He wouldn't turn it down, though—Todd Phillips did get a nod for 'Joker,' after all.

Kyrylo Budanov has led the Hur military intelligence, which has claimed a number of highly-effective strikes against Russia.

A new class action claims the rapper helped promote an online casino and allegedly used the site to fund bot farms to boost music streaming numbers.

At least 64 cases in 22 states have been identified so far, though the true toll is "likely much higher," CDC health officials say.

In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it’s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not so much in one country as “the internet”. In any case, [LiamTronix] was feeling those cancer rays this harvest season when running his electric tractor, and realized that– since he’s already charging it with ground-mounted solar panels anyway–if he’s going to build a roof for his ride, he might as well make charge the batteries.
Another bonus is safety: the old Massey-Ferguson at the heart of the electric tractor build didn’t come with any rollover protection from the factory back in the 1960s. Since having however many tons of tractor roll onto you was bad enough before it got a...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Au moins huit manifestants ont été tués, 119 arrêtés et 33 blessés depuis le début du mouvement de protestation, le 28 décembre 2025, selon des organisations de défense des droits de l’homme. Les forces de sécurité intensifient leurs opérations dans les provinces du Fars, Lorestan, Ispahan, Tchaharmahal-et-Bakhtiari.

The investigation into the fire that killed 40 people will consider whether criminal prosecutions are necessary, officials said.

Welcome to the circle.

xAI's Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week's rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster's permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to have few guardrails in place for preventing anything short of full explicit nudity. In the last few days, X has been flooded with imagery of women and children appearing pregnant, skirtless, wearing a bikini, or in other sexualized situations. World leaders and celebrities, too, have had their likenesses used in im …
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Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for the theft of billions of dollars in Bitcoin, hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is free. Lichtenstein announced his release in a post on X, specifically crediting Trump: "Thanks to President Trump's First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. I remain committed to making a positive impact in cybersecurity as soon as I can." Thanks to President Trump's First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. I remain committed to making a positive impact in cybersecurity as soon as I can.To the supporters, thank you for everything.To the haters, I look forward to proving yo …
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Le président ukrainien a annoncé vendredi son intention de remplacer son ministre de la défense par Mykhaïlo Fedorov, actuel ministre de la transformation numérique, âgé de seulement 34 ans.

A device smaller than a grain of dust may help unlock the kind of quantum computers people have only dreamed about. Built on a standard microchip and almost 100 times thinner than a human hair, this new component gives scientists precise control over laser light using a fraction of the power older tools need. The work comes from a team led by Jake Freedman, an incoming PhD student in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, professor Matt Eichenfield, the Karl Gustafson Endowed Chair in Quantum Engineering, and collaborators at Sandia National Laboratories, including co-senior author Nils Otterstrom. Together, they designed an optical phase modulator that is not just tiny, but practical...

The star discusses some of her demanding roles from decades of filmmaking.

Bonjour ! Voici le plan détaillé du cours magistral de droit constitutionnel (groupe 2 / L1 / semestre II) enseigné par le pr. Touzeil-Divina à l’Université Toulouse Capitole de janvier à avril 2026 :

Professional development doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. These strategies cost little to nothing — and could add thousands to your paycheck

Illustration par ChatGPT C’est l’opinion unanime ces jours-ci : en matière de programmation, Claude Code est imbattable. Visionnez la vidéo : les meilleurs programmeurs humains ont jeté l’éponge.
Quel est le défi alors pour les concepteurs de GENESIS (Jean-Baptiste Auxiètre et P.J.) à l’aube de l’année nouvelle ? Eh bien, n’hésitons pas : demandons à Claude Code où nous en sommes.
Ce que vous pouvez légitimement affirmer à propos de GENESIS Date : 2 janvier 2026 Objectif : Évaluation objective des contributions réelles de GENESIS État d’avancement : Basé sur une revue de code, des tests et une analyse théorique Résumé exécutif
GENESIS est un cadre légitime pour détecter...

La perturbation neigeuse doit traverser la région Grand Est dès vendredi soir ; la grande majorité du pays est placée samedi en vigilance jaune par Météo-France.

