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The sun never sets on the Vulgarian Empire.

The Chattanooga rapper was anointed by Kendrick Lamar at the age of twenty-two. Then his life got more complicated.

From mile-deep canyons to bioluminescent caves, these 25 landscapes span every continent and offer a genuine encounter with the planet at its most extreme

Nate Cohn, the New York Times’ chief political analyst, on whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P. in the fight over redistricting.

María de Jesús Estrada Juárez was applying for her green card and thought she was doing everything right. Instead, she was arrested and deported to Mexico.

Also: Joan Semmel’s revolutionary nudes, Aleshea Harris’s film adaptation of “Is God Is,” Rachel Syme on thrift markets galore, and more.

The polymath musician, formerly of Vampire Weekend, likes to push our idea of what a pop song can be.

Face à la pénurie d’emplois à Hollywood, une scénariste de télé s’est tournée vers les plateformes proposant des microcontrats dans le domaine de l’entraînement des intelligences artificielles. Dans un long témoignage publié par “Wired”, Ruth Fowler raconte son expérience d’une nouvelle forme d’ubérisation, loin de l’argent facile promis.

« Les motifs de cette fusillade (…) sont très probablement liés au trafic de stupéfiant », a déclaré le ministre de l’intérieur, précisant que cela ne voulait pas dire que les adolescents touchés étaient « liés au trafic ».

Malgré un budget record, la gestion de la santé publique en Andalousie par le gouvernement de Juan Manuel Moreno, président de cette région autonome du sud de l’Espagne, présente de nombreux maux. Le dirigeant conservateur est candidat à sa réélection, ce dimanche 17 mai.

CFTC chairman Michael Selig sat down with WIRED to discuss how the agency scours Polymarket and other prediction markets for illegal activity.

Trump and Xi toured Zhongnanhai, the heavily guarded compound where China's top leaders live and work.

America's most underrated destinations, from a West Virginia gorge rivaling the Smokies to a Montana lake in Glacier's shadow

Rental costs are falling in several major U.S. cities as supply outruns demand. Zillow's latest report tracked rents across the 50 largest metros

The best Grand Canyon tours from Las Vegas, from a comedian-guided West Rim bus to a Champagne landing on the canyon floor

De plus en plus d’Américains en quête de sécurité professionnelle envisagent l’expatriation vers l’Allemagne, la France ou encore la Finlande. Un mouvement encore hésitant mais inédit explique le “Wall Street Journal”.

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.

Selon les bookmakers, la représentante française, Monroe, a des chances de se hisser dans les dix premières places à l’Eurovision, dont la finale se tient samedi 16 mai à Vienne, en Autriche.

Dans une lettre adressée au président indonésien, Prabowo Subianto, la Chambre de commerce chinoise en Indonésie dénonce une dégradation du climat des affaires dans l’archipel. Un signal d’alarme qui reflète une inquiétude plus large sur fond de pression fiscale et de concentration du pouvoir.

 Les cinq Français ayant effectué la croisière sur le MV Hondius ont été pris en charge à l'hôpital Bichat à Paris et placés à l'isolement- Crédits : Michel Poupougne / Wikimedia Commons  Le bateau MV Hondius de pavillon néerlandais, qui effectuait une croisière dans l'Atlantique sud, a accosté dimanche 10 mai à Tenerife (Espagne), après le signalement de plusieurs cas de maladie respiratoire sévère à bord, causés par un hantavirus. Le bateau transportait 149 passagers de 23 nationalités, dont cinq Français. Mercredi 13 mai, onze cas d'infection à l'hantavirus Andes, dont trois décès, étaient confirmés parmi les croisiéristes du MV Hondius, selon le ministère français de la...

À 67 ans, l’Américaine est de retour avec deux séries, “The Madison” et “Margo a des problèmes d’argent”. Subtile et captivante, elle donne vie à des personnages de grands-mères à rebours de tous les clichés. Ce tour de force enthousiasme Mary McNamara, la critique du “Los Angeles Times”.

Africa's top health agency says around 246 cases have been reported.

3D printers are almost never fast enough. [Cocoanix] had a Prusa MK3S with this very problem. He found it to be disappointingly tedious when completing even simple prints, and sought a way to make it faster. Thus, he grabbed a Nintendo Switch and got to work.
It might sound like an odd choice, and that’s because it is. There’s no special magic inside a Nintendo Switch that makes 3D printers faster – it’s just that the handheld console was a useful platform on which to run Klipper. As [Cocoanix] explains, Klipper is designed to run on faster general-purpose computers compared to the more limited microcontrollers used in some printers. It’s designed to off-load complex motion processing tasks to a...

