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by io9 - about 21 minutes
A Falcon 9 upper stage is on a collision course with the Moon. Researchers hope to turn this spectacle into a scientific opportunity.
by Wired - about 26 minutes
Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.
by QZ - about 28 minutes
Mastering essential egg dishes gives home cooks control over foundational cooking techniques, heat management, and emulsion balance across global cuisines
by QZ - about 30 minutes
Domestic feline nutrition requires obligate carnivore diets and specific feeding environments to prevent long-term metabolic and kidney diseases
by io9 - about 32 minutes
Want a clue for what Apple's first foldable will look like? Just pay attention to Samsung's first squat foldable.
by io9 - about 36 minutes
Two mysteries come together to address a decades-long puzzle.
by The Verge - about 37 minutes
The iPad Pro M5 is one of the iPads discounted for the sale. | Image: The Verge A number of Apple products got more expensive last month, so we’re happy to find deals wherever and whenever we can. If you’re searching for a high-end iPad, one of the more notable deals currently happening is on the 13-inch iPad Pro M5 with 512GB of storage. Normally $1,699, it’s $150 off at Amazon, costing $1,549.99. It’s $100 off at Best Buy. This is the most premium iPad that Apple sells, with impressive performance from its M5 processor, a gorgeous OLED screen, up to 60W of fast charging, and support for the Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard. Read our iPad Pro (2025) review.
13-inch iPad Pro (2025) Where to Buy:...
by The Verge - about 38 minutes
Code found in an iOS 27 beta would allow Apple to put a financed iPhone in "Restricted Mode" if it detects any missed payments, 9to5Mac reports. The finding follows a story from Bloomberg earlier this week claiming Apple is preparing to launch a new "Apple Upgrade" financing program for leasing new devices. iPhones in "Restricted Mode" would reportedly lose access to nearly all apps, except for basics like the Phone app, Settings, and the App Store. It uses a new "App Managed Features" system that allows financing or partner apps to continually check if a financed device is in good standing.
According to 9to5Mac, the code also includes a …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by io9 - about 46 minutes
Elon Musk has promised to make an AI version of The Odyssey. It's going to be a disaster.
by Liz Climo - about 47 minutes

by Wired - about 50 minutes
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
by BBC - about 54 minutes
Donald Trump says the US will respond any time Iranian forces shoot at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
by QZ - about 2 hours
The doughnut, made with blueberry-flavored dough and the chain's signature glaze, will be available July 23–26 at participating U.S. and Canadian shops
by New Yorker - about 2 hours
Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s “Trilogy About the Boy” is set in the remote Westfjords but its ambition is universal.
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“Moody’s Ratings upgraded Argentina’s credit score, giving the nation its third sovereign upgrade in less than three months and further validating President Javier Milei’s economic overhaul plan. The South American nation was raised to B3 from Caa1, with a positive outlook. While the upgrade still leaves it deep into speculative territory, all three major credit-rating firms now rate Argentina above the highly distressed category, a milestone for a country that spent years among the riskiest sovereign borrowers in global markets… The move follows Fitch Ratings’ decision in May to lift Argentina to B1 and a similar move by S&P Global Ratings in June, with all of the firms citing Milei’s success in...
by Human Progress - about 2 hours
“An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is just the fifth new species of African monkey discovered in the past 75 years. The species, Colobus congoensis, is a rare and cryptic monkey largely unknown even among people living within its range. But those who are familiar with the small, black monkeys — an arboreal creature marked by distinctive orange-cream patches around their mouths and noses — call them ‘Likweli,’ which the researchers recommend remain the species’ common name. The identification of Likweli as distinct from other Colobus monkey species...
by QZ - about 2 hours
Republicans updated the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on Wednesday to include a DOJ-enforced ban on federal officials issuing or sponsoring cryptocurrency
by QZ - about 2 hours
The company showed off camera, AI assistant, and gesture control capabilities as it prepares a fall launch into a market Meta dominates
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
Car enthusiasts want to know how quickly they can make a quarter mile. Weightlifters are forever trying to add one more plate to the bar. Internet denizens have their own favorite number to brag about: the result from a speed test.
