Donald Trump a réuni pour la première fois son Conseil de paix, jeudi à Washington, en l’absence de la plupart des alliés traditionnels des États-Unis, et alors que le monde “bruisse de rumeurs” sur une opération militaire américaine contre l’Iran.

Le mode de scrutin en vigueur octroie un bonus très important au candidat qui gagne l’élection, et ne réserve qu’une petite partie du conseil municipal à ses concurrents. D’autres méthodes auraient pour effet d’accroître la pluralité.

A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to us.

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La marche prévue samedi à Lyon, si elle n’est pas interdite, pourrait être l’occasion pour les groupes d’ultradroite de faire cause commune autour de la figure du jeune militant élevé au rang de martyr politique. Redoutant d’être associé à des éléments potentiellement violents, le président du RN, Jordan Bardella, a intimé l’ordre à ses élus de ne pas s’y rendre.

Le fils préféré de la défunte reine Elizabeth II a été interpellé jeudi 19 février, probablement dans le cadre de l’affaire Epstein. C’est la première fois dans l’histoire moderne britannique qu’un membre de la famille royale se retrouve en garde à vue.

1892-1897 — Europe, Inde. Originaire d’Odessa, ce bactériologiste juif chassé de l’Empire russe pour ses convictions religieuses est le premier à développer un vaccin contre le choléra, puis contre la peste bubonique.

“Les robots ont besoin de votre corps”. C’est l’idée, clairement énoncée, de RentAHuman. Lancé début février, ce site vise à mettre les humains au service de l’IA. Et même s’il n’est pas spécialement destiné aux scientifiques, une poignée d’entre eux s’y est inscrite, a constaté la revue britannique “Nature”.

En France, la tranquillité publique s’est installée comme thème majeur des élections municipales. Au même moment, le débat fait rage outre-Manche : présentée sur les réseaux sociaux comme une zone de non-droit, la capitale britannique vient pourtant d’enregistrer un nombre d’homicides historiquement bas. Pas de quoi convaincre une partie de la presse.

Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies.

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people to their limits, mostly by how such ‘AI slop’ is generally of outrageously poor quality, but as in the case of [Vincent Driessen] there’s also a clear copyright infringement angle involved. Recently he found that Microsoft had bastardized a Git explainer graphic which he had in 2010 painstakingly made by hand, with someone at Microsoft slapping it on a Microsoft Learn explainer article pertaining to GitHub.
As noted in a PC Gamer article on this clear faux pas, Microsoft has since quietly removed the graphic and replaced it with something possibly less AI slop, but with...

« L’Art du faux » s’est maintenu en tête des productions les plus regardées sur Netflix pendant plusieurs semaines, rappelant que le pays demeure hanté par cette période marquée par les attentats sanglants et les machinations politiques.

A storybook ending.

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

The woman died of hypothermia during a climbing trip on the Grossglockner mountain in January 2025.

When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps. Bury the stone deep enough, and that cosmic “printing press” shuts off. From there, those isotopes decay in a predictable way. In geology, that is as close as you get to a stopwatch. That stopwatch, along with two other independent clocks, has helped researchers build a sharper timeline for ‘Ubeidiya, an early prehistoric site in Israel’s Jordan Valley. The site has long mattered to anyone trying to map how early humans moved beyond Africa. A new study argues the site is at least 1.9 million years old, older than many past estimates and among the earliest known records of early...

And this research was conducted before OpenClaw unleashed a monster.

Parfois ce sont des amis qui disparaissent : Annie Le Brun, Bernard Stiegler. Aujourd’hui Susan George.

The RF section of the ESP32-C6 die. (Credit: electronupdate, YouTube)
With the ESP32-P4 not having any wireless functionality and instead focusing on being a small SoC, it makes sense to combine it with a second chip that handles features like WiFi and Bluetooth. This makes the Guition ESP32-P4-M3 module both a pretty good example of how the P4 will be used, and an excellent opportunity to tear into, decap and shoot photos of the dies of both the P4 and the ESP32-C6 in this particular module, courtesy of [electronupdate]. There also the blog post for those who just want to ogle the shinies.
After popping the metal shield on the module, you can see the contents as in the above photo. The P4 inside is a variant...

