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by io9 - about 25 minutes
Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.
by HackAdAy - about 30 minutes
When you can buy something at a low price in one location, and sell it at a higher price somewhere else, you’re engaged in what economists call “arbitrage”. We’re not sure if desoldering DDR5 chips from laptop SO-DIMMs to populate a custom PCB to create much-more-expensive desktop memory counts as arbitrage, but it certainly counts as a hack. [VIK-on], who built the cards, claims he’s getting DDR5 performance at almost DDR3 prices. Nice!
Installed, the RAM apparently works well, though [VIK-on] has not shared benchmarks.Specifically, he’s put together a 32 GB UDIMM from donor chips from two 16 GB SO-DIMMs. The memory chips themselves aren’t enough to make a stick of RAM, however: the part where...
by QZ - about 47 minutes
The 2026 tax season is kicking off, and a watchdog warns that taxpayers face new challenges due to Trump's steep cuts
by BBC - about 47 minutes
The US federal agency says it will not play an immigration role at February's event in Milan-Cortina.
by Wired - about 49 minutes
Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it. Here’s how to change it back.
by io9 - about 1 hour
Tanzyn Crawford plays Tanselle, a Dornish artist, in the new 'Game of Thrones' spin-off.
by The Verge - about 1 hour
Amazon Go and Fresh physical store locations will soon be no more, with Amazon announcing on Tuesday that it's closing up the majority of the stores and converting others into Whole Foods Market locations. Customers will still be able to order from Amazon Fresh online, but won't be able to shop at physical stores with the same name. Amazon is also planning to expand its same-day delivery option for groceries and household essentials to more cities over the coming year. The Go and Fresh closures come as Amazon doubles down on expanding the Whole Foods brand rather than its own in-house physical grocery stores. That expansion includes over 1 …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Anker knocks almost half the cost off its already budget-friendly earbuds.
by Wired - about 1 hour
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Le distributeur nordiste entend proposer à la vente 91 supermarchés au Groupement Les Mousquetaires (Intermarché), lequel ne reprendra en franchise que 164 supermarchés d’Auchan, et non 266 comme prévu. Les salariés sont sous le choc.
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
La première motion, déposée par la gauche – hors PS – a rassemblé 267 voix. La seconde, lancée par des parlementaires d’extrême droite, a recueilli 140 voix.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Research from the ride-hail aggregator Obi finds Waymo is starting to edge up on Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Tesla, which operates a ride-hail service with human drivers, is winning the price wars.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a decade and had several hits with mobile games like Triple Town and Alphabear. That approachable style of puzzle game seemed like a good fit for Netflix's mobile-first strategy, and, as Spry Fox cofounder David Edery tells me, the partnership also meant that the team could focus on making the experiences they wanted to build without having to worry about monetization. "We just never were that good at making money from our games," Edery explains.
Now, three years later, Spry Fox is once again independent after buying …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Des courriers en ce sens vont être envoyés aux Hongrois, a expliqué à la chaîne publique HirTV le secrétaire d’Etat, Janos Nagy. Des campagnes d’affichage ainsi que de communication à la télévision et sur Internet sont également prévues.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Reincubate, which makes the Camo and Camo Studio apps for turning your iOS or Android phone into a webcam for your Mac or PC, is suing Apple, alleging anticompetitive conduct and patent infringement.
Camo first launched in 2020, but two years after, Apple launched a similar feature called Continuity Camera, which works just with Apple devices. Reincubate alleges that Apple "copied the technology" and "used its control over its operating systems and App Store to disadvantage that interoperable solution and redirect user demand to Apple's own platform-tied offering," according to the lawsuit.
"Camo was used by thousands of Apple employees, a …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Wired - about 2 hours
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
Anker’s MagGo Wireless Charging Station (Foldable 3-in-1) can quickly charge compatible iPhones and Apple Watches. Buying separate chargers for your phone, watch, and earbuds adds up quickly. Anker’s MagGo Wireless Charging Station (Foldable 3-in-1) replaces all three, and now through January 30th it’s just $49.99 ($60 off) at Amazon-owned Woot. That’s the best price we’ve seen, and cheaper than many chargers designed for just one device.
