“Forest growth exceeded harvesting levels in 23 EU countries with available data in 2023. A simple way to gauge whether wood production is sustainable is to compare the amount of wood harvested or otherwise removed in a year with the forest’s natural growth, known as the net annual increment, Eurostat reported on Friday. In 2023, the largest surplus of growth over removals was recorded in Romania at 39.9 million cubic metres, followed by Sweden at 26.4 million and Poland at 26.3 million. Estonia was the only country where removals were higher than growth, with 11.6 million cubic metres removed compared with a net annual increment of 9.1 million.” From The Brussels Times.
The post Forest Growth Surpasses...

Marco Rubio said US allies were open to helping escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed and threatened to charge fees for.

Dans cette série satirique d’Amazon Prime Video signée Riz Ahmed, le Britannique incarne un clone de lui-même qui rêve de jouer James Bond. Mais un acteur d’origine pakistanaise peut-il prendre la relève de Daniel Craig ? Découvrez ce que la presse britannique a pensé de “Coupez !”

Two Vince Vaughns star along with James Marsden and Eiza González in the sci-fi, action, comedy, gangster film now on Hulu.

Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it.

The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist.

This is all a pretty good ad for Anthropic.

Save big on this oversized Sennheiser soundbar with lots of ports and excellent virtual surround.

Des scientifiques ont eu la chance rare d’assister à la naissance d’un bébé cachalot. Un événement si peu documenté qu’on ne savait pas que de nombreuses femelles participaient à la mise bas pour aider la mère et son baleineau.

Ingram Micro CFO Mike Zilis on how AI is accelerating operations

The proposed under-14 ban follows similar steps in other European countries, including France and Spain.

Interrogé sur cette possible réaffectation, le secrétaire d’Etat américain, Marco Rubio, a dit que « rien n’a été redirigé pour le moment », tout en reconnaissant que cela « pourrait arriver ».

Regular masturbation and sex might be key to keeping your sperm healthy, a new review finds.

This time, Winter Soldier, Captain America, Phil Coulson, Maria Hill, Hawkeye, and Nick Fury are along for the ride.

Une étude a quantifié les dommages causés depuis 1990 par les États-Unis, principal émetteur de gaz à effet de serre de l’histoire, par rapport à la croissance économique mondiale.

La nouvelle série de Ryan Murphy, dont le dernier épisode a été mis en ligne le 27 mars, redonne vie à un couple star des années 1990 : John Kennedy Jr. et Carolyn Bessette, disparus dans un accident d’avion en 1999. Mais pour “The Atlantic”, elle a le tort de placer le spectateur dans une position moralement très ambiguë.

“Twenty randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comprising 15 782 participants met inclusion criteria. Lean mass constituted 25%-39% of total weight lost with incretin agonists: semaglutide (35.2% [95% CI: 31.5-38.9]), tirzepatide (25.4% [22.8-28.0]) and liraglutide (26.8% [23.1-30.5]). Lifestyle interventions showed comparable proportional lean mass loss (26.2% [24.1-28.3]; p = 0.42 for comparison), while lifestyle plus resistance training demonstrated the most favourable profile (17.5% [14.2-20.8]). Heterogeneity was moderate (I2 = 68%). No publication bias was detected (Egger’s test p = 0.23).” From National Center for Biotechnology Information.
The post GLP-1s Cut Muscle Mass at Similar Rate to...

Volatility has taken hold of the precious metals market, but analysts say the fundamentals haven't changed — yet

“The number of cats killed in shelters has gone down 75% compared to a decade ago. Ten years ago, getting out of the shelter alive was basically a coin flip. Today, cats are being saved at history-making levels.” From Best Friends Animal Society.
The post Cats Are Now Being Saved at History-Making Levels appeared first on Human Progress.

À partir du mercredi 1er avril au Japon, les enfants pourront, après une séparation, être placés sous la responsabilité des deux parents. L’autorité parentale n’était jusqu’à présent confiée qu’à l’un des deux parents, la mère dans 85 % des cas. “The Japan Times” signale cependant que la mesure ne fait pas l’unanimité.

“Sleeping sickness is a notorious disease — immortalized in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A single bite from a tsetse fly carrying the parasite is all it takes to infect someone. Without treatment one form of the illness can progress from mild symptoms to death in a matter of weeks. Now, a new drug holds the promise of helping the World Health Organization meet its goal of eliminating the disease by 2030. A committee of the European Medicines Agency has given an important green light to the first single-dose treatment — a medication called acoziborole, which could be in use by early next year. Acoziborole is especially notable because it is taken as three pills swallowed together in a single dose,...

