GOP senators warm up to "very bright" Kevin Hassett as Trump's next Fed chair

The UK praises Europe's "strength" after Trump says countries fail to control migration or take action to end the Ukraine war.

Researchers reviewed existing evidence on whether mouthwash with garlic extract could be a viable alternative for the current golden standard.

Financial advisors say "Trump accounts" may fill a specific niche, but they may not be the right fit for every family's future goals

Sébastien Lecornu a réussi à passer un obstacle de taille, ce 9 décembre, avec l’adoption du PLFSS, en nouvelle lecture, par les députés. 247 voix contre 234, la marge n’est pas énorme, mais après l’adoption définitive du projet de loi de finances de fin de gestion, c’est le deuxième texte financier qui passe le cap. […]

Over two films, Rian Johnson's Knives Out series has offered something largely absent from the modern movie landscape: intricate murder mysteries full of humor and gasp-worthy moments. The original Knives Out started things off relatively small with a cozy whodunit, which then became a larger and more elaborate puzzle with the sequel Glass Onion. Both were crowd-pleasers, and in a lot of ways Wake Up Dead Man follows the same formula, with its stacked cast and plentiful revelations. But it's also much darker and deeper, showing off the franchise's range.
First off, this is a somber-looking film, particularly compared to the bright and color …
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Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado is in hiding, and her current whereabouts are still unknown.

"This is not ChatGPT. This is not Wikipedia. This is verified, factual, memorized, first source truth."

Two sought-after items that are not in the Academy Museum's huge exhibit paying tribute to the Spielberg classic are going up for auction.

To Cook a Bear, The Manipulated, and Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

The AirPods Pro 3 make for a nice upgrade or gift, especially at $30 off. | Image: The Verge If you didn’t catch the Black Friday deal on Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, the good news is the price has dropped again ahead of the holidays. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are matching their all-time low price of $219.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. It’s a great deal considering the AirPods Pro 3 only just launched in September.
AirPods Pro 3 Where to Buy: $249 $219.99 at Amazon $249.99 $219.99 at Best Buy $249 $219.99 at Walmart
The AirPods Pro 3 provide a number of notable upgrades over their predecessor, including improved active noise cancellation, a more comfortable fit, and better audio...

Des éducateurs d’un foyer de l’aide sociale à l’enfance ont rasé un enfant de 8 ans, en février, en guise de sanction, puis ont diffusé et commenté les images sur un groupe WhatsApp.

Google’s Pixel Buds 2a come in a stylish purple shade that stands out. Google just launched its holiday sale, and it’s basically Black Friday and Cyber Monday revived. From smartphones to smart security devices, plenty of great gifts have returned to their Black Friday prices, with some third-party retailers in some cases offering better deals than Google. Prices for a few of our favorite gadgets are even matching their all-time lows, including the Pixel 9a, Pixel Watch 4, Pixel Buds 2a, and the latest Nest Doorbell. So if you’re still holiday shopping, here are the deals that genuinely stand out.
Google Pixel 9A
The Pixel 9A adds more robust water resistance and a brighter, bigger screen to what was...

It's morning in America for cute little cars that Americans have historically rejected.

Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? Well, if you work at [Deep Drive], the compromise position is a dual-rotor setup that they claim can be up to 20% more efficient than standard designs. In a recent video, [Ziroth] provides a deep dive into Deep Drive’s Twin-Rotor Motor. 
This is specifically a radial flux permanent magnet motor, like most used in electric vehicles today — and don’t let talk of inrunners and outrunners fool you, that’s the size of motor we’re talking about here. This has been done before with axial flux motors, but it’s a new concept for team radial. As the names imply,...