Anker MagGo Wireless Charging Station (Foldable 3-in-1) Where to Buy: $49.99 $109.99 at Woot
The charging station delivers up to 15W of power to compatible MagSafe iPhones while pulling double duty as an adjustable phone stand, making it easy to check notifications...
by The Verge - about 2 hours
WhatsApp is launching new "Strict Account Settings" that add even more protections against cyberattacks. The feature is built for people at a high-risk of attacks - such as journalists or public figures - and automatically blocks attachments and media from senders you don't know, while silencing calls from unknown contacts.
The new setting limits other functionality inside WhatsApp, including turning off link previews, limiting who can add you to a group, and blocking non-contacts from seeing your profile photo, "about" details, and online status. "You should only turn this on if you think you may be a target of a sophisticated cyber campai …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by io9 - about 2 hours
The Trump regime's abuse of AI has opened up new legal questions.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Hasbro and Mattel are taking 'KPop Demon Hunters' to the stores with dolls, NERF weapons, and even UNO and Monopoly.
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing process begins. Break a bone, and the body will knit it back together as long as you keep it still enough. But teeth? Our adult teeth get damaged all the time, and yet the body has almost no way to repair them at all. Get a bad enough cavity or knock one out, and it’s game over. There’s nothing to be done but replace it.
Finding a way to repair teeth without invasive procedures has long been a holy grail for dental science. A new treatment being developed in Japan could help replace missing teeth in the near future. The Tooth
Using an antibody treatment to suppress USAG-1 in ferrets...
by BBC - about 2 hours
Young Iranians able tell the BBC how they saw friends and other people die as security forces crushed protests earlier this month.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Les informations, parues dans la presse, sur la présence pour les Jeux olympiques d’agents de la très controversée police de l’immigration américaine ont provoqué la confusion en Italie. Le fait que leur venue soit habituelle pour ce genre d’événements n’a été que tardivement communiqué par le gouvernement qui, gêné par sa portée symbolique dans le contexte actuel, est resté englué dans la polémique.
by QZ - about 3 hours
Prominent CEOs have largely avoided criticizing Trump, yet some are now carefully addressing ICE's actions in Minnesota after the death of Alex Pretti
by BBC - about 3 hours
The process will be available to foreign nationals without a criminal record who can prove they lived in Spain for five months prior to 31 December 2025.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Sans avoir communiqué sur le sujet, Moscou a commencé à retirer ses troupes de l’aéroport de Qamishli, dans le nord-est de la Syrie, selon la presse internationale. Cette manœuvre intervient alors que le président du gouvernement de transition, Ahmed El-Charaa, est attendu ce mercredi 28 janvier à Moscou pour rencontrer son homologue russe.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Le rapatriement de la dépouille de Ran Gvili scelle le retour “jusqu’au dernier” de tous les otages du 7 octobre 2023 sur le sol israélien. Mais le Hamas est encore présent dans l’enclave palestinienne, contrairement au deuxième objectif de la guerre fixé par le gouvernement de Benyamin Nétanyahou.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
À l’approche des élections législatives du 8 février, les partis japonais proposent des mesures de réduction d’impôts susceptibles d’aggraver la dette du pays, qui caracole déjà à 235 % du PIB. Un “populisme fiscal” qui inquiète plusieurs journaux nippons.
by Human Progress - about 3 hours
“After nearly two decades of negotiations, India and the European Union announced Tuesday they have reached a free trade agreement to deepen economic and strategic ties. The accord, which the EU chief described as the ‘mother of all deals,’ could affect as many as 2 billion people… The accord will see free trade on almost all goods between the 27 members of the EU and India, covering everything from textiles to medicines and bringing down high import taxes for European wine and cars.” From Associated Press.
The post India and the EU Announce a Free Trade Deal Affecting Billions appeared first on Human Progress.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
In 1993, DOOM was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, you can play it on a set of earbuds instead, if for some reason that’s something you’ve always dreamed of doing.
The project comes to us from [Arin Sarkisian], who figured out that the Pinebuds Pro had enough processing power to run one of the seminal FPS games from the 1990s. Inside these earbuds is a Cortex-M4F, which is set to run at 100 MHz. [Arin] figured out it could easily be cranked up to 300 MHz with low power mode switched off, which would come in handy for one main reason. See, the earbuds might be able to run the DOOM engine, but they don’t have a display.
Thus, [Arin] figured...
