La tempête Austen entraîne la fermeture du village de la Route du rhum, à Saint-Malo, et perturbe fortement la circulation ferroviaire dans l’ouest et le nord du pays.

Recently the [Chornobyl Family] got their hands on an ES-4001 control panel for a 1970s-era Soviet mainframe, with the intention to restore it to full working order. Not just because they’re really into cool old Soviet technology, but also because of the connection that this control panel holds to the Chernobyl nuclear accident that was so instrumental to the area in modern times.
The Duga-1 computer room with what’s left of the ES-1060 mainframe. (Credit: Chornobyl Family, YouTube)
During the 1970s the USSR felt that it could not be left behind in the race to create better digital computers. This led them to not only create a few original designs, but also effectively clone the IBM System/360 and...

Officials say they both travelled through Entebbe International Airport on 3 October.

Selon une information du Wall Street Journal, le président républicain avait appelé le patron de SpaceX mercredi pour lui demander de lever le bridage de ce système de communication crucial pour l’armée ukrainienne. À Kiev, les restrictions constatées ont renforcé les inquiétudes face à l’affaiblissement du soutien américain à l’Ukraine.

Avant une nouvelle journée de mobilisation, samedi 24 octobre, et par crainte de nouveaux débordements et pillages, les restrictions à la liberté d’aller et venir et de défiler se multiplient, suscitant de vives critiques de la part de plusieurs associations de défense des libertés publiques.

The Dutch learned a Russian intelligence agency had broken into Kushner's iPhone in 2017, so they borrowed the trick and started watching for themselves.

Le chef de l’Etat, de retour d’un déplacement au Moyen-Orient, s’est invité jeudi dans la gestion de la crise des lycéens, demandant que ne soient autorisés, samedi, que les défilés organisés par les syndicats.

Face à la tourmente dans laquelle sont plongés les mathématiciens, noyés sous le déluge d’annonces de résultats par les entreprises d’intelligence artificielle, beaucoup choisissent de prendre le sujet à bras-le-corps et de s’en écarter totalement, raconte “New Scientist”.

Pas moins de huit pays de l’Union européenne se rendront aux urnes dans les prochains mois, et ces scrutins pourraient redessiner totalement le paysage politique du Vieux Continent. Car si l’extrême droite gagne encore du terrain, la construction européenne pourrait bel et bien s’effondrer, prévient le journal britannique “The Guardian”.

La romancière irlandaise et son éditeur britannique ont annoncé le 14 octobre la fin de la commercialisation de ses ouvrages outre-Manche, en raison de son soutien à Palestine Action, une organisation proscrite. Pour ce chroniqueur conservateur, qui a pourtant refusé de signer une lettre de soutien, la situation démontre l’inanité d’une législation mettant sur le même plan Al-Qaida et des groupes de désobéissance civile.

Selon une étude menée par deux institutions britanniques et portant sur 854 agglomérations, les canicules de 2026 ont été beaucoup plus meurtrières que celles de 2003 ou 2022.

À quelques jours des élections législatives israéliennes, l’intelligence artificielle s’est imposée comme l’un des acteurs majeurs de la campagne. Vidéos truquées, images fabriquées, adversaires politiques mis en scène dans des situations fictives : les partis exploitent massivement ces nouvelles technologies, au point de susciter l’inquiétude des autorités électorales.

L’annonce de Meta, le groupe de Mark Zuckerberg, qui veut lancer une nouvelle levée de capital pour financer ses immenses investissements, a nourri, jeudi, les interrogations des investisseurs sur la capacité des sociétés du secteur à dégager des profits.

One of the major limits of mass-produced batteries is the electrolyte. From lead-acid to lithium ion, there’s some temperature where the electrolyte will freeze and cause all sorts of problems, from cracked casings to various non-favorable chemical changes in the battery itself. But if there’ a solid electrolyte available, many of the downsides of charging and discharging batteries in extreme cold disappear. These batteries developed by NASA, for example, can survive some wild temperature swings.
The electrolytes used for these batteries are either a ceramic or polymer electrolyte, both of which are solid. In testing, the batteries could meaningfully operate at temperatures of -60° C and up to 80° C on...

