The word of God or the word of AI?

The move comes days after the removal of popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.

Sharing a bed with a dog or cat alters human sleep architecture, immune system function, hormone production, and overall physiological health in measurable ways

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday.
The tool is powered by an AI detection company called Pangram and is rolling out across the web and the iOS app, with an Android launch coming "soon." Readers can analyze content longer than 100 words by choosing the "Scan for AI text" option from the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of a post. Substack co-founder and CEO C …
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The solar cycle can be irregular, but some patterns might be trackable—enough to provide a heads-up before extreme weather events.

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

The closure of the scrappy New York landmark is just one of the signs that U.S. horse racing is running out of track.

Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.

These are 15 things cats hate that owners do every day, often without realizing how much stress it causes their cat

The training ground for tomorrow's executives is quietly disappearing. Companies may soon lack anyone who actually knows how the work gets done

It might be the dumbest culture war fight of the year.

The sci-fi film starring Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connell is winding down a $250 million box office run.

“Despite the addition of more than one billion motor-vehicles to the world’s roads, the global rate of road traffic deaths declined by 21% between 2011 and 2025, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO). The world has experienced profound changes in road traffic during this time with the emergence of new modes of transport and a sharp rise in motorcycle use. Despite this progress, however, road traffic crashes still claimed 1.16 million people's lives in 2025. Road traffic injuries remain the leading cause of death among children and youth aged 5–29 years.” From World Health Organization.
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The Xteink X4 Pro adds more premium features over earlier models—though it's still not for everyone.

“On the road that leads to Alta Floresta, a small Amazon town in the far north of Mato Grosso state, cases like the buffy-headed marmoset’s roadkill have not been recorded since 2024. That year, eight canopy bridges were installed, connecting fragmented forest patches. Camera trap footage revealed that, over 15 months, the aerial wildlife crossings enabled 15,000 safe crossings by arboreal animals — and not a single roadkill. The bridges are part of a program involving Projeto Reconecta and the municipal government, along with local organizations and business owners who are eager to conserve the unique biodiversity of their town and promote ecotourism, but were alarmed by the growing number of...

ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said most of the cuts stem from the network's acquisition of NFL Network, which closed in April

In an ideal world, the role of technology would be to make all of our lives easier. And although all the ads suddenly appearing in our smart TVs and gaming systems might make it seem otherwise, some technology can still improve our lives if we work hard at it. For [Cian], that meant training a neural network to read his gas meter so he wouldn’t have to do it himself.
The root issue here is twofold, first that [Cian]’s gas company hasn’t upgraded their own technology to modern, remote-readable meters, and second that the meter can’t be read by a gas employee because it’s hidden in the depths of [Cian]’s basement. This latter fact requires him to delve into Moria-like depths to get to the meter, so...

The Treasury secretary said the U.S. is finding watermarks of American large language models on Chinese AI systems

I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras.
The problem is, strapping a finder tag to a camera is always cumbersome. I currently have them hanging off my camera straps like a phone charm circa 2001. They're ugly, and very much get in the way when I'm trying to focus on shooting. But Peak Design thinks it has a solution in its new Field Bracket system, which it launched today on Kickstarter, starting at $150 for early birds. The Peak Design Field Bracket is p …
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A US-brokered agreement should see Israeli troops pulling out of a small part of Lebanon occupied during their conflict with Hezbollah.

The duties mark a major escalation in trade tensions between the North American neighbours.

The Kindle Paperwhite, our favorite Kindle, is down to $124.99. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite back down to its all-time low of $124.99 ($35 off). It’s the Kindle we recommend for most people because it has a bunch of features. It’s waterproof and features a sharp 300ppi, 7-inch display, it offers an adjustable warm light for reading at night, and it has great battery life that can last for more than a month on a single charge.
Kindle Paperwhite (12th-gen) Where to Buy: $159.99 $124.99 at Best Buy (with...

