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Microsoft is finally updating the design of the Run dialog prompt in Windows after more than 30 years. After committing to adding a dark mode to Run, Microsoft is now testing a refreshed design that makes it fit with the aesthetics in Windows 11. X user Phantomofearth discovered the modern Run dialog in the latest preview builds of Windows 11. The overhauled Run prompt looks a lot more like a modern launcher, but it functions exactly as Run always has. The Run command has been part of Windows since Windows 95, allowing power users to launch apps with shortcuts like “mspaint” for Microsoft Paint, “calc” for calculator, and “dxdiag” for the DirectX Diagnostic Tool. If you’re not a fan of the...

Une
étude de Graphite
vient de sortir et annonce que plus de la moitié des articles publiés sur Internet seraient désormais générés par IA. C’est fou non ?
Pour arriver à cette conclusion Graphite a analysé 65 000 URLs via
Common Crawl
et utilisé un détecteur d’IA et c’est comme ça qu’ils ont découvert que depuis novembre 2024, les articles IA auraient dépassé les articles humains en volume.
Alors en route vers l’apocalypse de l’écriture humaine ?
Bon déjà, première question qui me vient c’est : Comment est-ce qu’ils ont fait pour détecter ça ? Ouais parce qu’à ma connaissance, les outils de détection d’IA, comment dire… c’est de la grosse merde en barre. C’est...

An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail at all three things, despite lofty ideals revolving around decentralization, transparency, and trust. But that doesn’t mean that all digital currencies or payment systems are doomed to failure. [Roni] has been working on an off-grid digital payment node called Meshtbank, which works on a much smaller scale and could be a way to let a much smaller community set up a basic banking system.
The node uses Meshtastic as its backbone, letting the payment system use the same long-range low-power system that has gotten popular in recent years for enabling simple but...

Le président des États-Unis espère pousser son homologue vénézuélien à quitter le pouvoir sans user de la force militaire qu’il a déployée dans les Caraïbes. Maduro parie, quant à lui, sur un coup de bluff et essaie de gagner du temps. Ce jeu de dupe peut encore durer longtemps, craint dans cette chronique le directeur du site d’information en anglais “Caracas Chronicles”.

Dans “Die Zeit”, Milena Moser, Suisse expatriée à San Francisco, décrit son pays d’origine comme un endroit où “tout est objectivement mieux” mais plombant. Elle dit avoir enfin trouvé ailleurs “de l’air pour respirer”.

Face aux critiques autour de la valeur du bac, le ministre, Edouard Geffray, souhaite « redonner de la crédibilité à l’examen ». Un bilan détaillé de la session 2025 souligne des taux de réussite en hausse, mais des notes moyennes pas toujours aussi élevées qu’on pourrait le penser.

Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 billion break-up fee in case regulators block the buyout. Netflix reportedly offered $30 a share for the studio and its streaming assets, which include HBO Max and the rights to brands including Harry Potter and DC Comics. Netflix’s bid won out over interest from Comcast and Paramount, fresh from its own merger with Skydance, though early interest had been reported from Amazon and Apple too. Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was open to an...

Over the past few months, Belgium has issued several site-blocking orders targeting hundreds of piracy-linked domain names. These blockades follow a newly instated two-step process. A local court first issues a blocking order, after which a special government body determines how it will be implemented. This process aims to prevent errors and overblocking.
Pirate DNS Blocking
While site blocking is common in Europe, these new Belgian blockades go beyond the typical ISP blockade. Similar to France and Italy , the orders were also directed at third-party public DNS resolvers. The first implementation order, issued by the Belgian Department for Combating Online Infringement in April, required both ISPs and DNS...

La Grèce se trouve confrontée à de fortes intempéries depuis jeudi 4 décembre, provoquant de nombreux dégâts à travers le pays. Routes inondées, écoles fermées et immeubles sans électricité offrent un paysage de désolation dans la capitale et plusieurs régions.

