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by BBC - about 19 minutes
Footage on social media shows flames ravaging the Belgian festival's main stage, just two days before it opens.
by QZ - about 20 minutes
Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot is barely making a dent in downloads compared to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a report found
by io9 - about 21 minutes
Musk says its personality is "inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades."
by io9 - about 31 minutes
The latest edition of the 'Warhammer 40K' prequel spinoff no longer specifies the 'hormonal and biological make-up' of gender in the process of creating Space Marines, leaving room for fandom interpretations that have existed for many years.
by The Verge - about 37 minutes
Starting in mid-August Google is raising the price of its Nest Aware subscriptions. | Image: Google Google is raising the price of its Nest Aware and Nest Aware Plus subscriptions starting in August 2025. According to emails sent out to subscribers today, the cost of the entry-level Nest Aware service is increasing from $8 per month or $80 per year to $10 per month or $100 when paying for a full year up front. Nest Aware Plus is going from $15 per month or $150 per year to $20 per month or $200 annually. Google says the new pricing will go into effect “on your first bill that occurs on or after August 15, 2025, or at the end of your promotional period (whichever is later).” The company last increased its...
by io9 - about 40 minutes
Named Ammonite, the distant object casts doubt on the existence of the elusive Planet Nine.
by The Verge - about 52 minutes
This is obviously an anime Kylo Ren, but I guess Edward Cullen is the inspiration. | Image: xAI Days after introducing an AI ‘waifu’ companion for Grok, Elon Musk is now officially teasing a male version for the ladies. So far we can tell it is broody and dark-haired, and according to Musk, “his personality is inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades.” This is a decidedly different tack than the cutesy “girlfriend who is obsessed with you” aura baked into Ani, the female counterpart that Grok rolled out just a few days ago. While Cullen and Grey have titillated readers of romance and “spicy” books for years, both have been criticized for problematic behaviors...
by BBC - about 54 minutes
The US president admitted he had broached sacking Jerome Powell but rowed back on removing him hours later.
by io9 - about 58 minutes
Scholars may have been misreading verses from a 12th-century sermon for over a century.
by io9 - about 1 hour
The puppet addressed the statements made from his account over the weekend.
by New Yorker - about 1 hour
The author of “Creation Lake” on how artists steal from the world.
by QZ - about 1 hour
Trump suggested to a group of GOP lawmakers that he will fire the Fed chair. But he later signaled he would let Powell finish his term
by QZ - about 1 hour
The unpredictability of Trump-era trade policy has created a kind of dream environment for trading desks
by QZ - about 1 hour
The project uses Azure AI to generate key licensing documents for reactors — without replacing human oversight
by QZ - about 1 hour
Compounding pharmacies that pharma giants thought they had defeated when the FDA banned copycat weight loss drugs are using a legal loophole to keep going
by The Verge - about 2 hours
A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more.  One of the best smart home upgrades you can make, a smart lock gives you remote control over access to your house from anywhere, plus easy, key-free ways to unlock and lock your door. Smart locks also remember everything that happened, so they can tell you when your door was unlocked, and sometimes who did it. For most people, control and convenience are big enough selling points. However, smart locks also work nicely with other smart home devices,...
by The Verge - about 2 hours
I like to drive without the distractions of my work life interrupting me, but if you’re eager to stay connected then Mercedes-Benz is ready. You’ll soon be able to join a Microsoft Teams call in some Mercedes‑Benz vehicles and use the in-car camera to chat with colleagues while you’re driving. Mercedes‑Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Microsoft Teams while a car is being driven, but there are some important safety caveats. While you can share a video stream of yourself merrily driving along, you won’t be able to see any shared screens or slides while you’re in motion. Usually video meeting apps like Teams, Zoom, or WebEx only work while a car is stationary, so this...
by Wired - about 2 hours
The US almost lost its measles elimination status once. Lessons from that episode suggest it will be more difficult to avoid doing so now.
