Writer and prospective showrunner David Jenkins ('Our Flag Means Death') shared the news on social media.

With RAM prices as high as they are, Sony wants to claim its consoles win on affordability.

Geography, wind patterns, nearby bodies of water, vegetation — the specific factors that determine whether 90 degrees feels tolerable or miserable

Financial planners who serve newly liquid tech employees describe a predictable sequence of freeze, tax shock, real estate temptation, and slow diversification

From coastal towns to mountain escapes, these U.S. destinations are at their best during the quieter shoulder season.

Artiste touche-à-tout et engagé contre les inégalités dans son pays, le Maroc, Mehdi Black Wind, de son vrai nom El Mahdi Lyoubi avait été arrêté le 10 juillet sur sa terre natale. Son interpellation avait suscité un vaste élan de mobilisation.

Both Amazon and Costco are offering some solid deals. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that’s still live, but if you’re an iPhone owner, we ultimately recommend Apple’s latest AirTag. Right now, you can pick up a four-pack for $89 ($10 off) at Amazon and Target, matching the bundle’s all-time low price. If you’re a member, Costco also has a deal that throws in a fifth AirTag for free.
Apple AirTags (second-generation) Where to Buy: $99 $89 at Amazon (pack of four) $99 $89.99 at Target (pack of four)
A growing number of Bluetooth trackers can tap into Apple’s Find My network these days, but none combine that with Apple’s...

These seven ways to keep a house cool without air conditioning use timing, airflow and shade instead of extra energy or cost

The 'Pixel Tag' could offer the same features as Apple's Bluetooth tracker, only on Google's Find Hub network and with a bean-shaped body.

Fireworks, the summer road trip, backyard barbecues — traditions so familiar nobody questions them, and origin stories stranger than expected

Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater by a hospital in Gaza. On Thursday, Google's initial response to van Ess noted that images generated with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth included a digital watermark and that the company prevented "image creation on harmful topics."
One day later, Google's new statement says tha...

Astronomers found evidence that solar storms and dust storms magnify heat synergistically on Mars, by as much as 90 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause "a loss of vehicle directional control," as reported earlier by Reuters. The preliminary investigation includes the 2018-2020 Model 3 and 2021-2023 Model Y, according to a filing from the NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation.
The NHTSA says it received 156 complaints about the issue, which "involves the detachment of the front lower lateral link." In most cases reviewed by the NHTSA, failure occurred with "no advance warning," but some "cite noises occurring prior t …
Read the full story at The Verge.

The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, unless of course they’ve been modded to work with modern systems, as [Aaron] has done.
[Aaron]’s goals were straightforward. The stick should work with modern systems over Bluetooth, but the mod should not involve cutting the case or making any new holes. All controls, including Turbo and Slow Motion, still had to work, too, and there would be no adding extra buttons for configuration or control.
To achieve this, [Aaron] whipped up a custom PCB which replaces the original cable attached to the NES Advantage. Power is via a small LiPo...

"Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota," said Trump.

“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 —...

Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple's AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a "Google Pixel Tag" that has a small oval shape. The publication also linked to a Slovenian store listing about the Pixel Tag that describes the gadget as an item tracker with a speaker that uses Google's "Find My Device" network (which is now called Find Hub).
The Pixel Tag is popping up shortly ahead of Google's planned hardware launch event for August 12th. Google has already shown off teases of the Pixel 11 lineup for the event, and leaks have also appeared for a new foldable, smartwatch, and earbuds. …
Read the full story at The Verge.

“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...

Les flammes, attisées par un fort mistral, ont repris vers 13 h 30 au sud de l’incendie du massif du Gros Bessillon, qui avait été fixé mardi. En Gironde, « la crise n’est pas finie, le feu n’est pas fixé, mais on progresse », a déclaré la préfète Sophie Brocas. Près de 200 000 personnes ont pu rentrer chez elles dans une vingtaine de communes du département, sur un total de 220 000 déplacés.

Après l’annonce du boycott par l’UEFA des compétitions de la FIFA si l’instance poursuivait son plan, annoncé mardi, deux proches collaborateurs du patron du football mondial ont critiqué un projet conçu dans le plus grand des secrets, y compris de la FIFA.

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.

