Chaque semaine, la chronique phénomène du “New York Times” sur l’amour vous est proposée en exclusivité, traduite en français par “Courrier international”. Ce dimanche, une femme se voit forcée de choisir entre deux hommes.

Dans sa rubrique “Est-il vrai que… ?”, le quotidien britannique “The Guardian” tente de répondre aux questions que l’on s’est toutes et tous déjà posées. Cette semaine, comment la vitamine C aide à lutter contre les méfaits du soleil, à condition d’utliser une crème solaire.

Générés par l’IA, des contenus attaquant les Chinois inondent Internet et engrangent des dizaines de milliers de vues, alors qu’ils présentent des faits purement fictifs. Qui fabrique ce genre de vidéos, et dans quel but ? Une enquête du journal japonais “Asahi Shimbun”.

Cinquième au classement mondial pour sa surface viticole, la Turquie, pays musulman, exporte pourtant principalement des raisins secs. Mais les vins turcs existent et commencent à se faire une place dans les restaurants cossus du pays, notamment grâce aux femmes qui font vivre le secteur, comme le relate le “Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin”.

Les principales actualités de ces dernières heures vues par la presse internationale.

Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost and easy recyclability. That said, paper is not an easy material to work with when printing traces, as the cellulose material is both absorbent and irregular, limiting the resolution and accuracy of so-called papertronics. Even when using higher-quality paper with wax-based masks this resulted in poor resolution issues, so [Zahra Rafiee] et al. opted to approach the problem from the other direction, by using hydrophobic parchment paper as the base combined with a laser.
The nice thing about the inks used with papertronics that they aren’t just traces, but can also be functional elements like...

Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a colorful illustration of recent visitors on top of it all.
It reports on a web interface of its own making, but what really takes things to a new level is an optional, stylish E-Ink panel that shows the last 24 hours’ worth of visitors at a glance in a collage.
The key to identification is BirdNET (GitHub here), a deep learning classifier from Cornell that can reliably identify and classify more than 11,000 species worldwide based on sound alone.
Based on that information, the system pulls bird images from a reference set for the region and...

About 4 years ago, I looked into how effective my SSH tarpits were.
Since then, I've also deployed an AI crawler tarpit (technically a maze - it generates an endless number of pages) to serve "content" up to crawlers who ignore my "No Entry" signs.
I thought that it might be interesting to take a quick look at trends for both, so this post provides high-level analysis of the statistics that my tarpits generate. SSH Tarpit
The analysis that I performed in 2022 used a week of data, so to keep things consistent, I'll do the same here.
from(bucket: "telegraf/telegraf_low_granularity") |> range(start: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z, stop: 2026-08-08T00:00:00Z) |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "ssh_tarpit") |>...

X wants to make money on previously used handles. | Image: The Verge X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk's reign. In its place, it's launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible, creators must have at least 500 verified followers and at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in the last 90 days, among other requirements. Creators will then earn revenue based on "qualified impressions" on "original content."Qualified impressions are unique impressions from Premium subscribers "on the Home Timeline feed, where at least 50% of the post is visible." What qualifies a...

If old horror franchises are coming back, Lionsgate wants to get in on the action with another go at reviving 'Leprechaun.'

If you’ve ever worked with produce, you might know about grading. In addition to deciding if, say, a strawberry is good or not, they also have to sort them by color. Turns out, you don’t care if one package of berries is a bit redder than another, but you do care if one package has too much color variation. [Pmalfa31] applied an ESP32 and machine learning to grading tomatoes.
The system knows in advance if you are processing standard tomatoes or cherry tomatoes and uses two different sets of learned data depending on which you select. The program receives raw data from an optical sensor and then processes it to remove empty belt images, compute statistical information, and group readings for a single fruit...

Credit where credit is due: this sounds much better than the program it's replacing.

Sam and Louise Sullivan “Love & Devotion”
“Love and Devotion” is a lovely, laid back, and agreeable song about being in love, but it’s written from a somewhat contrarian point of view. Here’s what Sam Sullivan has to say about it:
“These days, it seems like people are always saying, ‘ooh, love is so hard; let’s work on our relationship; we need to find compromise.’ No. Wrong. Love is easy, actually. Love is quite fun. Don’t fall for this insidious, anti-love propaganda.” If you’re in a happy relationship, it can feel like you’ve cracked a code for living and everyone who hasn’t figured out can look a bit foolish. It can make you quite smug! But Sullivan is right about this. Love...

Both sides suggest progress in talks to agree a new shipping route through the strait, but a breakthrough remains unclear.

Netflix still wants to keep 'Squid Game' around, but the details of what that looks like may not involve a western offshoot.

Abelardo de la Espriella used his maiden speech to promise an "all-out war" on what he calls "narco-terrorism".

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, at least initially, would not be connected to the state's power grid. Instead, its 35 natural-gas turbines would primarily deliver its 7.65 gigawatts of electricity to the new data center.
According to Cleanview, which tracks data centers and their associated power projects, GW Ranch received a permit from Texas allowing for the …
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If you like renewables, you might be pleased with these results. You probably won't like the PAC's ads.

