La flambée du cours du métal rouge suscite l’intérêt des petits trafiquants qui, pour les dérober, sectionnent des tronçons de câbles du réseau historique, provoquant des coupures de téléphone et d’Internet.

Le parti Reform UK a invité le président du Rassemblement national à sa convention de Birmingham. Mais dans le même temps, deux collaborateurs de Farage ont été suspendus après un reportage de Channel 4 sur une approche potentiellement illégale des dons de campagne.

Les principales actualités de ces dernières heures vues par la presse internationale.

Alors que la saison touche à sa fin dans le sud-ouest de la France, ravagé par les incendies, un débat s’engage sur les causes de la catastrophe et les moyens de protéger la forêt des landes de Gascogne. Pour le quotidien conservateur allemand “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, il est urgent de voir en cette dernière “davantage qu’une simple usine à bois”.

Déjà stigmatisées par la société, les personnes en surpoids doivent en plus se justifier quand elles maigrissent, s’indigne cette autrice australienne qui revendique le droit d’être grosse dans “The Guardian”. Il n’y a pas de bonnes (les régimes) ou mauvaises (l’Ozempic) façons de maigrir, écrit-elle, simplement des corps différents qu’il serait temps de respecter.

PENSEURS DE DEMAIN (6/7). Face aux bouleversements qui secouent la planète, “Die Zeit” mise sur sept intellectuels “des plus prometteurs” pour éclairer le chemin. Azadeh Akbari a vécu en Iran sous le joug de la surveillance numérique du pouvoir. Elle dénonce aujourd’hui depuis l’université Goethe, à Francfort, où elle enseigne les études critiques des données, les stratégies de domination à l’œuvre dans l’exploitation des datas.

La conférence de rentrée de la formation d’extrême droite Reform UK a été marquée, vendredi, par la révélation de tentatives de contournement de la loi de financement des partis. Invité d’honneur, le président du RN a signé avec Nigel Farage un « protocole d’accord » pour lutter contre l’immigration illégale.

Authorities fear the death toll in Viacha will rise and warn people to stay away from the barracks due to a risk of further explosions.

This custom enclosure for a 64×64 RGB LED matrix by [Davisan1001] not only provides a mount point for a Raspberry Pi, but presents a clean and smooth face with square pixels thanks to a 3D-printed grid, some parchment paper, and a sheet of clear plastic.
The first clever thing in this design is the way [Davisan1001] created the grid that acts as a light blocker for each LED in the matrix, preventing light from “spilling” over into its neighbors. Instead of designing the grid from scratch, the solution was just to leverage slicer settings. By printing a flat square with a grid pattern infill and zero solid top and bottom layers, the slicer creates the grid all by itself. A little trial and error was...

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - with the US as the only nation to vote against it.

Un drone russe a frappé, vendredi après-midi, le siège du service de sécurité d’Ukraine, dans le centre de Kiev. Une « escalade majeure », selon la diplomatie ukrainienne. Volodymyr Zelensky a annoncé la préparation d’une riposte.

Le projet d’un parc d’attractions dédié aux mangas, et plus spécifiquement à l’œuvre créée par Akira Toriyama, a été annoncé conjointement par la France et l’Arabie saoudite le 24 août, sans que la licence n’ait été obtenue.

After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when suddenly it would just refuse to power up. Naturally the device was now out of warranty, the product itself no longer produced and Seagate support was less than supportive, ergo they sent the device to [Mend it Mark] for an attempted repair.
At first inspection the device appeared to be basically unresponsive, with none of the four fans running and no signs of life other than a few lit LEDs on the main PCB after supplying power to it. After full disassembly and with no repair guide or schematics to go by [Mark] had to start from...

We're sure no one will have a problem with this completely reasonable proposal.

The mistrial now puts the murder case - and Clancy's future - in limbo as to whether she will be held criminally liable in the deaths of her three kids.

'Squid Game' star Hoyeon joins Michael Fassbender, and Alicia Vikander in 'The Wailing' director's sci-fi action film, in theaters September 9.

The 'Weapons' director has 'Resident Evil' hitting theaters later in September.

The New York Times discovers clout chasing.

Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to the self-proclaimed "world's most popular audio editing and recording app" are here, turning Audacity from a free and capable but extremely clunky audio editor into a powerful modern tool. The biggest change is the move to a non-destructive editing workflow. That means you can trim a clip down, then recover the audio simply …
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Paramount passed on a 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' sequel after it bombed at the box office.