“Schools in at least three states will be equipped with drones this year that can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. At least nine schools — three in Florida, five in Georgia and one in Colorado — will have storage boxes that house the plastic, nonlethal aircraft made by Austin-based Mithril Defense. The drones, which can be activated by teachers, are capable of reaching a shooter within 15 seconds. The aircraft are designed to distract their targets by flashing strobes, blaring sirens, spraying them with pepper gel, or ramming into them at 60 mph… Teachers will have an app or classroom panic buttons to summon the drones. Mithril Defense’s...

The city-council member Nithya Raman was an ally of Karen Bass, but Raman launched a challenge against her to bring more “urgency” to fighting the city’s housing crisis.

The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”

“China, the world's largest coal consumer, generated less than 50% of its ​electricity from the fossil fuel in the six months to June, marking a first ‌for the country, which has been promoting the use of renewable energy, officials said. Coal's share of the power mix was 49.7%, Xing Yiteng, deputy director general of the energy administration's development and planning office, told a press conference on Thursday.” From Reuters.
The post China Now Generates Less than Half of Its Electricity from Coal appeared first on Human Progress.

“Amazon's Zoox unit has won U.S. approval for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, ​a first for the autonomous ride industry, the U.S. auto safety agency said on Thursday. Zoox said that the National Highway Traffic Safety ‌Administration's decision gives the company federal approval to begin charging for rides, and that it will soon begin charging for service, first in Las Vegas, with additional markets to follow as it completes various state requirements. The exemption granted by the agency from federal rules requiring human controls, first reported by Reuters, marks a milestone for companies developing robotaxis from the ground up, ​rather than...

In the Philadelphia suburbs, the 1957 home by Carlos Joseph Alvaré has 10-foot walls of glass, exposed Douglas fir beams, fieldstone facades, and a lush, Japanese-inspired garden.Location: 1220 Susquehanna Road, Rydal, Pennsylvania Price: $1,056,000 Year Built: 1957 Architect: Carlos Joseph Alvaré Footprint: 2,244 Square Feet (3 Beds, 2 Baths) Lot Size: .72 Acres From the Agent: "The Rhode Residence is a remarkably preserved single-story midcentury-modern gem in Rydal, Pennsylvania, being offered for sale for only the second time since it was designed and built in 1957. Located in Abington Township, outside Philadelphia, the home was designed by Cuban-born architect Carlos Joseph Alvaré (1924–2017), who...

All future robot vacuums manufactured outside the USA (i.e., all of them) have been banned by the FCC. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these autonomous robots pose are only growing.
That's why greater scrutiny makes sense, but the ban on foreign-made mobile robots issued by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week - implemented to address "unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the...

Spain said most had returned to Morocco by Friday evening, as Italy suspended its Schengen agreement on free movement with Madrid.

« Vous donnez cette technologie et, un jour, ils peuvent se retourner contre vous », a mis en garde le président américain, lors d’un conseil des ministres ouvert à la presse dans sa résidence de Camp David. Le président américain avait annoncé, le 8 juillet, son intention d’autoriser l’Ukraine à fabriquer des missiles Patriot, à l’issue du sommet de l’Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique Nord à Ankara.

À moins d'un an de la présidentielle, une tribune initiée par l'Assemblée des quartiers et publié sur le Bondy Blog appelle à une large coalition antiraciste et antifasciste, ancrée notamment dans les quartiers populaires et les mouvements sociaux. Nous, acteurs et actrices du mouvement social et de la société civile, engagés dans diverses luttes et mobilisations autour de la justice, des quartiers populaires, de l'immigration, du logement, de l'anti-impérialisme, de l'anticolonialisme, (…) -
Repères / Extrême droite institutionnelle, Présidentielles 2027

Le parti conservateur PiS a implosé cette semaine, écartelé entre les tenants d’une ligne dure et leurs opposants. À sa une, l’hebdomadaire polonais “Angora” manie avec humour l’allusion historique.

Two bodies have been recovered from Pakistan's Broad Peak and seven spotted by drones - though their condition remains unclear.

Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you’ll have to settle for just the few that can fit in a podcast. The guys were excited about 3D printing — both FDM and SLA — as well as a few camera projects. Ever wanted your own starship? They do, too, and you’ll hear about it along with portable radar and more.
Want to make flexible PCBs? Fill up a carbon dioxide tank? Or play Doom via regular expressions? Tune in, and you’ll find out about those stories and more.
Follow along with the links, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments! Better still, drop us...

