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by Le Monde - about 26 minutes
Dans un rapport publié mercredi 25 mars, l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire recommande de réduire drastiquement les teneurs de ce métal cancérogène dans les engrais phosphatés et de limiter la consommation de céréales, de pains ou de pâtes.
by The Verge - about 26 minutes
Instagram and Facebook content will soon have shopping links baked into posts, essentially cutting out third-party "link in bio"-style tools. Meta announced Tuesday that it's adding commerce features on the two platforms, though the functionality will be slightly different for each.
On Facebook, content creators will be able to link their affiliate accounts they have with brands and tag products in Reels and photos. Typically when an influencer wants to send audiences to their affiliate link, they have to comment on a post with a link to the product, or direct audiences toward an affiliate platform like ShopMy or LTK. Now, approved product …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by io9 - about 59 minutes
OpenAI's video model and social media platform were too beautiful for this world.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 23:24
Accusé en interne d’un « manque de clarté » sur sa ligne, le premier secrétaire du Parti socialiste est fragilisé par l’échec d’alliances avec LFI au second tour des municipales.
by Wired - yesterday at 23:13
During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:10
HP wants to put a chatbot on your PC, but not like Microsoft did with Windows 11.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:54
Meta willfully violated New Mexico law by misleading users about the safety of its products and engaging in an unconscionable trade practice, a jury found. The company will face a $375 million penalty for the violations, awarding the maximum penalty of $5,000 per violation for 37,500 violations across two counts. The jury decided against Meta on every count, though it declined to award a penalty as high as the state sought, which would have been closer to $2 billion.
It's a landmark verdict delivered just one day after closing arguments. New Mexico argued that Meta had flouted state law by misleading consumers and facilitating child predato …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:47
NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. | AFP via Getty Images NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has big plans for the future of the agency, including the construction of a $20 billion lunar base that he said will establish an "enduring presence" on the Moon. Isaacman announced the news during NASA's Ignition event on Tuesday, where he also described goals to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars, as reported earlier by the New York Times.
As a result of plans to establish a base on the Moon, NASA announced that it's pausing its Gateway project "in its current form," which would've launched a space station orbiting the Moon. Instead, NASA plans to "shift focus to infrastructure...
by BBC - yesterday at 22:47
Cities across Ukraine were hit, with local officials reporting at least eight people killed and dozens injured.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:35
Just three months after it was announced, Disney's partnership with OpenAI has ended with OpenAI's shuttering of its Sora AI video app.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:29
Téhéran pose comme condition qu’ils « ne participent pas à des actes d’agression contre l’Iran ni ne les soutiennent », dans un communiqué transmis à l’Organisation maritime internationale (OMI).
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:17
I arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport nearly five hours before my domestic flight. This is not my way - usually I roll up to the airport 30 minutes before boarding - but not even I have enough hubris to think that my good luck is more powerful than a partial government shutdown. Congress has yet to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, meaning thousands of federal employees from TSA to the Coast Guard are working without pay - or, in the case of TSA, calling out of work, causing staff shortages and hourslong security lines at airports across the country. On Monday, President Donald Trump deployed between 100 …
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by The Verge - yesterday at 22:08
A frame from a Sora 2-generated video. | Image: OpenAI On Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI announced "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the video generation tool that it launched at the end of 2024, and centered in a massive licensing deal with Disney only a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal reported the move earlier, saying that OpenAI boss Sam Altman had informed staff that both the TikTok-like Sora app and API access for developers would be discontinued, with no plans to roll the feature into ChatGPT as had previously been rumored. According to The Hollywood Reporter, as a result, the deal Disney announced in December, saying it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license its characters for use …
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by Le Monde - yesterday at 21:54
La guerre en Iran a provoqué un vrai « choc énergétique », a reconnu mardi 24 mars le premier ministre. Compte tenu de la dégradation des finances publiques, il n’est cependant pas question d’aller au-delà de quelques mesures ciblées.
