Over a 24 week period, people on UBT251 lost up to 20% of their body weight on average.

Military officials say Europe is too dependent on U.S. tech to break away now.

Auditors say Meta’s overseas profits blew past projections and now undercut the 2010 offshore deal that helped shrink the company’s tax bill

After Picard's tea mug made a comeback a few years ago, it's time for the better 'Trek' mug—and better beverage—to get the spotlight.

JBL's fabulous Flip 7 speaker is on super sale for $100. Grab this go-anywhere companion on the cheap before the nice weather hits.

Slop has come for the pirates.

Many Americans are souring on the president's handling of the economy with grocery prices and electricity bills stubbornly high

Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV sets around that could receive it. [Kris Slyka] has just such a device, and decided to feed it something from an STM32 microcontroller. An STM32G431, to be precise, and he’s doing it using the on-chip hardware rather than in software.
This unexpected feat is made possible by clever use of the internal oscillators and analog multiplexer. The video itself is generated using the MCU’s DAC, and fed into the on-board op-amp multiplexer which is switched at the VHF transmission frequency. This creates the required VHF TV transmission, but without audio. This component comes by abusing another peripheral, the...

“Nearly two years after Google DeepMind released an updated AlphaFold3 geared at drug discovery, its biopharmaceuticals spin-off, Isomorphic Labs, announced an even more powerful artificial-intelligence model… Isomorphic Labs, based in London, touted the capacities of its ‘drug-discovery engine’ — which it calls IsoDDE — in a 27-page technical report, released on 10 February. Achievements, including precise predictions of how proteins interact with potential drugs and antibody structures, have impressed scientists working in the field.” From Nature.
The post Scientists Marvel at Deepmind Drug Spin-Off’s Exclusive New AI appeared first on Human Progress.

“Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats in favour of protein. Raw cane sugar futures in New York dropped to less than 14 cents a pound on Wednesday, the lowest since October 2020 and less than half the level they hit in late 2023. Traders say the move reflects a sharper than forecast slowdown in consumption in the US and other wealthy economies, while demand in developing countries is growing at a slower pace than expected. So-called GLP-1 weight-loss injections — which work by activating the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor hormone that makes people feel fuller — have been a...

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 have excellent compatibility and a comfortable, lightweight fit.

Discord won't roll out age verification globally on its platform next month as previously announced, and says in a blog post that it's delaying the launch until the second half of 2026. "The way this landed, many of you walked away thinking we're requiring face scans and ID uploads from everyone just to use Discord. That's not what's happening, but the fact that so many people believe it tells us we failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why," writes Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy.
Discord says that before it rolls out age verification globally, it will add more options for users to verify their age (inclu …
Read the full story at The Verge.

“As U.S. oil prices dropped below $60 a barrel in recent months, the industry shed rigs by the dozens and laid off crews that frack wells. Yet, the country’s wells last year gushed a record 13.6 million barrels of crude on average each day—100,000 barrels more than the Energy Information Administration, the federal forecaster, had anticipated before President Trump’s inauguration. The disconnect between slackening activity and the increasing yield has mystified even oil chieftains… Executives credit the outperformance in part to companies’ engineering prowess and the changing makeup of the industry. Oil giants now have a bigger share of crude production in their hands and are largely impervious to...

“Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a leading developer of advanced molten-salt nuclear reactors, has signed an agreement with NGL Water Solutions Permian LLC, a subsidiary of NGL Energy Partners LP (NYSE: NGL), to pursue opportunities to combine Natura’s advanced nuclear reactor technology with thermal desalination for power production and oil and gas produced water treatment. NGL transports, treats, recycles and disposes of more than 3 million barrels per day of produced and flowback water generated from crude oil and natural gas production in the Permian Basin. Under the terms of the agreement, Natura and NGL will collaborate in seeking opportunities to combine Natura’s 100-megawatt molten salt reactor...

Curiosity has been exploring a region filled with boxwork formations, which formed billions of years ago when water leaked through rock cracks.

“Argentina recorded the highest percentage growth in air traffic in Latin America last year, with 33.3 million passengers travelling to, from and within the country. The figure represents a 13.2 percent year-on-year increase, equating to some 3.9 million additional travellers, according to data released Tuesday by the Latin America and the Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA).” From Buenos Aires Times. The post Open Skies Lifts Argentina to Top of Regional Air Traffic appeared first on Human Progress.

La plus haute juridiction administrative examine, mercredi 25, le recours des « insoumis » contre la décision du ministère de l’intérieur de classer le mouvement de Jean-Luc Mélenchon à l’« extrême gauche » pour les élections municipales.

