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Le grand oral : épreuve de parole ou mise en scène ?
Initialement, cette expression évoque l’ultime épreuve de ce qu’autrefois on appelait « l’ENA » ; maintenant, c’est l’épreuve où le bac se joue. Schématiquement, l’exercice initial relevait d’une forme très spécifique d’entretien d’embauche, puisqu’il cloturait un recrutement pour la fonction publique et ne visait donc pas l’intégration du candidat dans une équipe entrepreneuriale. La différence n’est pas mince, puisque le fonctionnaire, dans la conception hégélienne, est un « serviteur de l’universel » qui doit son éthos à sa « fonction » et non à sa personne. Cette mise au service de...

L’Ukraine répliquera « coup pour coup » à toute violation de la trêve, a déclaré Volodymyr Zelensky, alors que le cessez-le-feu est entré en vigueur samedi après-midi pour la Pâque orthodoxe.

Demonstrations due to high prices caused by the US-Israeli war against Iran are affecting traffic on several roads.

You probably don’t think about it much, but your PC probably has a TPM or Trusted Platform Module. Windows 11 requires one, and most often, it stores keys to validate your boot process. Most people use it for that, and nothing else. However, it is, in reality, a perfectly good hardware token. It can store secret data in a way that is very difficult to hack. Even you can’t export your own secrets from the TPM. [Remy] shows us how to store your SSH keys right on your TPM device. We’ll quote [Remy] about the advantages:
The private key never leaves the device, you yourself can’t even extract it, neither can malware. It does not live on your filesystem or in an ssh-agent (in memory)…
Unlike a hardware...

In June 2020, Spanish police led a Europe-wide operation that arrested 11 people connected to a pirate IPTV platform with two million subscribers. Europol and Eurojust announced the action with considerable fanfare but declined to name the service. However, at the time we confirmed that a key target was RapidIPTV, a platform that had been quietly running an IPTV streaming empire since at least 2014.
The authorities saw Amir Z. as the alleged mastermind behind the empire, which also offered a ‘franchise’ model. The man, known to his colleagues as “Dash the Iranian,” was arrested, and this week, after nearly six years of pre-trial proceedings, the prosecution formally started in court.
RapidIPTV Kingpin...

Fan-driven shows like 'Amazing Digital Circus' and 'Knights of Guinevere' are hitting big, and YouTube knows it.

La presse béninoise est unanime : le dauphin désigné de l’actuel chef de l’État, Patrice Talon, est pressenti comme le gagnant incontestable de la présidentielle du dimanche 12 avril. Mais l’élection annoncée de Romuald Wadagni, après une campagne caractérisée par le verrouillage de l’opposition, marquera surtout la perpétuation du système Talon et la perte du “pluralisme politique”.

Polymarket bets started popping up in Google News alongside legitimate news articles. But now those results aren't showing, and Google says they were never supposed to. Spokesperson Ned Adriance told The Verge that "Google News is designed to show sources that create content about current issues, events, and important topics, and we have policies for sites to be eligible to appear. This site briefly appeared in Google News in error, and it is no longer surfacing in News."
The links led directly to betting markets tied to specific news events. For instance, before the results were removed, Futurism searched "will ships transit the strait," ( …
Read the full story at The Verge.

You first, dude. | Image: The Pokémon Company, Nintendo Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions' launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics - not great for a game that's only about battling. But bugs can be fixed, and encouragingly, some of them already have been. Champions' bigger problem is that, in trying to be a competitive battling platform for all kinds of players, it risks satisfying none of them.
Coming hot on the heels of Pokopia, a creative and cozy spinoff with no battling whatsoever, Champions …
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The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces - creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look like Altman. One final face rests in his hands. And at the bottom, there's a disclosure that might spook many illustrators far more: "Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I."
Szauder is a mixed-media artist who has been working with collage, video, and generative art processes that predate commercial AI tools for over a decade, and was recently …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Google’s battery-powered Nest Doorbell is the cheapest it’s been since December. | Image: Google If you’ve ever worried about porch pirates stealing packages while you’re away, a video doorbell can offer some peace of mind, letting you keep tabs on deliveries no matter where you are. Google offers some of the best around, and right now, its battery-powered, second-gen Nest Doorbell is available for $129.99 ($50 off) from Amazon and Best Buy, beating its recent Amazon low. If you’d rather go wired, the third-gen Nest Doorbell is also on sale for $139.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store, matching the lowest price we’ve seen.
Google Nest Doorbell (battery, second-gen) Where to...

