You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber and watch reflections caused by imperfections. When vibrations hit the cable, it changes the defects, which show up in the return pattern. However, with the right techniques, those vibrations could just as easily be from people speaking near the cable.
If you are alarmed, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the technique seems to be limited to coils of fiber that are not buried, and you have to be within about 5 meters of the fiber. The bad news is that there is plenty of dark cable all over the place....
If you are alarmed, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the technique seems to be limited to coils of fiber that are not buried, and you have to be within about 5 meters of the fiber. The bad news is that there is plenty of dark cable all over the place....
The US president criticises an Iranian counteroffer to end the war, and says the month-long ceasefire is "unbelievably weak".
Digg once reshaped the internet. It's been reshaping itself over and over ever since.
It is seeking to open three bases in the south of the Arctic territory, according to multiple officials familiar with the talks.
The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
Trump's whirlwind visit to China is the most significant for years - but will it bear fruit?
Eighteen days in orbit did not appear to leave a measurable mark on the hips, knees, or ankles of three astronauts from Axiom Mission 4, according to new research from National Jewish Health. The result is reassuring on its own. Just as important, the work points to a portable imaging tool. This could help doctors keep closer watch on joint health during future missions. This is especially relevant as space agencies look toward longer stays in orbit and eventual trips to the Moon and Mars. That tool is musculoskeletal ultrasound, a noninvasive scan more often associated with clinics on Earth than with astronaut medicine. In this pilot study, rheumatologists used it to examine cartilage, synovial fluid,...
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher risk ones.
Its launch comes just over a month after rival Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, a security-focused AI model it claimed was too dangerous to publicly release and only shared privately as a part of its own initiative, dubbed Project Glasswing. Still, that didn't stop at leas …
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Its launch comes just over a month after rival Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, a security-focused AI model it claimed was too dangerous to publicly release and only shared privately as a part of its own initiative, dubbed Project Glasswing. Still, that didn't stop at leas …
Read the full story at The Verge.
If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually just have a throttle and a brake. No transmission and, crucially, no clutch. Honda just patented a simulated clutch for those who want the old-school experience, according to [Ben Purvis], writing for Australian Motorcycle News.
This isn’t just a do-nothing lever on the handlebar. There’s haptic feedback to feel when the clutch engages. The motor responds to your actions on the lever. If you pull the clutch in part of the way, the motor loses power up to the point where there is no engine power with the clutch fully in. Most interestingly, the software...
This isn’t just a do-nothing lever on the handlebar. There’s haptic feedback to feel when the clutch engages. The motor responds to your actions on the lever. If you pull the clutch in part of the way, the motor loses power up to the point where there is no engine power with the clutch fully in. Most interestingly, the software...
If you want to go faster than 28 mph on two wheels in California, get a motorcycle license.
Le président du Parlement iranien, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a déclaré que les forces armées de son pays étaient « prêtes à riposter et à donner une leçon » en cas d’agression. Le président américain a, lui, déclaré envisager de relancer son opération « Projet Liberté ».
The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that could have let bad actors reprogram the robot over the internet. Yarbo customers will be able to decide whether that feature even gets installed in the first place, co-founder Kenneth Kohlmann pledges to The Verge.
Yarbo had already promised on Friday that it would tackle many security issues head-on, closing the holes that let security researcher Andreas Makris easily hijack any of the bladed robots from the other side of the globe, while also exposing email addresses and GPS locations. But whe …
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Yarbo had already promised on Friday that it would tackle many security issues head-on, closing the holes that let security researcher Andreas Makris easily hijack any of the bladed robots from the other side of the globe, while also exposing email addresses and GPS locations. But whe …
Read the full story at The Verge.
Le « Hondius » a quitté Tenerife après le débarquement des 28 dernières personnes à évacuer. Le navire, à bord duquel se trouvent encore 25 membres d’équipage et deux membres du personnel médical, devrait arriver à Rotterdam, aux Pays-Bas, dimanche 17 mai au soir, selon son armateur.
Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people "collaborate with AI the way we naturally collaborate with each other - they continuously take in audio, video, and text, and think, respond, and act in real time."
As explained by Thinking Machines: Today's models experience reality in a single thread. Until the user finishes typing or speaking, the model waits with no perception of what the user is doing or how the user is doing it. Until th …
Read the full story at The Verge.