The Nuki Smart Lock is the best retrofit smart lock currently available for people who want a minimalist, feature-packed upgrade to their preexisting deadlock. It’s currently selling for $149 at Amazon — its cheapest price ever — during the Big Spring Sale. Its fast unlocking speed, Matter-over-Thread support, and broad smart home compatibility impressed my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, enough for her to consider it the most advanced model she’s tested in her review.
Nuki Smart Lock
The Nuki Smart Lock makes it easy to upgrade your home security system without replacing your entire lock. It installs in minutes and can even sense when you’re approaching, automatically unlocking the door for you....

“Food insecurity is an existential threat for Africa (a continent facing rapid population growth and dire climate impacts) and addressing it a global imperative. Over 30% of caloric intake comes from maize, but crop yields are low partly because high costs make synthetic fertilizers uneconomical. A field experiment with Kenyan smallholder farmers explores the promise of genetically modified (microbial) biofertilizers to deliver nitrogen and increase yields at affordable costs. We see significant increases in yields (up to 110% for some farmers) and lower environmental impact than synthetic products. This suggests that biofertilizers could dramatically improve food security and child nutrition in Africa.”...

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UGREEN vient de lancer son dock Thunderbolt 5 le plus ambitieux, le
Maxidok Revodok 17-en-1
. Avec ses 17 ports, un emplacement
SSD
intégré et 140W de charge. Vu ma passion des docks Thunderbolt, je ne pouvais pas passer à côté de ce test.
Un dock qui ne fait pas semblant
Le Maxidok Revodok arrive dans un boîtier en alliage de zinc assez imposant. On sent le poids, on sent la qualité, et le design bicolore gris et cuivre à l'arrière lui donne un petit côté premium vraiment sympa. Les ailettes à l'arrière servent de dissipation passive. Côté connectique, il y a de quoi faire. Trois ports Thunderbolt 5 (un pour relier le Mac, deux en sortie), un...

TRIBUNE // À mesure que l’intelligence artificielle progresse, l’illusion d’un gouvernement des organisations et des sociétés par les algorithmes gagne du terrain. Mais la décision ne se réduit ni à ce qui est traçable ni à ce qui est calculable : capteurs, données et modèles ne disent rien des préférences morales, des arbitrages entre pertes et bénéfices, ni des récits collectifs qui orientent notre avenir. C'est en tout cas la conviction d'Olivier Tirmarche, sociologue des organisations et associé du cabinet Bartle.

The hack includes photos and emails from Patel.

BreachForums se fracture en héritages rivaux, clones et récits concurrents dans une guerre de succession cyber.

La BnF propose un voyage aux frontières du réel et de la fiction. Cette exposition ne peut qu’attirer des géographes, qui fondent leurs savoirs et leurs recherches sur les cartes. Mais les cartes disent-elles toujours la vérité ?
Près de 200 œuvres – parchemins médiévaux, atlas, livres imprimés, dessins, œuvres contemporaines, conduisent le visiteur du paradis terrestre à l’Atlantide, de l’Eldorado au monde de Nardia et pour finir aux territoires de Games of Thrones. Le parcours de l’exposition se fait en quatre escales :
– Celle des mondes inexplorés où dès le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, les cartes expriment autant la volonté de décrire le réel qu’un effort pour en combler...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Le secrétaire d’Etat américain a affirmé, vendredi, que les Etats-Unis prévoient la fin des opérations en Iran dans « les deux prochaines semaines ».

The hike, Sony's second in less than a year, takes effect April 2 and covers the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal

Gilles Guilbert, qui a tué en 2020 ce père de famille de 28 ans au volant de sa voiture, ne respectait pas « les conditions de la légitime défense », selon la cour d’assises des Yvelines.

With swappable modules, the WonderPress can function as a heat press, vacuum former, and compact oven. | Image: xTool xTool, a company best known amongst makers for its laser-based cutting and engraving tools, has announced a new multi-function crafting machine called the WonderPress. It's not an all-in-one device that can help you get an Etsy store off the ground, but the WonderPress can help turn designs from other machines, like Cricuts or sublimation printers, into finished products that are ready to sell.
The WonderPress is available for preorder now with a $10 deposit and an early bird discount that brings its price down from $399 to $279. Out of the box it's a replacement for machines like the Cricut...

