« A l’intersection des rues » (2/3). Au gré des débats politiques, le nom des espaces publics change et de nouvelles personnalités sont mises en valeur. Depuis 2020, des militants et des responsables politiques interpellent les mairies pour faire débaptiser des noms de lieux liés au passé colonial ou, à défaut, donner des clés de contextualisation.

The US president says several European allies opposed to his plans to buy Greenland will face 10% tariffs from February.

La jeune femme est morte après une attaque de drone sur une maison. Par ailleurs, des négociateurs ukrainiens sont aux Etats-Unis pour des pourparlers avec Steve Witkoff, l’émissaire de Donald Trump, et Jared Kushner, gendre du président américain, visant à mettre fin au conflit avec la Russie.

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Un glissement autoritaire est en cours outre-Atlantique, et les Américains semblent incapables de réagir. Il est temps de s’en rendre compte et de résister à la tyrannie, argue le journaliste et essayiste George Packer dans les colonnes du magazine “The Atlantic”.

Chaque semaine, la chronique phénomène du “New York Times” sur l’amour vous est proposée en exclusivité, traduite en français par “Courrier international”. Aujourd’hui, le récit d’une rencontre que rien ne prédestinait à devenir un grand amour, surtout pas la grande différence d’âge entre ses protagonistes.

Dimanche 18 janvier, à Rabat, la finale de la Coupe d’Afrique des nations (CAN) de football opposera le Maroc au Sénégal, deux nations qui ont adopté le lion comme emblème. La presse africaine s’émerveille de cette affiche aux allures de “bataille de fauves”, dernier épisode d’un tournoi où les favoris auront répondu présent.

Les divergences politiques s’invitent de plus en plus brutalement dans la sphère intime au Portugal. Familles divisées, amitiés brisées, silences pesants autour de la table : à l’approche de la présidentielle du dimanche 18 janvier, une enquête de l’hebdomadaire “Expresso” a mis en lumière la montée du phénomène de “polarisation affective” et ses effets dévastateurs sur les relations personnelles.

Part of any self-respecting Smart Home, smart relays are useful for switching and monitoring loads that do not plug into an outlet. This also makes them a lot more integrated, and thus, a long lifespan is very welcome. Unfortunately, the popular Shelly 2.5 smart relays seem to be having a bit of a design flaw as they’re dying in droves once their 2-year warranty period is up. The cause and repair are covered in a recent [VoltLog] video on YouTube.
As noted in the Shelly documentation for the device, it’s a very compact form factor device, with screw terminals, two relays, and three fairly large electrolytic capacitors sharing very little space with the rest of the components. The apparent flaw comes in the...

L’incident est arrivé rue Amelot alors qu’une cinquantaine de personnes étaient réunies pour une soirée. Selon les premières constatations, l’effondrement est « structurel » et n’est pas lié à une fuite de gaz.

Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes from a European team led by astronomers at University College London and Cardiff University, using a new spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope. The object is the Ring Nebula, also called NGC 6720 and M 57. It sits about 2,600 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. It formed roughly 4,000 years ago, after a sunlike star swelled into a red giant and cast off its outer gas. That ejected material now glows as it expands; astronomers call this short-lived phase a planetary nebula. Lead author Dr Roger Wesson, based jointly at UCL’s Department of Physics & Astronomy and...

There’s a famous book that starts: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good e-ink display, must be in want of a weather station.” — or something like that, anyway. We’re not English majors. We are, however, major fans of this feline-based e-ink weather display by [Jesse Ward-Bond]. It’s got everything: e-ink, cats, and AI.
The generated image needs a little massaging to look nice on the Spectra6 e-ink display.
AI? Well, it might seem a bit gratuitous for a simple weather display, but [Jesse] wanted something a little more personalized and dynamic than just icons. With that in the design brief, he turned to Google’s Nano Banana API, feeding it the forecast and a...

J’interviens lorsque des systèmes technologiques, organisationnels ou cognitifs fonctionnent sans être pleinement compris.
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In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides.

An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.

For the 'Magic' fans, Secret Lair is dropping some new 'Fallout'-themed card packs at the end of the month.

