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by Le Monde - about 52 minutes
Pete Hegseth, le secrétaire à la défense de Donald Trump, avait donné jusqu’à vendredi à Dario Amodei, patron de l’entreprise, pour qu’il ouvre sans contraintes son modèle Claude à l’armée américaine. Mais ce dernier a rejeté la demande, estimant que « dans certains cas précis (…) l’IA peut saper, plutôt que défendre, les valeurs démocratiques ».
by BBC - about 54 minutes
The Afghan Taliban said it had responded to the Pakistani strikes, which targeted Afghan cities including Kabul and Kandahar.
by Wired - about 1 hour
A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere.
by Wired - about 2 hours
The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have great ANC and long battery life, and they’re marked down in several colors.
by QZ - about 2 hours
Paramount Skydance is now poised to control a huge swath of streaming, studio, and TV assets, after Netflix declined to raise its offer
by io9 - about 2 hours
The Pentagon wants Anthropic to drop safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
by Wired - about 2 hours
Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
[Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers. It looks exactly like a 2 kg spool of filament; that’s real filament wound around the outside of the drum. In fact, Spoolie the SpoolBot looks so much like the real thing that [Matt] designed a googly-eye add-on, because the robot is so easily misplaced.
The robot’s mass rotates around a central hub in order to move forward or back.
SpoolBot works by rotating its mass around the central hub, which causes it to roll forward or back. Steering is accomplished by tank-style turning of the independent spool ends. While conceptually simple, quite a bit of work is necessary to ensure...
by BBC - about 2 hours
Cuba has accused those on board of planning "an infiltration with terrorist aims” and firing first.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Les dirigeants du géant du streaming ont déclaré, jeudi 26 février, « refuser de s’aligner » sur l’offre de Paramount Skydance après que le conseil d’administration de Warner Bros l’a qualifiée de proposition « supérieure ».
by The Verge - about 3 hours
Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It's the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's desire to renegotiate all AI labs' current contracts with the military. But Anthropic, so far, has refused to back down from its two current red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans, and no lethal autonomous weapons (or weapons with license to kill targets with no human oversight whatsoever). OpenAI …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Wired - about 3 hours
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables.
by The Verge - about 3 hours
Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters say the streamer is "declining to match" the new bid made by Paramount: The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.
We believe we would have been strong stewards of Warner Bros.' i …
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by io9 - about 3 hours
Netflix has declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros. after Paramount's most recent bid was deemed a 'superior proposal.'
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:56
Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off your device using its own cloud-based computer and browser, allowing it to handle a variety of jobs ranging from scheduling appointments to generating study plans while you do something else.
As noted by Microsoft, you can describe what you need to Copilot Tasks using natural language, and assign Copilot Tasks to complete jobs on a recurring, scheduled, or one-time basis. Copilot Tasks will provide a report once its work is complete.
You can ca …
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by Le Monde - yesterday at 23:12
La cérémonie du cinéma français s’est tenue jeudi soir à l’Olympia. Laurent Lafitte et Léa Drucker ont remporté les prix de meilleurs acteur et actrice.
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:11
Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly half" and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,000 people to less than 6,000, Dorsey says in a post on X. And the reason why? AI.
"We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. But something has changed. We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new …
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by The Verge - yesterday at 23:08
Image: WindowsLatest Lenovo's next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld gaming PC with two different display sizes, as WindowsLatest reports. Leaked images of the device show it attached to both a keyboard and controllers, with a hinge in the middle of the POLED display, allowing it to unfold from 7.7 inches to 11.6 inches. Users can attach the controllers with the display folded or unfolded, use the display in a vertical split screen mode, or attach it to the keyboard for laptop mode, for a total of four different form factors rolled into one device. Even the controllers are con …
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by io9 - yesterday at 23:05
It’s a comforting idea, but a new study did not find evidence to support it.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:00
The season one finale of the 'Game of Thrones' spin-off sent its battered characters off into the sunset with many, many eyeballs watching.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:55
The new safety feature comes as social media platforms face growing legal pressure over how they affect minors.
by QZ - yesterday at 22:51
A record quarter met a market priced for perfection, and Nvidia answered with revenue and a forecast that reset the AI math — again
by BBC - yesterday at 22:43
The indirect negotiations in Geneva are seen as a last-ditch effort, but the chances of a nuclear agreement are unclear.
by QZ - yesterday at 22:42
Nvidia posted yet another monster quarter, but the stock still fell as investors priced the AI economy’s payback, not just the chipmaker’s beat
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about any microcontroller you can think of. But what if you have a microcontroller at all? [Povilas Dumcius] decided to try and drive the LEDs with raw logic only.
