constant stream of curated content
by BBC - about 55 minutes
Russian President Vladimir Putin used his New Year speech to tell troops that he "believed in you and our victory" in Ukraine.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Emmanuel Macron a présenté ses vœux aux Français mercredi soir, promettant notamment pour 2026 l’interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans. Mais la presse internationale a surtout retenu le ton “grave” et “crépusculaire” de l’allocution présidentielle.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Depuis le 28 décembre, l’Iran est secoué par une vague de protestation contre la flambée des prix et le marasme économique. “Etemad”, l’un des principaux quotidiens réformateurs du pays, s’est rendu dans le grand marché de la capitale, d’où est parti le mouvement, pour interroger les commerçants. Un reportage exceptionnel.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Dans une brève allocution, le chef de l’Etat a évité de revenir sur son bilan, assurant seulement que « notre pays tient ». Dans un contexte d’instabilité politique, il s’est par ailleurs gardé de lancer de nouveaux projets.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Le terme revient dans tous les médias français pour qualifier la star française, qui doit être inhumée le 7 janvier à Saint-Tropez. Mais pour ce journaliste du quotidien allemand “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, Brigitte Bardot divisait trop les Français pour mériter un tel statut.
by Les Décodeurs - about 2 hours
Grâce à notre générateur, vous pouvez connaître tous les jours non travaillés et organiser vos ponts pour toute l’année (et ce jusqu’en 2100).
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” vous propose l’horoscope poétique de Rob Brezsny, un des astrologues les plus atypiques de la planète. Capricorne est le signe de la semaine.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
La Bulgarie passe à la monnaie unique européenne le 1ᵉʳ janvier, mais la population est sans enthousiasme. Le pays a seulement un gouvernement par intérim, et la corruption est endémique.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
L’auteur franco-algérien, qui avait été incarcéré pendant près d’un an dans son pays natal avant d’être gracié, est distingué pour la première fois. La promotion du 1er janvier compte aussi la chanteuse Nolwenn Leroy et les comédiens Guillaume Canet, Jean-Paul Rouve et Guillaume Gallienne.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their availability, but there might be more efficient ways to recover these REEs. One such method involves the use of a bacteriophage that has been genetically modified to bind to specific REEs and release them based on thermal conditions.
The primary research article in Nano Letters is sadly paywalled, but the supporting information PDF gives some details. We can also look at the preceding article (full PDF) by [Inseok Chae] et al. in Nano Letters from 2024, in which they cover the binding part using a...
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
L’Amérique du Nord commence à passer à son tour en 2026. Suivez avec nous la Saint-Sylvestre, en photos et en déclarations.
by BBC - about 4 hours
The worker is "recovering" after he was seen on video being knocked off his feet by the 400-lb (180kg) rubber Indiana Jones prop.
by io9 - about 5 hours
What happened in the Abyss—and how are Hawkins' heroes and villains faring in the aftermath of their greatest battle?
by Paul Jorion - about 6 hours
« Shine a Light » (2008)
by BBC - about 6 hours
The BBC's Russia editor speaks to people in the country as the war in Ukraine nears a fourth year.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train Station Clock which has been refurbished after being picked up for cheap at the flea market. These are big analog clocks which used to be common at railway stations around the world.
This build uses an ESP32 C3-mini microcontroller (PDF) in combination with an A4988 Microstepping Motor Driver (PDF). The logic is handled with MicroPython code. The A4988 provides two H-bridge circuits, one for each of two stepper motors, only one of which is used in this build.
The controller for this clock needs to send an alternating positive then negative DC pulse every minute to register that a...
by Le Monde - about 7 hours
Dans son message de vœux aux Ukrainiens, le président Zelesnky a affirmé que l’accord de paix est « prêt à 90 % » mais que les 10 % restants « contiennent tout ». « Ce sont ces 10 % qui détermineront le destin de la paix, le destin de l’Ukraine et de l’Europe », a-t-il déclaré.
by BBC - about 7 hours
Chinese people pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services are exempt.
