Pour la deuxième fois de l’année, nous traversons un épisode de canicule, et ce n’est peut-être pas le dernier. Les effets de l’évolution du climat sont évidents, et nier ce changement relève de l’idiotie. Ou de la politique, tout comme insister lourdement sur ces épisodes (en dramatisant à outrance). En partant du postulat que plus […]

Ukraine's president said his country was open to "engagement" about "difficult and painful chapters of our shared past".

Jordan Peele has been MIA since 'Nope,' but thankfully, that may soon change.

Iran said Israel's continued attacks in Lebanon are a breach of Tehran's agreement with the US to end the war.

A simple addition to a daily diet may offer more than physical health benefits. New research suggests that drinking a small glass of 100 percent fruit juice or a smoothie each day could help improve mental wellbeing, especially for people who struggle to eat enough fruits and vegetables. Scientists at Newcastle University found that adults who added fruit juice to their diet alongside whole fruits and vegetables reported lower depression scores after just four weeks. The findings, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, add to growing evidence that diet plays a meaningful role in mental health. The results come from a controlled clinical trial that tested practical ways to help people meet the widely...

Dans les colonnes d’“El País”, Daniel Verdú, correspondant en France pour le journal madrilène, s’intéresse aux ambitions d’Édouard Philippe pour l’élection présidentielle de 2027. Si les sondages lui accordent une “certaine popularité”, l’ancien Premier ministre français sait que ses chances restent modérées face aux candidats du Rassemblement national et de La France insoumise.

Le K-drama est un succès d’audience sur Netflix. Mais “Que ça vous serve de leçon !”, sorti le 5 juin sur Netflix, fait couler beaucoup d’encre. Le webtoon dont il est adapté créait déjà la polémique pour sa représentation des violences scolaires auxquelles la réponse serait une sorte de super-prof lui-même violent avec les brutes du lycée.

Des dizaines de morts sont à déplorer au Liban, samedi 20 juin, en dépit de la conclusion d’un cessez-le-feu la veille entre le Hezbollah et Tel Aviv. Des discussions techniques entre délégations américaine et iranienne doivent tout de même se tenir dimanche.

The US president earlier questioned Meloni's popularity after suggesting she "begged" for a photo at G7 summit

The move comes after weeks of anti-government protests that have caused a shortage of basic goods in Bolivia.

Indulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific, releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum, is a collaboration with Ah! Kosmos (Turkish composer, Başak Günak). The album...

Après leur match nul contre le Japon, les Pays-Bas tenteront de remporter leur première rencontre de ce Mondial, samedi. Ils affrontent les Suédois, vainqueurs faciles de la Tunisie.

Apparently, Lucas loves the Minions so much, Illumination decided to put him in 'Minions & Monsters.' Incredible.

Starcloud, Axiom Space, Lonestar, and others are betting they can stake claims in orbit before Google and SpaceX scale up

Une cellule interministérielle de crise s’est tenue samedi matin au ministère de l’intérieur autour du premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu. Dimanche, 45 départements seront également en vigilance orange.

GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling a sunlike star 57 light-years away. It looked unusual, stayed frustratingly out of reach, and raised a deeper question: what kind of object is it, really? Now the James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers their clearest look yet, revealing an atmosphere rich with water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and other molecules, along with what appear to be salt clouds high in its sky. The result pulls the so-called Pink Planet into sharper focus, even as it leaves one central mystery unresolved. Led by Northwestern University’s Aneesh Baburaj, the team used JWST to capture the faint light of GJ...

Certaines personnes se trouvent démunies et ne savent quel sort réserver aux biens d’un proche décédé. Devant cette tâche souvent insurmontable, deux attitudes s’opposent : se débarrasser de tout ou, au contraire, honorer le mort en utilisant ses affaires.

