La blessure éternelle d’une infidélité ne doit pas nous conduire à nous enfermer dans une forteresse de rancœur, raconte l’auteur espagnol Eduardo Infante pour le site “Retina”. Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” vous propose un billet qui soulève des interrogations sur notre condition moderne en s’appuyant sur des œuvres littéraires, scientifiques et, bien sûr, philosophiques.

Après la révélation de son projet d’ouverture de la Fifa aux investisseurs privés, Gianni Infantino a dû faire marche arrière, lâché de toutes parts. Sa démission serait-elle un moyen de redorer l’image d’une instance passablement ternie ? Ce chroniqueur de “Bloomberg” n’y croit pas car, à ses yeux, les problèmes d’abus de pouvoir et de clientélisme sont d’ordre structurel.

Dans sa série “Wie gemalt”, l’hebdomadaire allemand “Die Zeit” présente des recettes inspirées d’œuvres d’artistes et époques variés, d’une nature morte de Goya à un tableau impressionniste de Monet. Élaborés par des chefs étoilés, ces plats combinent vertus esthétiques et gastronomiques.

Depuis presque soixante ans, le tueur en série Zodiac hante l’imaginaire californien. Malgré des milliers de suspects et des décennies d’enquête, son identité n’a jamais été établie. Aujourd’hui, un enquêteur indépendant affirme avoir résolu l’énigme grâce à l’intelligence artificielle, qui l’aurait aidé à décrypter un message codé resté jusque-là insoluble. Dans cette enquête du “Sunday Times”, son hypothèse relance une autre affaire mythique, celle du Dahlia noir.

La Polonaise a renversé ‌vendredi la course en s’imposant au sommet du “Géant de Provence” lors de l’étape reine, s’emparant du même coup du maillot jaune. Cette victoire rebat les cartes du classement général, note la presse européenne, qui prédit un suspense exceptionnel dans les deux dernières étapes du Tour.

If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries the heat-removing fluid. What if you just…didn’t? That’s what [TrashBench] asked with his direct water cooling experiment. Instead of integrated pump or copper water block, he just epoxied a 3D printed pipe fitting onto his bare GPU and CPU.
The results are interesting: while the directly-cooled GPU outperforms the professional system by a decent margin, the same technique fails when applied to the CPU. It also leaks and nearly ruins his hardware, but those are the risks you take when doing mad science, and it’s nothing more epoxy...

Des dégâts ont été constatés en trois endroits de la localité de Brovary, au nord-est de la capitale ukrainienne, suite à cette attaque qui a également fait trois blessés, selon le chef de l’administration militaire de la région, Tymour Tkatchenko.

The President believes he’s above the law. A former federal prosecutor disagrees.

Wolfsbane and larkspur make powerful chemicals linked to pain relief, malaria, cancer and pest control, but some are also dangerous neurotoxins. Researchers identified six enzymes that let the plants build an important compound called atisinium, then recreated that pathway in tobacco plants. The work gives scientists a starting point for producing and testing these complex plant chemicals without relying on slow plant extraction or difficult chemical synthesis. Wolfsbane and larkspur can make chemicals potent enough to cause neurotoxicity and paralysis, yet members of the same chemical family also have promising medicinal uses. Now scientists have reconstructed a key part of the plants’ chemical machinery....

Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mount a few directories into place, hide some others, add a chroot, and generally construct a carefully restricted version of the filesystem. But a new Linux kernel feature is about to change all of that. Instead of carefully hiding most of the filesystem, why not just take the filesystem away?
That’s essentially the idea behind FailFS, a tiny pseudo-filesystem expected to land in Linux 7.3. As the name suggests, it doesn’t do very much. In fact, that’s the point: every operation that reaches FailFS returns EOPNOTSUPP, meaning “operation not...

L’avocat millionnaire de 48 ans, allié de Donald Trump, a dit vouloir combattre « sans répit le narcoterrorisme et toutes les organisations criminelles qui menacent la liberté de la Colombie », lors de son premier discours comme chef d’Etat, vendredi.

