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

Après l’alerte lancée par le PDG d’Anthropic ce week-end, le président américain a à nouveau minimisé les inquiétudes sur les risques de l’intelligence artificielle tandis que Pékin dénonce une exagération à l’avantage des groupes américains. Les marchés financiers, eux, ont mal accueilli le débat du moment.

He becomes the first person to win two lead acting prizes in one night at the prestigious TV ceremony.

Le taux d’intérêt auquel la France doit s’endetter est monté à 4,5 %, lundi 14 septembre. Du jamais-vu depuis 2008. L’écart avec l’Allemagne, un pays jugé beaucoup plus fiable, a également atteint un nouveau record.

Des documents confidentiels révèlent comment l’Industrial and Commercial Bank of China a courtisé des entreprises à haut risque, tel un géant russe du nickel, secteur frappé en 2024 par les sanctions occidentales, pour garantir des ressources et des alliances au régime de Xi Jinping.

Depuis cet été, avec le piratage par des agents d’IA de la plateforme Hugging Face, les appels à endiguer la toute-puissance de l’intelligence artificielle se multiplient. Spécialiste du sujet pour “CNN”, Hadas Gold incite à prendre la mesure de la menace dans cet article écrit pour “Courrier international”.

France – Seconde Guerre mondiale. Premiers soldats alliés à franchir les portes de Paris le 24 août 1944, les républicains espagnols de la 9ᵉ compagnie, rattachés à la 2ᵉ DB du général Leclerc, poursuivaient un combat pour la liberté, commencé huit ans plus tôt de l’autre côté des Pyrénées. Un récit de “XLSemanal”.

Les contraintes et les restrictions s’accumulant dans la vie quotidienne en Russie, la Biélorussie voisine apparaît désormais comme un havre de quiétude pour les touristes, qui y trouvent un accès sans entraves aux réseaux sociaux et aux marques occidentales. Cette journaliste du média russe indépendant “Novaïa Vkladka” en revient et n’est pas dupe de ce confort de façade.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman requested a private meeting with Trump last week, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dialed up him on stage at an event.

The origin of the drone is currently unknown, but authorities say it likely entered Lithuania from neighbouring Belarus, an ally of Russia.

[Bas BotBerg] wanted to use a portable Bluetooth thermal printer to run off reports on sensor data collected by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller. But as is so often the case these days, the only official way to interface with the printer was through a proprietary smartphone application provided by the manufacturer. With no documentation on how the thing works, he set out to reverse engineer the printer’s communications protocol so he could control it from the MCU — but the route he took to get there was a bit different than what we usually see, and is an excellent case study for those who might have similar projects in mind.
The standard procedure for something like this, if it can be called that, is to use...

The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

Donald Trump's EPA not only abandoned greenhouse gas limits on the power sector, but is practically begging for a court ruling that it never can again.

The ruling bars the United States Postal Service from implementing restrictions that experts and election officials say would upend voting in November.

The Nvidia CEO answered a call from the president while he was onstage at a summit. Put on speakerphone for the crowd, Trump called data centers "the oil of the next 20, 25 years"

Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup - the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today's Steam Frame - are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn't saying so yet. The company is figuring out "how and when we can deliver something like that," Valve designer Pierre-Loup Griffais now tells IGN.
Valve has been clear for years that 1) a Steam Deck 2 will indeed happen, and 2) it's not coming until Valve finds the right chip. The original Steam Deck worked because it delivered the right combination of price, performance, and battery life, and Valve has repeatedly said it won't sacrifice effici …
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Le généreux contributeur, Umar Kremlev, un proche des cercles du pouvoir à Moscou, dirige la fédération controversée International Boxing Association et est aussi présent dans le secteur lucratif des paris sportifs en ligne.

Crypto enthusiasts who once promised that permissionless payments would shatter the tyranny of traditional finance are now trying build third-party trust.

America's grid runs at about half its capacity. AI needs more power. What's the problem?

AI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. An investigation into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics of AI development.

Being able to monitor voltages and currents is essential for many applications, with the national electrical grid being no exception. The obvious complication here is that the voltages and currents are massively higher than for those other applications, making safely monitoring these somewhat of an engineering challenge. The used systems for current monitoring are detailed by [Jordan Taylor], also known as [The Electric Brit], in an explainer of grid-level current transformers (CTs) and associated elements that help to provide galvanic isolation for safe current measurements.
Even if the basic principles remain the same, when you’re dealing with currents of 5 kA and more, the associated clearances and...

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a proposal for embedding third-party auditors, regulating domestic labs, and reaching a global slowdown agreement. Their critics, however, argued they simply wanted to stop would-be competitors, kneecap the open-source movement, and avoid real legal safeguards - some dubbed it an outright "cartel." The truth …
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America is rebuilding its power grid for AI before anyone can agree on how much power AI will need. We looked into it.