The ritual is familiar. Close a few browser tabs, click the big “Go” button, and watch the needle climb. Perhaps you pay for gigabit service and see 940 megabits per second, which produces a satisfied nod. Perhaps you see 299 megabits and begin obsessing over network hardware. But before you get too excited either way, try another test. There is a fair chance it will give you a different answer.
That does not necessarily mean one test is lying. “Internet speed” is not a...
by Wired - about 2 hours
Out of Dyson’s two new affordable stick vacuums, this one is easily my favorite.
by FluxBlog - about 2 hours
Beabadoobee “Switchblade”
A lot of Gen Z approximations of Gen X rock sounds rather flat to my ears – all the expected signifiers of various alt sub-genres cut and pasted in, but not much depth or dynamics. Not so for “Switchblade.” Beabadoobee’s arrangement places its emphasis sharply contrasting textures, and there’s a sickly sort of swing to the bass groove. It’s a very vivid production that makes every moment of the song feel alive and somewhat surprising despite how closely the songwriting sticks to alt-rock conventions. And unlike a lot of contemporary indie, the vocal and lyrics seem like secondary concerns: The guitars are the most emphatic and emotionally articulate aspects of the...
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
The state’s Democratic primary was dominated by an unlikely left-wing insurgent—it became a three-week sprint for Party insiders to select the next best thing.
by Human Progress - about 3 hours
“Cypress Creek Energy and Google today joined community leaders, project partners, and elected officials to celebrate the start of construction on the first two phases of Steel River Energy Center, the nation’s largest solar energy project to date. The groundbreaking event marked a major milestone for a project that will help meet growing electricity demand while showcasing Arkansas’s role in strengthening America’s energy and manufacturing supply chains. The project’s first two phases will deliver 1.6 GWdc of new solar generation and 1.9 GWh of new battery storage to the local grid, helping support economic growth and strengthen energy reliability across the region. Once fully complete, the...
by The Verge - about 3 hours
Following the MacBook Neo's huge popularity so far, Apple is reportedly developing an updated version of its budget laptop with a new processor and more memory, and even has plans to refresh the model with new colors. Following a similar report from analyst Tim Culpan earlier this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the new Neo will run on an A19 Pro processor, which currently powers the iPhone 17 Pro / Pro Max and the iPhone Air, unlike the current laptop's A18 Pro that was originally in the iPhone 16 Pro. The chip upgrade also means the updated Neo may have more RAM, likely 12GB rather than the original 8GB. However, ongoing component sho …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Verge - about 3 hours
With a camera on every pair, Google’s and Samsung’s AI glasses face the same privacy problems as Meta’s. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, are due to launch this fall.
Google and Samsung have been teasing the new glasses for some time, and revealed the first two designs at I/O in May. Now there are two more frames: Both are unsurprisingly boxy, with a new set of squared off black glasses from Gentle...
by Human Progress - about 3 hours
“To slow the melting of Arctic ice, researchers have proposed a number of innovative but controversial solutions, including spreading glass beads across the ice to bounce sunlight back into space, and spraying sea-salt aerosols into low-lying clouds to increase their reflectivity to slow down heating effects. In 2017, astrophysicist Steven Desch also proposed what was then considered a wild idea: Using millions of wind-powered pumps to draw seawater onto the surface of the ice during winter, allowing it to freeze and thicken the ice sheet. Now, Real Ice is pursuing a variation of Desch’s original concept in the Arctic community of Ikaluktutiak, also known as Cambridge Bay, in Canada’s northernmost...
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Le monde politique et les médias canadiens se sont levés d’un bloc pour dénoncer la décision du président américain d’imposer, dès le 19 août, des droits additionnels de 50 % sur un large éventail d’exportations du pays, qui avait riposté aux droits de douane imposés précédemment par les États-Unis. Une “escalade majeure” dans le conflit commercial entre le Canada et son “voisin déréglé”.