From Ginuwine's Pony to Nelly and Kelly's Dilemma, the ten R&B songs that still sound like nothing else

From Antarctica's strict tonnage limits to an Australian wilderness no megaship can navigate, six places only small ships can reach

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have led President Donald Trump's efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war - but talks have stalled.

A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as by exerting a force on either end to counterbalance any force that threatens to make it fall over. The approach that [Peter Ryseck] chose was to cobble together what is effectively a flying drone for on top of a standing pole, without cheating such as by simply lifting it off the ground.
Getting to the point where the drone could react quickly enough to changes in the pole’s orientation was the hardest part, as the quieter, larger propellers also have a lot more inertia. This ruled out using 10″ blades, while triple 5″ blades seemed to work well enough. For the avionics a standard...

Trump’s racist new “Build the Wall” game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to "Build the Wall," which is obviously modeled on the famous puzzle game. In the Trump administration's game, the player has to stack interlocking shapes to stop a "zombie border siege" along the southern border. Aliens - the administration's preferred term for noncitizens, and the subject of previous grotesque attempts at humor - run across the screen, trying to...

The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.

San Francisco is creating affordable housing for artists, Yayoi Kusama dies at 97, and more.In Holstebro, Denmark, a new student village with 36 apartments clustered around gardens and courtyards was built with 3D-printed concrete and cork. Here’s why the firms behind the project, Saga Space Architects and MS+ Arkitekter, chose to use an experimental construction style over a traditional one. (Design Boom) As the nationwide fight against water-hungry data centers rages on, Native-owned energy companies are creating an alternative: their smaller-scale systems use less water than your typical data center, give tribes greater control, and direct profits to the communities hosting them. (The Architect’s...

In what appears to be a follow-up to the mighty “CasiOak,” the rugged Japanese watch brand is expected to release an all-new luxury homage.

As more money flows into the medium, professionally designed sets that mimic domestic backdrops have become the go-to ingredient for keeping things candid.I have to imagine I’m not the only person who has said to a friend, "We should start a podcast." I have a clear memory of having this conversation with a former roommate after one of our frequent evening debriefs, sitting on opposite sides of our gray, L-shaped sofa beneath a gallery wall, our legs tucked under blankets and kicked up on the water-stained West Elm storage coffee table sourced from Facebook Marketplace. If we had started a podcast (we didn’t), that table is probably where we would’ve set up microphones to casually record our ramblings....

Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind.

Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually to improve cooling performance, as the IHS is effectively a small heatsink between the die and the large heatsink, adding more problematic thermal interfaces. If delidding is done improperly it can cause severe damage to the substrate, as in the case of a very nice 1.3 GHz Tualatin Pentium III CPU that [Bits und Bolts] got in an eBay lot with nasty delidding damage.
With the delidding enthusiast presumably having used brute force and ignorance combined with a prying implement, around a dozen of tiny traces on the substrate got severed,...

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement that it would work with Starman to address "important areas of national security related to cameras, optics and AI infrastructure." YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach, who prior to the acquisition became GoPro's largest individual shareholder, is not mentioned at all. To our GoPro community, fans and custom …
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Working with focus groups, Longwell keeps a bead on what voters are really thinking, and how to combat Trumpism. She presents the playbook to the New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos.

The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targeted for mass deportation.

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, chord progression, bassline, or drums. Or you can feed it a reference track and have it build off the melodic ideas from that.
Unlike Suno or Udio, Melody Flip doesn't spit out fully polished songs with vocals and full arrangements. Instead, it offers …
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The material can discolor and is hard to patch. We spoke with architects who used it in projects covered by Dwell to find out how they’re looking now.Plywood has been a staple of modernist design since the 1940s, when American architects began transforming it into Dri-Bilt homes. Today, it lines houses around the world from ceiling to floor, as architects take full advantage of its ease of manufacturing, flexible structure, and distinctive grain. And while its aesthetic appeal has lasted almost a century, it’s not the first material that comes to mind when considering durability. But, as we found out, those who’ve worked with the materials themselves beg to differ. For a ground-up, net-zero house in the...