Nvidia's fourth quarter earnings are expected to be enormous. But that can still disappoint a crowd that paid for a bigger and louder fireworks show

1Password is increasing its prices on March 27th, 2026. In an email sent to users, the password manager says it will raise the price of its yearly individual plan from $35.88 to $47.88, and that its family plan is going from $59.88 to $71.88.
"While 1Password has grown substantially in value and capability, our pricing has remained largely unchanged for many years," 1Password's email states. 1Password says that the price increase will help it "continue investing in innovation and the world-class security you expect." The email lists some of the new features the company has recently added to the platform, such as the ability to save logins a …
Read the full story at The Verge.

As the United States takes new steps against the regime that has ruled the island since 1959, the Cuban people face 20-hour blackouts, decreased internet access, and shortages of basic supplies.

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 - TikTok developer ByteDance's newest video generation model - it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we've seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips' star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) looked a lot like the real thing as it fought Brad Pitt, humanoid robots, and zombies. And the characters moved with a complex fluidity almost passing for choreography and amplified by kinetic "camerawork."
Gen AI enthusiasts love to proclaim that the traditionally produced entertainment industry is cooked, and some of …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Events were held across Ukraine to mark four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Personally, I love a monoblock or uni-body split. You’ll pry this Kinesis Advantage from under my cold, dead hands. But on the go, I really like the Glove 80, a true split that can be completely wireless in case you want to put the halves really far apart.
Image by [thehaikuza] via reddit[thehaikuza] is the opposite, preferring a full split at the desk, but finding it troublesome when using it on the couch or at a cafe or co-working space, and so created dǎ bāo (打包) — a uni-body split that can also be a distant split. And this best-of-both worlds creation is remarkably [thehaikuza]’s first keyboard.
The name means to take out food, and if you click the picture you can see a cute little take-out...

L’autobiographie du plus célèbre des opposants à Vladimir Poutine fait l’objet d’une réédition, avec, pour la première fois, une préface de sa veuve, Ioulia Navalnaïa. Elle y raconte le combat d’une « personne ordinaire ».

Samsung is set to introduce its new Galaxy S26 lineup at its next Unpacked event on February 25th, potentially alongside a new pair of earbuds and other wearables. If you’re thinking about picking up any of the new devices, it’s worth claiming Samsung’s $30 promotional credit before it expires, which you can do by registering your interest on Samsung’s website before 1PM ET / 10AM PT tomorrow. If you’re even remotely considering an upgrade, there’s not much to lose by signing up.  You don’t need to pay anything or even offer your credit card details to take advantage of the offer. You just need to reserve a device by signing up with your name and email address on Samsung’s website or the...

Around a million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, four years ago. Family members, who often aren’t informed of their loved ones’ fates, have been relying on a digital place of last resort.

Depuis le casse spectaculaire du 19 octobre 2025, qui avait révélé les failles de sûreté du musée, et la grève perlée des personnels déclenchée mi-décembre, les jours de la patronne du musée le plus fréquenté au monde étaient comptés.

Le président de la commission d’enquête, Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, n’a pas donné d’information sur la teneur des éléments fournis par la ministre de la culture à l’appui des accusations de soudoiement de témoin qu’elle porte contre l’émission d’investigation de France Télévisions. Les journalistes, eux, ont soumis le témoignage écrit, déjà mentionné lors de leur audition, qui les disculpe.

« Poutine a déjà perdu », a notamment estimé le ministre des affaires étrangères norvégien, Espen Barth Eide, qui a salué la résistance « sensationnelle » des Ukrainiens. La coalition des volontaires qui regroupe une trentaine de pays alliés de Liev, a appelé Moscou à accepter un « cessez-le-feu complet et inconditionnel ».

Hundreds of people have been displaced and dozens are missing, with rescue operations still ongoing in Juiz de Fora.

Dans un rapport rendu public le 13 février, des sénateurs démocrates détaillent la facture de la politique migratoire de l’administration Trump. Dans le cas des expulsions vers l’Afrique, ils soulignent les coûts faramineux des partenariats avec les autorités locales et de l’affrètement des vols.

Marvel's Wolverine, the next superhero game from Marvel's Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, will be released on PS5 on September 15th.
Insomniac announced that it would be making a Wolverine game way back in 2021, so it's been a long wait in the leadup to an official release date. Sony gave a vague fall 2026 release window last year alongside a very bloody gameplay trailer. "In this original story, Wolverine is on the hunt to uncover the secrets of a dark past that keeps eluding him," according to the game's PlayStation Store listing. "His search for answers will send him on perilous excursions to exotic locales, including the island n …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Mardi 24 février, à la clôture du congrès du parti unique au pouvoir à Pyongyang, Kim Jong-un a livré un discours particulièrement virulent contre sa propre administration. Une façon, décrypte la presse spécialisée, de rejeter sur des boucs émissaires l’incurie structurelle du régime.