by io9 - yesterday at 21:50
The researchers aren't sure yet why exactly, but the whales do seem to be having a good time.
by io9 - yesterday at 21:35
The company behind Fortnite, the Epic Game Store, and the Unreal Engine is also implementing a $500 million cost savings plan.
by BBC - yesterday at 21:34
Investigators released details from the final three minutes of cockpit and tower communications, which showed controllers cleared both the plane and a fire truck to cross the runway.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 21:00
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is tasked with regulating both wired and wireless communications, which also includes a national security component. This is how previously the FCC tossed networking gear made by Huawei and foreign-manufactured drones onto its Covered List, effectively banning it from sale in the US. Now foreign-made consumer routers have been added to this list, barring explicit conditional approval on said list that would exempt them during a ‘transition phase’.
As per the FCC fact sheet, this follows after determination by an interagency body that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States [..]”. This document points us to the...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 20:35
Les avis sont très divisés devant la nouvelle production d’Apple TV. “Imperfect Women” diffusée depuis le 18 mars, met en scène dans la banlieue chic de Los Angeles la relation entre trois amies. Et le meurtre de l’une d’entre elles. “Variety” a adoré cette étude captivante de l’amitié quand “The Hollywood Reporter” juge le scénario éculé.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 20:32
Tandis que Trump vante des discussions démenties par l’Iran, les hostilités continuent et le Pentagone s’apprêterait à déployer une unité aéroportée. De son côté, le ministre de la Défense israélien dit vouloir contrôler une partie du Sud-Liban.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:00
Aurélie Bretonneau, numéro deux de l’institution de la rue de Montpensier, a été remerciée par son président, Richard Ferrand. Certains expliquent cette décision par le changement d’ère managériale opéré par la secrétaire générale.
by Wired - yesterday at 19:59
The FCC just banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers manufactured outside the US. Here’s what it means for you.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:30
Creating PCBs at home is quite easy these days (vias not withstanding), but even the best DIY methods usually can’t match the resolution offered by commercial PCB production lines. Large traces are easy enough to carve out of copper-backed FR1 or FR4 with even a mill, what if you need something more like 100 µm sized traces with similar clearance? This is what [Giangix] has been experimenting with, using both a fiber laser and chemical etching to see what approach gives the best results. The thin copper clad boards are put on the 20 Watt fiber laser and held in place with the vacuum table that [Giangix] previously made, using the power of suction to make sure the board doesn’t move. The used laser...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:09
Avant les déclarations de Donald Trump, le 23 mars, laissant entendre que des discussions se tiennent avec des dirigeants iraniens, “The Wall Street Journal” s’essayait à une analyse du rapport des forces entre les belligérants. Or le régime iranien, conscient de son pouvoir de nuisance, espère sortir gagnant de cette guerre. Un pari risqué.
by Wired - yesterday at 18:41
Audio-Technica is a leading name in home and professional audio, and the AT-LP120XUSB is a great turntable for most listeners.
by BBC - yesterday at 18:12
Asia relies heavily on oil and gas from the Gulf, and shortages and higher prices are starting to bite.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:00
Une vaste enquête internationale retrace le trajet de l’alumine raffinée qui transite d’Aughinish jusqu’aux fonderies russes, puis se retrouve aux mains d’entreprises liées à l’effort de guerre de Moscou. Un commerce légal que ni Bruxelles ni Dublin ne bloquent malgré ses implications stratégiques.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 18:00
Although it may be hard to believe for current generations, there was a time when the Internet and the World Wide Web were not as integrated into society as it is today. The only forms of online ‘social media’ that existed came in the form of IRC, forums, BBSes, newsgroups and kin, while obtaining new software for your PC involved generally making your way over to a physical store to buy a boxed copy, at least officially.
In this era – and those before it – age-verification already existed, with various goods ranging from tobacco and alcohol to naughty adult magazines requiring you to pass some form of age check. Much like how movies also got age-gated, so did video games, with a sales clerk taking a...
by Wired - yesterday at 18:00
The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.
by Korben - yesterday at 17:45
La chaîne YouTube Electron Impressions a placé une dionée attrape-mouche dans un accélérateur de particules pour voir ce qui allait se passer.