As component and RAM shortages drive prices higher, Apple is reportedly launching an "Apple Upgrade" program for leasing new devices. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, it will work similar to a car lease, with options to upgrade to a new device early, or keep or return the device at the end of the lease. Gurman says Klarna will be Apple's financial backer for the new program, which will require a soft credit check to sign up.
Apple Upgrade is reportedly slated to launch on July 28th, replacing the current iPhone Upgrade Program and standard financing for new iPhones with a program available for most new iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watc …
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Have you ever found out that something you remember from your youth is now gone, and you didn’t even notice? If you are a certain age, you might feel that way when I deliver the news: You haven’t been able to buy International Reply Coupons (IRCs) at a US Post Office since early 2013. By the end of 2026, you won’t be able to buy them anywhere. The age of the IRC is over.
What’s an IRC?
An IRC from 1978 (public domain).
If that didn’t mean anything to you, you might be too young to remember, or maybe you just weren’t into shortwave listening or ham radio. Although there were other reasons to get IRCs, a radio hobby is the most likely reason a Hackday reader would have bought an IRC.
For radio...

Parents will also get a weekly email summarizing their teen’s Twitch activity. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parental controls are now available that allow guardians to link Twitch accounts with their 13- to 17-year-old children, providing account management features and a weekly email summarizing their teen's activity, including channels and hours watched.
The controls can be used to prevent teens from livestreaming their own content and disabling Whispers, Twitch's private messaging feature. This includes blocking minors from sending or...

Iran says it has hit two ships in the Strait of Hormuz as well as targets in Bahrain and Jordan.

A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.

Pour la cinquième journée consécutive, des manifestations ont eu lieu lundi 20 juillet dans plusieurs villes d’Ukraine. Les protestataires réclament le retour du jeune ministre de la Défense Mykhaïlo Fedorov, limogé par Volodymyr Zelensky une semaine plus tôt.

Une femme allemande accuse un collaborateur de Jeffrey Epstein de l’avoir violée à Paris en 1986, rapporte l’hebdomadaire allemand “Der Spiegel”. Mais lorsque la victime a porté plainte, en 2026, les faits étaient prescrits. Son cas est loin d’être isolé : en France, victimes et associations plaident pour l’abolition du délai de prescription pour les viols et agressions sexuelles.

Lundi 20 juillet, le politique d’extrême droite Roberto Vannacci, de plus en plus populaire dans les sondages, a partagé sur ses réseaux une vidéo générée par IA, qui le montre en général romain ordonnant l’exécution de ses adversaires politiques. Des images censées être “satiriques”, mais qui ont provoqué une violente polémique.

Un site sans cookie de mesure d'audience et sans bandeau de consentement, c'est reposant je trouve... Sauf qu'à cause de ça, bah je ne savais plus trop combien de gens venaient me lire tous les jours. Relou hein ?
C'était ma situation depuis un moment déjà, vu que tout ce qui servait à mesurer l'audience a dégagé de korben.info il y a un bon bout de temps. Alors faute de mieux, je me suis rabattu sur AWStats, qui lit bêtement les logs Apache du serveur mais bon, c'est pas terrible, parce qu'avec le cache de Cloudflare, il y a une grosse partie de mon trafic qui n'est pas pris en compte.
En effet, quand Cloudflare possède une copie valide de la page dans son cache, il peut la renvoyer directement sans...

What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate.
Some examples in the post of the “other ways” include:
find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm
find . -name '*.sh' -exec wc -l {} \;
You can, also, use a for loop, and if you are a programmer at heart, you may well do this:
for f in *.txt; do wc -l "$f"
done
Bashumerate handles all of the common cases in one tool and uses the same syntax for multiple kids of enumerations. For example, the above translates to:
enumerate -f '*.sh' -- 'wc -l {}'
The -f means enumerate files. You can also enumerate lines, numbers in a range, or lists. What’s even more...

“India's first privately built orbital rocket took its maiden flight Saturday, its company said, marking a significant step for the South Asian giant as it eyes a bigger slice of the global space economy. The Vikram-1 rocket, built by Skyroot Aerospace and designed to carry small satellites into low Earth orbit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota amid loud cheers.” From Phys.org.
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Adopté à l’Assemblée nationale dans la nuit du lundi 20 au mardi 21 juillet malgré de vives oppositions, le projet de loi d’urgence agricole prévoit notamment la réintroduction de deux néonicotinoïdes. Les politiques n’ont pas hésité “à abandonner l’intérêt public et même celui des agriculteurs” pour des raisons électorales, constate Paul Ackermann dans sa chronique pour le quotidien genevois “Le Temps”.

