Aujourd'hui j'aimerais vous parler un peu de bidouille et plus particulièrement de domotique. Hé oui, si comme moi, vous en avez marre que tous vos objets connectés passent par des serveurs chinois (souvent à la sécurité douteuse) ou américains (souvent directement connecté à la NSA) pour vous dire qu'il fait 22°C dans votre salon, on va voir comment ensemble créer ses propres capteurs 100% locaux avec ESPHome
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ESPHome, c'est un framework open source qui transforme n'importe quel ESP32 ou ESP8266 en appareil connecté intelligent sans vous prendre la tête. Vous écrivez un petit fichier YAML, vous flashez la puce, et hop, vous avez un capteur qui cause directement avec Home Assistant. Comme ça...

The president's comments come just a day after the US gave its official backing to the UK's Chagos deal.

“The Sunday Post” dévoile l’ampleur de la violence domestique et sexuelle en Écosse, et souligne que seule une agression sur six est signalée. Le coût humain et économique est alarmant.

Des chercheurs mettent en évidence pour la première fois un lien direct entre le niveau de particules fines et le risque de développer la maladie d’Alzheimer. La pollution augmente aussi les risques d’AVC, d’hypertension et de dépression, qui sont eux-mêmes des facteurs de risque de la maladie d’Alzheimer.

Onze personnes ont été interpellées mercredi dans le cadre de l’enquête ouverte après l’agression mortelle subie par le jeune étudiant et militant d’extrême droite. Plusieurs des suspects appartenaient à la Jeune Garde, collectif antifasciste lyonnais, dissous par le ministère de l’intérieur en juin 2025 pour ses méthodes jugées violentes.

Quinze départements de la façade ouest sont, par ailleurs, en vigilance orange crues ce matin, selon le dernier bulletin de Météo-France.

Ce fleuron du secteur, dont le chatbot Claude aurait servi au Venezuela, est dans le collimateur du ministre de la Défense, Pete Hegseth. Le gouvernement Trump rejette l’“IA woke” et veut utiliser sans réserve l’intelligence artificielle à des fins militaires.

A la suite d’une erreur de classement d’une pièce de procédure, la justice a dû prononcer la levée d’écrou de quatre individus mis en examen après la mort de Mamadou B., tué par erreur à Bagnolet en juillet 2024.

Lauren Groff on Masters of Short Fiction
https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/lauren-groff-on-masters-of-short-fiction

L’ombre de la guerre plane sur l’Iran. La population fait face à une vague d’arrestations sans précédent, et pourtant, la société civile reste vivante et déterminée. Les communiqués publiés régulièrement par des personnalités civiles et politiques de tous horizons en sont la preuve. Ils se fondent sur trois refus : ni compromission avec le pouvoir, ni guerre, ni dépendance face aux puissances étrangères.

Comme j’ai récupéré des AirPods Pro 3 (ceux de l’année du cheval), je me suis posé une question : est-ce que la localisation est meilleure qu’avec les AirPods Pro 2 ? La réponse va dépendre de vos appareils. Si vous avez un iPhone jusqu’au 14, il n’y a pas de différence. Si vous avez un iPhone 15 (ou plus), la portée est un peu améliorée : le boîtier des AirPods Pro 3 intègre une puce U2 pour la localisation précise, qui améliore la précision et la portée avec les iPhone modernes. Les AirPods pro 3
La portée est assez grande
Dans la pratique, j’ai une portée un peu plus élevée avec mon iPhone 15 : ils sont vus dans tout mon logement, contrairement aux AirPods Pro 2. Dans les...

Le 3 février 2026 à Erevan, capitale de l'Arménie, s'est tenu le troisième dialogue politique et sécuritaire de haut niveau entre l'Union européenne et l'Arménie. Ce dialogue a réaffirmé l'ambition stratégique du partenariat UE-Arménie et son engagement commun à faire progresser la coopération et l'alignement en matière de politique étrangère, de sécurité et de défense. Le dialogue a également souligné l'importance de la poursuite d'échanges réguliers et structurés sur les questions politiques et de sécurité ; pilier de l'accord de partenariat global et renforcé entre les deux parties. Ce rendez-vous entre les deux pays, co-présidé par le vice-Ministre des Affaires étrangères...

A jury will decide whether Meta’s engagement strategy was savvy growth — or a design choice with foreseeable legal risk

US media reports that Trump has discussed attack options with advisers, and a strike could happen as early as Saturday.

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A lot of hacks get inspired by science fiction. When that inspiration is taken from the boob tube or the silver screen, the visual design is largely taken care of by the prop department. If, on the other hand, one seeks inspiration from the written word– like [Math Campbell] did for his smart pocket watch inspired by The Diamond Age— the visuals are much more up to the individual hacker. Though no nanotechnology was involved in its creation, we think [Math] nailed the Victorian High-Tech vibe of [Neil Stephenson]’s cult classic.
The build itself is fairly simple: [Math] started with a Waveshare dev board that got him the 1.75″ round touch display, along with an ESP32-S3 and niceties such as a six-axis...

