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by Wired - about 29 minutes
If you’re waffling between Alexa, Siri, and Google, the answer may already be in your home.
by The Verge - about 31 minutes
Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose," The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used in "inhumane or extremely harmful ways."
If the agreement is confirmed, it would place Google alongside OpenAI and xAI, which have also made classified AI deals with the US government. Anthropic was also among that list until it was blacklisted by the Pentagon for refusing the Department of Defense's demands to remove we …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Langue Sauce Piquante - about 33 minutes
Dans un album d’Astérix : « Fais-les ramer plus vite ! »
Le président de la république (jusqu’en avril 2027) visitait récemment Athènes, où il était VRP des marchands de canons français, promouvant son « bouclier d’Achille »*. Il en a profité pour déclarer, à propos des difficultés provoquées par la hausse du prix des carburants, que nous étions « tous embarqués dans la même galère ». Mais, dans une galère, il y a les rameurs, la chiourme, et ceux qui sont sur le pont. Où prend place l’hortator (mot latin), le chef des rameurs, qui chante le celeusma (mot grec) pour donner la cadence, ledit celeusma ayant donné chiourme. Macron en garde-chiourme, et nous en...
by Le Monde - about 38 minutes
L’armée israélienne a attaqué plusieurs villes de la région de Bint Jbeil, justifiant la poursuite des bombardements par « la violation de l’accord de cessez-le-feu par le Hezbollah ». Au moins 40 personnes, en grande partie des civils, ont été tuées depuis le 17 avril, selon le ministère de la santé libanais.
by Courrier International - about 38 minutes
Ils sont au moins une dizaine dans la gauche non-mélenchoniste à convoiter l’Élysée. Avec un effet boost sur les idées et les programmes. Mais alors que leur électorat aspire à l’unité, ils peinent à s’entendre, observe le quotidien belge “Le Soir”.
by io9 - about 40 minutes
It's called 'Django/Zorro,' and yes, we're talking about that Zorro.
by The Verge - about 41 minutes
Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The tools had scanned 54 million lines of actual software code that DARPA had injected with artificial flaws. The teams were capable enough to identify most of the artificial bugs, but their automated tools went beyond that - they found more than a dozen bugs that DARPA hadn't inserted at all.
Even before the security earthquake that Anthropic delivered this month with Claude Mythos - the new AI model that seems to find vulnerabilities …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by io9 - about 50 minutes
Four new intelligent, autonomous, and powerful robots here, and you can save hundreds of dollars with these launch deals.
by Wired - about 52 minutes
If you’re looking for the perfect laptop power bank, I’ve tested ‘em all, and these are the best.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Non seulement le président américain insiste pour qu’un nouveau dîner de gala de l’association des correspondants à la Maison-Blanche soit organisé dans les meilleurs délais, mais il a décidé de faire du chantier de construction de sa grande salle de réception sécurisée à la Maison-Blanche la “priorité des priorités”, soulignent les médias américains.
by Wired - about 1 hour
On this week’s Big Interview podcast, actor-director Ben McKenzie talks about the rise of crypto, why he finds it dangerous, and why it benefits from having a mysterious creator.
by Korben - about 1 hour
478 binaires Unix peuvent servir à devenir root sur un système mal configuré.
C'est ce que recense
GTFOBins
, le projet open source monté par Emilio Pinna et Andrea Cardaci, qui est devenu LE bookmark obligatoire de tout pentester Linux.
Ce ne sont pas des exploits, hein, mais juste des fonctions parfaitement légitimes de programmes installés partout, et qui dans le bon contexte (genre un bit SUID oublié, qui fait tourner un binaire avec les droits du propriétaire, souvent root) permettent de spawner un shell, lire un fichier protégé, ou grimper d'un cran dans la hiérarchie des privilèges. Petit rappel quand même, faut déjà avoir un pied sur la machine, ce n'est pas une porte d'entrée magique...