A girl can dream. | Image: Redfin / The Verge Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app. I don't want to brainstorm coverage options with an LLM every time I renew my car insurance. I'd much rather message a human than a robot to pester FedEx about my missing package. But I have found one scenario where AI is actually pretty great: real estate.
I need to confess something: I'm a Redfin looky-loo. A Zillow zealot. Not because I am actually shopping for a new home. With these interest rates? God, no. But I am perpetually window-shopping for a new home - partly out of nosiness, and partly because I like imagining what life might look like in a different a …
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Welcome to the surveillance pricing era.

Le PLFSS 2026 a été adopté par les députés, mardi, par 247 voix contre 234, avec 93 abstentions. Découvrez les résultats détaillés du vote.

What do you get the man who says he has everything? It's a tough question - and one you have a limited amount of time to answer, given the holidays are nearly upon us. You could try dropping subtle hints or asking friends and family for suggestions, but they might save their best ideas for themselves. Fortunately, if you're struggling to come up with something, we have more than a few ideas. With the help of Verge staffers, we've compiled suggestions for dads of every make and model. It doesn't matter if he's the type to get up early to prep the smart smoker or if his idea of a perfect Sunday is watching his favorite team absolutely crush …
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A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI.

Looking to make karaoke night a regular thing? We’ve tested everything from Bluetooth speakers to full-blown PAs.

[Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its chocolate-brown and 9u space bar-havin’ glory.
Image by [Jean] via GitHubThis Arduino Pro Micro-based brain transplant began as a sketch, and [Jean] reports it now has proper code in QMK. But how is a person supposed to use it in 2025, almost 2026, especially as a programmer or just plain serious computer user?
The big news here is that [Jean] added support for missing characters using the left and right Shift keys, and even added mouse controls and Function keys that are accessed on a layer via the Shift Lock key. You can see the key maps over on GitHub.
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L’Olympique de Marseille, actuel 21ᵉ du classement de la phase de ligue, doit gagner face aux Belges pour espérer poursuivre son aventure dans le tournoi, mardi.

Le procureur général du Honduras a demandé l’arrestation immédiate de l’ancien président du pays, Juan Orlando Hernández, amnistié par Donald Trump, et le parti au pouvoir demande l’annulation de la présidentielle du 30 novembre 2025, dans laquelle le président des États-Unis s’est immiscé.

Les députés ont adopté le budget 2026 de la Sécurité sociale, par 247 voix pour, 234 contre, et 93 abstentions. Après un dernier passage au Sénat, le texte devrait revenir une dernière fois à l’Assemblée le 16 décembre, ont confié plusieurs sources parlementaires au « Monde ».

“The European Union has agreed a new set of rules for plants created using genomic technologies, Euronews reports. The new framework covers key issues such as how such products should be labelled in supermarkets and whether they can be patented. New genomic technologies, such as gene editing, are breeding techniques that allow small parts of the genetic material of animals, plants or microorganisms (such as yeast or bacteria). They do not require the introduction of foreign genetic material or DNA from another species. This distinguishes them from older methods used to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which involve inserting foreign genetic material into an organism to create a hybrid.” From...

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

“Today, helium is an essential cooling component in nuclear reactors, rockets and medical diagnostic equipment such as MRI machines. The gas keeps fiber optics, superconductors, quantum computers and semiconductors cool, but skyrocketing demand has pushed supply chains to their limit, resulting in a global shortage that has persisted for more than a decade. Helium extraction also has a huge carbon footprint — almost equivalent to the U.K.’s per year — because currently, it is exclusively produced together with natural gas. However, in recent years, pioneering discoveries have led to a pivotal change in scientists’ understanding of the geology that helps helium accumulate. Researchers have uncovered...

“Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world’s first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor – technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) project – a public-private collaboration between Southern Company, TerraPower, CORE POWER, and the US Department of Energy (DOE) – is planned to be the first reactor experiment hosted at the Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the United States (LOTUS) test bed being built at the lab by the DOE’s National Reactor Innovation Center. It uses liquid salt as the fuel and the coolant, allowing for high...

