A strong laser can heat a metal’s electrons long before its atoms have time to warm. During that brief period, the hot electrons may push the metal into a different solid crystal arrangement. The changes are currently computer predictions, and ultrafast X-ray or electron experiments will be needed to confirm them. A metal struck by a powerful laser can enter a strange split state. Its electrons become intensely hot within femtoseconds, while its atoms remain comparatively cold. During that brief interval, the entire crystal structure may begin to change. Calculations led by theoretical physicist Sam Azadi and his team at The University of Manchester suggest that these transformations do not require...

Cold showers, drinking ice water, blasting a fan in a closed room — the heat-coping habits most people trust that don't actually work the way they think

The seasonal Universal Studios event will feature a themed haunted house called 'Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness.'

Zuck knows you can't get it up.

These seven-seat SUVs rank as the most affordable for 2026, spanning compact crossovers and midsize family models.

From free shrine visits across Kyoto to overnight buses that double as your hotel, ten ways to stretch your budget in Japan

A trial and conviction that’d give Franz Kafka nightmares.

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Rolling versus folding, the compression cube debate, the specific math behind capsule wardrobes — the packing techniques that actually create space, not just the illusion of it

Science reveals why predicting your own happiness is so hard, from impact bias to hedonic adaptation and the psychology behind bad forecasts

UCSD researchers created a ring that can passively sample and analyze your sweat to track nutrition and insulin response.

En quelques heures, mercredi 29 juillet, les pompiers et bénévoles, soutenus par les largages de Canadair et d’un Dash, ont pu stopper la progression fulgurante des flammes qui menaçaient des habitations, sur le front sud de l’incendie.

Curious if you should get Dyson’s new 2026 stick vacuums or stick to the older ones? I tested five models, old and new, to find out for you.

The noir 'Batman' animated series, starring Hamish Linklater, cranks up the intensity with a sharper story, shocking violence, and a heavier pulse in its second season, premiering on Prime Video on July 31.

The kingdom faces a choice of whether to keep hitting back as a deterrent or to try to de-escalate the situation.

Apple's new Upgrade program is here, allowing you to lease select models of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches with a relatively low monthly payment. The company promises you won't pay more than the full price of the device over the course of the one- to three-year lease, and in some cases, you'll pay hundreds of dollars less.
The basics of the program make it sound like an amazing deal… so surely there must be a catch, right?
The answer basically depends on how you use the Upgrade Program. At least with current pricing, a diligent user really should be able to make a monthly payment, swap in their phone a year or more later, and move along …
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L’annonce de ces sanctions, qui concernent des entités accusées d’imposer des « assurances » aux navires transitant par le détroit d’Ormuz, survient alors que Donald Trump a averti que les Etats-Unis allaient frapper « fort » l’Iran après des tirs iraniens contre des bases américaines en Jordanie.

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn't confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI's rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier rumors that the device might be a wearable like the Humane AI pin. He didn't give a release date, either, only saying that "you can expect them soon." When asked about whether Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI could impact the devices it's working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, Brockman said, "We are focused on o …
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When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning "advanced robotic devices" from entering the United States, the headlines were all about humanoids. But spying doesn't require legs - and neither does the FCC's robot ban. The robot ban will sweep up robot vacuum cleaners too, FCC media relations director Katie Gorscak confirms to The Verge. It's not coming for your existing Roomba, and companies can keep importing and selling already approved ones. But the government claims that future foreign robots pose a national security risk, and even robovac companies are suddenly being asked to commit to US manufacturing. Whi …
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L’ex-directrice de Russia Today France est sommée de quitter le territoire français par le ministère de l’intérieur pour « atteinte aux intérêts fondamentaux de l’Etat ». Les dirigeants des groupes Bolloré et Lagardère continuent de la soutenir.

UC Irvine engineers studied 100,000 building inspection records from California wildfires between 2013 and 2024 to figure out why some homes burn down and others don’t. They found that dry, windy weather combined with things like wooden fences, flammable siding and open eaves make a home much more likely to be destroyed, and used this to build a detailed statewide risk map. The map can help homeowners and officials know where fire prevention efforts, like fireproofing fences and vents, would do the most good. When a wildfire burns through a neighborhood, some houses survive and others don’t, and it can look like pure chance. A new analysis of 100,000 building inspections says the pattern isn’t random....

This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team tool to demonstrate vulnerabilities. Why are Continuous Integration vulnerabilities such a persistent problem, and what’s on the horizon that may help? Watch to find out! https://github.com/boostsecurityio/poutine
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A son retour des Etats-Unis, le président ukrainien a fait escale à Lublin. Le premier ministre polonais a déclaré qu’ils avaient évoqué la coopération antibalistique, sans plus de précisions.

Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina over their behaviour after their World Cup final loss to Spain and throughout the tournament.