In 2020, interest payments on the national debt totaled $345 billion. Now that amount has just about tripled

China's BYD is now the world's biggest electric vehicle maker, after Tesla sales shrank for the second year in a row under Musk's leadership

Le bilan pourrait encore évoluer, a prévenu la police suisse. Beaucoup de blessés, parmi lesquels figurent 14 ressortissants français, ont été hospitalisés en France, Italie et Allemagne.

Families are appealing for information about children as young as 15 who are thought to have been at the bar.

It was a record-breaking year for the 500 wealthiest people, proving the extent to which it literally pays to be rich

Je suis né en 1982. Et si vous êtes né dans ces eaux-là, vous allez comprendre chaque ligne de ce qui suit. Mais si vous avez débarqué sur Terre après l'an 2000, alors accrochez-vous, parce que ce que je vais vous raconter va vous sembler aussi exotique qu'un documentaire sur les hommes préhistoriques, sauf que c'était y'a 35-40 ans, et pas 35 000 ans...
Mais avant, je vous préviens... cet article n'est PAS un "c'était mieux avant" de vieux con nostalgique. Perso, j'adore l'époque actuelle avec nos IA, nos voitures autonomes, Internet, nos ordis qui font des trucs de dingue et nos dirigeants pervers narcissiques psychopathes.
Mais je constate de plus en plus que les moins de 25 ans n'ont aucune...

As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as what you want is another Android device.
Running Home Assistant on an Echo Show 8 with LineageOS.
In this case, we’re talking about the first-generation Amazon Echo Show 8, which is a 2019-era device that got jailbroken back in November by [Rortiz2]. The process was then demonstrated in a video by [Dammit Jeff].
Currently only two devices are supported by this jailbreak, with the Echo Show 5 being the other one. If there’s enough interest, there doesn’t appear to be any technical reason at least for why this support couldn’t be...

The US president says "we will come to their rescue" after days of demonstrations and clashes.

BYD a vendu plus de 600 000 voitures électriques de plus que Tesla dans le monde en 2025, s’imposant comme le numéro un mondial de l’électrification automobile. Ses ventes progressent alors que celles de Tesla ont reculé de 9 %.

Tanning beds promise a quick glow, but a new study says the real cost is written deep into your skin. Researchers have found that young indoor tanners carry genetic damage in their skin cells that looks decades older than their age, and that damage includes mutations known to lead to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Early Aging Written in Skin The research, led by scientists at UC San Francisco and Northwestern University, compares the skin of indoor tanners in their 30s and 40s with people in their 70s and 80s who never used tanning beds. The results are blunt. “We found that tanning bed users in their 30s and 40s had even more mutations than people in the general population who were in their...

Elliot was of at Europe’s largest hacker convention: Chaos Communication Congress. He had an awesome time, saw more projects than you might think humanely possible, and got the flu. But he pulled through and put this audio tourbook for you.
So if you’ve never been to CCC, give it a listen! In the far future, all the cool kids will be downloading MP3s of their favorite podcasts.
Where to Follow Hackaday PodcastPlaces to follow Hackaday podcasts: iTunes Spotify Stitcher RSS YouTube Check out our Libsyn landing page What’s That Sound If you think you know what the mystery sound was this week, give us your best guess for a chance at a Hackaday Podcast t-shirt.

Il s’agit probablement du plus grand scandale concernant un musée de l’empire du Milieu ces dernières années. Une peinture offerte par la famille de grands collectionneurs Pang au musée de Nankin il y a soixante-six ans s’est retrouvée sur le catalogue d’une grande maison de vente aux enchères à Pékin, mise à prix 88 millions de yuans. L’opinion publique s’enflamme, craignant que le cas soit loin d’être isolé.

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Après la pause parlementaire, les députés et les sénateurs s’apprêtent à reprendre le chemin de leurs hémicycles respectifs, lundi 5 janvier. Près de deux semaines après l’adoption de la loi spéciale pour éviter le blocage financier de l’État, les parlementaires plancheront tout le mois de janvier sur le budget 2026. Avec les élections municipales qui se rapprochent, “la tâche va se complexifier”, préviennent les médias espagnols.

They’re cutesy, emblazoned with monikers and logos, and part of the growing phenomenon of people treating their domestic spaces and personal "brands" as interconnected.There’s a theory of restaurants (popularized by restaurant industry expert Ben Leventhal) that every restaurant wants, in its restaurant heart, to be either a nightclub or a diner. My friend Alison Thurston—who loves dinner parties and thrifting for home decor and analyzing the people we know as much as I do—and I have developed our own theory of homes: Every home, in its home heart, either wants to be a sanctuary or a restaurant. (Binaries are as false as they are useful frameworks, and sometimes they’re very fun.) Sanctuary homes...