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
L’explosion du prix du kérosène et la crainte de pénuries font grimper les tarifs des billets d’avion. Alors que les compagnies aériennes annulent une partie de leurs vols pour mai et juin, les vacanciers craignent que leurs voyages ne soient compromis, et cherchent d’autres possibilités.
by BBC - about 2 hours
The state prosecutor told the court that police found an almost completed bomb in a search of the man's house.
by Korben - about 2 hours
Souvenez-vous, en mai 2025 quand je vous parlais de
BleachBit 5.0
et de son grand ménage de printemps. Hé bien Andrew Ziem, le développeur historique du soft, vient de balancer la version 6.0 samedi dernier !
Et c'est annoncé comme la plus grosse release du projet depuis des années, avec plus de 100 améliorations et bug fixes au programme. Et surtout deux nouveautés qui sortent du lot.
La première, c'est un Cookie Manager qui vous laisse enfin choisir quels cookies garder lors d'un nettoyage, sur les navigateurs Chromium et Firefox. Plus besoin donc de tout dégager d'un coup et de devoir ressaisir vos sessions partout.
Vous gardez ce qui compte (banque, mail, sites où vous êtes loggés en...
by io9 - about 2 hours
Ever used kanban-based management software? You'll probably recognize OpenAI's new open-source spec.
by New Yorker - about 2 hours
Hurst captured the country’s culture—from public rituals of the cult of Santa Muerte to scenes from everyday life—with no small amount of homoeroticism.
by New Yorker - about 2 hours
Here are a few things I’d rather do than log in to a portal: Get three mosquito bites. Drive all the way to Encino to have something notarized.
by Wired - about 2 hours
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses.
by New Yorker - about 2 hours
The war’s ripple effects have exacerbated conflicts, economic insecurity, and regional tensions around the world, including in Ukraine.
by Korben - about 2 hours
Sur Hackaday, un maker a publié une variante rigolote de lévitation acoustique : un mini terrain d'air hockey où les palets flottent au-dessus du sol grâce à des ondes ultrasonores.
Le truc fun ça n'est pas la lévitation en elle-même, technique connue depuis longtemps et déjà couverte sur le site, mais la manière dont elle est mise en œuvre pour éviter les zones mortes habituelles qui rendent ce genre de dispositif statique. Le principe classique de la lévitation ultrasonique utilise un ou plusieurs transducteurs qui créent une onde stationnaire, et les petits objets restent piégés dans les nœuds de cette onde. Le souci, quand on veut faire bouger l'objet horizontalement, c'est que les nœuds...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Quand les utilisateurs interrompent leurs traitements antiobésité à base de GLP-1, comme l’Ozempic, le Wegovy ou le Mounjaro, ils reprennent fatalement du poids. Et ce quatre fois plus vite que ceux qui se sont mis au régime et ont fait de l’activité physique. C’est ce que montre une vaste étude parue début janvier dans “The British Medical Journal”.
by Korben - about 2 hours
Tamawatchi
, c'est 2,8 Mo de pixel art qui tournent en natif sur Apple Watch sans dépendre d'un iPhone. Michael Ratto, lecteur de korben.info, vient de m'écrire pour m'annoncer la sortie de son Tamagotchi qui se nourrit de vos pas via HealthKit. La première créature est gratuite, et les autres à 99 centimes pièce.
Il s'agit donc d'un compagnon style Tamagotchi des années 90 qui vit sur votre montre. Vous marchez, il bouffe. Vous glandez, il a faim. Vous dormez, il dort... vous voyez le tableau quoi... C'est une app de fitness qui se déguise puisque derrière le pixel art mignon, y'a surtout un compteur de pas gamifié qui pousse à se bouger. Parce que oui, ON EST PLUS MOTIVÉ pour faire 5000 pas pour...
by io9 - about 2 hours
AI agents are powered by the same obsequious LLMs as consumer chatbots.
by Wired - about 2 hours
Sporting the largest touchpad I’ve ever seen, this ambitious laptop is better in theory than in practice.
by Korben - about 2 hours
J'sais pas si vous avez remarqué, mais aujourd'hui, TOUT LE MONDE "vibe code" : On balance des prompts à un LLM, on accepte le diff sans comprendre, on commit sans relire et tadaaaa, ça fait des chocapics !
