Au Népal, 468 touristes, dont 393 étrangers, n’ont pas été retrouvés alors qu’en Chine, 558 personnes sont portées disparues, dont 260 étrangers. Selon l’Institut d’études géologiques des Etats-Unis, la chute d’un glacier a provoqué un tremblement de terre de magnitude 5,2.

The apparent deal values the company at about $13 billion.

Menacée d’une amende de 200 milliards de dollars pour avoir délibérément rendu les mineurs dépendants de ses réseaux sociaux, l’entreprise a accepté de limiter l’accès des adolescents à ses plateformes et de verser jusqu’à 18 milliards de dollars pour clore les poursuites, l’équivalent d’un mois de chiffre d’affaires.

Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” vous propose l’horoscope poétique de Rob Brezsny, un des astrologues les plus atypiques de la planète. Vierge est le signe de la semaine.

L’entreprise américaine a annoncé, mercredi, des revenus et des bénéfices en forte hausse et supérieurs aux attentes au deuxième trimestre, se montrant optimiste pour la fin de l’année et au-delà.

En réclamant une élection en pleine guerre, l’ancien ministre de la Défense ukrainien a brisé un tabou. Mais, même si les Ukrainiens rejettent largement l’idée d’un scrutin dans l’immédiat, les griefs se multiplient contre le président Zelensky, affirme ce chroniqueur de “The Sunday Telegraph” de Londres.

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UNE SEMAINE AU CAP-VERT 2/5. L’archipel africain est une exception à plus d’un titre. Colonisé par le Portugal dès le XVᵉ siècle, indépendant depuis 1975, il se distingue du reste du continent par sa stabilité politique et la vigueur de sa croissance économique. Explications.

Berceau de l’intelligence artificielle, la région de San Francisco voit se développer des collectifs tentant de faire barrage au développement effréné de la technologie, qui menace selon eux non seulement des emplois mais aussi l’humanité elle-même. Le “Los Angeles Times” a rencontré certains de ces militants.

Le premier ministre, en visite sur l’archipel, souhaite aussi conditionner l’aide au développement fournie aux Comores et à six pays africains à leur coopération avec la France dans la lutte migratoire.

The Trump administration is pressing 35 countries to choose between Washington’s Pax Silica AI coalition and China’s rival bloc

Northern Africa has experienced severe heatwaves this summer, leading to hundreds of fires across the region.

If YouTube, TikTok, and Snap all join, it could actually cost Meta more money. So why bother pleading with Snap?

The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue. This includes mildly terrifying things like supermassive black holes (SMBHs), one of the study subjects of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) project. In their 20th data release of the fifth all-sky survey (SDSS-V), the results of the Black Hole Mapper (BHM) program provides a lot of new insights into these SMBHs.
For a good primer on the SDSS’s ongoing survey, you can read this paper by [Kollmeier] et al. from 2017 in which this fifth survey and its three programs, including the BHM, are explained. This comes after four previous phases of the SDSS, all of them focusing on...

After Louise “Crybaby”
I don’t love directly comparing new artists to artists who’ve been around a while. It always feels a bit lazy or unfair, but bear with me: You know how Molly Rankin sings on Alvvays’ 2022 masterpiece Blue Rev? (I hope you do because I’m not kidding, it’s a masterpiece.) That sensitive but sorta defensive tone, attached to melodies that seem wispy at first but reveal themselves to be omega class earworms? “Crybaby” sounds so much like it could fit in on Blue Rev that I had to check to make sure After Louise wasn’t a Molly Rankin side project I had not heard about. Here’s the twist: Whereas Alvvays songs mostly fall somewhere between early R.E.M./Smiths jangle and My...

The eclipse will obscure about 93 percent of the moon’s surface. Here are the peak times and tips for the best viewing experience.

The company reportedly scans 20 billion vehicles each month.

The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing you what’s happening on the wire. [James Bowman] worked on the TermDriver 2, and paid special attention to one feature—the visual look of the status indicators on the display.
[James] had hoped to make the status indicators look a little more old-school, a little more analog. His inspiration was the classic indicator panels from Apollo-era space hardware, which used bulbs behind plastic indicators. Incandescent bulbs don’t switch instantly on and off; they take time to warm and cool. This behaviour is both more pleasant,...

'Insidious' franchise star Lin Shaye pushed back after Sony initially canceled the series' sixth installment.

Un individu a foncé sur un groupe d’une dizaine de personnes au volant de son véhicule, mercredi 26 août vers 22 heures, dans le quartier de la gare. L’auteur présumé a été interpellé.

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.

Experts have hailed the drug, daraxonrasib, as a game changer for one of the world's deadliest cancers.

