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by io9 - about 2 minutes
Plus, Takashi Yamazak talks Godzilla's attack on New York in 'Minus Zero'.
by Le Monde - about 8 minutes
« Un projet de loi va être présenté, avant ce 1er mai, avec des critères assez simples permettant aux boulangeries et fleuristes indépendants et artisanaux de faire travailler leurs salariés, sur la base du volontariat et en les payant double », a ajouté le premier ministre.
by Human Progress - about 8 minutes
“A new pill called baxdrostat is showing strong results in lowering dangerously high blood pressure in people who don’t respond to standard treatments. In a large global trial, patients saw their blood pressure drop by nearly 10 mmHg, a meaningful reduction that can significantly lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, and kidney disease. By targeting a hormone that causes the body to retain salt and water, this treatment could offer a much-needed solution for millions struggling with uncontrolled hypertension.” From ScienceDaily.
The post New Blood Pressure Treatment Works When Others Fail appeared first on Human Progress.
by Le Monde - about 17 minutes
Avant l’annonce, trois pétroliers iraniens étaient sortis, mercredi, du Golfe par le détroit avec cinq millions de barils de pétrole brut, les premiers depuis le blocus imposé par les Etats-Unis aux ports iraniens, selon la société de données maritimes Kpler. A Paris, un sommet sur la sécurisation du détroit d’Ormuz est prévu ce vendredi après-midi.
by The Verge - about 27 minutes
Fire intensifies: “This is fine.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe's time has come. The Creative Cloud provider's suite of design tools have been considered the industry standard for decades - despite unpopular decisions to fully embrace generative AI and abandon software licenses in favor of expensive, complicated subscriptions. Pricing in particular has given competitors an opening to attack. Some of the best alternatives aren't just undercutting Adobe's price - they're available for free. People love free.
One example that was announced this week is Autograph, motion design software akin...
by Courrier International - about 28 minutes
Des figures de la social-démocratie mondiale se retrouvent dans la ville catalane les 17 et 18 avril, sur invitation du gouvernement espagnol. Une manière de se rassembler pour imaginer un monde alternatif à celui promu par l’extrême droite, détaille la presse locale.
by Courrier International - about 40 minutes
Porteur d’un “changement de régime”, le futur Premier ministre souhaite notamment “suspendre” la radiotélévision publique une fois aux affaires. Les médias fidèles au pouvoir déchu craignent une “vengeance” généralisée qui “bafoue l’État de droit”.
by Wired - about 48 minutes
Coolfly’s Aura is colorful, clever, and flexible, but its signature feature ends up being more hassle than help.
by io9 - about 1 hour
The gritty sci-fi survival tale starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, and Josh Brolin has just dropped its first trailer.
by Wired - about 1 hour
These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Dans le Land allemand de Rhénanie-Palatinat, un petit village aux quelque 1 200 âmes a acquis, ces dernières années, une surprenante notoriété, relate “Der Spiegel”. Friedrich Trump, le grand-père de Donald Trump, a en effet grandi à Kallstadt, en Allemagne, où il était apparenté à la famille Heinz, les créateurs de la marque de ketchup.
by The Brighter Side - about 1 hour
For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only a few dozen clear cases where natural selection appeared to strongly favor one version of a gene over another. As a result, it made it seem as though the most forceful kind of selection had played only a limited role after modern humans spread out of Africa. In addition, they formed distinct populations around the world. A new analysis upends that picture. Drawing on DNA from nearly 16,000 ancient people across West Eurasia, researchers found that directional selection, the kind that pushes certain genetic variants to rise or fall in frequency because they help or hurt survival and...
by Le Monde - about 1 hour
Le réalisateur, accusé d’avoir agressé sexuellement l’actrice alors qu’elle avait 12 ans, avait fait appel de sa condamnation en première instance.
by Wired - about 2 hours
MagSafe accessories make your phone feel uniquely yours. These are our favorites, including Android-friendly Qi2 picks.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX's monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that "No Service" indicator on your phone disappear forever.
On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos' massive New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch with the first-stage booster that launched and landed on the program's second mission last November. It's a critical test, because cost-effective booster reuse is what's made SpaceX's Falcon 9 so dominant.