The project consists of a small board full of old-school ICs that can be used to drive WS2812Bs in a simplistic manner. A 74HC14 Schmitt trigger oscillator provides the necessary beat for this tune, generating an 800 kHz clock to keep everything in time and provide the longer pulse trains that represent logic one to a WS2812B. A phase-shifted AND gate generates the shorter pulses necessary to indicate logic zero. Meanwhile, a binary counter...
by Wired - yesterday at 21:54
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
The Haxophone is an open source MIDI saxophone project that has achieved some popularity. It’s caught the attention of [Shieladixon] not because she is a saxophonist but because she plays the recorder and is dissatisfied with existing MIDI recorder peripherals. She’s set about modifying the device to produce the Haxocorder, a better MIDI recorder.
The video below the break is the third of a series, of which part one and part two deal with the Haxophone and the shortcomings of her existing recorder peripheral. She’s replacing the Pi Zero of the Haxophone with a Pi Pico in a Zero form factor, and simplifying its design significantly to remove unnecessary features. The result is a versatile instrument...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 20:01
“Just nine countries did not have large-scale forced labor at any time since the late 18th century. After a small number of countries reduced forced labor substantially in the early 1800s, the rest of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, saw steady successes in the fight for abolition. Progress accelerated in the mid-20th century. In just a few decades, dozens of countries abolished large-scale forced labor: at the end of World War II, almost 100 countries still had such systems in place. Only one generation later, by 1975, that number had fallen to 31. In recent decades, the number of countries where forced labor is common has continued to fall, though at a slower pace. In 2024, there were...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:24
Trois ans après “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We”, l’album qui a révélé le single “My Love Mine All Mine”, entré au Billboard Hot 100, l’artiste américaine s’apprête à sortir son huitième album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me”, le vendredi 27 février.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:13
Mercredi 25 février, la justice italienne a arrêté quatre personnes impliquées dans une vaste enquête portant sur des infiltrations mafieuses au sein d’un hôpital public dans la ville de Naples.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:00
Le 25 février 2026, le gouvernement du Zimbabwe a annoncé la suspension immédiate de toutes les exportations de minerais bruts et de concentrés de lithium “jusqu’à nouvel ordre”. Un tournant majeur dans la politique minière du pays, qui cherche à sécuriser son secteur minier.
by QZ - yesterday at 18:30
Anthropic has pressed for assurances its AI won't be engaged in mass surveillance of Americans or used in autonomous weapons that don't require human oversight
by QZ - yesterday at 18:30
The number of people moving out of the U.S. last year exceeded the number of people moving in – and the disparity isn't just due to immigration crackdowns
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:29
A 71 ans, l’ancienne journaliste devenue conseillère du président Nicolas Sarkozy a su, grâce à sa discrétion et à son entregent, se rendre indispensable. La nouvelle locataire de la Rue de Valois devra gérer plusieurs chantiers d’importance, dont le projet Louvre Renaissance et la réforme de l’audiovisuel public.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:12
Le gouvernement indien a changé le nom officiel de l’État du Kerala en “Keralam”, son nom dans la langue locale officielle, afin de prendre des distances avec l’héritage colonial britannique. Cette décision s’inscrit dans un mouvement plus général lancé par le Premier ministre, Narendra Modi. Mais selon la presse locale, cette initiative cache aussi des motivations électorales.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:51
De 2013 à 2019, l’établissement bancaire allemand a géré une partie importante de la fortune du criminel sexuel américain, alors que ce dernier avait déjà été condamné par la justice. D’après la presse internationale, la Deutsche Bank aurait gardé Jeffrey Epstein parmi ses clients afin de s’assurer un accès à son réseau tentaculaire.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 17:30
[Steven K. Roberts] is the original digital nomad, having designed and built mobile computing for his own use since the 80s. His latest project is Bionode, a portable computing lab built into a hand truck that can accommodate a wide spectrum of needs for a person on the go.
Far more than just a portable computer with wheels and a handle, Bionode is an integrated collection of systems with power management, a sensor suite, multiple computers, NAS for storage, networking, video production tools, and even the ability to be solar charged. [Steven] also uses a laptop, and Bionode complements it by being everything else.
If one truly wishes to be mobile and modular as well as effective, then size and weight begins...
