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Over the weekend, a number of Roku device owners noticed an irksome new advertising method from the company: a trailer for Moana 2 began playing before they could even access the Roku homescreen. Ars Technica reported on the situation, which has been called out in a few different Reddit threads. The reaction among customers, as you might imagine, is overwhelmingly negative. It’s worth remembering that Roku makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising — not bargain-bin priced streaming hardware. But just like Amazon before it, Roku is discovering that it’s easy to turn the ads dial too far. “I’ll take the banner ads, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna put up with a video loading when loading up my...

There’s a lot of interest in daily puzzle games right now. The New York Times has a great collection of games like its crossword, Wordle, Connections, and Strands. Apple is in the mix with crosswords and more in Apple News Plus. Zach Gage’s puzzle gaming platform Puzzmo has some fun twists on classic games and was acquired by Hearst. Even LinkedIn has games now, and it turns out that they’re actually good. Sure, the games are fun, but they can also be reliable ways for the companies that offer them to make money from subscriptions. The New York Times puts a some features for its games behind a paywall. Apple’s games are only available to Apple News Plus subscribers. And Netflix is launching a daily...

Un développeur présumé du ransomware LockBit a été extradé d’Israël vers les États-Unis. Il est accusé d’avoir joué un rôle clé dans le développement du malware, responsable de milliers d’attaques à travers le monde....

Amazon is suing the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) after the agency said it was responsible for recalling all of the dangerous products on its marketplace, including those sold by third parties. In a lawsuit filed last week, Amazon accuses the CPSC of stretching consumer safety law by treating the e-commerce giant as a distributor rather than a logistics provider. The CPSC sued Amazon in 2021, claiming the company failed to properly recall tens of thousands of hazardous items, including flammable children’s pajamas and faulty carbon monoxide detectors. Though Amazon removed the products in question and sent notifications to buyers, the CPSC alleged it “downplayed the severity of the...

In 2021, Colorado-based Internet provider Wide Open West (WOW!) was sued by a group of movie companies including Millennium Media and Voltage Pictures.
The filmmakers accused the ISP of failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers who were repeatedly flagged for sharing copyrighted material.
These types of lawsuits resulted in multi-million dollar judgments against Cox and Grande; a fate WOW hopes to avoid. The ISP challenged the claims and filed a motion to dismiss the case early on, arguing that the allegations fall short. $56 million
This initial motion to dismiss was denied by the Colorado federal court. The tone had been set, however, with WOW describing the movie companies and their anti-piracy...

The King, who is also head of state of Canada, meets the country's new prime minister Mark Carney amid a trade war with the US.

Un nouveau type d’attaque se propage sur Telegram, exploitant la peur et la tristesse pour manipuler les utilisateurs. Des cybercriminels diffusent désormais de faux messages annonçant la mort d'une connaissance afin d'inciter les victimes à ouvrir un fichier malveillant....

All you need is an Xbox 360, a USB drive and two specific games to access homebrews or previously region-locked titles.

Turns out LiDAR might have some benefits.

The Batman villain may take on a new DC role with director Luca Guadagnino, closing the door on those Robert Pattinson rumors.

Google started rolling out an update on Thursday to fix Chromecasts that suddenly lost the ability to cast. Now, it also has a fix to take care of the ones that were unexpectedly bricked after an attempted factory reset. “Everything should now function normally,” Google writes in an email to affected owners of second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio. It also mentions that a new Google Home app update (version 3.30.1.6 for Android and 3.30.106 for iOS) includes the ability to set up and revive broken-after-reset Chromecast devices. The company didn’t say why the devices stopped working, but a Reddit user found evidence the “untrusted device” error may have been due to an expired certificate...

The UK and France challenge Russia's president to agree a ceasefire, ahead of Trump-Putin talks on Tuesday.

It's the first poultry outbreak of H7N9 seen within the U.S. in nearly a decade.

Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock was down by 1.76% at the market close on Monday ahead of chief executive Jensen Huang’s keynote at the GPU Technology Conference.Read more...

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The U.S. consumer is holding up pretty well even as businesses scramble to adjust to President Donald Trump’s trade war, economic indicators show. This is helping to support stock prices — especially on days when the president doesn’t mention tariffs.Read more...

More than usual, San Francisco's C-suite will now have access to city hall.