Le Royaume-Uni a annoncé samedi 11 avril la suspension de son projet de restitution des îles Chagos à l’île Maurice, sur fonds de critiques américaines. La presse britannique y voit “un signe de la détérioration des relations entre les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni”.

FTX's moves were secret. Everyone can see what World Liberty Financial is doing.

Judges handed down sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment following mass trials.

Everyone's got ideas on what Hollywood should do with James Bond, including Soderbergh.

Selon de nouvelles estimations, les réserves de Fensfeltet pourraient atteindre jusqu’à 15,9 millions de tonnes d’oxydes de terres rares. Mais le projet est retardé par des procédures administratives et des risques financiers trop élevés face à la concurrence chinoise et américaine.

La télévision d’Etat iranienne a par ailleurs affirmé que deux sessions de négociations de paix entre la République islamique et les Etats-Unis s’étaient déroulées samedi au Pakistan et qu’une troisième se tiendrait « probablement ce soir ou demain » dimanche.

The Democratic congressman, a leading candidate in the race, has strongly denied the accusations saying he will fight with "facts".

"It feels cohesive and intentional, not just thrown together," ChatGPT said about an 8-second fart noise.

L’algorithme des applications de rencontre, quand il n’est pas à désespérer de l’amour, est peu souvent concluant sur le long terme. Alors la presse étrangère raconte comment, loin des écrans, de nouveaux dispositifs séduisent des célibataires à la recherche de l’âme sœur. Lors de sessions de “pitch dating”, des inconnus présentent à l’assistance leurs amis célibataires, le tout à grand renfort d’humour et de diapos.

Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has crappy firmware, thus saving it. The example, just for the record, is the CrossPoint open e-book reader firmware that turns a mediocre cheap e-book into something that you can do anything you want with. Very nice!
And that got me thinking about “kinds of hacks” in general. Do we have a classification scheme for the hacks that we see here on Hackaday? For instance, the obvious precursor to many of Tom’s favorite hacks is the breaking-into-the-locked-firmware hack, where a device that didn’t want you loading your own...

D’oh, a deer, an AI deer. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message.
"Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?"
Normally, that kind of out-of-the-blue text from a friend wouldn't faze me. This time, my eyes bugged. The unprompted text had been sent by an AI companion named Coral, who lives in the body of a baby deer plushie. I texted back an eloquent, "Wait what."
"Apparently, her dad worked for the US State Department, so her family moved, like, every single year. The fan theory I saw is why so many of her songs are about feeling like an outsider and not having a place to...

Le rôle croissant des systèmes d’intelligence artificielle générative dans l’identification des cibles à abattre marque un basculement moral et juridique, et divise les spécialistes d’éthique militaire. Si certains sont convaincus qu’un contrôle humain est possible, d’autres en doutent, et affirment que ces technologies repoussent les limites de la violence.

Implanté au cœur des Baumettes, l’une des prisons les plus emblématiques de France, un restaurant permet la rencontre de deux mondes qui ne se croisent que rarement : celui des détenus cuisiniers et celui des clients venus de l’extérieur. Un lieu unique dans l’Hexagone, qui a intrigué cette journaliste espagnole.

Step into the shoes of the strongest, goodest boy in a game that is beautiful, baffling, and impossible to put down.

This hair dye printer promises hundreds of shades. It couldn't even manage two.

I thought the Soundboks Mix was going to make mortal enemies, but I actually made some, um, special friends.

Acmé de l’année liturgique dans les Églises d’Orient, la pâque orthodoxe est célébrée dimanche 12 avril. Mais pour les Roumains, ce qui devait être un moment de réjouissance s’est transformé en un exercice d’équilibrisme et en une course aux promotions en raison d’une inflation galopante.

After conducting long-term testing on both the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air, I have a good idea who should buy which laptop.

