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by io9 - about 45 minutes
You're *shocked*, surely, but Pixar had an idea for how to make you cry even harder during 'Toy Story 5.'
by Courrier International - about 56 minutes
Depuis l’incendie volontaire du dortoir d’un internat pour jeunes filles qui a fait 16 morts le 28 mai, les écoles sont devenues le théâtre d’une vague de protestations, avec des heurts qui se multiplient ces derniers jours. Si le gouvernement tente d’en minimiser la gravité, la grogne est devenue virale et pourrait enflammer le pays.
by QZ - about 57 minutes
From Yakushima's 7,000-year-old cedar forests to a remote Pacific island reachable only by a 24-hour ferry from Tokyo
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Dimanche 21 juin, les rédactions d’outre-Manche se sont emballées autour d’une démission imminente du Premier ministre Keir Starmer. Il faut dire que le climat de fronde au sein du parti travailliste et la victoire dans une élection partielle d’Andy Burnham ont plus qu’affaibli le locataire du 10, Downing Street.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Comme le sanctuaire de Delphes ou les vestiges de Mycènes, le lieu qui a vu naître les Jeux olympiques est particulièrement exposé aux conséquences du réchauffement climatique. Détecteurs de fumée et arrosage de la végétation font partie des mesures mises en place pour le protéger.
by BBC - about 2 hours
Temperatures are forecast to peak on Monday, and authorities warn they could match historic highs.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Dans cet éditorial, la rédaction du “Guardian” déplore que les Français ne prennent pas la mesure de la gravité que représente le succès grandissant de l’extrême droite à l’approche de la présidentielle de 2027. Pour le quotidien britannique, les partis traditionnels gagneraient à s’unir pour sauver un scrutin qui s’annonce “déterminant pour l’avenir de l’Europe et de la France”.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
En réaction à l’hommage rendu par Kiev à des nationalistes ukrainiens du XXᵉ siècle accusés de massacres en Pologne, le président polonais a retiré la plus haute distinction de son pays à Volodymyr Zelensky.
by BBC - about 2 hours
Abiy Ahmed's party retains its huge majority despite unrest in several parts of Ethiopia and tensions with its neighbours.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Attirés par une fiscalité avantageuse, un coût de la vie plus faible et un paysage politique dominé par la droite, un nombre record de Brésiliens ont demandé à s’installer au Paraguay en 2025. Un phénomène alimenté par les réseaux sociaux et encouragé par les autorités paraguayennes, qui y voient la confirmation du succès de leur modèle économique.
by BBC - about 2 hours
The face-to-face meeting follows ongoing fighting in Lebanon and Iran's claim to have shut the Strait of Hormuz.
by io9 - about 3 hours
For the first time in over a decade, 'Naruto' is going back to trading cards for an all-new competitive game.
by The Verge - about 3 hours
According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips.
The videos posted on social media look legit at first, but there are subtle clues that betray them as fraudulent. For instance, when examined closely, one clip shows someone visiting "poiymarket.com" rather than polymarket.com. According to the Journal's investigation, none of the bets placed in the over 1,100 vide …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Korben - about 3 hours
Je sais pas si vous vous intéressez un petit peu à la robotique, mais cette semaine il y a eu deux vidéos qui sont sorties et je voudrais réagir par rapport à ça.
La première, c'est lors d'une démonstration dans la rue d'un robot qui a un moment lève la jambe et éclate le ventre d'un enfant qui se trouvait à côté. Et la seconde c'est à Vivatech lors d'une chorégraphie débile où deux robots ont arraché des télés. Et ça fait marrer tout le monde... Au passage, ces deux robots, c'est le même modèle : l'Unitree G1, le petit humanoïde chinois qu'on voit partout tellement il est dropshippé et rebrandé.
Et Unitree, ça devrait normalement vous parler, parce que je vous ai déjà raconté ici...