People are increasingly treating generative-AI chatbots like personal shopping assistants, Adobe (ADBE) said on Monday.Read more...

Mark Rober’s Tesla video has kicked up a lot of reactions claiming it was fake. | Screenshot: Mark Rober Over the weekend, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video that sought to demonstrate the difference between Tesla’s camera-only Autopilot system and a vehicle equipped with lidar. He wanted to see whether the vehicles would stop automatically before hitting a Wile E. Coyote-style wall that was painted to look like a road.  Spoiler alert: the lidar-equipped vehicle brakes before crashing into the wall, while the Tesla Model Y plows right through it. The video was a huge hit, amassing 10 million views in just two days. A lot of people praised Rober for exposing the...

BYD’s (BYDDY) American depositary receipts jumped 2.5% after the EV maker unveiled a new charging system that it said will allow its cars to add enough charge in five minutes to travel 292 miles (470 kilometers), only slightly longer than it takes to refuel a gasoline-powered car.Read more...

Braun was once a mighty pillar of industrial design; a true titan of the mid-century era. Many of the company’s finest works have been forgotten outside of coffee table books and vintage shops. [Distracted by Design] wanted to bring one of the classics back to life—the Braun HL70 desk fan.
The original was quite a neat little device. It made the most of simple round shapes and was able to direct a small but refreshing stream of air across one’s desk on a warm day. In reality, it was probably bought as much for its sleek aesthetics as for its actual cooling ability.
Obviously, you can’t just buy one anymore, so [Distracted by Design] turned to 3D printing to make their own. The core of the build was a...

Starbucks has been ordered to pay $50 million to a California delivery driver who suffered severe burns when a hot drink spilled onto his lap at a Los Angeles drive-through in Feb. 2020.Read more...

“Researchers have corrected a disease-causing gene mutation with a single infusion carrying a treatment that precisely targeted the errant gene. This was the first time a mutated gene has been restored to normal. The small study of nine patients announced Monday by the company Beam Therapeutics of Cambridge, Mass., involved fixing a spelling error involving the four base sequences — G, A, C and T — in DNA. The effect was to change an incorrect DNA letter to the right one. The result was a normal gene that functioned as it should, potentially halting liver and lung damage of patients with a rare disorder.” From New York Times.
The post Mutated DNA Restored to Normal in Gene Therapy Advance appeared...

DOJ lawyers accused Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist, of having “sympathetic” photos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone. She was put on a plane to Paris and informed that her H1-B visa had been canceled.

Dance music producer and Torrance native Jennifer Lee, aka TOKiMONSTA , is out with her first album in five years — Eternal Reverie . The project sprung out of a desire to get back in touch with what motivated her to create music in the first place. However, she took a hiatus from the work to take care of her best friend Regina Biondo, who received a cancer diagnosis and died at age 42 last October. Now Eternal Reverie is a tribute to Biondo. Lee tells KCRW that Biondo occasionally managed her music tours, designed her websites, and accompanied her on adventures around the world. Then around April 2024, Biondo was diagnosed with triple-negative inflammatory breast cancer, which had a poor prognosis. She did...

Salvadoran President and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator” Nayib Bukele is cozying up to Trump. He’s viewed as a hero on the right for his mass carceral policies.

President Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members. But a judge blocked those deportations over the weekend.

Le président américain estime que les grâces de dernière minute accordées par son prédécesseur à ses proches sont “nulles”, car ratifiées non pas de la main du démocrate mais par une machine à signer.

Trouver la bonne société de logiciels peut transformer le fonctionnement de votre entreprise. Découvrez les critères clés, les avantages du développement sur mesure et les aspects techniques à considérer pour faire le bon choix....

Handy diagnostic LEDs on the side of the tone generator boards. (Credit: Mend it Mark, YouTube)
Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had a couple of dud buttons, and some keys produced the wrong tone. Remember, this is a completely analog synthesizer from the 1980s, so we’re talking basic 74LS chips and kin. Fortunately, Elka helped him with the complete repair manual, including schematics.
As usual, [Mark] starts by diagnosing the faults, using the schematics to mark the parts of the circuitry to focus on. Then, the synth’s bonnet is popped open to reveal its absolutely gobsmackingly delightful inner workings, with neatly modular PCBs...

Cette décision survient après que l’Algérie a rejeté, lundi, une liste de ses ressortissants à expulser soumise par la France.

