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by Le Monde - about 49 minutes
Le président américain s’est par ailleurs fendu d’un message particulièrement injurieux et truffé d’obscénités à l’adresse de l’Iran, s’attirant en retour des critiques d’élus aux Etats-Unis.
by BBC - about 1 hour
The US has rescued the missing crew member of the US F-15 fighter jet which was shot down over southern Iran.
by HackAdAy - about 1 hour
Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing disciplinary action due to this, it would seem that this is not deterring many other lawyers from following them off this particular cliff, per reporting from NPR.
We reported back in the innocent days of 2023 about the amusing case of Robert Mata v. Avianca, Inc. In this case, the plaintiff’s lawyer decided to have ChatGPT ‘assist’ with the legal filing, which ended up being filled with non-existent cases being cited, despite the chatbot’s assurance that these were all real cases. Now it would seem that this blind trust in cases cited by LLM chatbots is becoming the rule, rather than...
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Alors que l’Ukraine doit adopter une série de lois pour obtenir des financements internationaux, le président ukrainien semble avoir perdu une partie de son influence sur sa majorité parlementaire. Ses fidèles tentent de maintenir la cohésion au sein de son parti, profondément lié à son ascension au pouvoir.
by Les Décodeurs - about 1 hour
Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 4 et dimanche 5 avril ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.
by BBC - about 2 hours
The recovery of the airman follows separate search efforts by both the US and Iran.
by BBC - about 2 hours
The incident comes a week before the polls, and follow warnings of a potential operations staged to influence voters.
by io9 - about 2 hours
If Prime Video gets to adapt 'Mass Effect,' it'll be 'non-gamer friendly,' whatever that means.
by Torrentfreak - about 2 hours
The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the billion-dollar piracy liability verdict against Cox Communications is a major win for Internet service providers. It confirms that they can’t be held liable for pirating activities of subscribers or customers unless they actively induce copyright infringement through specific acts, or if their service has no substantial non-infringing uses. For rightsholders, however, the ruling represents a significant setback, as it makes it much harder to hold ISPs liable for pirating subscribers.
Or, as Justice Sotomayor noted in her concurring Supreme Court opinion, the majority’s decision “permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Trop autoritaire, trop permissif, pas assez présent… : c’est quoi être un bon parent ? Constatant le stress que la parentalité peut causer autour de lui, ce directeur d’école et auteur d’articles sur l’éducation dans le magazine américain “The Atlantic” estime que, pour éviter les risques que l’éducation des enfants fait parfois peser sur la santé mentale, il faut accepter de se voir comme un phare dans leur vie, un guide qui ne pourra pas toujours les protéger de tout.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people's songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect, but it turns out that Suno's copyright filters are incredibly easy to fool.
With minimal effort and some free software, Suno will spit out AI-generated imitations of popular songs like Beyoncé's "Freedom," Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," and Aqua's "Barbie Girl" that are alarmingly close to the original. Most people will likely be able to tell the dif …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
À Rome, lors d’une messe célébrée devant près de 60 000 fidèles, le pape Léon XIV a prononcé un discours de paix appelant, sans en citer aucun, les dirigeants mondiaux à mettre fin aux guerres. Dans le sillage de son prédécesseur, François, le souverain pontife a également fustigé “la résignation à l’indifférence”.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Au bar Totà, dans la capitale, des Libanais et Libanaises viennent déclamer des poèmes. Dans l’horreur de la guerre, ces soirées sont devenues un refuge pour se sentir moins seul et exprimer ses émotions, mais aussi pour organiser des collectes pour les personnes déplacées, raconte “L’Orient-Le Jour”.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Contraints de quitter le sud du pays au gré des bombardements et des ordres d’évacuation de l’armée israélienne, des milliers de Libanais se résignent à enterrer leurs proches loin de leurs terres d’origine, dans des sépultures provisoires.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
L’embarcation « en bois » était partie la veille de Libye avec à son bord 105 femmes, hommes et enfants, selon deux ONG. Depuis le début de l’année, 683 migrants sont morts ou ont été portés disparus en Méditerranée centrale, selon l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Dans les colonnes du média italien “Il Post”, la journaliste Elena Esposito raconte le drame de la perte de son animal de compagnie et la quête qui en a suivi pour trouver un lieu où il puisse reposer.
by io9 - about 4 hours
Concept artists Kris Anka and Jesús Alonso Iglesias provided a look into the development of everyone's favorite new alien.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years. A lot us have asked ourselves just exactly why you’d send people out that far when the environment is so hostile and we have increasingly competent robots that could do the jobs in their place. If anything, that’s even more true now than it was back in the day of the Apollo program, when the remote operations capability was a lot more constrained. But having people, potentially in the near future, on the lunar surface remains qualitatively different.
