Four people were killed in Michigan and two died in Oklahoma, officials say, as severe storms swept across parts of the US.

It's not weird that Rotta the Hutt is back so much as it's weird he's coming back via 'The Mandalorian and Grogu,' of all things.

The international divisions at Nexperia seem to hate each other so much that Chinese-Dutch international diplomacy has failed to smoothed things over.

Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.

Alors qu’ils auraient pu assurer le titre et rêver du grand chelem, Antoine Dupont et ses coéquipiers ont été débordés par le XV du Chardon, samedi à Edimbourg. Ils gardent néanmoins la tête du classement grâce au point de bonus offensif inscrit en fin de partie.

Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

A pot of gray, lifeless regolith does not look like the start of dinner. Yet in a new experiment, researchers managed to grow chickpeas to the point of seed production in a material designed to mimic lunar soil, a result that hints at how future moon crews might raise some of their own food. The work, led by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University, tested whether chickpeas could survive in simulated lunar regolith mixed with vermicompost, a nutrient-rich material produced by red wiggler earthworms. The team also added arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which form symbiotic relationships with plant roots and can help plants handle stress. The result was a first for this crop in...

Seems likely that 'Disclosure Day' is going to hit big, so Hollywood's looking to let UFO stories into its heart (and wallet).

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter has been pressed. You can buy instant cameras and film from Fuji and the successor company to Polaroid, the originator of the technology, but they’re expensive. Fortunately [BoxArt] is here for those seeking a cheaper alternative, with an instant camera featuring a Raspberry Pi and a printer (Lithuanian language, Google Translate link).
It’s a fairly straightforward arrangement, with the Pi Zero and camera driving a receipt printer. There’s a nicely engineered 3D printed case, and the guts of a power bank to provide the volts for the thing. There are a set of status lights on top,...

A site called PSprices has been tracking prices on Sony's digital game store and noticed something unusual: some games were being offered at different prices to different users. What's more, those offers are tracked in the PlayStation API with experiment identifiers like IPT_PILOT and IPT_OPR_TESTING.
Dynamic pricing is nothing new and is used across a number of industries. But it's often met with backlash and isn't typically found in online game stores. According to PSprices, Sony is running A/B testing on prices for over 150 games in 68 regions, though the US doesn't currently appear to be part of the experiment. For now, at least, Sony i …
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Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite fragments, where the mineral lonsdaleite appeared. Lonsdaleite was theorized to have formed due to immense impact pressures on carbon-rich rocks from cosmic impacts. However, the evidence supporting this theory has generally been inconclusive due to its small size and contamination with other carbon forms. Additionally, there has been some skepticism about whether hexagonal diamond exists as an actual mineral. Recent experimental results indicate that lonsdaleite is real and can be manufactured in a pure form. Shoulong...

Une semaine exactement après le début de la guerre, la journée du samedi 7 mars a été marquée par une litanie des bombardements : israéliens sur l’Iran au matin, puis en provenance d’Iran sur les pays du Golfe un peu plus tard. L’opération israélienne au Liban semble se poursuivre, tandis que le “Washington Post” révèle l’existence d’un rapport émettant des doutes sur la possibilité d’un changement de régime à Téhéran, envisagé par Washington.

This has been a week to remember here at The Verge. MWC 2026 in Barcelona lead straight into Apple’s week of product announcements. There was truly something for everyone, whether you’ve been wanting a company to make a phone that can start fires, or had your fingers crossed for a brand-new MacBook model that costs just $599.99. It was also a great week for gaming, with the launch of Slay the Spire 2 on Steam as an early access game, plus Pokémon Pokopia on Nintendo Switch 2, and Marathon on PC and PS5. It was also a pretty good week when it comes to deals, especially if you’re in the market for new hardware. You can nab a free gift card with a preorder of early 2026’s most anticipated tech launching...

Seyed Ali Mousavi says Iran has a "right to self-defence" if the UK directly joins US-Israeli attacks.

Asuka Langley Soryu (or Shikinami Langley if you're Rebuilding), you will get a better ending in 'Evangelion' someday.

Donald Trump ‌a déclaré samedi que le régime cubain, qui vit selon lui « ses derniers moments », souhaitait conclure un accord et que des négociations ‌à cette fin étaient en cours avec le secrétaire d’Etat, Marco Rubio.

MUNICIPALES 2026. Plus de 300 rues de la capitale où se situe une école sont devenues piétonnes. Une promesse faite par Anne Hidalgo en 2020, et dont la réalisation ravit parents, élèves et professeurs, constate le quotidien canadien “Le Devoir”.

