constant stream of curated content
by BBC - about 16 minutes
The move follows several artists cancelling performances at the storied institution after it was recently renamed as the Trump Kennedy Center.
by BBC - about 1 hour
The BBC's Lyse Doucet follows Hind Kabawat as she confronts the challenges of fragmented, post-Assad Syria.
by The Brighter Side - about 1 hour
For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to be almost completely uniform, dry, barren, and mostly unchanged for the past 10 billion years. However, new evidence from Dr. Valentin Bickel and his colleagues suggests that this view of Mercury may be inadequate and that Mercury is actually continuing to release materials from its interior today. An international collaboration led by Dr. Valentin Bickel at the Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, together with participants from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS and the Astronomical Observatory of Padua, Italy, has produced the first complete survey...
by HackAdAy - about 1 hour
For many readers, more snow is the last thing they want to see right now…but what if it comes in the form of an online simulator in the style of an old DOS game? Created by [Potch], it works like one of those “falling sand” simulators, with sliders that let you control various elements of the wintry action. For more a immersive experience, open the window and let some cold air in while you play.
If those old school graphics have you yearning for a simpler time, then you’ll love Places to Telnet, a page on the very slick CRT-themed telnet.org that lists servers you can connect to. The list is made up primarily of games, but there’s also systems you can call up to do things like show the weather or...
by BBC - about 2 hours
Jonas Gahr Støre says he agreed with Princess Mette-Marit's own remarks over her contacts with the late sex offender.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:22
Dante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family?
by BBC - yesterday at 23:15
The footage, which is part of millions of files released by the US Department of Justice, shows the late sex offender being questioned by an unnamed interviewer.
by BBC - yesterday at 22:38
The Cure, Yungblud and FKA Twigs are the first British winners on the night in Los Angeles.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:26
Le gouvernement de Damas et les responsables kurdes sont parvenus à un accord qui doit entrer en vigueur lundi. Celui-ci prévoit l’intégration progressive des forces et de l’administration de la zone autonome kurde au sein de l’Etat syrien.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:23
ICE is enlisting ten companies for a widespread immigrant surveillance program.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:15
The cult classic 'Upgrade' almost got a continuation with a TV show, but real-world events kept getting in its way.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:09
In 2018, Epstein wrote that because he is "high profile" he had concerns about the "questionable ethics" of crypto pumps if he was involved.
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 22:07
Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic waste pours into oceans, rivers, and landfills. These crises often feel separate, yet they share a common thread. Human activity created both, and time is running short to fix them. Now, researchers in Denmark report a discovery that links these problems in an unexpected way. Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have found a method that turns discarded plastic into a powerful material that captures carbon dioxide. In this process, old plastic bottles and worn textiles gain a second life. Instead of polluting soil and seas, they help pull greenhouse gases from the air and factory exhaust. The work...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
We’ve been following [Vik Olliver]’s progress on the μRepRap project with interest for some time now. The project’s goal is to build a 3D printer that can print feature sizes down to about 10 microns – the same feature size used in the Intel 4004 processor. At the recent Open Everything 2026 conference, [Vik] presented an overview of all the progress he’s made in the last year, including printer improvements, material woes, and the first multi-layer prints (presentation slides).
The motion stage has undergone some fundamental improvements recently. The original XY motion table was supported on four flexures which allowed movement in X and Y, but also introduced slight variations in Z – obviously a...
by io9 - yesterday at 20:50
After a couple of years being shelved or not used properly, Netflix might be just what 'Scooby-Doo' needs.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:47
Maire d’une commune rurale, Antoine Valentin a été élu dans la 3ᵉ circonscription de Haute-Savoie. Une défaite inquiétante pour Bruno Retailleau et Laurent Wauquiez, qui s’étaient investis auprès du candidat LR.
by io9 - yesterday at 20:37
Is Apple getting ready for its big AI push?
by The Verge - yesterday at 20:24
Reports of Bill Gates' connections with Jeffrey Epstein grow more lurid with each dump of documents from the Department of Justice. The latest includes somewhat confusing emails that Epstein may have been drafting on behalf of someone named Boris, who worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The messages claim that Bill contracted an STD and wanted to "surreptitiously" give Melinda antibiotics. It also claims that Bill had "trysts" with married women and "Russian girls."