Les échafaudages sont tombés pour de bon, le 18 juin : au terme de près d’une décennie de travaux, l’une des façades du monument le plus célèbre de Grèce, visité par 10 000 personnes chaque jour, est à nouveau coiffé d’un frontier triangulaire.

We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I are poster children for the home automation movement: she has absolutely no smart anything because she didn’t want her data up in “the cloud”, and I have an entirely local system that’s really nothing more than a bunch of ad-hoc scripts that talk to an MQTT broker, everything fully DIY but held together with metaphorical duct tape. Neither of us are doing it right, but we’re doing it wrong in interestingly different ways.
Kristina thought, probably because of the range of commercial devices out there that tie you into using their...

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027.
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access videogame available on PC, macOS, and steamOS (including the Steam Deck, where I played it) from musician and game designer Cosmo D. The game looks and feels like a 2000s-era first-person RPG or immersive sim: environments are grimy, stark, and blocky …
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En réaction à l’hommage rendu par Kiev à des nationalistes ukrainiens du XXᵉ siècle accusés de massacres en Pologne, le président polonais, Karol Nawrocki, a retiré la plus haute distinction de son pays à Volodymyr Zelensky.

L’Iran a annoncé un peu plus tôt fermer le détroit en réaction aux attaques d’Israël au Liban. Les frappes dans le sud du pays, survenues quelques heures après l’annonce d’un cessez-le-feu entre Israël et le Hezbollah, y ont fait plus de 30 morts, selon des sources libanaises.

At least 20 people have reportedly been killed by Israeli air strikes as the Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.

From a $180-per-night Rhine cruise with Black Forest cake demos to an all-inclusive Mississippi sailing that departs from New Orleans' French Quarter

It all seems a bit fishy to us.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder, trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube Music, free trial-hopping my way through the World Cup, finally upgrading my camera setup with the E …
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Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward the Big Bang, and the equations run into a singularity, a point where density and temperature shoot to infinity and known physics stops being useful. That breakdown has helped turn questions about the universe’s earliest moments into something close to a dead end. What existed before the Big Bang? Could the cosmos have bounced out of an earlier phase? Did inflation begin in a smooth universe, or a messy one? Those ideas have often been discussed more as speculation than as something scientists could truly test. A new review argues that this may be starting to change. Writing in...

In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to environments that our bodies do not mind, like getting hit by a rainstorm or simply washing our hands. These two factors combined make especially devices like smart rings an interesting case study for repairability, with [iFixit] recently taking apart a modern Oura smart ring to assess its e-waste factor after the built-in battery dies.
The tiny 10.5 mAh Lipo cell in the Oura Ring 5. (Credit: iFixit)
The subject of the teardown video is the Oura Ring 5, a $400 smart ring that’s designed to track your vitals much like a wrist-worn fitness tracker...

After adding one to my home, here's why you might want a home battery, how they work, and what to look for, plus some installation tips.

We’ve trawled the depths of Amazon to find the best deals on gear we’ve tested.

I did the research and taste-testing to find the best greens powders worth your money. Bloom Nutrition’s Superfood Greens Powder is my tried-and-true pick.

Two robovacs worthy of your consideration this Prime Day.

Starting nearly a decade ago, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched a plan to cut off revenue streams to pirate sites.
WIPO is well-respected internationally and part of the United Nations, which ensured cooperation from a wide variety of countries. In 2019, WIPO launched an advertising blocklist that lets member states flag infringing sites. This list can then be shared with advertisers, who can use it to make sure that revenues don’t end up going to these sites.
This “WIPO Alert” system has been running for years with thousands of domain names being added. While it still functions today, WIPO has quietly been working on a new “WIPO Alert Pay” system that targets the payment...

The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city’s public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren’t so sure.

The D.O.J. has fast-tracked immigration cases for unaccompanied minors and fired judges who appear not to comply.

The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened.

