Dans un contexte de tensions croissantes entre les Etats-Unis et l’Ukraine, Wes Streeting a estimé que l’allié ukrainien « contribuera à la puissance américaine ».

Scientists just found a record-setting new fungal species, the largest now known in the sprawling Ascomycota phylum. It may have feasted off dying forests during the Chicxulub mass extinction event.

AFI's greatest movie villains of all time, ranked from Hannibal Lecter to the Snow White Queen, with the films behind each pick

The longest-living dog breeds and their life expectancy ranges, plus the grooming, exercise and health risks each one carries

The new Muse Spark Open AI model can work on M5 Ultra Mac Studios. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework."
Meta and Apple, typically rivals, worked together on the launch and are publicly supporting each other.
"Muse Spark Open - weights releasing today - runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on X.
"Congrats to the team!" new Apple CEO John Ternus said in a...

The highest-grossing concert tours of all time, based on Billboard Boxscore data, from Taylor Swift's Eras Tour to Madonna's Sticky & Sweet run

These six fastest-growing music genres in the U.S. are reshaping streaming charts, award shows and radio playlists nationwide

Why do so many new films have plots and structures that make reviews a delicate dance of hints and secrets?

A guide to the pet emergencies that send dogs and cats to the vet most often, and how to recognize warning signs early

The reason should be rather obvious, and yet it keeps coming up.

This render with a transparent background is the closest we’ll ever come to touching one of these things. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell.
All three devices are aimed squarely at the audiophile market, if the price tag didn't make that clear. All three feature Sony's DSD (Direct Stream Digital) Remastering Engine, which upsamples standard PCM audio to an 11.2MHz DSD stream, which it claims delivers a more...

Trump said some would "rather not watch" the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.

Recent AI breakthroughs invite the question of whether human minds are still the “ultimate resource,” as Julian Simon claimed. AI can generate answers far faster than humans can check them, but Joel Mokyr’s distinction between knowing that something works and knowing why shows that both kinds of knowledge must advance together. Candidate proofs are not theorems, and predictions are not findings. That is why the age of AI calls for more educated minds, not fewer. Last week, OpenAI published more than 370 mathematical results spanning algebra, theoretical computer science, and mathematical logic. Most came from a single prompt and about three hours of computing time. “If a human did this, it would be an...

Ledger is also facing increasing scrutiny for how it dealt with earlier reports of backdoored devices months before crypto wallets were drained.

At this point, the product is basically a walking (er, folding) advertisement for AppleCare.

Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can handle complex urban environments, including traffic lights, stop signs, and unprotected left turns without explicit driver control. In addition to Tesla's FSD, it will also resemble the Nvidia-powered system that Mercedes-Benz recently rolled out for the …
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Alienware’s 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor. The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a decent discount. The 34-inch screen just came out a couple months ago, and is equipped with Penta Tandem quantum dots for bolder colors than you’ll find on other QD-OLED panel. And of course, it provides the deep blacks and high contrast expected of the display tech. Alienware 34-inch AW3426DW curved OLED gaming monitor
This ultrawide (21:9) QHD OLED gaming monitor has a 280Hz refresh rate, a fast response time, and a slick design. It’s tough to get more OLED for...

The agency is seeking records related to AI safety incidents as it investigates potential consumer protection violations.

Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces traffic to publishers. Google says it's been making "continued and substantial increases to the presence of inline links in our AI experiences," and this new change will help ensure "ensure key sources are easily clickable right when you need them."
The company is announcing several other changes to highlight links an …
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Yemen's information minister says the prime minister and other ministers were unhurt when ballistic missiles hit al-Maashiq Palace.

Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”

Richard Ferrand avait rappelé l’impossibilité de réviser la Constitution par référendum sans accord préalable du Parlement. Alors que la candidate RN à la présidentielle de 2027 réclame sa tête, les membres du collège de la rue de Montpensier ont fait savoir que les propos de leur président étaient partagés par l’ensemble de l’institution.

"I reject this document entirely," Maduro said in court, responding to newly added torture-related charges.

Ukraine's president says a pause on striking energy sites is over following fresh Russian attacks.

