The US president says "it will be a blight on our great ally" if the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius.

Le père de famille, à l’origine de la campagne de haine qui a visé le professeur, a exprimé, mercredi, son sentiment de culpabilité. Il a en revanche peiné à expliquer les raisons profondes de sa colère contre l’enseignant.

« Si l’Iran décide de ne pas conclure d’accord, les Etats-Unis pourraient être amenés à utiliser Diego Garcia », prévient le président américain, en référence à la base située dans l’archipel des Chagos, territoire que Londres doit restituer à l’île Maurice.

The standard AirPods 4, which remain a great pair of earbuds for iPhone users, can currently be had starting at just $99. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while more recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday delivered some of the steepest discounts we’ve seen, there are still good deals to be found on every model. Below, we’ve rounded up the best deals currently available on each set of AirPods, including both iterations of the AirPods 4, the third-gen AirPods Pro, and...

'Game of Thrones: The Mad King,' set over 15 years before the HBO series and featuring many familiar characters, premieres at the Royal Shakespeare Company this summer.

Située au confluent du Lot et de la Garonne, la commune de près de 4 000 habitants a été sévèrement touchée par la tempête Nils et la crue des deux cours d’eau.

Americans lost a staggering $12.5 billion to identity theft and related financial fraud in 2024. How to protect your money and keep your info safe

The rise of a social network for AI agents exposes how far autonomous AI has come — and how far it still has to go

"This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation."

Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.

While it may sound unorthodox, these earbuds make a great companion for your Switch 2 or other portable console.

The second day of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia ended after just two hours.

The billionaire chief executive faces is questioned over whether use of Instagram harms children.

Donald Trump Jr. insists his father is "not involved."

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.

Polestar says it will release four new electric models over the next three years, including a new SUV and a revamped version of its Polestar 2 sedan. The Swedish automaker, which is owned by China's Geely, said it will start delivering its Polestar 5 grand tourer to customers this summer, followed by a new long-roof variant of its Polestar 4 in the fourth quarter. In early 2027, a "new successor" to the Polestar 2 will go into production. And in 2028, the company is planning to release a compact premium SUV as the Polestar 7. The news comes after Polestar reported strong sales growth in 2025, with the automaker's full-year sales reaching …
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Quel aspect de ta vie, encore imparfait mais plutôt agréable, mériterait que tu le bichonnes ?

Son départ avant octobre 2027 permettrait à Emmanuel Macron de peser sur la succession à la tête de l’institution avant l’élection présidentielle française du printemps 2027.

We have yet to see a trailer for the Tom Holland Marvel sequel, but we now have an official synopsis.

Because actually making art is for suckers.

It happened as people gathered to commemorate those killed during the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters

Microsoft is working on a bunch of new features for Windows 11, including a new network speed test that you can access from your taskbar. The tool is bundled in an update rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, allowing you to right-click the network icon in the system tray to access a speed test option that opens in your default browser.
From there, you can check how fast your connection is over Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or cellular data. Microsoft first started testing this feature last year, and it could offer a convenient alternative to checking your connection speed by navigating to third-party websites.
There's also …
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Dans un communiqué publié mercredi en fin d’après-midi, le parquet lyonnais annonce que les gardes à vue des neuf personnes interpellées mardi soir ont été prolongées de vingt-quatre heures.

A three-hour-long period drama about kabuki, a centuries-old form of Japanese theater, doesn't exactly sound like box office gold. But that's exactly what happened with Kokuho. Director Lee Sang-il's adaptation of the Shuichi Yoshida novel of the same name was a surprise hit last year, becoming Japan's top-grossing live-action film domestically. But star Ken Watanabe - a veteran actor known for Hollywood movies like Inception and Detective Pikachu - initially didn't think it was a good idea. He loved the novel, but worried that the art form wouldn't translate well to film.
"'Don't do that,'" he remembers telling Sang-il when he first pitche …
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En dévoilant une ambitieuse stratégie de défense, mardi 17 février, Ottawa tente de s’éloigner un peu plus des États-Unis et d’affirmer sa souveraineté. Mais les médias se demandent si le gouvernement de Mark Carney en a les moyens.

The workers are believed to have collapsed after the gas built up in poorly ventilated tunnels.

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is an excellent 2-in-1. | Image: The Verge If you want a Chromebook that can double as a tablet when you need it to, Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is one of the better 2-in-1s on the market. And you can buy it with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $499 ($200 off), which is a new low price, at Best Buy until the end of today, February 18th. 
Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (2025) Where to Buy: $699 $499 at Best Buy $799.99 $769.99 at Acer
Powered by the Kompanio Ultra 910 processor, the 14-inch Chromebook offers impressive performance that’s great for everyday work and play. In our testing, we found it can comfortably handle Slack, Spotify, and dozens of open Chrome...