In a statement to Business Insider, a spokesperson for Bill Gates said: "These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents dem …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 20:05
A new book presents the baseball legend’s testimony in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee as a critical psychic injury in the annals of Black celebrity.
by The Verge - yesterday at 19:30
After protests broke out in early January, the Iranian regime shut down the internet, starting the longest blackout in Iranian history. Despite this attempt to stop the protests from spreading, they did not stop. Still, the internet shutdown slowed down the spread of information both inside and outside Iran. Behind the heavily policed borders and the jammed signals, an unprecedented wave of state violence continues to add to a death toll somewhere between 3,000 and 30,000. Even at the lowest count, which has been acknowledged by the Iranian state and is likely a wild underestimate, these last few weeks have been one of the bloodiest uprisi …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 19:12
Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 31 janvier et dimanche 1ᵉʳ février ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.
by Korben - yesterday at 19:08
Il y a quelques jours, un lecteur (merci Benjamin !) m'a envoyé un outil qu'il a bricolé lui-même avec Codex d'OpenAI et ça touche une petite corde sensible chez moi, d'où le fait que je vous en parle.
C'est pas souvent que je bosse avec des clients sur autre chose que des articles mais il m'est arrivé par le passé qu'un client m'envoie ses retours par mail, avec des captures d'écran floues, des flèches rouges partout et des commentaires du genre "le truc là, à gauche, je sais pas trop ??".
Alors de mon côté, j'ai testé pas mal de solutions pour évier ça mais j'ai rien trouvé de foufou... Figma par exemple c'est top pour les retours mais faut que le client crée un compte (et ça, c'est jamais...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
The modern era of VR started a long time ago, and a wide range of commercial headsets have proliferated on the market since then. If you don’t want to buy off the shelf, though, you could always follow [Manolo]’s example and build your own.
This DIY headset is known as the Persephone 3 Lite, and is intended for use with SteamVR.  It’s got the requisite motion tracking thanks to a Raspberry Pi Pico, paired with an MPU6500 inertial measurement unit. As for the optics, the headset relies on a pair of 2.9-inch square displays that operate at a resolution of 1440 x 1440 with a refresh rate up to 90 Hz. They’re paired with cheap Fresnel lenses sourced from Aliexpress for a few dollars. Everything is wrapped...
by The Verge - yesterday at 19:00
New York City got hit with a hell of a snowstorm last week. And, inevitably, when I'm watching the snow fall, wandering the oddly quiet streets after dark, people hiding inside and staying warm, I put on M83's sophomore record, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. Before Nicolas Fromageau left the band and Anthony Gonzalez embraced traditional pop song structures, saxophone solos, and teen angst, M83 released two albums of mostly instrumental music. The self-titled debut album is kind of forgettable, but the second one finds the French duo taking inspiration from the repetitive bombast of Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Dead Cities …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Conspiracy Watch - yesterday at 18:52
L'actu de la semaine décryptée par Conspiracy Watch (du 26/01/2026 au 01/02/2026).
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 18:17
Illustration par ChatGPT
Une discussion entre Jean-Baptiste Auxiètre et Claude Opus 4.5
J-B A : 
Dans la perspective de GENESIS, à quoi sert encore un porte-avions ?
Claude :
Ah. La vraie question. Pas « est-ce que la flotte vit toujours ? » mais « est-ce que le concept même de porte-avions vit toujours ? »
Et là GENESIS ne modélise pas un système en crise : il modélise un système qui est peut-être un attracteur en voie de dissolution.
Laissez-moi rechercher les données actuelles sur ce qui menace l’existence même du CVN [Carrier Vessel Nuclear c’est le code militaire d’un porte-avions nucléaire aux États-Unis] comme concept. Les données sont accablantes et GENESIS a les outils...