90 ans du front populaire : quel héritage pour la gauche en Europe ?
http://www.taurillon.org/90-ans-du-front-populaire-quel-heritage-pour-la-gauche-en-europe

Four of the Italians were part of a team from the University of Genoa.

Better start saving up if you really want Asus ROG's Xreal R1 gaming-focused smart glasses.

The US securities regulator had accused the Adanis of paying bribes and misleading investors, which they denied.

J’ai déjà parlé du DVD-Audio, un type de disque qui peut contenir de l’audio en haute définition (comme un DVD). Le format DVD-Audio date du début des années 2000 et peut dans certains cas être protégé par un DRM. Et VLC peut maintenant décoder les disques protégés. Un peu de théorie. Un DVD-Audio contient de la musique dans un dossier AUDIO_TS, encodée soit en PCM, soit en MLP (aucun rapport avec la nazie). Le MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) est un codec de compression sans pertes, utilisé aussi dans les Blu-ray avec le Dolby TrueHD. Le débit maximal sur un DVD-Audio est de 9,6 Mb/s, ce qui permet (en MLP) de travailler avec une fréquence d’échantillonnage de 192 kHz et une...

Dans cet épisode de l'interview mensuelle, le Taurillon a pu s'entretenir spécialement avec le représentant de l'UE au Japon, M. Jean-Éric Paquet. Cet échange souligne l'importance du travail de représentation diplomatique effectué par les antennes de l'UE, ainsi que les priorités et le plan de celle-ci avec le Japon et dans la région Asie-Pacifique. L'ambassadeur revient sur les accords et décisions clés passés avec le Japon ces dernières années, mais aussi sur la direction que prend la coopération UE-Japon aujourd'hui ainsi que celle qu'elle prendra demain. Première partie de cet échange. Le Taurillon : Dans un premier temps, pourriez-vous nous détailler les évènements et décisions qui...

Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We have invariably bought a motor, or if we are really adventurous, repurposed a car alternator. Not [Birdbrain] though, because she’s designed and built her own from first principles.
The video below goes into significant detail on the design of her motor, looking at cores, wire sixes, and configurations with a useful simulation along the way. We particularly like the way she uses a bandsaw to cut transformer laminations to shape for her core. The 3D printed housing initially isn’t strong enough for the forces induced by the magnets, but she attacks that problem with a new print. The motor...

Save on Loop Earplugs, including Quiet 2 and popular gift sets for improved sleep, focus, and comfort.

Get at least 40% off headphones, speakers, soundbars, and other audio products from Bose.

Echaudés par la précédente crise inflationniste de 2022, les Français, au pouvoir d’achat contraint, n’ont pas tardé à réagir pour atténuer l’impact de la hausse des prix du carburant liée au conflit au Moyen-Orient.

Présente depuis longtemps dans cette ville frontalière du Mexique et peuplée à 80 % d’Hispaniques, l’agence de contrôle de l’immigration y a récemment intensifié son action et les arrestations. Elle a ouvert un centre de détention de 5 000 places dans la zone militaire voisine.

Selon des enquêtes du « New York Times » et du « Washington Post », la République islamique est parvenue à préserver une partie de ses stocks de missiles et de ses lanceurs.

The reported visit to Havana came after the US renewed an offer of aid to ease the effects of its oil blockade.

After the digital camera rose to prominence, it became a cool hobby to keep taking photos on film. It was even cooler if you did the same with an old motion picture camera. The retro film revival has kept a dedicated bunch of photo labs in business over the years, but it’s still possible to save some cash on development by doing it yourself. If that’s your game, you might try mixing up your own development chemicals. 
As explained by [No Grain No Gain], it’s quite possible to mix up your own ECN-2 chemistry from scratch if you know what you’re doing. ECN-2 is the chemistry you’ll want if you’re trying to develop any of Kodak’s Vision3 films, along with CineStill films.
The problem with...

The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the interest of many future roboticists. With a clever control method, though, it is in fact possible to drive them in any desired direction while using only one motor.
[Namaskar Mitro] based the design of this robot on this research paper; if the vibrating motor is mounted at an angle above the base of the robot, it causes the bot to rotate, and if the motor is mounted off-center from the center of mass, the robot moves in a circle. Crucially, reversing the direction of the motor’s rotation reverses the direction of the robot’s rotation. By...