Résultat : toutes les mâchoires de la plante se sont refermées en même temps sous l'effet de la radiation ionisante. La plante a confondu le faisceau de particules avec une proie.
Comment la dionée attrape ses proies
La dionée attrape-mouche fonctionne grâce à un mécanisme assez fascinant. Ses mâchoires sont tapissées de petits poils sensibles qui détectent le contact d'un insecte. Quand un poil est touché, il active des canaux à calcium dans les cellules de la plante. Ce mouvement d'ions crée un potentiel d'action, un signal électrique qui se...
by La Horde - yesterday at 17:42
A la Ferme à Jazz (261 av. des grandes Bardes) à partir de 19h. -
Initiatives / Initiative culturelle, Bourg-en-Bresse
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:42
À sa demande, le célèbre troubadour de 79 ans a reçu du régime un fusil-mitrailleur AKM pour défendre le pays en cas d’intervention des États-Unis. Une mise en scène qui indigne, voire inquiète, la presse indépendante cubaine.
by Korben - yesterday at 17:35
Un développeur a mis au point un système de détection de drones qui tient dans la main et coûte moins de 15 dollars.
Le projet Batear utilise un microcontrôleur ESP32-S3 et un micro pour repérer les drones par le son de leurs hélices. Le tout est open source et fonctionne sans connexion internet.
Écouter les hélices plutôt que chercher un radar
Le principe de Batear est assez simple en fait. Plutôt que d'utiliser un radar ou une caméra, le système analyse le son ambiant pour y détecter les fréquences caractéristiques des moteurs de drones.
L'algorithme de Goertzel surveille six fréquences précises entre 200 et 4000 Hz, qui correspondent aux harmoniques habituelles des rotors. Quand l'énergie...
by Korben - yesterday at 17:28
Le Z80 de Zilog, le processeur qui a fait tourner le ZX Spectrum, le Game Boy et des dizaines de micro-ordinateurs des années 80, a été arrêté en juin 2024 après 48 ans de bons et loyaux services.
Un bricoleur a créé
le PicoZ80
, une petite carte qui se glisse directement dans le même support et qui émule le processeur original grâce à une puce Raspberry Pi.
48 ans de service, et puis s'en va
Le Zilog Z80 a été lancé en 1976 et il a alimenté une bonne partie de l'histoire de l'informatique personnelle. ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Game Boy, calculatrices Texas Instruments : la liste des machines qui ont tourné avec ce processeur 8 bits est longue.
Zilog a annoncé sa fin de vie en avril 2024...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 17:18
The actor and comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.
by BBC - yesterday at 16:55
US threats against energy infrastructure, and Iran's retaliation on its Gulf neighbours, signal a clear change.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
Kampala Capital City • Uganda • May 2011 📷 #flashes
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:30
If you’re intending to work at your desk for long periods of time, good lighting is a must, as it can help stave off eye strain and mental fatigue. It was a desire for more comfortable productivity that drove [Jade] to whip up a monitor-mounted lighting system for her workstation.
The build uses an ESP32 to run the show, with a rotary encoder for manual control and firmware that allows the monitor light to be neatly integrated with Home Assistant. The light itself comes from light strips that feature both warm white and cold white LEDs. Simple MOSFETs are used to control the brightness of the LEDs and which of the warm and cold LEDs are activated at any time. Everything is wrapped up in a 3D printed housing...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 16:12
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 15:00
If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive purple peripheral, with its satisfying clunk as you slotted in a cartridge, was as much a fixture of the era as beige tower cases and CRT monitors. Iomega, the company behind it, went from an obscure Utah outfit to a multi-billion-dollar darling of Wall Street in the span of about two years. And then, almost as quickly, it all fell apart.