Amazon desperately needs a reusable rocket of its own to accelerate its Leo launches. Without one, it's onl …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by HackAdAy - about 2 hours
You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many times over. Even so, Microsoft has seen fit to deliver an upgrade for FAT32 for the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build. Finally, the stock Windows tools will let you format a FAT32 drive up to 2 TB instead of locking you to a 32 GB maximum!
The size limit was never baked into the FAT32 spec itself. With a 32-bit field for counting sectors, the file system supports up to 2 TB volumes with 512-byte sectors. However, as explained by former Microsoft developer [Dave Plummer], it just so happened that the 32 GB limit came about because of a random decision made when slapping together the...
by io9 - about 2 hours
We thought 'The Bear' star Jeremy Allen White voicing Rotta the Hutt in 'Star Wars' was a small role, but, apparently, it's not.
by Wired - about 2 hours
The Spectral:ON CF 8 is a do-it-all, full-carbon electric mountain bike with an 800-Wh battery and under $4,500. Yes, please!
by Wired - about 2 hours
Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Le Parquet national financier, qui enquête sur des soupçons de rémunération de l’ex-ministre par le groupe d’énergie (alors GDF-Suez), avait déjà mené d’autres perquisitions en décembre.
by daryo Bluesky - about 3 hours
September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Une étude participative est lancée par l’université de Sheffield pour recueillir un maximum de jurons locaux. Il s’agit de préserver la diversité des régionalismes britanniques, à l’heure de l’essor de l’intelligence artificielle et des américanismes. L’initiative, très sérieuse, fait sourire la presse du pays.
by BBC - about 3 hours
Experts say Mythos potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cyber-security weaknesses.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
L’ancien ambassadeur à Washington Peter Mandelson, dans la tourmente en raison de sa proximité passée avec le pédocriminel Jeffrey Epstein, n’avait pas obtenu le feu vert des services de sécurité pour sa mission aux États-Unis, révèle le quotidien “The Guardian”. Downing Street assure n’avoir rien su et rejette la faute sur le ministère des Affaires étrangères, dont le plus haut responsable a été limogé le 16 avril.
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
“The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word.
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
Kirk Jones’s bio-pic of the activist John Davidson, who has worked to destigmatize Tourette’s syndrome, is effective as an educational tool but mechanical as a drama.
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way.
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times.
by New Yorker - about 3 hours
Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more.
by Korben - about 4 hours
MZLA, la filiale de la Mozilla Foundation qui gère Thunderbird, sort un client IA open source auto-hébergeable baptisé Thunderbolt. Multi-plateforme, compatible MCP et Agent Client Protocol, avec intégration du framework Haystack de deepset pour le RAG et les agents. Le tout doit pouvoir tourner sur votre infra, pas chez OpenAI.
Le positionnement est clair. Ryan Sipes, le patron de MZLA, résume : "Est-ce que vous voulez vraiment construire vos workflows IA sur un service propriétaire d'OpenAI ou d'Anthropic, avec toutes les données internes de votre boîte qui transitent par leurs serveurs ?"
La question est vite répondue pour pas mal de DSI en ce moment, surtout en Europe où la souveraineté des...
by Korben - about 4 hours
200 000 serveurs. C'est le nombre de machines potentiellement exposées à l'exécution de commandes système arbitraires via une faille de conception dans le SDK MCP d'Anthropic, d'après les chercheurs d'OX Security.
L'interface STDIO du protocole permet de créer des sous-processus sans contrôle, ce qui ouvre la porte à n'importe quelle commande OS sur la machine hôte.
Le problème touche tous les langages supportés par le SDK : Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust. Et les packages concernés totalisent plus de 150 millions de téléchargements. Les chercheurs ont documenté quatre classes de vulnérabilité. D'abord de l'injection de commandes non authentifiée, testée sur LangFlow (toutes les versions) et...
by Korben - about 5 hours
1 000 fractures. C'est le nombre de cycles de cassure et de réparation qu'un nouveau composite à fibres a encaissé en labo, sans perdre sa capacité à tenir la route.
Les ingénieurs de NC State University ont créé un matériau qui se "re-soude" tout seul, et qui pourrait durer entre 125 et 500 ans au lieu des 15 à 40 ans habituels pour un composite classique.
