As if OpenAI didn't have enough drama around the Super Bowl and advertising, as the game wound down, word spread of a "leaked" ad that actually wasn't leaked at all; it was just a fake. Screenshots of a now-deleted Reddit thread told the tale of a frustrated employee who, while posting about how upset they were because the ad they'd worked on didn't run, accidentally leaked the entire advertisement video, seemingly showing Murderbot star Alexander Skarsgård with what could have been OpenAI's first hardware device, portrayed as a shiny orb that went with some wraparound earbuds. OpenAI president Greg Brockman commented on X with a tweet cal …
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“The All-American Halftime Show," born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull.

Le socialiste António José Seguro a triomphé au second tour de l’élection présidentielle au Portugal, dimanche 8 février, devançant très largement son adversaire d’extrême droite André Ventura. Les Portugais choisissent donc la modération mais l’extrême droite poursuit son ascension, avertit la presse internationale.

You could think of the set as a tribute to the power and capaciousness of American popular music—or as a pointed critique of it.

Dans l’oblast de Lviv, des adolescents peuvent, sur la base du volontariat, apprendre à se battre dans des camps d’entraînement qui leur sont destinés. Ces mineurs, comme bon nombre d’Ukrainiens, se méfient des promesses de paix de Donald Trump et consorts, raconte l’hebdomadaire allemand “Die Zeit”.

Embarrassés par leur enthousiasme passé vis-à-vis de Donald Trump, les leaders du Rassemblement national, Marine Le Pen et Jordan Bardella, tentent aujourd’hui de réfuter l’impression qu’ils seraient des partisans du président américain, constate ce quotidien suisse. Car celle-ci a peu de chances d’être bien accueillie par les électeurs français.

Le président chinois, Xi Jinping, a surpris le monde en évinçant récemment deux figures majeures de l’état-major. D’aucuns en Occident se réjouissent de cette volatilité apparente au sommet de l’armée. C’est évidemment un peu plus complexe, détaille cette analyse.

Jusqu’au 22 mars, le musée Ludwig, dans la ville allemande de Cologne, retrace l’histoire du sourire en photographie. Conquis, le quotidien “Süddeutsche Zeitung” y a vu un plaidoyer pour mettre davantage d’humour, de malice et de chaleur dans nos vies.

L’homme de 78 ans a été déclaré coupable de collusion avec l’étranger et publication séditieuse.

One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as possible, whether it’s a Walkman with a radio tuner or a new class of devices that crams a photo and video camera in the same enclosure as a music player. At the time that the Kodak MC3 was released this made it a rather unique device, with it in hindsight being basically a smartphone without the phone, as [Tech Tangents] aptly notes in his recent video on the device.
Six years before Apple’s iPhone would be announced, and eight years before the first iPod with a video camera, the Kodak MC3 was in many respects bleeding edge technology targeted straight at tech enthusiasts. For less than...

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.

La 60ᵉ édition de la finale du championnat de football américain s’est déroulée dimanche 8 février au Levi’s Stadium de Santa Clara (Californie). Les équipes de Seattle et de New England ont chacune marqué deux touchdowns, pour un score final de 29 à 13. Le chanteur portoricain Bad Bunny a invité sur scène Lady Gaga et Ricky Martin.

Adventure and beautiful worlds await in the newest TV spot for Illumination's 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.'

Le club de la capitale a repris la tête du championnat de France et fait le plein de confiance, grâce à son succès face aux Phocéens (5-0), dimanche, au Parc des Princes, lors de la 21ᵉ journée de Ligue 1.

We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25 years of operation. Located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, the RHIC was the only operating particle collider in the United States, and along with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was one of only two heavy-ion colliders in existence.
So that’s the bad news. The good news is that the RHIC is going dark so that the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) can take its place. Planned for activation in the mid-2030s, the EIC will occupy the same tunnel as the RHIC and reuse much of the same hardware. As the name implies, it will be used to collide...

After a vibes-heavy first look last year, fans might have expected the new 'Star Wars' movie to show up to the Super Bowl with something to tell. Alas!

Super Bowl LX is nearly here, with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots. While Bad Bunny will be the star of the halftime show, AI could be the star of the commercial breaks, much like crypto was a few years ago. Last year’s Super Bowl featured a Google Gemini ad that fumbled a Gouda cheese stat, and this year’s game is already slated to include an ad for Anthropic’s AI platform that takes jabs at its competitors, namely OpenAI. AI-generated ads could make an appearance, too.  Super Bowl LX is set to kick off at 6:30PM ET/3:30PM PT on Sunday, February 8th, and is being broadcast on NBC and Peacock. Ring advertised its neighborhood surveillance network. AI.com promises agents or...

Her ruling coalition is set to clinch a decisive win, taking two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives.

Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star in the latest alien film from iconic director Steven Spielberg, out June 12.