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Le premier ministre indien, Narendra Modi, et les représentants de l’Union européenne ont conclu, mardi 27 janvier, un accord commercial après près de vingt ans de négociations intermittentes.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Lancé en septembre 2025 par le ministère des Affaires étrangères français, ce compte a pour objectif de défendre les intérêts de la France sur les réseaux sociaux en reprenant les codes d’Internet face à la prolifération des fausses informations. Une initiative qui attire une importante audience et que salue la presse internationale.
by Korben - about 4 hours
Vous savez combien de services américains vous utilisez sur votre site web utilise sans que vous ne le sachiez réellement ??? Aucun ? Bah et les Google Fonts pour la typo, Cloudflare pour le CDN, YouTube pour les vidéos embarquées, Google Analytics pour les stats et j'en passe des vertes et des pas mûres... ??? Faudrait pas les oublier !
Ainsi même si votre hébergement est chez O2Switch ou Scaleway en France, vos visiteurs peuvent envoyer des données aux USA sans que vous le réalisiez.
Et ça pose un vrai problème juridique car je sais pas si vous vous souvenez du Privacy Shield mais c'était ce fameux accord qui permettait de transférer légalement des données vers les États-Unis ? Hé bien il a...
by Human Progress - about 4 hours
Summary: Comparing nominal price changes to changes in average hourly wages from 2000 to 2025, we can see that many goods with rising dollar prices have become more affordable in time prices. Professor Mark Perry from the American Enterprise Institute recently posted an updated version of his “Chart of the Century,” featuring price and wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The chart tracks 14 items over the 25-year period from January 2000 to December 2025. It also includes the overall inflation rate and changes in average hourly wages. To examine the data from a different perspective, we calculated the change in the time prices of these 14 items relative to the change in the average...
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Même si Internet reste l’essentiel du temps coupé, quelques brèches permettent à la population de mesurer la violence sans précédent qui s’est abattue sur les manifestants : dizaines de milliers de morts, arrestations massives, hôpitaux surveillés, prisons saturées.
by daryo Bluesky - about 4 hours
August 2017 📷 #flashes
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by QZ - about 5 hours
The airline made clear it’s betting that the path to larger and steadier profits travels through the high end of the market
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
The very concept of the web browser began with a humble piece of software called NCSA Mosaic, all the way back in 1993. It was soon eclipsed by Netscape Navigator, and later Internet Explorer, which became the titans of the 1990s browser market. In turn, they too would falter. Navigator’s dying corpse ended up feeding what would become Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer later morphed into the unexceptional browser known as Edge.
Few of us have had any reason to think about Netscape Navigator since its demise in 2008. And yet, the name lingers on. A zombie from a forgotten age, risen again to haunt us today. The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall
Netscape Navigator was once the browser to use,...
by QZ - about 5 hours
Wall Street wants an answer now on the only question that has reliably moved the AI complex: Is the buildout still expanding — and at what price?
by QZ - about 5 hours
Tariffs cost GM more than $3 billion last year and accounted for the majority of the automaker's year-over-year decline in profits
by Paul Jorion - about 6 hours
Les retombées de l’assassinat d’un contre-manifestant à Minneapolis tournent à l’avantage du patron du Wall Street Journal.
by Korben - about 6 hours
Bon, je vais pas vous mentir, YouTube et moi en ce moment c'est compliqué. Ce matin encore, j'ai passé une bonne heure à debug mes scripts Python pour choper de la musique pour mes lives Twitch. Et yt-dlp qui rame de plus en plus, alors qu'avant ça prenait 3 secondes chrono... Pffff, j'ai l'impression que Google a décidé de nous pourrir la vie.
Et là, en cherchant pourquoi mes scripts plantaient, je suis tombé sur un truc qui m'a bien fait rire jaune. Vous savez le fameux message "An error occurred. Please try again later" qui s'affiche parfois quand vous matez une vidéo ? J'ai d'abord cru que c'était un bug côté serveur chez Google mais QUE NENNI !
C'est VOULU !!
WTF?! Du coup voilà le délire......
by BBC - about 6 hours
Shop owners say the frowning toys - originally made in error - are resonating with young workers.
by Conspiracy Watch - about 7 hours
Un documentaire de Felix Moeller, avec Rudy Reichstadt, directeur de Conspiracy Watch.
by Korben - about 7 hours
"Est ce que ce truc peut faire tourner Doom ???"
C'est LA question qui hante les développeurs depuis 1993 et à chaque fois qu'on pense avoir atteint le fond, quelqu'un creuse encore un peu. Arin Sarkisian, un développeur australien vient en effet de porter le FPS culte d'id Software sur... des écouteurs. Oui, des écouteurs !
