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by BBC - about 35 minutes
Police do not yet know the cause of the fire in the western Fribourg canton, which also injured a number of people.
by The Verge - about 46 minutes
A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near Dubai, highlighting the strategic importance of the strait, which handles 20 percent of global energy trade. | Photo: Getty Images Soon after the Trump administration launched its war on Iran, I called up Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, to talk about the consequences. While oil and gas prices were already on the rise, there was still more hope then that the impact of the conflict might be short-lived. At the end of our conversation, Blakemore said...
by io9 - yesterday at 23:00
'Samurai Champloo' is getting a live-action adaptation from the team behind 'One Piece' and 'Cowboy Bebop,' with more Watanabe input this time around.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:55
Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP.
Variety reports that Watanabe has given his blessing and agreed to work on a new live-action Samurai Champloo adaptation from Tomorrow Studios, the same production house behind Netflix's Cowboy Bebop (which Watanabe wasn't directly involved in) and the streamer's surprisingly excellent take on One Piece. The project is in its earliest stages of development and is not attached to a distributor. After Cowboy Bebop, this all feels a little iffy, but Tomorrow Studios heads Marty Adelstein an …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:41
Was it a threat or a reality check? That's a key question in the government's anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after the Justice Department reached a settlement with the company and as dozens of states push ahead.
The Verge obtained the audio of a 2021 call at the center of the case. The recording, a public exhibit that was played for jurors in the first week of trial, features then-CEO of Barclays Center John Abbamondi and Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino arguing over a ticketing deal for Brooklyn's Barclays Center arena. A transcript of the call was previously posted to the docket, but the audio gives a be …
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by The Verge - yesterday at 22:30
Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by commercial vehicles - including vehicle speed, seat belt activity, and engine health - and converts it into actionable items for fleet managers.
The new system manifests as - what else? - an AI chatbot within Ford's Telematics software that customers can ask questions about their fleets or delegate tasks. Managers can ask the chatbot for recommendations to lower fuel costs, insight about specific vehicles in their fleets, or even to draft emails to a supervisor summarizing …
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by The Verge - yesterday at 22:20
Anyone who finds themselves wishing they could spend less time on meal prep might have a solution in the form of the recently-launched Nosh One from Nosh Robotics, an AI kitchen appliance that can autonomously cook for you. All users need to do is load their ingredients into the robot's tray then select a recipe. The Nosh One adds the ingredients into its pot at the appropriate time, stirs everything, uses AI to monitor the ingredients with a built-in camera, and completes the meal without needing any intervention along the way. Nosh's app notifies users when the meal is ready. They can also use the app to view and edit recipes and schedul …
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by io9 - yesterday at 22:05
The annual parody of the Nobel Prizes is moving to Europe out of concern for international travelers.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:00
As 'Star Trek' enters a holding pattern it has not seen for years, Jonathan Frakes is reflecting on his time with the franchise, and being far from done with it.
by La Horde - yesterday at 21:59
Le site antifasciste Ripostes publie trois brochures et les met à disposition en différents formats afin de faciliter la diffusion. Le fond de l'air est de plus en plus brun Comment par petites touches ou par grandes accélérations, la banalisation du projet brun s'effectue sous nos yeux. Le RN et l'argent Front national, Rassemblement national, que ce soit en Europe, au plan national ou municipal, ils ne peuvent pas s'empêcher de plonger dans la caisse, de confondre argent public et (…) -
Repères / Rassemblement national (RN), Argumentaires
by io9 - yesterday at 21:55
Parseword is the latest game from Wordle creator Josh Wardle.
by BBC - yesterday at 21:39
It is understood most of the team left Australia on Tuesday night after losing their Sunday game in the Asian Cup.
by Wired - yesterday at 21:06
The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration’s immigration crackdown.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 21:01
Quarante-deux personnes, dont les trois principaux leaders de l’organisation criminelle marseillaise, déjà incarcérés, ont été interpellées, mardi, dans le cadre d’une enquête concernant notamment le blanchiment de l’argent issu du trafic de stupéfiants.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 21:00
This unusual clock by [Moritz v. Sivers] looks like a holographic dial surrounded by an LED ring, but that turns out to not be the case. What appears to be a ring of LEDs is in fact a second hologram. There are LEDs but they are tucked out of the way, and not directly visible. The result is a very unusual clock that really isn’t what it appears to be.
The face of the clock is a reflection hologram of a numbered spiral that serves as a dial. A single LED – the only one visibly mounted – illuminates this hologram from the front in order to produce the sort of holographic image most of us are familiar with, creating a sense of depth.