Sauf pour zsKnight et Demo qui viennent de relâcher
Super ZSNES
, après 19 ans de silence, avec un message bien en évidence sur leur page d'accueil... "No Vibe Coding. Classic development style." C'est incroyable, les deux développeurs originaux de ZSNES se sont enfin retrouvés pour réécrire leur émulateur SNES légendaire intégralement, et cette fois c'est le GPU qui prend en charge le rendu vidéo !! Youpi ! Pour ceux qui n'ont pas connu parce que ce sont des bébés qui viennent de naître,...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
En raison d’une infection dont la nature n’a pas été déterminée, la commercialisation des cochons d’Inde en Équateur a été suspendue par les autorités le 17 avril. Une décision qui provoque l’inquiétude des éleveurs, dans ce pays andin où ces rongeurs sont des mets courus.
by io9 - about 3 hours
The ancients really were super clever, y'know.
by The Verge - about 3 hours
The last few weeks have bordered on overwhelming for science fiction fans. While Project Hail Mary is dominating the box office, For All Mankind is currently in the midst of its penultimate season, with a spinoff streaming next month. When it comes to games, Capcom kicked off a new sci-fi franchise with Pragmata, and Housemarque is about to launch the haunting shooter Saros. With all of that going on, it'd be easy to miss Aphelion. It's a comparatively small and quiet adventure game, one focused more on storytelling than gameplay. But that also makes it a perfect complement to all of the current blockbusters, offering something much more int …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
La commission d’enquête parlementaire sur « la neutralité, le fonctionnement et le financement de l’audiovisuel public » s’est très vite transformée en tribunal et ses auditions ont été instrumentalisées par son rapporteur, Charles Alloncle, pour colporter des fausses informations.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Une femme est morte fin mars, ajoutant une nouvelle victime à un bilan déjà lourd. Une vidéo que « Le Monde », « Lighthouse Reports », « Der Spiegel » et « Komune » se sont procurée éclaire un autre arraisonnement, en février, et remet en cause la version des policiers.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
En quelques opérations financières, Critical Metals, une société américaine, a pris le contrôle total, en avril, d’un gisement majeur de terres rares au Groenland. C’est une preuve de plus de la capacité des marchés financiers américains à aimanter le reste du monde, observe Isabelle Chaperon, chroniqueuse au service Economie du « Monde ».
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Alors que les militaires au pouvoir, alliés à la Russie, tiennent un discours ouvertement antifrançais, Paris observe avec discrétion l’avancée des djihadistes et des indépendantistes touareg.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
If you mention the word bus, you might think of public transportation or, more likely for us, a way to connect things together. But in the satellite world, the bus is the part of a vehicle that supports the payload but isn’t itself the payload. Typically, that means the electric power system, propulsion, radios, and thermal control, among other systems. If you are designing a CubeSat, you will want to read A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design by [Frances Zhu].
The Creative Commons-licensed book has twelve chapters, ranging from systems engineering — that is, defining what you want to do — to analyzing structures, handling power, setting up communications, and more. Of particular interest to us was...
by BBC - about 4 hours
The 141m-long vessel, linked to a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, cleared the waterway despite an ongoing blockade.
by The Verge - about 5 hours
Logitech’s Creative Console and other MX accessories are now compatible with several productivity apps. | Image: Logitech Logitech has announced a new suite of Productivity Plugins for its entire MX line of accessories, including its Stream Deck alternative, the MX Creative Console. Since the console launched in September 2024, Logitech has been expanding its capabilities with plug-ins that support creativity-focused apps such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Lightroom, and Figma. That is now expanding to include productivity apps, such as Microsoft Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Slack and Notion.
Shortcuts, actions, and specific tools in those apps can be quickly accessed using Logitech's Actions...
by Torrentfreak - about 5 hours
In 2021, a group of independent movie companies, including the makers of The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, London Has Fallen, and Rambo V, sued RCN Telecom Services at a New Jersey federal court.
The filmmakers alleged that RCN failed to disconnect repeat infringers on its network, making the ISP liable for its subscribers’ copyright infringement.
The lawsuit was one of several filed by the same group of filmmakers against U.S. Internet providers, including Grande Communications, Frontier Communications, and Verizon. These all alleged that the ISPs failed to terminate accounts of repeat infringers, which made the providers secondarily liable for these pirating subscribers.