New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. | Image: The Verge With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it.
Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, along with the clip. It also adds a new video search feature and the ability to stitch footage from multiple cameras into one clip, making it easier to keep an eye on what's happening around your home without scrolling through footage. But to get these features, you'll need to pay $9.99 a...

Synergy between global warming and a type of El Niño not seen since the late 1990s could create unprecedented weather that scientists don’t have enough climate data to model.

Un virement de 1,3 milliard de dollars, effectué dans l’urgence par une filiale londonienne après l’inculpation de Huawei aux Etats-Unis début 2019, révèle l’inféodation de l’ICBC, leader bancaire chinois, à la ligne politique de Pékin, selon une enquête du Consortium international des journalistes d’investigation (ICIJ).

The FX series has also announced a pop-up immersive experience for fans in Los Angeles.

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of them here.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Amodei's Saturday morning essay outlined three steps for pacing AI development: embedded third-party evaluators that can verify if a company is adhering to safety practices and commitments and report incidents, coordination between frontier AI companies in democratic countries on standards and li …
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The director of “The History of Concrete” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments and the rules that govern the Hallmark Channel.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival of domestic manufacturing drive up power demand. The EPA's proposal today is a major escalation of President Donald Trump's efforts to promote fossil fuels while making it easier to build out energy-hungry data centers. Environmental and consumer advocates, meanwhile, are fighting back - arguing that Trump's deregulation spree comes with higher costs for the environment, public health, …
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There are many uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the Raspberry Pi that take the form of HATs with a battery on board, but they’re not suitable for every situation. Web3-Pi are using the Pi 5 as an Ethereum node, and found the need for a UPS that didn’t sit on top of the Pi. Their solution is the Web3 Pi UPS, a device that sits in the USB power chain.
It’s a box that takes three power inputs, USB-C PD, a barrel jack, or a hot-swappable Sony camera battery, and puts out the constant 5 V at 5 A the Pi requires. The USB output isn’t just for power, it can communicate with the Pi to deliver telemetry and ask the OS to shut itself down if power reserves are failing. Inside are a CH32 RISC-V...

The latest iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri.

The sinuous 2012 residence is clad in standing-seam zinc and walls of glass that let you look right through it.Location: Fiac, France Price: €820,000 (approximately $943,754 USD) Architect: Jean-Marie Pettès Year: 2011 Footprint: 1,991 square feet (4 beds, 2 baths) Lot Size: 0.5 acres From the Listing: "Built in 2012 by Jean-Marie Pettès, this house with its sinuous lines offers a peaceful living environment in complete tranquility. Adapted to the local climate and surrounding nature, it has been certified as a low-energy building. Set in the heart of a  wooded plot in the Tarn, this single-story house is organized around three distinct modules, brought together at their center by the living spaces....

With VHDL being arguably more deterministic and bullet-proof than Verilog, it’s good to see another open source VHDL simulator joining the fray that is not a variation of ghdl. Written by [Óscar Grimal] in C++ with an MIT license, the Pulse project is a still in progress package that provides the entire toolchain, from the compiler to the requisite waveform output.
This waveform output is provided in the form of a text-based user interface (TUI), which at the very least helps a lot with making it cross-platform compatible. As dependencies only a C++20 capable compiler and CMake are indicated.
Of course, with VHDL being a rather hefty language especially once you start piling up the associated standard...

Le RN s’oppose aux pistes d’économie du gouvernement pour marquer son soutien aux retraités, qui lui ont jusqu’ici barré l’accès à l’Elysée. Cette défense de leur pouvoir d’achat va de pair avec un affichage de sérieux.

Bach Architecture reworked a 1910 Edwardian home so a Finnish-American couple could engage in all of their favorite activities, including cooking, using the sauna, and sky scanning.

If you’re in motorsport, or maritime, or mining fields, you can always call on a technician to come down and fix something when it’s broken. You can lay hands on the parts, reconfigure things, make repairs, and get something working again. In space, that’s seldom possible. If you’re lucky enough to have a manned mission, you might be able to make some running repairs; if you’re working with an unmanned robot, probe, or satellite, your potions are altogether more limited. If you can’t find a fix, it’s game over—a particularly brutal result when huge budgets and years of work are on the line.
Janelle Wellons came down to Hackaday Europe to talk about space. More particularly, the engineering and...

« Le système Poutine » (1/3). Les pléthoriques « siloviki », ces officiers issus des services de sécurité, ont pris le pouvoir et sont omniprésents dans les élites. Dans la société, ils ont diffusé un climat de peur et de suspicion qui interdit toute remise en question du Kremlin et de la guerre en Ukraine.

