L’ouest du continent est marqué par des niveaux d’humidité des sols très inférieurs à ceux de juillet 2022, le « dernier été marqué par une grave sécheresse dans toute l’Europe occidentale », selon l’observatoire climatique Copernicus.

Ahmad Abdel Jalil se bat depuis trois décennies pour préserver le dernier lieu de culte hindou dans la ville portuaire d’Aden, où vivait une importante communauté indienne établie au fil de siècles de liens commerciaux avec l’Inde. Mais la guerre dans le pays, les pillages et les procédures judiciaires menacent plus que jamais cet édifice bâti il y a plus de cent cinquante ans, raconte le média américain “New Lines Magazine”.

Frustré de voir se dissiper l’état de bien-être dû à ses congés quelques jours seulement après le retour au bureau, ce journaliste de “New Scientist” a décidé de mettre en pratique les conseils de la science pour se sentir durablement reposé et optimiste.

Le Premier ministre israélien s’est fermement opposé dimanche à la dernière feuille de route américaine acceptée par le Hamas, affirmant que Tsahal ne se retirerait pas de Gaza tant que le groupe islamiste ne serait pas totalement désarmé. Pour la presse internationale, Nétanyahou joue un jeu “très dangereux” au risque de fragiliser un peu plus ses relations avec Washington.

LES ULTRARICHES, UN MONDE À PART (5/6) – Un reporter de la “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” a visité le chantier en cours sous le col du Brünig, au centre de la Suisse. Là, un homme d’affaires local construit un vaste réseau de galeries souterraines, avec un quartier de haute sécurité destiné à accueillir métaux précieux, œuvres d’art et objets de collection.

ILS SONT FOUS CES ANGLAIS (1/5). Les questionnaires de culture générale, souvent thématiques, animent les soirées de milliers de pubs à travers le Royaume-Uni. Le but : apprendre et étaler sa science dans une ambiance bon enfant. Alors, quand des tricheurs ont trahi l’esprit du jeu, à Manchester, la presse nationale s’est emparée de l’affaire.

Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting.

If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by watching “Lunar Bridgehead,” a film about JPL monitoring the Ranger spacecraft as it hit, rather hard, on the lunar surface.
The Ranger program had been plagued with problems. The first five didn’t make it to the moon. Ranger 6 hit the moon, but failed to start its cameras. Ranger 7 was the first successful mission. There would be two more successful missions before the end of the program. Honestly, given the state of technology and computers in those days, it is a miracle they could do it at all. Even more sobering to think that a scant five years later,...

Frans Mathipa was shot while driving - we got access to the prosecution case against eight accused men.

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix has already been booked for 2027 due to record demand. Their industry sources indicate that what we’re experiencing currently is just a prelude to when things get really ugly, which is why customers are paying a premium to lock in their orders so far out.
Although there’s been no official word from either side of the transaction, the Digitimes article further points out that these sort of agreements are usually 3 to 5 year contracts. If that’s the case, and nothing changes in supply and demand equation, we could be in...

La Néerlandaise a remporté, dimanche, la deuxième Grande Boucle de sa carrière. Dans une épreuve longtemps indécise, elle a pu compter sur le soutien sans faille de ses coéquipières de la formation FDJ United-Suez.

Dans leur prise de parole, dimanche, les cadres du parti Nazione ont dressé un constat quasiment identique à celui des clandestins du FLNC, qui ont récemment menacé les « non-Corses » venant s’installer dans l’île.

Israel's PM says its military will not pull out from Gaza until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed.

The Irish Prison Service bought a bulletproof and bombproof van to transport the 49-year-old to court after his extradition from Dubai.

Sadly, there hasn't been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast's series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don't get me wrong, I loved seasons one and two, but the show seemed to be gearing up for a deep dive into Krautrock, and I was hype. Unfortunately, that episode ended with hosts Marcus Parks (Last Podcast on the Left) and Carolina Hidalgo declaring they were going to do another season on punk (the topic of season one), only for the feed to go quiet. If you're a music obsessive, this is a must-listen podcast. Over the course of 73 episodes, the hu …
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'One Piece' actor Emily Rudd and 'Scream' survivor Mason Gooding will fend off gators in Alexandre Aja's long-awaited sequel.