Selon plusieurs sources interrogées par le “Washington Post”, Moscou fournirait des renseignements à Téhéran sur de potentielles cibles américaines. Un élément qui expliquerait la “sophistication” et la précision de certaines frappes de l’Iran, en riposte aux bombardements israélo-américains depuis le 28 février.

L’Iran a lancé samedi des vagues d’attaques de missiles et de drones contre ses voisins du Golfe abritant des forces américaines, jurant de ne pas capituler malgré les menaces de Donald Trump et de continuer à riposter aux coups portés depuis une semaine par Israël et les Etats-Unis.

Ils vivent l’envers de la course mondiale aux minerais, fait d’éboulements, de risques mortels élevés et de conditions de travail inhumaines. L’hebdomadaire sud-africain “The Continent” est allé à la rencontre des mineurs de la République démocratique du Congo, qui affrontent ces risques chaque jour pour alimenter la soif mondiale en minerais rares, nécessaires à la fabrication des appareils électroniques.

Walmart bought Vizio in 2024, and now it's taking the next steps to formally fold the TV maker into itself by phasing out Vizio accounts. Now, when you purchase a new Vizio TV, you'll be asked to sign in or create a Walmart account. Customers will have the option to merge their Vizio account, if they have one, with their Walmart account. Your only other option will be to simply delete it.
According to an email sent by Vizio, customers who choose to delete their account will have 30 days to request a copy of any data related to the account, after which it "may no longer be available." The email also said that while the option to merge accoun …
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New blood and some returning faves are all being cooked up over at Pixar and hitting theaters in the near future.

Souvent, les militants de gauche ont du mal à concevoir le fait que des personnes racisées puissent avoir des opinions conservatrices, relève l’écrivaine et activiste italienne d’origine ghanéenne Djarah Kan dans le quotidien italien “Domani”. Un comportement qui exprime une essentialisation et qui s’apparente à du “racisme positif”.

A tiny burst of motion inside a molecule may be enough to shove an electron across a solar material almost as fast as nature permits. That is the striking result from a University of Cambridge-led study that tracked charge transfer in just 18 femtoseconds, a span so short that it unfolds within a single molecular vibration. The work challenges a long-standing assumption in solar energy research: that electrons move this quickly only when materials have a large energy gap between them or are very strongly linked. “We deliberately designed a system that should not have transferred charge this fast,” said Dr Pratyush Ghosh, Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, and first author of the study....

We were talking about [Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can do everything, it’s hard for a person to focus down and do one thing without getting distracted, checking their whatever feed, or getting an important push notification about the Oscars. She was suggesting tying your hands to the mast by using a device that can only accommodate the one function, like a dedicated writing tool or word processor.
[Kristina Panos] compared the all-singing, all-dancing black rectangle to an everything-device of old: the all-in-one stereo receiver with built-in tape player, record player, and not just FM, but...

The woman at the door wore a plush lobster headdress. She sat in the front hallway of a multistory event venue in Manhattan, beside a bundle of wristbands. If she granted you one, the world of ClawCon beckoned behind her - full of vibey pink and purple lighting, lobster claw headbands, multicolored name tags, sponsor information stations, and a demo stage underneath a skylight. Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate OpenClaw, the AI assistant platform created by Peter Steinberger in November 2025. OpenClaw (previously known as Clawdbot and Moltbolt) has quickly become popular in the tech industry for being open-source, in contrast …
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There are a lot of games that try to emulate The Legend of Zelda, but few that manage to capture that spirit in such a small, concise package as Ratcheteer DX. The postapocalyptic game only takes a few hours to complete, but over that span it nails the classic Zelda vibe almost perfectly, offering a real sense of adventure along with the satisfaction of figuring things out on your own.
The game is set in a bleak future when most of humanity is hibernating beneath the Earth's surface in order to wait out an ice age. To keep things going, mechanics are awakened every so often to perform maintenance on all of the machinery that keeps everyone …
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Le bombardement nocturne d’un immeuble résidentiel de cinq étages à Kharkiv a aussi fait 15 blessés.

You need to sort out that rat’s nest of cables under your desk. These cable management tips and products can help you do it.

A once-daily dose of a medication, which averaged 195 mg, produced blood levels significantly lower than those typically pursued by psychiatrists. However, it succeeded in generating a weak signal concerning the potential influence on memory performance. This is the essence of a two-year placebo-controlled clinical trial studying the effects of low-dose lithium therapy on memory performance in older adults who have mild cognitive impairment. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine conducted the study, which utilized repeated cognitive assessments, neuroimaging data, and blood-based biomarkers to monitor participants over time. The results were published in JAMA Neurology. Lithium has been used for many...

