Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind.
The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which Google released earlier this month. It's currently only available to a select group of cybersecurity defense companies, but it will eventually expand to other partners in its Fairwind Program. The company says Carbon reflects the "pace at which we're pus …
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The distant, icy celestial body could be our solar system's sixth dwarf planet.

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

I've been involved in more incident responses than I care to think about, responding to service outages, compromises and serious vulnerabilities. I've operated in slack channels, on bridge calls and in person.
Over the course of my career, I've also trained and mentored others on what good incident response is supposed to look like. Effective incident response is often much less about how the issue gets resolved than it is about the communication and discipline that helps drive to that resolution.
I was recently prompted to dig out some old notes and slides, so I decided to merge them into a post at the same time. Contents Contents
Declaring An Incident
Primary Mission: Remove or Reduce Impact
Secondary...

Alors que les républicains contrôlent le Congrès et la Maison Blanche, la totalité des sièges à la Chambre des représentants et un tiers des sièges du Sénat seront remis en jeu le 3 novembre.

These 10 causes of car crashes, drawn from NHTSA research, show how speeding, impairment, distraction, weather and vehicle defects contribute to crashes and injuries on U.S. roads

These dangerous jobs in America, from logging and commercial fishing to roofing and power-line work, carry serious fatal injury risks rooted in specific, well-documented hazards

The history of the 40-hour workweek runs through 10 U.S. labor milestones, from a 1791 carpenters' strike to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Rian Johnson's new app uses the same image processing he has refined on his movies.

Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro is more than a mere screen upgrade. It may help Apple reach Macs' full potential.

Petite histoire militante du groupe FTP à Marseille dans les années 90. Dernière partie. -
Repères / Solidarité antifasciste, Répression, Marseille, FTP-MOI

A gavel prior to an open commission meeting at the FCC. | Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans because of the US government’s xenophobic stance — and they might not be the last. Originally, the US government was just worried about US networks. It’s been distrustful of Chinese telecom equipment providers Huawei and ZTE for well over a decade, eventually requiring telecom providers to “rip and replace” their gear. (Many telecoms have still failed to do so.) It established an “Entity List” for...

Our planet is covered in ants. Researchers now say their ascendance escalated 66 million years ago, powered by retrovirus-like “jumping genes.”

These 12 picks from the most beautiful train stations in the world span Beaux-Arts New York, Gothic Mumbai and contemporary Liège, with the architects and history behind each design

Ce mercredi 28 octobre, Jio Platforms a pulvérisé les records d’introduction boursière en Inde : le cours de l’action a bondi de 23 %, valorisant l’entreprise à plus de 12 500 milliards de roupies, soit 118 milliards d’euros. Ce succès est celui du milliardaire Mukesh Ambani, dont le groupe prend la tête des capitalisations boursières parmi les conglomérats indiens, devant le géant Tata.

Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we've just gotten to try it out at Apple's "Pro and tell" event.
It's an iPad for sure, but the new OLED on the Mini looks exceptional, and the optional nano-texture matte finish is awesome. The "Pro and tell" event venue has soft lighting that's not the most conducive to blinding glare on displays, but the matte finish pretty much squashes it entirely.
Moving the front-facing camera to the long edge is also a welcome change, matching other recent iPad models. (The shift means that the whole iPad line has the camera that way.) The reliance on Touch ID instead of Face …
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What to pack for a long train trip: 10 carry-on essentials, from power banks to snacks and earplugs, that keep long rail journeys comfortable and organized

One was a terrible OS redesigned for touch from the ground up and the other is simply familiar.

La collision a eu lieu mercredi matin sur la ligne ferroviaire reliant Madrid à l’Andalousie. Selon la porte-parole du gouvernement régional de Castille-La Manche, le train de la Renfe, la compagnie nationale, transportait 397 passagers, et celui de la compagnie privée Iryo, 147 passagers.

Visé par des enquêtes pour corruption, le candidat d’extrême droite battu à la présidentielle du dimanche 25 octobre a rejoint ce mardi les États-Unis, bien que la justice brésilienne lui ait demandé de rester dans le pays. Pour la presse nationale, sa fuite pourrait offrir à la droite l’occasion de s’émanciper du clan Bolsonaro.

Au lieu de pourchasser ce que tu veux, rends-toi irrésistible à ce que tu désires.

For $1,999, you could own an M6 Mac Mini and an M5 MacBook Air instead, both of which are on sale right now.

Si la coalition de Benyamin Nétanyahou a perdu sa majorité en sièges, l’opposition a perdu plus encore, lors du scrutin du 27 octobre, en arrivant en deuxième place. Les médias israéliens redoutent une longue période d’incertitude.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they've been permitted for use at some federal facilities already. Carr claims in a statement that jammers are needed because "For years, thousands upon thousands of contraband cellphones have been pouring into prisons, and some of the worst possible offenders have been using them to order hits, coordinate violent gang activity, and aid criminal enterprises."
When the FCC appr …
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“Asses, asses, asses, asses.” So said Charles de Gaulle as he walked behind his troops through the streets of Paris after the Liberation, in 1945—except he said it in French.