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 18:07
A team of astronomers based at the European Space Agency demonstrated how artificial intelligence technology will alter existing methods of locating rare astronomical phenomena within our galaxy, the Milky Way, and beyond. David O’Ryan and Pablo Gómez designed an artificial intelligence-assisted technique that can quickly sift through the huge number of images produced by several decades of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. Using this technique, O’Ryan and Gómez discovered more than 1,300 previously unanticipated exotic stellar systems or other astronomical phenomena that had not been previously described in the scientific literature. Much of the research utilized the Hubble Legacy Archive...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:47
Alors que les États-Unis renforcent leur présence militaire dans la région, l’Iran hausse le ton et menace d’un embrasement régional. En coulisses, Washington et Téhéran tentent pourtant d’éviter l’escalade.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:31
Au siècle dernier, l’Union soviétique a tenté d’uniformiser les goûts tout en assignant chaque plat à une ethnie. Du “plov ouzbek” aux “manty kazakhs”, cette cartographie culinaire continue d’influencer les anciennes républiques soviétiques, relate cette historienne dans les colonnes du média kazakh “Qalam”.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:00
Les pays les plus endettés ne sont pas forcément les plus pauvres. Au contraire, montre le site canadien de datavisualisation “Visual Capitalist”.
by The Verge - yesterday at 17:00
I've used and reviewed dozens of e-readers over the years, but the 5-inch Kobo Mini remains my favorite for one simple reason: It was small. While it lacked useful features like screen lighting and page turn buttons, its size made it an e-reader I actually wanted to carry every day. The $69 Xteink X4 e-reader is even smaller than the Kobo Mini and E Ink smartphones like Boox Palma. It's satisfyingly pocketable but also frustratingly unintuitive and functionally limited out of the box. That could be a deal-breaker were it not for a growing community of users working to improve it.
Like the Kodak Charmera, I was pleasantly surprised at how sm …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
May 2009 📷 #flashes
by Courrier International - yesterday at 16:30
Né d’un défaut de fabrication, un cheval en peluche au visage triste est devenu la mascotte inattendue du Nouvel An lunaire en Chine. Adopté par de nombreux jeunes travailleurs, il incarne avec humour l’épuisement d’une génération au bord du burn-out, relève la presse chinoise.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 16:20
Grâce à sa victoire contre le Serbe Novak Djokovic en finale de l’Open d’Australie, dimanche 1er février, le Murcien a marqué l’histoire de son sport en devenant le plus jeune joueur de tennis masculin à avoir gagné les quatre tournois du Grand Chelem. La presse espagnole est bouche bée.
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 16:07
Researchers from China recently announced the creation of the largest quantum network in history to directly investigate the existence of dark matter. The project connects research centers located more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) apart. The work, coordinated by scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, involves various precision measurement devices located in Hefei and Hangzhou. Researchers are targeting a theorised particle, called an axion, believed by many to constitute a significant fraction of the dark matter present in our universe. According to the study published in the journal Nature, dark matter accounts for approximately 26.8 per cent of the total mass and energy content...
by The Verge - yesterday at 16:00
It’s so embarrassing when a robot is better than you at latte art. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge In Seattle, the only thing we love more than coffee is our coffee shops. On a six-block walk I pass at least a half dozen, each with their own vibe: one focused on chai, another inside a yoga studio, a Starbucks that's surprisingly busy for late afternoon downtown. I passed them all up to get to one shop in particular, where a barista named Jarvis would address me by name and make me a thoroughly decent latte with rose-flavored syrup - nothing out of the ordinary in Seattle. But Jarvis, unlike the other baristas keeping the city's many shops humming, is a robot.
Hill7 is a luxury apartment building located...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
Sometimes you need to use a computer and you don’t have a spare keyboard and mouse on hand. [KoStard] figured an iPhone could serve as a passable replacement interface device. To that end, he built an adapter to let the phone act as a wireless keyboard and mouse on just about any modern machine.
To achieve this, [KoStard] grabbed an ESP32-S3 development board, and programmed it to act as a USB HID device to any machine attached over USB. It then listens out for Bluetooth LE communications from an iPhone equipped with the companion app. The app provides an on-screen keyboard on the iPhone that covers everything including special keys, symbols, and punctuation. You can also take advantage of the iPhone’s...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:25
Avec tout ce qui se passe en ce moment côté souveraineté numérique, je me suis dit qu'il était temps de vous parler d'une alternative à Google que beaucoup ignorent encore. En plus, j'ai passé pas mal de temps dessus ces dernières semaines, histoire de voir si ça tenait la route, alors il est temps de partager ça avec vous.