Le fonctionnement est assez simple. Le matériau est un composite polymère renforcé de fibres (verre ou carbone), avec deux ajouts. D'abord un agent de cicatrisation thermoplastique (du EMAA, un polymère) imprimé en 3D directement sur les couches de fibres, ce qui rend le composite deux à quatre fois plus résistant à la délamination de...
by BBC - about 5 hours
The remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found in the singer's car last year.
by Le Taurillon - about 5 hours
Six ans après le point culminant des manifestations pour le climat, on constate que les ardeurs du mouvement se sont considérablement calmées. Seule une petite partie des participants d'autrefois se rend régulièrement dans les rues, tandis que beaucoup se consacrent à d'autres crises. Cependant, de jeunes activistes continuent de s'engager en faveur de la protection du climat et s'efforcent de trouver de nouveaux moyens d'exercer une pression politique et d'attirer l'attention de la société. L'écho d'un espoir - est-ce interdit ?
Les rues sont vides. Des cris d'horreur résonnent encore comme un écho au loin. Où sont les habitants ? Ils doivent encore être quelque part dans les environs. Le chemin...
by Zataz - about 5 hours
Un quart de siècle après son apparition, Windows Active Directory (AD) définit toujours les réseaux sur site. Mais il faut l’admettre : AD est un système d’identité vieillissant. Il a été conçu pour une époque plus simple, où la sécurité ne signifiait qu’une chose : un réseau interne sûr et un monde extérieur dangereux. Ce […]
by Asialyst - about 5 hours
La visite en Chine de la nouvelle présidente du Kuomintang Cheng Li-wun, qui a rencontré le président Xi Jinping est un pari risqué qui pourrait se retourner contre ce parti d’opposition à Taïwan, d’autant que derrière les sourires, le maître de la Chine n’a pas manqué de renouveler son narratif impérial selon lequel le rattachement de l’île démocratique au continent communiste appartenait « au cours inévitable de l’histoire. »
by HackAdAy - about 5 hours
Unlike the current era where most consumer electronics are black rectangles, or the early 90s where most consumer electronics were black rectangles, we got a brief glimmer of color, light, and hope in the 2000s. Cell phones had all kinds of shapes and sizes, laptops came in bright colors, and even video game consoles got in on the fun. The Nintendo GameCube not only featured its namesake shape but came in several vibrant colors, most famously a bright purple. In fact, its design was such a hit that it continues to inspire artists and console modders alike. An animator named [kidd.gorgeous] recently envisioned a GameCube as a hot tub, and [BigRig Creates] set out to make this animation a reality.
Of course,...
by Paul Jorion - about 5 hours
Illustration par ChatGPT
L’aptitude à la logique prévaut aujourd’hui sur la connaissance des mots clés des langages informatiques (mémoire) – mais celle-ci n’est pas testée chez les candidats
Un paradoxe traverse aujourd’hui le recrutement informatique. Les grands modèles de langage ont rendu triviale la restitution des syntaxes, des signatures d’API, des noms de fonctions, bref de tout ce que l’on appelait autrefois « connaître un langage ». Demander à un candidat de réciter la différence entre let et const, de se souvenir de l’ordre des arguments de array_map en PHP, ou de retrouver de tête la syntaxe d’une jointure SQL exotique, c’est tester une compétence que...
by Korben - about 6 hours
Plus de 230 modèles de points d'accès Wi-Fi Cisco ont un problème. Les versions 17.12.4 à 17.12.6a de IOS XE embarquent une bibliothèque qui génère un fichier log, cnssdaemon.log, à raison de 5 Mo par jour. Le fichier ne sert à rien. Et impossible de le supprimer depuis la ligne de commande.
5 Mo par jour. Ça paraît rien. Sauf qu'un point d'accès Wi-Fi n'a pas un disque de 500 Go. La mémoire flash de ces appareils est limitée, et au bout de quelques semaines ou mois, elle sature.