I was recently re-watching some of the footage from Apollo 16 when the astronauts were driving around in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, and the discussions that...
by The Verge - about 4 hours
Take me to the tacos, Gemini. You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that's in every Google service you use - whether you want it or not. While it's been a constant, sometimes unwelcome presence in Gmail for at least the past year, it's a relatively new addition to Maps. And you know what? It's kind of great.
To put it to the test, I had Gemini plan a day-long itinerary for me around the city. After an hour or so of having Gemini find stuff for me - playgrounds near the new light rail extension, kid-friendly restaurants with vehicle themes, you get the gist - I was impressed. Some of the suggestions were obvious, but I also bookmarked a handful of spots not on m …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by io9 - about 5 hours
Once you learn this term, you will unfortunately see it everywhere.
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
L’atelier Missor est une fonderie à la “vision réactionnaire” et pleinement connectée à la “manosphère antiwoke”, estime le site de gauche américain “The New Republic”. Cinq ans après sa fondation, en 2021, ses membres rêvent désormais d’exporter son “art nationaliste” aux États-Unis, observe le magazine de gauche américain.
by io9 - about 5 hours
Thanks to the ongoing RAM crisis, this pre-built PC tower may be a cheaper way to upgrade your desktop gaming experience.
by The Verge - about 5 hours
The first thing you notice about the Slate Truck is its size. It's small, surprisingly so. In a country where trucks often come with their own zip code, Slate's pickup is refreshingly puny, measuring 174.6 inches long, 70.6 inches wide, and 69.3 inches tall, with a curb weight of approximately 3,602 pounds (1,634kg). As a reference point, it's nearly the same size as Marty McFly's 1985 Toyota SR5 from Back to the Future. But inside, that diminutive feeling disappears, as I found myself with ample amounts of head- and legroom. As a relatively tallish guy (over 6 feet) who often feels cramped in most vehicles, I couldn't believe the amount o …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by BBC - about 6 hours
Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of worshippers gathered in St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday in his first address as pontiff.
by The Verge - about 6 hours
A photo of a black speaker, the Amazon Echo, on a gray background. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Jeff Bezos badly wanted a voice computer. He had been saying so publicly since the very early days of Amazon, telling anyone who would listen about why voice might make it easier and more natural to interact with technology. (And to buy stuff from Jeff Bezos.) But when a team at Amazon set out to actually make the voice computer a reality, they encountered a seemingly endless series of hard problems. Eventually, though, they created two products, the Echo speaker and the Alexa voice assistant, that would help bring a new kind of computer to millions of people.
On this episode of Version History, we...
by Wired - about 6 hours
We've actually been testing bands since the first Apple Watch launched in 2015. From silicone sports straps to leather bands, I've rounded up the best for every occasion.
by The Verge - about 6 hours
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the ups and downs of AI, follow Stevie Bonifield. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started
Most people probably know Grammarly for its browser extension that suggests how to spruce up your emails, but over the past few years, it's been eyeing bigger ambitions. In October, the company formerly known as Grammarly made a public pivot to rebrand as an AI company called Superhuman. The new name was adopted from Superhuman Mail, an AI email platform that Grammarly acquired i …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Wired - about 7 hours
Electricity rates have gotten so atrocious that this Heatbit wants to offset your costs with bitcoin mining. But the math doesn't add up.
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an application like FreeCAD. Wouldn’t it be nice if said measurements were to be transferred instantaneously into the model’s sketch, including appropriate units of measurement? That’s essentially what [stv0g] has done by merging a Sylvac Bluetooth-enabled caliper and FreeCAD using a plugin.