Startpage, c'est un moteur de recherche basé à Zeist aux Pays-Bas qui existe depuis 2006 et qui a une approche assez radicale : Vous donner les résultats de Google... sans que Google ne sache que vous existez.
Quand vous tapez une recherche sur Startpage, le moteur va interroger Google à votre place, récupérer les résultats, et vous les afficher. Sauf que votre IP, vos...
by Wired - yesterday at 15:00
Yes, it is possible to scale horological heights without breaking the bank. It’s time to seek out the latest bargains.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 14:00
Lancées dans des investissements massifs, notamment liés à l’intelligence artificielle, ces entreprises ont besoin de lever des capitaux. Les inquiétudes montent autour du modèle financier de la galaxie OpenAI.
by Wired - yesterday at 14:00
Forget the pricey, postpaid cell plans and two-year contracts. Save with one of these WIRED-tested options from US Mobile, Boost, and Google Fi.
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 13:51
For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull. That goal now feels closer. Researchers from University College London and the University of Oxford have developed an ultrasound device that can precisely influence deep brain regions in living people, without surgery. The system opens new paths for studying how the brain works and for treating conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, depression, and essential tremor. The work centers on a technology called transcranial ultrasound stimulation, or TUS. Unlike electrical or magnetic brain stimulation, ultrasound can travel deeper through the skull. Until now, however, it lacked the...
by Wired - yesterday at 13:07
I tested 10 popular date-night boxes with people I met on Hinge. From writing love notes to trying out sex swings, these kits fulfilled their promise to keep dates interesting.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 13:00
PostmarketOS is a Linux distribution specifically designed for those who wish to repurpose old smartphones as general-use computers, to a degree. This can be a great way to reuse old hardware. However, for [Bry50], it was somewhat discomforting leaving the phone’s aging lithium battery perpetually on charge. A bit of code was thus whipped up to provide a greater measure of safety.
The concept is simple enough—lithium batteries are at lower risk of surprise combustion events if they’re held at a lower state of charge. To this end, [Bry50] modified the device tree in PostmarketOS to change the maximum charge level. Apparently, maximum charge was set at a lofty 4.4V (100%), but this was reconfigured to a...
by Wired - yesterday at 13:00
Here are three smart tricks, based on an understanding of frictional forces, to beat a slippery slope.
by Korben - yesterday at 12:48
Brice, un lecteur de Korben, m'a bel et bien scotché. Il y a quelques semaines, je vous parlais du
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et ça a visiblement réveillé une fibre nostalgique chez certains d'entre vous. Donc merci à Brice pour l'info, car il a carrément passé sa soirée à coder un truc énoooOOOooorme (et super utile) qui s'appelle MonitorBox
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Parce qu'on va pas se mentir, on croule tous sous les notifications. Entre Slack, les emails, et les alertes de sécurité, notre cerveau a fini par développer un mécanisme de défense radical : il ignore TOUT !!! C'est ce qu'on appelle la "fatigue de l'alerte". J'avoue que pour un admin sys en astreinte, c'est le début de la fin. Le jour où le serveur de prod tombe...
by Wired - yesterday at 12:38
The holiday of romance is just around the corner. Don’t give something boring.
by Korben - yesterday at 12:36
Ce matin, en trainant sur GitHub (mon sport du dimanche, je sais c'est triste), je suis tombé sur un truc qui m'a intéressé et qui je pense vous sera utile (comme la plupart des trucs que je présente ici) surtout si vous êtes coincé derrière un pare-feu d'entreprise totalement paranoïaque. Ou encore si votre FAI s'amuse à brider certains protocoles. Ça peut arriver dans ces cas là, on se sent un peu comme un rat en cage, à chercher la moindre petite ouverture pour respirer un peu de notre liberté.