Quand c'est plein, plus moyen de télécharger ou d'installer une mise à jour logicielle. La borne fonctionne encore, mais elle est figée sur sa version actuelle, sans possibilité de patch de sécurité ou de...
by Torrentfreak - about 6 hours
Tu Manga Online (TMO) has long been the go-to destination for many Spanish-speaking manga fans. Through multiple domains, it offered access to manga and manhwa comics free of charge, attracting many millions of visitors.
In 2024, a detailed report from Deepsee flagged Zonatmo.com as a particularly popular domain. Together with the other TMO properties, it was estimated to generate a billion views in November that year. The same research linked the TMO operation to the Spanish company Nakamas Web SL, which was reportedly responsible for the sites.
This level of openness is unusual for a pirate site. DeepSee.io CEO Rocky Moss projected that the site would be stopped before the end of 2025. That projection was...
by Les Décodeurs - about 6 hours
A l’occasion de la sortie du nouveau single du mythique duo formé par Céline Dion et Jean-Jacques Goldman, révisez vos connaissances sur la diva avec « Les Décodeurs ». Dates et chiffres-clés, légendes… A vous de jouer.
by Korben - about 6 hours
Quand on fait du self-hosting, y'a toujours ce moment où on se dit "tiens, y'aurait pas un truc open source pour ça". Tenez par exemple, là je suis en train de chercher un machin open source pour un mariage qui permet aux invités de balancer leurs photos sur un serveur en scannant un QR Code. Et donc je me retrouve à scroller awesome-selfhosted sur GitHub, qui est une liste fleuve de +1500 projets, en essayant de deviner lesquels sont encore vivants.
Et c'est exactement ce problème qu'a voulu résoudre Ethan Sholly en lançant
selfh.st/apps
en 2024. En gros, c'est un annuaire d'applications auto-hébergées avec des vrais filtres, du tri, et surtout des indicateurs d'activité. Le mec est aussi derrière...
by daryo Bluesky - about 7 hours
Do We Really Need Another Development Board?
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/do-we-really-need-another-development-board/
by Journal du Lapin - about 7 hours
C’est une vidéo sur YouTube que je suis tombé sur un truc qui m’a intéressé : Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, un jeu pensé pour la console Sega SG-1000, a été modifié pour améliorer la rétrocompatibilité avec la Master System (Mark III au Japon). J’avais déjà parlé de la compatibilité des jeux de la SG-1000 avec la Master System, parce qu’un jeu (F-16 Fighter) vendu comme un jeu Master System en occident était en réalité un jeu SG-1000 dans une cartouche de Master System. La SG-1000 avait un puce graphique TMS9928 et la Master System une puce YM2602 (le VDP), rétrocompatible. Mais le fonctionnement n’est pas exactement le même.
Je simplifie un peu, mais la console SG-1000 peut afficher...
by Les Décodeurs - about 7 hours
La multinationale et DigitalEurope, lobby bruxellois, ont obtenu de l’Union européenne que sa réglementation garde le secret sur les données environnementales des gigantesques centres de données qu’ils utilisent en Europe, selon une enquête menée par le consortium Investigate Europe, en collaboration avec Le Monde.
by HackAdAy - about 8 hours
Kei trucks are some of the smallest commercial vehicles out on the roads today. You can also get lots of cute kei RC cars if you’re into the toy side of things. [Victor] wanted to split the difference with Truck-Kun, and built a 1:3 scale kei truck to show off at a recent anime convention. 
The truck is modelled on the Suzuki Carry.
The build started with a classic hacker favorite—a bunch of old hoverboard motors. These brushless hub motors are pretty easy to drive and have plenty of torque right out of the box. A simple ladder frame was whipped up with a hoverboard wheel at each corner, with a body whipped up out of cardboard, paint, and a few 3D printed parts to hold everything together.