Les combats au Soudan atteignent la frontière avec le Tchad. De quoi inquiéter les autorités de N’Djamena qui ont décidé, le 23 février, de fermer, de manière préventive, la frontière entre les deux pays.

À l’occasion des 800 ans de la mort de saint François d’Assise, la dépouille du religieux italien est exposée pour la première fois de façon publique, jusqu’au 22 mars. Un événement qui devrait attirer dans cette petite ville d’Ombrie des centaines de milliers de visiteurs.

Dans son dernier essai, La démocratie à l’état gazeux (Flammarion, 2025), Gilles Finchelstein, secrétaire général de la Fondation Jean-Jaurès, revient sur l’histoire politique de la France depuis 1945 et esquisse celle qui pourrait s’écrire d’ici à 2045. À moins de trois semaines des élections municipales, il avance, dans l’entretien qu’il nous a accordé, plusieurs pistes pour éviter la décomposition de notre démocratie.

La plateforme de cryptomonnaies nie avoir renvoyé des cadres qui ont donné des preuves de transferts d’un montant total de plus de 1 milliard de dollars vers l’Iran et les rebelles houthistes, en violation des sanctions américaines. L’affaire pose de nombreuses questions sur les méthodes de Binance, dont le PDG a été gracié par Donald Trump en octobre.

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

[Danny Spencer] has a brilliant graphical demo that, like all great demos, flexes a deep understanding of the underlying system: a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color.
If you’re not familiar with shaders, they were originally mathematical lighting models (hence the name) and are an integral part of the modern 3D graphics pipeline. One no longer draws pixels directly to a screen to represent objects. Instead, 3D object data is sent to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which handles the drawing. Shaders are what control things like an object’s lighting, textures, and more.
Implementing even a basic real-time shader in software on a Game Boy Color is pretty wild. Not only is it a pixels-and-sprites...

Condamné à 5 ans, Oleksandr Didenko a vendu des identités volées à des IT nord-coréens infiltrant des firmes US....

Le Texas poursuit TP-Link, invoquant failles, Camaro Dragon et promesses de sécurité jugées trompeuses....

Pet costs are rising everywhere — but owning a dog is particularly expensive in some states

After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling

Two people died when a tree fell on their car during a historic winter storm that has also delayed flights and left thousands without power.

Erreur de code chez PayPal PPWC : données sensibles exposées 6 mois, accès non autorisé, fraudes et mesures clients....

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Des robots ménagers DJI Romo, accessibles à distance. Un cyber chercheur voulait diriger le sien avec une manette de PS5....

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more civilized types of destructive weaponry, involving lasers, microwaves, and electromagnetism. Instead of messy detonating powder, energy-weapons are used to near-instantly deposit significant amounts of energy into the target, and railguns enable the delivery of projectiles at many times the speed of sound using nothing but the raw power of electricity and some creative physics.
Of course, the reason that we don’t see sci-fi weapons deployed everywhere has arguably less to do with today’s levels of savagery in geopolitics and more with the fact...

Un développeur espagnol vient de prendre le contrôle de plus de 10 000 appareils DJI (dont
7 000 robots aspirateurs Romo
- lien affilié) répartis dans 24 pays... en voulant juste piloter le sien avec une manette PS5.
Oui oui c'est un grand malade ^^.
À la base, Sammy Azdoufal, responsable IA chez Emerald Stay, voulait juste s'amuser avec son aspi alors il a d'abord essayé d'y connecter sa manette DualSense en Bluetooth, et puis il a fini par utiliser Claude Code pour décompiler l'appli mobile DJI (version Android) et reverse-engineerer les protocoles MQTT de DJI. Bien sûr, il lui fallait un token d'auth pour prouver qu'il était bien proprio du Romo et jusque-là, rien de méchant...
Sauf que le broker...

Écologique : 64 fois moins de calculs signifie 64 fois moins d’énergie. À l’heure où les datacenters d’IA consomment autant que des pays entiers, ce n’est pas anodin.
Vitesse : de 38% plus rapide.
Souveraineté : des modèles performants sans les infrastructures pharaoniques des GAFAM. Une IA qui pourrait tourner en Europe, sur des machines européennes.
Explicabilité : contrairement aux boîtes noires actuelles, on comprend POURQUOI le modèle fait attention à tel ou tel élément – parce qu’il cherche l’Agent, ou le Temps, ou le Lieu. C’est un enjeu démocratique : une IA qu’on peut interroger. pribor.ai
Écrivez-moi.