“Uber and British tech company Wayve are launching London’s first self-driving taxi service on Thursday, giving residents a chance to use technology that’s already available in many U.S. cities and other parts of the world. The two companies said they’re starting with a small rollout of Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles outfitted with Wayve’s autonomous vehicle technology. Compared with the U.S. and China — countries where robotaxis operate autonomously in several cities, with no human driver — Europe has been taking a more cautious approach on self-driving cabs. In London, there will still be a person behind the wheel overseeing the trip who can grab the wheel or tap the brakes if there’s...

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now.
Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week.
First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old Apple CEO Tim Cook, and most importantly, to speculate on the format of next week's Apple keynote. Watch | Listen | Get ad-free
We wrap things up with a super-special lightning round from the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Senior reviewer J …
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“The ongoing advancement and adoption of artificial intelligence continues to raise concerns about widespread job losses. Over the past three years, our regional business surveys have asked firms about their AI adoption and its effects on their workforces. This year, we found that AI use among regional businesses has continued to rise sharply, with more than 60 percent of service firms and about half of manufacturers now using AI—a notable increase from 40 percent and 26 percent, respectively, reported in 2025. Despite this rapid adoption, regional firms’ investments in AI are generally modest, usage tends to be concentrated among a small share of workers within firms, and layoffs have remained uncommon....

“Turkey’s peace process with Kurdish militants has entered an implementation phase this week, with authorities setting up working groups to verify the disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and decide further legal and civil steps. Turkey’s official body tasked with monitoring implementation of the peace process with the PKK held its first meeting on Monday. The militant group, which waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984 for Kurdish self-rule inside the country, announced in May 2025 that it would disband and dissolve itself as part of ongoing peace talks the Turkish government launched in 2024.” From AL-MONITOR.
The post Turkey’s Kurdish Peace Process Begins PKK Disarmament...

“eGenesis, a biotechnology company developing human-compatible engineered organs to address the global organ shortage, announced today clinical updates from an ongoing Expanded Access study of EGEN-2784, the Company’s genetically engineered porcine kidney for the treatment of kidney failure. Since March 2024, five patients with kidney failure have received EGEN-2784 kidney transplants under Expanded Access in collaboration with the Mass General Brigham health system. Three of these patients have achieved sustained kidney function for more than eight months without the need for dialysis. One patient has surpassed nine months of dialysis independence, establishing a new global record for a genetically...

As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday.
In the news, our retrocomputing competition is well under way, but there’s plenty of time to get an entry in if you’ve got a cool old-style project to show us. And then Elliot’s been chasing seismic surveyors in Munich, where they’re looking for geothermal energy.
In the stand-out hacks there’s a discussion of smoothing 3D prints using frickin’ lasers, the effect of unreasonably high RAM and storage prices on the single board computer ecosystem, and an unfortunate air conditioning system that’s tricked into believing it’s a hot day. Finally, we look in depth at PETG,...

Germany has blamed Russia for an attack on Leipzig airport but there has been a series of suspicious incidents elsewhere.

“Geothermal company Fervo Energy has signed a major deal to sell power to Alphabet’s Google from a Utah project that it plans to turn into the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility. The agreement for nearly 400 megawatts of electricity is enough to power a midsize city and would be Fervo’s largest-ever power deal. Fervo plans to begin selling power to Google in 2028 from its Cape Station project in southwestern Utah.” From Wall Street Journal.
The post Utah Project Could Be Largest Enhanced Geothermal Facility appeared first on Human Progress.

Un suspect a été mis en examen le 20 août et placé en détention provisoire dans l’enquête sur les attaques informatiques ayant visé la direction générale des finances publiques. Il est déjà poursuivi dans plusieurs affaires retentissantes de piratage et de vol de données.

The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab, which lacks a steering wheel and pedals, meets vehicle safety standards.

Deux suspects arrêtés après les attaques de ZeroBytes contre le fisc, tandis que l’enquête cyber se poursuit.

While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.