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

La visite du président vietnamien Tô Lâm en France s’est traduite par de nombreux accords et déclarations d’intention mais peu de contrats. Alors que le Vietnam est devenu un nouveau dragon asiatique avec une croissance exceptionnelle de 8% par an et un commerce extérieur flamboyant, la France compte davantage par son rôle en Europe, sa diplomatie indépendante et son potentiel militaire que par sa présence économique au Vietnam, qui reste modeste.

Dans l'Union européenne, 16 villes comptent au moins un million d'habitants. Saurez-vous toutes les retrouver ? A vous de jouer. Attention ! On parle ici de la population municipale, et non pas de la population de l'agglomération, de la métropole ou encore de l'aire urbaine. Par exemple, Marseille compte une population municipale de 886 040 habitants, selon l'Insee tandis que son agglomération compte 1 939 077 habitants. La cité phocéenne n'apparaît donc pas dans ce quiz, étant donné que sa population municipale est inférieure à un million. Comment jouer ? Cliquez sur "Play quiz" pour lancer la partie. Vous disposez alors de 10 minutes pour trouver un maximum de bonnes réponses. Entrez le nom...

Trois sièges. C'est, à ce stade, ce qui sépare les deux camps qui se disputent le pouvoir en Suède. Selon les résultats préliminaires basés sur 95 % des bureaux de vote, le bloc d'opposition, emmené par le Parti social-démocrate suédois (S) de l'ancienne Première ministre Magdalena Andersson, obtiendrait 176 des 349 élus du Riksdag, le Parlement suédois. Avec ce score, ces formations ne possèderaient qu'une très faible marge de manœuvre, avec un siège de plus que la majorité requise. Elles devanceraient donc d'une courte tête le camp gouvernemental sortant d'Ulf Kristersson (Les Modérés, M), recueillant 173 sièges au sein du Parlement suédois. Lors du dernier scrutin en 2022, le rapport...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

“Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2,702 TWh of electricity in 2025, beating the previous year's record of 2,667 TWh, according to the World Nuclear Outlook Report… Looking ahead at the prospects for new nuclear capacity, the report projects that it could reach 1,457 GWe by 2050 if all national targets and goals are achieved and the existing fleet continues to operate. With current operating capacity being 423 GWe, that projected figure would be 200 GWe more than a tripling of the current levels.” From World Nuclear News.
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“Some people without plane tickets will be allowed to pass through security at US airports and go to gates to see off family or friends, rolling back a rule that was introduced after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Certain people who are part of the TSA PreCheck program but who do not have tickets to fly will be able to go through security to airport gates, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said… The program, called Gateside by TSA PreCheck, is free, but interested members must apply online one to three days before their planned visits and receive approval before going to the airport. If approved, they can enter security using a TSA PreCheck lane with an acceptable form of identification. The...

“The human genome is made of about 3 billion base pairs of DNA — but much of it remains a mystery. Scientists understand the 2% of the human genome that codes for proteins relatively well, but have only limited knowledge of the remaining 98%. Our AlphaGenome model has already shown how single changes in these non-coding DNA regions can disrupt molecular processes like protein production, but the bigger picture remained unclear. Today, we're introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database that predicts the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome. We used the AlphaGenome AI model to pre-calculate the regulatory impact of all 9 billion single-letter genetic changes, resulting in a...

“The global population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros has reached a record 4,075, with Assam accounting for nearly 80% of the species’ population and Kaziranga National Park alone sheltering more than 2,600 rhinos, state forest minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said. According to him, the global population of one-horned rhinoceroses was fewer than 100 in the early 1900s but has now crossed the 4,000 mark for the first time, and Assam’s contribution to this is particularly significant.” From Hindustan Times.
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“Coal generation has stopped growing in 17 of 26 provinces and regions in China, and fossil fuel use has passed its peak in eight of 11 industrial sectors, according to a new analysis by global energy think tank Ember. Thermal generation, most of it coal, fell 0.7% in 2025 while electricity demand rose 5%. It has fallen before, but the last time was 2015, when demand was almost flat at 0.5% growth. A fall under strong demand growth is different: it shows that clean electricity is growing quickly enough to both meet rapid demand growth and replace coal.” From Ember.
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Quinze prévenus, la plupart issus d’un petit réseau d’extrême droite constitué pendant la crise sanitaire due au Covid-19, comparaissent à partir de mardi devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris. Outre leur leader, seront jugés un sous-officier à la retraite, un éducateur, un professeur… et la mère de la petite fille.