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
The comedians try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Le 21 juillet, le Parlement a définitivement adopté le projet de loi visant à interdire l’accès aux réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans. Après avoir salué l’initiative, la presse étrangère se demande si les autorités françaises parviendront à la mettre en œuvre.
by BBC - about 4 hours
The deaths of 52 people on the Clipper Endeavor led to the introduction of mandatory pre-flight safety briefings.
by The Verge - about 4 hours
Showing off the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8. | Photo: David Imel / The Verge Samsung's latest round of folding Galaxy Z phones and updated smartwatches were announced at its July 2026 Unpacked event and are set to launch on August 7th. The Galaxy Z Flip 8, Fold 8, and Fold 8 Ultra don't seem geared toward people who bought last year's model; aside from a few design updates and AI features, there's not a whole lot that's new - unless we're talking about the Z Fold 8.
The Z Fold 8 is the foldable that will probably get the most attention in the US this year, that is, unless Apple's rumored foldable arrives in the coming months. While its name makes it sound like the successor to last year's Z Fold 7, it's a new,...
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Pour la première fois depuis 2014, le nationaliste hindou Narendra Modi fait face à un mouvement de protestation d’envergure emmené par la jeunesse. Après un scandale lié au concours d’entrée en faculté de médecine, les étudiants réclament la démission du ministre de l’Éducation. Mais ils s’en prennent aussi directement au Premier ministre indien.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Des modèles d’intelligence artificielle en phase d’évaluation sont parvenus à sortir de leur “bac à sable” pour s’infiltrer sans autorisation et de manière autonome sur la plateforme Hugging Face.
by Courrier International - about 4 hours
Reçu avec les honneurs à la Maison-Blanche, le président libanais s’est assuré du soutien de Donald Trump, qui a insisté sur le désarmement du Hezbollah. Mais il est reparti sans engagement clair sur un retrait israélien du sud du pays, une condition qu’il juge essentielle à la mise en œuvre de l’accord conclu sous l’égide des États-Unis.
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
The combination of hardware required to make use of this project is specific enough that we imagine only a relatively limited number of readers will actually be able to try it out. But if you do happen to own a YubiKey and either a laser engraver capable of marking it or a fancy UV printer, [madeinoz67] has put together an awesome tool for adding some visual flair to your two-factor authentication device.
Running it is as simple as opening a web page, because that’s exactly how it’s implemented. You can either host it yourself or just launch it right from the GitHub repository. After opening the HTML file, you’re presented with a fairly intuitive user interface that lets you draw on top of a 2D outline...
by Korben - about 4 hours
- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon - Vous le savez, j'adore les liseuses de la marque Boox, et ils m'ont proposé de tester ce nouveau modèle. La Boox Go 6 Gen II tient sans problème dans une seule main, même petite, comme un vieux livre de poche corné, pèse à peine 160 grammes et se glisse dans une poche sans que vous la sentiez, ce qui en fait désormais la liseuse que je finis par emmener absolument partout, en vacances, sur mon canapé en passant par la salle d'attente du médecin.
Elle est plus petite qu'un iPad mini et plus légère qu'un roman papier, si bien que je la tiens d'une seule main pendant des heures sans jamais sentir mon poignet tirer, ce qu'aucune tablette classique ne m'avait...
by New Yorker - about 5 hours
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
by BBC - about 5 hours
The agreement would fulfil a long-held Saudi ambition but could attract concern in Israel and from some US lawmakers.
by BBC - about 5 hours
All of the ships were travelling to or from Saudi ports before changing course, ship-tracking data shows.
by BBC - about 6 hours
Isabel Rose was convicted of trying to extort £100,000 from the UK banker and perverting the course of justice.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
In a recent post, I mentioned that I wanted to build some tools for a stripped-down Linux running on a 3D printer with a MIPS CPU. I had two options: build a toolchain to cross-compile, or use Zig, which, in theory, has built-in toolchains for MIPS. I had to jump through hoops to get Zig to work, and I did mention Crosstool-Ng, so you might wonder why I didn’t start there. Turns out, it had its own set of hoops to work through. What is Crosstool-Ng?
Crosstool-NG is a build system for making cross-compilation toolchains: compilers, assemblers, linkers, C libraries, kernel headers, and all the other pieces needed to build software on one machine that will run on a different kind of machine. Instead of manually...
by Wired - about 7 hours
Samsung’s folding phone family has a new middle child with a fresh form factor, but which of its eighth-gen foldables is right for you?
by Wired - about 7 hours
People spend hours watching videos on their smartphones. The wider, shorter, and lighter Galaxy Z Fold8 caters to exactly that.