Trump is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave in 2021.

You're on the clock, kids.

American Express isn't saying precisely what caused the outages for some customers.

The convicted FTX founder, who is just three years into a 25-year prison sentence, told Money Talks he hopes for a pardon, but that's an "uphill battle."

Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say they can't tell which items involve AI-generated content" and that sellers are "concerned about your work appearing alongside items that use AI in misleading ways," spurring the new policies and restrictions. Under the new policies, every listing must include "at least one unedited photo of the actual item against a real background," and all photos must "accurately represent the item a buyer will receive." The photos that aren't the first one can be edited with softw …
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The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.

Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create “elite working dogs” equipped with "advanced body armor."

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family plan users who don't actually live together with a new QR code verification method that requires scanning the plan manager's phone. TechCrunch reports that in response to a question about the "crackdown," he called it a "routine improvement" instead: This is not as much a crackdown as it is actually a routine improvement of our verification methods for our Family Plan. Family Plan has existed for a long while. It has been around for, I think it is now close to 12, 13 years in Spotify history, and it makes up a pretty signi …
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For as many sensors, cameras, and computers as there are on modern cars, they ought to be a dream to poke around in and customize to one’s liking. Unfortunately they’re generally plagued by the same locked-down, proprietary software that most consumer electronics ship with, making it very difficult to interact with these systems in ways the manufacturer doesn’t approve of. There are a few exceptions to this rule, though, and [Sasha] built this system which backs up the footage from their electric car’s on-board cameras automatically to a NAS.
The system is built around a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W which plugs directly into a USB port in the car’s glovebox. To set it up, the software only needs to be...

An Xbox Elite controller. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the future of gaming this week. According to the publication's Microsoft insiders, the next Xbox is projected to cost between $1,200 and $1,800 when it arrives in 2028. My first reaction: The next Xbox is dead on arrival. It's DOA. My second thought: Microsoft knows people won't pay that much. It couldn't possibly charge that much money if it wants next gen to be a success. "I wouldn't release it at all," former Microsoft exec Mike Ybarra recently said.
My third thought: Didn't Microsoft already say out loud that it knows people won't pay that much? Didn't old Xbox boss Phil Spencer say "We're no...

As Democrats’ midterm expectations soar, history advises only a lowercase, cautious optimism.

New research is the first to find a link between the legalization of recreational cannabis and a rise in certain heart problems.

The beauty giant's CEO says the use of GLP-1s is "a very important phenomenon for us".

Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient’s death.

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an announcement on Thursday.
Canva Craft can generate images at up to 2K resolution and in more than 30 aspect ratios. In addition to generating social media posts and marketing content, it's also supposed to create realistic scenes, digital art, environmental imagery, and more. The model's two-stage sy …
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Ukraine relies on Starlink for a range of military uses - its owner Elon Musk has repeatedly denied restricting access.

Demand for new PCs took a hit after months of price hikes, with Counterpoint Research reporting global PC shipments fell 21 percent year-over-year in Q3 2026. That's in line with earlier reports from IDC and Omdia. It's not just PCs, either - that same quarter, smartphone shipments also hit a 14-year low.
Counterpoint linked the decline in PC shipments to higher component prices. Up until Q2 2026, PC shipments had been growing for over two years straight. But over the last several months, RAM, SSDs, and chips from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm have all gotten more expensive, leading to price hikes on everything from MacBooks to Raspberry Pis. C …
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My Google Home Speaker had been burning through more data than all the rest of my devices combined. As I looked into it further, I found other smart home devices that had the same problem.