La vague de protestation contre l’hyperinflation et le pouvoir a pris un tour violent. Au moins six manifestants sont morts après des affrontements avec les forces de l’ordre, le jeudi 1er janvier, poussant Donald Trump à s’exprimer publiquement. Les médias iraniens sont divisés entre ceux qui minimisent et diabolisent les manifestations et ceux qui appellent les autorités à répondre à la colère.

Un développeur présumé d’un kit de phishing "as a service" RaccoonO365 arrêté après des renseignements venus de Microsoft et d’agences américaines. Derrière l’interpellation, une économie criminelle structurée....

La Thrace, région reculée du nord-est de la Grèce, abrite les Pomaks, appartenant à la minorité musulmane du pays. Début 2023, “New Lines Magazine” publiait un reportage du journaliste Alex Sakalis, qui est allé à la rencontre des habitants de ces majestueuses montagnes, longtemps coupées du reste du pays.

Ploutus : 54 pirates de distributeurs de billets arrêtés. Le gang Tren de Aragua montré du doigt....

Nefilim : un affilié plaide coupable à New York, risque 10 ans de prison. La justice offre 11 millions pour attraper un complice....

July 2010 📷 #flashes

Now that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has appointed a new CEO to run Microsoft's biggest businesses, he has a little more time on his hands for other adventures. Beyond focusing on Microsoft's technical work, Nadella is now turning to the ancient art of blogging to discuss Microsoft's year ahead and why he thinks everyone needs to move "beyond the arguments of [AI] slop vs sophistication."
Nadella's first blog entry in "sn scratchpad" is all about Microsoft and other AI companies still needing to get a bunch of stuff right with AI. Chief among them is creating a new concept for AI that evolves the "bicycles for the mind" concept that Steve J …
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Raye “Where Is My Husband?”
I heard “Where Is My Husband” at least a dozen times at the gym before I knew what it was, and because I was preoccupied, didn’t have my phone on me, and couldn’t make out any of the lyrics, I couldn’t easily look it up or Shazam it. It immediately caught my attention because I’ve been hoping for years – nearly multiple decades – that the huge hyperkinetic go-go Rich Harrison drum sound from Amerie’s “1 Thing,” Beyoncé’s “Crazy In Love,” and Missy Elliott’s “Can’t Stop” would come back in style. It’s here and back on the charts, but this time around it’s the work of the young producer Mike Sabath rather than Harrison. (I hope Harrison...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more intricate. Deep inside the skull, entire networks of cells quietly hand off control across the day, like shifts of workers trading places on a factory floor. An international team led by the University of Michigan has mapped which parts of the brain are active at different times of day, down to the level of single cells, in mice. Their work offers a rare, global view of how activity moves through the brain as animals wake, stay up, and finally sleep. Tracking a Day in the Life of a Brain The project started with a deceptively simple goal: understand fatigue. Senior author Daniel...

The Pebble Round 2 (pictured here in rose gold) ditches the OG Time Round’s chunky display bezel. It's time to reboot another OG Pebble smartwatch - specifically, the round-faced Time Round, which is getting a follow-up more than a decade after its original launch. The new Pebble Round 2 improves upon its predecessor with longer battery life and a larger 1.3-inch touchscreen display, ditching the chunky bezel that surrounded the original Time Round's 1-inch screen.
The Pebble Round 2 works with iOS and Android devices and is available to preorder for $199, with shipping expected in May. This is the latest Pebble smartwatch to be relaunched by original Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky's new company, Core...

This GE Profile fridge has a patented “Scan-to-List” barcode scanner built in, designed to make it easy to add items to a digital shopping list. Have you always wanted to scan your groceries at home? If so, the newest smart fridge from GE Appliances is for you. There's a barcode scanner built into the water dispenser that works along with an interior camera and an 8-inch tablet to help you keep track of what food you need and add it to your digital shopping list. The GE Profile Smart 4-Door French-Door Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant is being announced at CES 2026, which kicks off next week, and is slated to launch in April for $4,899 - $500 more than a comparable non-Kitchen Assistant model.
A demo of...