Un studio britannique spécialisé dans l’IA a annoncé début juillet la production d’un long-métrage où un avatar numérique “interprétera” le premier rôle. Un coup marketing, dénonce ce chroniqueur du “Guardian”, qui tient à rappeler que ce sont les comédiens qui rendent une œuvre vivante.

The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

« Tour du monde en séries » (3/6). Le programme sud-coréen, qui se penche sur les mauvais traitements endurés par les appelés, a fait réagir l’ensemble de la société et contraint le ministère de la défense à certaines réformes.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.”

"It's our forest," one volunteer fighting the fire in the Gironde region told the BBC, as other locals have refused to heed evacuations.

Quelques jours après l’attribution de la médaille Fields 2026 à quatre mathématiciens, dont deux Chinois, Hong Wang et Yu Deng, les internautes chinois se disputent sur la contribution de leur formation universitaire dans leur réussite, chinoise ou occidentale ?

As schools across the country continue to implement cellphone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cellphones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. That's the first time more Americans have supported, rather than opposed, so-called bell-to-bell bans. Two years ago, just 36 percent of American adults supported an all day ban.
Across all age groups over 18 that were surveyed, most respondents support in-class bans. That support is lower but still at least half for all-day bans across most age …
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Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.

Gale-force winds have whipped up the flames prompting the evacuation of several villages on the island, as parts of the continent also continue to tackle fires.

Three short-lived Assyrian rulers may have been excluded from the official record after they lost power. Their existence survives through damaged tablets, altered inscriptions, annual records, and a deliberately defaced royal statue. The discovery suggests Assyrian succession involved more rebellions and rival kings than the traditional timeline acknowledges. A damaged clay tablet, an overwritten stone monument, and a headless royal statue tell the same unsettling story. Three Assyrian kings may have been deliberately removed from the record, challenging a chronology trusted for roughly a century. Alexander Johannes Edmonds from University of Münster and Eckart Frahm from Yale University identify the...

Investi candidat par le Parti libéral, le fils aîné de l’ancien président brésilien d’extrême droite, Jair Bolsonaro, enchaîne les crises, peine à nouer des alliances politiques et n’a toujours pas désigné de colistier. La presse souligne sa dépendance à l’héritage de son père et s’interroge sur sa capacité à rassembler le camp conservateur.

At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display board, and it was running a web browser. Definitely an achievement.
Lest you imagine that it was sporting the latest and greatest in browser technology, we must disappoint you. The browser in question is a very basic text mode device, but it did happily retrieve Hackaday, which should be the only test a browser should need to pass.
Under the hood it’s running FreeRTOS, with separate HTML retrieval and tokenizing, and UI processes. It can fetch web pages directly, but there’s also a server-side proxy for difficult sites, and for...

Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell "just under 500" Luce units this year, and reached that target this month. Luce sales so far were reportedly driven by "strong demand from China," where EV sales have already taken off from makers like Geely, Lynk & Co, and Zeekr. The Financial Times says Ferrari was trying to "reach a new generation of wealthy buyers" with the Luce, particularly in China and "te …
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Anthropic, le concurrent direct d'OpenAI sur les modèles d'IA, a publié hier un billet de recherche qui a fait pas mal de bruit : son modèle Claude Mythos Preview a trouvé en 60 heures une faiblesse dans HAWK, un schéma de signature post-quantique que deux ans de relecture humaine n'avaient pas repérée.
La cryptographie post-quantique, ce sont ces nouveaux algorithmes conçus pour résister aux futurs ordinateurs quantiques, qui pourraient un jour casser une partie du chiffrement actuel. Le NIST, l'organisme américain qui normalise ces standards, organise depuis des années un concours public, et HAWK y concourt au troisième tour pour les signatures numériques, ce mécanisme qui prouve qu'un message...

Seules baleines à dormir en position verticale, la tête orientée vers la surface, les cachalots libéreraient des bulles d’air pour ne pas être secoués par les vagues pendant leur sieste, révèle une équipe internationale de biologistes.

Le Groupe Antifasciste Mâcon et Environs organise les 4 et 5 septembre 2026 un forum antifasciste riche en rencontres et concerts. Pour notre part, nous y seront présent·es pour présenter Fachorama et les activités de la Horde, et pour tenir une table d'infos. Retrouvez tout le programme ci-dessous ! vendredi 4 septembre 18hoo : rencontre/discussion avec le collectif la Horde Présentation du jeu Fachorama et de l'action militante du collectif. à la Comédie Noire, 26 place de la Comédie (…) -
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Sur le point d’être achevé, le premier pont routier entre la Russie et la Corée du Nord est officiellement destiné à dynamiser les échanges commerciaux. Mais l’enquête d’une ONG ukrainienne y voit surtout un nouvel axe logistique capable de fluidifier et dissimuler les échanges militaires entre les deux alliés dans leur guerre contre Kiev.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

A discarded rocket stage is expected to hit the moon near Einstein Crater on Aug. 5 at about 5,400 mph. The collision could create a momentary flash, a dust cloud several kilometers high and a crater up to 30 meters wide. Scientists hope the event will improve impact models, future moonquake experiments and tracking of debris between Earth and the moon. A discarded Falcon 9 rocket stage is expected to strike the moon, creating a brief flash, a towering dust plume and a new crater. The collision may offer scientists a rare controlled impact to study from Earth. The object, cataloged as 2025-010D, helped launch Firefly’s Blue Ghost-1 and ispace’s Hakuto-R Resilience landers in January 2025. After completing...