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

D'habitude, une batterie domestique, c'est un gros bloc qu'on planque à la cave ou au garage. SAMDUO prend le contre-pied avec sa gamme Nex, présentée cette semaine à Amsterdam, et veut en faire un objet qu'on assume de laisser à la vue de tous.
Le modèle E6000 ressemble à un grand cadre fixé au mur, 11,9 cm d'épaisseur seulement, soit la plus fine du monde d'après la marque. Sa variante E6000H abandonne le mur pour un cube de la taille d'un micro-ondes, à glisser dans un coin. Même capacité. Deux façons de la ranger. Derrière SAMDUO se cache un industriel chinois quasi inconnu il y a encore six mois, qui arrive en Europe avec de gros moyens. Les deux E6000 stockent 6 kWh et visent le tarif de...

Plus: Gay bars in San Francisco using face scanners, France quits Palantir, Apple plans to change its private email and more.

Sébastien Lecornu vient d’ordonner la réalisation, régulière et de manière inopinée, de tests salivaires au sommet de l’État. Le but est de repérer les ministres, membres de cabinets, et hauts fonctionnaires, qui prennent de la drogue, et les virer si c’est le cas. La démarche provoque le buzz, et l’irritation chez une partie du public […]

From the Grand Canyon's mile of open air to Acadia's lighthouse silhouetted against the Atlantic, the national parks with the best sunsets

From Crested Butte's July wildflower meadows to a Maine coastal town where advisors say lobster rolls are among the best they've had anywhere

Aluminum-free deodorants vary widely in how well they hold up through an active day. Consumer Reports tested nine to find the top picks

By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components required to use one. This becomes ever more annoying out in the field away from a handy HDMI, USB desktop, and power supply.
The Edgeberry Zero is an attempt to tackle this by mating a Raspberry Pi Zero with a PCB holding a robust power supply and interface connector, all together in a case. better still it comes with Edgeberry Hub, a software management interface.
It appears to be a commercially available product, but it’s Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) certified and everything is available in a GitHub repository. Looking at it...

I’m a fan. I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot.
As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a room. It looks okay, despite all the plastic, is relatively quiet, runs for hours on battery, has an integrated nightlight, transforms from a desktop to standing fan in seconds, and works on its own or as part of a smart home. There's a lot to like here.
Over …
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Le recyclage n'est pas une solution miracle, il faut organiser la décroissance matérielle
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/le-recyclage-n-est-pas-une-solution-miracle-il-faut-organiser-la-decroissance-materielle

SimpleSound est un petit utilitaire dans les vieilles versions de Mac OS, qui se trouve soit dans le menu , soit dans le dossier Applications (Mac OS 9)/Compléments Apple dans mon cas. C’est un Easter Egg qui n’est pas très impressionnant, comme le dit MacKiDo : si vous faites  -> A propos de SimpleSound et que vous cliquez sur l’icône, vous verrez le nom de Kip Olson, qui a développé l’app. Le nom n’est visible que si vous gardez le bouton de la souris enfoncé.
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Un inquiétant retour en arrière ? La durabilité et le succès du projet européen seront définis par un équilibre prudent, mais non moins ferme, entre ses valeurs fondamentales, le pragmatisme, la promotion de la compétitivité mondiale et une voix internationale unifiée et proactive. Tel est le discours moteur qui résonne aussi bien dans les couloirs des institutions de l'Union européenne que dans les cabinets des États membres. Si la théorie est bien étudiée, sa mise en œuvre pratique demeure loin d'être concrétisée. Un inquiétant retour en arrière ?
La durabilité et le succès du projet européen seront définis par un équilibre prudent, mais non moins ferme, entre ses valeurs...

How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured it could actually prove to be a simple but useful benchmark for comparing computers over many eras and architectures. Thus was born the Million Measure.
The intention was to develop a benchmark that could run on just about anything considered a “computer.” As explained in a recent talk, the Million Measure can be run quite simply on anything from an ancient World War II computer like Colossus, to a modern Raspberry Pi. There are no complicated algorithms that need optimization, nor architecture-specific code required to do the job. The museum...