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Parmi les mesures destinées à réduire la dépense publique, le premier ministre a annoncé la suppression de 3 000 emplois publics dès 2026 et le non-remplacement d’un fonctionnaire sur trois à partir de 2027. Les syndicats d’enseignants, qui dénoncent déjà des conditions de travail dégradées, craignent que des postes disparaissent.
by BBC - about 2 hours
Mike Huckabee calls for "accountability" after a young Palestinian-American was beaten to death in an attack by settlers.
by Wired - about 2 hours
Curious about generative AI and copyright? On July 16, our writers answered your questions about this critical topic.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
This week Jonathan and Katherine talk with Jamie Abrahams about Drupal, and how AI just makes sense. No, really. Jamie makes a compelling case that Drupal is a really good tool for building AI workflows. We cover security, personal AI, and more! https://www.drupal.org/u/yautja_cetanu
https://www.drupal.org/project/ai
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by The Verge - about 3 hours
Nintendo just announced the two leads of its live-action Legend of Zelda film, and unlike the celebrity-packed Mario movie cast, Zelda will star two young, lesser-known actors: Bo Bragason as Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link. You may not have heard of them, but there's a good chance they're going to be a part of the franchise for a while.
Choosing stars who are in their teens (Ainsworth) and early 20s (Bragason) makes a lot of sense. In the games, even the "older" Links and Zeldas are still typically young adults, so Bragason and Ainsworth seem like they'll fit the mold. (Yes, I know Link and Zelda are technically older than 100 in …
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by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Réconcilie-toi avec la personne que tu étais autrefois. Elle vit toujours en toi.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Mercredi 16 juillet, Ekrem Imamoglu, maire de la plus grande ville de Turquie, a été condamné à vingt mois de prison pour insulte et intimidation envers un procureur. Principal opposant du président Erdogan, l’homme avait déjà été condamné pour corruption et est détenu depuis mars.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Mercredi 16 juillet, Israël a bombardé des bâtiments gouvernementaux et militaires syriens à Damas ainsi que le sud de la Syrie. La chaîne qatarie “Al-Araby” a pu filmer en direct les frappes qui ont fait au moins dix morts, tandis que les drones israéliens continuent de survoler la ville.
by Wired - about 3 hours
The AI-powered ElliQ robot and smart display aim to improve life for older folks living alone.
by BBC - about 3 hours
For the first time, the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation confirms deaths at one of its sites.
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
En décembre, un champion ukrainien d’e-sport avait publié sur les réseaux sociaux des vidéos de sa rencontre avec une jeune Chinoise, lors d’une compétition à Shanghai, suggérant qu’ils avaient eu des relations intimes. Identifiée, cette étudiante a été exclue par l’Université technologique de Dalian pour “atteinte à la dignité nationale”. L’établissement a aussi révélé son identité, l’exposant au cyberharcèlement.
by Wired - about 4 hours
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
by HackAdAy - about 4 hours
Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a conventional modern airliner. Despite the speed, though, supersonic passenger service has never really been sustainable thanks to the noise involved. Disruption from sonic booms has meant that supersonic travel over land is near-universally banned. This strictly limits the available routes for supersonic passenger jets, and thus their economic viability.
Solving this problem has been a hot research topic for some time. Now, it appears there might be a way forward for supersonic air travel over land, using a neat quirk of...
by Wired - about 4 hours
Hyperlite Mountain Gear and Dyneema collaborate on lighter, more durable hiking backpacks, which lets you put even more Dyneema on your Dyneema.
by Courrier International - about 5 hours
Les événements en Syrie se succèdent rapidement. Le bilan humain des affrontements s’élève désormais à 300 morts, tandis que les frappes israéliennes à Damas ont complexifié davantage la donne. Dans ce reportage, publié le 15 juillet, le quotidien libanais “L’Orient-Le Jour” raconte, témoignages à l’appui, la détresse et la confusion parmi les habitants encore sur place.
by Les Décodeurs - about 5 hours
Avec onze jours fériés par an, la France se situe légèrement en deçà de la moyenne européenne. François Bayrou propose d’en supprimer deux afin de dégager, selon lui, 4,2 milliards d’euros d’économies par an.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
Over on their substack [ObsoleteSony] has a new article: The Last Disc: How Blu-ray Won the War but Lost the Future.
In this article the author takes us through the history of Blu-ray media and how under Sony’s stewardship it successfully defeated the competing format of the time, HD DVD. Sony started behind the eight ball but through some deft maneuvering managed to come out on top. Perhaps the most significant contributing factor was the inclusion of Blu-ray drives in the PlayStation 3.