The people at Signal Snowboards are well known not only for producing quality snowboards, but doing one-off builds out of unusual and perhaps questionable materials just to see what’s possible. From pennies to glass, if it can go on their press (and sometimes even if it can’t) they’ll build a snowboard out of it. At some point, they were challenged to build different types of boards from paper products which resulted in a few interesting final products, but this pushed them to see what else they could build from paper and are now here with an acoustic guitar fashioned almost entirely from cardboard.
For this build, the luthiers are modeling the cardboard guitar on a 50s-era archtop jazz guitar called a...

New 6.7-liter LS6 marks the 6th generation of GM's Small Block, delivering the highest production torque ever from a naturally aspirated V8

“ICE are here and they’re doing literally nothing to help,” said an airline worker in New York.

As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.

La communauté médicale se divise sur ces structures de diagnostic pour des maladies psychiques sévères. Le projet de leur inscription dans le code de santé publique, examinée au Parlement, a ravivé les tensions.

Despite the fact that spring isn’t often associated with big discounts, Amazon seems keen to turn every season into one filled with savings. Case in point? The retailer is currently hosting a spring sales event, which will run through 2:59AM ET on April 1st. Retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Newegg have also hopped aboard the wave of deals, matching many of the offers Amazon is making. Although we’ve already published a post that collects every major deal, regardless of price, this one focuses solely on gadgets priced at $50 or less. As usual, many products meet the criteria, but price alone doesn’t mean they’ll make the cut. We’ve narrowed it down to many of our core categories, including smart...

Il y a quelques semaines, le 6 mars, Le Monde publiait un article sous ce titre bien alléchant :
« Les signes gravés sur une figurine vieille de plus de 32 000 ans formeraient une proto-écriture ».
Avec comme illustration ladite figurine, nommée « l’Adorant », présentant effectivement tout un réseau de petites encoches (image ci-contre).
Nous y apprenions que ledit petit objet porte « 39 encoches sur ses bords et 49 autres sur son revers. En analysant les séquences statistiques des signes gravés sur plus de 200 autres objets de cette période, un linguiste et une archéologue allemands y voient des caractéristiques similaires à une proto-écriture cunéiforme, apparue en Mésopotamie vers...

Leaked documents described 'Claude Mythos' as the company's most capable model to date, with unprecedented cybersecurity risks

Renders of the Razr Ultra 2026 show a slightly thicker phone than last year’s model. | Image: XpertPick/OnLeaks While most flagship phones have been steadily getting slimmer over recent years, the upcoming 2026 version of the Motorola Razr Ultra could end up being a bit chunkier than its predecessor. Leaked measurements of the phone shared by XpertPick and OnLeaks on Thursday show that it will be slightly thicker than the 2025 version, about 0.1mm more when folded and 0.6mm more when unfolded. The full dimensions of the Ultra 2026, according to the leaked specs, are 171.3 x 74.1 x 7.8mm when unfolded and 88.0 x 74.1 x 15.8mm when folded. With the camera bump, the Ultra 2026 could be up to 9.6mm unfolded or...

Members of a convoy that delivered humanitarian aid to Cuba were detained and interrogated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon returning to the United States on a charter flight from Havana. Of the 20 US citizens who were pulled for secondary inspection at Miami International Airport on Wednesday morning, 18 had their phones and other devices seized by CBP, with little information given on whether and when they'll get them back.
The group was part of a larger coalition of activists who traveled in waves to Cuba as part of the Nuestra América Convoy, named after an essay by nineteenth-century Cuban intellectual José Martí criticizing …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Depuis dimanche, le Rassemblement national compte une vingtaine de conseillers municipaux en Bretagne, région longtemps perçue comme une « terre de mission » par l’extrême droite. Cette progression à bas bruit contribue à banaliser le parti et à professionnaliser ses cadres, tout en incitant la modérée droite bretonne à faire preuve de davantage de radicalité.

Isn’t there some claim events come in threes? After the extremely rare leak of the iOS Coruna exploit chain recently, now we have details from Google on a second significant exploit in the wild, dubbed Darksword.
Like Coruna, Darksword appears to have followed the path of government security contractors, to different government actors, to crypto stealer. It appears to focus on exploits already fixed in modern iOS releases, with most affecting iOS 18 and all patched by iOS 26.3.
Going from almost no public examples of modern iOS exploits to two in as many weeks is wild, so if mobile device security is of interest, be sure to check out the Google write-up.
Another FBI Router Warning
The second too early to...