Malcolm, 7 ans, cherchait quelqu’un pour jouer au ballon. Emmanuelle, 13 ans, fuyait une mère maltraitante. Louis-Marie, 24 ans, venait tout juste d’être expulsé… Tous trois ont eu la chance de trouver sur leur chemin une personne qui a détecté leur détresse et est devenue pour eux un parent de cœur ou de substitution.

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic – like summing 1 and 1 – and pass it on to a dedicated calculator application, even if still cannot correctly count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’. This is where [Alvaro Videla] asks the question whether it is at all possible to perform arithmetic with a language model.
Since an LLM at its core is nothing but a vector space of probabilities that a matrix-based inference process uses to create a probabilistic output of tokens you’d not expect a lot of deterministic behavior. How can you do arithmetic without grounding it...

A ghostlike particle from deep space sent astronomers chasing one of the Universe’s hardest mysteries. The trail led somewhere unexpected. Instead of a ravenous black hole, the signal appears linked to a distant galaxy packed with fast, furious star formation. The particle was a high-energy neutrino, detected on Sept. 22, 2021, by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Known as IC 210922A, the event carried an energy of about 750 teraelectronvolts. It ranked among IceCube’s most notable alerts that year. Neutrinos are notoriously difficult to trace. They rarely interact with matter, which makes them useful cosmic messengers but frustrating ones. Although a few galaxies have already been tied...

You'll soon be able to play a 'VtM'-style vampire in 'D&D.'

Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be coming this year: We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can't build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a result, we've decided not to launch a new CMF phone this year. Last week, Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei also said the RAM shortage has impacted the cost of the company's mid-range phone, stating, "For Phone 4A, memory costs doubled between …
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Rivers do not sit still for easy measurement. Some shift across floodplains, some hide under tree cover, and some disappear for months before flowing again. That makes them surprisingly hard to define, even as they remain central to drinking water, fisheries, flood risk, and the health of the seas they feed. A new review in Nature Water argues that satellites are finally giving scientists a way to study rivers as both local systems and part of a single planetary network. The promise is not just better maps, but better warnings about pollution, drought, harmful algal blooms, and the growing human pressures reshaping waterways worldwide. “Rivers, especially small streams, are very hard to define. They are...

“After four decades of stagnation, the United States is seeing a resurgence of nuclear technology. At about 4:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Valar Atomics’ small modular reactor in Orangeville, Utah, reached zero-power fueled criticality. The feat marks the first time a Department of Energy-authorized reactor has been built outside of a national laboratory.” From Deseret.
The post Valar Atomics’ Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality in Utah appeared first on Human Progress.

“For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first reported use of a vision-language model in orbit, and offers a glimpse of how AI could fundamentally change what space-based sensors are capable of — and how much they’re worth. Typically, satellites download large chunks of data to analysts on the Earth below, who use machine learning algorithms or their own eyes to figure out what’s going on. But onboard YAM-9, a spacecraft built by space infrastructure company Loft Orbital, a software package built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory identified areas of...

“Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved sweeping reforms backed by the Communist ​Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of the country’s socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing U.S. sanctions. The ‌measures, if implemented as passed, would represent the single largest change to Cuba’s socialist model since former leader Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution and a major shift towards a market economy. The reforms open the door to private real estate development on the Caribbean island, propose to transform state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes and would allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance...

Le second épisode de chaleur précoce de l’année doit s’intensifier ce week-end et pourrait se prolonger la semaine prochaine. Parcourez la carte des prévisions de Météo-France, région par région.

“Deaths from infections that cause diarrhea and other intestinal illnesses have fallen sharply since 1990, according to a study published last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023, an international team of researchers examined mortality from enteric infectious diseases across 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023. The category included diarrheal disease, invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections, enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid), and other intestinal infectious diseases, which are typically transmitted through the fecal-oral route by contaminated food, water, or hands and can be highly...