A bucket of liquid plastic that never hardens sounds like a fantasy in a factory. It is also the kind of problem that drives real-world waste, delays, and safety risks. Chemists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev say they found a new way around it, and they did it by moving the “on switch” into the material itself. Their work, describes a “smart” polymer system designed to stay quiet for weeks, then harden only when you decide. The team says the approach could simplify industrial curing, 3D printing, and repairs while cutting energy use and reducing risky handling. For decades, many researchers tried to control curing by designing “sleeping” catalysts. Those catalysts sit dormant until triggered...

Press brakes are invaluable tools when working with sheet metal, but along with their almost infinite versatility comes a dizzying number of press brake types. After starting with an old-school, purely mechanical press brake, [Wes] of Watch Wes Work fame had been thinking of upgrading said press brake to a hydraulic configuration, but soured on this after facing all the disadvantages of the chosen approach. Thus, one does what any rational person does and purchases a used and very much untested 45-ton computer-controlled hydraulic press brake.
The video first explores the pros and cons of the various types of press brakes, with the issue of providing a balanced force across the entirety of the press brake’s...

Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval.

The legal order comes ahead of planned weekend protests and counter protests in the city amid ongoing immigration enforcement actions.

Le président américain a promis, samedi, d’appliquer ⁠une vague de droits de douane de plus en plus élevés contre plusieurs de ses alliés européens, dont la France, jusqu’à ce que les Etats-Unis soient autorisés à racheter le territoire autonome danois. Un coup de canif de plus dans l’Alliance transatlantique.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says some deaths were “inhuman” and “savage” but blames the US.

A very cool new way to stress test your $4600 camera.

Une cérémonie a eu lieu samedi à Ajaccio, réunissant plus de 200 personnes, cinq jours après l’assassinat de l’ancien leader nationaliste, réputé proche du milieu, lors de l’enterrement de sa mère.

Numbers speak louder than words, and in this case, Netflix will still get dibs on Sony's movie slate for years to come.

La présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, a paraphé, samedi 17 janvier, le traité de libre-échange en discussion depuis 1999 entre les grands pays d’Amérique du Sud et les Vingt-Sept. Une très longue affaire, ponctuée d’avancées et d’échecs, qui n’a cessé de déchaîner passions et oppositions.

Wise words. "Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!"
That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the current administration. Apparently, Disney either couldn't handle the anti-fascist messaging of its own movies or was too afraid of pissing off the powers that be, because it quickly deleted the post. Thankfully, one resourceful Threads user recorded it for posterity, reminding us that yes, the human world is, i …
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$134 billion, with more to come.

When it comes to designing a mopping robot, there are a number of approaches you can pick from, including just having the movement of the robot push the soggy mop over the floor, having spinning pads, or even a big spinning roller. But what difference does it make? Recently the [Vacuum Wars] channel ran a comparison to find out the answer.
The two spinning pad design is interesting, because it allows for the bot to move closer to objects or walls, and the base station doesn’t need the active scrubber that the simple static pad requires. The weakness of both types of flat mop design is that they are quickly saturated with dirt and moisture, after which they’ll happily smear it over the floor.
The spinning...

Devinette du soir : Qu’est-ce qui est pire qu'un secret que vous avez oublié de cacher ?
Réponse : Des dizaines, des millions de secrets qui traînent sur GitHub parce que quelqu'un a eu la flemme de configurer un vrai gestionnaire de variables d'environnement !
Hé oui, les amis ! On a tous fait cette boulette au moins une fois (ou alors vous mentez, ou vous êtes un robot). On crée un petit fichier .env, on oublie de le rajouter au .gitignore, et paf, vos clés AWS se retrouvent à poil. Selon GitHub, c'est plus de 39 millions de secrets qui ont été détectés en fuite sur leurs dépôts en 2024. C'est du délire ! Envmap - Le gestionnaire de variables d'environnement qui tue les fichiers .env...

Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices, it couldn't make users actually embrace them. MacPaw, the Ukrainian developer behind the subscription-based Setapp, posted on a support page that it would be sunsetting the service next month and users would lose access to any apps: Important: Setapp Mobile sunset notice
Setapp Mobile is scheduled to sunset on February 16, 2026, due to still-evolving and complex business terms that don't fit Setapp's current busi …
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After many years of delays, plans that changed, and public criticism, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now on track to open. The $1B museum created by filmmaker George Lucas and investor Mel Odysseus Hobson is set to open in Los Angeles Exposition Park to the public on September 22, 2026. The museum will welcome visitors into a space created to illustrate stories and visual narratives that are part of everyday life. Hobson has stated the purpose of the museum clearly in announcing its upcoming opening date: “This is a museum of the people’s art. The images we have in our minds today illustrate how we live our lives.” She continued, “For this reason, this art does belong to everyone.” The museum...

Les gars de chez LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) sont des bons ! De vrais spécialistes en sécurité informatique qui ont pondu un outil à essayer si vous passez vos journées dans les entrailles des binaires.
Ça s'appelle OGhidra
, et c'est une extension qui fait le pont entre le célèbre framework de reverse engineering Ghidra et la puissance des modèles de langage (LLM).
Comme ça, plutôt que de vous péter les yeux sur des milliers de lignes de code décompilé, vous pouvez simplement "discuter" avec les fonctions ou les strings extraites. Grâce à une intégration avec Ollama, OGhidra permet d'interroger les représentations du binaire en langage naturel pour identifier des...

France • November 2016 📷 #flashes

Small footprint. Speedy performance. | Image: The Verge Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “Winter Sale,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-so-good to legitimately great, at least for this time of year. We’ll be publishing many of the highlights in a dedicated news post tomorrow, though, per usual, not all of this week’s best deals revolve around Best Buy. Apple’s M4 Mac Mini, for instance, is receiving a $100 discount at Amazon and B&H Photo, while LG’s 65-inch C5 OLED TV is on sale at eBay for a little over a grand. There are also steep savings to be had on 45W power banks, the Beats Fit Pro, and more, so let’s dive in. Mac Mini with M4...

TV varies dramatically in informing viewers about medical emergencies, but it also teaches audiences how not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). As part of a new study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, researchers found that existing portrayals of CPR across scripted television in the U.S. depict many outdated practices. These practices could mislead viewers when confronted with an actual cardiac arrest and cause them to delay responding with the lifesaving action they would have otherwise taken. This research, which appears in the journal Circulation: Population Health and Outcomes, is the first to comprehensively...

My son went over to a friends house this afternoon, when my wife had been planning on helping him with his French homework. This meant she had an hour or so of unexpected free time. Momentarily at a loss, she asked me what she should do, and my reply was “slack off”, meaning do something fun and creative instead of doing housework or whatever. Take a break! She jokingly replied that slacking off wasn’t on her to-do list, so she wouldn’t even know how to start.
But as with every joke, there’s more than a kernel of truth to it. We often get so busy with stuff that we’ve got to do, that we don’t leave enough time to slack, to get bored, or to simply do nothing. And that’s a pity, because...

While Hollywood has repeatedly tried adapting stories from Japanese manga, vanishingly few of them have been as good as Edge of Tomorrow - Warner Bros.' 2014 live-action film based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's sci-fi light novel All You Need Is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow wasn't a one-to-one translation of All You Need Is Kill's original story or its manga adaptation by Takeshi Obata, Ryosuke Takeuchi, and Yoshitoshi Abe. The movie was more militaristic and focused on humanity rallying against an alien invasion.
But Edge of Tomorrow understood that what made its source material so powerful was its imaginative exploration of what it means to be tenaci …
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Whatever the concerns and complexities, it remains the only plan in town, with many world leaders pledging to support it, writes John Sudworth.

While playing Big Hops, a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game - and, like with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, breaking it is kind of the point.
In Big Hops, you play as a frog named Hop. Early on, Hop is taken away from his home, and he works to get back by collecting airship parts from a few different areas, each with its own cute animal characters and storylines. Because he's a frog, the primary way you interact with things is by slinging his tongue. You can use it to grab pots to toss and break them for coins, as a grappling hook to reach new areas, and to snag foods with s …
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Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, orderly disc, yet it had largely stopped making new stars. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers now say they have one of the clearest early-universe examples of a “dead” galaxy, and a new clue about how galaxies can fade without a violent crash. The galaxy is called GS-10578, but researchers also call it “Pablo’s Galaxy,” after the astronomer who first studied it in detail. Led by the University of Cambridge, the team reports that the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole likely shut down star birth through...