Dans son œuvre, elle explore l’art et la nature, sans les opposer. Sylvia Safdie, 83 ans, collectionne terres et rochers pour créer d’étonnants ensembles. Une rétrospective lui est consacrée à Ottawa. L’occasion pour la presse du pays de rappeler la carrière de l’artiste canadienne aux origines levantines.

Global stocks are beating the U.S. by the widest margin since 1995. What's behind the "Ex-America" trade?

Kevin Hassett's remarks put a spotlight on the Trump administration's zeal to pummel researchers who publish findings that contradict their economic messaging

A jury will decide whether Meta’s engagement strategy was savvy growth — or a design choice with foreseeable legal risk

Les récentes attaques russes sur l’Ukraine ont provoqué la pire crise énergétique dans le pays depuis le début de la guerre, en février 2022. Le 15 février, 1 600 immeubles de Kiev étaient encore privés de chauffage, dénonçait le maire de la capitale ukrainienne, Vitali Klitschko, sur Telegram.

Anand Nakhate, étudiant à l’université de Chicago, revient sur son parcours. Dans les pages de “The Indian Express”, il explique comment cette immersion universitaire et culturelle a transformé sa manière de penser, de travailler et de vivre.

Accès illégaux à FICOBA fin janvier 2026, 1,2 million de comptes copiés par un pirate....

Despite the best efforts of the manufacturers, there are folks out there that try to repair power tools, with [Dean Doherty] being one of them. Recently he got a Milwaukee M18 cordless planer in for repairs, which started off with just replacing some dodgy bearings, but ended up with diagnosing a faulty controller. Consequently the total repair costs went up from reasonable to absolutely unreasonable, leading to a rant on why Milwaukee tools are terrible to repair.
Among the symptoms was the deep-discharged battery, which had just a hair over 7 V while unloaded. Question was what had drained the battery so severely. What was clear was that the tool was completely seized after inserting a working battery with...

“In the battle for AI dominance, every engine of the economy is getting recruited into the fight—including jet engines.  Jet engine leasing and repair company FTAI Aviation plans to start selling a modified version of the engine used in the Boeing 737 to power data centers this year… Jefferies equity analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu said about 1,600 commercial aircraft engines are retired every year. If a third of those engines get converted into turbines the size of FTAI’s turbine product, that would represent about 13 GW of capacity, or more than a quarter of the existing global natural gas turbine capacity estimated by Morgan Stanley. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that there are...

“Beijing’s scrapping of tariffs for all but one African country will start May 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday, according to state media. China already has a zero-tariff policy for imports from 33 African countries, but Beijing said last year it would extend the policy to all 53 of its diplomatic partners on the continent… From May 1, zero levies will apply to all African countries except Eswatini, which maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan.” From Asharq Al-Awsat.
The post China to Scrap Tariffs for Most of Africa from May appeared first on Human Progress.

“A first-of-its-kind inhalable gene therapy for lung cancer that genetically modifies people’s lung cells has been fast-tracked towards potential approval after promising clinical trial results… The new therapy contains a herpes virus that has been modified to make it harmless and unable to spread to other people. The virus is tasked with dragging two genes, one encoding the protein interleukin-2 and the other encoding interleukin-12, into lung cells. These are naturally produced in the body and help to suppress tumour growth. However, tumours often fight back and deplete them, so the gene therapy is designed to restore their production. Since 2024, Ma and his colleagues have been testing the gene...

The Alexa-enabled smoke detector is Kidde’s second model in collaboration with Ring—no wires required.

Dans le dernier numéro de son magazine FUTUR, la rédaction d'Usbek & Rica a composé sa bibliothèque idéale pour sortir du chaos. Voici une sélection dans laquelle piocher pour mieux comprendre les enjeux de demain.

Fuite CSP : 377 418 candidats exposés, compte gestionnaire détourné et données personnelles volées....

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

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Uganda • May 2011 📷 #flashes

ManoMano : attaque en janvier 2026 chez un sous-traitant, données clients copiées....

The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson is honored for chronicling Congo’s devastating war, while Andy Kroll is recognized for a profile of the Trump official Russell Vought.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Today, we take ice for granted. But having ice produced in your home is a relatively modern luxury. As early as 1750 BC, ancient people would find ice on mountains or in cold areas and would harvest it. They’d store it, often underground, with as much insulation as they could produce given their level of technology.
A yakhchāls in Yazd province (by [Pastaitkaen] CC BY-SA 3.0).By 500 BC, people around Egypt and what is now India would place water in porous clay pots on beds of straw when the night was cold and dry. Even if the temperature didn’t freeze, the combination of evaporation and radiative cooling could produce some ice. However, this was elevated to a high art form around 400 BC by the Persians,...