As explained by Thinking Machines: Today's models experience reality in a single thread. Until the user finishes typing or speaking, the model waits with no perception of what the user is doing or how the user is doing it. Until th …
Read the full story at The Verge.
The director of 'I Saw the TV Glow' has 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,' starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, coming August 7.
The X-Men, Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four spearhead a new horror-tinged world for Marvel Comics.
Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov on how Western Union’s new stablecoin stands out
Robin Hood CEO Richard Buery sets the scene for benefit event
An American and a French national who have returned home have tested positive for hantavirus.
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Le réquisitoire, prévu pour durer jusqu’à mercredi 13 mai, a commencé lundi 11 devant la cour d’appel de Paris. Au premier jour, l’avocat général a décrit les ressorts d’une entente entre amis fidèles, élargie aux intermédiaires Ziad Takieddine et Alexandre Djouhri.
Green hydrogen has long been sold as one of the clean energy economy’s most important tools. It can be made by splitting water with electricity from renewable sources, then used in industries that are hard to clean up, from fertilizer production to steelmaking. The problem is that making it at scale still costs too much, and some of the equipment wears down too fast. A research team at the University of Hong Kong says it may have found a way around both problems with a new kind of stainless steel designed for hydrogen systems. Called SS-H2, the material was developed under the leadership of Professor Mingxin Huang. The team says it combines the corrosion resistance needed for harsh electrolysis conditions...
Guess what time it is– that’s right, clock time! It’s always clock time, and when it’s clock time at Hackaday the weirder the better. So, how about a water clock that’s not actually a water clock? The water here has nothing to do with timekeeping, but is what’s driving the display. Fair to say that [Strange Inventions] is living up to the name of his YouTube channel.
You can get the idea from the header image: each digit is formed by a fifteen-segment display made up of glass bottles. A stepper-driven peristaltic pump and some membrane-pump boosters fills the bottles as needed with dyed water, while emptying is accomplished simply by having a servo dump the water into a trough. It’s an...
You can get the idea from the header image: each digit is formed by a fifteen-segment display made up of glass bottles. A stepper-driven peristaltic pump and some membrane-pump boosters fills the bottles as needed with dyed water, while emptying is accomplished simply by having a servo dump the water into a trough. It’s an...
If you’ve always liked the idea of the Philips Hue Go portable lamp but couldn’t justify the $100+ price tag, Govee recently released a much cheaper alternative, the Govee Table Lamp Classic, and it’s already receiving its first discount. Right now, you can pick the rechargeable smart lamp up at Amazon for $63.99 ($16 off), which makes it less than half the price of Philips’ portable smart lamp.
Govee Table Lamp Classic Where to Buy: $79.99 at Amazon
The cordless lamp features a built-in 4,800mAh battery, which can last up to 30 hours with colored lighting enabled, though that drops to around five hours when using brighter white lighting. That’s not quite as long as the Philips Hue Go, which Philips...
Govee Table Lamp Classic Where to Buy: $79.99 at Amazon
The cordless lamp features a built-in 4,800mAh battery, which can last up to 30 hours with colored lighting enabled, though that drops to around five hours when using brighter white lighting. That’s not quite as long as the Philips Hue Go, which Philips...
The EU's foreign policy chief said "extremism and violence carry consequences", while Israel branded the move "arbitrary".
Un veto hongrois empêchait jusqu’alors l’Union européenne de prendre cette mesure contre les dirigeants des organisations soutenant la colonisation du territoire palestinien occupé. Les Etats membres ne sont, en revanche, pas parvenus à s’accorder sur une suspension de l’accord d’association entre l’UE et Israël.
The diplomatic standoff has left the two sides without a clear path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz
The Microsoft CEO said the company's partnership with OpenAI had a clear commercial element from the start, not a charitable one
There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?
In late April, Palantir - the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement - announced that it would be adding new products to its merch store. The latest offering was a cotton chore coat. At $239 and in bright blue and black options, the jacket looks like a standard offering that has, by way of photographer Bill Cunningham, trickled down into mainstream menswear for years. This jacket is a pastiche of 19th century French workwear that was worn by people actually doing physical labor; the only noticeable difference is that a dainty …
Read the full story at The Verge.