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Les pénuries d’eau à répétition obligent les Suédois à revoir leurs habitudes, et ils seraient bien inspirés de prendre exemple sur leurs voisins danois, affirme cet éditorial du “Dagens Nyheter”, à Stockholm.
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Lundi, 49 départements seront placés en vigilance rouge et 40 autres, en vigilance orange. « On n’envisage pas de baisse des températures d’ici à la fin de semaine », a déclaré Mathieu Lefèvre, le ministre délégué auprès de la transition écologique.
by io9 - about 3 hours
Love sticking pretty lights in your patio? Govee’s lights are an easy, but very spendy way to do it.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
In between playing Doom on the most ergonomically challenged devices, [Aaron Christophel] likes to take a relaxing break with reverse-engineering Xiaomi Mi Band fitness trackers and writing custom firmware for them. Also so that he can play more Doom on those, natch. The latest subject comes in the form of the Mi Band 10, which features a BES2700iMP SoC, known internally at the manufacturer Bestechnic as the BEST1503. This is all documented on the GitHub project.
In the accompanying video we get some more details on this project, with the main challenge being that for this Mi Band 10 there’s no public SDK for its SoC. This was a major bummer until [Aaron] realized that the BEST1306 (BES2700IHC) is...
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
Les négociations entre l’Iran et les Etats-Unis sous médiation pakistanaise ont commencé en Suisse. Tandis que Téhéran a affirmé que le Liban serait le « principal » sujet des pourparlers, Israël a déclaré que ses troupes allaient rester dans la zone qu’elles occupent dans le Sud.
by QZ - about 4 hours
Low-Earth orbit is already dangerously crowded. Plans to build data centers there would accelerate a debris crisis no regulator has the power to stop
by QZ - about 4 hours
From Zermatt's car-free village beneath the Matterhorn to Lavaux's UNESCO vineyard terraces above Lake Geneva
by The Verge - about 5 hours
If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. Not that it mattered, though. You probably loved your Roomba. You probably gave it a name.
On this episode of Version History, we tell the story of the Roomba, and how it made vacuums lovable. The Verge's David Pierce and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy are joined by iRobot's co-founder and former CEO Colin Angle to trace the robovac revolution back to its origins, with a group of engineers try …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - about 5 hours
Joby flight at JFK airport. | Image: The Verge This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.
How it started
Last year, two of the leading air taxi companies in the US, Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation, sued each other, with Joby accusing Archer of corporate espionage and Archer claiming that Joby was concealing its ties to China. Then, in February of this year, Archer filed a patent infringement suit against a different air taxi rival, Vertical A …
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by Wired - about 6 hours
Wooting’s 60HE v2 isn’t just a terrific Hall Effect keyboard. It’s a fantastic keyboard period.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
Blender is one of the poster children for Open Source Software– proof that something hacked together by enthusiasts could grow to rival the big boys in 3D modeling, animation and rendering after it was abandoned by its original corporate owners. Once you climb that initial learning curve, which can indeed feel cliff-like, you can do almost anything in Blender you can in paid competitors– almost.
Traditionally, one of the weak points has been simulations, with even those working in Blender professionally offloading simulation to programs like Houdini. According to [3Dan], once version 5.2 is out of beta in July, that may become a thing of the past. 
Simulations aren’t a necessary part of a 3D animation...
by The Verge - about 6 hours
The 1 VIII doesn’t look much like any Xperia that’s come before. The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone. It's not all different. Sony staples like a 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD card slot remain, and a few specific design touches, like a thick front bezel that fits stereo speakers, have stayed intact. Sony's ambitious pricing hasn't changed either: The Xperia 1 VIII isn't launching in the US, but in the UK and Europe, it starts from £1,399 / €1,499 (about $1,850), r...
by BBC - about 6 hours
Fuel had already been rationed due to shortages caused by Kyiv's attacks against supply routes in Russian-occupied territories.
by Wired - about 7 hours
Network-attached storage (NAS) provides accessible shared space on your home network. After testing, these are my favorite NAS devices.
by Wired - about 7 hours
Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.