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
Warszawa • Polska • October 2018 📷 #flashes
by New Yorker - yesterday at 16:39
A great fuss surrounds Emerald Fennell’s anachronistic adaptation, but Emily Brontë’s ruthless text will always have the last word.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
In theory having a single device that combines the features of multiple dedicated devices is a great idea, saving a lot of space, time and money. However, in reality it mostly means that these features now conflict with each other, force us to deal with more complex devices that don’t last nearly as long, and become veritable vampires for your precious attention.
Whereas in the olden days a phone was just used for phone calls, now it’s also a video and photo camera, multimedia computer, pager, and more, but at any point an incoming phone call can interrupt what you are doing. There’s also always the temptation of doom scrolling on one of the infinite ‘social media’ apps. Even appliances like...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:41
Les Ray-Ban Meta, c'est quand même le gadget parfait pour les voyeurs technophiles. Ce sont quand même des lunettes qui filment, prennent des photos et diffusent en live... le tout sans que PERSONNE autour ne s'en rende compte (ou presque). Alors forcément, quelqu'un a fini par coder une app pour les détecter ! Nearby Glasses
, c'est une application Android développée par Yves Jeanrenaud qui scanne en permanence les signaux Bluetooth Low Energy autour de vous. Chaque appareil BLE diffuse en fait des trames pour s'annoncer avec un identifiant constructeur et les lunettes caméra de Meta utilisent les IDs 0x01AB et 0x058E (Meta Platforms) ainsi que 0x0D53 (Luxottica/Ray-Ban). Donc cette app écoute ces...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:36
Amazon, fournisseur officiel de mauvaises idées en matière de vie privée depuis 1870 vient de nous pondre une nouvelle trouvaille !! À partir du 25 mars, si quelqu'un vous achète un cadeau via votre liste de souhaits Amazon, le vendeur tiers récupère votre adresse de livraison. Oui, votre VRAIE adresse !! Après en tant que français
on a l'habitude que tous les escrocs de la planète aient nos infos persos
. Mais rassurez-vous, Amazon a trouvé une solution ! Est-ce qu'il s'agit de corriger le problème ? Que nenni !! Ils nous recommandent simplement d'utiliser une boîte postale. Sympa !
Parce que jusqu'ici, quand un pote vous envoyait un truc depuis votre wishlist, le vendeur tiers voyait votre ville...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:18
Vous voulez désactiver l'IA dans votre navigateur ? Bonne chance pour les couillons qui utilisent Chrome... faut passer par 5 réglages planqués dans chrome://settings et chrome://flags, tripatouiller des flags expérimentaux, bref, c'est un vrai parcours du combattant. Firefox 148, de son côté, a eu une idée folle : Mettre UN bouton. Hop, terminé.
Mozilla vient en effet de sortir la
version 148 de Firefox
et le gros morceau, c'est la section "Contrôles de l'IA" dans les paramètres (about:preferences#ai). Un seul toggle "
Bloquer les améliorations IA
" et paf, toutes les fonctions IA du navigateur sont coupées d'un coup. Traductions automatiques, regroupement d'onglets, previews de liens, texte...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:10
Un dungeon crawler dans l'explorateur de fichiers Windows c'est maintenant une réalité grâce à
Directory Dungeon
qui transforme votre arborescence de fichiers en donjon, avec monstres, du loot et des combats au tour par tour. Du coup forcément, ça m'a intrigué.
Dans ce jeu, vous ouvrez un dossier C:\DirectoryDungeon sur votre PC et dedans y'a des salles de donjon. Ensuite, pour vous déplacer, vous glissez-déposez votre dossier "Player" dans une nouvelle pièce. Oui du vrai drag-and-drop dans explorer.exe.
Et votre inventaire, c'est un sous-dossier. Vos armes et armures, vous les équipez en les déposant dans le répertoire "Equipment". Et quand vous tombez sur un monstre, le combat se résout...
by Korben - yesterday at 14:59
Standard Intelligence
vient d'annoncer FDM-1, un modèle IA capable de contrôler n'importe quel ordinateur... en regardant l'écran et en cliquant. Comme nous !!