If you’ve ever pulled apart a set of digital calipers, you’ve probably marvelled at the capacitive encoder that does all the measuring work. There’s nothing stopping you from using the same techniques yourself, as [Nick] demonstrates with an open-source capacitive encoder of his own design.
The sensor PCB works by by having a grid of eight transmitting antennas, etched into a PCB, beneath a larger receiving antenna. The transmitting antennas pulse out a pattern as the sensor PCB moves, with the signals bouncing back from the reflector PCB which is fixed in place. The varying capacitance caused by the position of the reflector elements relative to the sensor PCB varies the strength of the pulses hitting...

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.

“According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, the global death rate from malaria has almost halved since the year 2000… Since 1900, the global death rate has declined by 96%. If it were still as high as it was then, around 16 million people would die from malaria every year instead of 610,000.” From Our World in Data.
The post Global Malaria Death Rate Has Plummeted appeared first on Human Progress.

L’affaire a été tenue discrète mais, par décision du tribunal administratif de Paris le 1er octobre 2026, un ressortissant chinois installé à Paris depuis des années a été condamné à être expulsé du territoire français vers la Chine pour avoir dirigé une officine de police chinoise clandestine, des activités jugées comme « portant atteinte aux intérêts fondamentaux de l’État. »

“In America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020. A survey by the Pew Research Center found that thirty-eight per cent of American adults read one to five books in 2025, and fourteen per cent read at least twenty. The global book market is expected to grow five per cent annually for the next several years; for the generation now entering college, book sales are at a lifetime high. In its lament for fading literacy, the Atlantic mentioned current data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress,...

“We demonstrate that thermally embedding enzymes into compostable polyesters (poly(butylene succinate) (PBS), poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) (PBSA), poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) and poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT)) significantly accelerates their degradation in both coastal and deep-sea environments from water depths of 2–6 m to 5,503 m. Enzyme-embedded polyesters achieved near-complete degradation at a deep-sea depth of 757 m within 5 months. Furthermore, moderate biodegradation of enzyme-embedded polyesters was observed under extreme conditions on deep-sea floors of 5,503 m. In coastal seawater, films embedded with trace amounts (0.1 wt%) of enzyme underwent rapid degradation.” From...

“To extend the lifespan of one mine past its prime, Arizona’s Carlota Mine, its owner, KGHM Polska Miedz S.A., has recently recruited a group of unconventional miners. They arrived by the millions, transported in barrel-sized containers from a laboratory in Colorado. These miners are specialized microbes, acid-loving microorganisms that liberate copper from ore by digesting surrounding iron and sulfur compounds. Endolith, a Denver-based startup that supplies the microbes to KGHM, will continue to grow them in bioreactors onsite. From there, the microbes are channeled into a sprinkler system to mix with sulfuric acid. That liquid then drips into vast heaps of crushed rocks — some as large as 10 sports...

“When coral bleaches during a heat wave and ejects its symbiotic algae, it usually means either a death sentence or a slow recovery over months or years. But scientists working separately at two labs an ocean apart have found a faster acting shortcut, one that has scientists hoping it could eventually help coral recover from bleaching and endure future heat waves. The approach, reported in a 2 October paper in Environmental Microbiology Reports and one published today in Science Advances, is deceptively simple. By touching a piece of bleached coral to a healthy piece, a kind of algal transfusion can occur. Symbionts flow through a bridge of tissue and then rapidly reproduce, repopulating the bleached piece...

There are plenty of Wi-Fi radios out there that were built over the last two decades or so. However, many older models are now becoming less useful because many internet radio stations are switching to newer streaming formats that they don’t support. [Clifford Farrugia] has been working on a little project to save these appliances from the e-waste bin.
The HLS Radio Converter is the result of that work. It’s a small open-source tool that converts modern HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol streams into regular old HTTP MP3 streams that older internet radio appliances are built to decode. You can run the tool on something as simple as an old Raspberry Pi. To make it work, you just give the tool the URL of the...