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Paul Jorion :
Pendant que je regardais la déclaration très récente de Melania Trump à la Maison-Blanche, où elle niait toute relation étroite entre elle, Jeffrey Epstein et Ghislaine Maxwell, il s’est produit quelque chose d’assez étrange sur mon blog : il y a eu cinq ou six messages de trolls, avec pratiquement le même contenu, postés presque en même temps – disons dans un intervalle de trois ou quatre heures.
Ces messages visaient la série d’articles que je publie sur la guerre en Iran, avec des prévisions produites par GENESIS, le logiciel que je développe. Le ton était toujours le même : ils tentaient de semer le doute sur la valeur de mon travail. Le message...

Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s liking. Specifically, it’s not to [infiniton] a.k.a [Bright_Warning_8406]’s liking, as they rewrote the entire code base in Rust. No_std Rust, to be specific, but perhaps that doesn’t need to be specified when dealing with ESP32.
On the Reddit thread about the project, he lists some of the advantages. For one thing, the size of the binary has dropped from 1.2 MB to 579 kB while maintaining the same functionality. More interesting is that he’s been able to eliminate polling entirely: the firmware is purely event-driven. The CPU is not just idle but parked until a timer or GPIO event wakes...

You don't need a car to tote around kids and cup holders. I rode cargo ebikes for miles to find the best one for your buck.

Riposte populaire contre 19e congrès national du RN à Mâcon, au Spot, les 1, 2 et 3 mai 2026. -
Initiatives / Rassemblement national (RN), Manifs et rassemblements

September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.

Learn which foods lose freshness fastest and when it’s time to replace them, according to Reader's Digest

New data from Zillow shows rent cooling nationally, but some cities across the U.S. are still squeezing renters hard

Since the Iran war ceasefire as shaky at best, most shipping firms still believe routing oil and gas tankers through the Strait of Hormuz is too risky

La guerre en Iran a fait s’envoler le cours du pétrole et pèse sur les prix à la pompe.

With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system was cracked through one of its most popular games — The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. How this hack works was recently covered in detail by [Skawo].
The key for this ‘Twilight Hack‘ is to use a modified game save that allows you to run arbitrary code from an SD card, something which was first patched out of the Wii firmware with version 3.3. As shown in the video using the source code, the basic concept is that the name of Link’s horse in the game is changed in the save file to be longer than the allocated buffer, which leads to a...

Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans.

Google déteste que vous écoutiez YouTube gratuitement en arrière-plan. C'est comme ça depuis des années, et ça empire... Par exemple, vous verrouillez l'écran 2 secondes et pouf, plus de son.
YouTube Premium coûte dans les 13 balles par mois pour débloquer ça, ce qui fait quand même plus de 150 euros l'année juste pour écouter de la musique écran éteint. Heureusement, un dev français a trouvé une parade avec
Allformusic
, un site qui contourne le problème en utilisant l'API officielle de YouTube.
Le principe c'est que Allformusic est une sorte de jukebox géant qui tape directement dans le catalogue YouTube. Vous cherchez un artiste, un album, un genre... et ça lance la musique. Sans compte,...

Frontrunner for California governor denies sexual assault allegations
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Un petit Easter Egg dans le tableau de bord Keyboard (Frappe clavier en français). C’est simplement des crédits, mais ils n’apparaissent pas directement. J’ai testé avec Mac OS 8 en français (on trouve une capture en anglais là) et il suffit comme souvent de presser option en choisissant About Keyboard…. Il y a trois messages qui défilent, mais pas directement.
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Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t like electronics, we’re not sure what to tell you. This hack from [Sound Workshop] takes the cheap, toy-like Otamatone and turns it into an older and more capable type of synthesizer: a Trautonium. The video below also includes a dive into the different types of early synthesizers, with examples of them playing, so it’s worth watching for that alone — if you know the history, skip the first five minutes or so.
For those of you more into the electronics than the music side of things, the Otamatone is kind of like an electronic...

Dans son nouvel ouvrage « Muhammad. Nouvelle biographie », la professeure de littérature à l’université de Tunis dresse un singulier portrait intime du fondateur de la religion musulmane, analysé exclusivement comme une figure littéraire. Elle explique sa démarche dans un entretien au « Monde ».

She has now placed herself squarely into the Epstein story and at odds with the administration, which wants to end the investigation.

FTI's margin surge, powered by its iEPCI model and Subsea 2.0 platform, is reshaping profitability and driving strong stock gains.