Depending who you ask, 3D pens are silly toys or handy tools. Those who use them as tools find them handy to fill gaps in printed assemblies or to use them as a PLA or PETG-based hot glue gun for their prints. [half-baked-research] on YouTube is in the second category, but knows that welding is better than gluing — so he built himself a 3D pen designed for plastic welding.
You can weld with a regular 3D pen, and [half-baked] demonstrates that in the video. But thanks to the low-conductivity tips on commercial pens, it’s a slow, fiddly business. By using a normal 3D printer hot-end, with its conductive brass nozzle, [half-baked] is able to get a lot more heat where it’s needed. That means the plastic on...

Want to digitally control your favorite instruments? These tools will help.

Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more.

Should you get a high-tech jacket like a grid fleece, or stick with tried and true merino wool? We found the warmest, lightest mid layers for your next adventure.

Bonjour à toutes et tous, La semaine cyber a été marquée par plusieurs événements forts mêlant piratage, cybercriminalité organisée et utilisation stratégique de l’intelligence artificielle. Le site de téléchargement YggTorrent a annoncé sa disparition après une cyberattaque revendiquée avant d’évoquer déjà un nouveau projet baptisé YGG, tandis que l’enquête autour du leak YGG dévoile un […]

Notes on baking at the South Pole.

In their warped and wrongheaded way, the omnipresent influencer Clavicular and his compatriots are intent on demystifying the ideal of natural beauty.

As missiles and drones cross the region’s skies, the Gulf’s layered air-defense networks—from THAAD to Patriot batteries—are being tested in real time.

Les bandes de papier perforé, ça vous parle ? C'est les trucs qui sortaient des mainframes dans les années 60... Hé bien, y'a un mec qui a décidé de remettre ça au goût du jour, sauf qu'au lieu de petits trous, lui il utilise des QR codes. Et au lieu d'y stocker des données binaires, il y stocke de la musique.
Le projet (un peu old c’est vrai 😜) s'appelle QRTape et le principe c'est que vous prenez un fichier audio, vous le compressez en Opus à 12 kbps (fichier .opus de quelques Ko), vous découpez le résultat en morceaux de 2 331 octets, et chaque morceau devient un QR code imprimé sur un ruban de papier continu.
Une webcam Logitech C920 branchée en USB lit alors les codes un par un sur...

À force d’être brandi à tort et à travers, le mot « négationnisme » risque de perdre sa signification historique et sa charge morale. L’historien Henry Rousso explique pourquoi son extension polémique pose un problème de fond.

The cost of saying goodbye is climbing. Here are some alternatives to traditional burials — and what to do when you can't afford the expenses

The company ranked all 50 states by analyzing real estate, vehicle, income, sales, and excise taxes

Discover 5 of the best hotels in Europe for 2026 offer exceptional service, elegant design, and unforgettable travel experiences

Anthropic et Mozilla viennent de publier les résultats d'une collaboration menée en février. En deux semaines, le modèle Claude Opus 4.6 a analysé près de 6 000 fichiers C++ du code source de Firefox et découvert 22 vulnérabilités de sécurité, dont 14 classées haute gravité. Toutes sont déjà corrigées dans Firefox 148.
Un chasseur de bugs d'un nouveau genre
C'est l'équipe de red team d'Anthropic qui a contacté Mozilla pour tester son système de détection de failles par IA sur le code source de Firefox. Le modèle Claude Opus 4.6 a d'abord été lâché sur le moteur JavaScript du navigateur, avant d'être étendu au reste de la base de code.
Vingt minutes après le début de l'analyse, il...

Après une cyberattaque revendiquée, YggTorrent annonce sa disparition puis prépare déjà le lancement d’un nouveau projet baptisé YGG.

Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can come with a host of new and fascinating faults. The Onkyo TX-SA806 and SR806 receivers were released back in 2008, with [Tony359] recently getting the latter variant in for repair. Described as having weird digital distortion on the audio outputs, this particular issue got fixed by recapping the PCB with all the digital processing in the first video on this receiver, but this left the second issue unaddressed of a persistent hum, which is the topic of the second video on this repair.
Capacitor C5662 in the Onkyo TX-SR608 receiver with a slight bulge.
With the easy fix of recapping of...