Stipulation of Dismissal
A few...
by BBC - about 6 hours
In a parody aired days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Kimmel called Melania an "expectant widow".
by Journal du Lapin - about 6 hours
Avec la Xbox 360, Microsoft avait fait un choix surprenant pour les manettes : il existe des manettes Xbox 360 filaires (en USB) et des manettes sans fil, avec un protocole propriétaire (et une troisième variante, plus rare, avec une croix directionnelle améliorée). Microsoft avait bien sorti un câble USB pour la manette sans fil (le kit Play & Charge), mais assez bizarrement, il ne passe pas la manette en filaire. Mais a une petite option cachée tout de même. Le câble du kit Play & Charge est trompeur et assez particulier, en réalité. Il était livré avec une batterie à insérer dans la manette (à la place des piles AA employée en standard) et le câble ne sert (presque) qu’à recharger la...
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
USB wasn’t even a gleam in an engineer’s eye when the Sega Master System hit the market in 1985. Today, we’re up to USB 4 or something, and the USB C connector is becoming a defacto standard for just about everything except desktop computers. [Retrostalgia] is embracing this by mating the control pad from Sega’s first international console with the connector of today.
Naturally, the Sega Master System did not use the Universal Serial Bus to talk to its controllers, so some conversion was in order. That’s achieved with the use of a RP2040 microcontroller, which reads the D-pad and action buttons via its GPIO pins. It then acts as a HID device when plugged into a computer or other USB host, showing up...
by La Horde - about 7 hours
Soirée antifasciste à Marseille avec au programme : Discussion, repas, concerts, tombola anti-repression et tables d'info. -
Initiatives / Marseille, Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats
by Asialyst - about 8 hours
Le Musée Guimet retrace les racines culturelles de la K- Beauty dans l’exposition « K- beauty. Beauté coréenne, histoire d’un phénomène » jusqu’au 6 juillet 2026. Un hommage qui reflète aussi une réalité économique. La K-Beauty est en train de conquérir les marchés mondiaux. Elle mène l’offensive en Europe et menace désormais la suprématie française dans le secteur des cosmétiques.
by The Verge - about 8 hours
On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors already have an opinion about Elon Musk, and it's not a good one.
The Verge reporter Elizabeth Lopatto, who was there at the courthouse, quoted statements from some of the juror questionnaires: "Elon Musk is a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage."
"Elon Musk is a world-class jerk."
"I very much dislike Tesla. As a woman of color, I am very aware of the damaging statements and actions Elon Musk has enacted and been a part of." M …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Asialyst - about 9 hours
En l'espace d'une semaine, le Japon a franchi plusieurs seuils historiques en simultané. Le premier, le 21 avril, le Cabinet de la Première ministre Sanae Takaichi levait officiellement l'interdiction d'exporter des armes létales, renversant un pilier de la politique étrangère japonaise vieux de plus d'un demi-siècle.
by HackAdAy - about 10 hours
Solid state batteries, we are told, are the new hot battery technology that will replace lithium-ion batteries. Soon. Not that we haven’t heard that before. One reason it isn’t dominating the market today is that it’s prone to short circuits during charging. [Dr. Yuwei Zhang and others have published a paper detailing why the shorts happen, which could lead to strategies to improve the technology.
Solid state batteries employ a solid electrolyte and a lithium anode. It is known that, sometimes, lithium metal from the anode forms dendrites that penetrate the ceramic electrolyte and cause it to crack. This is somewhat of a mystery as the lithium is a soft metal (to quote [Zhang], “like a gummy...
by BBC - about 11 hours
Investigators say the 31-year-old California man wanted to kill as many high-level officials as possible.
by BBC - about 11 hours
In modern America, it seems violence of this kind has become an ever-present storm that can strike anywhere and at any moment.
by Zataz - about 12 hours
Vérifier une fuite de données avec ZATAZ : moteurs France et monde, veille premium et risques cyber.
by Zataz - about 12 hours
Avril noir pour les forums pirates : HexDex risque 10 ans de prison, DarkForums visé par une fuite de données !
by The Brighter Side - about 13 hours
For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the electron, seemed to wobble in a magnetic field just a little differently than the Standard Model said it should. That gap, known through the particle’s anomalous magnetic moment or muon g−2, looked to many physicists like a possible opening to something deeper, perhaps even a fifth force of nature. Now that opening looks much narrower. An international team led by Penn State physicist Zoltan Fodor has published what it describes as the most precise calculation yet of the key strong-force contribution behind the muon’s magnetic behavior. Their result, published in Nature, brings...
by HackAdAy - about 13 hours
Ultrasonic levitation is by now a familiar trick: one or more ultrasonic transducers create a standing wave, and small objects can be held in the nodes of this standing wave. With a sufficiently large array of transducers, it’s even possible to control the movement of the object. This isn’t the only form of ultrasonic levitation, however, as [Steve Mould] demonstrated with his ultrasonic air hockey table.