I recently found myself in the market for a few IP cameras to keep an eye on my Prusa 3D printers, and quickly found that the options on the market weren’t exactly ideal. Prusa does offer up an official camera, but the price for a pair of them was a bit more than I wanted to spend on the project. Conversely, there’s no shortage of cheap network-connected cameras available online, but they come with expenses of a different sort, namely proprietary software and cloud services I didn’t want or need.
Somewhere in the deep and dark recesses of this particular rabbit hole, I came across a Reddit post mentioning how a camera running the community-developed Thingino firmware could be plugged into Prusa’s...

Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.

Au lendemain du mégafeu qui a ravagé la Gironde, une rumeur accuse les autorités d’avoir sacrifié un village pour sauver les riches villas du Cap Ferret...

Our field-tested gear includes power banks, electrolytes, outdoor blankets, earplugs, and more.

A clock aboard a fast-moving spacecraft does not break, lag or malfunction. It ticks normally for everyone inside. Hearts beat, coffee cools and hair grows at the usual pace. Yet when the travelers return, they may have aged far less than people who stayed on Earth. That unsettling result does not come from radiation, weightlessness or some hidden effect of space travel. It comes from the structure of time itself. According to special relativity, observers moving at different speeds can experience different amounts of time between the same events. The idea sounds remote until you consider that nothing is ever truly still. Earth moves around the sun at roughly 30 kilometers per second. The sun circles the Milky...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) classified Vietnam as “Priority Foreign Country,” because of its lacking anti-piracy enforcement.
That designation, applied for the first time in over a decade, triggered a Section 301 investigation, opening the door to potential trade sanctions.
As part of this process, stakeholders were requested to provide input on Vietnam’s alleged shortcomings. This includes the piracy challenges and concerns, which were highlighted as the primary concern.
One of the key submissions came from the Motion Picture Association (MPA). As we reported earlier, Hollywood’s trade group called for tougher prison sentences and action against copycat pirate sites that...

[Kevin Kelm] created something wondrous: Halcyon Dawn, an utterly unique and desperately challenging game that is equal parts intricate starship simulator, imposing hardware console, video game, and love letter to John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War book series. Grab a beverage for this one, because it’s chock-full of detail.
First, how is it played? The simulator represents the ship Halcyon Dawn, a stolen and renamed vessel, and the player representing its sole crew member. The ship’s new mission is to establish a home for its payload of genetically-engineered unfortunates, escaping a cruel sort of indentured military servitude. The former masters of course have a very different view of the whole situation,...

The author of “Motherhood” answers our questions about her reading habits.

Des pages web altérées peuvent servir de sondes avant des opérations d’influence ou de sabotage numérique. Exemple avec une piscine de Saint-Denis.

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Liana Finck writes a humorous advice column about the choices a couple faces after having their first born.

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La haute cuisine s’égare dans le marketing vert. Le monde de la gastronomie contemporaine s’est entiché d’un nouveau sésame sémantique : la « naturalité ». Affiché au fronton de tables étoilées, ce concept est brandi comme le summum de l’éthique et de la modernité culinaire. Pourtant, à y regarder de près, cette formule s’apparente à une boursouflure intellectuelle, un « mot-container » aussi lourd à porter qu’historiquement et philosophiquement vide. Entre contresens scientifique et cynisme publicitaire, l’examen de ce concept révèle une double imposture. L’oxymore conceptuel : de la nature sauvage au geste culturel En premier lieu, prôner la « naturalité » dans...

Si vous avez déjà envoyé un lien à usage unique qui est arrivé mort chez votre collègue, c'est probablement la prévisualisation de la messagerie qui a ouvert le lien en premier et qui a cramé le secret accompagnant le lien.
La bonne nouvelle c'est que Oğuzhan Karacabay vient de publier une grosse mise à jour d' OTI , son service open source auto-hébergeable qui génère des liens de partage consultables une seule fois, avec chiffrement dans le navigateur. Vous collez un mot de passe, une clé d'API ou un bout de config dans OTI, le navigateur chiffre, le serveur lui ne stocke que du charabia, et le destinataire reçoit une jolie URL qui ne fonctionnera bien qu'une fois.
Ce qui change, c'est que le...