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Let China sleep. When she awakes, she'll shake the world; Napoleon Bonaparte

Free YouTube Music accounts are now seeing their access to lyrics limited, according to multiple reports. Google started testing lyrics as an exclusive feature for Premium users in September, but it appears that it's now receiving a wider rollout. It seems that free users will be limited to viewing lyrics for five songs per month, though we've reached out to Google for confirmation.
Once that limit is reached, users will only be able to see the first couple of lines. Everything beyond that will be blurred out, and they'll be prompted to "Unlock lyrics with Premium." The banner warning users about their limited lyric views remaining appears …
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L'actu de la semaine décryptée par Conspiracy Watch (du 02/02/2026 au 08/02/2026).

If you loved 'A Cure for Wellness,' Verbinski's take on 'BioShock' might've been exactly your kind of movie had it actually gotten made.

AI data centers are becoming a bipartisan concern. | Image: Microsoft New York's state legislature is set to consider a pair of bills that would require labels on AI-generated content and would put a three-year pause on new data center construction. The New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act (NY FAIR News Act, for short) would require that any news "substantially composed, authored, or created through the use of generative artificial intelligence" carry a disclaimer. It would also require that any content created using AI be reviewed and approved by a human with "editorial control" before being published. Beyond that, the bill requires organizations to disclose to newsroom em...

The middle of the 20th century produced a revolution in understated stylish consumer design, some of which lives on today. The reality of living in a 1950s or ’60s house was probably to be surrounded by the usual mess of possessions from many past decades, but the promise was of a beautiful sleek and futuristic living space. Central to this in most homes would have been the TV set, and manufacturers followed the trends of the age with cases that are now iconic. Here in 2026 we put up with black rectangles, but fortunately there’s Cordova Woodworking with a modern take on a retro TV cabinet.
We’ve put the build video below, and it’s a wonderfully watchable piece of workshop titillation in a...

Cet ancien député et ex-ministre avait remporté le premier tour avec 31,1 % des suffrages et s’était assuré le soutien de nombreuses personnalités politiques issues de l’extrême gauche, du centre et même de la droite, mais pas celui du premier ministre Luis Montenegro.

At least 15 governments on the continent are planning social media bans inspired by Australia.

The ruling conservatives defied opinion polls predicting a win for the reformist People's Party.

Illustration par ChatGPT
Toute époque avance plus vite que la conscience qu’elle a d’elle-même. Ce qui la transforme réellement lui demeure opaque, non par ignorance individuelle, mais parce que la compréhension ne vient qu’après coup.
Aujourd’hui, en dialogue avec l’intelligence artificielle, nous percevons une vérité troublante : la survie humaine dans un monde peuplé de super-intelligences ne dépendra pas principalement de notre capacité à édicter des règles qui les contraignent.
La question décisive cesse alors d’être celle de l’égalité pour devenir celle de la bienveillance mutuelle. Car ce qui sera en jeu ne sera plus la symétrie entre partenaires, mais la disposition des...

Morgan McSweeney, le chef de cabinet du premier ministre britannique, a annoncé sa démission, dimanche. Il était l’un des protégés de l’ancien ministre et ambassadeur aux Etats-Unis Peter Mandelson, tombé en disgrâce pour son amitié avec le criminel sexuel Jeffrey Epstein.

Computers are very good at doing exactly what they’re told. They’re still not very good at coming up with helpful suggestions of their own. They’re very much more about following instructions than using intuition; we still don’t have a digital version of Jeeves to aid our bumbling Wooster selves. [Sherrin] has developed something a little bit intelligent, though, in the form of a habit detector for use with Home Assistant.
In [Sherrin]’s smart home setup, there are lots of things that they wanted to fully automate, but they never got around to implementing proper automations in Home Assistant. Their wife also wanted to automate things without having to get into writing YAML directly. Thus, they...

Police have recovered DNA from a weapon but cannot determine which of the brothers used it.

Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 7 et dimanche 8 février ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.

Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn't currently getting a ton of attention. But this week, I can't stop listening to the new Mandy, Indiana album long enough to even think about anything else. It's early still, obviously, but URGH is my favorite release of 2026 so far. The band that I fell in love with on I've Seen a Way has found an entirely new gear. Frontwoman Valentine Caulfield is even more uncompromising. Most of the lyrics are in French, but even if you don't know what she's saying, you can feel the contempt. On "Magazine" she's spitting in your face as she seethes: Je viens pour toi
Alors vas-y cours
Je n'te …
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The suspects include the alleged gunman, Lyubomir Korba, whom Russia says fled to the UAE after the attack.

American skier Lindsey Vonn has surgery on a left-leg fracture after suffering heartbreak in what could be her final Olympic event as she crashes in the women's downhill competition in Cortina.