The chipmaker posted $96.2 billion in revenue for the quarter ended July 26, and guided for $108 billion in the current period

The award comes as the Ukrainian military has been trying to convince Musk to expand Starlink access into Russia.

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion in overall revenue in the past quarter, a jump of over $10 billion from the previous quarter. Its data center revenue alone more than doubled year-over-year to a record $89 billion, and the company's profits more than doubled to $59.7 billion. Nvidia's "edge computing" category, which includes its consumer gam …
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OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it. Over a month later, two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the incident and OpenAI's response, many of them previously unreleased. One was written by OpenAI itself, the other by two third-party AI research nonprofits, METR and Redwood Research, which OpenAI allowed to...

From Cedar Point's 18 coasters to Dollywood, Dolly Parton's beloved Smoky Mountain park, the best U.S. amusement parks worth a trip

The specific signs that separate genuine seasonal allergies from a cold, a sinus infection, or something that needs actual treatment

Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else.

A rabbit's ears working like a radiator, a pigeon's featherless legs, an ant colony's underground bunker — the everyday heat tricks hiding in plain sight

Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress this fall. Their map, though, is becoming more forgiving.

Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.

In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still employed by the government, though—and meeting with a Trump fixer.

These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot. Now, though, a particularly popular MP3 player has an emulator of its own—by the name of clicky!
The name is a reference to the click wheel of the venerable Apple iPod, and as you might imagine, that’s precisely what clicky is built to emulate. [daniel5151] started the project as a neat technical challenge, following on from earlier work he’s done in the NES emulation space. The iPod is a bit of a difficult prospect to emulate, being very much a closed-source device that is very poorly documented in the public space. There are few projects to look to for...

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times.
The settlement stems from a nationwide lawsuit alleging Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap failed to protect children and made their platforms "addictive" by design. A group of 51 US states and territories signed the agreement, including New York, New Jersey, California, Nevada, South Carolina, Washington, Illino …
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The Pixel 11 in hibiscus. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL when you use the coupon code PIXEL11 at checkout. While the discounted price appeared at checkout for most phone and watch combinations, it didn’t apply to the Pixel Pro Fold. That deal stacks with the introductory offer running at several retailers, where you can choose between a gift card that scales with the model of phone you’re buying, or additional credit towards a Pixel Watch 5. For example, the base model Pixel 11 would normally cost $899, but the...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “My Great-Grandmother's bible,” by Spencer Reece, and his own poem “The Bats.”

This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true Tor browser on iOS? And what’s the ideal solution to the Android Lockdown issue? Watch to find out! https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/nfreitas
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It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't expect us to spend so much of our son's first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat. As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. "Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures up to 110 [degrees Fahrenheit] expected," my weather app warns me. "Stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of …
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She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones.

“Elon Musk is continuing his push into the Southern U.S. with SpaceX, his aerospace and tech conglomerate, planning a $100 billion launch facility in Louisiana. In a joint statement, the Louisiana Economic Development office said on Tuesday that SpaceX will establish its Starbase in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, at a former Exxon property to, 'support thousands of launches annually.' Once built, Starbase, LA will serve as the main launch facility for Starship, SpaceX’s in-development rocket that’s the largest ever built and designed to be fully reusable.” From CNBC.
The post SpaceX Plans Louisiana Base for Large-Scale Launches appeared first on Human Progress.

“Global Energy Monitor, a research firm, has been tracking gas-powered projects that have been announced, are in development, or are under construction in the US. In January, the group found that there were 97 gigawatts of gas projects in development exclusively for data centers at the end of 2025, a massive increase from just 4 gigawatts tracked in early 2024. Now, in an update to the research released Tuesday, the group says that as of mid-2026, that demand pipeline has jumped to more than 189 gigawatts. (A gigawatt can power roughly a million homes.) … Over the past two years, data center builders have increasingly turned to private power facilities, known as behind-the-meter plants, to bypass lengthy...

“Researchers have lauded two giant bluefin tunas being caught off the coast of Yorkshire for the first time in more than six decades as a “success story” for marine conservation. The tunas, which were caught a day apart off the coast of Whitby earlier this week, have mostly been absent along the north-east coast of Britain since the 1960s. While small numbers of the species have been spotted in the waters around Yorkshire in the previous years, the pair were the first to be caught for market from the North Sea since licences to catch the fish were issued in July. Rodney Forster, a professor at the University of Hull and head of the Hull marine laboratory, called the tuna’s reappearance a 'success story...