Honda revealed prototypes of two new hybrid models, an Accord sedan and the Acura RDX SUV, during its annual business briefing this week, built on a platform that it says will begin launching next year. The RDX was announced earlier this year as Honda's first SUV to feature the next-gen version of its two-motor hybrid system. Honda also announced it's dropping the goal of having one-fifth of its sales be EVs by 2030 and for 100 percent of its sales to come from EVs and fuel cell vehicles by 2040. Honda now plans to "reallocate more development and production resources into hybrid models." Honda is planning to launch 15 next-generation hy …
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Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk's lawyer, stumbled over his words. He at one point called Greg Brockman - a co-defendant - Greg Altman. He erroneously claimed that Musk wasn't asking for money and had to be corrected by the judge. He made it clear we've heard from many liars over the past few weeks, but offered little evidence for Musk's actual legal claims.
OpenAI's lawyer, Sarah Eddy, countered this by simply arranging the mountain of evidence that the company introduced in chronological order. She didn't spen …
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Dark Horse’s prequel to the smash‑hit Netflix anime turns Rebecca and Pilar’s early days into a sharp, funny, and promisingly rich expansion of Night City that deepens everything that made 'Edgerunners' Anime of the Year at the 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.

The most graphically-impressive first-person shooter made for the Nintendo Switch is $20 off at Best Buy. Right now, you can buy the physical version of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for $39.99 ($20 off). The game looks surprisingly good on the 2017 hardware, but runs way better on the Switch 2 with the additional $10 upgrade pack that unlocks hi-res textures, faster loading times, and Joy-Con mouse mode. If you’re gaming on a Switch 2, getting the discounted game and the digital upgrade pack costs $50 versus its normal $70 price for the Switch 2 Edition version. Yeah, it’s a little confusing.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Where to Buy: $59.99 $39.99 at Best Buy (Switch)
The latest Prime game is a departure from the...

'Game of Thrones' casting director Nina Gold has joined Amazon MGM Studios' search for a new 007 to star in Denis Villeneuve's film.

Meta is rolling out new features to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including bringing the ability to write messages just with hand gestures to all users. You'll be able to use the feature in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and with "native Android and iOS messaging," Meta says.
The feature, which relies on the Meta Ray-Ban Display's included neural wristband, was one of the most impressive features of the Meta Ray-Ban Display when it was first announced. However, it wasn't available at launch, but in January, Meta launched it in early access for WhatsApp and Messenger. Meta is bringing a few other upgrades to the Meta Ray-Ban Dis …
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Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers read the inscription aloud for the press: "Never stop being a jackass." It's a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for research scientist Josh Achiam, who testified yesterday.
How exactly did this come up in a trial about nonprofit contract law? Allegedly, when Elon Musk was leaving OpenAI, he talked about wanting to race ahead of Google. Achiam, who worked on AI safety, asked if that was really such a good idea. Musk called him a jackass. Years …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Whatever you do, don't look inward.

The NAACP sued xAI last month, alleging it violated the Clean Air Act. That apparently hasn't stopped the company from expanding its use of portable gas-fired power.

Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas? To tackle this, [Vinnie] leveraged the tried-and-true RS-485 differential pairs to communicate reliably with ever-more-spread-out valves on his farm’s irrigation system. The system uses a Raspberry Pi to control when each valve turns on and for how long. It does this via a custom RS-485 valve master board, whose code and design files are on GitHub. The master board communicates with the Pi over I2C and issues RS-485 commands while controlling the 12V line to the valves. Toggling the 12V supply is a smart move it lets [Vinnie] save power by not...

Illustration par ChatGPT & Jérôme Bosch
La caractéristique structurelle la plus délicate à définir : la mort.
Il ne s’agit pas d’homogénéité ethnique, mais de cohérence interprétative : le degré auquel une population partage des cadres d’évaluation de la nouveauté, des seuils de confiance institutionnelle et des vocabulaires permettant d’interagir avec de nouveaux systèmes. Chaque société dispose de cadres culturels ; ce qui varie, c’est le degré de cohérence de ces cadres au sein de la population, et l’efficacité avec laquelle ils régissent l’interface entre les nouvelles technologies et le comportement humain. La preuve la plus évidente de la cohérence interprétative de...