A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse.

Italy introduced border controls following an influx of about 78,000 migrants from Morocco into the neighbouring Spanish exclave of Ceuta.

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off.
Restart is operated by Moonrock, a content marketing agency, though its editorial mission page says it's "powered" by Walmart. That page outlines how Walmart is (or was) involved: When we mention a game, we'll provide purchase links that will take you to Walmart using a partner tracking code. This link provides us with 0% of the sale if you decide to buy the product, but it doe …
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Eight people were killed when a 14-year-old opened fire at his home and school before shooting himself dead.

More eyes on you.

The measures, which take effect December 4, also set minimum import prices ranging from $21 per kilogram for raw polysilicon to $0.38 per watt for solar modules

NIST separately proposed new federal guidelines Friday for evaluating AI systems, asking for public comment

No running experience required — the specific weekly progression, pacing strategy, and mindset shifts that take someone from zero to a finished 5K

The epic recently crossed $1 billion and has 'The Dark Knight' and 'The Dark Knight Rises' in its sights.

Chasing soreness, skipping progressive overload, avoiding compound lifts — the habits that feel productive and are actually holding back the results beginners are working hard for

Fossilized feces may have helped fuel the Cambrian Explosion by moving nutrients and organic matter through ancient oceans as animal life became larger and more diverse. More complex digestive systems produced larger and more varied waste, creating new food sources and helping carry carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and iron into deeper water. The idea adds feces to rising oxygen and changing food webs as a possible force in early animal diversification, although some effects on ancient ocean productivity remain uncertain. Fossilized feces may have helped transform Earth’s early oceans, feeding a cycle of nutrients, larger animals and more complex ecosystems during one of evolution’s most dramatic bursts of...

That cover art is almost certainly AI too. | Image: Fenix Flexin It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it as Treblo AI-created. In a reply to a comment pointing out that Tyga admitted to relying on AI for his own controversial '80s-influenced album $tarface, on one of his Instagram posts, Fenix said: never said I didn't use AI , i said it had nun to do w recording process . I didn't even know what da app was till we mixed …
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Having a fully automated cotton candy vending machine in your possession is a great thing, but not if you do not have full access to its software. With [Block’s Retro Repairs] getting ghosted by the manufacturer on regaining account access to the machine he bought used for $300, there was little left but to try and break into the system.
We previously covered the journey in getting the vending machine back into a state where it’d actually reliably produce cotton candy again, a process which is quite tedious and temperamental. After a lot of fiddling with sensors and temperature settings this was fixed, but still left the issue that as a vending machine it should allow the owner to set prices and such....

From the F-150's decades-long sales dominance to a Maverick compact making surprising inroads, the bestselling trucks in America through mid-2026

Ces contrôles, mis en place « face à la persistance de la pression migratoire irrégulière » à laquelle l’Italie est confrontée, débuteront samedi à 00 h 00, et dureront jusqu’au 7 septembre, selon le gouvernement espagnol.

Seems like they got the message.

California is likely looking at a winter of storm surge and coastal flooding.

Summary: Concerns that AI data centers are exhausting America’s land and water are largely overstated. Data centers occupy relatively little land compared with agriculture and other established uses, while their water consumption reflects temporary displacement rather than permanent loss. New cooling technologies and alternative water sources are also reducing local demand, suggesting that engineering—not scarcity—will shape AI’s environmental impact. The American consumer advocate Erin Brockovich went on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night to talk about what she has spent the year mapping: American towns that found out a data center was coming only after the bulldozers arrived. She has collected...

Viz Media's upcoming original series throws readers into a post-climate-collapsed city where a bio-enchanced detective contends with the cosmic horror of biblically accurate angels and the ghost of her ex.