De plus en plus d’adolescents russes sont poussés vers les filières professionnelles techniques dès 15 ou 16 ans, après l’équivalent de la troisième. Une politique qui répond au manque de main-d’œuvre et qui, pour les garçons, raccourcit le chemin vers l’armée.

Le ministère de l’intérieur espagnol avait annoncé plus tôt dans la journée que 50 000 personnes avaient afflué dans l’enclave depuis jeudi. Selon le quotidien « El Pais », 57 migrants sont morts en tentant de rejoindre le territoire à la nage.

MAGA is loudly calling for the former White House chief medical adviser to end up in prison. WIRED asked legal experts to weigh in on whether that’s even possible.

Le 1er août à Périgueux, une manifestation aura lieu dès 17h au départ de la Filature et jusqu'à la mairie de Périgueux, pour affirmer le refus de voir le Canon Français s'installer dans la région, à l'appel de plusieurs partis politiques et syndicats, ainsi que des collectifs antifascistes, dont l'Action antifasciste Charente et l'Action antifasciste des Deux-Sèvres. Notre territoire ne doit pas devenir leur terrain de propagande. Face au Canon Francais, la mobilisation a déjà obtenu un (…) -
Initiatives / Manifs et rassemblements, Canon français

En acceptant la feuille de route du plan Trump prévoyant la mise hors service progressive de son arsenal en échange d’un retrait graduel de l’armée israélienne, le Hamas ouvre la perspective d’une fin de la guerre à Gaza, ardemment attendue par la population de l’enclave. Mais le succès de cet accord dépend désormais aussi de la volonté d’Israël de s’y conformer, observe la presse palestinienne.

Tired of vacuuming? Hand the reins to a robot vacuum.

Depuis quelques mois, les médias observent un engouement dans les métropoles chinoises pour des logements surnommés “lao po xiao”, soit des appartements petits et anciens. Si la presse chinoise se réjouit d’assister à ce phénomène, en le considérant comme un signe de reprise du marché immobilier, d’autres médias étrangers, comme “Bloomberg”, trouvent cela préoccupant.

Imaginé voilà quarante ans comme “une expérience de pensée ludique”, l’“indice Big Mac”, qui vise à comparer le coût de la vie entre plusieurs pays, est devenu une référence. Depuis, il est actualisé tous les six mois, avec le plus grand sérieux, par l’hebdomadaire britannique.

Etsy artists are fleeing the site as AI listings take over, NYC drops a proposed list of pied-à-terre owners slated for taxation, and more.San Francisco voters will once again decide the fate of the Great Highway this November, as a new ballot measure seeks to reopen the coastal road to weekday traffic, threatening Sunset Dunes Park. Here’s why the measure—and where residents stand on it—has become a reflection of neighborhood identity. (San Francisco Chronicle) Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed pied-à-terre tax has put luxury second homes under scrutiny, with a Department of Finance (DOF) webpage listing high profile owners including Anna Wintour, Cynthia Nixon, Taylor Swift, and even multiple city...

When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want both? [hallko1234] created just that by reverse-engineering and then patching a CR4501 colorimeter.
It starts with a problem: every time [hallko1234] needed to check a color, he had to take a reading, write it down, run to the office, match it with a table, and then walk all the way back. That sounds like too much effort. The natural solution, of course, is to automate the process.
So he did. The CR4501 will happily give you its entire firmware over the debug port, after which it was time for analysis in Ghidra. Some hiccups, brickings and accidental...

The realities of politics, war, zero trust, the deaths of thousands and the destruction of Gaza will make any agreement very complicated.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Fruit de plusieurs mois de négociations menées en Égypte, cet accord prévoit, selon le président américain, "le désarmement complet du Hamas et de tous les autres groupes armés à Gaza" - Crédits : Daniel Torok / Flickr The White House Une étape importante vers l'apaisement de tensions toujours vives au Moyen-Orient. Alors que l'attention était tournée vers la reprise des échanges de tirs entre Washington et Téhéran dans un contexte encore fragile, un autre dossier progressait en coulisses ces dernières heures. Le 30 juillet, Donald Trump a annoncé qu'un accord avait été conclu sur le désarmement du Hamas dans la bande de Gaza. Cette mesure constituait l'un des points-clés de la deuxième...