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
Just because you probably shouldn’t make a DIY X-ray machine, doesn’t mean nobody would. [mircemk] shows off his DIY unit, how it works, how to use it safely and of course, some pretty X-ray photos of household objects.
The machine repurposes a DY86 vacuum tube from old CRT TVs to emit X-ray radiation. To drive the tube without blowing it up, a rather specialized series of power supplies is needed; a low-voltage DC power supply powers a high-voltage AC inverter, which is then sent through first a transformer, and then a Crockfort-Walton voltage multiplier, to reach the incredibly high voltages needed for such a vacuum tube’s radiation emission to reach X-rays. Naturally, this didn’t go to plan first...
by Korben - about 9 hours
7-Zip, le logiciel de compression gratuit installé sur des centaines de millions de PC pour ouvrir un zip ou un 7z, traîne une faille par laquelle une archive piégée peut lancer du code sur votre machine à la seconde où vous l'ouvrez.
La faille porte le doux nom de CVE-2025-14266 et se niche dans la façon dont 7-Zip décompresse les archives au format XZ, très courant sous Linux mais qu'on croise un peu partout.
Dans le détail, c'est ce que les spécialistes appellent un débordement de mémoire tampon, un heap buffer overflow. En décompressant, le logiciel écrit des données au-delà de la petite zone mémoire qui lui était réservée, et c'est dans ce dépassement qu'un pirate parvient à glisser...
by Les Décodeurs - about 10 hours
Le choix controversé de François-Noël Buffet pour présider l’institution a été entériné par les parlementaires, mardi 21 juillet. Chaque année, des milliers de personnes saisissent cette autorité indépendante face à des difficultés avec l’administration ou une atteinte à leurs droits.
by Korben - about 10 hours
Depuis 30 ans, vous vous demandez peut-être si coller un téléphone contre votre oreille peut finir par vous refiler une tumeur au cerveau ?
Hé bien l'OMS a voulu en avoir le cœur net et a commandé 13 grandes enquêtes sur la question. Et youpiiii, elles viennent toutes d'aboutir et de sortir, et le bilan vient d'être publié dans le New Zealand Medical Journal.
Et accrochez-vous bien les complotistes : Les gens qui utilisent un portable n'ont pas plus de tumeurs au cerveau que les autres. Une de ces études, pilotée par Ken Karipidis de l'agence australienne de radioprotection, a même passé au crible 63 autres études précédentes menées dans 22 pays, sur des données qui remontent à 1994, et...
by Korben - about 10 hours
Faire tourner une console Nintendo de 1983 sur une puce qui coûte moins cher qu'un sandwich, c'est le genre de défi qui plaît aux bricoleurs, et un développeur vient de le réussir plutôt bien.
Le projet s'appelle Anemoia-ESP32 et il émule la NES sur un ESP32, ce petit microcontrôleur programmable à quelques euros qu'on trouve dans une tonne d'objets connectés, avec le wifi et le Bluetooth intégrés.
Le tour de force, c'est la fluidité. La plupart des jeux tournent à 60 images par seconde, exactement comme sur la vraie console, avec en prime le son entièrement reproduit.
Pour y arriver, le développeur, un certain Shim06, exploite les deux cœurs de la puce. Il s'appuie sur FreeRTOS, un mini...
by Usbek & Rica - about 11 hours
Suède, Portugal, Japon… une poignée de pays ont mis en place des politiques publiques consacrées spécifiquement à l’endiguement de la solitude. Des mesures qu'on recense dans le numéro 49 de notre magazine consacré à l'épidémie de solitude (automne 2025), toujours disponible en librairie. Parmi elles, figure la prescription du temps social établie au Royaume-Uni.
by Korben - about 12 hours
Un coussin qui traîne par terre, des boîtes de médicaments à compter dans un tiroir, du linge à balancer dans le panier, des assiettes à caler dans le lave-vaisselle et un lit médicalisé à remonter de quelques crans. Voilà le programme du robot G1 dans la vidéo qu'Unitree a mise en ligne lundi matin . Deux minutes quinze, en 4K, et ça a fait un million de vues en deux jours.