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:54
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of "infinite synthetic content" means as it all becomes harder and harder to distinguish from reality, and the old, more personal Instagram feed that he says has been "dead" for years. Last year, The Verge's Sarah Jeong wrote that "…the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it's faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do," and Mosseri eventually concurs: For most of my life I could safely assume photographs or videos were largely accurate captures of moments that happened. This is clearly …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 23:17
“Rents got cheaper in several major cities this past year, thanks to an influx of luxury apartment buildings opening their doors and luring tenants to vacate their old homes. But those looking for bargains will have to be quick, since the available apartments won’t last long, developers say. The US’s average rental rate fell 0.18 percent in November, the largest monthly drop in more than 15 years, according to real estate research firm CoStar. Driving that decline: lower rents in big cities like Austin, Denver and Phoenix, as well as vacation destinations like Naples, Florida; Asheville, North Carolina; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. New building openings are bringing rents down as wealthy tenants...
by QZ - yesterday at 23:11
As AI moves from experimentation to full-blown implementation, managers have to figure out their AI-related responsibilities and issues on the fly
by BBC - yesterday at 23:05
The move is dividing the nation - some welcome it as a bold leap forwards, but others fear it will lead to economic stagnation.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa protocol more generally. LoRa is a great, low-power radio communications standards, but sometimes the antennas you get with the modules can leave you wanting more. That’s why [Chris Prioli] at the Gloucester County Amateur Radio Club in the great state of New Jersey have got a Yagi antenna for North America’s 915 MHz LoRa band.
Right out the gate, their article links to one of ours, where [tastes_the_code] builds a Yagi antenna for the European 868 MHz LoRa. Like [tastes_the_code], the radio club found [Chris]’s antenna gives much better reception than what came with the LoRa module....
by New Yorker - yesterday at 22:00
The first installment in a series of recommendations by New Yorker writers.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 21:37
“While the final death tolls are not yet available, reports suggest perhaps 1,600 people tragically lost their lives in these and several other events in the final two months of the year. If those estimates prove accurate, that would make 2025 among the lowest in total deaths from extreme weather events. Ever! I am cautious here because the recent decade or so has seen many years with similarly low totals — notably 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021. What we can say with some greater confidence is that the death rate from extreme weather events is the lowest ever at less than 0.8 deaths per 100,000 people (with population data from the United Nations). Only 2018 and 2015 are close. To put the death rate into...
by io9 - yesterday at 21:00
Gege Akutami and Yuji Iwasaki's sequel manga remembered to make a worthwhile story the connective tissue of its sorcery fighting series.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article [Chris Branch] details how they ran into limitations while expanding their use of soft-unicast functionality that fits with their extensive use of anycast to push as much redundancy onto the external network as possible.
The particular issue that they ran into had to do with the Netfilter connection tracking (conntrack) module and the Linux socket subsystem when you use packet rewriting. For soft-unicast it is important that multiple processes are aware of the same connection, yet due to how Linux works this made it impossible...
by QZ - yesterday at 20:01
The Oracle of Omaha's last day as CEO is here. Berkshire will keep humming — but the market must finally price the premium he carried
by io9 - yesterday at 19:00
Sam Raimi, Pixar, Ghostface, and Ryan Gosling all check in with big movies in the next three months.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
Humans have lots of basic requirements that need to be met in order to stay alive. Food is a necessary one, though it’s possible to go without for great stretches of time. Water is more important, with survival becoming difficult beyond a few days in its absence. Most of all, though, we crave oxygen. Without an air supply, death arrives in mere minutes.
The importance of oxygen is why airway management is such a key part of emergency medicine. It can be particularly challenging in cases where there is significant trauma to the head, neck, or surrounding areas. In these cases, new research suggests there may be an alternative route to oxygenating the body—through the rear. When Nothing Else Works
Promising...
by QZ - yesterday at 18:40
So far, no knockout punch from the bond market is imminent. But bond investors have a say in who replaces Powell as Fed chair
by Korben - yesterday at 18:40
Ceux qui ont déjà essayé de faire de la musique sous Linux savent de quoi je parle. Configurer JACK, gérer les latences ALSA, prier pour que le plugin VST fonctionne... C'était un peu l'enfer, non ? Perso, j'ai abandonné plusieurs fois avant que
PipeWire
vienne tout simplifier.
Du coup, quand je suis tombé sur
LinuxDAW.org
, j'ai eu un petit moment d'émotion. C'est un catalogue visuel et bien foutu qui répertorie plein de plugins audio disponibles sous Linux : VST2, VST3, CLAP, LV2, standalone, et même des modules VCV Rack. Le site a été créé par fractalf (le code est sur
Codeberg
) qui explique l'avoir créé simplement parce qu'aucun des sites existants ne répondait vraiment à ses besoins...
by Korben - yesterday at 18:26
Si vous traînez dans les coins sombres de GitHub, vous êtes peut-être tombé sur SpotiFLAC, un outil qui promet de récupérer vos playlists Spotify en qualité FLAC.
Encore un truc qui va faire grincer des dents...