Le nageur français a remporté jeudi au Texas le 400 m nage libre, une distance qu’il pratique depuis peu de temps. Le quadruple champion olympique de Paris 2024 a amélioré son meilleur temps de plus de trois secondes.

Le premier ministre a invité les députés, jeudi soir dans l’Hémicycle, à laisser les « petites manigances partisanes de côté », après que le président d’Horizons a estimé que son groupe parlementaire ne pouvait pas voter le texte en l’état.

The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

🔴 Conspiracy News #48.2025
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Il y a quelques semaines, on a retrouvé trois versions de développement de Mac OS, pour les ordinateurs CHRP. Et grâce à cette découverte, il est maintenant possible de lancer Mac OS 7.6 sur de nombreux ordinateurs qui étaient totalement incompatibles avec cette version auparavant. Un peu de contexte : le principe des ordinateurs CHRP, c’est de standardiser les composants. Un ordinateur compatible avec le standard CHRP aurait pu accepter différents OS, sans reposer sur la ROM physique. Du premier Macintosh jusqu’aux premiers Power Mac G3, Apple avait choisi de mettre une partie du système dans un composant physique, la ROM. C’est un peu schématisé, mais une partie des pilotes de base se...

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La triade employée régulièrement ces dernières années pour catégoriser les relations européennes, allemandes et chinoises s'intitule « partenaire, concurrent et rivale systémique ». Le nouveau chancelier fédéral allemand Friedrich Merz souligne désormais son opinion sur la Chine comme rivale systémique et laisse reconnaître qu'il voit surtout l'Empire du Milieu comme étant une menace pour la politique de sécurité. Discours d'introduction du nouveau chancelier
Au cours d'une interview en 2024 avec l'agence de presse allemande (dpa), Friedrich Merz a fait part de son opinion générale quant au rôle de la Chine : « La Chine est de plus en plus répressive dans les affaires intérieures et de...

Save on Naturepedic’s line of organic, thoughtfully crafted mattresses and bedding with our coupon codes for this month.

The Russian leader's comments come as US and Ukrainian negotiators are due to hold a new round of talks.

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Probably most people know that when organic matter such as kitchen waste rots, it can produce flammable methane. As a source of free energy it’s attractive, but making a biogas plant sounds difficult, doesn’t it? Along comes [My engines] with a well-thought-out biogas plant that seems within the reach of most of us.
It’s based around a set of plastic barrels and plastic waste pipe, and he shows us the arrangement of feed pipe and residue pipe to ensure a flow through the system. The gas produced has CO2 and H2s as undesirable by-products, both of which can be removed with some surprisingly straightforward chemistry. The home-made gas holder meanwhile comes courtesy of a pair of plastic drums one inside...

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Steve Witkoff, l’envoyé spécial du président américain, et Jared Kushner, gendre de Donald Trump, ont choisi de rencontrer, à Miami, le négociateur en chef et le chef d’état-major ukrainiens, après avoir annulé leur étape bruxelloise à leur retour de Moscou.

La Cour suprême a autorisé jeudi le Texas à utiliser une nouvelle carte électorale, réclamée par Donald Trump pour favoriser les républicains lors des prochaines élections de mi-mandat. Une décision qui alimente la “guerre du redécoupage électoral”, note la presse américaine.

Alors que les négociations budgétaires touchent à leur fin au Parlement, un collectif d’acteurs majeurs de la recherche scientifique et médicale française s’alarme, dans une tribune au « Monde », du manque d’investissements dans ces domaines et de ses conséquences sur la santé publique.

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It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye or sensor. At high magnifications, however, that model starts to fail when the feature size of the specimen nears the optical system’s diffraction limit. In a recent video, [xoreaxeax] built a simple microscope, then designed another microscope to overcome the diffraction limit without lenses or mirrors (the video is in German, but with automatic English subtitles).
The first part of the video goes over how lenses work and how they can be combined to magnify images. The first microscope was made out of camera...

On December 4, WIRED sat down with some of the biggest names in tech, culture, business, and science for a day full of in-depth interviews.

