Invité par la Republican Jewish Coalition à Las Vegas, lundi 31 août, le vice-président américain a tenté d’expliquer sa ligne sur la relation avec Israël et la montée de l’antisémitisme, tout en préservant ses intérêts de favori de la future primaire de son parti.

Le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement prend acte du dépassement prochain de l’objectif le plus ambitieux de l’accord de Paris, et dessine une nouvelle trajectoire afin de repasser dessous avant la fin du siècle. Elle implique des efforts gigantesques et des transformations radicales.

Iran has launched attacks on US military bases in Iraq and Jordan, according to local state media and the Jordanian Armed Forces.

Sorti avant l’été en Chine et en Asie du Sud-Est, ce film sur des Chinois émigrés et sur leurs liens avec la mère patrie a connu un succès fulgurant. Derrière un récit délicat et quelques envolées mélodramatiques, il pose toutefois des questions vertigineuses. Le point sur les débats suscités, alors que le film sort en France ce 2 août.

Les événements météorologiques extrêmes favorisés par le changement climatique commencent à réellement peser sur les prix, la productivité du travail et les recettes fiscales des États, prévient “The New York Times”. La seule solution, pour limiter les dégâts, est de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre pour contenir le réchauffement planétaire.

PENSEURS DE DEMAIN (3/7). Face aux bouleversements qui secouent la planète, “Die Zeit” mise sur sept intellectuels “des plus prometteurs” pour éclairer le chemin. Lauréat du prix Pritzker, l’architecte né au Burkina Faso vit à Berlin. Il fait le pont entre tradition et modernité. Ses projets en terre crue ne font pas que transmettre l’histoire, ils la portent vers l’avenir.

Le recours aux écrans et aux applis éducatives est devenu omniprésent dans les écoles américaines. Aujourd’hui, des parents s’interrogent sur les bienfaits de ces outils, souvent synonymes d’addiction et de distraction en classe. S’organisant en collectifs, ils font évoluer les politiques scolaires, raconte “The Christian Science Monitor”.

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

Lors de son premier discours devant le Parlement, mardi 1er septembre, le nouveau premier ministre britannique s’est engagé à redonner de « l’espoir » à ses concitoyens, sans annoncer de mesures précises. Le budget qui déterminera la politique du gouvernement sera connu fin octobre.

Demis Hassabis is no longer CEO of Google DeepMind. Looks like it's time to pivot to coding.

After just a little over 25 years of the Haiku project trying to keep the BeOS spirit alive, the team has now released Beta 6. The spicy details of what is now all better can naturally be found in the detailed release notes. Part of the size of these release notes is due to the previous beta release being two years ago, though nightly builds have kept Haiku users appeased in the meantime.
The headline features that are new compared to the previous release include the ability to run the Firefox browser and derivatives, QEMU hardware virtualization using the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (NVMM), improved POSIX and hardware compatibility, as well as many bug fixes. Unfortunately 64-bit ARM support still has to...

A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August.

Erykah Badu & The Alchemist “Love Me Not”
“Love Me Not” is a song that is in large part about waxing your bush and ends with a skit in which Erykah Badu endures a particularly painful waxing appointment, but there’s a lot more going on in the song besides that. It’s mostly about Badu confronting what she’s willing to put up with for love. The bush-waxing is one thing, but what about when he doesn’t give you real affection? What about when it’s clear that you’re making all the compromises and he always gets what he wants? It’s not an angry song, though. She’s mostly shrugging and laughing and wondering why she allows this to happen. But you can hear the ache in her voice, especially when...

Apple has a new CEO, and Lake Ontario has a new name, apparently.

After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.

The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build at home. An airsoft version, though, is altogether more appropriate. [RegiBlackwood] has developed a simple way to build exactly that.
It’s a cheap and cheerful build, with the claymore housing itself built out of cardboard. Wooden dowels are used to stake it into the ground, just like the real thing. In the center of the housing sits a regular old mouse trap. Only, it’s been modified to hold a sling carrying a payload of BBs. The trap is also tweaked to make its spring more powerful, and to enable it to be triggered with the tug...