J'ai d'abord cru à une connerie quand j'ai vu passer le projet sur GitHub mais non. Le délire est bien réel et plutôt technique puisqu'il a flashé ses
PineBuds Pro
, des écouteurs sans fil qui acceptent un firmware open source (y'en a pas des masses sur le marché). Le CPU a été overclocké à 300 MHz au lieu des 100 MHz d'origine, le mode basse consommation a été...
by Korben - about 7 hours
Si vous bossez avec des LLM ou des systèmes de recherche sémantique, vous connaissez forcément la galère de jongler entre différentes bases de vecteurs... Entre Pinecone, Qdrant, pgvector et j'en passe, y'a de quoi perdre la tête. Il nous faudrait un truc aussi simple à prendre en main que DBeaver mais pour les bases vectorielles en fait...
AAAAH mais ça tombe bien parce que ça existe et que ça s'appelle
VectorDBZ
!
C'est une app desktop open source qui permet de connecter TOUTES vos bases vectorielles depuis une interface unique. En fait au début je pensais que c'était juste un viewer basique, mais non. Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, ChromaDB, Pinecone, pgvector... tout est accessible au même endroit....
by Usbek & Rica - about 7 hours
Faut-il confier la gestion des déchets radioactifs aux seuls experts ? Dans le cadre du débat public piloté par la Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP) sur la gestion des matières et déchets radioactifs, le Tribunal pour les Générations Futures d'Usbek & Rica s’est réuni à l’École des Mines pour instruire la question.
by Les Décodeurs - about 7 hours
Les attaques contre l’audiovisuel public se sont intensifiées avec l’ouverture d’une commission d’enquête parlementaire. Au prix de certaines confusions sur les missions qui lui sont confiées par la loi.
by BBC - about 8 hours
The long-awaited deal comes as both Delhi and Brussels contend with economic and geopolitical pressure from the US.
by Zataz - about 8 hours
Un pirate revendique l’attaque d’une clinique esthétique et menace de vendre les données médicales de plus de 10 000 patients. Chaque patient est "vendu" 2€ !...
by HackAdAy - about 8 hours
With the powerful off-the-shelf hardware available to us common hardware hobbyist folk, how hard can it be to make a smartphone from scratch? Hence [V Electronics]’s Spirit smartphone project, with the video from a few months ago introducing the project.
As noted on the hardware overview page, everything about the project uses off the shelf parts and modules, except for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) carrier board. The LCD is a 5.5″, 1280×720 capacitive one currently, but this can be replaced with a compatible one later on, same as the camera and the CM5 board, with the latter swappable with any other CM5 or drop-in compatible solution.
The star of the show and the thing that puts the ‘phone’...
by Zataz - about 9 hours
Interdiction des réseaux sociaux avant 15 ans, vote discret, enjeux juridiques et premières dérives cyber documentées....
by New Yorker - about 9 hours
They put their births and marriages in the spotlight, selling tabloid photos and making Netflix documentaries. Would their estrangement be any different?
by New Yorker - about 9 hours
Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own. A demon is not “somebody.” A demon is a being of pure malice.
by New Yorker - about 9 hours
There’s a lot of grime and grunting, but the show is saved by its two endearing leads.
by New Yorker - about 9 hours
Wayne Hsiung has gone to court and done jail time to improve the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church.
by Usbek & Rica - about 9 hours
Oubliez les courses de F1, le nouveau sport qui attire les convoitises est valorisé à 75 millions de dollars et repose sur… du sperme. Au croisement du microscope et du ring, l’entreprise californienne Sperm Racing transforme la mobilité des spermatozoïdes de jeunes étudiants en compétition publique à travers des courses inédites.
by Korben - about 9 hours
Transférer des fichiers entre votre Mac et votre téléphone Android, c'est souvent la galère. L'ancien Android File Transfer de Google était une horreur absolue et depuis qu'ils ont arrêté de le maintenir, y'a pas grand-chose de potable. C'est d'ailleurs pour ça que beaucoup d'utilisateurs de Mac ont également un iPhone.
Alors quand je suis tombé sur DroidDock, forcément ça m'a intrigué. C'est une app macOS qui se branche sur votre téléphone via ADB et qui vous permet de naviguer dans les fichiers comme si c'était un Finder amélioré. Vous branchez votre câble USB, vous activez le débogage USB sur votre Android et c'est parti mon kiki ! Et là où c'est pratique c'est que vous pouvez...