SeaWorld says it was, in fact, a Snowy Egret that flew into the coaster's path. The theme park is seeking the lawsuit's dismissal
It's a big step for the popular fast food giant, but not everyone on the eastern seaboard is going to be happy about it
Democratic lawmakers want the CEOs of Nvidia, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon to answer questions about their Trump ballroom donations
The USMCA pact binds the U.S., Mexico and Canada to some tariff-free trade. It's in fresh jeopardy ahead of a 2026 review
A November hasn't seen this many job cuts since 2022. And hiring continues to lag, hitting its lowest point in 15 years
There had been calls for Israel to be excluded over the conduct of the war in Gaza.
How far are we from a chatbot president?
“China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25% today — an area equivalent to the size of Algeria. Last year, government representatives announced the country had finished encircling its biggest desert with vegetation, but that it will continue planting trees to keep desertification in check… Collectively, China’s ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017. But regreening has...
Microsoft has been publishing data about the gender, race, and ethnic breakdown of its employees for more than a decade. Since 2019 it's been publishing a full diversity and inclusion report annually, and at the same time made reporting on diversity a requirement for employee performance reviews. Now it's scrapping its diversity report and dropping diversity and inclusion as a companywide core priority for performance reviews, just months after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to try and eradicate workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Game File reported last week that Microsoft will cease publicati …
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The Russian leader's comments come as US and Ukrainian negotiators are due to hold a new round of talks.
“Five months after a ‘breakthrough’ HIV prevention drug got approval in the United States and became available in many wealthy countries, it’s getting rolled out in two African countries hit especially hard by the disease. On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced that Eswatini and Zambia have each received 500 doses of lenacapavir, a drug manufactured by Gilead Sciences that’s been hailed as by Science as a “breakthrough.” Just two injections a year provide near-complete protection against an HIV infection. The delivered doses mark the first small step toward providing at least 2 million doses to the highest burden countries, largely in Africa, by 2028. That’s the goal of the Global...
Lisa Su leads Nvidia’s biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED’s Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, company said “Emphatically, from my perspective, no.”
These aren’t real people! | Image: Nano Banana Pro I'm starting to understand where Google's visual AI model gets its name, because after playing around with it for a couple of days, that's how I'd sum it up: bananas. The images it generates are so realistic it's bananas. I feel like I'm going bananas after staring at them for too long. And if I had to pinpoint one reason why Nano Banana Pro's images look so much more realistic than the AI slop that came before them, it's this: They look like photos taken with a phone camera.
Sure, the tells are there if you look for them. Take the image at the top of this article of the (not real!) couple on the city sidewalk. The streetlight in the backgr …
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Sure, the tells are there if you look for them. Take the image at the top of this article of the (not real!) couple on the city sidewalk. The streetlight in the backgr …
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Spider-Man Noir is swinging to Prime Video next year... but not with the name you're expecting.
The last-gen model costs $155 less than the new pair. It sounds weird to say it’s a good thing if you missed the Ray-Ban Meta deal on Black Friday, but… it’s kind of true. The original Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses just fell to an even better all-time low of $224.25 ($75) at Amazon and Best Buy, which beats the Black Friday price by $15.
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1) smart glasses Where to Buy: $299 $224.25 at Amazon $299 $224.25 at Best Buy $299.99 at Target (with $85 gift card when purchased online)
That’s a great deal because, even though Meta released the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) at the end of October, the last-gen glasses still offer great value. They’re largely similar, offering much of the same...
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1) smart glasses Where to Buy: $299 $224.25 at Amazon $299 $224.25 at Best Buy $299.99 at Target (with $85 gift card when purchased online)
That’s a great deal because, even though Meta released the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) at the end of October, the last-gen glasses still offer great value. They’re largely similar, offering much of the same...
Mercredi 3 décembre, les pays de l’Union européenne se sont accordés pour assouplir les règles relatives aux “nouvelles techniques génomiques” (NGT). Désormais, les aliments en contenant ne seront plus soumis à un étiquetage obligatoire dans les supermarchés. Une perte de traçabilité qui inquiète les consommateurs.
L’accord conclu entre le Parlement, la Commission et le Conseil européens prévoit que des semences issues des nouvelles techniques génomiques pourront entrer sur le marché européen sans étiquetage ni évaluation des risques, et seront couvertes par des brevets d’invention.