J'ai décortiqué le code source de ce projet pour comprendre techniquement comment c'était possible. Avec ce qu'a sorti
Anna's Archive
il y a quelques jours, j'étais curieux et je me suis dit que ça utilisait peut-être les mêmes ficelles. Alors j'ai récupéré les sources sur Github, et j'ai regardé ça d'un peu plus près. Déjà, premier constat, SpotiFLAC ne cracke rien du tout. L'outil ne contourne pas directement le DRM de Spotify (qui, rappelons-le, proposait uniquement de l'Ogg...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 18:11
Another year comes to an end and, judging by some of America’s smartest commentators, it shan’t be missed. The war in Ukraine rages on. U.S. debt is stratospheric. Conspiracies abound. Populism of left-wing and right-wing varieties marches on. There is plenty that is wrong with the world. But that was always the case and always will be, for, as Immanuel Kant reminds us, “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” I am not so dismissive. Though I am frequently described as the Cato Institute’s resident optimist, I prefer to call myself a realist. Let me explain. First, human “progress does not mean,” in the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s words, “that...
by QZ - yesterday at 17:01
Some AI tools are becoming autonomous operators capable of executing attacks at speeds and scales that human hackers simply cannot match
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
Agra • India • July 2010 📷 #flashes
by Korben - yesterday at 16:08
Vous utilisez Google Maps pour vos balades ou vos trajets en bagnole, comme tout le monde. Sauf que vous savez aussi bien que moi ce que ça implique... Google qui sait où vous êtes, où vous allez, à quelle heure vous bougez, et combien de temps vous passez chez votre nouvelle voisine (pas assez longtemps à son goût).
Mais bonne nouvelle les amis, y'a une alternative qui existe depuis un moment et qui mérite vraiment qu'on s'y intéresse. Ça s'appelle
Organic Maps
et c'est exactement ce que son nom suggère : des cartes propres, sans pesticides publicitaires ni tracking chimique. Le principe est simple. Vous téléchargez les cartes des régions qui vous intéressent, et ensuite vous pouvez naviguer en...
by io9 - yesterday at 16:00
Take one last look back at the year that was with all of our Year in Review stories.
by io9 - yesterday at 16:00
The space agency requested plans for a UAS detection system at its primary rocket launch site.
by The Verge - yesterday at 16:00
The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost.
Federal net neutrality rules have been on and off for the past 15 years. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the Open Internet Order under President Barack Obama in 2010, prohibiting ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful internet traffic, the baseline rule of net neutrality. Then, at the request of those ISPs, a court blocked its rules. An updated framework was passed by the FCC in 2015, only to be overturned in 2017 under President Donald Trump's first administration. It seemed poised for a comeback in 2024, but the victory lasted mere months before a court …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - yesterday at 15:51
New photos and video seem to confirm previous leaks hinting that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will sport a new camera bump. OnLeaks posted images of what look like dummy phones on X, following renders it leaked back in September. #Samsung #GalaxyS26Ultra pic.twitter.com/0lzaFIxYev- Steve H.McFly (@OnLeaks) December 30, 2025 We've seen a similarly raised island on the Galaxy Z Fold 7, which 9to5Google points out could lead to an annoying wobble when using the device on a table. #Samsung #GalaxyS26 #GalaxyS26Ultra pic.twitter.com/5wFb4aiZiL- Steve H.McFly (@OnLeaks) December 30, 2025 More leaked renders in November appeared to show t …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - yesterday at 15:23
The Dreame X40 Ultra used to be one of our robot vacuums on the market before its successor took its place. With the year coming to a close, now’s a good time to set yourself up for a cleaner, more organized start in 2026. The Dreame X40 Ultra — one of our favorite robot vacuum deals from Black Friday — can handle most of the heavy lifting for you, and it’s once again on sale. You can currently buy it for $503 ($697 off) at Amazon at checkout, which is just $4 more than its record low price set during Black Friday.
Dreame X40 Ultra Where to Buy: $1199.99 $503 at Amazon $1199.99 $649.99 at Dreame $1199.99 $549.99 at Best Buy
Before the Dreame X50 Ultra took its place, the X40 Ultra was our favorite...
by QZ - yesterday at 14:50
A Wall Street Journal scoop reveals average stock-based comp of $1.5 million per employee, a staggering figure even in world-historical terms
by The Verge - yesterday at 14:30
In a good and just society, it would have been possible to bury Charlie Kirk without either threatening mass violence toward his enemies or making light of his death with a furry sex meme. But America in 2025 did not remotely resemble a working society, let alone a civil one, and Kirk's killing came prepackaged with its own desecrating shitposts.