Need an ultrafast drive for video editing or a rugged option to back up your photos in the field? We’ve got a solution for every situation.

I put two viral Paris Hilton-branded kitchen products to the test. I have some thoughts.

Fallout, The Girlfriend, and The Mighty Nein are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

November 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.

For the concert soloist Steven Isserlis, the perfect instrument is a blessing—and a curse.

During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.

The Grateful Dead guitarist had the nature of a well-meaning cowboy, and a lasting capacity to access wonder and deep engagement.

Got New Year's resolutions for your health? Check out these expert tips before you spend a small fortune on costly gym memberships or workout equipment

If you want to go skiing or snowboarding without forking over your monthly salary, check out these seven American resorts

Si vous êtes du genre à avoir passé des heures sur Half-Life 2 à vous en retourner les paupières (et je sais que vous êtes nombreux), oubliez tout ce que vous pensiez savoir sur la stabilité légendaire du Source Engine. Car figurez-vous qu'un bug totalement improbable vient de refaire surface grâce à Tom Forsyth, un ancien de chez Valve, et c'est clairement un truc de fou, vous allez voir...
Tout commence en 2013. À l'époque, Valve bosse sur le portage de HL2 pour le tout premier Oculus Rift (le fameux DK1 qui nous donnait tous envie de vomir au bout de 5 minutes). Pour tester la VR, ils se disent que le mieux, c'est de reprendre un bon vieux classique. Tout se passe bien jusqu'à ce que Tom...

Our Favorite Compact Power Station Is on Sale for 33% Off
https://www.wired.com/story/jackery-explorer-300-plus-deal-126/

Quand j’ai parlé d’Asteroids dans la version Macintosh d’Office (2004), j’avais un autre Easter Egg en tête au départ. Mais les explications sur ce vieil Easter Egg n’étaient pas totalement claires. Les vieux sites font référence à Office Manager, mais ce n’est pas un programme très documenté. Après quelques recherches, je suis tombé sur ce que je cherchais : c’est un tableau de bord pour Mac OS qui permet de lancer les applications de Microsoft Office. J’ai d’abord tenté avec la version 9.0, distribuée en ligne en parallèle de Microsoft Office 2001, mais l’Easter Egg n’est dans cette version. Donc je suis passé sur la version de Microsoft Office 98. Elle est sur le CD-ROM...

Dans son nouvel essai Le triomphe des égoïsmes. Une nouvelle contrainte sociale (Presses universitaires de France), Camille Peugny, sociologue et professeur à l'Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, observe une montée d’un égoïsme structurel généré par une mise en concurrence de tous contre tous depuis l’école, qui alimente une « droitisation » des classes moyennes supérieures. Entretien.

The long-maligned Export-Import Bank could serve a key role in Trump's push to drum up private-sector financing for Venezuela's oil sector

“Since 2020, the population of whales has grown by about 7 percent. In 2024, the most recent year for which there is data available, the whale consortium estimated that there were 384 whales, an increase of about 2 percent from the year before. And in 2025, Pettis said, there were zero mortalities of right whales detected. This year’s calving season, which began in November and runs through April, has brought more promising news. So far, 18 new calves have been spotted, including one on New Year’s Day. An aerial survey team identified a calf swimming off the coast of Florida with its mother, Boomerang, named for her boomerang-shaped white scar. ‘We’re having a great year,’ said Ryan Schosberg, a...

“In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years. An autopsy of the permafrost-preserved pup revealed another surprise: its gut contained chunks of grayish meat covered with strands of golden hair. ‘The tissue was so intact, it looked like the wolf had just swallowed it before it died,’ says Camilo Chacón-Duque, an evolutionary geneticist who previously worked at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm and is now at Uppsala University in Sweden.  Ancient DNA retrieved from the wolf cub’s final meal revealed the tissue belonged to a woolly rhinoceros. Chacón-Duque and his team used the devoured morsel to reconstruct the...