The person leading the Blu-ray initiative for Sony was Masanobu Yamamoto, whose legacy was the compact disc. What was needed was a personal media format which could deliver for high-definition 1080p video. As the DVD format...
by Korben - about 6 hours
On vient de l’apprendre, les autorités chinoises utilisent un nouveau malware qui peut aspirer TOUTES les données de votre smartphone, y compris vos messages Signal. Et ils n’ont même pas besoin d’exploit pour ça, mais juste que vous leur tendiez votre téléphone.
Ce petit outil s’appelle Massistant et c’est l’œuvre de Xiamen Meiya Pico, un géant de la tech chinoise qui détient 40% du marché de la forensique numérique en Chine. D’ailleurs, c’est marrant (enfin façon de parler), car cette boîte a été sanctionnée par les États-Unis en 2021 pour son rôle dans la surveillance des minorités ethniques. Mais bon, ça ne les empêche visiblement pas de continuer leur business...
by daryo Bluesky - about 6 hours
March 2020 📷 #flashes
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by Korben - about 7 hours
Team Group vient de sortir un SSD qui peut littéralement se suicider sur commande en se faisant griller les circuits comme dans Mission Impossible. Et non, je déconne pas car le P250Q, c’est son petit nom, est équipé d’un circuit de destruction indépendant breveté qui peut faire fondre la puce mémoire Flash en envoyant une surtension directement dans ses entrailles.
Alors évidemment, c’est pas le genre de truc qu’on va retrouver dans le PC gaming de Timéo. Non, ce SSD s’adresse plutôt aux secteurs militaires, industriels et à tous ceux qui manipulent des données ultra-sensibles. Mais avouez que l’idée est complètement dingue car en plus du mode “barbecue électronique”, le P250Q...
by Torrentfreak - about 7 hours
Originally known as Switch-xci, NSW2U has been a thorn in the side of Nintendo for over half a decade. The site was initially active on several platforms, including YouTube. Later on, its primary focus was providing a linking portal for pirated games.
The main NSW2U domain had more than two million monthly visits, according to Similarweb, which was enough to warrant a mention on the USTR’s latest list of notorious pirate sites. Following a presumed referral from rightsholders, it also attracted the attention of the FBI.
Last Thursday, we reported that the FBI had seized the NSW2U.com domain plus several others linked to gaming piracy sites. This action was confirmed in a press release issued by the FBI’s...
by HackAdAy - about 7 hours
The DEW line was one of three radar early warning systems of the time.
If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and-cover drills. The United States and Canada built the DEW line radar stations throughout the Arctic to detect potential attacks from the other side of the globe.
MIT’s Lincoln Lab proposed the DEW Line in 1952, and the plan was ambitious. In order to spot bombers crossing over the Arctic circle in time, it required radar twice as powerful as the best radar of the day. It also needed communications systems that were 99 percent reliable, even in the face of terrestrial and solar weather.
In the end, there were 33...
by BBC - about 7 hours
The hip-hop star's killing has been linked to a local gangland conflict.
by Les Décodeurs - about 9 hours
Parmi les pistes d’économies présentées par François Bayrou lors de son discours sur le budget, le durcissement de la lutte contre la fraude sociale. Estimée à 13 milliards d’euros par an, celle-ci draine des idées reçues : la désignation des responsables, l’origine du déficit de la Sécurité sociale ou la manne financière qui échapperait aux caisses de l’Etat.
by Korben - about 9 hours
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture !
Aujourd’hui les mais, je vais vous raconter l’histoire du mec qui a littéralement sauvé Internet. Non, c’est pas une hyperbole, c’est la réalité pure. En 2008, Dan Kaminsky a découvert une faille tellement énorme qu’elle aurait pu transformer le web en Cyber Far West. Mais au lieu de se faire des millions avec, il a choisi de sauver le monde. Vous allez voir, c’est incroyable !
by Usbek & Rica - about 10 hours
TRIBUNE // À mi-chemin entre le vélo électrique et la voiture sans permis, les véhicules intermédiaires (ou « vélis » dans le jargon) apparaissent comme une solution de mobilité intéressante dans les territoires ruraux. Dans cet article, Jean Dard, designer, et Loïse Lyonnet, ex-collaboratrice du ministère de la cohésion des territoires, passent en revue les avantages de ce mode de transport encore mal connu des Français.
by Le Monde - about 10 hours
Le ministre de la défense israélien a mis en garde la Syrie contre des « coups douloureux » à la suite d’attaques contre les Druzes à Souweïda. Les autorités syriennes ont annoncé, mercredi, un nouveau cessez-le-feu après qu’un premier, proclamé la veille, est resté sans effet, et que le bilan est monté à plus de 300 morts, selon l’OSDH.
