The president writes that hostilities "have terminated" because of the ceasefire, arguing he does not need congressional authorisation.

L’Académie qui remet chaque année les Oscars aux États-Unis a publié vendredi une mise à jour de ses règles d’éligibilité, excluant notamment tout acteur ou scénario générés par l’intelligence artificielle (IA), et élargissant les critères de sélection pour les films internationaux.

Producing hot water off-grid is a surprisingly energy-intensive activity, and although it looks simple on its surface it can get quite complicated especially when used in large scale for something like providing hot water for an entire home. When using combustion to heat the water there needs to be proper venting as well as control of the fuel, and even storage of the hot water needs to be meticulous to avoid certain pathogens. [Greenhill Forge] has built an off-grid solution for heating hot water that doesn’t necessarily rely on any combustion, though, provided he can find something to spin his custom electric machine.
The machine in question is, of course, an induction heater. It works similar to any...

The decision to reduce the US deployment to Germany comes amid a row between the two allies over Iran.

Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Amazon and Walmart are the exception in how they’re pricing preorders for the cartridge version. Right now, you can reserve the upcoming title at both retailers for $49.94, which is a few cents cheaper than the digital version. Raiders isn’t a sequel to Splatoon 3, but rather a spinoff that has similar third-person, paint-splatting gameplay set in new locales.
Splatoon Raiders Where to Buy:...

As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.

Microsoft is testing its much-needed refresh for the Windows 11 Run menu, offering a modern interface that the company says is faster and comes with support for dark mode. The redesign is rolling out now to Windows 11 Insiders in the new Experimental Channel.
In a blog post explaining the changes, Microsoft says it decided to drop the Run menu's "Browse" button - a shortcut to user files - after finding "very low usage." Instead, Microsoft added support for a new "~\" command, which leads to your user directory. Microsoft says it built the new Run menu using code from Command Palette, a utility available through PowerToys that allows you t …
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'Eniale & Dewiela' follows a heated rivalry between an angel and a demon competing to see who can collect the most souls.

Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 after the company pulled the $599 option with 256GB of storage from its online store, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The model's discontinuation comes just one day after Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an earnings call that a chip shortage will impact its Mac products in the coming months.
"If you look forward to June, the majority of our supply constraints will be on several Mac models," Cook said. "We think looking forward that the Mac Mini and the Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance." He added that both devices saw "higher-than-expected demand" as well, with many people b …
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ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers.

Court papers do not explicitly accuse the suspect of shooting the officer, even as officials say it was not "friendly fire".

You can fix the problem or fire the alleged whistleblowers. Which one's cheaper?

Formerly in the same family for decades, Trina Turk did a complete overhaul while maintaining the home's midcentury California spirit.Location: 2425 Cahuilla Hills Drive, Palm Springs, California Price: $3,495,000 Year Built: 1963 Architect: Harold Bissner, Sr. Renovation Date: 2026 Renovation Designer: Trina Turk Footprint: 2,286 square feet (3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths) Lot Size: 0.41 Acres From the Agent: "Recently reimagined by fashion designer and Palm Springs style icon Trina Turk, the home has been transformed into the radiant Soleil House. The floor plan is thoughtfully composed to enhance both privacy and flow. The primary suite is positioned poolside, immersed in light and landscape, while guest...

In the Argentinean filmmaker’s new documentary, “Our Land,” and a recently restored masterpiece, “The Headless Woman,” an elusiveness of form becomes the most direct way to the truth.

Blue Origin is setting its New Glenn rocket up for a major challenge.

May means 'Star Wars,' but it's not the only slick ride in store for Lego's new releases.

It's all fun and games until someone asks you to take your glasses off.

A live/work community of tech founders pops up in the suburbs of Texas, Trump’s ballroom firm receives a secret multimillion-dollar contract, and more.Donlyn Lyndon, one of the original architects of California’s Sea Ranch and a longtime educator, has died at 90. He spent his life creating and teaching about environmentally-conscious design. (The Architect's Newspaper) In Lockhart, Texas, a 1,200-acre live/work campus called Proto-Town is home to young robotics, energy, and defense start-up founders, most of whom live in trailers nearby. The community is part of a broader trend of Austin suburbs becoming a hub for "hard tech" companies. (The Wall Street Journal) The Trump administration sneakily awarded...

The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patched—but many machines remain at risk.