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 plusieurs sources, 60 000 migrants sont entrés illégalement ces derniers jours dans l'enclave espagnole de seulement 19 kilomètres carrés (plus de 37 500 d'entre eux étaient retournés au Maroc dans l'après-midi le 31 juillet), 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 contourné les contrôles frontaliers", selon...

Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.

An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.

Cette semaine, les données personnelles restent au cœur des alertes cyber. L'Hacktivisme politique semble faire son retour en France... ou pas !

Around 500 people, mostly tourists, are evacuated by boat from Agios Vasileios after becoming trapped.

Un pirate revendique un accès au CRM français d’ENI et diffuse des factures de professionnels et grands comptes.

The great thing about standards is there’s so many to pick from, right?. (Insert obligatory XKCD #927 here.) Several companies have developed naming schemes to refer to groups of attacks, and now Google has too.
Sometimes, malware, ransomware, or exploit groups name themselves: “Shinyhunters”, “LapSus$”, “Cl0p”, “Lockbit”, and so on. For the groups that don’t advertise their presence, identification and naming can be more difficult. Mostly state-run affairs that didn’t want to draw attention to themselves, these Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) groups were originally simply given numbers. APT28 refers to the Russian GRU Intelligence Directorate suspected of hacking the Democratic Party...

Un hacktiviste exhume des données de 2017 pour attaquer Chat Control et justifier une fuite politique controversée.

Les produits en plastique à usage unique représenteraient 50 % des déchets retrouvés sur les plages de l'Union européenne - Crédits : Shintartanya / iStock De nombreux Européens ont eu l'occasion de le remarquer. Depuis quelques années, les bars et les restaurants ne proposent plus la traditionnelle paille en plastique aux clients pour siroter leurs boissons. C'est le résultat d'une directive européenne adoptée en juin 2019, en application depuis le 3 juillet 2021, bannissant un certain nombre de produits en plastique de notre vie quotidienne. Pourquoi interdire la vente de certains objets en plastique ? Selon l'OCDE, la production mondiale de plastique est passée de 2 millions de tonnes en 1950 à...

Parmi les mesures les plus emblématiques du "paquet climat" se trouvait l'interdiction de la vente de voitures à moteur thermique (essence ou diesel) neuves à partir de 2035 - Crédits : SolStock / iStock Face au réchauffement climatique, la Commission européenne a présenté le 14 juillet 2021 un vaste ensemble de textes pour mettre l'Union européenne sur la trajectoire d'une réduction d'au moins 55 % de ses émissions nettes de gaz à effet de serre d'ici à 2030, par rapport à 1990. Cet objectif, inscrit dans la loi européenne sur le climat, constitue une étape vers la neutralité climatique en 2050, colonne vertébrale du Pacte vert pour l'Europe. Le paquet "Fit for 55" traduit cette ambition...

The owners had three requests: a place for their books, a kitchen for entertaining, and furnishings inspired by a beloved film.Santiago Sánchez and Ángel Herrera have hosted their share of parties at their two-bedroom apartment in Madrid. It had held up great since moving in two decades ago, but recently the couple found they were the ones in need of a change, having outgrown its traditional layout and lack of storage. Really, it just started to feel small. "It just got to the point where we said, We want to renovate," says Santiago. Moving was off the table: they loved living in Madrid’s quiet Vicálvaro neighborhood. "I open the window and hear the birds in the morning," says Ángel. Their current...

Thanks to things like spilled drinks, leaky batteries, and the general ravages of time, older consoles can be tough to keep going. In particular, excessive damage to a motherboard can make repair difficult or near-impossible to execute even if the rest of the console is in otherwise passable condition. Now, there may be greater hope for those looking to resurrect the worst-treated PlayStations out there, thanks to a new open-source motherboard from [xyzz].
The board is up on GitHub with a CC0-1.0 license. It’s aiming to be a drop-in replacement for the stock motherboard, on to which you would transplant all the necessary proprietary hardware from an existing donor board. The list of transplant parts is quite...

Après le président de la commission des Lois, Florent Boudié, voilà que deux anciens ministres, Hervé Berville et Astrid Panosyan, quittent le Palais Bourbon (et ce n’est peut-être pas fini). A chaque fois, c’est grâce à une vieille technique, la prolongation de mission au delà de six mois. Elle permet de passer le fauteuil au […]