Steering was...
by io9 - about 10 hours
Pete Hegseth has previously said he'd like the U.S. economy to be placed on a "war footing."
by HackAdAy - about 11 hours
That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it against a bog-standard 240 VAC, 1400 Watt unit, which one would you want to use when you’re doing some camping or other exciting off-the-grid opportunities? Unlike with boiling water the physics aren’t as clear-cut here, so [Cahn] did some testing to figure out exactly what the efficiency numbers look like
Since air fryers rely on the transfer of thermal energy from the resistive heating element into the food, any thermal energy that’s not immediately transferred is effectively wasted. This, combined with the relatively low power rating and thus much higher...
by BBC - about 13 hours
The duo had sought aslyum after their football team did not sing the national anthem during a match.
by Liz Climo - about 13 hours

by io9 - about 13 hours
Marvel Studios came to CinemaCon, and brought Victor von Doom with it.
by BBC - about 13 hours
The BBC speaks to a student who pushed for his toe print to be taken to verify his identity.
by The Verge - about 14 hours
YouTube is making some changes that might affect how you share videos from the mobile app. From the app, you can finally share videos from a specific timestamp, which will make it easier to point someone to a part of a video you might want them to see while you're on your phone. However, this change will replace the Clips feature that lets you make a shareable clip from a video.
You'll still be able to watch any Clips that you've already made. But moving forward, "the ability to set an end time or include a custom description when sharing will no longer be available," YouTube says. The company notes that while clipping is "important way for …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Brighter Side - about 14 hours
A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ordinary chemistry. A seemingly unusual planet might only be unusual because astronomers do not yet understand it well enough. That uncertainty has long haunted the search for life beyond Earth, where one planet at a time is often treated like a possible smoking gun. Now, a research team led by Harrison B. Smith of the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Lana Sinapayen of the National Institute for Basic Biology is arguing for a different way to look. Instead of asking whether one distant planet carries a clear sign of life, they suggest scientists may...
by HackAdAy - about 14 hours
It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one to the pile, but not before he was having some serious thoughts on the implications of such a decision. Does this world really need another devboard with the ubiquitous 2.54 mm (0.1″) pitch pin headers, all so that it can perhaps be used in the same traditional 2.54 mm pitch breadboards?
The thought that [Tech Dregs] is playing with is to go for something more akin to the system-on-module  (SoM) approach that’s reminiscent of the Raspberry Pi compute module form factor. This means using a 1 mm pitch for the headers and castellated edges in case you...
by BBC - about 14 hours
Few Israelis see this truce as a way out of the conflict with Hezbollah, the BBC's Lucy Williamson writes.
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:31
Google’s “Project Aura” will be its first Android XR glasses, expected later this year. | Image: Google, Xreal Google is reportedly partnering with Gucci to make a pair of AI smart glasses stylish enough people might actually want to wear them. According to Reuters, Gucci parent company Kering is planning to launch the glasses sometime in 2027. Google's first pair of Android XR glasses, "Project Aura," are expected to launch this year. They feature essentially the same look as Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, with chunky, black plastic frames. They'll usher in Google's second attempt at smart glasses, after Google Glass infamously failed to catch on over a decade ago. Last year, Google also announced glasses...
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:30
Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and cofounder of the Ballmer Group, has given $80 million to NPR. That's roughly seven years' worth of government funding ($11.2m) after Trump and Congress cut funds for public media, but only a fraction of NPR's full annual budget of $300 million. NPR may still cut jobs because the money has strings attached.
The money is specifically "to support the digital innovation that is essential to meeting the needs and serving the interests of public media audiences wherever they are and whenever they seek information," according to a press release. NPR journalist David Folkenflik writes t …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 22:07
A self-driving car moves through traffic one moment at a time. A bus blocks part of the road. Rain throws reflections across the pavement. A merging vehicle appears from the side. In scenes like these, the hardest part is often not seeing what is there, but deciding what to do next. That is the problem a research team behind a system called KEPT set out to tackle. Their idea is simple in principle: instead of asking an AI driving model to react to each new scene in isolation, give it a way to recall similar situations from the past and use those memories to guide its next move. “Short-horizon trajectory prediction is where many autonomous driving systems still struggle, especially in complex, busy scenes,”...
by The Brighter Side - yesterday at 20:07
Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid fuel. Chemists from Northwestern University have developed a way to convert methane directly into methanol in a single step, using electricity, water and a copper oxide catalyst instead of the punishing heat and pressure used in conventional production. The process relies on pulses of high voltage that create miniature lightning-like discharges inside a porous glass reactor. These discharges set off reactions that are otherwise hard to start. Methanol matters because it sits at the center of modern industry. It is used to make plastics, paints and adhesives. It is also drawing interest as...