Read the full story at The Verge.
The administration plans to let more beef enter the U.S. at lower tariff rates, as ground beef prices have risen 40% over five years
Words do not spread at random. They cluster, hold their ground, and sometimes surge across a country with surprising speed. That is the idea behind a new model from the University of Portsmouth. Statistical physicist James Burridge has built a system that tries to predict how language changes over time. His work treats speech a bit like a physical system. In fact, he borrows tools used to study magnets, fluids, and other large collections of interacting parts. Instead of particles, the moving pieces are people. The things shifting across space are words, pronunciations, and dialect forms. “Just as meteorologists use mathematical models to forecast tomorrow’s weather, the same kind of thinking can be...
The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.
Dans une vallée aux ressources limitées, deux créatures échangent magiquement d’espèces et apprennent ainsi l’empathie. “Aventure croisée” cartonne depuis sa sortie sur Netflix le 1er mai. Pour la presse américaine, si le film d’animation n’a guère le mérite de l’originalité, il a indéniablement du charme.
Selon les informations du « Monde », ce Tunisien de 27 ans en situation irrégulière est soupçonné d’avoir fomenté un projet d’action violente contre le musée du Louvre. Il envisageait également de s’en prendre à la communauté juive parisienne. Lundi 11 mai au soir, il a été mis en examen pour « association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle » et placé en détention provisoire.
Cinq ans après l’assassinat de Jovenel Moïse, un tribunal fédéral à Miami a reconnu quatre hommes du sud de la Floride coupables d’avoir comploté en vue de tuer. Mais en Haïti la population attend toujours de connaître le nom des commanditaires, tandis que la presse voit en ce procès le symbole des “défaillances” des institutions du pays.
A computer the size of a credit card is nothing new. There have been many single-board computers following the familiar dimensions. [Krauseler]’s credit card computer is different, though. It packs an ESP32-C3, e-paper display, NFC reader, and, incredibly, a Li-Po battery into a credit card form factor in three dimensions rather than two. That’s right, this computer is only 1mm thick.
To ensure perfect compliance with the form factor, the enclosure, if that’s what it can be called, is a real NFC card with the middle cut out to take the electronics. The PCB is flexible, and the battery is the thinnest available. The e-paper display is an ultra-thin, flexible variant. A display connector would have been...
To ensure perfect compliance with the form factor, the enclosure, if that’s what it can be called, is a real NFC card with the middle cut out to take the electronics. The PCB is flexible, and the battery is the thinnest available. The e-paper display is an ultra-thin, flexible variant. A display connector would have been...
The game, developed by the group of anonymous artists known as Secret Handshake, is available online and in person in Washington, DC.
Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon.
La Royal Air Force a parachuté en urgence, samedi 9 mai, du personnel médical sur le territoire britannique d’outre-mer le plus isolé en raison d’un cas suspect de hantavirus. L’île de Tristan da Cunha ne compte pas d’aéroport et est uniquement accessible par voie maritime. Une mission de la dernière chance racontée par les médias britanniques.
A sharply defined cloud front on Venus, stretching about 6,000 kilometers across, has puzzled planetary scientists since Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft spotted it sweeping around the planet’s equator. The feature looked too large, too persistent, and too strange to fit neatly into existing models of Venusian weather. Now a team that included the University of Tokyo says it has pinned down the cause: the largest known hydraulic jump in the solar system. That phrase may sound exotic, but the basic effect is familiar. It happens when a fast, shallow flow suddenly slows and deepens. In a kitchen sink, you can watch water spread thinly from the faucet before it abruptly thickens into a raised ring. On Venus,...
Le projet du gouvernement mexicain d’avancer les vacances scolaires en raison de la Coupe du monde 2026 et des températures extrêmes suscite une vague de critiques dans le pays. Parents et enseignants dénoncent une mesure précipitée ignorant les réalités des familles.
Une nouvelle loi promulguée samedi 9 mai permet au gouvernement français d’acter “la sortie du domaine public” d’une œuvre “par un décret” sans plus avoir à passer par une loi spécifique pour chaque cas. “Un tournant historique”, estime “The New York Times”.
Humanoid robots are a thing now, and here’s an interesting research project that explores using one as a form of haptic media. Specifically, using a humanoid robot to move a chair while one plays a VR driving simulator.