The admiral who gave the order for a second strike on an alleged drug boat briefed lawmakers about the incident, as the military confirmed another attack.

The man allegedly tried to steal the diamond-studded egg named after the James Bond film Octopussy.

Whether you’re wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you’re simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling headphones are a more essential piece of kit nowadays than ever before. And you’ve got a slew of great options to pick from; it’s hard to make a bad choice. There are longtime heavyweights like Bose and Sony to pick from. Apple has quickly carved into the market with the luxurious AirPods Max. And if you’ve got an ear that demands the best audio quality, headphones from Bowers & Wilkins and Sennheiser might appeal to you more than the mainstream contenders. Not everyone loves the feel of earbuds, and there are scenarios where over-ear and...

The outcry grows over Trump's undeclared war in the Caribbean.

Read 'Reality Check,' a sci-fi short story by Hugo and Nebula-winning author Nancy Kress, right here on io9.

Resetting the paraffin trap. (Credit: MisterHW)
Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit of paraffin wax to save the day.
Hand soldering can be a messy business, especially when you wipe the soldering iron tip on those common brass wool bundles that have largely come to replace moist sponges. The Weller Dry Cleaner (WDC) is one of such holders for brass wool, but the large tray in front of the opening with the brass wool has confused many as to its exact purposes. In short, it’s there so that you can slap the iron against the side to flick contaminants and excess solder off the tip.
Along with catching some of the bits of mostly...

The Oscar-winning star of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' returns to his iconic early role... sort of.

OpenAI's “confessions” experiment forces ChatGPT to file a second answer, listing the rules it heard, the shortcuts it took, and why it bent the rules

The defensive Secretary of War.

Following the recent retirement of former COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, and the departure of head of design Alan Dye for Meta, Apple announced Thursday that environmental and policy lead Lisa Jackson is retiring and that Jennifer Newstead will replace Kate Adams as the company’s general counsel after Adams retires “late next year.” Jackson, technically “vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives,” will retire in “late January 2026,” Apple says. Newstead, who is currently Meta’s chief legal officer, will take over Apple’s general counsel role on March 1st, 2026, from Adams, who has been Apple’s general counsel since 2017. With Jackson’s...

Li Jun Li and Ryan Coogler had a chat about how audiences might hate Grace for her climactic decision in 'Sinners.'

One of the biggest surprises of Cyber Monday was the terrific discount we saw on the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, which dropped in price by $50. We expected the price to return to normal once the shopping holiday ended, but to our surprise, it’s still going strong two days later. Several major retailers are offering the console bundle for $449.99 ($50 off) — including Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Since it’s a high-demand item, Walmart and Best Buy require that you add the bundle to your cart before seeing the discounted price.
Nintendo Switch 2 Where to Buy: $499.99 $449 at Amazon (Mario Kart World bundle) $499.99 $449.99 at Walmart (Mario Kart World bundle) $499.99 $449 at Best Buy...

Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose.

Bad news for people with peanut allergies.

New research finds the shingles vaccine can potentially provide broad protection against dementia.

Wi-Fi! It’s everywhere, and yet you can’t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic waves outside the visual spectrum. Never mind, though, because you can always build yourself a Wi-Fi analyzer to get some insight into your radio surroundings, as demonstrated by [moononournation].
The core of the build is the ESP32-C5. The popular microcontroller is well-equipped for this task with its onboard dual-band Wi-Fi hardware, even if the stock antenna on most devboards is a little underwhelming. [moononournation] has paired this with a small rectangular LCD screen running the ILI9341 controller. The graphical interface is drawn with the aid of the Arduino_GFX...

The US president hopes that a peace deal will pave the way for greater American investment in the resource-rich region.

“China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25% today — an area equivalent to the size of Algeria. Last year, government representatives announced the country had finished encircling its biggest desert with vegetation, but that it will continue planting trees to keep desertification in check… Collectively, China’s ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017. But regreening has...