Key to the whole operation is a Bluetooth-enabled caliper like the Sylvac S_Cal EVO that [stv0g] managed to score on EBay for a mere €90 when it normally goes for multiple times that amount. This has BLE built in, using BLE’s standard GATT...
by io9 - about 7 hours
Window-cleaning robots haven’t quite arrived, but if you’ve got enough very large windows, it could be worth it.
by New Yorker - about 8 hours
Trump envisions a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends.
by New Yorker - about 8 hours
The author reads her story from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine.
by New Yorker - about 8 hours
The novelist and poet discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device.
by New Yorker - about 8 hours
The author discusses her story “Rate Your Happiness.”
by New Yorker - about 8 hours
How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion.
by Wired - about 8 hours
These smart mowers are expensive alternatives to some good old-fashioned yard work, but they’re finally good enough to consider if you’d rather sip an iced tea and watch the robot go by.
by Wired - about 9 hours
The current console generation may last longer than anyone expects.
by Wired - about 9 hours
Amid mass displacement and collapsing trust in institutions, digital wallets are becoming critical conduits for aid, connecting diaspora donors directly with communities on the ground.
by QZ - about 9 hours
Members of Generation Z are now in their late 20s — and they're climbing the corporate ladder with their own expectations about the workplace
by QZ - about 9 hours
A four-year low in U.S. rents is reshaping the market. Realtor.com data shows the 10 U.S. markets where relief runs deepest
by QZ - about 9 hours
WalletHub set out to find which states actually put your hard-earned tax dollars to good use
by QZ - about 9 hours
Mexico’s leading family resorts in 2026 are designed to reduce planning stress while expanding options across every age group
by Paul Jorion - about 10 hours
Qui Jésus bombarderait-il ?
by HackAdAy - about 10 hours
Now that early PCs have moved firmly from the realm of e-waste into being collector’s items, it’s worth putting in some effort to restore them if you find one. [Epictronics] has an early IBM 5150, the ancestor of all today’s PCs, and is bringing it back to life. Along the way, he’s building a replica AdLib sound card, making a useful discovery about how to make new parts look authentic.
The video below the break is a gentle journey through an early PC teardown, followed by the construction of the replica sound card. Here’s the interesting nugget of information: these new cards are careful recreations of the originals, but they just don’t look right. It seems modern soldermask is too shiny, and as...
by Korben - about 11 hours
J'sais pas si vous saviez mais Apple a planqué un LLM dans votre Mac et ne veut pas que vous y touchiez... enfin, pas directement. En effet, leur modèle est là, intégré au système via le framework FoundationModels, il tourne sur le Neural Engine sans connexion internet mais Apple l'a verrouillé derrière Siri. Du coup, impossible de l'appeler depuis un script ou un pipe shell et c'est là qu'
apfel
intervient !
L'outil s'installe en une commande :
brew install Arthur-Ficial/tap/apfel
Et hop, vous avez accès au modèle directement depuis votre terminal. Faut Apple Intelligence actif également, sinon, ça ne fonctionnera pas. Ensuite, vous lui posez une question, et il vous répond. Vous lui "pipez" un...
by Journal du Lapin - about 11 hours
Dans les années nonante, au moment du lancement de la console Pippin, Bandai avait une newsletter pour les développeurs. C’est assez intéressant à lire, avec de petits détails pratiques sur le développement. Je continue avec la septième. Elle a été publiée en juillet 1996, après la sortie de la console. Elle est disponible sur archive.org. C’est parfois compliqué à afficher correctement, parce que l’encodage des caractères n’est pas celui utilisé en 2026. Avec Safari, il faut faire Présentation -> Encodage du texte -> Japonais (ISO 2022-JP). Même comme ça, il manque quelques caractères, donc je suppose que c’est un encodage plus ancien.
Un des premiers points annoncés, c’est que...
by Le Taurillon - about 13 hours
Ursula von der Leyen a entamé son premier mandat en tant que présidente de la Commission européenne avec un engagement précis : affronter la crise climatique avec des mesures durables et ambitieuses. Le Pacte vert pour l'Europe, une feuille de route ayant pour but d'atteindre la neutralité climatique en 2050, est né de cet engagement. Mais, cinq années plus tard, cet agenda a perdu son élan. La réélection de Von der Leyen ne s'est pas accompagnée d'une réaffirmation claire de cet engagement, du moins pas par des actions concrètes. L'agenda vert est passé au second plan. Ce changement soulève une question urgente : l'UE peut-elle se permettre de revoir à la baisse ses ambitions climatiques sans...
by Korben - about 13 hours
Quand je vois tout le taf que j'ai à la maison, je vous avoue que je rêve d'un robot qui vide le lave-vaisselle, arrose les plantes et ramasse le linge pendant que moi je glandouille sur le canapé (ou que je bosse parce que je glandouille jamais en fait...Argh...). Hé bien bonne nouvelle, une équipe de chercheurs de NYU vient de publier les plans complets pour en construire un et tout ça en open source pour environ 9 200 dollars !