La France célèbre ce mardi 9 décembre les 120 ans de la loi de séparation des Églises et de l’État, un texte fondateur du modèle français de laïcité. Ce dernier est souvent mal compris à l’étranger, constatait cet universitaire italien en 2023 dans les colonnes du quotidien progressiste “Domani”.

Depuis le 8 décembre, des responsables du Rassemblement national font part dans les médias de leur souhait de faire rouvrir les maisons closes, pour faire des travailleuses du sexe des “impératrices en leur royaume”, selon les mots du député Jean-Philippe Tanguy. Marine Le Pen, qui “épouse les codes et les combats de l’époque”, pourrait soutenir la proposition de loi en préparation, qui s’inspire d’initiatives mises en place chez nos voisins, analyse la presse internationale.

“In a study published in Nature, the scientists analysed the health records of more than 280,000 adults in Wales between the ages of 71 and 88 years old. They were aiming to understand the effects of a shingles vaccination programme that began in 2013. They found that older adults (aged 79–80) who had received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia by 2020, compared to those who hadn’t been eligible to receive it. What’s more, in a recent follow-up study published in Cell, the same scientists discovered that the shingles vaccine seemed to have a protective effect even among those who’d already been diagnosed with dementia by 2013.” From BBC Science Focus.
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American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools.

L’hebdomadaire britannique “The Economist” a utilisé cette métaphore pour saluer les performances du Portugal, qu’il considère comme l’“économie de l’année”, en tête de son classement qui compare les données économiques des 36 pays les plus riches du monde. Une reconnaissance dont se félicitent le gouvernement et certains candidats à la présidentielle. La presse, elle, plante “l’envers du décor”.

Jeudi 4 décembre, les États-Unis et le Kenya ont signé un accord bilatéral sur la santé prévoyant une aide financière à destination de Nairobi pour lutter contre le sida, le paludisme et la polio. C’est le premier accord de ce type depuis le démantèlement de l’Agence américaine pour le développement international (USAID). Mais les interrogations sont nombreuses sur les véritables motivations américaines.

What if the Fed's interest rate cuts, intended to support a struggling jobs market, end up accelerating the very technology contributing to job losses?

La justice cherche à cerner le rôle du Libanais, considéré comme une source de très haut niveau par les services antidrogue français et américains depuis vingt ans, dans le scandale qui éclabousse l’office anti-stupéfiants de Marseille. Sa cinquième demande de remise en liberté sera examinée mercredi.

Policy experts say Trump’s Nvidia plan weakens America’s only clear advantage in AI compute — even as Beijing limits H200 access and backs local chips

These metropolises are leading the way in improved public transit by making city life less car-dependent

We’re all used to Bluetooth chips coming in QFN and BGA formats, at a minimum of 30-40 pins, sometimes even a hundred. What about ten pins, with 1.27 mm pitch? [deqing] from Hackaday.io shows us a chip from WCH, CH571K, in what’s essentially a SO-10 package (ESSOP10). This chip has a RISC-V core, requires only three components to run, and can work Bluetooth through a simple wire antenna.
This chip is a RISC-V MCU with a Bluetooth peripheral built in, and comes from the CH57x family of WCH chips that resemble the nRF series we’re all used to. You get a fair few peripherals: UART, SPI, and ADC, and of course, Bluetooth 4 with Low Energy support to communicate with a smart device of your choice. For extra...

L’ancien parlementaire a reconnu devant le tribunal un détournement d’une partie de son enveloppe de frais de mandat pour des dépenses personnelles. Il a reçu une peine de dix mois de prison avec sursis, assortie d’une amende et de cinq ans d’inéligibilité.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Vladimir Poutine a été accueilli en grande pompe à New-Delhi les 4 et 5 décembre derniers pour célébrer les 25 ans du partenariat stratégique indo-russe. Sa délégation était vaste, les thèmes de discussion nombreux, mais pas d’annonce majeure sur l’énergie ou les contrats de défense. Narendra Modi garde manifestement des cartes en main pour finaliser ses négociations avec Washington.