Tide’s Evo Tiles are lightweight, fibrous squares of detergent that simplify the laundry process—and also act as a slightly more eco-friendly alternative to the Tide Pod.

WorldMonitor
, c'est un dashboard open source qui agrège en temps réel à peu près TOUT ce qui se passe sur la planète. Géopolitique, conflits armés, marchés financiers, menaces cyber, catastrophes naturelles, trafic maritime... le tout sur une carte interactive avec 35 couches de données superposables ! Le truc, c'est que c'est pas juste un agrégateur de news. Là-dedans y'a 150+ flux RSS, du tracking de 220+ bases militaires, du suivi de vols militaires en direct via ADS-B, de la surveillance des câbles sous-marins, et même de la détection de feux de forêt par satellite via NASA FIRMS.
Ah et y'a aussi 8 flux vidéo live (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, France24...), un index d'instabilité par pays...

The prisoners escaped from a jail in Puerto Vallarta after armed men rammed one of the gates.

AsteroidOS
, c'est une distro Linux open source qui tourne... sur des
montres connectées
! Oui oui, du manchot au poignet et l'idée en fait, c'est de virer
WearOS
et toute la télémétrie Google qui va avec, pour le remplacer par un OS libre sans tracking ou de compte à se créer.
Ce projet existe depuis 2015 et supporte aujourd'hui une trentaine de montres (LG Watch, Huawei Watch, TicWatch, Asus Zenwatch, Fossil Gen 4/5/6...). Vous flashez votre tocante connectée, et vous récupérez un OS avec agenda, météo, chronomètre, boussole, moniteur cardiaque, contrôle musical et même un petit jeu. Le tout en Qt/QML, avec des cadrans communautaires et un affichage permanent ! Côté
vie privée
, c'est même...

In July 2025, adult content producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta. The complaint accused the tech company of using adult films to assist its AI model training. Similar claims have been made by other rightsholders, including many book authors.
This latest case, with over 350 million dollars in potential damages, specifically focuses on Meta’s BitTorrent activity that was recorded in detail through proprietary torrent tracking software. That’s no surprise, as plaintiff Strike 3 is the most active copyright litigant in the United States, known for targeting thousands of alleged BitTorrent pirates based on similar evidence.
Meta responded in...

It’s quite the understatement to say that at this point in time we don’t quite understand how even the tiniest brain works exactly. Much of this is due to the sheer complexity and scale of these little biological marvels: with the human brain packing billions of neurons and their associated supportive scaffolding into a few kilograms of gooey pink-white mass, the sheer connectivity density is more than we can reasonably hope to measure in-situ. Ergo attempts to recreate digital simulations of small sections of such brains, a process that’s making gradual progress.
Most recently we have been doing mapping of neurons and their connections in the brain of the humble fruitfly, D. melanogaster. Despite their...

The scandal suggests that everything awful we’ve ever believed is true.

In a funk: They couldn’t help but notice that the over-all vibe of the online chatter was negative.

VYALO
, c'est une app iOS gratuite qui part d'un constat que tout le monde connaît... 9 résolutions sur 10 finissent à la poubelle. Vous savez de quoi je parle car on sort à peine du nouvel an et je pense que vous avez déjà abandonné le sport et la gentillesse sur les réseaux sociaux... Mais c'est normal car ces bonnes résolutions, on les fait dans son coin, sans personne pour nous secouer.
Heureusement celui qui va nous secouer pour nous aider à les tenir, c'est Nathan, dev solo de 22 ans en Haute-Savoie et fidèle lecteur de Korben.info qui eu une idée plutôt pas con : Vous faire surveiller par vos pôtes !!
En gros, vous posez vos objectifs (
sport
, lecture, code, peu importe), vos amis voient...

C'est fou ce qu'on peut faire avec trois bouts de ficelle et un peu de jugeote. Ou plutôt, avec 140 caractères de JavaScript et un élément . Si vous ne connaissez pas encore Dwitter
, c'est le moment de sortir de votre grotte les amis... surtout si vous aimez les challenges et le code !
Le concept c'est que vous avez une fonction u(t) où t est le temps qui passe, et vous devez pondre un truc visuellement bluffant sans dépasser la taille d'un tweet (époque pré-Elon, le fameux 140 caractères). Et là, c'est la claque car les mecs qui participent à ce défi arrivent à caser des univers entiers, des forêts en parallaxe ou des simulations de colonies de fourmis dans un mouchoir de poche.
Et c'est du...