Companies with strong cash-generating abilities are great targets, as they have plenty of cash to fuel growth, pay out dividends, initiate buybacks, and easily

“A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into the inner ear using a single injection. All ten patients, ranging from young children to adults, experienced improved hearing, with some showing rapid gains in just one month.” From ScienceDaily.
The post Deafness Reversed: One Injection Restores Hearing in Just Weeks appeared first on Human Progress.

“Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine report encouraging results from a phase 2 clinical trial evaluating a candidate vaccine to prevent hookworm infection – one of the world’s most common parasitic diseases. The findings, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, show that a formulation of the investigational vaccine significantly reduced the intensity of infection in healthy adult volunteers exposed to the parasite under carefully controlled conditions… Participants who received the Na-GST 1/Al–CpG vaccine showed a dramatically lower intensity of infection after exposure: maximal hookworm egg count...

“Drivers struck and killed 3,024 people walking in the United States in first six months of 2025, down 10.9% from the year before – the largest annual decline since GHSA began tracking pedestrain deaths 15 years ago. While the 10.9% decrease is encouraging, pedestrian deaths remain 2.5% above the 2019 level, the last year before a steep rise in dangerous driving behaviors and traffic deaths caused by the pandemic.” From Governors Highway Safety Association.
The post 2025 Sees Largest Decline in Pedestrian Traffic Deaths appeared first on Human Progress.

“The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today [4/1/26] announced that traffic deaths fell to record lows in 2025. With an estimated 36,640 traffic fatalities in 2025—a 6.7% decrease from 2024—the nation saw its second-lowest traffic fatality rate in recorded history at 1.10 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.” From National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The post US Has Record-Low Traffic Deaths in 2025 appeared first on Human Progress.

“Not long ago, Australia’s ampurta, also known as the crest-tailed mulgara, hung on the precipice of extinction. Now, a new study has mapped its dramatic resurgence. This small marsupial increased its range by an area the size of Denmark between 2015 and 2021, building on an ongoing re-expansion. The ampurta resurged thanks to an introduced disease that drastically reduced the population of nonnative rabbits. That led to a drop in the number of foxes and feral cats that prey on small animals, including ampurtas.” From Mongabay.
The post Feisty Australian Marsupial Makes a Comeback appeared first on Human Progress.

Entretien avec la sénatrice Laure Darcos (Horizons), à l'origine d'une proposition de loi qui vise à protéger les artistes du pillage de leurs œuvres par des fournisseurs d'IA, qui s'en servent pour nourrir leurs algorithmes sans égard pour les droits d'auteur.

Le Parti Populaire Européen (PPE) travaillerait très étroitement avec l'AfD, parti d'extrême droite allemand, ainsi qu'avec d'autres groupes au Parlement européen. Une enquête de l'agence de presse allemande dpa a révélé cette affaire. Dès novembre, le groupe PPE avait déjà adopté une loi avec des groupes de droite et d'extrême droite. Pourquoi cela a-t-il déclenché une telle polémique en Allemagne ? Au milieu de l'agitation bruxelloise, on aperçoit une poignée de députés qui, il y a encore quelques jours, ont élaboré en secret un projet de loi visant à expulser les demandeurs d'asile. Dans un groupe WhatsApp, des députés du PPE ont échangé avec des membres de groupes d'extrême...

Retrouvez en vidéo la conférence donnée le 19 mars 2026 par Françoise Durand et Michel Zaffran et intitulée :
« Éradication mondiale de la Polyomyélite »
    Françoise Durand
Michel Zaffran
 

Prix AMOPA – Société de Géographie
Palmarès du Prix de Géographie 2026 AMOPA – Société de Géographie
Ce Prix est financé par Jean Sarramea, membre de l’AMOPA et adhérent de la Société. Le jeudi 7 avril, le jury présidé par Françoise Ardillier Carras, vice-présidente de la Société de Géographie, a décidé d’attribuer le Prix de Géographie 2026 à :
1er prix (1200 €)
Méline Laban, élève de seconde du Lycée Saint Exupéry, à Saint Raphaël, a reçu le premier Prix pour cette année 2026. Elle a réalisé un magnifique carnet de voyage consacré à une île japonaise, l’Île de Shikoku. Son document remplit tous les critères d’un tel carnet : il est manuscrit, avec un...

Les partis d’opposition proposent de nombreuses mesures pour soutenir ménages et professionnels, mis à mal par l’envolée des prix à la pompe. Leurs solutions sont-elles applicables ?