Dans un post de blog, la secrétaire nationale des Verts, et « would-be candidate » à l’élection présidentielle, évoque une loi du Pays de Galles qui en interdirait le mensonge en politique. Comme d’habitude en politique, elle ne donne aucune indication, aucun lien, sur ce qu’est réellement cette loi, son fondement, et son éventuelle transposabilité au contexte […]

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Je ne sais pas si vous en avez déjà entendu parler, mais DNSforge est un résolveur DNS allemand qui a une particularité plutôt cool : il refuse de résoudre les noms de domaine qui sont liés à la publicité, au pistage et au malware. Cela veut dire que la pub n'est pas bloquée dans votre navigateur, elle n'arrive tout simplement jamais à lui.
En arrivant sur la home de DNSforge, vous pouvez voir quatre portes d'entrée, selon ce que vous voulez laisser passer. En mode normal, c'est le DNS par défaut, avec blocage des pubs, blocage des trackers et blocage des malwares. Cela représente environ 1,4 million de noms de domaine. De son côté, le mode Hard vise les mêmes catégories, mais avec des...

Vous avez un dossier plein d'enregistrements de réunions, d'entretiens ou de notes vocales que vous avez dictées en marchant, et vous ne les avez jamais réécoutés. Forcément, réécouter doit se faire en temps réel, et un fichier baptisé REC_20260812_143301.m4a ne permet pas forcement de savoir de quoi ça cause... Alors que faire ?
Hé bien le projet Speakr s'attaque exactement à ce problème. Vous y déposez vos fichiers, ou vous enregistrez directement depuis le navigateur en captant le micro, le son du système, ou les deux mélangés. Et en sortie, vous récupérez un texte en clair, cherchable, découpé par intervenant, avec un résumé et les actions à retenir. Et si vous cliquez sur une...

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

« Les candidats et le climat ». Pour faire de la France la « première République écologique », le candidat de LFI prévoit des nationalisations, la création d’« écorégions » et un « service écologique ».

Hey, j'sais pas si vous avez vu, mais il y a un avion qui passe au-dessus de votre toit en ce moment même ! Et youpi, merci la vie, Stowaway vous propose de vous téléporter dedans afin de vous asseoir à son hublot. Et n'allez pas croire que c'est une simple simulation codée à la va-vite... Non, le rendu est hyper réaliste puisque le ciel, la météo et la lumière sont également ceux que vous avez chez vous au même instant.
Sur Stowaway, vous cliquez un appareil, la caméra le rattrape, et vous embarquez. C'est aussi simple que ça ! Ensuite vous tournez la tête à la souris, vous zoomez à la molette, et le relief défilera dessous. Les satellites passeront aussi, avec même leur nom affiché à...

In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide.

L’ancien premier ministre se vante d’avoir diminué les dépenses de l’Etat pour la première fois depuis 2015. Les rapports racontent une histoire plus complexe, entre bonnes nouvelles conjoncturelles, improvisation budgétaire et dérapage global.

For well over a decade, copyright holders have used U.S. federal courts to unmask anonymous BitTorrent users. Adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings has turned this into an industry of its own, filing thousands of John Doe lawsuits every year. In most of these “John Doe” cases it subpoenas the Internet provider for the subscriber’s name, offers the alleged pirate a settlement, which effectively ends the case. This process is then repeated over and over.
Last summer, the company took aim at a much larger target. Together with Counterlife Media, Strike 3 sued Meta, accusing the tech giant of downloading thousands of its films via BitTorrent to train AI models. With 2,973 films at stake, the case could be...

Mercredi 26 août, Meta a conclu un accord à l’amiable avec 47 États américains pour mettre fin à un nouveau procès l’accusant de porter préjudice aux adolescents via ses plateformes Instagram et Facebook. Au programme : une amende de 18 milliards de dollars, et un panel de mesures protectrices pour les jeunes usagers. Mais le sont-elles vraiment ? Et faut-il s’attendre à voir ces nouvelles règles traverser l’Atlantique ? Réponse de Jean Cattan, ex-secrétaire général du Conseil national du numérique.

Je sais que beaucoup d'entre vous font tourner un DokuWiki quelque part, alors c'est pour ça que je vous en parle... Le 2 septembre dernier, Andreas Gohr, qui écrit ce moteur de wiki depuis plus de 20 ans, a confirmé publiquement une faille critique dans son propre bug tracker.
Le signalement vient d'un chercheur, sebastianosrt, qui avait envoyé le détail de la faille par mail mais comme il n'a jamais reçu de réponse, il a fini par ouvrir un ticket public pour dire qu'il n'arrivait pas à joindre le mainteneur.
Le mail était dans les spams...
Gohr l'a repêché huit minutes après l'ouverture du ticket, et un peu plus d'une heure après, il qualifié lui-même ce bug de critique, car il permet une...