Pour Isabelle Boudineau, les constats du rapport du Comité des régions sur l’état des villes et des régions sont un véritable plaidoyer pour le maintien de la politique de cohésion. Ici lors de la plénière du Comité le 14 octobre 2026 - Crédits : John Thys / Flickr Comité européen des régions CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Les négociations de l'Union européenne sur le budget pluriannuel 2028-2034 paraissent à mille lieues du quotidien des territoires ? Pourtant, ce qui se joue en ce moment à Bruxelles aura un impact concret à l’échelon local. Les territoires de l’UE bénéficient en effet de nombreux fonds européens via la politique de cohésion. Pour porter leurs voix, une institution : le Comité...

Earlier this month, DNS resolver Quad9 informed TorrentFreak that it was weighing its future in France, including the option to leave the country altogether.
The Swiss non-profit foundation faced a request from beIN Sports for penalties of up to €580,000 a day, as Quad9 chose not to block pirate tennis streams.
Yesterday the Paris Court ruled on the matter and not in favor of Quad9. As a direct result, the foundation decided that it will no longer offer its services to users in France starting November 24.
Farewell, France
€1,000 a Day
The court ordered Quad9 to implement the May blocking order, which since expanded to 58 domain names, or face a penalty of €1,000 a day, which is a fraction of beIN’s...

Le stand de la Région Guadeloupe à Saint-Malo a ouvert ses portes le 20 octobre 2026 - Crédits : Région Guadeloupe À l'occasion de la Route du Rhum 2026, la Région Guadeloupe organise deux espaces consacrés à l'action de l'Union européenne, à Saint-Malo puis à Pointe-à-Pitre. L'objectif : présenter au public les projets guadeloupéens soutenus par les fonds européens, dans des domaines aussi variés que l'agriculture, la formation, l'environnement ou encore l'économie maritime. Deux stands sont prévus à cette occasion : du 20 octobre au 1er novembre 2026 - date du grand départ de la mythique épreuve - au sein du pavillon des îles de Guadeloupe, dans le village de départ à Saint-Malo, puis...

Après avoir explosé en 2020 en raison des mesures prises pour contrer les effets économiques de la pandémie de Covid-19, la dette publique des États membres a continué de progresser jusqu'en 2023. Mais depuis le début de l'année 2024, la situation semble s'atténuer, même si les niveaux généraux d'endettement des pays restent supérieurs à ceux de 2019. Au deuxième trimestre de l'année 2026 (dernier chiffres Eurostat disponibles), la dette publique s’est établie à 82,9 % du PIB dans l’Union européenne (89,5 % dans la zone euro). Un niveau en légère hausse tant par rapport au trimestre précédent (82,5 % pour l'UE) que par rapport au même trimestre de l'année précédente (81,4 % au...

Les avions américains F-35A peuvent transporter des ogives nucléaires - Crédits : Zhicheng Qin / iStock Emmanuel Macron a annoncé le 2 mars 2026 ouvrir les exercices de dissuasion nucléaire française à la participation européenne. Menacée par les ambitions néo-impérialistes russes et la remise en cause de l'alliance transatlantique par Donald Trump, l'Union européenne se retrouve face à l'urgente nécessité d'assurer sa protection de manière plus autonome. Ce qui passe par les forces conventionnelles mais aussi par la dissuasion nucléaire. Un levier sur lequel la France entend prendre toute sa place. Concepts de parapluie et partage nucléaires, état des lieux de l'arme nucléaire en Europe et...

Retrouvez les prix de l'essence et du gazole en Europe - Crédits : Dutchphotography / iStock Combien dépensent les Espagnols, les Allemands ou les Belges pour faire le plein d'essence ou de diesel à la pompe ? En moyenne, un Européen doit débourser 1,99 euros pour un litre d'essence (sans plomb 95) et 2,14 euros pour un litre de diesel selon les dernières données de la Commission européenne. Mais cette moyenne cache des disparités parfois importantes entre États membres. Les prix de l'essence SP95 et du gazole dans chaque pays Les données publiées par la Commission européenne correspondent à une moyenne nationale pour chaque pays, selon le bulletin publié le 22 octobre 2026 et sur la base de...

- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon - UGREEN m'a envoyé sa station de charge Nexode Pro 300W il y a quelques semaines, et elle n'a plus quitté mon bureau depuis. Le bloc remplace à lui seul le chargeur du MacBook, celui du téléphone et les alimentations qui traînaient derrière l'écran, avec 300W à répartir sur huit sorties.
Dans le détail, la bête aligne six ports USB-C, un port USB-A pour dépanner et une sortie DC de 240W, cette prise ronde qui alimente certains PC portables gourmands. Les trois premiers ports USB-C montent chacun à 140W grâce au PD 3.1, la norme de charge rapide la plus musclée du moment, les deux suivants plafonnent à 100W et le dernier à 30W. Tout ça tient dans un...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

ÉDITO // On n’a pas attendu l’intelligence artificielle pour dévaloriser la création humaine. Depuis bientôt deux décennies, l’usage massif et abusif du terme « contenu » a fini par dégrader notre perception des œuvres et de leurs auteurs. Désormais, c’est moins leur signification que leur circulation qui compte. C’est l’angle creusé dans l’édito du nouveau numéro de FUTUR, le magazine d’Usbek & Rica, disponible en librairie depuis le 22 octobre.

Incendies, pillages, couvre-feu... Depuis le 17 octobre, la violence a envahi les écrans et les discours. Mais de quelle violence parle-t-on ? Pour le philosophe Marc Crépon, qui a consacré de nombreux ouvrages à cette notion, celle qui embrase les vitrines ne doit pas faire oublier une autre violence, plus lente et plus silencieuse : celle que subit une jeunesse qui se sent condamnée à l’inexistence. Entretien.

“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.”

Elizabeth expresses hurt that Jessica would judge Tim based on just one quirk. Jessica replies that it’s not just one quirk. How many quirks does Tim have?

Mayor Mamdani’s K-12 platform is increasingly perceived as a “blank space.” Some of his supporters have ideas for filling it.

Retrouvez sur notre carte les mesures de restriction annoncées partout en France par les préfectures et les mairies après les violences des 17 et 18 octobre.

L’organisation météorologique mondiale délègue à cinq organismes régionaux le choix des prénoms, qui doivent alterner masculin et féminin.

-- Article en partenariat avec Surfshark -- Est-ce que vous faites partie de ceux qui pensent qu'un VPN, bah, ça chiffre, ça tourne et tout va bien ? Parce qu'en 2027, les questions à se poser sont un peu différentes (2027 oui, je suis déjà dans le turfu). Même si aujourd'hui vos données sont protégées, est-ce que ce sera encore le cas face à un ordinateur quantique ? (qui n'existe pas encore, mais ça semble vite se rapprocher). Et est ce que vous scannez parfois des QR codes (sur des parcmètres, des tables de restaurant pour charger un menu, etc.) sans réfléchir ?
Si oui, ce que Surfshark vient d'annoncer ces dernières semaines va peut-être intéresser et on va voir ça...

Court Approves ‘voices38’ Subpoenas After Denuvo Drops Payment and Login Data Requests
https://torrentfreak.com/court-approves-voices38-subpoenas-after-denuvo-drops-payment-and-login-data-requests/

When Rep. Darrell Issa introduced his site blocking bill last month, VPN providers made the list.
The American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) would allow courts to order ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPNs to block foreign pirate sites.
The competing DEFEND IP Act, introduced days later by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Sen. Thom Tillis, does the opposite. It explicitly excludes services that only offer VPNs.
The VPN industry has a voice in U.S. blocking debates through the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition). In addition to representing companies such as Amazon, Cloudflare, and Google, the group runs a VPN Trust Initiative, with ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark as founding members.
The coalition has been...