His arrival in the US ends speculation about his whereabouts after he failed to comply with an order to surrender his passports.

Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central.
The news comes not from an official announcement from LG, Samsung, or Microsoft, but from an on-screen notification that appeared on Windows Central's Zac Bowden's webOS-powered LG TV earlier today. "Microsoft has recently decided to end support for Copilot functionality on all TVs, including the Copilot-enabled feature available on our LG TVs. As a result, the Copilot-enabled feat …
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If you’ve got an MX-style keyboard and want some retro charm, you might like a recent project from [Levente Szabadkai]. It’s a set of C64-style keycaps that you can print yourself at home!
The project started as an attempt to produce a set of C64 keycaps for an Ajazz 75% keyboard layout, but [Levente] kept pushing until it developed into a universal set. The keys have C64 legends, plain legends, or blank, and work for ANSI boards from 60% to full size. There are a few ways they can be printed. — you can do two-color printing with an FDM machine, or you can print the caps alone and fill the legends with paint, either in FDM or resin.
As a part of this work, [Levente] had to obviously create the glyphs to...

To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways.

Après plusieurs agressions fascistes samedi, rassemblement à 18h au Parc à Chaînes -
Initiatives / Brest, Violences, Manifs et rassemblements

Gouvernement minoritaire, gouvernement d’union nationale, alliance entre l’opposition et les partis arabes ou nouvelles élections ? Le scrutin du 27 octobre en Israël n’a donné aucune majorité claire ni au camp de Benyamin Nétanyahou ni à celui de son principal concurrent, Gadi Eisenkot, ouvrant ainsi la voie à plusieurs scénarios politiques. En attendant les résultats définitifs, les tractations en coulisse sont d’ores et déjà lancées.

An exclusive early look at Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro—the computer Apple said would never happen.

After Brazil’s election, and ahead of the U.S. midterms, progressives and liberals around the world find cause to celebrate.

L’ancien ministre de l’éducation nationale, dont le bilan est attaqué à l’occasion du mouvement lycéen, estime que les dysfonctionnements sont dus surtout à des modifications opérées par ses successeurs.

Scandalisé par la répression policière qui s’exerce lors des manifestations et effrayé à l’idée d’un basculement politique de la France, l’auteur franco-américain des « Bienveillantes », prix Goncourt en 2006, demande, dans une tribune au « Monde », des explications au président de la République.

With 85% of ballots counted, Netanyahu's Likud party and its allies are set to win 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

Une frappe de drones menée lundi 26 octobre par les forces armées soudanaises sur un marché dans la région du Darfour a fait 102 morts et 113 blessés parmi les civils, selon le dernier bilan communiqué par le groupe de défense des droits humains Emergency Lawyers. Cette attaque s’inscrit dans un contexte d’intensification des bombardements de l’armée régulière visant à affaiblir les paramilitaires des Forces de soutien rapide dans leur principal bastion.

“Global shortages of metals essential to the energy transition, forecast to emerge across several key commodities a few years ago, are now expected to ease significantly. However, a looming copper deficit could threaten the pace of electrification and require $332 billion of investment in new mines, according to BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) Transition Metals Outlook 2026. The outlook for metals has improved considerably in recent years. Just a few years ago, the risk of widespread shortages threatened to constrain the shift to cleaner technologies. BNEF now expects nine of the 10 materials covered in its outlook to have sufficient long-term supply capacity through 2050, provided producers continue to develop...

As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Bishara Bahbah reflects on what, exactly, Trump has delivered in his second term.

Upcycling smartphones makes a lot of sense, especially since they contain so many components that remain useful long after their desirability as a smartphone has faded. In the case of [Mountain DS Lab], they opted to use an 8-year old Xiaomi Mi 8 phone to add long-range FPV video link and remote control functionality to an RC plane, using the phone’s LTE cellular connectivity.
The smartphone was bought used for $23, with the default Xiaomi ROM overwritten by LineageOS to get a more lightweight and up to date Android installation on it. From the video it’s clear that this phone has seen better days, with the glass back cracked and a few ugly lines running across the display. Fortunately all that is needed...

“Adding a personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine to immunotherapy after surgery for high-risk melanoma reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 42%, according to results from the phase III INTerpath-001 trial presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2026 (Abstract LBA1). The vaccine, intismeran autogene, was given alongside pembrolizumab and compared with pembrolizumab alone.” From The ASCO Post. The post mRNA Combo Cuts High-Risk Melanoma Relapse appeared first on Human Progress.

Sony has new, spiffy see-through controllers and covers for its PlayStation 5 that let you see the hardware guts inside.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

With 85% of votes counted, all signs point to an impasse. The most likely outcome may be new elections.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Many of the image formats we’re familiar with have been around for decades. We all know JPEG and PNG like the back of our hands, and GIF even had a bit of a resurgence when tiny annoying looping animations became cool again on social media. There has been a growth in newer formats, though, like WEBP, and AVIF, with various platforms and software companies adopting them for greater efficiency, performance, and image quality.
Amongst the new crop of formats vying for relevance is JPEG XL. It was touted as a format that improved on what JPEG could do in the lossy compression space, while also adding on a lossless mode. There were grand hopes that it would become a universal replacement for all existing raster...