When World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, it became somewhat of a juggernaut in the MMORPG space. Millions of players continue to login every month. [Kelsi Davis] is one such player, but she doesn’t always log in with the regular client anymore. That’s because she put together WoWee—an open-source alternative of her very own.
WoWee is an acronym—World of Warcraft Engine Experiment. Coded in native C++, it’s a homebrewed client that uses a custom OpenGL renderer to display the game world. [Kelsi] notes that it’s strictly an “educational/research” project, built without using any official Blizzard assets, data or code. Instead, it grabs some client data from a legally-obtained install to...

En 2026, le début du ramadan est attendu pour la semaine du 16 février. Il fait partie des cinq piliers de l’islam.

Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences.

Dans ce nouvel épisode de « Réveillez-vous ! », Héloïse Weisz tend son micro à Thomas Huchon, l’un des visages du fact-checking en France.

– Article invité, rédigé par
Vincent Lautier
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Recalbox vient de publier la version 10 de sa distribution open-source française dédiée au rétrogaming. Au programme, le support du Raspberry Pi 5 et du Pi 500, l'arrivée sur Steam Deck en version LCD et OLED, de nouvelles émulations dont la Xbox originale et la GameCube, une interface entièrement revue, et du matériel dédié pour les fans de CRT et de bornes d'arcade. Que du bon. Du Raspberry Pi 5 au Steam Deck
La version 10 de Recalbox élargit donc son catalogue de matériel compatible, et pas qu'un peu. Le Raspberry Pi 5 est désormais pris en charge, y compris dans sa version 2 Go de RAM, tout comme le Raspberry Pi 500. Mais surtout, la...

Si vous avez grandi dans les
années 90 ou 2000
, il y a de fortes chances que vous ayez connu cette époque un peu étrange où le DVD tentait de devenir le centre de divertissement ultime. On achetait nos films en boite, on les collectionnait fièrement sur nos étagères, et on passait parfois pas mal de temps à naviguer dans des menus (souvent en 4/3) avec notre télécommande.
Mais est-ce que vous vous souvenez de ces fameux "jeux" planqués dans les bonus ?
C'était un truc de fou quand on y repense. Certains éditeurs voulaient absolument exploiter le côté "Digital Versatile Disc" et nous pondaient des mini-jeux interactifs. C'était un peu l'équivalent informatique du bouclier de Captain America,...

The Raspberry Pi has brought digital camera experimentation within the reach of everybody, with its combination of an accessible computing platform and some almost-decent camera sensors. If there’s a flaw in the Pi as a camera though, it lies in the software, which can be slow and frustrating to use. [Martijn Braam] is here with an interesting project that might yield some useful results in this direction, he’s making a Raspberry Pi studio camera.
His camera hardware is very straightforward, a Pi 5 and touchscreen with the HD camera module in a rough but serviceable wooden box. The interesting part comes in the software, in which he’s written a low-latency GUI over an HDMI output camera application....

Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/publishing-my-sites-using-woodpecker-ci.html

Nintendo vient de sortir un nouvel accessoire matériel pour son service Nintendo Switch Online. Après les manettes NES, Famicom, Genesis, Mega Drive, Mega Drive (six boutons), Super Nintendo, Super NES, Super Famicom, Nintendo 64 et Game Cube, Nintendo propose donc le Virtual Boy. C’est un peu particulier : il n’y a pas de manette, mais uniquement deux supports qui acceptent les Switch et Switch 2. Le premier, vendu une vingtaine d’euros, est en carton. Le second, qui vaut 80 €, est une reproduction de l’appareil. Le Virtual Boy est une console rare, pour une bonne raison : elle est sortie au Japon et en Amérique vers 1995, mais pas dans nos contrées. C’est probablement le plus gros flop de...

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Depuis le 8 février et jusqu'au 30 avril se déroule en France un exercice militaire de grande ampleur, le plus important depuis la fin de la Guerre froide. Mobilisant 12 500 militaires français, mais aussi européens, 25 navires et 140 avions et hélicoptères, cette manœuvre est donc à la hauteur du personnage mythologique qui lui donne son nom. Un message opportun envoyé quelques jours avant la Conférence annuelle de Munich sur la Sécurité, qui réunira plus de cinquante chefs d'État et délégations. Orion 26 : un exercice inédit
Les forces militaires du pays d'Arnland doivent faire face au voisin oriental, Mercure, puissance expansionniste voulant annexer une partie du territoire national. Voici...