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content.
This week, Roku added four new channels to its library of streamable programming. Along with dedicated feeds for old episodes of Mad TV, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and a variety of Black sitcoms, the platform also debuted a 24/7 stream filled with projects from Colin Petrie-Norris' AI startup, …
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Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue and breached other organizations. Recent internal evaluations of an OpenAI model called Astra indicate that it offers "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," according to the company. "These results, in addition to expert assessments, have led us to conclude last n …
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“Utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States increased significantly during the last three years, with an annual average growth rate of 70%. By the end of 2025, the U.S. power system had operational battery storage capacity of 43.6 gigawatts (GW). During the first six months of 2026, operators added another 8.3 GW of battery storage capacity, reaching nearly 52 GW of nameplate battery storage capacity, based on our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Operators anticipate bringing an additional 54 GW of battery storage capacity online over the next two and half years, according to plans they report to us. Plans for additional capacity coming online in the second half of...

“Mountain lions in Washington state may be cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds. Deer often avoid open spaces, including roads, when predators are nearby. But while it has long been suggested that predators might tamp down on traffic collisions with prey, that has never been demonstrated in areas where big predators are well established, researchers say… Researchers found that where mountain lions were active, deer avoided roads. Overall, deer in those areas were 15 percent less likely to be found near roads, which led to a 67 percent drop in the odds of a traffic accident involving deer. The findings were published in the journal Current Biology.” From...

When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment building meant that parts of the core were scattered throughout the site. In an extensive update to the original 2023 video, the [Chornobyl Family] covers the mad scramble to design robots to perform on-the-ground measurements, and ultimately remove all this debris for safe disposal.
The TR-1A, an early debris removal robot. (Source: Chornobyl Family, YouTube)
This essentially took the form of a hackathon, involving teams from all over the USSR and allied nations, creating the most diverse range of robots that 1980s Soviet...

“A US critical minerals company has recently confirmed the nation’s largest known tungsten resource at its Railroad Valley Minerals Project in Nye County, Nevada, despite a NASA land withdrawal restricting exploration across part of the site. In its updated resource report, 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) said that the project hosts an inferred resource of 1.78 million tons of tungsten. The company revealed that the deposit is part of a mineral system that also contains world-class resources of lithium, potash, and boron. As per 3PL, the deposit is reportedly five times larger than the biggest tungsten resource currently listed in the US and comes at a time when the country relies heavily on imports for the...

“We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery. That is why we recently announced ChatGPT for Academic Researchers⁠, an initiative providing 100,000 scientists and mathematicians with free access to our best ChatGPT models. We also continue to evaluate our models on open research problems during development. In May, we shared an AI-generated disproof⁠ of the Erdős unit-distance conjecture, discovered while evaluating an unreleased model. This work has already inspired further developments in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Today, we are sharing a selection of ten results, each of which resolves or makes substantial progress on a long-standing open...

A new fuel-cell catalyst kept 82.5% of its performance after 150,000 voltage cycles, while preventing tiny platinum-cobalt particles from clumping together. Hollow carbon spheres with narrow, outward-facing channels allowed the catalyst to withstand extreme heat and form a more stable atomic structure. The design could support longer-lasting fuel cells for heavy vehicles, aviation and data centers, although more development and industry testing remain necessary. Data centers are becoming hungry neighbors on the U.S. power grid. By 2030, they could consume up to 9% of the nation’s annual electricity generation, more than double their 2023 share. That rising demand has intensified the search for power sources...

There’s something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones can’t match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality won’t be all that good, but imperfections are part of the allure. We tested instant camera models from popular brands and landed on a handful that we think are the best. Some aim to preserve the classic experience above all else, while others support companion apps and the ability to print stored photos. Fujifilm’s latest Instax cameras are the best out there for most people. The company’s Instax Mini Evo is a bit pricey, but it produces great-looking images and offers a lot of creative control. If you’re...

Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”

The Grammy-winning singer talks about “Hazel Eyes,” which marks a departure for them: these love songs are very much requited.

Pakistan says an attack on any of the three will amount to an attack against all, amid conflict in the Middle East.