C’est le grand retour sur le devant de la scène du chef de file des nostalgiques du Yémen du Sud indépendant, Aïdarous Al-Zoubaïdi. Mais aussi des Brigades des géants du Sud, l’unité de combat la plus efficace dans la contre-offensive contre les houthistes. Et les Émirats arabes unis, évincés du Yémen en début d’année, savourent cette revanche de leurs alliés fidèles sur le terrain.

Petite histoire militante du groupe FTP à Marseille dans les années 90. Première partie. -
Repères / Solidarité antifasciste, Marseille, FTP-MOI

Le personnage de Vision, un androïde très sophistiqué, est déjà revenu à la vie deux fois dans l’univers Marvel. La série “VisionQuest”, sur Disney+, le rappelle de nouveau, cette fois pour le mettre au premier plan. La presse américaine en est bien contente : sans être d’une profondeur inédite, la série a le mérite de parler des liens entre IA et humanité.

La résilience du principal producteur d’or noir du Golfe est mise à l’épreuve par les frappes des houthistes du Yémen, alliés de l’Iran, contre ses infrastructures civiles et énergétiques.

Après la cyberattaque qui a touché les réfrigérateurs et congélateurs de centaines de supermarchés en France, la presse étrangère observe qu’“un tourant” vient de s’opérer. L’exemple français montre que les pirates produisent désormais des effets directs sur notre quotidien. Et la riposte semble encore incertaine.

Un incident, début octobre, impliquant des hommes armés du côté biélorusse escortant des migrants depuis la Biélorussie ravive les tensions à la frontière lettone. Riga y voit une tentative de déstabilisation orchestrée par Minsk et Moscou, explique la presse de la région balte.

Dans cet Etat du Midwest américain, acquis aux républicains depuis des décennies, les soutiens locaux trouvent des excuses au président, Donald Trump, mais déplorent les hausses de prix et reconnaissent le manque de mobilisation dans leurs rangs.

Après qu’un adolescent a blessé deux personnes avec un fusil de chasse dans son collège d’Aubagne, le lundi 12 octobre, les enquêteurs ont révélé son adhésion à la mouvance ultra-violente True Crime Community. Cette idéologie qui glorifie les tueries de masse et incite au passage à l’acte inquiète les autorités, à mesure que les violences en milieu scolaire se multiplient.

Une économie à deux vitesses, avec une inflation galopante d’un côté et des investissements exponentiels dans l’intelligence artificielle de l’autre : tel est le tableau que brosse le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) dans son dernier état des lieux de la croissance mondiale. Un équilibre périlleux, qui ravive les craintes de bulle financière. Décryptage.

Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — at least if you’re using traditional weapons, like a good old wooden stake.
[This Old Tony] on YouTube didn’t have a good old wooden stake handy, but he does have a machine shop. Does he turn stakes on a lathe? Hardly. He turns an aluminum block into a giant pencil sharpener so he can use his drill to make vampire-removers out of any stick he finds.
If you thought that intro was too silly, you can skip the video. [Tony] is a funny guy, and is obviously enjoying himself in the voice over. He also obviously knows his way around a machine...

Le locataire de la Place Beauvau martèle son soutien aux policiers face à ce qu’il qualifie le plus souvent de « violences urbaines ». Pas de quoi satisfaire pour autant le syndicat majoritaire Alliance, qui annonce une action judiciaire contre l’Etat pour « mise en danger de la vie d’autrui ».

Children were buried under the debris after the roof crashed through three classrooms, police say.

Le mouvement social qui agite les lycéens, depuis quelques semaines, pose question, tant sur les motivations que sur la manière dont les autorités y répondent. Il y a un malaise chez les lycéens, il est politique (mais pas nécessairement partisan), il faut savoir l’entendre et y répondre. Nos élites politico-médiatiques semblent avoir du mal à […]

Perhaps the most exciting news of the past few weeks in the world of hardware hacking has been the unlocking of hidden SDR functionality in the Wi-Fi radios found on Espressif ESP32 microcontrollers. They can be used as both transmit and receive SDRs, and given that it’s early days for this hack we expect that great things are yet to come.
There’s one snag though, despite speculation that they might be dragged down to much lower frequencies, as far as we know they’re only proven to work around the Wi-Fi frequencies. Though the reality may be wider we’ll take that for a 2.4 GHz part as a 100 MHz slice from 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Plenty of possibilities there, and they might even work down to 1.8 GHz, but...