Deux vieux amis se font passer pour des agents fédéraux afin de dérober le butin et la marchandise de trafiquants de drogue. “Dope Thief”, qui se déroule en Pennsylvanie et dans la ville de Philadelphie, est diffusée par Apple TV + depuis le 14 mars 2025. La presse américaine salue un thriller bien ficelé, signé Peter Craig et Riddley Scott.

Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.

Présent à Bruxelles lundi, le ministre des affaires étrangères syrien, Assad Hassan Al-Chibani, a réclamé la levée de l’ensemble des sanctions contre son pays pour permettre sa reconstruction.

Emmanuel Macron a annoncé, sur le réseau social X, s’être entretenu avec Volodymyr Zelensky un peu plus tôt aujourd’hui, deux jours après la réunion pour la paix et la sécurité en Ukraine et au lendemain d’une discussion avec Donald Trump.

People in Kocani blame corruption after 59 people - many of them teenagers - died in a nightclub inferno.

Alors que la croissance s’essouffle, les entrepreneurs redoutent une période de faible activité, et le taux de chômage risque de s’accroître, rapporte le “Financial Times”. Même si l’on n’assiste qu’aux signes avant-coureurs, la France doit s’y préparer, selon le journal britannique.

The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months.

Pour la seule lutte contre le sida, les décisions américaines « pourraient annuler vingt années de progrès, entraînant plus de 10 millions de cas supplémentaires de VIH et 3 millions de décès » en plus, selon le chef de l’organisation.

It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps even an obvious flash chip lurking about. The dead giveaway, though, is all those traces leading to the chip, betraying its primacy in the circuit. As all roads lead to Rome, so it often is with microcontrollers.
It looks like that may be about to change, though, based on Texas Instruments’ recent announcement of a line of incredibly small Arm-based microcontrollers. The video below shows off just how small the MSPM0 line can be, ranging from a relatively gigantic TSSOP-20 case down to an eight-pin BGA package...

La décision de démettre de ses fonctions Ronen Bar, le chef du renseignement intérieur en Israël, le Shin Bet, serait le dernier signe en date de la dérive illibérale du chef du gouvernement, Benyamin Nétanyahou, s’inquiètent plusieurs titres de la presse israélienne.

La contestation du régime populiste du président serbe, Aleksandar Vucic, atteint son paroxysme. Samedi 15 mars, une grande manifestation a rassemblé plusieurs dizaines de milliers de personnes à Belgrade. Les étudiants qui mènent le mouvement soutiennent que la formation d’un gouvernement technique chargé d’organiser des élections est la seule façon de mettre fin à la crise.

Are you using a desk mouse like some kind of… normal computer user? Why, beg the heavens? For you could be using an air mouse, of your very own creation! [Misfit Maker] shows the way. Check out what he made in the video below.
An air mouse is a mouse you use in the air—which creates at least one major challenge. Since you’re not sliding along a surface, you can’t track the motion by mechanical friction like a ball mouse or by imaging as in an optical mouse. Instead, this build relies on a gyroscope sensor to track motion and translate that into pointer commands. The build relies on an ESP32-C3 as the microcontroller at the heart of things. It communicates with an MPU6050 gyroscope and accelerometer to...

Nato allies believe Russia is running sabotage operations to undermine European support for Ukraine.

Don't just load up on Amazon! Here are the best ways to find your favorite records on wax.

In 2015, Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone founded Relativity Space around an ambitious goal: to be the first company to put a 3D printed rocket into orbit. While additive manufacturing was already becoming an increasingly important tool in the aerospace industry, the duo believed it could be pushed further than anyone had yet realized.
Rather than assembling a rocket out of smaller printed parts, they imagined the entire rocket being produced on a huge printer. Once the methodology was perfected, they believed rockets could be printed faster and cheaper than they could be traditionally assembled. What’s more, in the far future, Relativity might even be able to produce rockets off-world in fully automated...

Bitwarden is open source and secure, has support for passkeys, and costs just $10 per year.

Never miss a delivery. These WIRED-tested picks will help you keep tabs on your front door from anywhere.

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Si Tetris et Wordle avaient un enfant après une soirée un peu trop arrosée, il s’appellerait probablement LetterFall. Il s’agit d’un jeu hybride qui combine les mécaniques de ces 2 jeux addictifs et qui va vous donner mal à la tête. En gros, les lettres tombent du haut de l’écran comme dans Tetris et vous devez former des mots valides de 4 lettres minimum en cliquant sur les lettres dispo sur la grille.