The Queen of Pop worked with Orbit several times over the years, most notably on her genre-bending, Grammy Award-winning album Ray of Light.

As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws. This led to creating the automatic bolt and screw sorting system you see here, although in a way it is just a proof of concept. Bolts and screws happen to be a useful application for now, but the system is capable of sorting just about any small objects.
A bit of machine vision detects the size and shape of each object. Weight can also be measured.
Mixed pieces go onto a large conveyor belt, shown on the right. This feeds a few screws at a time down a chute, where they roll onto an illuminated platform.
Above the lit platform is a camera, and machine vision is used to detect the size...

Green Lantern has had a short solo life on TV, and it wouldn't hurt to see what his animated show was all about.

La Française a abandonné avant le départ de la 8ᵉ et avant-dernière étape de la Grande Boucle, samedi 8 août. Candidate à sa propre succession sur la plus haute marche du podium, elle n’a jamais su peser sur la course et a rapidement été mise en difficulté.

The vote cements Trump's former criminal defence lawyer as the nation's top law enforcement official despite a rare pushback from some Republicans.

Lionel Messi's father and agent Jorge dies at the age of 68 following a long illness.

Buc-ee’s mega-convenience store and 120-pump gas station in Mount Crawford, Virginia. | Image: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Buc-ee's became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas stations and convenience stores. On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver literally begged the company to sue him for selling merch featuring his squirrel mascot, Mr. Nutterbutter, with branding that reads "Buc-Off." But Buc-ee's has so far declined to take the bait, instead targeting yet another small business that lacks the deep pockets and legal team of HBO. According to WDTN, an NBC affiliate in Miami Valley, Ohio, Buc-ee's opened its first locations...

La fusée qui s’est écrasée le 5 août est présentée par certains spécialistes comme une occasion d’en apprendre plus sur ce satellite. D’autres dénoncent un incident inacceptable, qui témoigne aussi d’un vide juridique.

Tom, we can’t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance on The OC and placement on the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack. His follow-up, Leisure Seizure, had a lengthy gestation period, but arrived in 2011 to similar success, reaching No. 79 on the UK charts.
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Vek has continued to release music at regular intervals over the last 15 years, dropping Newer Symbols in 2022. But in 2020 he started toying with this idea he had for a music player called Sleevenote. Inspired by viny …
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ZATAZ découvre 1.7 milliard d’identifiants français uniques stockés dans un cloud pirate.

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar questions about race and sexual orientation.

We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. We might rationalize that they’re worth keeping for the parts alone, but the reality is, unless you desolder and sort all the components ahead of time, most of us will never really use these spare parts to their full potential. Except it really doesn’t have to be that way. Junkbin.io is an attempt to improve on the state of that corner bin. Though in its early years, Junkbin has a variety of the previously mentioned resources as well as many others. Currently, it is ripe to contribute, and we here at Hackaday know how important the community is to get...

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small.

Cute name, especially if it were a wookiee. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still the laptop to beat.
So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi announced a $450 Windows laptop with an aluminum build and a brand-new Intel Wildcat Lake processor, it sounded too good to be true.
It is.
Chuwi UniBook Score: 3ProsConsIt's $450Tons of ports for a small laptop...

My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now.

You don’t want any old gaming laptop. Here’s my take on which to get, based on hundreds of hours of testing.

The pop star’s appearance has prompted fans to speculate that she’s suffering from an eating disorder. How should we talk about famous women’s bodies?

When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from?

Rançongiciels en France : 43 revendications en un mois, dominées par The Gentlemen et Qilin, sur des secteurs variés.

From the Great Migration's millions of mammals to a Nile cruise and Morocco's mountain medinas, seven trips worth crossing an ocean for

Raising kids alone already stretches a single paycheck thin. LendingTree ranks large U.S. cities where homeownership costs the least

From a night inside Oxford's Christ Church to a room in Barcelona's Gothic quarter, six European universities that open their doors to summer guests

A close-knit community matters for many military buyers. Veterans United ranks the seven best U.S. cities for veterans to call home

Online companies were protected only when someone else wrote what they published. Chatbots generate their own answers, leaving makers open to lawsuits

CuteSec revendique le piratage d’un miroir du forum Coco, avec plus de 14 500 comptes utilisateurs dérobés.

Un pirate reconnaît le piratage de 165 organisations, le vol massif de données et plusieurs extorsions cloud.

Le géant du Jean, Levi Strauss, déclare une intrusion par ingénierie sociale ayant permis l’exfiltration de données internes.

For many years, NYAA has been heralded as one of the top sources for anime content, serving an audience of millions of users.
The site was launched more than two decades ago and the brand is still going strong today, as it’s traditionally one of the most visited torrent sites. NYAA’s popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by rightsholders. The MPA previously targeted the site’s GitHub repo, although that was later restored. Additionally, Japan’s Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) has been trying to disrupt its activities for many years. Among other enforcement efforts, CODA teamed up with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in a Cross-Border Enforcement Project to...