by Wired - about 7 hours
Stainless-steel pans may lack nonstick coatings, but they’re unfussy, they sear well, and they’re built for a lifetime of hard work.
by Korben - about 7 hours
Je ne me lasse jamais de tous ces projets qui ressuscitent des vieux jeux. Et celui dont je vais vous parler aujourd'hui, c'est à
neuviemeporte
qu'on le doit. Celui-ci s'est donné pour mission de reconstruire ligne de code par ligne de code, ce bon vieux F-15 Strike Eagle II, le simulateur de vol de combat sorti chez MicroProse en 1989. Et hier, le 20 juin dernier, le projet a passé un cap important puisque le portage est enfin jouable. Et son dev cherche maintenant des pilotes d'essai pour le mettre à l'épreuve.
Donc si ça vous chauffe, mes petits Maverick en herbe, faut récupérer les exécutables sur son dépôt, ensuite vous les balancez dans le dossier de votre copie du jeu à la place des...
by Wired - about 7 hours
With Apple raising prices soon, you can save a lot of money by buying a used handset or upgrading an older device—safe in the knowledge that it'll last longer than ever.
by QZ - about 8 hours
From Rome's four essential pastas to Palermo's market stalls where spleen sandwiches reflect a thousand years of Arab and Norman influence
by QZ - about 8 hours
From Malta's English-speaking Mediterranean shores to Penang's UNESCO heritage city and ultra-low rents
by io9 - about 8 hours
It's a trend that urgently needs to die.
by Usbek & Rica - about 8 hours
Saturé de titres et fragilisé par l’IA, le streaming est à bout de souffle. Au point que certains pontes de l’industrie musicale pensent que nos modes de consommation du son pourraient basculer dans les prochaines années. Petit tour d’horizon du futur de l’écoute musicale, à l'occasion de la fête de la musique, qui se tient ce dimanche 21 juin.
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
For most of us the abbreviation “CRT” brings to mind a monitor or TV. But at its core it’s about the special vacuum tube that makes the images appear.
Regardless of whether it’s just a simple monochrome CRT in an oscilloscope or a full RGB CRT, the basic steps to make it work in a device remain the same. In a recent video by [Void Electronics] these steps are worked through, including the biasing at the end that is necessary to get a stable image.
A big part of installing a CRT and driving it is knowing how to read its datasheet. Much like other vacuum tube types, there are heaters, control grids and a range of voltages to get right and keep happy. Even then you can still have a situation where you...
by daryo Bluesky - about 11 hours
Our Third Year Of Solar
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/third-year-of-solar.html
by La Horde - about 11 hours
Nouvelle journée de lutte avec kermesse, conférence, discussions, Assemblée générale et finir avec un concert et DJ Sets -
Initiatives / Reims, Assemblée, Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats
by Journal du Lapin - about 11 hours
Depuis quelques années, j’ai des alertes sur de nombreux sites japonais pour chercher des jeux Pippin et récemment, je suis tombé sur une personne qui vend des jeux Pippin assez rares. Il y a Odotte AIUEO, Dinosaur Museum, Franklin the Turtle Learns Math… et un second jeu Franklin que je ne connaissais pas et qui n’est pas dans les listes classiques de jeux de la console. Il s’agit de Franklin’s Reading World. Le jeu est bien trop cher pour moi, il est vers 40 000 à 46 000 ¥ selon les sites (le vendeur essaye partout) et uniquement pour le disques, a priori. C’est à peu près 250 €, sans la TVA (comptez 20 %) et les différentes taxes (petits colis, frais de dossiers, etc.). Je suis quand...
by Les Décodeurs - about 12 hours
Le second épisode de chaleur précoce de l’année doit s’intensifier ce week-end et pourrait se prolonger la semaine prochaine. Parcourez la carte des prévisions de Météo-France, région par région.
by HackAdAy - about 12 hours
The Bernoulli disk was a wild piece of 1980s hardware. Take a big floppy. Spin the platter at 1500 RPM just a micron or so from a read head. The airflow around that rapidly-spinning disk actually stabilizes the disk that close to the read-head via the Bernoulli effect, hence the name. Once upon a time, everybody wanted a Bernoulli Box to put under their Macintosh 512, but [Will It Work?] wanted to see how well these old drives held up to the 21st century… by using it to load games onto a WiiU. 