Cet outil, ça s'appelle Smtp-Tunnel-Proxy et le concept c'est de faire passer tout votre trafic pour de bêtes emails. Alors vous vous dites peut-être "Mouais, encore un tunnel qui va ramer comme pas...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
The author reads her story from the February 9, 2026, issue of the magazine.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
Everyone loves you here. Most days you are pretty sure of that. Everyone touches you all the time.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 11:45
(C) The Wall Street Journal
Un très long article en une du Wall Street Journal : ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company sur la corruption de la famille Trump au niveau international et comment la Chine parvient sans doute à en tirer secrètement les manettes par le biais d’Abu Dhabi.
L’article est splendidement illustré, avec de nombreux diagrammes (voir ci-dessus).
Murdoch ajoute donc une teinte à sa palette (où l’on trouve déjà la turpitude morale : l’affaire Epstein et l’autoritarisme : les morts de Minneapolis) : la corruption tous azimuts. Il s’assure que si le vent devait tourner, Trump, ses enfants et une partie de son entourage immédiat, en particulier son envoyé...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 11:43
Le président américain multiplie les avertissements depuis le début du mouvement de contestation réprimé à huis clos en janvier, tout en répétant négocier avec Téhéran pour éviter une telle issue.
by QZ - yesterday at 11:11
Elon Musk may see his net worth surpass the trillion-dollar mark as soon as 2027, if not sooner. And he's not alone
by QZ - yesterday at 11:10
Option overload doesn't always make choosing a cruise line easy. Luckily, U.S. News and World Report rated the best Caribbean cruises for us
by Korben - yesterday at 10:58
Vous faites des vidéos face caméra pour YouTube ou Twitch et vous galérez à retenir vos textes ? Ou alors vous avez juste besoin d’un pense-bête qui reste toujours sous vos yeux pendant que vous bossez sur des trucs sérieux ? Si vous êtes sur Mac, y'a une petite pépite open source qui vient de sortir et qui utilise intelligemment un espace souvent critiqué de nos machines : NotchPrompter
. Ça se matérialise sous la forme d'une petite fenêtre de prompteur minimaliste qui vient se loger juste sous l’encoche (le fameux notch) de votre MacBook Air ou Pro. L'idée, c'est de garder votre texte le plus près possible de la caméra pour que votre regard ne semble pas fuir vers le bas ou le côté...
by Journal du Lapin - yesterday at 8:00
Deux ventes (une au Japon, une sur eBay) m’ont fait penser à un truc que je n’avais jamais détaillé : le cas des imprimantes Epson et de la Pippin. En fait, je me suis longtemps demandé pourquoi je voyais de temps en temps des Pippin @World (la version noire, américaine) au Japon. Et aussi pourquoi je voyais des disques Epson pour la console, mais sans les imprimantes. En réalité, il y a un lien entre les deux. De ce que j’ai pu trouver, notamment sur X, Epson avait a priori recyclé les Pippin @World invendues dans ses magasins. La console était visiblement cachée (et je n’ai pas trouvé dans quoi) mais la manette...
by Le Taurillon - yesterday at 7:30
L'accord UE–Mercosur divise l'opinion publique européenne depuis des années. Pourtant, au-delà des oppositions caricaturales, il révèle une question plus profonde : l'Union européenne est-elle prête à assumer le commerce comme un véritable instrument de politique démocratique ? Avec 285 millions d'habitants et près de 3 000 milliards de dollars de PIB, le Mercosur est un partenaire économique majeur de l'Union européenne, ce qui donne à l'accord conclu après plus de vingt ans de négociations une portée tout sauf marginale. Il s'agit de l'un des projets commerciaux les plus ambitieux jamais négociés par l'Union. Et pourtant, il demeure prisonnier d'un débat réducteur, souvent résumé à...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 6:00
Se mobiliser contre les démagogues qui misent sur la xénophobie pour démanteler la démocratie en France paraît d’autant plus compliqué qu’ils disposent, avec Donald Trump, d’un allié surpuissant, explique, dans sa chronique, Philippe Bernard, éditorialiste au « Monde ».
by QZ - saturday at 19:12
Capping interest at 10% could save Americans billions, but banks say it would shut millions out. Here's what drives rates and why they're so high