Some like it flat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. What you are looking at is the first prototype of Atlas by [AsicResistor], which is still a work in progress. [AsicResistor] found the Totem to be a bit cramped, so naturally, it was time to design a keyboard from the ground up.
Image by [AsicResistor] via redditThe case is wood, if that’s not immediately obvious. This fact is easily detectable in the lovely render, but I didn’t want to show you that here.
This travel-friendly keyboard has 34 keys and dual trackpoints, one on each half. If the nubbin isn’t your thing, there’s an optional, oversized trackball, which I would totally opt for. But I would need an 8-ball instead, simply because...
Image by [AsicResistor] via redditThe case is wood, if that’s not immediately obvious. This fact is easily detectable in the lovely render, but I didn’t want to show you that here.
This travel-friendly keyboard has 34 keys and dual trackpoints, one on each half. If the nubbin isn’t your thing, there’s an optional, oversized trackball, which I would totally opt for. But I would need an 8-ball instead, simply because...
Les membres de l’Union européenne de radio-télévision ont voté jeudi une série de modifications du règlement du concours rendant « éligibles » tous les membres souhaitant y participer.
The bombs were placed the night before the 6 January riots, and were discovered as rioters began to storm the Capitol.
Le président français rencontre son homologue chinois à Pékin, alors que les négociations sur le plan de paix américain pour l’Ukraine se poursuivent. Si Emmanuel Macron, qui aura notamment l’honneur de rendre visite aux pandas de Chengdu, est accueilli “en grande pompe”, il arrive en réalité “en position de relative faiblesse” pour négocier avec Xi Jinping, observe la presse internationale.
The topical medication, called Clascoterone, could represent the first truly novel drug for male pattern baldness seen in about 30 years.
L’envoyé spécial de la Maison Blanche, Steve Witkoff, et le gendre du président américain Jared Kushner ont rencontré mardi le président russe. « Parvenir à un consensus entre des parties en conflit n’est pas chose aisée, mais je crois que le président Trump s’y emploie sincèrement », a déclaré le président russe.
Pour la première fois depuis plus de trente ans, Beyrouth a dépêché un responsable civil, à Naqoura, pour un échange direct avec des représentants israéliens dans le cadre du mécanisme de surveillance de la trêve entre Israël et le Hezbollah. Pour une grande partie de la presse libanaise, cette initiative vise à éviter une nouvelle guerre. Les médias proches du “parti de Dieu”, eux, y voient un “péché”.
It is my pleasure to welcome Robosen's Soundwave.
The OpenAI CEO explored a deal with Stoke Space that would have put him in control of the rocket startup.
After over 30 years, Amazon may be cutting ties with the United States Postal Service as it looks to expand its own delivery network, as reported by The Washington Post. The outlet, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, cites anonymous sources who said negotiations between Amazon and Trump-appointed USPS Postmaster General David Steiner have reportedly stagnated, pushing Amazon to consider concluding the partnership altogether. Washington Post reporter Jacob Bogage noted in a post on Bluesky that “this was not Amazon’s preferred plan.” According to Bogage, Amazon wanted to extend its contract with the USPS, which is set to expire on October 1st, 2026, but the USPS planned to “auction off last-mile...
Après des années d’exode de ses jeunes diplômés, le Portugal parvient désormais à les retenir et même à en attirer d’autres venus de pays plus riches. Une nouvelle donne migratoire soulignée dans “Expresso” par un universitaire et ancien ministre.
Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft | Photo: Todd Haselton / The Verge Amazon has finally given a release date for its new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe: They’ll be available to purchase starting on December 10th, Amazon spokesperson Rachel Erickson tells The Verge. They’ll cost the same as what Amazon announced back in September: $629.99 for the Colorsoft and $499.99 for the Scribe, which includes a front light. The company won’t be taking preorders. Amazon’s updated Scribes have larger 11-inch screens, weigh 400 grams, and are 5.4mm thin (which is thinner than an iPhone Air). The screens use a “new texture-molded glass to improve the friction when the pen glides across the...
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
Une étude publiée par le réseau PAN Europe révèle que la concentration en TFA, le plus répandu des PFAS, dans des produits alimentaires à base de céréales, est encore plus élevée que ce qu’on trouve dans l’eau potable.