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

After years of free tiers, flat-rate enterprise contracts, and VC absorbing the difference, the industry is renegotiating its economics. Customers will feel it

You can get all kinds of fancy lenses for modern cameras, with all sorts of mechanical and electronic wizardly to make them shoot better images. But what if you paired a vintage lens with a modern camera? It would take some work, as [Mathieu] found out, but you’d also get some interesting results.
The optic in question is a 100-year old lens—a Foth 50 mm f2.5 to be precise, originally used with a folding film camera. It was sourced from a market for just 3 euros. Notably, the lens was not designed for modern cameras, and so lacks an aperture and focusing mechanism. [Mathieu] thus had to fabricate something to fit the lens to a Sony FX3. A first attempt used an aperture adapter from Amazon and an elcoid...

Face à la montée de l’intelligence artificielle, l’institution pose une limite claire pour préserver la place des artistes humains dans la course aux Oscars.

La France compte-elle trop de jours fériés ? Par rapport à ses voisins, la réponse est "non". Avec 11 jours fériés par an, elle se situe même en-dessous de la moyenne des pays de l'Union européenne qui atteint 12,07 jours annuels. Le nombre le plus élevé de jours fériés accordés aux salariés est détenu par Chypre avec un total de 15 jours par an. Les Chypriotes célèbrent neuf fêtes religieuses, deux fêtes nationales grecques, leurs propres fêtes d'indépendance (deux jours également) et deux jours durant les fêtes de Noël. Viennent ensuite la Croatie, l'Espagne, la Slovaquie, la Bulgarie, la Roumanie et Malte avec 14 jours. Comme la France, l'Estonie, la Suède, la Hongrie, l'Italie et...

For the first time, Australia has recorded no new cervical cancer diganoses in women under 25.

America's best treehouse hotels, from a 47-foot Oregon perch above a suspension bridge to a Big Sur cliff with Pacific Ocean views

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever worried about Musk's level of con …
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Lettuce Grow’s Farmstand is sure to impress, and it’s 20 percent off for Mother’s Day.

From crafting machines to smart calendars, a number of unique gifts are already on sale in the run-up to Mother’s Day, May 10th. Birdfy smart feeders are another discounted option to consider, particularly the new Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 (4K), which is on sale for $259.99 ($50 off). If you’re looking to spend less, you can also grab the basic Birdfy Feeder for just $99.99 ($100 off) from Amazon or Birdfy, with the latter retailer throwing in a free botanical gift bag and greeting card.
Birdfy Feeder Where to Buy: $229.99 $99.99 at Amazon $229.99 $99.99 at Birdfy (with free gift bag and card)
Birdfy’s standard bird feeder uses a 1080p camera with a 155-degree field of view and color night vision to capture...

The veteran costume designer worked for decades under her friend Patricia Field outfitting the likes of Carrie Bradshaw. Then, and just like that, she struck out on her own.

Pour fêter le 1ᵉʳ-Mai et Jeanne d’Arc, le parti a organisé à Mâcon son dernier meeting avant l’arrêt de la cour d’appel de Paris, le 7 juillet, qui scellera le sort judiciaire et politique de Marine Le Pen.

Continuing his quest to put DOOM on literally everything that has a capable enough processor and a screen, [Aaron Christophel]’s most recent target is a Slate 7 Pro travel router. With a generous 2.8″ touch screen and a lot of onboard processing power to handle all the advertised networking and routing features via its WAN and (W)LAN interfaces, it should be able to run the game really quite well. As usual the main question is how to get the game to run on it first.
The port of choice is fbdoom, with instructions on how to run it on this router provided on the GitHub project page. The reason for the touch screen is so that you can see the status of interfaces and interact with it without having to open...

The raise values Pickleball Inc. at $750 million and brings total investment in the company to $315 million

The Assured Robot Intelligence team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs and work alongside Meta Robotics Studio on in-house humanoid hardware and AI

Steve Hilton is leading in the polls in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by twenty per cent. Could he win in blue California?

The Golden State Warriors’ coach on playing with Michael Jordan in his prime, what he’s learned about leadership, and how outspoken is too outspoken in the league.

“Once-weekly semaglutide versus placebo in patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid obesity: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (Lancet) Strongly significant reductions in drinking across measures. From the abstract:  ‘Semaglutide showed robust therapeutic effects in treatment-seeking participants with obesity and alcohol use disorder and this trial supports previous preclinical and clinical findings suggesting GLP-1 receptor agonists as a potential novel treatment target for alcohol use disorder.'” From Recursive Adaptation.
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“Just a few years ago, people would be hard-pressed to find mussels around the Lynnhaven River. But James said officials have recently seen an ‘explosion’ of the muddy mollusks. And they’re growing seemingly without help from humans… The mussels popping up in the river are not the same kind that diners encounter at a restaurant, which are typically smooth, blue mussels that live on rocks or pilings. The Chesapeake Bay’s aptly named ribbed mussel, on the other hand, has a ribbed shell and prefers to attach to the roots of marsh grass and burrow in the mud. That makes them great at stabilizing marshes to prevent erosion, which is particularly important in the face of rising sea levels… Like...