Le mouvement Jeunes des collines a publié une liste de plus de 60 attaques en un mois dans 33 villages palestiniens, des actions présentées comme le « bilan de la lutte contre l’ennemi arabe ».

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram - despite the risks.
Boland's testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a case over whether Meta and YouTube are liable for allegedly harming a young woman's mental health. Zuckerberg framed Meta's mission as balancing safety with free expression, not revenue. Boland's role was to counter this by explaining how Meta makes money, and how that shaped its platforms' design. Boland testified …
Read the full story at The Verge.

A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death.

Each episode of HBO's The Pitt features some degree of medical trauma that almost makes the hospital drama feel like a horror series. Some patients are dealing with gnarly lacerations while others are fighting off vicious blood infections that could rob them of their limbs, and the chaos of working in an emergency room often leaves The Pitt's central characters shaken. But as alarming as many of The Pitt's more gore-forward moments can be, what's even more unsettling is the show's slow-burning subplot about hospitals adopting generative artificial intelligence.
In its second season, The Pitt once again chronicles all the events that happen …
Read the full story at The Verge.

The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands. Around it are more bones, more tools, and a coastal story that reaches back 5,000 years. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB says Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large whales far earlier than scholars once believed. The work places active whaling in Babitonga Bay, in Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, about a thousand years before the earliest documented evidence from Arctic and North Pacific societies. If you have ever pictured early whaling as a...

The directors break down all 12 formats the new Ryan Gosling sci-fi movie will be released in, including 4DX.

Selon les dernières prévisions du site Vigicrues, le niveau de la Maine, qui scinde la préfecture du Maine-et-Loire en deux, pourrait continuer de grimper jusqu’à dimanche soir.

With Ring facing fierce backlash over its Search Party feature, a new program is challenging developers to move Ring doorbell footage off of Amazon's cloud - and into users' own devices. The Fulu Foundation, the consumer advocacy group cofounded by YouTuber Louis Rossmann, is offering an initial bounty of $10,000 to anyone who can integrate Ring doorbells with a local PC or server, while cutting off access to Amazon's servers.
Ring users currently have to pay a subscription fee to store recordings in Amazon's cloud. While the company has a local storage option through Ring Edge, it's only available with the Ring Alarm Pro, and it still requ …
Read the full story at The Verge.

“Measles cases across Europe and Central Asia fell 75% in 2025 from a year earlier, preliminary data from 53 countries in the WHO European Region showed, though U.N. children’s agency UNICEF and the World Health Organization warned the risk of fresh outbreaks remains.” From Reuters.
The post Measles Cases in Europe and Central Asia Drop 75% in 2025 appeared first on Human Progress.

Jared Isaacman said the goal of maintaining multiple means of ISS access influenced decision-making when mission and crew safety should have been the top priority.

Summary: We introduce the American Abundance Index, which measures living standards by how many hours Americans must work to afford a standard basket of goods, rather than by prices or wages alone. The index uses time prices to show that for most US workers, purchasing power has generally risen over the last two decades, even amid inflation and public pessimism. The resilience of the American worker is one of the most underreported stories of the 2020s. From red tape to import taxes, successive governments have erected barriers to success. Yet America’s workers have persevered and figured out ways to prosper. A new American Abundance Index illustrates this. The project from Human Progress, an arm of the Cato...

Lara Trump recently claimed the president already has a speech prepared on UFOs.

“The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit the decline to stepped-up enforcement against illegal deforestation. Brazil tracks yearly deforestation starting in August and ending in July. From August through the end of January, the Amazon has seen just 516 square miles of forest cleared, according to satellite data. That is the lowest figure for this period since 2014.” From Yale Environment 360.
The post Brazilian Amazon on Track for Record Low Deforestation appeared first on Human Progress.

