Insider trading on prediction markets is lucrative. Finding and copying said insider trading, also.

Low back pain is one of those problems that can sneak into daily life and refuse to leave. It can make it harder to work, sleep, or even sit through a meal. Doctors have long known that many factors raise the risk, including stress, poor sleep, aging, smoking, and inactivity. Weight has often been discussed too, but past studies were usually small or focused on narrow groups. Now, a large new study from Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine brings clearer answers. The research shows that adults who are overweight or obese face a much higher chance of developing low back pain than those in a healthy weight range. The team reviewed medical records from more than 110,000 adults who...

New York governor Kathy Hochul says she will propose a new law allowing limited autonomous vehicle pilots in smaller cities. Full-blown services could be next.

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, these floor-sweeping bots have gone from utilitarian devices to full-fledged home robots that vacuum and mop your home, clean themselves, and trundle off to prepare themselves for the next run. I’ve been testing robot vacuums for over 7 years and have run more than 80 of them throughout my house. This guide features my top picks if you’re looking for the best: a robot vacuum that can do it all with limited intervention from you. Along with my top picks, I have options to fit specific needs, such as mopping, besting...

Au terme de cinq années d’enquête, l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire rend publique, mardi, une vaste expertise scientifique sur les risques que font peser ces plateformes sur la santé des 11-17 ans. Car elles sont aujourd’hui conçues pour capter l’attention et maintenir l’engagement, ce qui agit sur la vulnérabilité propre à cette tranche d’âge.

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a "strategic advantage," Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

The incredible 'Star Wars' show has been largely snubbed this award season, but one of its stars hasn't.

The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.

The Crew-11 mission is coming to an early end so that one of its members can receive medical attention back on Earth.

A UK employment tribunal rejected a request from fired Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while waiting for a full hearing about their dismissal, according to Bloomberg and IGN. After Rockstar fired 34 employees last year - 31 from the UK and three from Canada - the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) accused the company of "union busting." Rockstar claims that the fired employees were leaking company information in a Discord channel.
The hearing took place over two days last week. "Despite being refused interim relief today, we've come out of last week's hearing more confident than ever that a full and substanti …
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Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it's also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage. The Framework Desktop with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 chip now starts at $1,139, instead of $1,099.
"We held off on it for as long as we could, but we had to update our Framework Desktop pricing today to account for the massive increase in LPDDR5x pricing from our suppliers," Framework says in a post on X. "As before, we're only adjusting prices enough to cover the increases in cost."
Framework Desktops with higher RAM configurations and a Ryzen AI Max P …
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« Cette décision est définitive » et « prend effet immédiatement », a affirmé lundi le président américain sur son réseau Truth Social.

Meta's Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division's metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta's AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, called a meeting for Wednesday that he "urged staff to attend in person," saying it will be the "most important" meeting of the year. Bosworth oversees the Reality Labs division, which employs about 15,000 people. Unfortunately, layoffs to Meta's VR team may not come …
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The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good.

More Americans are turning to gig work even as traditional hiring slows. And as ubiquitous as gig work feels now, it’s likely going to grow

A residence’s bent form is meant to look like it was shaped by wind and water, as were the nearby sand dunes.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Pāvilosta, Latvia Architect: MADE Arhitekti / @madearhitekti Footprint: 3,229 square feet Structural Engineer: PBR Photographer: Jānis Vēveris / @janis.veveris From the Architect: "The Pāvilosta House is designed as a spacious gathering space with a large living room and guest rooms, serving as an extension to the client’s main residence located next door. The architectural concept of the Pāvilosta...

Standing at a bus stop on a blazing afternoon, it is easy to blame the heat alone for your discomfort. But a new study from the University of British Columbia suggests something more subtle is at work. What you see while you wait, from trees to open views, can change how that heat feels on your skin. This research shows that people who find a bus stop visually pleasant are more likely to feel thermally comfortable, even when real heat levels are high. In other words, your eyes and emotions help shape your sense of temperature. Looking Good, Feeling Less Hot The study focused on 60 bus stops across Denver, Colorado, a semi arid city that is facing more extreme heat. Researchers did not just check the weather...

Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately seems to be a counter-movement brewing in response to this fragmentation, with Project Bluefin’s Distroless project being the latest addition here. Also notable are KDE’s efforts, with KDE Linux as its own top-down KDE-based distro, but now with a switch to BuildStream from Arch likely as a distroless move.
It should be clear that there is no obvious course here yet, and that opinions are very much divided. The idea of ‘Linux’ becoming a more singular OS appeals to some, while to others it’s the antithesis of what...