Olof Dreijer featuring Toya Delazy “Makwande”
I think that even if you heard this not knowing Olof Dreijer was one half of The Knife, you’d still intuit that he had something to do with it, even if just in an “obvious influence” sort of way. It’s mostly in the tonal palette, which is very much a return to Dreijer’s ultra-bright keyboards in the Deep Cuts era. But it’s also in the perverse approach to pop – the hooks are warped, the shape feels slightly off, the rap feels like it’s laid diagonally against the beat. The best part is in how Dreijer stutters a snyth riff so it sounds like it’s getting bent by digital interference. I’ve heard a lot of variations on that general notion, but...

Real-Debrid is a French-operated premium link generator that can download files from cyberlockers and cache torrents for instant streaming. The service has long been a key tool for many Stremio and Kodi, and is also widely used as unlimited cloud storage by Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby users who pair it with Sonarr and Radarr.
At the end of 2024, the service made headlines by implementing far-reaching anti-piracy measures, including hash and keyword filters. These changes were made to appease rightsholders following a formal notice from the Fédération Nationale des Éditeurs de Films (FNEF), the French film distributors’ trade body. Despite user backlash, Real-Debrid retained much of its user base.
A few days...

“Violent crime fell sharply across the largest U.S. cities in early 2026, extending a nationwide decline that began after the pandemic-era crime spike. Why it matters: Data from 67 major U.S. law enforcement agencies show violent crime fell across major categories during the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025. The declines show up across every major region, suggesting a systemic, nationwide trend. The quarterly reports collected by the Major Cities Chiefs Association have been a good measure of trends that are reflected in the annual FBI crime data released in the fall. By the numbers: Homicides dropped 17.7%. Robberies fell 20.4%. Rapes declined 7.2%. Aggravated assaults decreased 4.8%....

“Recent advances in autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle technologies promise substantial cost savings for goods shipped by truck. In this study, we quantify the impacts of these transport cost reductions on the US interstate trade using a structural gravity model of domestic trade. Based on projected cost savings from the widespread adoption of self-driving technologies, we estimate significant increases in total interstate trade value. State-level impacts vary from 40.3% of GDP in Mississippi to 5.9% in Florida, while the largest impacts in dollar value are observed in Texas and New York. The sectoral analysis highlights motorized vehicles, mixed freight, and electronics as the industries experiencing...

“As with many a miracle, onlookers disbelieved their eyes at first. For a decade after the global financial crisis of 2007-09 rich-world productivity growth was, by historical standards, dead. Since economic prosperity ultimately depends on the ability to produce more with the same labour, this consigned even prosperous America to eternal stagnation (and don’t ask about Europe). The Congressional Budget Office, a fiscal watchdog which consistently overestimated productivity growth in the 2010s, has been consistently glum this decade. Partial data hinting otherwise were dismissed as false prophets. But those data kept coming. And now they are indisputable: over the past five years or so American...

Illustration par ChatGPT
III. La concentration des plateformes.
KakaoBank, la plus grande banque numérique de Corée, n’est pas seulement une application, c’est une IA qui connaît chacun de ses usagers.
– La palette technologique : Lorsque vous faites une demande de prêt, il n’y a pas d’entretien avec un conseiller. L’IA analyse les documents que vous avez fournis – mais ce n’est qu’une partie du processus. Elle traite l’ensemble des métadonnées de votre écosystème Kakao : la fréquence de vos SMS, la régularité de vos trajets en taxi, les types de cadeaux que vous envoyez sur KakaoTalk. À l’aide d’un modèle d’IA propre et explicable, elle établit en quelques secondes une...

Pour la deuxième année d’affilée, les chansons 100 % en anglais ne sont plus majoritaires dans le concours dont la 70ᵉ édition se déroule à Vienne, en Autriche, du mardi 12 au samedi 16 mai.

“Nationally, there were about 8,000 fewer murders last year than each year from 2020-2022 and about 10,000 fewer murders than there were in the early 1990s. That works out to a national murder rate that was less than half of its peak in the 1980s and 1990s… These problems aren’t solved by any means, and there are still far too many tragedies in these cities and nationwide. But sometimes it’s worth appreciating how much better things are now than they were 50, 30 and even 5 years ago when considering where we are today.” From Jeff-alytics.
The post Appreciating Just How Far Murder Has Fallen in the US appeared first on Human Progress.

Aux États-Unis, les sympathisants démocrates sont majoritaires à considérer que les attentats ou tentatives d'attentats ayant visé Donald Trump depuis juillet 2024 sont des simulacres.

La découverte d’un foyer d’infections à hantavirus a suscité un flot de rumeurs et de théories du complot similaire au Covid. A la différence que six ans après la crise sanitaire, les plateformes ont volontairement abaissé leurs défenses.