AGENTS.md, c'est un standard émergent que les agents IA comme Copilot, Codex ou
Jules
lisent avant de toucher à votre code. Plus de 60 000 projets open source l'utilisent déjà pour guider ces agents dans leur repo et y'a un développeur qui a eu l'idée géniale de retourner ce truc contre eux.
Ross A. Baker a créé
no-agents.md
, un petit projet hébergé sur Codeberg (pas sur GitHub, c'est voulu ✊) qui fournit un fichier AGENTS.md d'une trentaine de lignes, prêt à copier dans votre repo. Sauf que au lieu d'expliquer aux agents comment bosser sur votre projet, il leur interdit TOUT ! Lecture de fichiers, review de code, analyse statique, accès aux issues et aux pull requests, entraînement sur le...

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, was one of the companies to get sued. In 2023, well-known book authors, including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden, filed a class-action lawsuit against the company.
Meta’s Bittersweet Victory
Last summer, Meta scored a key victory in this case, as the court concluded that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM qualified as fair use, based on the arguments presented in this case. This was a bittersweet victory, however, as Meta remained on the hook for...

le théâtre… au cinéma
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/correcteurs/2026/02/15/trois-films-sur-le-theatre/

Avant SimpleText (l’ancêtre de TextEdit dans les Mac OS classiques), il y avait TeachText. C’est un petit programme qui permet d’ouvrir les fichiers textes simplement et rapidement. Et TeachText, disponible dans le System 7.1 et avant, a un petit Easter Egg. Je me demandais pourquoi il n’y avait pas de capture sur MacKiDo, j’ai (un peu) compris : quand on fait une capture avec le raccourci classique (command + shift + 3, comme en 2026), la fenêtre n’est pas capturée. Aucune idée de la raison. La capture n’affiche pas le menu
Du coup, j’ai sorti une carte d’acquisition. L’Easter Egg s’active en pressant command et option au moment de cliquer sur le menu  -> About TeachText....

Le Wall Street Journal vient de révéler que des hackers liés au gouvernement chinois auraient infiltré un réseau interne du FBI dédié à la surveillance. Le système compromis gère les écoutes téléphoniques et les mandats de renseignement. L'enquête est en cours, et la Maison Blanche, la NSA et la CISA sont sur le coup, et ça fait mauvais genre.
Le système d'écoutes du FBI compromis
C'est le Digital Collection System Network qui a été visé, un réseau non classifié mais qui contient des informations sensibles pour les forces de l'ordre. On y trouve les retours de surveillance, les données liées aux mandats d'écoutes et des informations personnelles sur les personnes visées par des...

Ordinary Iranians reflect on seven days of conflict and where they see their country going next.

Can you remotely unlock an encrypted hard disk? [Jyn] needed to unlock their home server after it rebooted even if they weren’t home. Normally, they used Tailscale to remote in, but you can’t use tailscale to connect to the machine before the hard drive decrypts, right? Well, you can, sort of, and [Jyn] explains how.
The entertaining post points out something you probably knew, but never thought much about. When your Linux box boots, it starts a very tiny compressed Linux in RAM. On [Jyn’s] machine using Arch, this is the initramfs.
That’s not news, but because it is an actual limited Linux system (including systemd), you can add tools to it. In this case, adding dropbear (an ssh server) and Tailscale...

Les élections municipales se profilent, avec leur lot de nouveautés. Entrez le nom de votre commune et Les Décodeurs vous expliquent comment le vote va se dérouler chez vous.

Plus de 50 000 listes et 900 000 candidats se préparent dans les 34 944 communes de France et les arrondissements de Paris, Lyon et Marseille lors du scrutin des 15 et 22 mars.

En France, ils sont près de 4,5 millions à aider au quotidien un parent atteint d’Alzheimer, un mari affaibli, une grand-mère dépendante, tout en exerçant une activité professionnelle. Une situation qui fragilise leur carrière et leur santé, dans un monde du travail qui peine encore à s’adapter.

In the new HBO docuseries, about petty disputes between homeowners, everyone has a gun, a grievance, and a security camera.

Ukraine has embarked on a programme to deploy armed robots on the battlefield against Russian forces.

A horse’s whinny can sound like two calls at once. One part sits low and rough, like a familiar mammal voice. Another rides high, almost piercing, and it does not seem to fit a 500-kilogram animal. That mismatch has bothered researchers for years. Big bodies usually mean big larynges, and big larynges usually mean low pitches. Yet horses break that pattern in a very public way, every time they call across a field. Reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, a team says it has pinned down the mechanics behind that strange blend. Horses, they argue, create a two-frequency sound by using two sound sources at the same time: vibrating vocal folds for the lower tone, and a whistle formed inside the larynx...

Idrissa Ouédraogo’s first feature, now streaming, is a tense drama of romance amid politics and a striking advance in cinematic form.