The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies.

Scientists using the Inouye Solar Telescope discovered tiny whirlpool-like vortices forming along magnetic boundaries on the Sun’s visible surface. Observations, computer simulations, and theoretical models all identify the same cause: the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, a phenomenon also seen in ocean waves and cloud formations. The newly observed vortices may twist magnetic fields, redistribute magnetic energy, help heat the Sun’s atmosphere, and improve forecasts of space weather. The Sun’s surface is not smooth. It boils with bright cells of rising plasma, yet along the edges of some magnetic regions, that familiar pattern breaks into tiny swirls and dark, fast-moving stripes. Images from the NSF...

Lanterns, Dark Matter, and the original Star Trek are just a few of the TV shows you should be watching right now.

L’annonce de ces trois alliés des Etats-Unis envoie un message à l’Iran mais aussi aux Etats-Unis, perçus comme des partenaires de moins en moins fiables.

The group moved synthetic drugs from Spain to Algeria, then used the return journey to smuggle migrants and weapons.

A Neandertal version of the growth hormone receptor is linked to slightly greater muscle mass, height and weight in adults. Laboratory cells carrying the ancient receptor grew about 39 percent more, largely because one mutation strengthened growth signals inside the cells. The inherited variant also affects jaw and tooth shape, but its effects are small and cannot explain the full Neandertal body type. Neandertals passed down a version of the growth hormone receptor that still shapes some human bodies today. The genetic legacy appears to slightly increase adult muscle mass while also influencing jaw and tooth structure. An international team led by Hugo Zeberg of Karolinska Institutet and Philipp Kanis of the...

This week’s Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have a feast of hacks for your delectation.
As the title above says, one of the stand-out hacks this week was a set of airless mountain bike tyres 3D printed in glorious fluorescent TPU. They look as though they shouldn’t work but in fact they showed real promise, and we discuss the process behind their design. Then we take a look at a hybrid of a UV printer and an SLA 3D printer, capable of making high-resolution and robust 3D prints. The prospect of new Amigas intrigues us for a while, then carbon-fibre fabric in 3D prints.
Finally we’re in awe of the tech...

The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

Le groupe Qilin revendique une attaque contre le Stade français et expose déjà des pièces d’identité, avant une possible publication massive annoncée pour le 15 août. La menace affichée par Qilin place le Stade français face à une opération d’extorsion numérique dont les premières traces sont désormais publiques. Le 5 août 2026, les pirates ont […]

Si l'Italie n'a pas suspendu ses contrôles dimanche 9 août, l'Espagne menace de mettre en place des mesures de rétorsion - Crédits : Conseil européen L'Espagne lance un ultimatum. Quelques jours après l'arrivée de 72 000 migrants dans l'enclave espagnole de Ceuta, ancrée à l'Afrique et au Maroc, les tensions entre Madrid et Rome sont toujours vives, vendredi 7 août. À la suite de cette crise migratoire, l'Italie avait rétabli les contrôles aux frontières avec l'Espagne, une mesure que Madrid considère comme "injuste, contraire aux intérêts de l'Union européenne et discriminatoire à l'égard de la population espagnole". "Nous appelons le gouvernement italien à revoir sa position, à mettre...

The student says she feared never seeing her mother again after the attack killed five teachers.

Les prévisionnistes anticipent une extension de la chaleur vers le nord et l’est du pays. Les épisodes caniculaires se succèdent à un rythme inédit sur l’Hexagone et une partie de l’Europe.

The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.

Présidentielle, faux sites et influence : ZATAZ propose une enquête interactive sur les signaux faibles numériques.

We’re still in the dog days of summer—keep your cool with deals on the best fans we’ve tested for on the go and at home.

Ingérence, faux sites et politiques ciblés : comprendre les méthodes de manipulation avant les présidentielles.

Un pirate informatique revendique plus de 70 To de données sensibles, avec accès payant et règlements en cryptomonnaies.