by Korben - about 10 hours
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Et c’est reparti pour un tour. Pornhub, RedTube et YouPorn viennent encore de claquer la porte de la France, et honnêtement, je me demande combien de fois on va jouer à ce petit jeu du chat et de la souris. Le 15 juillet (hier donc), le Conseil d’État a tranché en faveur du gouvernement, et hop, les trois géants du X ont coupé le robinet… Et attendez, c’est pas le meilleur.
by HackAdAy - about 10 hours
For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although this is a fairly simple process, it is also remarkably inefficient. Recently Caltech researchers have managed to boost the efficiency somewhat with a new two-stage process involving electrocatalysis and thermocatalysis that gets a CO2 utilization of 14%, albeit with pure CO2 as input.
The experimental setup with the gas diffusion electrode (GDE) and the copolymerization steps. (Credit: Caltech)
The full paper as published in Angewandte Chemie International is sadly paywalled with no preprint available, but we can look at the...
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
“SWAG” is the artist’s first album to hover above his noisy celebrity, to make a case for its own specificity.
by New Yorker - about 11 hours
A Yale Law professor on the Administration’s third-country deportation powers—and why the Supreme Court allowed it to send eight men to a prison in South Sudan.
by Le Monde - about 11 hours
L’économie russe aura besoin de 10 millions de travailleurs d’ici à 2030. Une gageure, alors que le déclin démographique s’accélère, aggravé par les pertes humaines de la guerre en Ukraine.
by KCRW - about 14 hours
The Santa Ana Unified School board voted to rename John C. Fremont Elementary after a family who helped end school segregation in California.
by KCRW - about 14 hours
The Mount Wilson Observatory ’s new series of concerts includes shows honoring space exploration and survivors of the January wildfires.
by daryo Bluesky - about 14 hours
Une Pippin dans sa version ISDN
https://www.journaldulapin.com/2025/07/13/une-pippin-dans-sa-version-isdn/
by Usbek & Rica - about 14 hours
Le dirigeant du groupe Meta veut ériger des « superclusters » informatiques spécialisés dans l’IA dès l’année prochaine. Il s'agirait d'une gigantesque infrastructure composée de plusieurs centres de données, censée aboutir à une forme d'IA « superintelligente ».
by Journal du Lapin - about 15 hours
Il y a quelques jours, un ancien développeur de chez Apple (John Calhoun) a publié un article qui m’a intéressé : il explique qu’il a failli être licencié à cause d’un Easter Egg. Je suis tombé sur l’article pour une bonne raison : il a lié un de mes articles (sur un autre Easter Egg) dans son article. Visiblement, John est à l’origine de l’Easter Egg des crayons de Mac OS 8. Il indique d’ailleurs que les crayons qui s’usent redeviennent complets le 25 décembre, pour Noël. Mais revenons à son (presque) licenciement.
Il explique qu’il avait prévu un petit Easter Egg dans les ressources du Color Picker : elles portaient des noms inspirés d’un extrait d’un poème de T.S....
by Le Taurillon - about 16 hours
Alors que les députés européens s'installent dans l'hémicycle, la présidente Roberta Metsola et son invité d'honneur, sa Majesté Abdallah II, roi du Royaume hachémite de Jordanie entrent dans l'hémicycle. Sa présence en session plénière, ce mardi 17 juin, témoigne de la volonté de la Jordanie et de l'Union européenne de renforcer leurs relations diplomatiques. Déjà présent au Parlement il y a cinq ans, le roi Abdallah II a réaffirmé sa considération de l'Union européenne comme un “partenaire symbolique dans la quête d'une stabilité régionale au Moyen-Orient”.Les deux dirigeants ont prononcé, l'un après l'autre, des discours ambitieux, desquels ont émergé des lignes directrices...
by Le Monde - about 17 hours
Dans un entretien au « Monde », la chercheuse installée à Tel-Aviv détaille l’absence de consensus sur la façon de régler le conflit israélo-palestinien et craint l’isolement du pays.
by Le Monde - about 18 hours
« En croisière » (2/5). Les nouveaux paquebots sont conçus pour fournir du divertissement permanent… et payant. A mi-chemin entre le club de vacances et le parc d’attractions.