The strike - which killed at least 168 people, mostly children - "evoked a visceral horror", Volker Türk said.

These apps and websites find bus, train, and ferry tickets when you want more options than flying to your destination.

The US president's commitment to deadlines is fluid but he uses them for a purpose, writes the BBC's James Landale.

Jeudi 26 mars, Blaise Mao, directeur de la rédaction d'Usbek & Rica, était l'invité de l'émission Le Talk de France Info pour parler du déploiement de l'intelligence artificielle en entreprise et de ses conséquences sur l'emploi, en compagnie de Damien Hontang, le CEO de Cobl.

Porsche’s latest electric SUV is its most capable yet, and its most powerful street car ever. But should you wait for the hybrid instead?

Noelia Castillo died on Thursday evening in a Barcelona hospital, after a protracted legal battle with her own father.

Avec Les Fleurs du Manguier (Hara Watan), le cinéaste japonais Akio Fujimoto poursuit une œuvre déjà marquée par une attention constante aux trajectoires migratoires et aux identités en marge. Son cinéma, à la frontière de la fiction et du documentaire, se distingue par une approche épurée et profondément humaniste. Nous nous sommes entretenus avec lui à l'occasion de la projection du film au Festival du film et forum international sur les droits humains.

  Chers LSpistes, Chères LSpistes,
Vous souvenez-vous que Langue sauce piquante a deux résidences ? Celle que vous connaissez depuis la naissance du blog en novembre 2004 et une autre que nous occupons depuis presque un an ?
Vous n’avez qu’à pousser la porte !
(photo : LSP)

Love them or hate them, inkjets are still a very popular technology for putting text and images on paper, and with good reason. They work and are inexpensive, or would be, if not for the cartridge racket. There’s a bit of mystery about exactly what’s going on inside the humble inkjet that can be difficult to describe in words, though, which is why [Dennis Kuppens] recently released his Interactive Printing Simulator.
[Dennis] would likely object to that introduction, however, as the simulator targets functional inkjet printing, not graphical. Think traces of conductive ink, or light masks where even a single droplet out-of-place can lead to a non-functional result. If you’re just playing with this...

The series, returning for a second season, is the latest example of a new breed—one that relies on elaborate, full-immersion experiments rather than on one-off stunts.

For the director Mani Haghighi, his country’s rich cinematic tradition is a family affair.

Un développeur indépendant a créé une horloge qui affiche des anecdotes mathématiques pour chaque minute de la journée, de 00h00 à 23h59. Nombres premiers, suite de Fibonacci, décimales de Pi ou de e...
Momentous est gratuite,
disponible sur le Web
et sur
iPhone
. Un projet passion assumé, puisque le créateur admet être quasiment le seul à l'utiliser.
Une horloge pas comme les autres
Oubliez les cadrans classiques. Momentous, imaginée par le développeur Andy Isaacson, part d'un postulat un peu fou : et si chaque minute de la journée avait quelque chose de spécial à raconter ? L'application affiche l'heure, oui, mais elle y associe une anecdote mathématique tirée des propriétés du nombre...

Canonical vient de publier la bêta d'Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, nom de code Resolute Raccoon. Au menu de cette future version longue durée : le noyau Linux 7.0, GNOME 50, l'abandon pur et simple de X11 au profit de Wayland, et un bon lot de nouveautés côté sécurité avec chiffrement TPM, cryptographie post-quantique et même sudo réécrit en Rust. La version finale est attendue le 23 avril.
Ce qui change
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS embarque le noyau Linux 7.0, qui apporte la prise en charge des processeurs Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6, et les premières bases pour les puces Qualcomm Snapdragon X2. Le pilote graphique Mesa passe en version 26.0.2, et les pilotes NVIDIA grimpent à la version 590.
Côté langages, on retrouve...

Last August, we reported on the case of David Dunbar, a Wexford man who consented to a €480,000 damages judgment after Sky exposed his illegal IPTV operation. The initially defiant IPTV operator had destroyed evidence and was fined €30,000 for contempt of court. This penalty followed Dunbar’s refusal to allow investigators to search his home, despite a High Court-sanctioned Anton Piller order.
While much of the internal service data was reportedly lost, the man’s Revolut account revealed that he received €118,992 from resellers over a period of three and a half years. During this time, subscribers also paid €72,414 and £9,256.
While Sky was pleased with the actions against the man who they...