I was powerful, graceful, and gorgeous.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

But is anyone listening?

The artist’s macabre short works have been adapted into eerily freaky 30-minute bites for television. We got a sneak preview of the next episode airing on HBO Max.

La victoire de Raphaël Glucksmann à la primaire sociale-démocrate a déclenché une déferlante complotiste sur X.

When creating a peripheral for a mobile phone, an obvious path is to create a companion app with which to talk to it. But as we all know today’s app is tomorrow’s non-functional abandonware, so to give his infrared camera a long life, [Cezar Chirila] made it talk WebUSB to a browser instead.
The hardware is conventional enough, a FLIR sensor talking to an RP2040. There’s very little in the way of supporting circuitry save for a power supply regulator, as so much that might be on a standalone project is already present in the USB host device. Running the thing is as simple as going to a landing page in a browser that supports WebUSB, and using the camera. The whole lot is in a GitHub repository, if...

Low-quality AI-generated content currently dominates children’s media. Maka, a streaming platform run by child development experts, is offering an alternative.

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As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test.

Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

Pierre Damas Bel was a twenty-year-old college student planning for his future. His family says that ICE monitoring made him lose hope.

Le festival Octobre Numérique - Faire Monde, dont Usbek & Rica est partenaire, déploie à travers Arles de nombreuses œuvres numériques et vidéoludiques qui invitent à explorer la notion de résistance. On vous présente cinq d’entre elles, à découvrir jusqu'au 8 novembre.

Tiny11 Builder, l'outil qui fabrique des ISO de Windows 11 sans les applis préinstallées et que je vous avais présenté , dispose maintenant d'une vraie appli de bureau. Elle est en pré-version et vous épargne surtout de devoir lancer vous-même à la main la fameuse tripoté de scripts PowerShell (qui restent quand même dans le dépôt Github).
Je l'ai donc testée dans une machine virtuelle Windows 11 ARM histoire de vous faire un petit retour sur cette nouvelle version.
D'abord au lancement, l'appli réclame les droits administrateur, puis elle vous fait choisir un mode (Le mode Tiny11 allège Windows, le mode Core coupe aussi les mises à jour et Defender, et le mode Custom vous laisse choisir)....

The Soonpho M7 Pan Tilt Head is a useful photography tool for remotely aiming a decently-sized camera. Only, [Kyle Housley] wanted a little more control than was available out of the box. Hence, he built a custom controller that could deliver just that.
The project is based around an ESP32-S3 paired with an NRF24L01 wireless module. The ESP32-S3 is hooked up to a computer to receive commands over serial on what movements to make. It then transmits over the NRF24L01 to another NRF24L01 module that has been hacked into the original M7’s controller. In doing so, it can command the M7 to move to a given specific pan and tilt position, or to make a smooth motion along a vector. It can also trigger shutter release...

Every year, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) invites rightsholders and other stakeholders to suggest foreign sites and services for its list of “notorious markets.”
The annual review doesn’t make any legal findings. Instead, it aims to encourage the listed services, and the countries they operate from, to take proper action against piracy and counterfeiting.
Last week, the RIAA responded with a submission that mostly mentions familiar targets. It lists torrent sites, stream-rippers and cyberlockers, many of which were flagged in previous years. There are some notable newcomers too, including Anna’s Archive.
Anna’s Archive and the Spotify Scrape
In December last year, the shadow library announced...

Je sais que c'est à la mode en ce moment de vibecoder des outils qui manipulent des PDF donc c'est pour ça que je relaie cette alerte de Wordfence qui vient de publier le détail d'une faille dans Ghostscript (c'est un programme très connu qui transforme grosso modo les PDF en images).
Argus, l'agent IA de recherche de faille de Wordfence, a donc trouvé cette vuln d'un score CVSS de 9,8 sur 10 référencée sous le code CVE-2026-39919. Elle est assez grave puisqu'un PDF piégé contenant une image JPEG 2000, forgé pour l'occasion, suffit à faire écrire Ghostscript au-delà de sa mémoire et donc à introduire dans la mémoire de la machine du code malveillant.
Côté WordPress pur, le chemin est tordu...