The lights around the circumference are another matter. What looks like a...
by BBC - yesterday at 20:35
President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that's not an easy sell, writes the BBC's Russia editor.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:32
Les propriétaires du bar Le Constellation auraient procédé à des montages financiers opaques, selon ce document d’une quinzaine de pages, versé à l’instruction.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 20:05
“Rodney Gorham recently passed a milestone that few people have reached. He’s had a brain-computer interface implanted for five years. Made by startup Synchron, the experimental implant allows him to control a computer and other digital devices around his home using just his thoughts. It’s been a lifeline for 65-year-old Gorham, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and can no longer walk, talk, or move his hands. Synchron is among several companies, including Elon Musk’s Neuralink, aiming to commercialize brain-computer interfaces to help individuals with paralysis. Over the past five years, Synchron’s software and hardware have gone through many iterations, with Gorham helping to shape the...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 20:05
Des Iraniens décrivent des bombardements parmi les pires vécus jusqu’ici. Des centaines de milliers de Libanais seraient déplacés. Pendant ce temps, le choc pétrolier, qui profite à la Russie, s’atténue.
by Wired - yesterday at 19:55
Go off-grid camping for a long weekend with my favorite portable power station from Anker. It’s on sale.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:52
“The Department of Energy has made public a set of new rules that slash environmental and security requirements for experimental nuclear reactors. Last month, NPR reported on the existence of the rules, which were quietly rewritten to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. The rule changes came about after President Trump signed an executive order calling for three or more of the experimental reactors to come online by July 4 of this year — an incredibly tight deadline in the world of nuclear power. The order led to the creation of a new Reactor Pilot Program at the Department of Energy.” From NPR.
The post Nuclear Safety Rules Rewritten to Accelerate Development appeared...
by Wired - yesterday at 19:48
Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:45
“Indian officials have been in a boastful mood lately. A government report in December argued that judging by real-time economic indicators, India had overtaken Japan as the world’s fourth-biggest economy. This was to become economic fact once the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation updated how it calculates GDP. So in one sense, the new numbers released on February 27th are a disappointment: GDP was 3.3% smaller than previously thought. In other ways, though, they are a cause for celebration. The methodological update, the first since 2015, reset the ‘base year’—which sets the weights for different parts of the economy—to 2022. It also added new data sources that capture a clearer...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:41
Si le Rassemblement national a obtenu de très bons scores lors des derniers scrutins nationaux, ses résultats sont d’ordinaire beaucoup moins bons lors des élections municipales. Mais cette fois-ci, le parti pourrait bien remporter plusieurs grandes villes, analyse la presse étrangère.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:39
“In 2024, Eon senior scientist Philip Shiu and collaborators published in Nature a computational model of the entire adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, containing more than 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections, built from the FlyWire connectome and machine learning predictions of neurotransmitter identity. That model predicted motor behavior at 95% accuracy. But it was disembodied: a brain without a body, activation without physics, motor outputs with nowhere to go. Now the brain has somewhere to go. Building on previous work, including Shiu et al.’s whole-brain computational model, the NeuroMechFly v2 embodied simulation framework, and Özdil et al.’s research on centralized brain...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 19:36
“Twenty years after they were first created in Japan, extraordinarily versatile stem cells made from the body’s own cells may finally realize their promise for regenerating diseased tissue. Last month, an advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry recommended limited marketing approval for therapies using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. In a controversial arrangement, their makers will be able to sell the products for 7 years while continuing studies to determine just how well the therapies work. IPS cells are moving closer to medical use in other countries as well, with dozens of potential therapies in clinical trials… One of the new therapies, intended...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:30
Debugging an application crash can oftentimes feel like you’re an intrepid detective in a grimy noir detective story, tasked with figuring out the sordid details behind an ugly crime. Slogging through scarce clues and vapid hints, you find yourself down in the dumps, contemplating the deeper meaning of life and  the true nature of man, before hitting that eureka moment and cracking the case. One might say that this makes for a good game idea, and [Jonathan] would agree with that notion, thus creating the Fatal Core Dump game.
Details can be found in the (spoiler-rich) blog post on how the game was conceived and implemented. The premise of the game is that of an inexplicable airlock failure on an asteroid...
by Wired - yesterday at 19:23
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:09
Steve Witkoff, l’émissaire spécial de Donald Trump, a par ailleurs déclaré qu’il se rendrait « probablement » en Israël la semaine prochaine.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:00
Mardi 10 mars au soir, Ilyas Kherbouch n’avait toujours pas été retrouvé. Son évasion est entre les mains de la juridiction interrégionale spécialisée de Paris, et met en lumière les failles des services pénitentiaires.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:00
Dans la septième ville de France, les défenseurs de l’écologie se déchirent, et la campagne pour les élections municipales n’a fait que raviver les tensions entre le maire socialiste sortant, Michaël Delafosse, l’« insoumise » Nathalie Oziol et l’écologiste Jean-Louis Roumégas.
by Wired - yesterday at 18:50
The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE are a great pairing for anyone with a Galaxy phone.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:47
À la faveur de l’opération Fureur épique en Iran, le chef du Pentagone s’est mué en un tonitruant chef de guerre, soulignent les médias anglo-saxons. Et il ne manque pas une occasion de marteler la supériorité de l’armée américaine, prête à tout pour écraser ses ennemis.
by La Horde - yesterday at 18:44
À l'appel de la CGT06, rendez-vous à 18h devant la mairie de Nice. -
Initiatives / Rassemblement national (RN), Manifs et rassemblements, Eric Ciotti
by La Horde - yesterday at 18:37
À 18h à la Base pour une projection de courts-métrages, suivie d'une discussion. -
Initiatives / Marseille, Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats
by La Horde - yesterday at 18:25
À 18h devant la Mairie de Pau, contre le RN et ses idées. -
Initiatives / Rassemblement national (RN), Manifs et rassemblements
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:14
Plus de tablette, de téléphone, de télé ni de console de jeux. Place à la socialisation et à l’activité physique. En France, le défi 10 jours sans écrans a mobilisé près de 800 écoles l’an dernier. Ce quotidien canadien est allé voir comment l’expérience avait été vécue par de jeunes Bordelais. À sa grande surprise, “il n’y a aucune plainte à l’horizon”.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:13
L’arsenal restant du parti chiite semble limité et ses principales lignes d’approvisionnement en provenance d’Iran se sont refermées après la chute de l’ancien régime syrien en décembre 2024. Mais le Hezbollah “semble avoir adapté sa stratégie” et conserve un certain pouvoir de nuisance, explique le quotidien libanais “L’Orient-Le Jour”.
by Korben - yesterday at 18:06
Shelby Jueden, un passionné de tech rétro qui anime la chaîne YouTube Tech Tangents, vient de montrer qu'un simple microscope numérique permet de distinguer le contenu vidéo gravé sur un LaserDisc. L'encodage analogique du format rend les données directement visibles sous grossissement, alors que ça ne fonctionne pas du tout avec un CD.
Mais comment ça marche ?
Pour les plus jeunes d'entre vous, un petit rappel s'impose. Le LaserDisc est un format vidéo analogique commercialisé dès la fin des années 1970, bien avant le DVD ou le Blu-ray. 
Contrairement au CD qui stocke ses données en binaire, le LaserDisc encode lui le signal vidéo sous forme de variations dans la longueur des creux gravés sur...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 18:00
Alzheimer’s disease remains a frustratingly difficult condition to manage for the millions of patients affected worldwide and their families. The cause of the disease is still not properly understood, and by the time memory loss and cognitive decline become apparent, the underlying brain pathology has often been quietly building for decades.
Soon, though it may be possible to diagnose impending Alzheimer’s disease ahead of time, before symptoms have taken hold. New research suggests this could be achieved through a simple blood draw, providing clinicians and patients precious time to manage the condition and plan ahead.
Early Warning
Amyloid beta plaques in brain tissue (here, stained brown) are a telltale...
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 17:23
Illustration par ChatGPT
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P.J. :
Ce que vous appelez « la manière honnête » est toujours celle des louseurs ! Nous devons éliminer cette sous-estimation de 22 % ! La décomposition linéaire ne fonctionne pas, mais à quoi vous attendiez-vous ? Que le couplage Φ_coupling ne présente aucune complexité alors que nous soupçonnions déjà qu’il y avait quelque chose de géométrique là-dedans ? Testons quelques formules plausibles pour le couplage Φ_coupling en recourant à la métaphore du « rejeton ». Un enfant 1) ajoute quelque chose à l’apport des parents, par exemple l’apport des grands-parents, 2) il arrive après les parents dans le devenir du monde, 3) il est sensible à l’impact...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 17:09
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 17:09
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by daryo Bluesky - yesterday at 16:40
Αθήνα • Ελλάς • November 2021 📷 #flashes
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 16:37
Images de jeux vidéo ou d’explosions sans rapport avec le conflit en cours, vidéos générées par intelligence artificielle… Depuis le début de l’attaque israélo-américaine sur l’Iran, de nombreux contenus trompeurs glorifient la puissance de feu iranienne.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 16:30
Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power strips to run them all? [Jeroen Brinkman] made his more controllable with a multi-way switch box.
At first sight it’s a bank of toggle switches, one for each socket. But this is far more than a wiring job, because of course there are a couple of microcontrollers involved, and each of those switches ultimately controls a relay. There are also status LEDs for each socket, and a master switch to bring them all down. Arduino code is provided, so you can build one too if you want to.
