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by Le Monde - about 16 minutes
Le rejet de la partie recettes vaudrait rejet de tout le texte. Pour obtenir un vote favorable des députés, le gouvernement a multiplié les signes d’ouverture, jeudi.
by The Verge - about 32 minutes
Whether you’re wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you’re simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling headphones are a more essential piece of kit nowadays than ever before. And you’ve got a slew of great options to pick from; it’s hard to make a bad choice. There are longtime heavyweights like Bose and Sony to pick from. Apple has quickly carved into the market with the luxurious AirPods Max. And if you’ve got an ear that demands the best audio quality, headphones from Bowers & Wilkins and Sennheiser might appeal to you more than the mainstream contenders. Not everyone loves the feel of earbuds, and there are scenarios where over-ear and...
by Wired - about 48 minutes
Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.
by New Yorker - about 53 minutes
The outcry grows over Trump's undeclared war in the Caribbean.
by io9 - about 1 hour
Read 'Reality Check,' a sci-fi short story by Hugo and Nebula-winning author Nancy Kress, right here on io9.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Meta wants to make its AI hardware slicker and more fashion-forward. It also needs to make its software more usable. The way to do all that appears to be hiring design maestros away from Apple.
by Wired - about 1 hour
The cofounder and CEO of Circle says “money as an app platform” is the next step in a digital-based global economic system that’s right around the corner.
by Wired - about 1 hour
Sahil Lavingia, previously a DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is now a career employee at the IRS. He said at WIRED’s Big Interview event that he expects to work there 10 years.
by Wired - about 1 hour
The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure.
by io9 - about 2 hours
The Oscar-winning star of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' returns to his iconic early role... sort of.
by QZ - yesterday at 23:41
OpenAI's “confessions” experiment forces ChatGPT to file a second answer, listing the rules it heard, the shortcuts it took, and why it bent the rules
by QZ - yesterday at 23:40
JP Morgan Chase and Robinhood are reportedly vying to handle the accounts for kids — and cultivate new customers once beneficiaries reach adulthood
by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:39
The defensive Secretary of War.
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:37
Following the recent retirement of former COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, and the departure of head of design Alan Dye for Meta, Apple announced Thursday that environmental and policy lead Lisa Jackson is retiring and that Jennifer Newstead will replace Kate Adams as the company’s general counsel after Adams retires “late next year.” Jackson, technically “vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives,” will retire in “late January 2026,” Apple says. Newstead, who is currently Meta’s chief legal officer, will take over Apple’s general counsel role on March 1st, 2026, from Adams, who has been Apple’s general counsel since 2017. With Jackson’s...
by io9 - yesterday at 23:30
Li Jun Li and Ryan Coogler had a chat about how audiences might hate Grace for her climactic decision in 'Sinners.'
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:24
One of the biggest surprises of Cyber Monday was the terrific discount we saw on the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, which dropped in price by $50. We expected the price to return to normal once the shopping holiday ended, but to our surprise, it’s still going strong two days later. Several major retailers are offering the console bundle for $449.99 ($50 off) — including Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Since it’s a high-demand item, Walmart and Best Buy require that you add the bundle to your cart before seeing the discounted price.
Nintendo Switch 2 Where to Buy: $499.99 $449 at Amazon (Mario Kart World bundle) $499.99 $449.99 at Walmart (Mario Kart World bundle) $499.99 $449 at Best Buy...
by BBC - yesterday at 23:20
The Russian leader's comments come as US and Ukrainian negotiators are due to hold a new round of talks.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:20
Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:05
Bad news for people with peanut allergies.
by QZ - yesterday at 23:02
Years after Meta renamed itself for the metaverse, the company is reportedly rethinking the cash-burning boondoggle
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:55
It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagon’s inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbins’ eight-month-long investigation found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not comply with DoD policies by “using a nonapproved commercially available messaging application to send nonpublic DoD information.” It also said that he risked potential compromise of “sensitive DoD information” as a result, but only recommended a review of classification procedures, and said...
by BBC - yesterday at 22:45
His Popular Forces group says Abu Shabab was shot while attempting to resolve a family dispute and not killed by Hamas.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:30
New research finds the shingles vaccine can potentially provide broad protection against dementia.
by QZ - yesterday at 22:30
Democratic lawmakers want the CEOs of Nvidia, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon to answer questions about their Trump ballroom donations
by BBC - yesterday at 22:17
The body of Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old Israeli police officer, is the last not yet returned by Hamas from Gaza.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
Wi-Fi! It’s everywhere, and yet you can’t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic waves outside the visual spectrum. Never mind, though, because you can always build yourself a Wi-Fi analyzer to get some insight into your radio surroundings, as demonstrated by [moononournation].