“Sage Geosystems has hit a big milestone out on a rugged tract near San Antonio: The startup is producing power from its first next-generation geothermal plant. The system is just the third of its kind to come online in the U.S. as the sector races to commercialize the source of on-demand clean electricity. The novel geothermal facility in Texas has been running since April, Sage exclusively shared with Canary Media. The Houston-based firm said the 3-megawatt pilot plant has performed reliably and as predicted after more than 120 days of grid-connected operations… Sage’s enhanced geothermal system is a type of nascent tech that involves drilling deep into hot rocks and fracturing them to create water...

The justice department has also asked for Trump's name to be put back on the building after it was removed in June following a court order.

“Sea ice has been disappearing from East Greenland, allowing giant whales to take advantage and move into previously inaccessible areas. That is the conclusion of a decades-long study that has recorded – and filmed – hundreds of some of the world's biggest whales including humpbacks, minke and fin whales, feeding in ice-free seas along the coast in summer. None of these marine mammals were historically found here as they have been locked out of the coastal waters by ice. Now, as climate change warms the sea and melts that ice, they have adapted. … The change is dramatic: ship-based surveys in the region did not record a single humpback whale sighting there until 2006. In 2007, seven humpbacks were...

Influencers inspired by the Kardashian origin story seem to have drawn the wrong lessons from it.

A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view.

Quite a few in our community make a bit of cash on the side by selling our creations, and it’s not uncommon to find that a project which catches your eye can be picked up as a kit for a few of your preferred currency units. But there’s a problem facing such tiny producers in the form of regulations intended for large businesses which are beyond their ability to comply with. [Alain Pannetrat] writes for the Lectronz marketplace about one of them, the new European Union packaging waste regulations.
At face value it sounds like a good idea, that suppliers should be responsible in some way for the disposal of their packaging. It discourages excessive packaging and encourages recycling, indeed the EU even...

Piracy portal Cineby has started its planned shutdown, which now comes with a detailed schedule.
A new announcement on the site lays out a staged process that runs for more than a week, taking the operation offline one service at a time. “We’ve decided to wind things down in stages,” the operators write, without explaining why they are throwing in the towel. With more than 160 million estimated visits last month, Cineby is one of the most popular pirate sites online. The same operation also includes Fmovies+ and Cineplay, each with millions of monthly visits on their own. September 5: The End
The shutdown started by redirecting these companion sites to the main domain, followed by seven additional...

The hospital tells the BBC the ward door was not locked but manned with security guards, to protect the babies.

Bien rares ont été les sinologues dans le monde à oser utiliser le terme de « colonialiste » pour caractériser cette Chine qui a, entre autres, colonisé le Tibet, l’ancien Turkestan oriental devenu « Xinjiang » (Nouvelle frontière) et la Mongolie. Dans un livre magistral intitulé « Histoire de l’empire colonial chinoise du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, » l’historien et orientaliste François Joyaux fait œuvre de salubrité historique puisqu’il est l’un des très rares experts à identifier la puissance expansionniste de la Chine comme la construction d’un empire colonial.

BBC music correspondent Mark Savage looks back on the legacy of the "irreplaceable" late singer.

Le pays fait face à une épidémie inédite de rougeole sur fond de vaccino-scepticisme de l’administration Trump et d’une partie des Américains, alors que la maladie était éliminée depuis 2000.

Les cartes (micro)SD Express, j’en ai déjà parlé plusieurs fois, d’abord avec une des rares cartes SD Express, ensuite avec une microSD Express Sandisk. Et un truc me gênait : je n’avais pas de lecteur en connexion directe. Mais c’est réglé. Résumé rapide : les cartes (micro)SD Express sont des cartes SD avec une interface PCI-Express 1x en parallèle du protocole SD UHS-1 classique. Les cartes peuvent atteindre environ 1 Go/s (une ligne PCI-Express 3.0) et je n’avais que deux lecteurs USB, qui limitent un peu. J’avais cherché pas mal sans succès un lecteur en PCI-Express directement, et je suis finalement tombé sur un adaptateur M.2 vers microSD Express. j’avais d’abord vu ce...

Le Réseau antifasciste du Grand-Est (RAGE) organise une présentation de leur cartographie des groupes d'extrême droite en Lorraine -
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Depuis le lancement de ChatGPT fin 2022, les contenus générés par IA ont gagné du terrain sur le Web. À rebours des estimations les plus alarmistes, une nouvelle analyse du centre de statistiques américain Pew Research permet, pour la première fois, d'en mesure l’ampleur, tout en nuance. Voici cinq chiffres-clés à retenir de cette étude.

Au fil de mes lectures, je suis tombé sur un papier, publié sur la Grande Conversation, que je trouve très éclairant. Il traite de l’écart qui existe entre le travail prescrit (ce qui est demandé par les chefs) et la réalité de ce qu’il faudrait faire, si on veut atteindre réellement les objectifs de l’organisation. […]