“Pakistan’s Punjab provincial assembly this week passed a new law banning marriage under the age of 18 for both boys and girls, introducing tougher penalties for child marriage, child trafficking and abuse linked to underage unions. The Punjab Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2026 replaces older legislation dating back to 1929 and makes child marriage-related offenses cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable. Pakistan has one of the highest rates of child marriage in South Asia, particularly in rural and low-income communities, with rights organizations warning that early marriage exposes girls to higher risks of domestic violence, school dropouts, early pregnancies and long-term health complications....

“The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios. Big news: The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0. This is an absolutely huge development in climate science which will have lasting impacts across research and policy. The future is not what it used to be.” From The Honest Broker.
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The Boston-based biotech sold more stock than originally planned at $18 a share, giving it a market value of $1.1 billion

“Coral reefs on a chain of islands off Western Australia were almost untouched by a prolonged heatwave that devastated corals in other regions in early 2025… To try to determine just how heat-tolerant the coral at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands actually are, the scientists brought colonies from several species back to the lab and subjected them to prolonged high temperatures. At 8 °C-weeks, compared with currently accepted thresholds, survival rates at the Houtman Abrolhos islands were twice as high and bleaching resistance was nearly four times higher. There was still nearly 100 per cent survival at around 16 °C-weeks. The next step for the researchers is to work out exactly how the corals are achieving...

Le président américain a accusé, vendredi, les pays membres de l’Union européenne de ne pas « respecter » l’accord commercial conclu en juillet 2025.

They stuck with off-the-shelf materials to design a 650-square-foot unit that’s now part of the city’s model plan library.In the summer of 2023, Logan Havens and Gustavo Silva restored a historic adobe in Tucson’s Barrio Kroeger Lane neighborhood. They learned by doing, developing an understanding of the structure and its materials, and how to update the modest home to meet their needs. But before the couple even finished the remodel, they were already plotting their next project. When the City of Tucson introduced a competition for an ADU model plan library, Gustavo, a designer, and Logan, a photographer, developed a design that adapts the adobe vernacular of the Sonoran Desert. Then, at the rear of...

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the international tubes to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so.
Regarding Hackaday Europe, we announced the last round of speakers and opened up the workshop ticket sales. In other news, the Green-Powered Challenge has wrapped, and judging will begin quite soon.
On What’s That Sound, we can score another one for Kristina, which brings her record to approximately four wins and sixty-eight losses. She knew without a doubt that this was a guillotine paper cutter, probably because she recorded the sound herself. Hey, don’t take this away from...

Alors qu’il est pourtant lui-même le fils de l’ancien dictateur, le président Ferdinand Marcos Jr. soutient un texte de loi qui pourrait entraver l’établissement de dynasties familiales en politique. Mais ce projet se heurte à une société dans laquelle les pratiques clientélistes sont enracinées, relève “Nikkei Asia”.

Phones can be distracting objects if you’re not an enlightened master of the mental arts. Even just reading an email or glancing at your calendar can get you caught up checking other apps and notifications and waste your time. [Paul Lagier] built a device to eliminate this problem by showing him critical information right on his desk.
The device is based around an off-the-shelf Waveshare ESP32 board which packs in a small 8×8 RGB LED matrix on one side. It’s a neat way to get an LED project up and running quickly, but [Paul] noted that it didn’t look that great out of the box. He had to experiment with some different solutions for diffusing the light, eventually wrapping the board in a 3D printed...

A six mois des élections de mi-mandat, la dynamique politique se révèle plutôt négative pour le président américain.

La guerre en Iran constitue une rupture dans les conflits contemporains, avec une transformation radicale des stratégies militaires, analyse “Le Soleil”. Pour le titre sénégalais, cette guerre prouve que la puissance ne se mesure plus seulement aux armes déployées, mais également à la capacité de bloquer l’adversaire et de lui infliger des paralysies énergétiques intenables.

Le conflit au Moyen-Orient et la crise énergétique qui en découle jettent une lumière crue sur la grande dépendance de l’Inde aux hydrocarbures en provenance du Golfe, estime “Business Today”, qui affirme que le pays doit désormais redoubler d’efforts pour exploiter ses propres ressources pétrolières et gazières.