We like the idea of a handy power strip controller, and especially the master switch with the inherent state memory...
by Korben - yesterday at 15:09
Un développeur a créé un langage de programmation dont le code source est composé de M&M's colorés. Six couleurs, six familles d'instructions, et les programmes se compilent sous forme d'images PNG. Le plus rigolo ? On peut même prendre en photo de vrais bonbons posés sur une table pour générer du code exécutable. Le projet, baptisé MnM Lang, cartonne.
Des bonbons à la place du code
L'idée est partie d'un paquet de GEMS (l'équivalent indien des M&M's) ouvert un peu trop fort. Mufeed VH, développeur et auteur du projet, a vu les confiseries former une sorte de flèche sur le sol et s'est dit que ça ferait un bon point de départ pour un langage de programmation. Le résultat s'appelle MnM Lang,...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 15:00
That fireball was LZ37. Nobody wanted to see repeats post-war.Image: “The great exploit of lieutenant Warnefort 1916 England” by Gordon Crosby, public domain.
After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, and figured out the trick of using incendiary rounds to set off the hydrogen lift gas – there was a certain desire in airship circles to avoid fires. In the USA, that mostly took the form of replacing hydrogen with helium. Sure, it didn’t lift quite as well, but it also didn’t explode.
Still, supplies of helium were– and are– very much limited, and at least on a...
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 14:31
Through its non-profit organization, the Internet Archive (IA) aims to preserve digital history for generations to come.
The Archive’s popular Wayback Machine has archived decades of web history, and it also aims to preserve content directly: by scanning physical books or recording old gramophones, for example.
One of the more unique preservation projects centers around Myspace, which was the leading social network twenty years ago. The site was particularly popular among musicians, but today it’s a shell of its former self with virtually no new activity. In fact, quite a bit of content was permanently lost.
The Myspace Dragon Hoard
In March 2019, Myspace publicly announced that all music uploaded to the...
by BBC - yesterday at 14:26
Iranians in Tehran and Karaj tell the BBC they are exhausted and struggling to sleep after 10 days of Israeli and US attacks.
by BBC - yesterday at 11:47
The shadow of Greene, who resigned from Congress after a rift with the president, looms large over a crowded contest.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 11:46
Où l’on parle de non-réciprocité : l’adversaire est une vermine dont il faut débarrasser la terre.
by Usbek & Rica - yesterday at 11:46
Dans le désert égyptien, les mariages inter-tribus ont engendré au fil des générations une explosion de cas de surdité. Pour assurer la survie du groupe et sa cohésion, les Bédouins ont créé leur propre langue des signes, devenue pour tous une seconde langue maternelle. Une opportunité extraordinairement rare pour la recherche d’étudier la naissance d’une langue, qu'on vous racontait dans le numéro d'automne 2024 de FUTUR, le magazine d'Usbek & Rica. L'article figure parmi les finalistes du prix international True Story Award 2026.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 11:00
Donald Trump is pushing the SAVE America Act, but there are other measures to undermine the electoral system.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 11:00
The race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat pits a Trump-endorsed Republican attorney against a far-right insurgent backed by Kyle Rittenhouse.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 11:00
It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping.
by Korben - yesterday at 10:46
Conductor
c'est une app macOS qui vous permet de lancer plusieurs agents Claude Code ou Codex en parallèle, chacun dans son propre worktree git histoire qu'ils ne se marchent pas dessus. Le tout est développé par Melty Labs, et c'est gratuit !! (enfin l'app en elle-même, parce que les tokens Claude ou OpenAI, c'est vous qui casquez hein ^^).
Vous ouvrez l'app, Cmd+N pour créer un workspace, et ensuite, chaque agent bosse dans son coin sur sa propre branche git comme ça y'a pas de conflits ni de merge foireux au milieu du boulot ! Et grâce à cet outil, vous voyez d'un coup d'oeil ce que chacun fabrique via le diff viewer intégré. Ensuite, vous reviewez, et quand c'est bon vous mergez. Comme un chef de...
by Korben - yesterday at 10:35
Et si vos fichiers .env se transformaient en un joli tableau avec des astérisques partout afin d'assurer la confidentialité de vos clés API et autres crédentials ? Hé bien c'est exactement ce que propose
Dotenv Mask Editor
, une extension VS Code qui remplace carrément l'éditeur texte par une grille.
Du coup, vos clés API, tokens AWS, mots de passe PostgreSQL et autres STRIPE_SECRET_KEY s'affichent sous forme de ****** et vous pouvez bosser dessus même si quelqu'un mate par-dessus votre épaule. En gros, dès que vous ouvrez un fichier .env (ou .env.local, .env.production... bref, tout ce qui matche le pattern), l'extension vous présente vos variables dans un tableau à deux colonnes. Les clés à...
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 10:30
Yann Le Bris, procureur de la République en Martinique, souligne l’enjeu la remontée d’informations dans les affaires de corruption.