The core of the build is the ESP32-C5. The popular microcontroller is well-equipped for this task with its onboard dual-band Wi-Fi hardware, even if the stock antenna on most devboards is a little underwhelming. [moononournation] has paired this with a small rectangular LCD screen running the ILI9341 controller. The graphical interface is drawn with the aid of the Arduino_GFX...
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:29
This picture taken on August 31, 2017 shows Honda Motor's new N-BOX mini-vehicles at its headquaters in Tokyo. Tiny kei trucks from Japan have a new fan: President Donald Trump. Trump expressed admiration for the pint-sized autos during a briefing with reporters to announce his plan to gut fuel economy standards. “They’re very small. They’re really cute,” Trump said. “And I said, how would that do in this country? And everyone seems to think, good, but you’re not allowed to build them.” Kei vehicles, which are built to satisfy Japan’s light vehicle regulations, are enjoying surging popularity in the automarket — including here in the US. Sales of kei trucks tripled in the last five years,...
by QZ - yesterday at 21:21
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
by BBC - yesterday at 20:52
There had been calls for Israel's exclusion over the war in Gaza, as well as unfair voting accusations.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:52
Le président français a tenté une nouvelle fois de pousser la Chine à faire pression sur Moscou pour mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine. Mais Pékin, qui soutient l’effort de guerre russe en livrant des composants, refuse de s’impliquer davantage.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:45
Si les enquêteurs de l’inspection générale de la gendarmerie nationale ont pu confirmer que les blessures ont toutes été causées par des gendarmes le 25 mars 2023, ils ne sont pas parvenus à identifier les tireurs responsables, selon le procureur de Rennes.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an auto salvage yard. This was the famous electric car produced in small numbers by the automaker in the 1990s, then only made available for lease before being recalled. The vast majority were controversially crushed with a few units being donated to museums and universities in a non-functional state.
Finding an old car isn’t really a Hackaday story in itself, but now it’s landed in [The Questionable Garage]. It’s being subjected to a teardown as a prelude to its restoration, offering a unique opportunity to look at the state of the art in 1990s electric...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 20:00
“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...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:51
“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...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:06
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.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
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...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:59
Les membres de l’Union européenne de radio-télévision ont voté jeudi pour une série de modifications du règlement du concours rendant « éligibles » tous les membres souhaitant y participer.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:50
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.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:26
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”.
by dwell - yesterday at 18:24
Architect Marc Thorpe designed the contemporary home with crisp lines, a large photovoltaic array, and 25-foot-long deck that cantilevers out into the forest.Location: 190 Bowers Road, Roscoe, New York Price: $699,000 Year Built: 2025 Architect: Marc Thorpe Builder: Edifice Upstate Footprint: 1,500 square feet (3 bedrooms, 2 baths) Lot Size: 2.64 Acres From the Agent: "The home is an exercise in reduction—designed to a modern standard, but only with what is necessary. Perched quietly on a forested hilltop overlooking a peaceful pond, it embodies self-sustaining design and architectural restraint. Forest Edge is the fifth solar-powered residence by Edifice Upstate, designed by award-winning architect Marc...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:01
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.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 17:59
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.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 17:30
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...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 17:06
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.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 17:01
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by Zataz - yesterday at 16:57
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....
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
France • August 2018 📷 #flashes
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:00
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...
by BBC - yesterday at 15:56
BBC editors explain what is at stake as Russian President Vladimir Putin starts a two-day visit to India.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 15:46
“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...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 15:44
“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...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 15:29
“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...
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 15:25
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.
by dwell - yesterday at 14:57
A former record store owner loved the windows in her living room, but they needed updating, so Erica Leader of The Northwest Home stepped in to help.Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality. It was nearly 30 years ago that Sarah Hefte, the former owner of a local (and beloved) record store, Everyday Music, in Portland, Oregon, bought a 1929 Tudor-style house with her husband. The four-bedroom, two-bathroom home was charming, with details like leaded glass windows, hardwood floors, and a woodburning fireplace. But after 25 years, and the death of her husband a few years...
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 14:31
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,...
by dwell - yesterday at 14:02
The midcentury renaissance man, whose career was "a flurry of interiors and fabrics, signage and record albums, and architecture," might not have minded if you judged his book covers.As a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re republishing formative magazine stories from before our website launched. This story previously appeared in Dwell’s December/January 2007 issue. Alvin Lustig summed up the central theme of his short, prolific career when he wrote in 1946, "The words graphic designer, architect or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialization within the specialty, or a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete....
by Korben - yesterday at 12:19
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...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 12:00
Develop a personal hair style with Einstein, cultivate advanced diplomacy skills with Cleopatra, and more!
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 10:44
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.
by Korben - yesterday at 10:27
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
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...