Sometimes you see a project just staring at you with proverbial puppy dog eyes and you just cannot look away. In the case of a once rather nice Sony TV it was the smooth 32″ Trinitron CRT that gave [Happychoice] that look when he came across it along the side of the road. Naturally he had to beg the owner of the junkyard to please let him adopt the pupp^Wjunked TV and attempted an ill-advised repair.
Some later sleuthing revealed that this poor TV had been sitting on the side of that road for at least six years, exposed to the worst that the Italian weather and local fauna could do to it, so it was no surprise that all he got out of it even after cleaning and some repairs was a sad triple-blink of the power...

You know Apple has all your data, but do you really want to be made aware of it?

Parti lundi près de Bellegarde-en-Diois, dans le massif du Claps, le feu a connu deux reprises dans la matinée de dimanche. Un autre incendie, qui s’est déclaré dimanche midi en Lozère, avait déjà parcouru 153 hectares dans la soirée, selon les pompiers locaux.

L’Association nationale de police judiciaire a réagi, dimanche, au courrier – révélé par « Le Monde » – adressé par le ministre de la justice à son homologue de l’intérieur, Laurent Nuñez, dévoilant les graves défaillances des services d’enquête dans la prise en compte des violences faites aux mineurs.

2026 has been a busy year for Netflix's original programming, and it doesn't seem 'The Witcher' is part of it anymore.

Let us all grieve as a nation.

Mark Zuckerberg's yacht "The Launchpad" | Image: Sylvain Lefevre / Getty Images Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg's super yacht, Launchpad.
Michael Love, a passenger on the Wilderness Legacy, posted on Bluesky that the captain announced the Launchpad was closer, but "repeatedly refused to respond," which was met with booing from the passengers. The AIS tracking (embedded below) seems to support that the Launchpad was closer to the vessel in trouble, but then stopped near the...

It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how compact and waterproof they must be, yet there are plenty of examples belying those claims. So too for smart glasses with their compact size and the need to be fully waterproof. They would be certified e-waste as soon as the built-in battery stops being a battery, assuming these claims were true. Recently [iFixit] bought a few Chinese smart glasses to see just how repairable they are, with the Rokid one being very surprising.
The first nice feature of both two Chinese smart glasses is that they have an external battery that clips on in addition to an internal one. Internally they’re...

Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.

The first 'Wonka' saved Warner Bros. in 2023, the question is just when it can get the ball rolling on a sequel.

Police are investigating a drone sighting over a miltary base reportedly used for housing Patriot missile system parts.

Head Coach Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers | Image: Michael Zagaris / San Francisco 49ers / Getty Images Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press conference he shared more details about the incident, including the fact that he had his Tesla's Autopilot engaged at the time. Shanahan was not passing the buck, however, saying it was his fault regardless of whether or not Autopilot was engaged. "I've had Autopilot for nine years, so I'm pretty comfortable with it and, you know, who knows what happened when I turned around? Whether it malfunctioned or...

Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of those photons from radio to visible light, though? Well, now that’s rather interesting. [Daniel] aka [milar111]’s LYME 101– which doesn’t seem to stand for anything–laser-video transmitter/receiver pair was a strong contender in the recently-completed Frikken’ Laser Beams challenge, but somehow we missed putting it up on the blog.
The project is documented quite well on GitHub as linked above, as well as on Instructables, and Hackaday.io, and in a YouTube video we’ve embedded below so you can see it in action. In principle it’s pretty simple: a...

In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC - a scenario that would have left a lot of people very upset and placed me in deep trouble. I wasn't irresponsible, I had local backups, but at some point I found myself in custody of so many important files that it scared me. And no matter how many redundancies I could build at home, they'd all still be in the same place - a risky bet. So I bought a subscription to Dropbox. Years later, it's still one …
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Italy's culture minister says it is one of the most important underwater archaeological finds in years.