Discover six of the best small cities to live in the U.S. that offer community, amenities, and quality of life, per Reader’s Digest

Consumer Reports' experts took an honest look at some new versions of cars and SUVs to see if they're worth getting

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Earlier this year Donut Lab caused quite the furore when they unveiled what they claimed was the world’s first production-ready solid state battery, featuring some pretty stellar specifications. Since then many experts and enthusiasts in the battery space have raised concerns that this claimed battery may not be real, or even possible at all. After seeing the battery demonstrated at CES’26 and having his own concerns, [Ziroth] decided to do some investigating on what part of the stated claims actually hold up when subjected to known science.
On paper, the Donut Lab battery sounds amazing: full charge in less than 10 minutes, 400 Wh/kg energy density, 100,000 charge cycles, extremely safe and low cost....

Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.

Halfway between chess and bocce, curling is experiencing an evolution thanks to technology. From brooms to stones to footwear, here’s everything you need to know about the game’s gadgets.

A growing collection of pocket-sized gadgets lets you record your meetings and extract value from them. Here are our favorites.

As the Super Bowl kicks off, the NFL’s AI-powered digital athlete program is quietly saving teams hundreds of millions by helping keep players on the field

The author discusses her story “Predictions and Presentiments.”

A new restaurant from the team behind Corner Store offers exclusivity, and great steak to boot.

How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives? It was going to be only her and me from now on.

Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be?

The phenomenon of women leaving marriage is increasingly visible and public, though the exact historical forces that brought us here remain under-discussed

Almost one-third of NFL fans say they have or will call in sick the day after the game, according to one

Intégrer un formulaire de contact sur un petit projet ou un MVP, c'est souvent la plaie. Soit on s'embête avec un backend dédié, soit on finit par payer un abonnement chez Typeform ou FormSpree parce qu'on a dépassé le quota gratuit en trois jours.
Et c'est LÀ qu'intervient GitForms
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Le concept est tout bête mais fallait y penser. En fait l'idée c'est d'utiliser les GitHub Issues comme base de données pour vos formulaires comme ça, au lieu de stocker les messages dans une DB SQL ou NoSQL obscure, chaque soumission de formulaire crée automatiquement une nouvelle issue dans le dépôt GitHub de votre choix.
Pratique, non ?
Côté technique, c'est du solide puisqu'on est sur du Next.js 14, du...

Depuis fin janvier, une véritable curée médiatique s’opère contre les personnes dont le nom est retrouvé dans la correspondance de Jeffrey Epstein, mise en ligne intégralement par le gouvernement américain. Le procédé utilisé par Trump, pour créer un écran de fumée auprès de ses propres liens, étroits et anciens, avec Epstein est médiatiquement bien joué, […]

ICE protester speaks out after White House shared fake arrest image
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Vu sur Yahoo Auction (il faut un VPN), une Pippin fournie avec un pavé numérique. Elle est aussi sur eBay (plus cher, évidemment). C’est un accessoire assez rare, qui est visiblement lié aux consoles fournies par des FAI de l’époque. Le pavé numérique avec sa prise P-ADB permet de taper plus facilement le numéro de téléphone (et le mot de passe) pour se connecter à Internet avec le modem. En plus du pavé numérique, il y a un disque que je connaissais pas mais dont l’existence est logique : le BDB-030. C’est une variante du BDB-031, un kit Internet de chez NTT.
La console et son pavé
C’est le même que le mien
Les CD
Le BDB-030, inconnu (et agrandi)
Le BDB-031, connu (et agrandi)
Les...

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L'Union européenne ne pourrait être dans une position plus précaire aujourd'hui face à une administration Trump qui a transformé l'alliance transatlantique en instrument de coercition économique. Depuis des décennies, la sécurité européenne s'est appuyée sur les garanties militaires américaines via l'OTAN, au prix d'un sous-investissement chronique dans la défense, les capacités industrielles et l'autosuffisance technologique. Ce que l'Europe n'avait pas prévu , c'est que cette dépendance serait utilisée comme une arme. La nouvelle élite dirigeante américaine cherche à imposer ses intérêts économiques et idéologiques non plus par la diplomatie, mais par la force brute et l'extorsion....

Un procès aux assises vient d’être ordonné pour cet homme de 39 ans, soupçonné d’avoir orchestré un trafic international de cocaïne entre le Venezuela, la Martinique et l’Hexagone, depuis une Smart garée en bas de son domicile, à deux pas de l’Elysée. Il risque la perpétuité.

En moyenne, on estime qu’une langue disparaît toutes les deux semaines. Un déclin qui s’est accéléré sous l’effet conjugué des crises climatique et écologique : là où les saisons se détraquent et où la biodiversité faiblit, les mots s’éteignent à leur tour.

In November 2015, Federal Police in Brazil launched Operation Blackbeard, a coordinated action to take down Latin America’s most popular pirate site: MegaFilmesHD.net.
Launched in 2010 and mainly catering to the Portuguese-speaking market, the movie portal had been pulling in a reported 60 million monthly visits.
At the time, the site offered a type of convenience that most legal services couldn’t match. In addition to the free and unrestricted access to content, this also included localized features such as Portuguese subtitles or dubbing. This reign ended when police made several arrests, including the site’s presumed operators, and seized several cars, cash, and bank accounts. These actions were...