Pour Baba Saïdou, journaliste malien collaborant notamment avec le site panafricain “Tama Média”, l’aspect le plus surprenant des attaques menées les 25 et 26 avril par les djihadistes du Groupe de soutien à l’islam aux musulmans (JNIM) et les séparatistes touaregs du FLA a été leur capacité à toucher la junte en profondeur. Ce qui met aussi en lumière “les limites du soutien russe” au Mali.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

A shortage of fertiliser due to the Iran conflict could reduce crop yields and push prices higher, says the boss of Yara.

Le président du Conseil européen, António Costa, et Maroš Šefčovič, le commissaire européen au commerce, se félicitant après la signature de l'accord UE-Mercosur, le 17 janvier à Asunción au Paraguay - Crédits : Conseil européen Après plus de 25 ans de négociations, l'accord de libre-échange entre l'Union européenne et les pays sud-américains du Mercosur, signé le 17 janvier 2026 à Asunción (Paraguay), va s'appliquer à titre provisoire. À partir du vendredi 1er mai, le volet commercial de l'ensemble des clauses négociées entre l'Argentine, le Brésil, le Paraguay et l'Uruguay, et les Vingt-Sept entre ainsi en application.  Si le Parlement européen n'a pour l'heure pas adopté ce...

Japan Airlines va confier la manutention des bagages à des robots humanoïdes sur les pistes de l'aéroport Haneda. Le test démarre en mai 2026, dure deux ans, et implique pour commencer deux machines posées au milieu des bagagistes humains.
L'opération est pilotée par JAL Ground Service avec GMO AI & Robotics. Les robots viennent de Chine : un Unitree G1 d'environ 1m30 et un Walker E d'UBTECH.
Le programme est découpé en plusieurs étapes (cartographie du site, simulations en environnement reconstitué, puis tarmac réel), avec à terme l'idée de leur faire transporter les containers de fret, manipuler les leviers de verrouillage et même nettoyer les cabines une fois les avions vides. L'autonomie...

Links between piracy and organized crime have been around for several decades. The framing first emerged in the late 1990s, when the IFPI raised concerns about transborder smuggling of pirated CDs by criminal networks. Back then, most piracy took place offline. A terrorism angle was added to the mix in 2003, when the U.S. House held a hearing on piracy’s “links to organized crime and terrorism.” Four months later, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble told Congress that intellectual property crime had become “the preferred method of funding for a number of terrorist groups.”
In December that year, the messaging made it into a new campaign by the UK anti-piracy group FACT, warning moviegoers that...

October 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Le 7 mai, des élections régionales et locales pourraient être marquées par une défaite du Parti travailliste. La formation du premier ministre, Keir Starmer, pourrait en particulier être devancée au Pays de Galles, où elle domine depuis un siècle. Les indépendantistes de Plaid Cymru et l’extrême droite de Reform UK espèrent tirer parti de ce recul.

Fin de partie pour la riposte graduée. Le Conseil d'État a déclaré illégale, le 30 avril 2026, la phase la plus dure du dispositif anti-piratage Arcom, héritier de la Hadopi.
La décision s'applique immédiatement et décapite le système après 17 ans de chasse aux téléchargeurs sur les réseaux peer-to-peer. La Quadrature du Net, qui pilote le contentieux depuis 2019, a publié dans la foulée un bilan intitulé "Hadopi (2009-2026)".
Concrètement, deux failles ont été retenues. La juridiction a constaté que le décret de 2010 n'oblige nulle part les opérateurs à stocker les adresses IP dans "un compartiment totalement isolé", comme l'avait pourtant exigé la Cour de justice de l'Union...

Le prix de l'électricité dans l'UE est fixé selon le coût énergétique de la dernière centrale électrique utilisée pour répondre à la demande - Crédits : Lari Bat / iStock Flambée. 44,4 euros le mégawattheure. C'est le niveau atteint par le gaz néerlandais TTF, prix de référence du gaz en Europe, au 27 avril 2026. Celui-ci s'établissait en moyenne à 35,5 euros/MWh avant la guerre au Moyen-Orient débutée le 28 février. Corrélation. Le prix de l'électricité est lié à celui du gaz. La volatilité du prix du gaz lors de tensions géopolitiques a donc une répercussion sur le coût de l'électricité. Pourquoi ? Coût marginal. Parce que le prix de gros de l'électricité dans l'UE est...