Dans le vinyle Public Service / Are We Just Algorithms? de Last Tourist, sorti en 2020, il y a un progarmme pour Commodore 64. C’est un des rares vinyles avec un programme sorti dans notre siècle. Au lieu de vous mettre tous les articles précédents à chaque fois, je vous renvoie vers la page dédiée, elle explique ce que je fais avec les vinyles et liste toutes les pages qui contiennent les programmes, les explications, etc.
• Les programmes cachés dans les disques vinyles •
  Ce vinyle m’a donné beaucoup (beaucoup) de mal. Commençons par la présentation : c’est un vinyle de 7 pouces transparent, ce qui est toujours sympa. Il y avait un papier listing avec les paroles, et aussi un code QR...

Gaël Duval , le créateur de Mandrake Linux et de /e/OS, vient de sortir ElixirOffice , une suite bureautique libre conçue pour tous ceux qui n'ont jamais voulu quitter Microsoft Office. Elle permet d'éditer les fichiers Word, Excel et PowerPoint, ainsi que leurs équivalents OpenDocument sans perdre les utilisateurs grâce à un joli menu ruban, des menus et des raccourcis clavier d'Office.
Côté moteur, c'est celui d' ONLYOFFICE , passé par Euro-Office , le fork dont je vous avais parlé en avril. Ce dernier est conçu pour s'intégrer dans un autre produit et a déclaré travailler seulement sur des applis mobiles et de bureau , alors qu'ElixirOffice en livre déjà une, sous licence AGPL v3. L'idée...

La version Nintendo 64 de Command & Conquer, c'était une drôle de bestiole. Sortie en 1999 et portée par Looking Glass Studios, elle reprenait le RTS de Westwood avec des unités, des bâtiments et un terrain en vraie 3D. Pour ma part, je ne l'ai jamais testé à l'époque (moi j'étais sur PC) mais ça va pouvoir changer puisque c'est ce que le projet OpenCNC3D fait revivre sous la forme d'un programme Windows et macOS.
Pour y parvenir, le mystérieux dev qui s'occupe de ce projet, a repris la logique de jeu de Tiberian Dawn, dont EA a publié le code source sous licence GPL en 2020, puis y a collé les modèles 3D, les textures, le terrain et même la caméra à l'identique en les extrayant de la...

Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick messaging is incredibly useful, but for even simpler communications there’s a one-way system that predates it. Pagers are able to receive simple messages, but outside of hospitals are rarely used nowadays. Eventually some added in two-way communications like this Motorola T900, but they’re still mostly obsolete. That’s why [zindustries87] converted it to operate on the Meshtastic network instead.
To get this pager working, a lot of reverse engineering was needed. There is essentially no documentation on the chips in these...

“We present a suite of 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems with verifiable answers. Without AI assistance, a typical problem in our collection could be solved by a world expert in about a day or less but would take considerably longer for experts in adjacent specialties. We test the ability of off-the-shelf AI agents to tackle these problems autonomously, without human hints. When given access to tools available in a realistic setting, including the ability to search the liter- ature and write scripts for numerical and symbolic work, the best-performing agent, GPT-6-Astra harnessed in Codex, obtains the final answers with a near-perfect accuracy of 98% at an average cost under USD 3...

“Officials at Bangladesh’s Rooppur plant say a single working reactor could save the country about $1 billion a year in fuel imports. That plan took its biggest step yet on Sunday, when the plant’s first unit achieved criticality at 15:34, sustaining a nuclear chain reaction for the first time in Bangladesh’s history. Criticality does not yet mean electricity. The reactor now runs at minimum controlled power while engineers confirm its stability and run tests in sequence. Output will then rise in stages. Rosatom has scheduled the power start-up for November 20, and officials aim to begin feeding the national grid in late November. Commissioning follows International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines....