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by The Verge - about 37 minutes
Edward “Bud” Cole speaks in Japan in 2023. | Image: Jun Sato/WireImage Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off basically the entire guitar-playing community by sending cease-and-desist letters to builders, claiming copyright of the Stratocaster body shape.
Some influential guitar YouTubers have even said they're done buying Fender gear in the wake of the controversy. And Cole's resurfaced comments comparing cover songs and bandmates to a...
by BBC - about 58 minutes
One Danish and one Greek national died in the incident, while a British pilot and another Greek crew member survived.
by io9 - about 1 hour
You'll never guess what's reportedly causing the shortage.
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Le Népalo-Britannique, dont les exploits avaient été médiatisés dans un documentaire sur Netflix en 2021, a été emporté par une avalanche en gravissant le Broad Peak, au Pakistan, jeudi 30 juillet. Il avait 43 ans.
by io9 - about 2 hours
The creators of Grok didn't want this, but it happened anyway.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Thankful for the fans and the show's success, Andrew Guest sheds a little bit of light on why 'Wonder Man' won't return.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
One of the best parts about DIY chemistry and physics projects is that you get to decide how early in the supply chain you want to begin, such as with [Hyperspace Pirate]’s adventures in ethanol production from sugar fermentation. Although you can certainly just buy packs of sugar and yeast from the store and pretend that this will be helpful once the world embraces its Mad Max era, you may as well start with the stuff that actually grows on trees, like fruit.
While you could use the ethanol produced this way as ethanol fuel in combustion engines and the like, you can also turn the ethanol into ethylene and ethane. That way you can fill up your refrigerator, freezer, and air conditioner to keep your...
by Les Décodeurs - about 3 hours
Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Un nouvel incendie s’est déclaré à Carcassonne, dans l’Aude, à proximité de l’autoroute A61. En Gironde, où le mégafeu a dévoré 42 000 hectares en onze jours, celui-ci, fixé depuis samedi, « n’évolue plus » mais n’est toutefois pas « éteint ».
by Droit Administratif - about 4 hours
Le recours administratif préalable obligatoire à la résiliation d’un contrat d’association La « guerre scolaire » a longtemps opposé les partisans de l’école publique laïque et ceux de l’école confessionnelle (privée et majoritairement catholique). Dès 1830, la Charte promet de rétablir la liberté de l’enseignement[1] qui avait été supprimée par l’instauration de l’Université impériale napoléonienne qui disposait du monopole de l’instruction sur l’ensemble du pays et subsumait les trois degrés de l’enseignement (primaire, secondaire et supérieur)[2]. La loi Falloux du 15 mars 1850[3] concède la liberté de l’enseignement pour les degrés primaire et secondaire en...
by io9 - about 4 hours
Stay a while and share with us your thoughts of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' won't you?
by The Verge - about 4 hours
When Microsoft announced its latest round of Xbox price bumps in June, it only gave US pricing. Now we know the pricing increases for the EU and UK, and they're dramatic. Depending on the model, Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170. The 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive is going up by over 30 percent from £499.99 / €599.99 to £669.99 / €799.99. The 512GB Xbox Series S is getting a price increase of over 43 percent, jumping from £299.99 / €349.99 to £429.99 / €499.99.
While other consoles have received price bumps as RAM and storage prices skyrocket due to demand from the AI industry, none have been quite as dramatic as Microso …
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by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Sous pression, le président de l’instance dirigeante du football a renoncé, samedi, à son projet destiné à l’ouvrir aux investisseurs privés. Ses opposants le soupçonnaient de vouloir devenir le patron rémunéré d’une société commerciale, une fois son dernier mandat achevé, en 2031.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Alors que les conditions météo sont très difficiles, avec des vents violents, plusieurs incendies font rage dans le pays, dont l’un n’est plus qu’à quelques dizaines de kilomètres de la capitale. Dans la région d’Agios Nektarios, à l’ouest d’Athènes, deux hélicoptères bombardiers d’eau sont entrés en collision et deux pompiers sont morts.
by BBC - about 4 hours
Israel says it was targeting military operatives in the strikes on Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah.
by BBC - about 4 hours
Russia's military says it attacked Ukraine's ports and vessels in the Black Sea overnight.
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
D’accord, la salle de sport offre une façon pratique de faire de l’exercice et de tonifier ses biceps. Mais elle est aussi passablement ennuyeuse. Comment expliquer son succès retentissant ? s’interroge ce magazine néerlandais.
by Le Monde - about 5 hours
Malgré la répression, des centaines de personnes manifestent quotidiennement depuis la suspension, en novembre 2024, du processus d’intégration à l’Union européenne. Gagnés par l’abattement, certains mettent en cause l’efficacité de ces protestations.
by The Verge - about 5 hours
The 15-inch Skylight Calendar 2 can stand on a table or mounted to the wall. | Image: Skylight The start of a new school year can feel hectic, as parents juggle their kids’ classes, extracurriculars and sports on top of work, appointments, and other responsibilities. It’s easy for things to slip through the cracks, but Skylight’s shared smart calendars can help keep everyone on track, and from August 2nd through August 9th they’re up to $90 off. The sale includes the 10-inch Skylight Calendar for $119.99 ($50 off), the 15-inch Skylight Calendar 2 for $259.99 ($20 off), and the 27-inch Skylight Calendar Max for $479.99 ($90 off). The 10-inch model takes up the least amount of space, though the newer,...
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
De très nombreux enfants de migrants, pour beaucoup venus de l’Afrique subsaharienne ou de Syrie, sont laissés sans soins, sans scolarité et sans protection. Devenant ainsi des proies faciles pour de vastes réseaux de mendicité, d’enlèvement contre rançon, voire d’esclavage et de traite d’êtres humains, s’alarme le site tunisien “Nawaat”.
by io9 - about 6 hours
If you're waiting for the 'Romulus' sequel, stay in line, because it's apparently still on the docket.
by Le Monde - about 6 hours
L’afflux de migrants dans l’enclave de Ceuta, les 30 et 31 juillet, est un nouvel épisode des relations tumultueuses qu’entretiennent les deux pays depuis la signature de leur traité « d’amitié, de bon voisinage et de coopération » dans les années 1990.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. But many remote machines don’t run a GUI, so there’s not always the need for a full video experience. Enter [morpheuslord] with the PicoTTY. It’s somewhere between an old-fashioned serial terminal and a KVM.
The system has two components, a Pi Pico which plugs in to the USB port of each client machine and connects to the network with a WIZnet W5100S Ethernet Hat, and a Pi Zero 2 W which forms the hub. The Pico acts as both a keyboard and a serial terminal, and streams both to the user via a web interface on the Zero.
We can see the use of a machine like this,...
by The Verge - about 6 hours
Tough sell. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The HP HyperX Omen 15, which I first saw at CES, replaces the HP Victus 15, a longtime bestselling budget gaming laptop. The Victus cost just $800, or less when on sale, and was a good entry point to decent laptop gaming.
The Omen 15 has nice little upgrades over the Victus. Its RTX 5050 Laptop GPU can play 2026's latest games, albeit on low-ish settings. But it's also got a brighter 16:10 aspect ratio display with higher refresh rate, and a 1080p webcam to make it a little better for non-gaming stuff. I'd call it a working-class gaming laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon, the Omen 15 starts at $1,200 - a far cry from the $800 that made its …
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by Courrier International - about 6 hours
C’est l’été ! Parce qu’il vaut parfois mieux rester au frais aux heures les plus chaudes, recommandations subjectives pour profiter de ces moments de pause.
by The Verge - about 7 hours
Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is tantamount to theft, and in response, many gen AI boosters have argued that it's necessary for the technology's evolution. This has led to contentious legal battles, but it's also given rise to a new wave of AI startups like Pippa that market their services as being more ethical than the competition.
Like most companies selling access to text-to-video models, Pippa's main product is short bursts of user-generated footage that can be cobbled toget …
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by Courrier International - about 7 hours
Routes éventrées, ponts menacés, canalisations endommagées… Les galeries creusées par les chercheurs d’or clandestins dans les entrailles de Johannesburg menacent les infrastructures de la capitale économique sud-africaine et son développement.
by Wired - about 9 hours
Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.
by BBC - about 9 hours
The US president claims Iran and other Middle Eastern countries asked Washington to hold off on any attack as the "perimeters" of a deal had been agreed.
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
Anyone can string up some LED string lights in a space with mixed results. However, if you want to create a lighting environment that’s classy and stylish, it takes a little more finesse. [ipad.bendavid] has a great example of this, with a rather tidy architectural LED installation.
The final look is quite clean and evenly lit, without requiring the use of any diffuser material.
The electronic side of things is relatively straightforward. There’s an ESP32 running the show, commanding the colors for 928 individually-addressable WS2812 RGB LEDs. It uses the WebSocket API for real time control, integrates with Home Assistant, and even offers audio reactive lighting modes with the aid of an INMP441 I2S audio...
by Wired - about 9 hours
From how galaxies form to the beginnings of the universe, the images from the space telescope are giving cosmologists new data to explore—and theories to build out.
by Wired - about 10 hours
These portable vacuums make quick work of snack crumbs, tracked-in dirt, pet hair, and the mysterious debris beneath your seats.
by BBC - about 10 hours
The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.
by Wired - about 10 hours
Everything you need to know about the solar eclipse and lunar eclipse that will occur in August 2026.
by Toute l'Europe - about 10 hours
À partir du 2 août 2026, les usages de l'intelligence artificielle devront être plus clairement signalés - Crédits : Laurence Dutton / iStock L'AI Act avance par étapes. Entré en vigueur le 1er août 2024, le règlement européen implique déjà certaines obligations depuis 2025. D'autres vont s'imposer à partir du 2 août 2026. Celles relatives aux systèmes d'intelligence artificielle à haut risque ont été reportées à 2027 et 2028. En pratique, l'échéance du 2 août 2026 porte surtout sur trois points : mieux informer les utilisateurs lorsqu'ils ont affaire à une IA, rendre plus identifiables certains contenus générés ou modifiés par ces outils, et permettre à la Commission européenne...
by Wired - about 10 hours
Your kid’s little lunch hauler takes a brutal beating every day. These are the backbacks our own kids have tried and loved.
by New Yorker - about 10 hours
You couldn’t be certain, in the night, what sort of world the doors might open onto, were you to turn the knob.
by New Yorker - about 10 hours
The author discusses her story “The Promise.”
by New Yorker - about 10 hours
The author reads her story from the August 10, 2026, issue of the magazine.
by New Yorker - about 10 hours
The 2013 Daft Punk track was uncannily evocative of the late nineteen-seventies, when I was young and dancing was my creed.
by New Yorker - about 10 hours
The actor on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.”
by HackAdAy - about 12 hours
We’ve all seen these sensors and modules kicking around, as part of beginner kits, strapped into prototypes and potentially even in products deployed in the field. Yet as [John Teel] rightfully points out in a recent video, most of these have no business ever being used in a real product, and might not even be suitable for prototyping.
First up is a combination of the related DHT11 and DHT22 temperature-humidity sensors. As common as these are, they’re also pretty sketchy with their proprietary one-wire protocol and at most questionable accuracy, worsened by not having a good supply chain. The replacements are plentiful: the SHT40 and SHT41, the Bosch Sensortec BME280 or BMP180, as well as TI’s HDC3020....
by daryo Bluesky - about 14 hours
Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to deal being made 'rapidly'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwx74qgld2o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
by Journal du Lapin - about 14 hours
C’est une vidéo qui m’a donnée une idée, on en reparlera : la chaîne Retro Comparisons propose une comparaison entre des jeux Pippin et des jeux PlayStation. Si une bonne partie des jeux de la console de Bandai et Apple sont des portages de titres Macintosh (ou PC), il y a quelques jeux qui sont sortis aussi sur PlayStation. Le premier jeu est AI Shōgi, un jeu d’échecs japonais. Ensuite, il y a Gadget : Invention, Travel & Adventure, Gakkō no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita!!, Jungle Park (j’ai le disque, mais je n’en ai pas encore parlé), Nobunaga’s Ambition Returns, Shock Wave, Tetris Plus (vu dans Pease) et Yellow Brick Road.
Je me suis demandé comment la vidéo avait été...
by HackAdAy - about 15 hours
There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as being able to produce full-color 3D prints along with the “print-on-anything” functionality we’ve come to expect from a UV flatbed printer.
You get two choices of bed, with the larger being 420 mm x 320 mm x 130 mm. Hardly the largest build volume we’ve seen around here. You can fill that with up to 6 KG of UV ink/resin from its Epson-brand head in glorious full color and layers as small as 10 um. The ink isn’t super cheap — the CMYK kit looks to MRSP at 189 USD — but you aren’t locked in to expensive cartridges at least....
by Usbek & Rica - about 15 hours
En 1946, après les attaques de Nagasaki et Hiroshima, les États-Unis ont proposé de transférer progressivement la possession de l’arme nucléaire aux Nations unies pour en limiter la prolifération. Un plan rejeté par l’Union soviétique. Et si les deux blocs s’étaient finalement entendus ? Et si l’abandon du nucléaire militaire avait poussé les nations à chercher un autre avantage stratégique : la maîtrise du temps ? C’est l’hypothèse creusée dans cette uchronie, publiée initialement dans les pages de FUTUR, le magazine d’Usbek & Rica (n°48, juillet 2025, toujours disponible).
by Zataz - saturday at 14:49
Entre deux alertes cyber et un Wi-Fi d’hôtel douteux, ZATAZ passe en mode été avec une playlist de cinq titres originaux pour accompagner vacances, trajets et pauses au soleil.
by Toute l'Europe - saturday at 13:00
Le président de la Fifa, Gianni Infantino, souhaitait mener un projet d'ouverture de la Coupe du monde de football à des investisseurs privés | Montage Toute l'Europe Gianni Infantino fait marche arrière. Sous pression depuis plusieurs jours, le président de la Fifa a annoncé le 31 juillet renoncer à son projet d'investissements privés. Le Suisse entendait créer une société - la Fifa Forward Entreprise (FFE) - ouverte aux investisseurs et qui aurait été chargée de gérer les activités commerciales et événementielles de l'instance du football mondial. Un projet vivement critiqué et rejeté par l'UEFA, l'Union des associations européennes de football. "Après avoir écouté attentivement tous...
by Les Décodeurs - saturday at 13:00
Grâce à notre carte, observez l’étendue et le mouvement de la pollution atmosphérique suscitée par les feux de forêt à l’échelle européenne.
by daryo Bluesky - saturday at 12:40
France • November 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯
by Toute l'Europe - saturday at 12:09
Selon le gouvernement espagnol, cette nouvelle vague de passages vers Ceuta trouve son origine dans une décision rendue le 8 juillet par la Cour suprême - Crédits : nielubieklonu / iStock Situation tendue à Ceuta. Selon les chiffres du ministère de l'intérieur espagnol, vendredi 31 juillet, environ 50 000 migrants (60 000 selon le président de la ville autonome, Juan Jesus Vivas Lara) sont entrés illégalement ces derniers jours dans l'enclave espagnole de seulement 19 kilomètres carrés, coincée entre le Maroc et la mer. "Ce chiffre dépasse largement celui enregistré lors de la précédente crise migratoire dans la ville autonome, en mai 2021, où l'on estimait que plus de 10 000 migrants avaient...
by Torrentfreak - saturday at 10:45
Operation Offsides was the largest sports piracy crackdown ever carried out during a single event. From the start of the FIFA World Cup through the final, U.S. authorities and their partners seized more than 1,000 domains, while close to 2,000 more were blocked across Latin America.