Kirill Dmitriev, l’homme de confiance de Vladimir Poutine, cherche à convaincre l’administration américaine d’investir en Russie, en contrepartie d’une levée des sanctions et d’une paix favorable au Kremlin.

Ce collectif, né au moment de l’accord de Paris, ne compte dans ses rangs quasiment aucun spécialiste des sciences du climat. Certains de ses membres bénéficient pourtant d’une importante visibilité, notamment dans les médias libéraux et d’extrême droite.

Si Paris et Berlin veulent encore croire à une sortie de crise, le blocage politique et industriel compromet la concrétisation du projet de système de combat aérien du futur, annoncé en 2017.

Le fondateur de Facebook témoignait à Los Angeles dans le cadre d’un procès qui pourrait remettre en cause le business model des réseaux sociaux.

See the floats from the famous festival as the city's top samba schools compete for first prize.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as all the attorneys, reporters, and advocates who'd come to watch his landmark trial testimony, but with one notable difference: he was flanked by an entourage that appeared to be wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. To get to the courtroom, he walked past a crowd of parents whose children died after struggling with issues they attribute to the design of social media platforms including those that Meta makes. He would spend the next eight hours often answering questions in his signature matter-of-fact (or less charitably, monotone) cadence, denying h …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Typically, when we want to take images, we use an image sensor paired with some sort of lens assembly to make a picture that’s sharply in focus. However, [okooptics] is here to show us there’s another way—using Scotch tape in place of a typical lens element.
If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special “lensless imaging” techniques. In particular, [okooptics] shows how to recreate the so-called coded aperture techniques which were previously demonstrated in [Laura Waller]’s DiffuserCam paper.
It’s complicated stuff,...

Arlo Parks “Heaven”
There’s a sound in this song that first shows up at the 00:02 mark. I’m calling it a “sound” because I don’t know exactly what it is. It’s probably a vocal snippet that’s been processed through a few filters, but who knows. The mysterious quality is part of the allure, a lot of the reason it catches your ear. As it reoccurs, you sorta end up chasing it around the song. It shows up, it fades away, it reappears. It’s like an audio firefly flitting around the negative space of the song. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on in the music. Arlo Parks is singing about a beautiful moment watching a friend DJ at Under the K Bridge park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The beat is...

The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Phison is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices - and CEO Pua Khein-Seng has now become a leading voice for just how bad the RAM shortage might get.
Companies may need to cut back their product lines in the second half of 2026, and some companies will even die if they can't get the components they need, he agreed, in a televised interview with Ningguan Chen of Taiwanese broadcaster Next TV.
While the interview's entirely in Chinese, friends of The Verge stepped forward to confirm parts of a machine-translated summary that's been making headlines. They also note, importantly, that it's the int …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Gazans say Hamas is again extending its control over security, tax revenue and government services.

The galaxy is unusually dim and appears to be held together by invisible mass—dark matter.

[James]’ Mechanical Organ of Dutch origin has been around longer than he has, but thanks to being rebuilt over the years and lovingly cared for, it delivers its unique performances just as well as it did back in the day. Even better, we’re treated to a good look at how it works.
The organ produces music by playing notes on embedded instruments, which are themselves operated by air pressure, with note arrangements read off what amounts to a very long punch card. [James] gives a great tour of this fantastic machine, so check it out in the video embedded below along with a couple of its performances. The machine is mobile and entirely self-contained. It would be wheeled out to a venue, where it would play...

A court is due to deliver its verdict in the insurrection trial of Yoon Suk Yeol.

The PencilWash is designed to be lightweight and maneuverable. | Image: Dyson Dyson has announced an alternate version of its skinny PencilVac that's designed to clean spills and stains on hard floors instead of sucking up dirt and debris. Like the PencilVac, which Dyson called "world's slimmest vacuum cleaner" when it was announced nine months ago, the new PencilWash squeezes a battery, motor, and other electronics into its 1.5-inch-diameter handle. But it trades a dust bin for a water reservoir located in its larger cleaning head featuring a single floor-scrubbing roller.
At 4.9 pounds without water or a low foaming cleaning solution in its tank, the PencilWash is slightly heavier than the four-pound...

He also starred in 'Last Action Hero,' 'RoboCop 2,' 'Heat,' and 'Manhunter.'

Meta is planning to launch a smartwatch with health tracking and AI features later this year, along with an updated version of its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, The Information reports. The smartwatch would arrive ahead of a pair of mixed reality glasses, code-named Phoenix, that Meta has reportedly delayed until 2027 amidst efforts to streamline the company's AR and MR roadmap. Meta previously scrapped plans for an earlier smartwatch in 2022 due to technical challenges and cost-cutting measures. If the new watch, code-named Malibu 2, comes to fruition, it would intensify competition with Apple, which is rumored to be working on a pa …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned.

At least two people accompanying Mark Zuckerberg to court on Wednesday wore the AI glasses.