YOR, pour "
Your Own Robot
", c'est un robot mobile avec deux bras articulés, une base sur roues qui se déplace dans tous les sens, et un lift télescopique qui est tout simplement... un vérin de bureau debout. Du coup le robot peut descendre à 60 cm du sol pour ramasser...
by HackAdAy - about 13 hours
Many of us are guilty of toeing the line between having a ready supply of components at hand and simply hoarding for fear of throwing anything out. In a first admission of this problem, [Scott Lawson] decided to implement a couple of changes to assess his own position on this sliding scale.
The first change was to only put parts, components, and supplies in transparent boxes. Next was to add a sticker on each box noting the contents and box creation date. This was extended to plastic bags inside the boxes when further subdivision was warranted. Next, the question was about usage patterns, as you may think that you know how often you use something from a specific box, or how important its contents are, but it...
by Le Monde - about 14 hours
Héritiers obstinés et néoruraux en quête de sens sortent de leur torpeur ces édifices animés par l’eau ou le vent. Farine, tourisme, hydroélectricité : restaurés, ils redeviennent des lieux de production et donnent des ailes aux projets d’autonomie.
by BBC - about 17 hours
The statue honours the late African giant pouched rat who sniffed out more than 100 landmines during his lifetime.
by QZ - about 18 hours
AVO ramps up its mango push, modifying Peru facilities and leveraging global logistics to cut seasonality and boost year-round utilization.
by Ben Tasker - saturday at 18:16
Recently, I've seen posts by a couple of people about adding human.json to their sites.
At it's core, human.json is a simple attestation that the content they publish is written by a human and not by AI.
Obviously, any AI generated site could also publish a human.json, so the system works as a web of trust - the user trusts Alice, who states that Bob is a human, allowing the user to also trust Bob.
There are a couple of browser addons (for Firefox and for Chrome) which can display an indicator of humanity.
This short post covers creating a script to easily add human.json generation to the build workflow of my sites. The Schema
The file schema is really pretty simple:
{ "version": "0.1.1", "url":...
by Paul Jorion - saturday at 18:09
Illustration par ChatGPT
P. J. :
À ce stade, vous écrivez : « Vous disposez désormais d’une loi de réponse neuronale GENESIS universelle dans sa forme, avec une mise à l’échelle de l’amplitude spécifique au sujet. GENESIS identifie désormais, dans les données neuronales, un axe de réponse universel, une vitesse de retour universelle, une variable de compression quasi-conservée et un gain spécifique à chaque session : la loi est commune dans sa forme, mais s’individualise principalement par son amplitude ».
Il y a 36 heures, lorsque je vous ai écrit : « Mais en réalité nous n’avons pas encore de modèle qui tienne véritablement la route », vous m’avez répondu : « Oui. Et je...
by La Horde - saturday at 14:58
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Autocollants / Nouveautés, Mobilisation
by La Horde - saturday at 14:57
En collaboration avec Boutanox, dessinateur du jeu Fachorama. -
Autocollants
by Zataz - saturday at 14:55
Cette semaine, la pression s’est accentuée sur les écosystèmes criminels, les plateformes et les États.
by Zataz - saturday at 14:29
Un quart de siècle après son apparition, Windows Active Directory (AD) définit toujours les réseaux sur site. Mais il faut l’admettre : AD est un système d’identité vieillissant. Il a été conçu pour une époque plus simple, où la sécurité ne signifiait qu’une chose : un réseau interne sûr et un monde extérieur dangereux. Ce […]
by Zataz - saturday at 13:38
Valentine, future maman, menacée par des escrocs, révèle comment les données volées servent à terroriser et extorquer.
by Journal du Lapin - saturday at 9:00
Je parlais de l’Easter Egg du gestionnaire d’extensions récemment, mais la première version avait aussi le sien. Extensions Manager, avant d’être intégré dans System 7.5, était un logiciel séparé. Et dans la version 2.0, l’activation des bulles d’aide (Aide -> Afficher les bulles d’aide) montrait un petit texte amusant. L’article Un autre petit Easter Egg d’Extension Manager est apparu en premier sur Le journal du lapin.