The Motion Picture Association, which coordinated the effort through its Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), previously praised the operation as a massive success. However, in an op-ed published by RealClearMarkets yesterday, MPA’s leadership admits that domain seizures have their limitations.
“It Does Not Dismantle the Business”
The op-ed, titled “Blowing the Whistle on World Cup Piracy,” is written by MPA...
by daryo Bluesky - saturday at 8:40
After 20 Years in the Same Madrid Apartment, They Blew Up the Floor Plan and Started Fresh
https://www.dwell.com/article/casa-pop-gon-architect-small-apartment-renovation-storage-solutions-6883d520
by Journal du Lapin - saturday at 8:00
Si vous avez déjà regardé l’icône de Mail (le client mail d’Apple), vous avez peut-être déjà remarqué un petit Easter Egg… ou pas. Il ressemble à un glitch sur l’icône si elle est dans le Dock de macOS, mais quand on agrandit l’icône, c’est très visible : sur l’enveloppe, il y a l’adresse de l’Apple Park (Apple Park, California 95014). C’est du bleu sur un fond bleuté, donc ce n’est pas très lisible quand l’icône est affichée en petit. Mais comme les icônes de macOS sont stockées en 1 024 x 1 024 (une définition plus élevée que les premiers écrans LCD Apple), c’est bien visible quand on agrandit.
L’icône et son Easter Egg
Si vous voulez récupérez l’icône...
by Le Taurillon - saturday at 7:30
La rédaction du Taurillon part aujourd'hui en pause estivale pour l'ensemble du mois d'août. Nous serons de retour le 31 août 2026 avec de nouveaux articles. Toutes nos publications restent en libre accès pendant cette pause estivale. Toute l'équipe de Taurillon vous souhaite de passer un bel été.
by Les Décodeurs - saturday at 6:00
Avec environ 40 000 hectares brûlés, l’incendie qui a ravagé le département est devenu l’un des plus vastes feux de forêt jamais enregistrés en France, et même en Europe. Le réchauffement climatique favorise ces incendies hors norme qui se multiplient.
by Human Progress - friday at 22:54
Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Today, I’m joined by Dr. Brian C. Albrecht, chief economist at the International Center for Law & Economics and author of the Economic Forces newsletter. Brian writes about competition, regulation, how markets work, why prices matter, and why good intentions often produce bad policy. His work matters because human progress depends not only on innovation, but also on the institutions and incentives that let useful ideas spread, compete, and improve ordinary lives. Brian, we’re trying to alert our listeners to the economic underpinnings of modernity: why the last 200 years are so fundamentally different from the previous 300,000 years that Homo sapiens...
by Human Progress - friday at 22:49
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by Human Progress - friday at 20:30
“Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country’s last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo. Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were linked to the larger outbreak in eastern Congo’s remote province of Ituri, which borders Uganda. The first cases in Uganda were Congolese who crossed the border to seek treatment for an unknown illness before it was known they had Ebola, health authorities have said. After what health officials believe was weeks of transmission, Congo announced its outbreak on May 15, the same day that Uganda confirmed two Ebola cases —...
by Human Progress - friday at 20:23
“One of the clearest indicators of progress is the global accident rate, which measures how many accidents occur per one million flight departures. In 2025, the global accident rate improved from 2.6 to 2.2 accidents per million departures, a reduction of nearly 13 per cent. Put simply, airlines conducted more flights while experiencing fewer accidents overall. The strongest safety improvement in 2025 occurred in the area of fatal accidents, in which at least one person loses their life. The number of fatal accidents fell from 10 in 2024 to 4 in 2025, while the fatal accident rate declined by 60 per cent, from 0.27 to 0.11 fatal accidents per million departures.” From International Civil Aviation...