Creating conversations with an AI celebrity isn’t difficut, because the AI models are trained on historical data. Here's what you need to know

The move signals the ride-hailing company is preparing for the rise of robotaxis.

The company behind Lite Brite said it wants to make Arcade1Up feel even more authentic than before.

The 11-inch iPad Pro is down to a new low price. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad, the iPad Mini, and the latest iPad Air. Hell, you can even often find discounts on the latest M5 iPad Pro, which is already on sale at multiple retailers. All that being said, it’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable iPad deals unless you’re scouring the major retailers on a daily basis. But that’s often what...

Bose's fabulous QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 noise-canceling headphones are the best travel headphones and are $50 off.

Keeping an eye on remaining battery charge. (credit: Luke Maximo Bell, YouTube)
Although not a typical focus of people who fly quadcopter drones for a hobby or living, endurance flying has a certain appeal to it for the challenge it offers. Thus, as part of his efforts to collect all the world records pertaining to quadcopter drones, [Luke Maximo Bell] has been working on a design that would allow him to beat the record set by SiFly Aviation at 3 hours and 11 minutes.
By using knowledge gained from his PV solar-powered quadcopter, [Luke] set about to take it all a few steps further. The goal was to get as much performance out of a single Watt, which requires careful balancing of weight, power output and many...

The award-winning writer discusses some of her favorite story collections and why they’ve stuck with her.

With the continued growth of pirate IPTV services in recent years, TV broadcasters and distributors have been ramping up their anti-piracy efforts.
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has been particularly active. It’s also the main driver behind a new lawsuit filed yesterday by DISH Network at a New York federal court.
Dish Sues Pirate IPTV Operation
The American pay-TV provider accuses Moroccan resident Idriss Elkasmi and various unnamed defendants of running the IPTV operation, using various brands, including DMTN IPTV, Idriss Premium TV and Manx TV. These services allegedly offered access to thousands of live channels and up to 100,000 movies and series on demand.
100,000+...

Here’s the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that you’ve all been waiting for. But wait! This year there’s a twist, or rather two. What absolutely hasn’t changed, though, is that we’d love to see you there, and we’d love to hear about what you’ve been up to, so get your talk or workshop proposal in before March 18th.
New Place, New Time
Hackaday Europe is moving in all four dimensions! We’ll be meeting up in the absolutely lovely Lecco, Italy — just about equidistant from Milan and Bergamot, and taking place May 16th and 17th, with the traditional pre-event meetup on the night of the 15th for those who are already in town. The location is the Politecnico Milano campus, a hub of engineering...

Americans lost a staggering $12.5 billion to identity theft and related financial fraud in 2024. How to protect your money and keep your info safe

The rise of a social network for AI agents exposes how far autonomous AI has come — and how far it still has to go

Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.

While it may sound unorthodox, these earbuds make a great companion for your Switch 2 or other portable console.

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.

Global stocks are beating the U.S. by the widest margin since 1995. What's behind the "Ex-America" trade?

Accès illégaux à FICOBA fin janvier 2026, 1,2 million de comptes copiés par un pirate....

“In the battle for AI dominance, every engine of the economy is getting recruited into the fight—including jet engines.  Jet engine leasing and repair company FTAI Aviation plans to start selling a modified version of the engine used in the Boeing 737 to power data centers this year… Jefferies equity analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu said about 1,600 commercial aircraft engines are retired every year. If a third of those engines get converted into turbines the size of FTAI’s turbine product, that would represent about 13 GW of capacity, or more than a quarter of the existing global natural gas turbine capacity estimated by Morgan Stanley. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that there are...

“Beijing’s scrapping of tariffs for all but one African country will start May 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday, according to state media. China already has a zero-tariff policy for imports from 33 African countries, but Beijing said last year it would extend the policy to all 53 of its diplomatic partners on the continent… From May 1, zero levies will apply to all African countries except Eswatini, which maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan.” From Asharq Al-Awsat.
The post China to Scrap Tariffs for Most of Africa from May appeared first on Human Progress.

“A first-of-its-kind inhalable gene therapy for lung cancer that genetically modifies people’s lung cells has been fast-tracked towards potential approval after promising clinical trial results… The new therapy contains a herpes virus that has been modified to make it harmless and unable to spread to other people. The virus is tasked with dragging two genes, one encoding the protein interleukin-2 and the other encoding interleukin-12, into lung cells. These are naturally produced in the body and help to suppress tumour growth. However, tumours often fight back and deplete them, so the gene therapy is designed to restore their production. Since 2024, Ma and his colleagues have been testing the gene...

Dans le dernier numéro de son magazine FUTUR, la rédaction d'Usbek & Rica a composé sa bibliothèque idéale pour sortir du chaos. Voici une sélection dans laquelle piocher pour mieux comprendre les enjeux de demain.

Fuite CSP : 377 418 candidats exposés, compte gestionnaire détourné et données personnelles volées....

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Uganda • May 2011 📷 #flashes