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Bonjour à toutes et tous Cette semaine, ZATAZ découvre 1,7 milliard d’identifiants français uniques stockés dans un cloud pirate, tandis que 43 revendications de rançongiciels ciblent la France en un mois. Qilin menace de publier des données du Stade français et expose déjà des pièces d’identité. CuteSec revendique le piratage d’un miroir du forum Coco […]

Dans les années nonante (et un peu dans les années 2000), un salon se tenait à Cannes, le MILIA (Marché International des Contenus Interactifs). Et en 1995, on a pu voir la Pippin. La vidéo est un extrait issu d’une émission de France 3, Micro Kid’s. Vous trouverez l’émission complète là, sur la chaîne de FaBou25 TV. On notera la bande rouge latérale, caractéristique des enregistrements SECAM.
Le Milia 95 Dans la vidéo, Eric Lemoine explique que les titres Macintosh fonctionneront sur Pippin et inversement, ce qui est faux. Les titres Macintosh ne fonctionnent généralement pas sur Pippin, et les titres Pippin ne sont pas tous compatibles Macintosh. On peut aussi voir Satjiv S. Chahil,...

Le 21 janvier 1793, Louis XVI est guillotiné à Paris, sous le regard médusé des monarchies du Vieux Continent. Un événement clé de la Révolution française qui a façonné l’identité de la France, le pays des Lumières et de la Terreur. Et si, au lieu d’être mis à mort, Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette avaient été condamnés à l’exil ? C’est l’hypothèse explorée dans cette uchronie prenant la forme d’un extrait de manuel d’histoire imaginaire, publiée initialement dans les pages de FUTUR, le magazine d’Usbek & Rica (n°46, janvier 2025, toujours disponible).

About 4 years ago, I looked into how effective my SSH tarpits were.
Since then, I've also deployed an AI crawler tarpit (technically a maze - it generates an endless number of pages) to serve "content" up to crawlers who ignore my "No Entry" signs.
I thought that it might be interesting to take a quick look at trends for both, so this post provides high-level analysis of the statistics that my tarpits generate. SSH Tarpit
The analysis that I performed in 2022 used a week of data, so to keep things consistent, I'll do the same here.
from(bucket: "telegraf/telegraf_low_granularity") |> range(start: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z, stop: 2026-08-08T00:00:00Z) |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "ssh_tarpit") |>...

Sam and Louise Sullivan “Love & Devotion”
“Love and Devotion” is a lovely, laid back, and agreeable song about being in love, but it’s written from a somewhat contrarian point of view. Here’s what Sam Sullivan has to say about it:
“These days, it seems like people are always saying, ‘ooh, love is so hard; let’s work on our relationship; we need to find compromise.’ No. Wrong. Love is easy, actually. Love is quite fun. Don’t fall for this insidious, anti-love propaganda.” If you’re in a happy relationship, it can feel like you’ve cracked a code for living and everyone who hasn’t figured out can look a bit foolish. It can make you quite smug! But Sullivan is right about this. Love...

ZATAZ découvre 1.7 milliard d’identifiants français uniques stockés dans un cloud pirate.

Rançongiciels en France : 43 revendications en un mois, dominées par The Gentlemen et Qilin, sur des secteurs variés.

CuteSec revendique le piratage d’un miroir du forum Coco, avec plus de 14 500 comptes utilisateurs dérobés.

Un pirate reconnaît le piratage de 165 organisations, le vol massif de données et plusieurs extorsions cloud.

For many years, NYAA has been heralded as one of the top sources for anime content, serving an audience of millions of users.
The site was launched more than two decades ago and the brand is still going strong today, as it’s traditionally one of the most visited torrent sites. NYAA’s popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by rightsholders. The MPA previously targeted the site’s GitHub repo, although that was later restored. Additionally, Japan’s Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) has been trying to disrupt its activities for many years. Among other enforcement efforts, CODA teamed up with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in a Cross-Border Enforcement Project to...

L'Espagne du Premier ministre Pedro Sánchez a rétabli les contrôles frontaliers pour les voyageurs en provenance d'Italie, vendredi 7 août dans la soirée - Crédits : Conseil européen L'Espagne hausse le ton. 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. Alors que l'Italie a rétabli le 31 juillet des contrôles aux frontières pour les ressortissants de pays tiers en provenance d'Espagne en réponse à cette crise migratoire - une mesure que Madrid considère comme "injuste, contraire aux intérêts de l'Union européenne et discriminatoire à l'égard de la population...

US Hits Jackpot: 1.78 Million Tons of Tungsten in Nevada Desert
https://humanprogress.org/us-hits-jackpot-with-1-78-million-tons-of-tungsten-in-nevada-desert/