Machado, the winner of 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, had offered to share the honour with Trump, an award the president has long coveted.

Gold rose to a new record high as economists voiced concerns that the DOJ's probe into the Fed chair will erode the central bank’s independence

If you’re planning on traveling at all this year, the Baseus EnerCore CG11 Universal Travel Adapter is worth a look. The adapter can power up to six devices at once, and now through the end of today, January 12th, it’s on sale for just $34.19 (about $36 off) at Amazon, matching the all-time low price we last saw at the end of November.
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Baseus’ handy wall adapter supports four different plug types so you can use it in more than 200 countries, including the US, UK, much of Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa. Instead of requiring you to pack a separate cable, it also includes a built-in USB-C...

Oil firms aren't inclined to commit long-term capital to restart drilling in Venezuela while oil is trading at lower prices

The BBC has received eyewitness accounts of security forces attacking anti-government protesters across the country.

Most started with neutrals. But in recent years, they’ve shaken things up—pushing their customers, and getting inspired by them, too.If you’ve noticed what feels like an explosion of color across the home and kitchen spaces in the last few years, you’re not imagining things. In recent years, the all-beige minimalism that so boringly dominated the 2010s has been replaced with bright colors, in the form of sheets, rugs, and even kitchen essentials. This trend has been particularly palpable in the faster-moving direct-to-consumer (DTC) space, with brands like Framebridge and Our Place, initially launching (in 2014 and 2019, respectively) with mostly neutral product lineups, starting to release bolder red,...

Credit card consumers could expect some immediate dividends and some restrictions if the Trump credit card cap ever sees the light of day

Wall Street is poised to report record profits. But Trump’s threat on credit card interest rates injected fresh uncertainty into earnings season

We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have one and don’t know what one is, and a very small number of people who want one but don’t have one. But since [Longest Path Search] built one using 3D printing, maybe the third group will dwindle down to nothing.
If you are in the second camp, a Michelson interferometer is a device for measuring very small changes in the length of optical paths (oversimplifying, a distance). It does this by splitting a laser into two parts. One part reflects off a mirror at a fixed distance from the splitter. The other reflects off another, often movable, mirror. The beam...

Corsair’s updated Void Wireless sports Dolby Atmos and a lightweight, breathable fit.

Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A new study from Cedars-Sinai, reveals that support cells called astrocytes do far more than watch from the sidelines. They help coordinate cleanup and repair across long stretches of the central nervous system, and they do it from far away. Rethinking the Role of Astrocytes Astrocytes sit throughout your brain and spinal cord, wrapping around nerve fibers and blood vessels. They help keep neurons healthy, balance chemicals and support the flow of electrical signals that let you move, feel and think. After an injury, scientists have mostly focused on astrocytes right at the damage site....

Clips from creators in Minnesota have become primary evidence in attempts by the right wing to justify ICE’s surge on American cities.

Alors qu’il devait se rendre, à partir de dimanche 11 janvier, en Israël pour un cycle de rencontres et de conférences, l’enseignant français, très critique à l’égard du gouvernement Nétanyahou, a vu son visa annulé sans que les raisons lui soient indiquées. Il dénonce un acte d’intimidation.

All right, I’ll cut to the chase: Cheap03xD is mainly so cheap because the PCB falls within a 10 x 10 cm footprint. The point was to make a very affordable keyboard — all the parts come to ~40 Euro (~$47). So it would seem that [Lander03xD_] succeeded.
Image by [Lander03xD_] via redditCheap03xD is all the things — 36-key, split, column-staggered, wireless, hot-swappable, and uses ZMK. The batteries are easily replaceable, and no they don’t get in the way.
Those are MMD Princess silent switches, which I wouldn’t choose, but [Lander03xD_] is taking this board to the office, so I get it. They sure are a nice shade of pink, anyway, and they go really well with the pastels of the DSA keycaps and the...

De nombreux auteurs se sont désistés de l’Adelaide Writers’ Week, qui doit se dérouler du 27 février au 15 mars, après la décision du festival d’écarter l’écrivaine palestino-australienne Randa Abdel-Fattah. Sa venue a été qualifiée de “culturellement non appropriée” après l’attaque antisémite de Bondi, dans laquelle 15 personnes ont été tuées.

Rosita Salvador Mabuiango's mother was sheltering for days before giving birth perched above the water.