“Cancer incidence has been declining in Canada, while survival has increased… Overall, cancer rates have declined -1.2% annually since 2011 for males and -0.4% annually since 2012 for females… In the early 1990s, five-year net survival for all cancers combined was only 55%, but estimates show that it has reached 64%.” From Medscape.
The post Canada Shows Progress in Controlling Cancer appeared first on Human Progress.

“From Vietnam to Malaysia and Indonesia, Southeast Asian governments are narrowing the use of the death penalty and edging, often cautiously, toward abolition.  At present, eight of the 11 Southeast Asian countries retain the death penalty. Only Cambodia, the Philippines and Timor-Leste have abolished it in law. But recent years have seen most of the retentionist states abide by de facto moratoriums on executions and pass new legislation so death is no longer the mandatory punishment for certain crimes.” From DW.
The post Death Penalty on the Decline in Southeast Asia appeared first on Human Progress.

Recent deadly incidents in California and Europe are putting avalanches - and how to avoid them - in the spotlight.

Trump said it "looks like" Hamas will disarm, even though there are signs the group is regrouping.

It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds, when we had to deal with mediocre sound quality and unreliable performance, all for the sake of ditching cables. Things are much different now. After several product generations, companies like Sony, Apple, Bose, and others are releasing their most impressive earbuds to date.  You can get phenomenal noise cancellation and sound quality in the premium tier of earbuds if you’re willing to spend big. But those aren’t always the most important...

Three-letter DNA “words” can decide whether a yeast cell cranks out a medicine efficiently or sputters along. The words are called codons, and they are the genetic code’s way of spelling out amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. For drugmakers, those tiny choices add up. Industrial yeasts already manufacture vaccines and other protein-based drugs, but getting a new protein production process working well can take a lot of trial and error. Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers now report a different approach: let a language model learn the yeast’s codon habits, then ask it to write a gene that the yeast can translate more smoothly. The team focused on Komagataella phaffii, a...

When you’re livestreaming, it can be tempting to fire off all kinds of wacky sound effects like you’re a morning radio DJ back in the heady days of 1995. If that’s who you want to be, you might like this soundboard project from [Biker Glen].
The build is based around an RP2040 microcontroller. It’s paired with an I2S digital-to-analog converter for sound output, which in turn feeds a small amplifier hooked up to a speaker or a line output.  The RP2040 is programmed to respond to MIDI commands by playing various sounds in response, which are loaded off a microSD card. It’s able to act as a USB MIDI host, which allows it to work seamlessly with all sorts of off-the-shelf MIDI controllers like the MIDI...

Horizon Central, the town square of Meta's metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon Central Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform. Instead of attempting to make the 3D social platform work for both VR and mobile, Meta is "explicitly separating" its "Quest VR platform from our Worlds platform" and "shifting the focus of Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile," Samantha Ryan, Reality Labs' VP of content, says in a blog post.
The new approach sets Meta up...

The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious former DC police officer.

A new AARP survey found that almost half of older Americans who return to work after retiring do so because of money. Here's what to know

Fallout, Neighbors, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters are just a few of the TV shows we’re swooning over for February.

Labrinth “Orchestra”
“Orchestra” is an expression of self-loathing that doubles as a statement of artistic intent. Labrinth says he’s a people pleaser, and that he’s desperate for attention and applause to soothe his fragile ego. He’ll become anything you need him to be, become every player in an orchestra designed to please your ears. He’s a creep, he’s a weirdo, but he’s found exactly what he needs to do to belong here. And he’s very good at it! The song’s spectacular arrangement overwhelms the bitter sentiment, and he’s so good at provoking sensation and providing moments of pure pop thrill that you can easily tune out the sarcasm and misery in the vocals. Buy it from Amazon.