Lors d'un débat d'actualité, S&D a proposé un thème pour mettre à mal la droite et l'extrême droite en les accusant de nuire à la compétitivité. Ces derniers n'ont pas hésité à donner leur point de vue sur la question. En plus de la discussion sur l'aide aux régions transfrontalières que nous avons traité précédemment, le même jour, mercredi 12 février, s'est tenu un débat sur “La collaboration entre les conservateurs et l'extrême droite, une menace pour la compétitivité dans l'Union”. Un titre orienté puisque c'est un débat d'actualité. Cela signifie que c'est un groupe politique qui a proposé le thème du débat. Chaque groupe politique a le droit de proposer un thème...

Ces petites commandes Linux qu’on utilise tous au quotidien pourraient bientôt connaître leur plus grande évolution depuis des décennies. En effet, Canonical (La société derrière Ubuntu) explore activement le remplacement des GNU Core Utilities, écrites en C, par ‘uutils’, leurs équivalents en Rust.
Pour ceux qui ne le sauraient pas, les Core Utils, c’est cette collection de commandes que vous utilisez chaque jour sans même y penser. Quand vous tapez cp pour copier un fichier, mv pour le déplacer ou cat pour afficher son contenu, vous utilisez ces outils de base présents sur tous les systèmes Linux depuis la nuit des temps (enfin, depuis les années 90, quoi).

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Les américains ont du souci à se faire dans la cours à l’IA, et pour cause, la Chine est en train d’accélérer à une vitesse folle, au point de multiplier sur son propre marché des concurrents déjà à même de faire un peu d’ombre à OpenAI.
Prenons Baidu par exemple, qui ne compte clairement pas se laisser distancer dans la bataille de l’IA. La firme chinoise vient d’annoncer ERNIE 4.5, un modèle multimodal, et ERNIE X1, spécialisé dans le raisonnement. L’autre info du jour : ERNIE Bot devient gratuit pour tous, plus tôt que prévu. Une stratégie claire pour attirer un maximum d’utilisateurs face à la concurrence grandissante,...

Un réseau de cybercriminalité impliquant des billets de concert de Taylor Swift démantelé. Deux personnes sont accusées d'avoir exploité une faille dans le système de StubHub pour 600 000€....

Si vous pensez que ressusciter votre vieux Tamagotchi était impressionnant, préparez-vous à ramasser votre mâchoire au sol puisque des développeurs fous viennent de faire tourner GTA Vice City sur Dreamcast, avec un framerate qui ferait pleurer la PS2 d’origine. Oui, cette même Dreamcast que Sega a enterrée en 2001, pendant que vous dansiez encore sur ‘Lady Marmalade’ de Christina Aguilera.
Avant tout, il faut savoir que Rockstar avait initialement prévu GTA3 sur Dreamcast avant d’annuler le projet. Donc pour rétablir l’équilibre de l’univers, Falco Girgis et son équipe ont décidé de porter tout d’abord GTA3 puis Vice City sur Dreamcast. Faire tourner un monde ouvert massif sur une...

La compilation et l’obfuscation étaient jusqu’à présent des moyens relativement “efficaces” de protéger son code source, du moins de tous ceux qui n’y connaissent rien en reverse engineering. Mais Claude d’Anthropic et ses copains LLMs viennent de pulvériser cette barrière de protection en transformant n’importe quel logiciel en code open-source par défaut…
Je viens en effet de lire un article hyper intéressant d’un codeur qui s’appelle Geoffrey Huntley qui s’est plongé dans le fonctionnement de Claude Code. Si vous dormiez dans votre grotte ces dernières semaines, Claude Code, c’est un outil codé en Typescript qui n’est ni plus ni moins qu’un agent IA capable de coder en...

Depuis 2020 plane une sensation étrange de vivre dans un « interstice temporel ». C’est en tout cas ce dont témoignent certains jeunes sur les réseaux sociaux, qui se demandent si la pandémie de Covid-19 a figé une partie de leur existence. Mais le confinement a-t-il chamboulé notre rapport au temps à lui seul, ou bien l’ère numérique dans laquelle nous baignons joue-t-elle aussi un rôle ?