Toulouse • France • August 2018 📷 #flashes

Vous vous souvenez des cassettes audio ? Mais siiii, ces trucs de nous les vieux quand on était jeune (spoiler : je suis toujours jeune !). Il fallait même rembobiner avec un crayon quand le lecteur bouffait la bande !!
Hé bien des chercheurs chinois viennent de ressusciter ce format… mais version ADN. Et au lieu de stocker 90 minutes de musique, leur cassette peut théoriquement embarquer des quantités astronomiques de données.
L’équipe de Xingyu Jiang, ingénieur biomédical à la Southern University of Science and Technology de Shenzhen, a développé une bande pas comme les autres. Au lieu de la traditionnelle couche d’oxyde de fer, c’est de l’ADN synthétique qui est déposé sous forme de...

A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they’re intended for remaking car ECUs. For a while now, every car has heavily depended on a computer to control the operation of everything inside it – the engine and its infrastructure, the lights, and  Sadly, ECUs are quite non-hackable, so building your own ECUs only makes sense – which is why it’s heartwarming to see modules intended to make this easier on the budding ECU designer!
Last time we saw this module, it was quite a bit simpler. We talked about fixing a number of things – the linear regulator, the unprotected CAN transceiver, and the pinout; we also made...

There has been pushback to the term used by France's first lady to describe activists who interrupted comedian Ary Abittan's show.

Dans un entretien à « Politico », Donald Trump lance sa charge la plus virulente contre l’Europe et ses dirigeants, dans la droite ligne de la stratégie de sécurité nationale dévoilée par la Maison Blanche.

Personne ne s’en doutait, mais durant 3 ans, les communications entre la Terre et les sondes de la NASA étaient totalement vulnérables au piratage du moindre script kiddy ! Et personne n’était au courant évidemment, et aucun des multiples audits de code qui se sont succédé depuis 2022 n’avait mis à jour ce problème jusqu’à ce qu’une IA s’en mêle !
La faille découverte au bout de 4 jours d’analyse, se trouvait dans
CryptoLib
, une bibliothèque de chiffrement open source utilisée pour sécuriser les échanges entre les stations au sol et les satellites en orbite. Cette bibliothèque implémente le protocole SDLS-EP (Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures) de la norme...

Le scrutin, prévu dans l’après-midi de mardi, s’annonce très serré.

It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.

Rançongiciel chez Poltronesofà : fuite de données anciennes, risques de fraude et interrogations sur la conservation des informations clients à l’ère du RGPD....

US lawmakers could withhold Pentagon travel funds until unedited video of a controversial incident is made public.

It sometimes seems as though we are in a constant tussle over privacy between governments and the governed, with each year bringing fresh attempts to extend surveillance, and consequent battles. For Brits the big news at the moment comes in a new digital ID scheme, something that will be required for anyone wishing to work in the country, as well as for certain government services. It’s something that has attracted a lot of opposition, and now the EFF have produced an analysis  of why they think it won’t work.
From the perspective of a British writer it would be easy to write screeds about the flaws in the scheme, the way it over-reaches, and about the historical distrust of Brits for their government’s...

September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.

This meal is full of macros. What are macros? Who cares? You don’t need to know. What you need to know is that you are the alpha of this fast-healthy-adjacent bowl purveyor.

Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.

Pour sensibiliser les politiques et les entreprises aux conséquences dramatiques de la fonte des glaciers qui accélère le réchauffement climatique, l'association 1% for the planet a réuni le DJ Mosimann, les musiciens Aurélien Buiron et Flavien Berger ainsi que le plasticien Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff pour faire entendre la voix des glaciers.

Prix spécial du jury au dernier Festival de Cannes, le film du jeune prodige chinois Bi Gan suit un « Rêvoleur », personnage qui s’obstine à rêver dans un monde qui ne le permet plus… Un tourbillon créatif vertigineux, en salles ce mercredi 10 décembre.