Here’s how it works: a Unitree G1 robot sits behind a player’s chair and grasps it with its hands. Spherical markers on the chair help the robot’s depth camera know the chair’s position, and real-time G-force signals fed from the simulator (Assetto Corsa, running on PC) tell the robot how much and in what direction to shift the chair to match in-simulator events. While a humanoid robot (especially one equipped with articulated, human-like hands) makes for an awfully expensive force...
Here’s how it works: a Unitree G1 robot sits behind a player’s chair and grasps it with its hands. Spherical markers on the chair help the robot’s depth camera know the chair’s position, and real-time G-force signals fed from the simulator (Assetto Corsa, running on PC) tell the robot how much and in what direction to shift the chair to match in-simulator events. While a humanoid robot (especially one equipped with articulated, human-like hands) makes for an awfully expensive force...
The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?
A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite crystals had grown over time, and those crystals turned out to be a kind of clock. When scientists measured them, they found that some of the stone tools at Lingjing were made about 146,000 years ago, during a harsh glacial stretch of the Pleistocene, not during a milder warm period as many researchers had assumed. That shift of roughly 20,000 years may sound modest. It changes the setting completely. “People often imagine creativity as something that flourishes in good times,” said Yuchao Zhao, assistant curator of East Asian archaeology at the Field Museum in Chicago and lead author of...
Si vous croisez un robot-chien Unitree dans un hall d'HLM, sur un parking, un chantier, ou en train de patrouiller dansv otre ville, faut que vous sachiez 2 trucs quand même :
Un, n'importe qui peut le rooter en moins d'une minute avec son téléphone. Et de deux, le robot lui-même envoie en continu un flux chiffré vers un tunnel cloud opéré depuis la Chine. C'est en tout cas ce que Benn Jordan, musicien indépendant et chercheur amateur, vient de démontrer hier dans une enquête de 24 minutes qui fait, comme il le dit lui-même, un meilleur boulot que toute l'infrastructure cybersécurité du gouvernement américain.
Pour le hacker, suffit donc de se connecter au robot en Bluetooth, puis d'injecter une...
Un, n'importe qui peut le rooter en moins d'une minute avec son téléphone. Et de deux, le robot lui-même envoie en continu un flux chiffré vers un tunnel cloud opéré depuis la Chine. C'est en tout cas ce que Benn Jordan, musicien indépendant et chercheur amateur, vient de démontrer hier dans une enquête de 24 minutes qui fait, comme il le dit lui-même, un meilleur boulot que toute l'infrastructure cybersécurité du gouvernement américain.
Pour le hacker, suffit donc de se connecter au robot en Bluetooth, puis d'injecter une...
Un hacker au pseudo "fuzzeddffmepg" a balancé sur un forum cybercriminel le 7 mai une base de données présentée comme provenant d'Action Populaire, le réseau militant numérique de la France Insoumise.
Au programme : environ 120 000 adresses email uniques, 20 000 numéros de téléphone, et un paquet de données personnelles couvrant pratiquement neuf ans d'activité, de 2017 à 2026.
Le contenu de la fuite est franchement gênant pour les adhérents. On y trouve les noms et prénoms des utilisateurs, leurs adresses email et numéros de téléphone, leurs adresses postales liées à des paiements, leurs participations à des groupes et événements, mais aussi des messages privés et échanges internes,...
Au programme : environ 120 000 adresses email uniques, 20 000 numéros de téléphone, et un paquet de données personnelles couvrant pratiquement neuf ans d'activité, de 2017 à 2026.
Le contenu de la fuite est franchement gênant pour les adhérents. On y trouve les noms et prénoms des utilisateurs, leurs adresses email et numéros de téléphone, leurs adresses postales liées à des paiements, leurs participations à des groupes et événements, mais aussi des messages privés et échanges internes,...
Le numéro VIN de votre voiture est visible sur le bas du pare-brise et récupérable par n'importe qui qui passe à côté. Et croyez le ou non, mais c'est pourtant sur ce numéro, visible de tous, que repose en partie le modèle de sécurité de myAudi, l'application connectée pour contrôler son véhicule Audi à distance.