This less familiar form of levitation was discovered by [Bob Collins] while working on torpedo guidance systems: when he tried to place a glass lens on an ultrasonic transducer it immediately slid off. He found during further experimentation that an ultrasonic transducer would levitate over any...
by Zataz - about 13 hours
Faux site Lens-Nice : ZATAZ révèle une fausse billetterie et un abonnement caché derrière la finale de la coupe de France de football : Lens-Nice.
by Liz Climo - yesterday at 23:52

by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:50
How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 22:07
The limestone at the Twelve Apostles does not sit flat. Look closely at the cliffs along Victoria’s coast and the layers lean a little, broken here and there by small faults, the kind of details most visitors would miss while staring out at the sea stacks. Those slight tilts turned out to matter. A study led by scientists at the University of Melbourne has now traced, for the first time, how the Twelve Apostles formed. The work found that shifting tectonic plates gradually lifted and tilted the rocks over millions of years, long before waves carved the pillars that tourists know today. The study was published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. That means the Twelve Apostles are older in one sense,...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
Springs are great, but making them out of plastic tends to come with some downsides, for fairly obvious reasons. Creating a compliant mechanism that can be 3D printed and yet which doesn’t permanently deform or wear out after a few uses is therefore a bit of a struggle. The compliant toggle mechanism that [neotoy] designed is said to have addressed those issues, with the model available on Printables for anyone to give a shake.
The model in question is a toggle, which is the commonly seen plastic or metal device that clamps down on e.g. rope or cord and requires you to push on it to have it release said clamping force. Normally these use a metal spring inside, but this version is fully 3D printable and thus...
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 20:07
Some of the most meaningful stories rarely dominate headlines, but they’re happening every day. In these moments, a volunteer picks up a tool, a parent opens their home, a community gathers around a family, or a stranger decides to stop and help. The stories below move through different places and lives, but they share something steady—people stepping in when it matters, often without fanfare. Watershed Leader Encourages Year-Round Environmental Kindness Carmen Sledge is the board president of the Nature Preserve Foundation at the Watershed Nature Center. (CREDIT: Riley Hansen/The Intelligencer) Carmen Sledge came to the Watershed Nature Center through the same route as many people who rediscovered the...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 18:56
“Japan — Fifteen years ago, this mountainous region on Japan’s northeast coast suffered one of the world’s worst nuclear power accidents. Abandoned homes, offices and shops still dot the landscape — remnants of the evacuation after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and released radiation. In the accident’s aftermath, nuclear power’s future seemed bleak, with Japan shutting off all its reactors as public opinion soured against the technology. But the country is now rapidly moving to restart nuclear power plants, as artificial intelligence increases electricity demand and foreign wars throttle natural gas supply. Japan relies on natural gas for 30 percent...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 18:53
“China has announced that it now has the capacity to build up to 50 nuclear reactors simultaneously, as it doubles down on a push to rapidly expand its nuclear power generation and become a global leader in the sector. The figure came from a report released by the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) on Friday, which highlights the country’s ability to run dozens of nuclear projects concurrently.” From South China Morning Post.
The post China’s Nuclear Sector Now Able to Build Fifty Reactors at a Time appeared first on Human Progress.
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 18:18
Sam Altman, le patron d'OpenAI, est aussi à la tête de World, une start-up qui propose de scanner notre iris pour prouver notre humanité à l'ère des bots. L'entreprise vient de signer des partenariats avec Tinder, Zoom et DocuSign, s'immiscant das nos vies intimes et professionnelles. Retour sur la genèse d'un des projets tech les plus controversés du moment.