The story of Iomega is one of genuine engineering innovation and the fickle nature of consumer technology. As with so many other juggernauts of its era, Iomega was eventually brought down by a new technology that simply wasn’t practical to...
by Korben - yesterday at 13:25
Si vous êtes sous Windows 10 ou 11, vous avez forcément déjà ragé sur un truc tout bête. Genre redimensionner 50 photos d'un coup, renommer des fichiers en masse, ou juste organiser vos fenêtres proprement sur un écran ultra-large. Tout ça, Windows ne sait pas le faire nativement et c'est bien dommage ! Heureusement, c'est là que les
PowerToys
entrent en jeu... Si vous ne connaissez pas encore ça, sachez simplement qu'il s'agit d'un pack d'une trentaine d'utilitaires open source, maintenus par Microsoft eux-mêmes qui s'installent comme ceci dans un powershell lancé en admin :
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget C'est gratuit, c'est dispo sur GitHub, et franchement, c'est à se demander...
by BBC - yesterday at 13:14
Australia and the EU sign sweeping trade and security deals after years of negotiations.
by FluxBlog - yesterday at 12:57
McLusky “As A Dad”
Anger is real. It’s arguably the strongest emotion we can feel, and it’s certainly the most destructive. There’s lots of ways for anger to be righteous and sensible, something that fuels constructive behavior. But I think more often than not, we experience anger in stupid, pointless, petty ways. It manifests in ways that make us look foolish. It can be hilarous.
This is basically the foundational premise of McLusky’s music. They convey earnest rage through pummeling distorted bass lines and gnarled guitar hooks, but Andrew Falkous’ lyrics and sneering vocal affect present that anger as absurd dark comedy. Sometimes he’s peevish and snarky, but mostly he comes across as...
by Wired - yesterday at 12:30
Clear Drop’s Soft Plastic Compactor is a unique household recycling solution that’s fun to use, but who is it for?
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 11:45

La manière dont la vidéo m’a été recommandée m’avait fait penser qu’il s’agissait d’une critique de la psychanalyse, or, tout au contraire, il s’agit d’un éloge que je trouve particulièrement touchant. Je n’en dis pas plus. J’interviendrai dans la discussion – s’il y en a une.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 11:35
J’ai rappelé dans ma récente vidéo que « tout cela se perd dans la nuit des temps ». L’un de vous a tenu à revenir à la charge : « Non ! Non ! C’est 1948 ».
Un petit hommage en passant, à la « nuit des temps »…

Odetta, O Jerusalem David Olney, Jerusalem Tomorrow Charlotte Church, Jerusalem
by Korben - yesterday at 11:10
"Une requête ChatGPT consomme 10 fois plus d'énergie qu'une recherche Google."
Cette phrase, vous l'avez lue 100 fois. Mais est-ce vraiment vrai ?
Charles Duprat, chercheur en inclusion numérique, vient de publier un papier qui retourne complètement ce chiffre. Et même si je suis incapable de vérifier la validité scientifique de tout ce qu'il avance, ça vaut le coup d'en parler.
Son argument de base est simple et pas con. En fait quand on compare l'énergie d'une requête IA vs une recherche Google, on ne regarde en fait que ce qui se passe côté serveur, plutôt que l'ensemble de la chaîne. Le GPU Nvidia qui mouline d'un côté, l'index Google qui répond de l'autre.
Sauf que dans la vraie vie, une...
by Autheuil - yesterday at 11:02
Les municipales ont été l’occasion d’un triste spectacle donné par les appareils parisiens des partis politiques. La palme revient au Parti socialiste, où le soir du premier tour, alors que les leaders vomissaient sur LFI à la télévision, les barons locaux étaient en train de négocier des fusions de listes avec les insoumis, qui se […]
by New Yorker - yesterday at 11:00
The network’s experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 11:00
A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now he’s fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 11:00
Hi, your dad’s friend Bill here. Neither your father, nor I, knowing very little about you, have any confidence that you can be expected to handle filing your taxes by yourself.