En gros le modèle regarde des pixels, comprend l'interface et exécute des actions. Clics, mouvements de souris, saisie clavier... et ça tourne à 30 FPS avec 11 ms de latence. Donc c'est beaucoup plus réactif que la plupart des français devant un formulaire administratif, quoi... ^^ Concrètement, vous pourriez lui demander de remplir vos tableurs Excel ou Google Sheets, de naviguer dans SAP, Salesforce ou n'importe quel logiciel métier sous Windows, macOS ou Linux, ou d'automatiser ces clics débiles que vous faites 200 fois par jour....
by BBC - yesterday at 14:56
The issue of Greenland, which Donald Trump wants to annex, is likely to dominate the election campaign.
by FluxBlog - yesterday at 13:47
A Thousand Mad Things “Promises”
A Thousand Mad Things’ William Barradale wears his icy synth pop and goth influences on his sleeve, to the extent that his most recent singles sound like direct homages to Depeche Mode and The Cure. A lot of artists aim for this, but Barradale actually nails it on a craft level, emulating their particular approaches to melody rather than just over-indexing on the surface level aesthetics like most cold wave acts. “Promises” offsets the jauntiness of “The Lovecats” with an absolutely frigid synth arrangement, with Barradale singing wry lyrics about a torturous breakup in a classic handsome new wave voice. He’s not reinventing any wheels here, but he is making an...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
This year marks the hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary, or demisemiseptcentennial, of “Moby-Dick,” originally published in 1851. (Saving you the math.) Is it O.K. to have a “Moby-Dick” T-shirt for every day of the week?
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
Emerald Fennell’s brazen take on the classic has both exhilarated and infuriated viewers. What does an adaptation owe to its source material?
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
An under-the-radar, Trump-approved deal could create a broadcasting behemoth that controls local news stations across more than forty states. Why do some MAGA diehards oppose it?
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths.
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 10:07
Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platforms WordPress.com and Tumblr, has been documenting DMCA takedown abuse for well over a decade. Over the years, the company has highlighted how automated systems flood platforms with inaccurate or incomplete notices. These errors and mistakes are par for the course now, and Automattic even launched its own Hall of Shame to ‘honor’ the worst offenders.
In recent years, it appeared that takedown issues had stabilized somewhat. However, the latest transparency report, covering July through December 2025, shows that challenges remain.
2,431 Notices, 86% Rejected
This week, the company published its latest WordPress.com transparency report, revealing that...
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 9:39
Dans son nouveau livre, Écofascistes. Quand l’extrême droite s’empare de l’écologie (Presses de la cité, 2026), la journaliste italienne Francesca Santolini dissèque avec une rigueur implacable les ressorts de la « fascisation de l'écologie » qui avance à visage découvert en Europe. Entretien.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 8:40
salut les loquedus !
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/correcteurs/2026/02/16/salut-les-loquedus/
by Journal du Lapin - yesterday at 8:00
Dans les années 2000, Sony intégrait des lecteurs de MiniDisc un peu partout. Mais saviez-vous qu’il existait une ligne de PC portables avec un lecteur de MiniDisc intégré ? C’est la série des Vaio NV, qui proposait un enregistreur NetMD optionnel, dans une baie d’extension. Bon, le Vaio NV (quelle que soit la version) est assez onéreux, donc j’ai pris un modèle vendu à bas prix (un NV55E) avec quelques défauts. Pas d’adaptateur secteur (mais c’est du standard), pas de disque dur (mais c’est du standard en PATA) et un écran qui ne fonctionne pas. J’ai eu la surprise tout de même d’avoir le lecteur de NetMD (j’attendais le lecteur de disquettes). Après avoir démarré sur la...
by Le Taurillon - yesterday at 7:30
La Présidente moldave, Maia Sandu, est souvent apparue dans les médias ces derniers mois suite à sa nomination par The Telegraph comme World Leader of the Year et ensuite pour ses déclarations sur un potentiel référendum d'unification entre la Moldavie et la Roumanie. Encore plus récemment, elle a été proposée aux prix Nobel par un membre du parlement de la Norvège, une nomination qu'elle a refusé, affirmant que les prisonniers de guerre ukrainiens en sont les véritables méritants. Mais qui est vraiment Maia Sandu ? Et que peuvent apprendre d'elle les autres dirigeants européens face aux pressions extérieures et aux défis de la résilience démocratique ? Une carrière au service du...
by BBC - yesterday at 7:01
Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 5:45
Le chercheur Dimitri Minic estime dans un entretien au « Monde » qu’« il ne faut pas enterrer l’Ukraine trop vite », même si le rapport de force est actuellement favorable à la Russie.
by Zataz - wednesday at 21:55
Arrestation d’un suspect lié à un réseau de SMS frauduleux et d’équipements télécom clandestins....
by Usbek & Rica - wednesday at 19:30
TRIBUNE // Et si, à l’heure où son PIB est en panne, la France considérait enfin l’économie de la longévité comme un véritable relais de croissance ? C’est la proposition de Charlotte Calvet, la co-fondatrice du Longevity Culture Club, un cercle privé qui ambitionne de devenir un laboratoire d’idées sur cet enjeu sociétal majeur.