The diverging path of China’s two leading AI players shows where the country’s artificial intelligence industry is headed.
One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed directly by human senses. We can manipulate it to perform various tasks and see its effects indirectly, like the ionized channels formed during lightning strikes or the resistive heating of objects, but its underlying behavior is largely hidden from view. Even mathematical descriptions can quickly become complex and counter-intuitive, obscured behind layers of math and theory. Still, [lcamtuf] has made some strides in demystifying aspects of electricity in this introduction to analog filters.
The discussion on analog filters looks at a few straightforward examples...
The discussion on analog filters looks at a few straightforward examples...
Le nombre d’ultrariches continue d’augmenter, et à un rythme plus soutenu, selon le rapport annuel d’UBS sur le sujet. En 2025, ils sont 287 à avoir grossi les rangs des quelque 3 000 milliardaires dans le monde, de plus en plus par héritage. D’ici à 2040, les très grandes fortunes transmettront un total d’environ 5 900 milliards de dollars de patrimoine, d’après la banque.
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Une étude d’Epi-Phare, publiée jeudi, répond à la désinformation autour des vaccins qui ont été distribués massivement dans le monde entier pour lutter contre la pandémie.
La virtualisation constitue l’un des piliers de l’informatique moderne, mais elle n’est pas sans défis de sécurité. Le premier problème : le nombre d’instances de serveurs virtualisés (machines virtuelles, ou VM) que les administrateurs doivent désormais défendre....
The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface-level understanding to surface-level processes.
Strictly speaking, we’ve already seen one: sulfide melt deposits are associated with flood basalts and meteorite impacts, which absolutely are happening on-surface. They’re totally an igneous process, though, and so were presented in the article on magmatic ore processes.
For the most part, you can think of the various hydrothermal ore formation processes as being metamorphic in nature. That is, the fluids are causing alteration to existing rock formations; this is especially true of skarns.
There’s a third leg...
Strictly speaking, we’ve already seen one: sulfide melt deposits are associated with flood basalts and meteorite impacts, which absolutely are happening on-surface. They’re totally an igneous process, though, and so were presented in the article on magmatic ore processes.
For the most part, you can think of the various hydrothermal ore formation processes as being metamorphic in nature. That is, the fluids are causing alteration to existing rock formations; this is especially true of skarns.
There’s a third leg...
The InnAIO T10 clips magnetically to the back of your phone, but it needs further development to be worth the money.
BBC editors explain what is at stake as Russian President Vladimir Putin starts a two-day visit to India.
Palestinians are clearing rubble from archaeological sites, but restoration is hampered by Israeli restrictions on building materials.
“The annual reintroduction of zoo-bred Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered Partula snails – including from our London and Whipsnade Zoos – saw over 7,000 snails returned to four islands, making it the largest release of the group of finger-nail sized snail species and subspecies to date. Before release, conservationists dotted the shell of each snail with a small dab of white UV reflective paint, which glows blue under UV light. As the snails are most active at night, the paint helps the team find released snails and monitor the recovery of the species. During the releases, the team discovered an unmarked, juvenile Partula varia – making it the first wild-born member of this reintroduced...
“The recent instability in rare-earth supplies is a much bigger threat to automakers than in the past. It has given new urgency to the search for motors that don’t need rare earths or for materials that would replace them. BMW’s electric vehicles already use motors that operate without rare earths. Researchers at Northeastern University and other institutions are working to synthesize materials that have promising magnetic properties and are found only in meteorites. Start-ups have begun developing new kinds of motors and other technologies. And the Department of Energy is encouraging that work, despite the Trump administration’s rollback of other forms of support for electric vehicles.” From New...
Make your favorite golfer’s day with the best golf gifts to enhance every part of their game.
“On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europe are contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of power lines, picking out individual trees to cut and poles to replace. The most obvious way to prevent power equipment from sparking a blaze is to bury lines underground. But at a cost of upwards of $3 million a mile, many investor-owned utilities are limiting themselves to just a few hundred miles of buried lines per year. That’s proved to be a major business opportunity for several tech companies that use machine learning to deliver custom recommendations for targeted, relatively...