A l’occasion de la 21ème édition du Festival du Film Coréen à Paris, le programmateur en chef David Tredler évoque avec Asialyst les coulisses du festival, son évolution et sa prochaine édition.

You might fondly remember the days of the Intel 486, but you probably don’t have one on your desk anymore. If you’d like to emulate that classic hardware, you can now do it in your browser, thanks to [Jan de Jager].
What [Jan] has built is a 100% browser-based emulator for an Intel 80486DX2-66 PC. Obviously, it’s not just a CPU that’s being emulated here—[Jan] has gone so far as to throw in the motherboard and ISA/VLB adapter card emulation necessary to make this a real and functioning computer that runs inside a solitary browser tab.
It’s all written in ES6 JavaScript. It will happily run SeaBIOS, VGA BIOS, FreeDOS 1.3, and a whole bunch of classic games, like Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem, and DOOM....

The Villa Vie Odyssey suspended its voyage and is working with passengers on "temporary living arrangements".

Authorities say the attacker in Belgrade was an underage male who was being monitored by security services.

Pour réduire leur empreinte carbone, les télécoms ont l’avantage de pouvoir non seulement jouer sur la manière dont sont déployés les nouveaux sites, mais aussi sur l’ensemble du cycle de vie du réseau : fonctionnement des centres de données, efficacité énergétique des réseaux fixe et mobile, écoconception, durée de vie et réemploi des équipements.

Last year, we reported that a filmmaker named Matthew Schneider obtained a DMCA subpoena through a California federal court, seeking information from Cloudflare on several prominent private trackers.
These trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, Karagarga, HDBits, and Beyond-HD, allegedly shared several of his works without permission.
A few months later, the same operators were sued in an Illinois federal court. That case took a turn when defense attorneys presented evidence that the plaintiff may be an impostor, and last month the person litigating as Matthew Schneider dropped the lawsuit.
That isn’t the end of it though, as Judge Andrea R. Wood kept jurisdiction over the pending sanctions...

There are plenty of “robot” projects out there that are really just a small remote control platform of some sort. We often like to think of robots of having some sort of autonomy though. [Luca Fagioli] demonstrates a great example of this with his explorer robot that uses Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to navigate its environment.
The robot is a built on a small plastic chassis, with one gear motor per drive wheel. Running the show is an Arduino Uno R4 Wi-Fi, paired with the Sensor Shield 5.0 and an L298N motor driver board. There’s also an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor module onboard, mounted atop an SG-90 servo motor so it can be panned around. The ultrasonic sensor determines the range...

En voulant tester un appareil photo avec de l’infrarouge, je me suis posé une question : est-ce que mon vieil adaptateur IrDA, qui fonctionnait en natif avec Mac OS X en 2012, est encore compatible ? L’IrDA, c’est une standardisation de la liaison en infrarouge, apparue au milieu des années nonante. Apple avait mis de l’IrDA dans une partie des Mac des années nonante et 2000, comme l’iMac G3 (le premier), certains PowerBook G4, etc. C’est une technologie qui permet des débits corrects pour l’époque (4 Mb/s) avec une liaison direct, qui nécessite une ligne de vue. C’est moins pratique que le Bluetooth ou le Wi-Fi, mais c’était assez courant dans les téléphones de l’époque parce que...

Première édition du Stras Antifa Fest avec théâtre, ateliers et présentations ainsi que des concerts -
Initiatives / Strasbourg, Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats

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“OpenAI says its models have produced mathematical proofs that challenge established theories in harmonic analysis and computer science. The work also includes a claimed existence proof for quantum field theories, including quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Researchers will now examine the results, verify their implications and explain their significance to the wider scientific community. The company has adopted different release strategies for the three projects. It has published the mathematical and computing proofs, while an external physics group will prepare its own account of the research. One proof addresses the local smoothing conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis proposed by Christopher Sogge in...

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Hibsago (bepirovirsen) injection, in combination with existing antiviral therapy, to treat chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in certain adults without cirrhosis… 'For many people living with chronic hepatitis B, treatment can mean taking antiviral medication for years to keep the virus suppressed,' said Wendy Carter, DO, Acting Director of the Office of Infectious Diseases in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. 'Hibsago provides a new treatment approach that gives some patients the possibility of maintaining control of the virus after all chronic HBV treatment has ended. This approval represents an important advance for people living...

A very well written paper
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/elon-musk-odyssey-ai-remake-grok-b3073616.html

Pirate sports streaming sites come and go, but there are a few services that have played a more central and stable role.
These “Piracy-as-a-Service” providers offer ready-made video players that other sites can embed. This allows new pirate sites to launch live sports coverage without hosting any streams themselves.
Streamed was one of these providers. The platform focused on live sports and was used as the backbone by many other sites. However, its homepage now suggests that this has come to an abrupt end.
“We are no longer operating Streamed. Thank you for the support over the years,” the message reads.
Streamed closure
The operators don’t explain why they decided to pull the plug.
Pointing to...