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 10:56
Earlier this month, HiAnime surprised friends and foes by shutting down its website, which clocked more than 150 million monthly visits. “It’s time to say goodbye. And thank you for a wonderful journey with great moments,” the operators announced. The decision was a major setback for anime pirates, including many third-party tools and services that relied on the site, formerly known as Aniwatch. This includes unofficial “API” tools that could be used by other pirate sites to serve anime content. Anti-Circumvention Takedown
With HiAnime gone, these third-party tools presumably stopped working too. And even if that was not the case, a recent takedown notice sent by Remove Your Media LLC, on behalf of...
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 10:30
Les fusions nouées dans l’entre-deux-tours avec les listes de La France insoumise sont critiquées par certains responsables de centre gauche. A tort ou à raison ? La réponse en infographies et avec le moteur de recherche du « Monde ».
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 8:40
19/03 : Appel à rassemblement contre la venue de Marion Maréchal Le Pen
https://lahorde.info/19-03-Appel-a-rassemblement-contre-la-venue-de-Marion-Marechal-Le-Pen
by Journal du Lapin - yesterday at 8:00
Dans l’histoire des formats physiques, vous connaissez peut-être la bataille entre HD DVD et Blu-ray et celle entre Betamax et VHS, mais probablement pas celle entre Super Density Disc et MultiMedia CD. Et c’est normal : avant la sortie du DVD, les sociétés à l’origine de deux formats concurrents ont décidées de s’allier. Mais on trouve de temps en temps des restes de cette époque : j’ai récupéré un Super Density Disc. Et il y a une petir anecdote liée : son logo a été réutilisé pour les cartes SD. J’avais déjà parlé du sujet des disques, mais voici un résumé. D’un côté, on avait le Super Density Disc (SD), développé par Toshiba, Matsushita, Hitachi, Pioneer, etc.. De...
by Le Taurillon - yesterday at 7:30
Au sein des États membres de l'Union européenne, un problème reste non résolu sur le marché du travail : l'égalité salariale entre les femmes et les hommes. Depuis plusieurs années, les institutions européennes prennent à bras le corps cette problématique et mettent en place des politiques pour pallier cette inégalité structurelle. Le 9 mars dernier, le Parlement européen a débattu d'une résolution sur la base d'un rapport qui “félicite les efforts continus déployés par la Commission pour promouvoir l'égalité de genre”, mais “l'invite à présenter une nouvelle stratégie de l'Union en faveur de l'égalité de genre, qui soit détaillée, axée sur les résultats et ambitieuse”. Au...
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 6:30
Commune par commune, visualisez l’écart entre le potentiel électoral des listes présentes au second tour et les résultats officiels du scrutin.
by Human Progress - monday at 20:29
“Giorgia Meloni has long pitched nuclear energy as a cure for Italy’s wilting economy. Now her government is plotting how to actually resurrect the banned technology. Almost 40 years after Italy shuttered its last nuclear reactor — and 15 years after a failed attempt to reverse that decision — the prime minister’s team is consulting experts and holding discussions on how to restart atomic energy production, according to people familiar with the planning. Italian officials have traveled to Canada to explore technology designs, and spoken to French officials about their nuclear industry, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The government has also internally discussed South Korean...
by Human Progress - monday at 20:17
“Wedged between South American heavyweights Argentina and Brazil, Paraguay has long been ignored by the international community. Small, landlocked and poor, it was often seen as just a fly-over country. So it’s a little surprising — to both those in the capital and in the region — that the country of 6.1 million people is suddenly having a moment… Though roughly the size of California, Paraguay’s $47 billion economy is about 1% of the Golden State’s. But rapid growth and economic reforms in recent years helped the country win investment-grade credit status from Moody’s Ratings in 2024 and from S&P Global last year… Last century, it was run as a dictatorship for 35 years — one of the longest...
by Zataz - monday at 19:49
Faux site TOP 14 : ZATAZ découvre une fausse boutique qui annonce l'achat et la revente de billets pour des matchs de rugby.