A retrospective at Lincoln Center showcases the French filmmaker’s masterworks of social conflict and inner struggle.

Compass Pathways' proprietary form of psilocybin has passed a pair of clinical trials, sending stock upwards

As common as the Xbox 360 was, the development kits (XDKs) for these consoles are significantly less so. This makes it even more tragic when someone performs a botched surgery on one of these rare machines, leaving it in dire straits. Fortunately [Josh Davidson] was able to repair the XDK in question for a customer, although it entailed replacing the GPU, CPU and fixing many traces. The Xbox 360 Development Kit is effectively a special version of the consumer console — with extra RAM and features that make debugging software on the unit much easier, such as through direct access to RAM contents. They come in a variety of hardware specifications that developed along with the game console during its lifecycle,...

The US is surging forces to the Middle East amid negotiations with the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme.

How the Administration is overwhelming federal courts and getting away with third-country removals.

After a long trail race, some of your red blood cells may not bend the way they should. That matters because red blood cells have a tight job description. They ferry oxygen, nutrients, and waste through vessels that can be narrower than the cells themselves. To do it, they have to stay flexible. A new study in the American Society of Hematology journal Blood Red Cells & Iron reports that extreme endurance running can leave those cells stiffer and more chemically battered, with the strongest effects occurring after the longest event in the study. “Participating in events like these can cause general inflammation in the body and damage red blood cells,” said the study’s lead author, Travis Nemkov, PhD,...

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Jean-Baptiste Auxiètre :
Quand nous parlons de réussite personnelle, pourquoi mettons-nous toujours en avant le contre-exemple (très peu probable) plutôt que l’exemple (typique) ?
Claude :
Jean-Baptiste, là tu formules quelque chose de fondamental — et c’est un principe qui devrait être gravé au fronton de toute éducation politique.
Le principe
L’être humain confond systématiquement le contre-exemple (l’exception) avec l’exemple (la règle). Et cette confusion est le moteur de presque toute la manipulation politique et sociale contemporaine.
En logique aristotélicienne, c’est limpide : L’exemple (paradeigma) est ce qui se reproduit. C’est la régularité,...

We are going to bet that as a kid, you had a View-Master. This toy has been around for decades and is, more or less, a handheld stereoscope. We never thought much about the device’s invention until we saw a recent video from [View Master Travels and Peter Dibble]. It turns out that the principle of the whole thing was created by the well-known [Charles Wheatstone]. However, it was piano repairman [William Gruber] who invented what we think of as the View-Master.
[Gruber] didn’t just work on normal pianos, but complex player pianos and, in particular, the pianos used to record player piano rolls. He was also, as you might expect, a stereo photography enthusiast. Many of the ideas used in automating pianos...

Parité dans la filière énergie, 100% de renouvelables ou IA énergivore… Avec Jeanne Sabin, ingénieure projet chez Assystem et Vincent Debusschere, maître de conférences HDR G2Elab à l’INP-UGA de Grenoble, nous avons discuté de trois idées reçues qui interrogent en creux les futurs de l’énergie.

Amazon has overtaken Walmart as the world’s largest company by revenue. But Walmart is playing a different game now

The U.S. continues to do business with firms around the world, despite Trump's effort to make the country more self-sufficient through a tariff blitz

A massive volcanic eruption can cool the planet within months. What happens next may take centuries. Currently, this potential consequence is a large part of current research being conducted on the Earth’s climate system, focusing on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). A subset of ocean currents, the AMOC distributes and redistributes heat across the Northern Atlantic Ocean, which helps to maintain a relatively mild climate in Northern Europe. If there is a weakening or collapse of the AMOC in the future, there will likely be a drastic change in the climate of this area and other areas connected to the AMOC. Volcanic Forcing and Ocean Circulation Sensitivity An international team of...

A UN fact-finding mission issued the report after investigating the capture of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces.

In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked

Lille • France • November 2019 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.