Depuis des millénaires, l’humain utilise les animaux pour se nourrir, se vêtir ou faire avancer la recherche scientifique. Mais l’exploitation animale pourrait-elle être remise en cause au nom de nouvelles normes éthiques ? Récit du Tribunal pour les Générations Futures organisé par Usbek & Rica sur le sujet le vendredi 28 novembre dernier, au cœur du Théâtre de la Concorde, à Paris, dans le cadre de la première édition du Futur Festival.
While Australia’s site-blocking mechanism has made few enemies since 2018, it hasn’t been known for being fast.
As discussed earlier this year, accuracy has traditionally been favored over speed, which is contrary to less cautious approaches taken in other countries.
After an unprecedented request and cooperation from the Federal Court, Australia will now step up several gears and show whether it can achieve both.
Not Just Another Blocking Order
When Justice Halley handed down his order in Universal City Studios LLC v Telstra Limited [2025] FCA 1390 on November 12, in most respects it was much like any other issued in recent years. Member studios of the MPA – Universal, Disney, Paramount, Columbia,...
As discussed earlier this year, accuracy has traditionally been favored over speed, which is contrary to less cautious approaches taken in other countries.
After an unprecedented request and cooperation from the Federal Court, Australia will now step up several gears and show whether it can achieve both.
Not Just Another Blocking Order
When Justice Halley handed down his order in Universal City Studios LLC v Telstra Limited [2025] FCA 1390 on November 12, in most respects it was much like any other issued in recent years. Member studios of the MPA – Universal, Disney, Paramount, Columbia,...
Now, Rock 5 ITX+ is no x86 board, sporting an ARM Rockship RK3588 on its ITX form-factor PCB, but reading this blog post’s headline might as well give you the impression. [Venn] from the [interfacinglinux.com] blog tells us about their journey bringing up UEFI on this board, thanks to the [EDK2-RK3588] project. Why? UEFI is genuinely nice for things like OS switching or system reconfiguration on the fly, and in many aspects, having a system management/configuration interface for your SBC sure beats the “flash microSD card and pray” traditional approach.
In theory, a UEFI binary runs like any other firmware. In theory. For [Venn], the journey wasn’t as smooth, which made it very well worth documenting....
In theory, a UEFI binary runs like any other firmware. In theory. For [Venn], the journey wasn’t as smooth, which made it very well worth documenting....
Vous connaissez le Spotify Wrapped qui vous rappelle chaque décembre que vous avez écouté “Africa” de Toto 847 fois ? Hé bien GitWrap fait pareil mais pour votre code sur GitHub. Et tout ça avec une interface qui sent bon le DOS et les moniteurs à phosphore vert.
Vous entrez votre nom d’utilisateur GitHub, et l’outil génère alors un récapitulatif de votre année de commits, de pull requests et de contributions diverses et variées. Le tout emballé dans une esthétique rétro qui ferait pleurer de nostalgie n’importe quel dev qui a connu l’époque où “git” n’existait pas encore et où on faisait des sauvegardes sur disquettes. L’interface vous accueille avec un prompt style...
Vous entrez votre nom d’utilisateur GitHub, et l’outil génère alors un récapitulatif de votre année de commits, de pull requests et de contributions diverses et variées. Le tout emballé dans une esthétique rétro qui ferait pleurer de nostalgie n’importe quel dev qui a connu l’époque où “git” n’existait pas encore et où on faisait des sauvegardes sur disquettes. L’interface vous accueille avec un prompt style...
Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.”
Develop a personal hair style with Einstein, cultivate advanced diplomacy skills with Cleopatra, and more!
“Hamnet,” a new film directed by Chloé Zhao, is a fictionalized account of how Shakespeare’s famous tragedy came to be. Is it reductive or revelatory?
Lancée en avril 2025, Hidden est une plateforme conçue pour et par les travailleuses du sexe. Un « acte politique » selon sa créatrice, la star du X Stella Barey, qui ébranle la mainmise des géants du numérique sur les contenus pornographiques.