L'Espagne du Premier ministre Pedro Sánchez a rétabli les contrôles frontaliers pour les voyageurs en provenance d'Italie, vendredi 7 août dans la soirée - Crédits : Conseil européen L'Espagne hausse le ton. Quelques jours après l'arrivée de 72 000 migrants dans l'enclave espagnole de Ceuta, ancrée à l'Afrique et au Maroc, les tensions entre Madrid et Rome sont toujours vives. Alors que l'Italie a rétabli le 31 juillet des contrôles aux frontières pour les ressortissants de pays tiers en provenance d'Espagne en réponse à cette crise migratoire - une mesure que Madrid considère comme "injuste, contraire aux intérêts de l'Union européenne et discriminatoire à l'égard de la population...

US Hits Jackpot: 1.78 Million Tons of Tungsten in Nevada Desert
https://humanprogress.org/us-hits-jackpot-with-1-78-million-tons-of-tungsten-in-nevada-desert/

C’est sur la chaîne Disc Secret que j’ai découvert cet Easter Egg : l’album Initiation de Course of Empire contient une piste cachée un peu particulière. La piste 10 (Initiation) et les pistes 11 à 22 (incluses) contiennent une piste cachée en pleine lumière. Les pistes 11 à 22 ne font quelques secondes, et servent de remplissage pour que la piste suivante (The Chihuahuaphile) soit en position 23, une référence aux Illuminati.
La pochette
Dans l’idéal, il faut encoder les pistes 10 à 22 en un seul fichier, ce qui n’est pas très compliqué avec Audacity (et certains logiciels le font directement). Si vous écoutez la piste de façon classique, en stéréo, vous entendrez surtout du bruit,...

Une éclipse solaire totale sera observable en Espagne, mercredi 12 août, en fin de journée. En France, elle ne sera que partielle, mais le Soleil sera masqué à plus de 90 % par la Lune. Les Décodeurs décortiquent ce phénomène.

L’essor des tensions géopolitiques autour de l’approvisionnement en matières premières et la concurrence chinoise conduisent nombre d’Etats à tenter de reprendre le contrôle d’entreprises jugées essentielles à leur souveraineté.

Dossiers à l’« abandon » ou « perdus », personnels mal formés : un courrier adressé par le ministre de la justice, Gérald Darmanin, à son homologue de l’intérieur, Laurent Nuñez, révélé par « Le Monde », dévoile les graves défaillances dans la prise en compte des violences faites aux mineurs.

Ils sont anciens premiers ministres, ancien président, chef de parti, tous candidats ou aspirants candidats au scrutin de mai 2027. Ils mettent en avant leur expérience gouvernementale ou de la vie politique, mais, dans un climat dégagiste, cet argument peut s’avérer à double tranchant.

The President believes he’s above the law. A former federal prosecutor disagrees.

A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse.

Summary: Concerns that AI data centers are exhausting America’s land and water are largely overstated. Data centers occupy relatively little land compared with agriculture and other established uses, while their water consumption reflects temporary displacement rather than permanent loss. New cooling technologies and alternative water sources are also reducing local demand, suggesting that engineering—not scarcity—will shape AI’s environmental impact. The American consumer advocate Erin Brockovich went on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night to talk about what she has spent the year mapping: American towns that found out a data center was coming only after the bulldozers arrived. She has collected...

“Utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States increased significantly during the last three years, with an annual average growth rate of 70%. By the end of 2025, the U.S. power system had operational battery storage capacity of 43.6 gigawatts (GW). During the first six months of 2026, operators added another 8.3 GW of battery storage capacity, reaching nearly 52 GW of nameplate battery storage capacity, based on our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Operators anticipate bringing an additional 54 GW of battery storage capacity online over the next two and half years, according to plans they report to us. Plans for additional capacity coming online in the second half of...

“Mountain lions in Washington state may be cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds. Deer often avoid open spaces, including roads, when predators are nearby. But while it has long been suggested that predators might tamp down on traffic collisions with prey, that has never been demonstrated in areas where big predators are well established, researchers say… Researchers found that where mountain lions were active, deer avoided roads. Overall, deer in those areas were 15 percent less likely to be found near roads, which led to a 67 percent drop in the odds of a traffic accident involving deer. The findings were published in the journal Current Biology.” From...

“A US critical minerals company has recently confirmed the nation’s largest known tungsten resource at its Railroad Valley Minerals Project in Nye County, Nevada, despite a NASA land withdrawal restricting exploration across part of the site. In its updated resource report, 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) said that the project hosts an inferred resource of 1.78 million tons of tungsten. The company revealed that the deposit is part of a mineral system that also contains world-class resources of lithium, potash, and boron. As per 3PL, the deposit is reportedly five times larger than the biggest tungsten resource currently listed in the US and comes at a time when the country relies heavily on imports for the...