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO as well as various networking protocols. And as the platform has improved over the years, we’ve seen more demanding applications on them as well as applications that use an incredibly small amount of power. This project combines all of these improvements and implements a media streaming server on a Raspberry Pi that uses a tiny amount of energy, something that wouldn’t have been possible on the first generations of Pi.
Part of the reason this server uses such low power, coming in just around two watts, is that it’s based on the Pi Zero 2W. It’s running a piece of software called...

The powerful Gulf allies back rival sides in an escalating conflict which threatens to divide Yemen.

Full-year electric vehicle sales figures have dropped for 2025, revealing China’s BYD is now officially global top dog.

Saisie d’un domaine lié à du vol de données de connexion : 14,6 millions d'euros volés. La fraude passait par des pubs Google/Bing....

Arnaque crypto : plusieurs fausses entreprises montrées du doigt par la justice. 12 millions d'euros envolés....

Vous vous souvenez quand Nintendo a sorti son mode VR pour Breath of the Wild ? Le truc avec les Labo VR Goggles en carton ? Bon, c'était de la stéréo 3D avec suivi de mouvements de tête, mais franchement l'expérience était tellement limitée que pour beaucoup de joueurs, ça ressemblait plus à une démo technique qu'à un vrai mode VR.
Hé bien un moddeur a décidé de faire les choses sérieusement, et le résultat est très impressionnant. BetterVR transforme Breath of the Wild en véritable expérience VR
Le projet s'appelle BetterVR et c'est exactement ce que ça veut dire. Fini les limitations du mode Nintendo Labo, ici on parle de vrai rendu stéréo en 6DOF (six degrés de liberté) avec support...

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central finding of a new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including Alex K. Shalek of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. The senior team also includes Ömer Yilmaz, an MIT biology associate professor and Koch Institute member, and Wolfram Goessling, co-director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Their work, published in Cell, traces how chronic metabolic stress can make hepatocytes, the liver’s main workhorse cells, behave more like immature cells that are...

Et si l'OS lui-même ÉTAIT le jeu ?
C'est exactement le concept derrière
Aurora OS.js
, un projet open source complètement barré qui simule un système d'exploitation complet dans votre navigateur... avec des mécaniques de jeu de hacking intégrées. Le truc, c'est que ce n'est pas juste une démo technique. Aurora OS.js embarque un vrai système de fichiers virtuel avec stockage persistant, un terminal avec des commandes type Linux (ls, cd, cat, mkdir...), un gestionnaire de fenêtres, un bloc-notes avec coloration syntaxique, et toute une architecture modulaire pour les applications. Bref, ça ressemble à un vrai OS, ça se comporte comme un vrai OS, mais ça tourne dans un onglet de votre...

There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial culture, we want to make hay 24/7 and not be at the whims of some capricious weather god! Alas, renewable energy puts a crimp in that. Once again, energy supplies are slowly becoming tied to the sun and the wind.
Since “Make compute while the wind blows” doesn’t have a great ring to it, clearly our civilization needs to come up with some grid-scale storage. Over in Sardinia they’re testing an idea that sounds like hot air, but isn’t — because the working gas is CO2. 
The principle is simple: when power is available, carbon dioxide is...

We clocked thousands of test miles to bring you the best running shoes for every pace, ability, and running goal.

The next generation of noise reduction is currently being developed in R&D labs around the world. Take a look at what's to come.

Here are the best meal kits in 2026, from Martha Stewart’s meal kit to the best meal delivery on a budget.

Back pain is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. Recent research reveals how much time you should spend walking on a daily basis to prevent it.

In Belgium, the Department for Combating Online Infringement is responsible for overseeing the local pirate site blocking efforts. The department reviews injunctions from the Business Court in Brussels and translates these into concrete blockade implementation orders.
The first blockade of this kind was announced in April 2025 and predominantly targeted sports streaming websites. Notably, however, these blocking requirements were not limited to ISPs; they also compelled DNS resolvers to comply. These DNS resolvers, including Google and Cloudflare, were not pleased, and Cisco’s OpenDNS even went as far as stopping its service in Belgium to avoid having to meddle with DNS. This backlash apparently struck a...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

In Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s latest drama, set in and around a Belgian maternity home, several teen-age moms seek to break through cycles of poverty, addiction, and neglect.