Un chercheur qui se présente sous le pseudo
Decoder
a décidé de regarder ça de plus près. Son setup c'est un émulateur Android Pixel 7, Burp Suite en proxy pour intercepter le trafic réseau ainsi que
Frida Server
et Objection pour contourner le
certificate pinning
de l'app. Des outils et du boulot classique de pentest mobile, pas particulièrement sophistiqué donc... Et ce qu'il...
Un chercheur qui se présente sous le pseudo
Decoder
a décidé de regarder ça de plus près. Son setup c'est un émulateur Android Pixel 7, Burp Suite en proxy pour intercepter le trafic réseau ainsi que
Frida Server
et Objection pour contourner le
certificate pinning
de l'app. Des outils et du boulot classique de pentest mobile, pas particulièrement sophistiqué donc... Et ce qu'il...
Entre le 6 et le 7 mai 2026, le site officiel jdownloader.org a été compromis et a servi pendant un peu plus d'une journée des installeurs piégés à la place des versions légitimes du célèbre gestionnaire de téléchargements.
Concrètement, les liens alternatifs pour Windows et l'installateur shell pour Linux ont été remplacés par un loader qui déploie un RAT (Remote Access Trojan) écrit en Python sur la machine de la victime. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, un RAT donne à l'attaquant un contrôle total à distance de votre PC : exécution de commandes, vol de données, installation d'autres malwares, et tout ce qui peut se faire avec un compte utilisateur compromis.
Bonne nouvelle dans le...
Concrètement, les liens alternatifs pour Windows et l'installateur shell pour Linux ont été remplacés par un loader qui déploie un RAT (Remote Access Trojan) écrit en Python sur la machine de la victime. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, un RAT donne à l'attaquant un contrôle total à distance de votre PC : exécution de commandes, vol de données, installation d'autres malwares, et tout ce qui peut se faire avec un compte utilisateur compromis.
Bonne nouvelle dans le...
Loved for its cheap seats and derided for its extremely low-frills flights, the American company was arguably a victim of its own success.
Stanley Richards brings faith in reform and his own experience of incarceration to an ongoing crisis.
Nearly two dozen kids were found at risk of abuse and neglect. Will their parents be held accountable?
Plus de 4 000 commits, 5 ans de décompilation acharnée, et selon l'équipe
ZeldaRET
le plus gros projet de reverse-engineering jamais bouclé sur un jeu Nintendo. Voilà tout ce qu'il a fallu à la team
Twilit Realm
pour livrer Dusk, leur portage natif de Zelda Twilight Princess sur Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS et même Android.
La sortie officielle a eu lieu samedi dernier, et le projet fait son petit effet dans la communauté retrogaming. Link traverse les plateformes dans Dusk (capture du
site officiel
)
Pour faire fonctionner le jeu, vous devez récupérer le binaire Dusk sur
GitHub
, puis lui fournir votre propre dump du jeu GameCube car la team ne distribue aucun asset de Nintendo pour limiter le risque...
ZeldaRET
le plus gros projet de reverse-engineering jamais bouclé sur un jeu Nintendo. Voilà tout ce qu'il a fallu à la team
Twilit Realm
pour livrer Dusk, leur portage natif de Zelda Twilight Princess sur Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS et même Android.
La sortie officielle a eu lieu samedi dernier, et le projet fait son petit effet dans la communauté retrogaming. Link traverse les plateformes dans Dusk (capture du
site officiel
)
Pour faire fonctionner le jeu, vous devez récupérer le binaire Dusk sur
GitHub
, puis lui fournir votre propre dump du jeu GameCube car la team ne distribue aucun asset de Nintendo pour limiter le risque...
In March, a coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a fresh lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy, including the use of their books as training material for AI models. This lawsuit follows on the heels of a case various music companies filed against the site a few months earlier. They sprung into action when Anna’s Archive said it would publish material from a Spotify scrape it had obtained earlier. As a result of the legal pressure and an injunction released in favor of the music companies, Anna’s Archive lost several domain names. Faced with a U.S....
Des candidats du Green Party justifient les attaques contre des synagogues. Mais cela n'a pas entravé la progression du mouvement de Zack Polanski aux dernières élections locales.
Crimenetwork démantelé : arrestation à Majorque, cryptos, données saisies et enquête cyber allemande.