It’s not as crazy at is it seems. The WiiU is happy to read and write anything that looks like a USB mass storage device. The Bernoulli Box is of course pre-USB– even the later model 5 1/4″ drive [Will] is...
by Le Monde - about 13 hours
« Je ne serais pas arrivée là si… » Chaque semaine, « Le Monde » interroge une personnalité sur un moment décisif de son existence. L’ancienne éducatrice pénitentiaire devenue journaliste revient sur les sources de son engagement.
by Les Décodeurs - about 14 hours
Des plateformes de « marchés prédictifs », des paris en ligne très peu régulés, se développent fortement, en misant notamment sur l’attrait exponentiel pour les paris sportifs.
by HackAdAy - about 15 hours
With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does Not Compute] having used 10 Gbit SFP+ modules over regular Cat-5e copper to connect to a NAS in the next room. Only problem was that after a while these SFP+ modules began to start dropping frames. On taking a closer look at these modules, he found that they were running pretty hot: 40°C while idle. A teardown of one of these modules showed severe discoloration due to heat.
Side view of the SFP+ module’s PCB. (Credit: This Does Not Compute, YouTube)
Inside these 10Gbit modules is the Marvell-branded Alaska X 88X3310/40P PHY, which...
by BBC - about 18 hours
A left-wing senator who backs talks with armed gangs faces an outsider endorsed by Trump.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:32
Trump spoke of his need for a "plane that’s much newer ​and much better." Is it actually better?
by The Verge - yesterday at 20:46
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each.
According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Google and Stability have both confirmed they have in research papers. Some of the sources, like the Free Music Archive dataset, are free to stream for personal use but re …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by Autheuil - saturday at 18:40
Pour la deuxième fois de l’année, nous traversons un épisode de canicule, et ce n’est peut-être pas le dernier. Les effets de l’évolution du climat sont évidents, et nier ce changement relève de l’idiotie. Ou de la politique, tout comme insister lourdement sur ces épisodes (en dramatisant à outrance). En partant du postulat que plus […]
by Torrentfreak - saturday at 12:05
Starting nearly a decade ago, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched a plan to cut off revenue streams to pirate sites.
WIPO is well-respected internationally and part of the United Nations, which ensured cooperation from a wide variety of countries. In 2019, WIPO launched an advertising blocklist that lets member states flag infringing sites. This list can then be shared with advertisers, who can use it to make sure that revenues don’t end up going to these sites.
This “WIPO Alert” system has been running for years with thousands of domain names being added. While it still functions today, WIPO has quietly been working on a new “WIPO Alert Pay” system that targets the payment...
by Korben - saturday at 11:47
D'habitude, une batterie domestique, c'est un gros bloc qu'on planque à la cave ou au garage. SAMDUO prend le contre-pied avec sa gamme Nex, présentée cette semaine à Amsterdam, et veut en faire un objet qu'on assume de laisser à la vue de tous.
Le modèle E6000 ressemble à un grand cadre fixé au mur, 11,9 cm d'épaisseur seulement, soit la plus fine du monde d'après la marque. Sa variante E6000H abandonne le mur pour un cube de la taille d'un micro-ondes, à glisser dans un coin. Même capacité. Deux façons de la ranger. Derrière SAMDUO se cache un industriel chinois quasi inconnu il y a encore six mois, qui arrive en Europe avec de gros moyens. Les deux E6000 stockent 6 kWh et visent le tarif de...