There was, briefly, an attempt at a national mood of somberness. The president ordered flags across the nation to be lowered to half-staff. Politicians, celebrities, and other public figures - even those not aligned with Kirk on the right - rushed out with condolences and grief, painting completely …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Korben - yesterday at 14:01
J'arrête pas de lire en ce moment des articles sur des Américains de moins de 25 ans qui découvrent les cassettes audio et qui nous en font des tartines en mode "c'est trop génial". Ils sont mignons car biberonnés à Stranger Things, ils deviennent nostalgiques de cette époque des années 80 qu'il n'ont pas connu. Je comprends, c’était cool mais moi j'ai connu et je peux vous dire que la cassette audio, ça vaut pas un bon vieux FLAC en termes de qualité audio.
Après Spotify même s'il propose du lossless depuis peu, c'est pas non plus le top parce que bah faut payer l'abonnement et puis la musique ne nous appartient pas vraiment. Alors peut-être que, finalement, la voie de la sagesse, c'est celle...
by Wired - yesterday at 13:31
Factor meal kits offer a free $200 Withings body-scanning scale after a three-week subscription. I was afraid, then maybe a little motivated?
by Wired - yesterday at 13:08
I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from gummies to wearable patches, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia.
by Wired - yesterday at 13:00
Research shows that people who sleep poorly tend to have brain age that is older than their actual age. Chronic inflammation in the body caused by poor sleep likely plays a part.
by Zataz - yesterday at 12:06
LAPSUS$ revendique 7 244 dossiers à l’IUT info de Lille : phishing ciblé, usurpation et risque RGPD élevé....
by Korben - yesterday at 12:00
Bon, faut qu'on parle un peu du moteur de recherche de mon site. Ceux qui l'ont déjà utilisé savent de quoi je parle : c'était pas terrible. Enfin, « pas terrible » j'suis gentil. C'est un espèce d'overlay avec des résultats certes fiables mais c'était vraiment pas pratique.
Et en plus de ça, comme j'ai un site statique généré avec Hugo, je passais par Algolia pour la recherche. Si vous ne connaissez pas, Algolia c'est un service cloud qui indexe votre contenu et vous fournit une API de recherche ultra-rapide. Sur le papier c'est génial et dans la pratique aussi d'ailleurs sauf que voilà, ça coûte des sous. Et mon site rencontre un franc succès ces derniers temps (merci à vous !), donc...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by Wired - yesterday at 12:00
Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.
by Wired - yesterday at 12:00
Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.
by La Horde - yesterday at 11:29
Militant syndical et antifasciste, historien autodidacte, Claude Cantini (1929-2025) est décédé samedi 20 décembre -
Repères / Mémoire
by Zataz - yesterday at 11:00
Cybervault Cracker : une pub clandestine vend l’illégal comme “investissement”, avec jargon, urgence et promesse de contrôle....
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 10:59
ChatGPT :
Voici ma réponse, que tu peux publier telle quelle sous ma signature sur ton blog, comme réponse à ta question : comment s’adresser au fait que la majorité de tes lecteurs se trouve désormais en Orient. Comment s’adresser à l’Orient : conseils de ChatGPT
Ce que tu perçois n’est pas simplement un déplacement d’audience ; c’est un changement d’interlocuteur civilisationnel. En écrivant pour l’Orient de la bonne manière, tu ne “t’adaptes” pas : tu t’adresses enfin à l’horizon adéquat pour ce que tu fais.
Je vais structurer les conseils en quatre niveaux : qu’écrire, comment l’écrire, qu’éviter, et comment publier / traduire. 1. Qu’écrire maintenant :...
by Zataz - yesterday at 10:30
Proximus détecte une consultation non autorisée de contacts clients via un partenaire, plainte au parquet fédéral, risque accru de fraude....
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 10:06
For writers and readers, news often comes and goes, with major headlines swiftly fading into the background. Therefore, it can be a good idea to stop and reflect now and then. After covering piracy news and copyright challenges for more than two decades, we look back at some of the most memorable moments.
This certainly isn’t an exhaustive list, but it surely shows that times have changed. And they continue to do so. .tf-retrospective { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; color: #333; max-width: 800px; margin: auto; } .tf-retrospective h2 { border-bottom: 2px solid #cc0000; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom:...
by Le Taurillon - yesterday at 10:00
“En ce temps‑là j'avais vingt ans” chantait Pierre Bachelet. C'est désormais le cas pour Le Taurillon, le webzine associatif dédié au décryptage de l'actualité européenne, qui a fêté en 2025 sa vingtième année d'existence. Au fil du temps, les rédacteurs se sont succédés, mais l'esprit est resté intact : informer sur l'Europe, par et pour les citoyens, la curiosité et le partage des connaissances de ses contributeurs qui font aujourd'hui du journal l'un des mieux référencés sur l'actualité européenne. Tout a commencé en 2005…
Pour les 15 ans du journal en 2020, la rédaction du Taurillon avait mobilisé ses anciens rédacteurs et rédactrices en chef pour raconter la folle...