“Five months after a ‘breakthrough’ HIV prevention drug got approval in the United States and became available in many wealthy countries, it’s getting rolled out in two African countries hit especially hard by the disease. On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced that Eswatini and Zambia have each received 500 doses of lenacapavir, a drug manufactured by Gilead Sciences that’s been hailed as by Science as a “breakthrough.” Just two injections a year provide near-complete protection against an HIV infection. The delivered doses mark the first small step toward providing at least 2 million doses to the highest burden countries, largely in Africa, by 2028. That’s the goal of the Global...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

La virtualisation constitue l’un des piliers de l’informatique moderne, mais elle n’est pas sans défis de sécurité. Le premier problème : le nombre d’instances de serveurs virtualisés (machines virtuelles, ou VM) que les administrateurs doivent désormais défendre....

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“The annual reintroduction of zoo-bred Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered Partula snails – including from our London and Whipsnade Zoos – saw over 7,000 snails returned to four islands, making it the largest release of the group of finger-nail sized snail species and subspecies to date. Before release, conservationists dotted the shell of each snail with a small dab of white UV reflective paint, which glows blue under UV light. As the snails are most active at night, the paint helps the team find released snails and monitor the recovery of the species. During the releases, the team discovered an unmarked, juvenile Partula varia – making it the first wild-born member of this reintroduced...

“The recent instability in rare-earth supplies is a much bigger threat to automakers than in the past. It has given new urgency to the search for motors that don’t need rare earths or for materials that would replace them. BMW’s electric vehicles already use motors that operate without rare earths. Researchers at Northeastern University and other institutions are working to synthesize materials that have promising magnetic properties and are found only in meteorites. Start-ups have begun developing new kinds of motors and other technologies. And the Department of Energy is encouraging that work, despite the Trump administration’s rollback of other forms of support for electric vehicles.” From New...

“On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europe are contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of power lines, picking out individual trees to cut and poles to replace. The most obvious way to prevent power equipment from sparking a blaze is to bury lines underground. But at a cost of upwards of $3 million a mile, many investor-owned utilities are limiting themselves to just a few hundred miles of buried lines per year. That’s proved to be a major business opportunity for several tech companies that use machine learning to deliver custom recommendations for targeted, relatively...

Depuis des millénaires, l’humain utilise les animaux pour se nourrir, se vêtir ou faire avancer la recherche scientifique. Mais l’exploitation animale pourrait-elle être remise en cause au nom de nouvelles normes éthiques ? Récit du Tribunal pour les Générations Futures organisé par Usbek & Rica sur le sujet le vendredi 28 novembre dernier, au cœur du Théâtre de la Concorde, à Paris, dans le cadre de la première édition du Futur Festival.

While Australia’s site-blocking mechanism has made few enemies since 2018, it hasn’t been known for being fast.
As discussed earlier this year, accuracy has traditionally been favored over speed, which is contrary to less cautious approaches taken in other countries.
After an unprecedented request and cooperation from the Federal Court, Australia will now step up several gears and show whether it can achieve both.
Not Just Another Blocking Order
When Justice Halley handed down his order in Universal City Studios LLC v Telstra Limited [2025] FCA 1390 on November 12, in most respects it was much like any other issued in recent years. Member studios of the MPA – Universal, Disney, Paramount, Columbia,...

Vous connaissez le Spotify Wrapped qui vous rappelle chaque décembre que vous avez écouté “Africa” de Toto 847 fois ? Hé bien GitWrap fait pareil mais pour votre code sur GitHub. Et tout ça avec une interface qui sent bon le DOS et les moniteurs à phosphore vert.
Vous entrez votre nom d’utilisateur GitHub, et l’outil génère alors un récapitulatif de votre année de commits, de pull requests et de contributions diverses et variées. Le tout emballé dans une esthétique rétro qui ferait pleurer de nostalgie n’importe quel dev qui a connu l’époque où “git” n’existait pas encore et où on faisait des sauvegardes sur disquettes. L’interface vous accueille avec un prompt style...

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