À Strasbourg, la présidente de la Commission européenne présente ce mercredi ses priorités pour les prochains mois devant le Parlement européen. Un discours suivi d'un débat avec les eurodéputés. Toute l'Europe vous propose de suivre l'événement en direct sur cette page, avec la retransmission vidéo et un live écrit alimenté par nos journalistes pour retenir l'essentiel des annonces, des réactions et des enjeux. Un rendez-vous politique majeur Prononcé chaque année en septembre, sauf les années d'élections européennes, le discours sur l'état de l'Union - ou SOTEU - permet à la présidente de la Commission de dresser le bilan de son action et de présenter ses priorités. Ursula von der...

- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon - Vous savez ce que c'est une caméra thermique ? Oui, probablement, mais au cas où, c'est un appareil qui affiche les écarts de température sous forme de couleurs, pour chercher un défaut d'isolation autour d'une fenêtre par exemple ou repérer un composant qui chauffe trop. Avec la Thermal Master P3, cette image apparaît sur votre téléphone, grâce à un petit module branché à sa prise USB-C. Il faut d'abord installer l'application du fabricant, puis connecter la caméra à un smartphone Android ou à un iPhone compatible. L'adaptateur Lightning est dans la boîte pour les anciens iPhone, et l'alimentation passe par le téléphone : la P3 n'a aucune batterie à...

As part of my back-away-from-burnout plan, I've been trying to re-awaken my enthusiasm for tech by finding things to tinker with.
Someone recently posted in the fediverse about a small e-ink name badge that they'd had delivered. Unfortunately, the kit that they bought only seems to be available in the US, but I instead stumbled upon Badgeware's Badger.
Badger is a name badge made of a 2.7" e-ink display and powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350.
I've played around with programmable wearables before, so I thought that this might be a good way to encourage some unstructured tinkering.
This post talks about getting started with the Badger 2350. Connecting To A PC
Badger has MicroPython installed on it and, to be...

Scientists say the record-breaking journey by three brothers offers hope wildlife can survive growing pressures.

La messe d'inauguration du pontificat du nouveau pape Léon XIV s'est tenue le 18 mai 2025 - Crédits : Sénat italien / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 Le Vatican, État le plus petit et le moins peuplé au monde, est souvent perçu comme une entité à part, tant sur le plan géographique que politique. Située en plein cœur de Rome, cette enclave de 44 hectares est entourée par l'Italie, membre fondateur de l'Union européenne. L'État de la Cité du Vatican est avant tout le territoire du Saint-Siège, institution suprême de l'Église catholique. Si le Vatican n'est pas membre de l'Union européenne, il entretient avec celle-ci, ainsi qu'avec les pays qui en sont membres, des relations diplomatiques,...

Le recul des glaciers de l’Arctique trace un nouveau passage pour la flotte de commerce entre l’Asie et l’Europe. Un raccourci établi dans un contexte géopolitique sous tension, révélant les nouvelles ambitions sino-russes dans le commerce maritime et fragilisant l'écosystème qu'il traverse.

- Article rédigé par l'ami Remouk (DansTonChat) - Merci à lui - Un univers dystopique contrôlé par un gouvernement totalitaire. Des robots, drones et caméras de surveillance qui épient les faits et gestes de la population. Heureusement il ne s'agit pas du futur de notre société (quoi que ?) mais de celui du jeu ANTRO que je voulais vous présenter.
Parce qu'au-delà de l'univers plutôt cool à la Blade Runner, c'est un petit jeu au gameplay plutôt original et super fun. Basiquement, c'est un jeu de plate-forme type "runner", dans lequel il faut courir et éviter les obstacles. L'originalité vient du fait que 1) l'univers et les décors sont bien travaillés avec pas mal de choses qui se passent en...

The prefab structure in Paredes, Portugal, is stitched together at the edges to form a long, offset plan.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Paredes, Portugal Architect: Diogo Aguiar Studio / @diogoguiarstudio Footprint: 2,152 square feet Builder: Grupo Grandys Builder: Somaia Structural and Civil Engineer: PENREA Photographer: Fernando Guerra Photographer: Valentina Vagena From the Architect: "House Over the Hills began with a simple request: to live differently. Close enough to the city to remain connected, yet far enough from its noise, density and...

Protect your home against dust, pets, allergens, and more with the best air purifiers, tested firsthand.

It follows the Anthropic CEO's calls for a slowdown in AI development - but in a way that prevents China from pulling ahead in the race.

Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models.
Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity. This includes a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, which accused Meta of training its Llama models on pirated books, and of sharing those books with other BitTorrent users in the process.
Last summer, Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that the AI training itself was fair use, leaving the BitTorrent distribution claims as the last live part of the case. Earlier this year, Meta added a new line of defense to those claims. In a supplemental interrogatory response, the...