“DP World is planning to build a new port and a container terminal on the United Arab Emirates’ east coast that would reduce Dubai’s dependence on its flagship Jebel Ali hub and bypass the Strait of Hormuz… But DP World’s plans align with a broader UAE government initiative to attempt to bulletproof its economy against future hostilities with Iran by reducing its dependence on the strait, where shipping has been disrupted by Iranian drones and missile strikes since the US-Israeli attack. The new project would deepen DP World’s presence on the Gulf of Oman, allowing containers to enter and leave the country without having to pass through the strait, before moving them on trucks overland to Dubai,...

“Fervo Energy drilled its Sawtooth 7 well from spud to total depth in 21 days, setting a new company record for drilling pace on its most complex well design to date. The well reached a measured depth of 19,448 ft with a 7,500 ft lateral in a resource with temperatures of 460°F. Sawtooth 7 is the ninth well drilled using Fervo’s 3.0 well design at Cape Station for Phase II, a 400 MW enhanced geothermal systems development in Utah set to deliver power in 2028. The well matches the 70% reduction in drilling time Fervo previously achieved on its 2.0 design during Cape Station Phase I, despite being substantially deeper, hotter and longer.” From Drilling Contractor.
The post Fervo Energy Sets Drilling...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.

A flip phone with 5G, USB-C, a headphone jack, and a removable battery? Say it ain’t so.

Le 19 juillet, la marine chinoise a effectué un exercice de tirs à proximité de l’île Okinotori. Un épisode qui risque d’aggraver la crise diplomatique entre Tokyo et Pékin. Côté japonais, certains commencent à s’inquiéter de ces tensions persistantes, alors que la Chine reste un partenaire économique essentiel.

My initial experience with a 3D printer came in 2020, when I got access to a buddy’s Creality LD-002R SLA printer. This was one of those awkward transition phases for SLA printers, where inefficient RGB LCDs finally got replaced by monochrome LCD panels, thus massively reducing the required exposure time and increasing the LCD panel’s lifespan.
The closely related Creality LD-002H is a monochrome SLA printer, but as this wasn’t the one that this friend opted for we had to learn the ropes on this more old-school printer. In terms of specifications this meant a build volume of 119 mm x 65 mm x 160 mm to play with and a claimed 26.1 µm resolution. Despite some struggles along the way, this machine churned...

Thousands of people took to the streets demanding justice for a Moroccan-born man who died on Sunday.

Le gros câble que vous branchez sur votre voiture électrique, celui qu'il faut soulever à deux mains et qui pèse le poids d'un âne mort, dispose de 2 choses : Du courant, et un réseau. Lionel Richard Saposnik, chercheur chez SaiFlow, a eu la curiosité d'aller voir ce qui traîne sur ce réseau-là et vous allez voir, c'est pas triste...
Quand vous clipsez le pistolet dans la trappe, votre bagnole et la borne montent une liaison IPv6 entre elles, par courant porteur, sur deux broches du connecteur CCS2. Elles se causent en respectant la norme ISO 15118 pour négocier vos ampères, votre tension, le prix de votre kWh. Le simulateur de véhicule se branche sur la prise et atteint la carte de la borne....

Des ingénieurs de l'université Northwestern, près de Chicago, ont construit un petit drone qui disparaît presque à l'œil nu. Pas grâce à un camouflage, mais parce qu'il tourne sur lui-même à toute vitesse.
Le principe s'appelle le flou de mouvement. C'est ce qui fait qu'on ne voit plus les pales d'un ventilateur quand il tourne vite. L'œil n'arrive plus à suivre, alors il mélange l'objet avec ce qu'il y a derrière.
Le drone s'appelle Phantom Twist. Il tourne sur lui-même entre 15 et 25 fois par seconde. À pleine vitesse, on ne voit plus qu'une légère brume, une sorte d'ombre floue posée dans l'air.
Son corps est déjà presque transparent. Les quelques pièces opaques qui restent, le moteur...

Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to folks at Java developer conferences as an example of how it was going to revolutionize smart wearable devices. Recently [Daisuke Yamazaki] got his mittens on one of these collector’s items to see about reviving it.
We talked about these rings and associated iButton devices before, with their intended use being primarily to act as authentication keys. For the Java Ring, this use was mostly just used as a kind of gag, whereby visitors to these conferences could specify their coffee preferences at a terminal, having this programmed into the ring so that...

Anubis menace Coca-Cola après une cyberattaque revendiquée contre Fairlife et fixe un ultimatum au 27 juillet.

Coinbase Cartel menace Caterpillar, expose une stratégie d’extorsion cyber publique et alerte sur des pirates qui usurpent le groupe pirate !

September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Un escroc usurpe Damien Bancal et ZATAZ pour cibler les services communication par ingénierie sociale.

Get down to Inbox Zero. Or at least Inbox 7,329, which would still be a big improvement.

The G.O.P. is picking a nominee to challenge the state’s Democratic incumbent governor, Katie Hobbs, and a Republican congressional race is upended by allegations of sexual impropriety.

One sweat-soaked American’s adventures in A.C. deprivation.

32 redémarrages d'affilée, 31 pubs pour McAfee, c'est le résultat du test mené par la chaîne Youtube Gamers Nexus sur un écran LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B branché à un PC tournant sous Windows. Puis au 32e démarrage, l'écran a eu la délicatesse de faire la promo d'un autre utilitaire LG, histoire de varier les plaisirs.
Sauf que personne n'a installé quoi que ce soit. L'app s'appelle "LG Monitor App Installer", elle débarque toute seule quand vous branchez le moniteur, et sa fiche technique sur le Microsoft Store réclame deux permissions qui piquent un peu : "toutes les ressources système" et "l'accès à votre connexion Internet". Pour un truc censé régler la luminosité de votre écran, on...

Dans un futur post-apocalyptique, deux femmes se rebellent contre leur cité-État patriarcale oppressive et polluée. Avec Gorgona, la cinéaste grecque Evi Kalogiropoulou signe un manifeste féministe déroutant, à la fois bancal et séduisant. En salles ce mercredi 22 juillet.

Un pirate affirme vendre des données présumés volés au Rassemblement national qui révélerait des données internes, sans preuve publique permettant d’authentifier la fuite à ce stade.

Une attaque autonome contre Hugging Face révèle les risques cyber des pipelines de données et des agents IA.

Notre reporter s’est rendue pour « Le Monde Afrique » avec le photographe Philémon Barbier à Mongbwalu, dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo, où l’épidémie d’Ebola due à la souche Bundibugyo s’est déclarée et progresse rapidement. Posez-leur vos questions à partir de 11 heures.

Alors que les frappes américaines se poursuivent en Iran, le pouvoir iranien évite, pour l’instant, une confrontation totale. Son calcul repose sur la menace de provoquer une perturbation énergétique mondiale pour contraindre Washington à revoir sa stratégie.

Si vous avez installé la beta de macOS 27 Golden Gate, apparemment, vous avez déjà sur votre Mac une interface Siri complète qu'Apple a pris soin de désactiver avant de vous la livrer. Un membre du subreddit r/MacOSBeta l'a débusquée, et elle peut être rallumée rapidement grâce à une seule commande dans le Terminal.
Le principe de cette interface c'est que vous sélectionnez du texte, n'importe où, et une petite icône flottante apparaît en haut à gauche de votre sélection. Vous mettez le pointeur de votre souris dessus, et hop, elle se déplie pour vous proposer des trucs en rapport avec Siri. Dedans, vous avez donc les outils d'écriture maison (Rewrite, Proofread, "How does this sound?" et...

La DJ était visée par un appel au boycott des élus « insoumis » pour avoir signé une tribune de soutien à la proposition de loi « visant à lutter contre les formes renouvelées d’antisémitisme ». Elle a dû interrompre son concert, samedi 18 juillet, à Grenoble, alors qu’une centaine de militants propalestiniens étaient venus manifester contre sa présence.