Et rassurez-vous, si vous lui dites d'arrêter en plein réglage du lit parce que ça vous pince la peau des fesses, il s'arrêtera net. Lire la vidéo YouTube ne se charge qu'après votre clic Voir cette vidéo sur YouTube Le truc qui pilote tout ça s'appelle UnifoLM-OminiA-0.3. Unitree le décrit comme "un modèle unique qui...
by HackAdAy - about 12 hours
At least in theory, video games are more resistant to becoming lost media thanks to their digital nature — they’re easy to copy and emulators have saved many titles that are otherwise locked in corporate vaults. But emulators give us something beyond simple preservation: they can also be used to enhance games well beyond the capabilities of the original systems while still preserving the souls of the games, as this NES emulator manages to do.
The emulator is called Anemoia-ESP32, and as its name suggests is a re-write of the Anemoia emulator specifically built for the ESP32. By modern standards these little chips don’t pack much of a punch, but compared to original NES hardware they’re more than up to...
by Le Monde - about 12 hours
Le Quai d’Orsay et le ministère de l’intérieur étudient secrètement d’autres voies de sanctions contre la figure prorusse de CNews, ex-dirigeante de Russia Today France, chaîne financée par le Kremlin.
by Le Monde - about 12 hours
La mort d’Abderrahim Fakir, un quadragénaire d’origine marocaine, dimanche à Bologne a suscité une vague d’indignation, alors que dans le même temps une partie de l’exécutif prend fait et cause pour un bijoutier ayant tué deux cambrioleurs.
by Le Monde - about 13 hours
Le Parlement a entériné une mesure controversée sur les pesticides à laquelle elle s’opposait. « Contrairement aux engagements qui m’avaient été donnés, le gouvernement a empêché le débat autour de la suppression de cette mesure », a-t-elle écrit dans un message publié sur LinkedIn mercredi.
by Torrentfreak - about 13 hours
At the height of the cyberlocker boom in the early 2010s, Uptobox was already an established name.
The platform remained online despite a fierce anti-piracy crackdown that led to the demise of Megaupload, Hotfile, and many other file-hosting services.
Uptobox eventually met its fate in September 2023, when a coalition of entertainment companies including Disney, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros. obtained a court order to seize its servers at various data centers.
Uptobox Crackdown
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment claimed responsibility for the operation, which was carried out simultaneously in France and the UAE. While Uptobox put up a fight in court, hoping for a comeback, the...
by Le Monde - about 14 hours
Le retrait israélien de la localité de Zaoutar El-Gharbiyé et le déploiement de l’armée libanaise coïncident avec la rencontre à la Maison Blanche entre le président américain, Donald Trump, et son homologue libanais, Joseph Aoun, mardi.
by Journal du Lapin - about 14 hours
Développé récemment, le TashTalk USB est un petit accessoire très pratique pour connecter un Macintosh à un Mac moderne en LocalTalk. Ce n’est ni la méthode la plus rapide ni la moins onéreuse, mais dans de nombreux cas, c’est surtout la seule…. Je vais commencer par un truc : si vous avez un vieux Mac, j’en ai parlé il y a une bonne dizaine d’années, vous risquez d’être bloqué sur le transfert des données. Dans les années 80 et nonante, on passait par les disquettes pour passer des données d’un ordinateur à un autre, éventuellement un modem ou de l’AppleTalk et parfois des accessoires en SCSI (Zip, SyQuest, etc.). Mais en 2026, vous ne pourrez ni écrire ni lire sur une...
by Le Taurillon - about 14 hours
Notre planète, recouverte à 70% de bleu, n'a pu échapper aux volontés expansionnistes des Hommes. La terre comme l'eau sont des espaces de tension dans lesquels résident les enjeux vitaux des États comme en témoignent les luttes contemporaines pour l'appropriation des Zones Économiques Exclusives (ZEE) et de leurs gisements sous-marins. Malgré l'imprévisibilité de ces espaces, les civilisations ont eu à cœur de diriger, légiférer sur les mers et d'y imposer leurs lois. "La mer est un espace de rigueur et de liberté. Y perdre la rigueur c'est perdre la liberté” écrivait Victor Hugo. Le célèbre homme de lettres souligne l'indomptabilité des eaux et le besoin d'y corréler la justesse d'un...