different report — a research study about how other cities have adopted autonomous vehicles. Yes, but: The report comes with a disclaimer — ‘much of this work was completed between July 2024 and December 2024,’ before Waymo began rolling out in more and more U.S. cities. It’s unclear why D.C. took this long to release the report.  As for the implementation report: ‘We expect there to be a full report...

“Tropic, the pioneering agricultural biotechnology company, has secured regulatory approval in both Japan and Brazil for its world first non‑browning banana variety, unlocking two of the most important fresh‑produce markets globally and marking a significant milestone in the future of sustainable fruit production. The approvals clear the way for Tropic’s non‑browning banana to be imported, sold, and consumed in both countries, and grown in Brazil – enabling expanded consumer access, new commercial opportunities, and substantial reductions in global food waste.” From Tropic.
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“For robots to be truly helpful in our daily lives and industries, they must do more than follow instructions, they must reason about the physical world. From navigating a complex facility to interpreting the needle on a pressure gauge, a robot’s “embodied reasoning” is what allows it to bridge the gap between digital intelligence and physical action. Today, we’re introducing Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to our reasoning-first model that enables robots to understand their environments with unprecedented precision. By enhancing spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding, we are bringing a new level of autonomy to the next generation of physical agents. This model specializes in...

Si le Royaume-Uni retourne formellement au sein de l’UE dans les prochaines années, le blog de Paul Jorion sera encore plus « vindicated ». 2016 : Brexit 2017 : Le Monde : Les Britanniques peuvent-ils vraiment se passer du continent ? le 11 avril Extrait : Pour ne pas se déjuger, Londres s’efforcera de déguiser le maintien du statu quo en la rupture brutale que le Brexit aurait dû signifier. La preuve aura été faite que si les Britanniques méprisent le continent, ils n’ont jamais pu non plus s’en passer. 2021 : Brexit #7 – Vous trouviez ici les nouvelles avec quatre ans d’avance, le 08 avril Extrait : Le Monde : « Les difficultés d’approvisionnement dans la province britannique,...

Designer Kathryn McCullough and musician Andrew Bulbrook revamped the Mount Washington property, which includes a 1940s farmhouse, a midcentury home, and a two-level ADU.Location: 850 Rome Drive, Los Angeles, California Price: $3,999,000 Year Built: 1941 and 1958 Renovation Date: 2025 Renovation Designers and Architect: Andrew Bulbrook, Kathryn McCullough, and Linda Taalman Landscape Designer: Terremoto Footprint: 3,479 square feet (4 bedrooms, 7 baths) Lot Size: 0.37 Acres From the Agent: "Perched on a rare flat ridge at the very top of Los Angeles’s Mount Washington neighborhood, this newly completed creative compound reimagines a historic hillside property into a series of interconnected living and...

Obama’s Oval Office is recreated down to a fruit bowl, Ikea debuts a meatball-flavored lollipop, and more.The largest of just three homes designed by I.M. Pei has hit the market in Fort Worth, Texas, for $22 million. Designed in 1969 for an oil-and-banking heiress and her fourth husband, who loved to entertain, the sprawling 19,000-square-foot home backs up its price tag with three kitchens, seven bedrooms, and two wine cellars. (The Wall Street Journal) A hyper-exact replica of Michael S. Smith’s design for Barack Obama’s Oval Office is nearly finished at the $850 million Obama Presidential Center. The near one-to-one remake includes sanctioned reproductions of two Edward Hopper paintings, pottery by...

Une vingtaine de candidats sont identifiables à ce stade. Mais leur chemin reste très long, en particulier si des primaires sont organisées pour départager les prétendants de certaines familles politiques.

Cliquer sur l'image pour l'agrandir Les députés européens, ou eurodéputés, sont élus pour 5 ans au suffrage universel direct dans chaque pays de l'Union européenne. Ils représentent les citoyens européens. Les dernières élections européennes se sont déroulées du 6 au 9 juin 2024 dans les 27 pays de l'Union européenne. Les députés européens votent les lois ainsi que le budget de l'Union européenne, et exercent également un contrôle sur la Commission européenne : ils élisent son président, approuvent les 27 commissaires et peuvent les contraindre à une démission collective en votant une motion de censure. À LIRE AUSSI[Infographie] Le rôle du Parlement européen Le nombre de députés...