WordPress, c’est bien. Mais WordPress qui injecte des scripts d’emojis, des styles Gutenberg, des shortlinks et 47 autres trucs dont vous n’avez pas besoin dans chaque page de votre site… c’est moins bien évidemment. Heureusement, Terence Eden, un dev qui en avait marre de voir son code source ressembler à un plat de spaghetti, a compilé
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Car WordPress a adopté une philosophie de type “Decisions, not options” (des décisions, pas des options) où en gros, au lieu de vous laisser choisir, ils décident pour vous de ce qui est bon pour vous. Un peu comme Macron ^^. Le problème c’est que leurs décisions incluent un tas de fonctionnalités dont...
une petite liste de tout ce qu’on peut virer
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Car WordPress a adopté une philosophie de type “Decisions, not options” (des décisions, pas des options) où en gros, au lieu de vous laisser choisir, ils décident pour vous de ce qui est bon pour vous. Un peu comme Macron ^^. Le problème c’est que leurs décisions incluent un tas de fonctionnalités dont...
Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, and has CAD-type operations making friends with triangle meshes? If you’re intrigued, check out [mmiscool]’s BREP project.
Functioning (let alone feature-filled, or efficient) CAD systems are not a software project we see a whole lot of. Ones that represent models as genuine BREP structures but cleverly use mesh-based operations where it makes sense? Even less so.
In theory, CAD programs are simple: allow a user to define features, keep track of what they are and how they relate to one another, and perform operations...
Functioning (let alone feature-filled, or efficient) CAD systems are not a software project we see a whole lot of. Ones that represent models as genuine BREP structures but cleverly use mesh-based operations where it makes sense? Even less so.
In theory, CAD programs are simple: allow a user to define features, keep track of what they are and how they relate to one another, and perform operations...
Everything we know about 'Trump accounts' for kids — and 1 critical question still unanswered
https://qz.com/trump-investment-accounts-kids-faq
https://qz.com/trump-investment-accounts-kids-faq
Quand nous sommes tombés sur la photo ci-dessus de la chanteuse Dua Lipa brandissant fièrement son British Award, nous est immédiatement venue à l’esprit l’image de la « déesse aux serpents » (sans oublier le petit singe juché sur sa tête), délicieuse statuette minoenne de l’âge du bronze qui se trouve au musée d’Héraklion, en Crète. Le geste est semblable, même la robe et la coiffure se ressemblent. Cette statuette (déesse, mais laquelle, prêtresse, chamane ?) serait la preuve, selon certains, de la prééminence des femmes dans la Crète de l’âge du bronze, voire d’un matriarcat. Nous n’en savons rien, même si l’hypothèse est séduisante. Selon les spécialistes, les...
Il y a quelques jours, je suis tombé sur un truc que je cherchais depuis un moment : dans les années 80, la RTBF (radio publique belge) avait diffusé des programmes pour les ordinosaures. Et les archivistes d’Archives Radio ont trouvé un extrait d’une des émissions. Yves a eu la gentillesse de m’envoyer le fichier audio, et j’ai donc tenté de récupérer les données. C’est un programme pour Commodore 64, la présentratrice l’explique, et le nom de l’émission est Court-Circuit. Comme toujours avec le Commodore 64, c’est compliqué. C’est un système assez sensible à la qualité de l’audio, et la machine utilisait à l’époque un système semi-numérique pour la récupération de...
Vous trouvez que Cities Skylines est trop facile ? Ou que SimCity vous laisse faire n’importe quoi sans trop de conséquences ?
Hé bien Microlandia va vous calmer sévère !
Car derrière ce petit city builder en voxel, se cache une simulation économique et sociale tellement réaliste que vos citoyens peuvent littéralement mourir si vous ne construisez pas assez d’hôpitaux. Bienvenue en France, euh non pardon, bienvenue à Microlandia !
Dans ce jeu, vous incarnez le maire, vous tracez des routes, vous définissez des zones résidentielles et commerciales, et vous gérez les taxes et le budget. C’est du très classique, sauf que derrière les graphismes tout mignons qui rappellent le SimCity original,...
Hé bien Microlandia va vous calmer sévère !
Car derrière ce petit city builder en voxel, se cache une simulation économique et sociale tellement réaliste que vos citoyens peuvent littéralement mourir si vous ne construisez pas assez d’hôpitaux. Bienvenue en France, euh non pardon, bienvenue à Microlandia !
Dans ce jeu, vous incarnez le maire, vous tracez des routes, vous définissez des zones résidentielles et commerciales, et vous gérez les taxes et le budget. C’est du très classique, sauf que derrière les graphismes tout mignons qui rappellent le SimCity original,...