by Autheuil - saturday at 11:29
Sébastien Lecornu vient d’ordonner la réalisation, régulière et de manière inopinée, de tests salivaires au sommet de l’État. Le but est de repérer les ministres, membres de cabinets, et hauts fonctionnaires, qui prennent de la drogue, et les virer si c’est le cas. La démarche provoque le buzz, et l’irritation chez une partie du public […]
by daryo Bluesky - saturday at 8:40
Le recyclage n'est pas une solution miracle, il faut organiser la décroissance matérielle
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/le-recyclage-n-est-pas-une-solution-miracle-il-faut-organiser-la-decroissance-materielle
by Journal du Lapin - saturday at 8:00
SimpleSound est un petit utilitaire dans les vieilles versions de Mac OS, qui se trouve soit dans le menu , soit dans le dossier Applications (Mac OS 9)/Compléments Apple dans mon cas. C’est un Easter Egg qui n’est pas très impressionnant, comme le dit MacKiDo : si vous faites  -> A propos de SimpleSound et que vous cliquez sur l’icône, vous verrez le nom de Kip Olson, qui a développé l’app. Le nom n’est visible que si vous gardez le bouton de la souris enfoncé.
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by Le Taurillon - saturday at 7:30
Un inquiétant retour en arrière ? La durabilité et le succès du projet européen seront définis par un équilibre prudent, mais non moins ferme, entre ses valeurs fondamentales, le pragmatisme, la promotion de la compétitivité mondiale et une voix internationale unifiée et proactive. Tel est le discours moteur qui résonne aussi bien dans les couloirs des institutions de l'Union européenne que dans les cabinets des États membres. Si la théorie est bien étudiée, sa mise en œuvre pratique demeure loin d'être concrétisée. Un inquiétant retour en arrière ?
La durabilité et le succès du projet européen seront définis par un équilibre prudent, mais non moins ferme, entre ses valeurs...
by Human Progress - friday at 18:23
“After four decades of stagnation, the United States is seeing a resurgence of nuclear technology. At about 4:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Valar Atomics’ small modular reactor in Orangeville, Utah, reached zero-power fueled criticality. The feat marks the first time a Department of Energy-authorized reactor has been built outside of a national laboratory.” From Deseret.
The post Valar Atomics’ Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality in Utah appeared first on Human Progress.
by Human Progress - friday at 17:58
“For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first reported use of a vision-language model in orbit, and offers a glimpse of how AI could fundamentally change what space-based sensors are capable of — and how much they’re worth. Typically, satellites download large chunks of data to analysts on the Earth below, who use machine learning algorithms or their own eyes to figure out what’s going on. But onboard YAM-9, a spacecraft built by space infrastructure company Loft Orbital, a software package built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory identified areas of...
by Human Progress - friday at 17:55
“Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved sweeping reforms backed by the Communist ​Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of the country’s socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing U.S. sanctions. The ‌measures, if implemented as passed, would represent the single largest change to Cuba’s socialist model since former leader Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution and a major shift towards a market economy. The reforms open the door to private real estate development on the Caribbean island, propose to transform state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes and would allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance...
by Human Progress - friday at 17:46
“Deaths from infections that cause diarrhea and other intestinal illnesses have fallen sharply since 1990, according to a study published last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023, an international team of researchers examined mortality from enteric infectious diseases across 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023. The category included diarrheal disease, invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections, enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid), and other intestinal infectious diseases, which are typically transmitted through the fecal-oral route by contaminated food, water, or hands and can be highly...
by Human Progress - friday at 17:41
“Even as India recorded a continued decline in child marriage, data from the National Family Health Survey-6 (NFHS-6) for 2023-24 revealed that 20.1% of women aged 20-24 were married before turning 18, the legal age of marriage for women. The figure has fallen by just over three percentage points from 23.3% reported in NFHS-5 (2019-21), according to Times of India report. Among men aged 25-29, 15.9% had married before the legal age of 21 years, reflecting a 17.7% decline compared with the previous survey period. The survey also pointed to a reduction in gender-based violence. The share of married women aged 18-49 who reported experiencing spousal violence dropped from 29.2% in 2019-21 to 22.3% in 2023-24....