Vladimir Poutine invoque régulièrement la mémoire de la participation soviétique à la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour justifier son invasion. Mais alors que le conflit russo-ukrainien dure désormais depuis plus de 1 418 jours, le Kremlin et sa propagande se retrouvent piégés par des parallèles historiques douloureux.

Three former heads of the central bank say the probe seeks to undermine the Fed's independence and "has no place" in the US.

Perched in the hills of Echo Park, the redwood-wrapped midcentury is in stellar condition thanks to a restoration by Bestor Architecture.Location: 1430 Avon Terrace, Los Angeles, California Price: $2,395,000 Year Built: 1948 Architect: John Lautner Renovation Date: 2016 Renovation Architect: Barbara Bestor Footprint: 1,361 square feet (3 bedrooms, 1 bath) Lot Size: 0.36 Acres From the Agent: "Here on more than a third of an acre in the hills of Echo Park, with panoramic views down the canyon all the way to the ocean in Santa Monica, this early midcentury-modern work by John Lautner incorporates elements learned during his six-year apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright, in addition to the bold experimentation...

Deux semaines après le début d’une contestation qui atteint une ampleur sans précédent, les morts se comptent par centaines. Y compris dans des villes du sud-ouest du pays, habituellement plus loyales au régime. Le média en exil “IranWire” y a recueilli des témoignages qui décrivent une répression impitoyable.

Moins d’un an après sa condamnation à cinq ans d’inéligibilité, Marine Le Pen est jugée en appel dans l’affaire des assistants parlementaires du Front national au Parlement européen. Un moment décisif pour la dirigeante du RN, alors que la dynamique politique semble lui échapper.

A short sentence can fade fast. Another can hang around for minutes, or years. New research from MIT suggests the difference is not style or spelling. It is meaning. In a study of 500 people and 2,500 sentences, cognitive scientists found that sentences with distinctive meanings are easier to remember. They stand apart from what you have seen before. That separation gives your memory a clearer handle later. “Every cloud has a blue lining!” is odd and vivid. “You still had to prove yourself.” feels familiar. A few minutes later, the first line is more likely to return. Illustration of the predictions of the noisy representation hypothesis for distinctive vs. less distinctive items. In this schematic,...

Des dizaines de millions de personnes utilisent les chatbots de type ChatGPT pour partager leur mal-être et la communauté scientifique alerte sur les risques encourus par les personnes fragiles. L’IA générative bouleverse les consultations psychiatriques, attise la convoitise des Gafam et devient une piste crédible pour analyser les maladies.

Il fut l’un des chefs du Front de libération nationale corse (FLNC) dans les années 1980 et avait déjà été visé par un projet d’assassinat en 2008.

One of the most widely recognised product brands in the world is probably Coca-Cola, and its formula is famously kept a secret through precautions that probably rival those of many nation states. There are other colas, and there are many amateurs who have tried to copy Coke’s flavour, but in well over a century, nobody has managed it. Why does [LabCoatz] think his attempt will be successful where others failed? He has friends with their own mass spectrometers. ‘The video below the break is a nearly half-hour exploration into food chemistry and the flavour profile of the well-known soft drink. It’s easy to name many of the ingredients, but some, such as acetic acid, are unexpected. Replicating the...

Au cours des années 2010, l'UE et l'Iran ont multiplié les rencontres bilatérales, comme ici en 2018 à Téhéran entre Dimitris Avramopoulos (à gauche), alors commissaire européen chargé des Migrations, des Affaires intérieures et de la Citoyenneté, et Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, alors ministre iranien de l'Intérieur - Crédits : Aref Taherkenareh / Commission européenne D'une superficie équivalente à trois fois la France, avec une population de 86 millions d'habitants et possédant dans ses sols des gisements de pétrole et de gaz naturel parmi les plus importants de la planète, l'Iran présente de nombreux atouts qui en font l'une des principales puissances régionales au Moyen-Orient, où le pays...

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Early in Alzheimer’s disease, your brain can begin to change long before anyone notices a lost name or missed appointment. Toxic proteins quietly collect inside cells, support cells turn restless, and inflammation smolders in the background. By the time memory problems show up, much of this damage is already in motion. A new study from Northwestern University suggests that this early window may be your best chance to fight back. The team has uncovered a previously hidden, highly toxic form of amyloid beta and shown that an experimental drug, called NU-9, can sharply reduce its impact in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. A Silent Disease That Starts Decades Earlier Alzheimer’s does not start when you...

The line between a Linux user and a Linux power user is a bit gray, and a bit wide. Most people who install Linux already have more computer literacy than average, and the platform has long encouraged experimentation and construction in a way macOS and Windows generally aren’t designed for. Traditional Linux distributions often ask more of their users as well, requiring at least a passing familiarity with the terminal and the operating system’s internals especially once something inevitably breaks.
In recent years, however, a different design philosophy has been gaining ground. Immutable Linux distributions like Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE MicroOS, and NixOS dramatically reduce the chances an installation...

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INC Ransomware revendique 3,5 To volés à Wall Street English et menace une fuite de passeports et pièces d’identité... avant de disparaitre !...

Il y a quelques semaines,
je vous parlais de la vision très pragmatique de Linus Torvalds
sur l'IA et le "vibe coding". Et bien figurez-vous que le créateur et mainteneur du noyau Linux ne fait pas que donner son avis, il met aussi les mains dans le cambouis (ou plutôt dans le code) avec un nouveau petit projet perso baptisé AudioNoise.
Alors calmez-vous tout de suite, il ne s'agit pas du prochain concurrent de Pro Tools ou d'Ableton Live. C'est un projet qu'il qualifie lui-même de "silly" (idiot), né de ses récentes expérimentations avec des pédales d'effets pour guitare. Après avoir joué avec le hardware et les circuits analogiques, Linus a décidé de voir ce que ça donnait côté...

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J'ai récemment eu l'occasion de prendre en main le projecteur Macchiatto Pro
, un appareil compact conçu pour transformer l'ambiance d'une pièce en projetant un ciel étoilé au plafond. Amazon est inondé de gadgets lumineux souvent décevants, mais ce modèle a retenu mon attention par sa promesse d'une projection haute définition pour un tarif contenu autour de trente euros. L'objectif est ici de proposer une véritable expérience de planétarium domestique plutôt qu'une simple veilleuse aux motifs flous, j’ai testé dans une chambre d’enfant, et c’est tout simplement génial. La principale force de ce...

  Pequignet x Globe Sauter  
La rencontre du temps terrestre et céleste
Dans les ateliers historiques de Morteau et de Besançon, deux univers façonnés par le temps, la précision et la passion française se croisent.  À Morteau, Pequignet façonne des mouvements d’exception, véritables œuvres de la microtechnique qui animent le temps. À Besançon, Globe Sauter & Cie, redonne vie à l’art ancien du globe terrestre et céleste, transformant la cartographie en véritable objet d’art.
Du 15 janvier au 14 février 2026, ces savoir-faire croisés seront exposés à Paris dans l’écrin de la Maison Pequignet de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, au 60 rue de Rennes. Seront exposés une sélection de globes...

La décision du procès en appel est attendue d'ici l’été 2026 - Crédits : Pietro Naj-Oleari / Flickr Parlement européen CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Le procès en appel, qui doit durer cinq semaines jusqu'au 12 février, concerne plusieurs membres du Rassemblement national. Le 31 mars dernier, le tribunal correctionnel de Paris avait jugé Marine Le Pen et son parti, en tant que personne morale, coupables d'avoir mis en place entre 2004 et 2016 un "système" de détournement de fonds européens, destinés à rémunérer des assistants parlementaires d'eurodéputés, au profit de personnes qui travaillaient en réalité pour le compte du FN (renommé RN en 2018). Le préjudice avait été évalué à 4,6 millions...

Alors que l'Italie pensait avoir trouvé l'arme ultime contre le piratage avec son fameux "Piracy Shield", voici que voilà que Cloudflare vient de leur renvoyer une gifle mémorable. C'était prévisible et j'ai envie de dire tant mieux car je pense que la neutralité du net mérite mieux et je ne suis pas fan de l'idée de transformer des hébergeurs et autres prestataires techniques en garant de la moral a.k.a. en censeurs automatisés. Matthew Prince, le patron de Cloudflare, n'a pas l'intention de se laisser faire (
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Si vous vous demandez de quoi je parle, je vous propose de reprendre tout ça depuis le début. En effet, l'autorité italienne de régulation des communications (AGCOM) vient de...

More than 500 people have been killed during anti-government protests, a US-based human rights group says.

Everest revendique 1 088 Go volés chez Chrysler et menace de publier sous 6 à 7 jours, avec données clients et internes....

Des fuites de données santé alimentent un hameçonnage crédible usurpant l’Assurance Maladie, analysé et décortiqué par ZATAZ....

​Accomplished: Mom made partner and ditched skinny jeans; I quit cello and started seventh grade; Dad looked for a job.

Do you see what I see (in this guy’s sunglasses)?