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also give Google a significant advantage in its race to outpace other AI companies. But while there's little downside for Google, these deals pose a distinct set of risks to each of the studios that might be thinking about going all-in on AI. Getting into bed with Google this way might benefit Hollywood in the short term, but …
Read the full story at The Verge.

The plan sounds chaotic, but the chaos may be the point.

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing on cached data that was already processed and stored.
Along with the announcement, a slew of early impressions popped up, including from Every CEO Dan Shipper, who claims, "It's the strongest coding model we've used, but now it's fast, token-efficient, and crucially actually speaks like a norm …
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The vehicle stopped in live traffic and was rear-ended.

Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada.
The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows "Lake Ontario" when panning over the area, while international versions of the app show both names, according to Bloomberg. Google updated its map shortly after the name change went live in the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), but Apple waited a bit longer.
Both Apple and Google changed the name of the Gulf of Me …
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Atlas' first $499 wearable EEG aims to give wearers a better understanding of their internal states.

The Lenovo 7i’s 360-degree hinges opens up new usage options. | Image: Lenovo Best Buy is celebrating Labor Day all week long with big deals, including a deep discount on the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1, taking its original $1,1199.99 price down to $749.99. It’s a capable configuration for the price, with a Core 7 Ultra 256V processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 512GB SSD. The IPS touchscreen has a 1920 x 1200 resolution with a 60Hz refresh rate, good enough for scrolling, taking notes, or catching up on YouTube videos. It can be tough to find a laptop at this price that doesn’t cut corners, and this model fits well within our criteria for a laptop suited for school and casual use.
Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1...

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post.
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into internet access, made it possible for AI agents to secretly conspire under the company's nose using a secret message board, and hacked into the network of AI lab Hugging Face. The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversy inside and outside the AI industry, and AI leaders treated it as a "warnin …
Read the full story at The Verge.

My big barbecue is a dream for everyday use, but I was curious if a plug-in alternative could help me bring hot dogs that are just as satisfying to any place with an outlet.A lifelong city-dweller, it’s only been later in life that I’ve been able to appreciate the luxury of having storage for extra options. The kind of basic luxury that is, instead of owning a certain number of towels because that’s all you have space for, you have a closet where you can keep an alternate set. Last year, I wrote about the experience of getting and testing a big Kahuna grill, which has most certainly changed my life for the better. But of course, the flip side of a big grill, no matter how nice it is, is that it’s...

In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. Unsurprisingly, this causes the shell to essentially disintegrate the moment you try to disassemble them for something like a screen replacement.
While somewhat the opposite of plasticizer migration into ABS from PVC insulation that we covered before, the underlying cause is probably similar, with the Transformers toy community having come to call it Gold Plastic Syndrome (GPS) based on the fact...

September is full of opportunities to expand your knowledge of the night sky. Mark your calendars.

The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.

These are the 15 best Amazon Labor Day deals on WIRED-tested, WIRED-recommended products in 2026.

Summary: Autonomous vehicles are following the classic adoption path of a general-purpose technology — the same S-curve that steam, electricity, and the automobile once traced. If current growth rates hold, human driving has one to two decades left as an everyday activity. The payoff: reclaimed time, far fewer road deaths, cities rebuilt around people instead of parking, and a wave of new businesses made viable by cheaper transaction costs. In 1939, five million people queued at New York’s World’s Fair to ride Futurama, General Motors’ model of America in 1960. Among the marvels were highways and mountain roads where cars, with no driver, whizzed their passengers across the country. Riders left wearing...

L’Iran a attaqué des bases militaires des Etats-Unis dans le Golfe après la conclusion d’une salve de frappes américaines contre lui, la deuxième en quelques jours. Quelques heures auparavant, le président iranien, Massoud Pezeshkian, avait plaidé pour une reprise des négociations.

En amont des élections législatives du 27 octobre, des tensions apparaissent au sein de la coalition gouvernementale, notamment entre le premier ministre, Benyamin Nétanyahou, et son ministre de la sécurité nationale, Itamar Ben Gvir. De la droite à l’extrême droite, chacun durcit son discours pour remobiliser ses sympathisants.

Want to feel the heat of nearby fire, explosions, or radiation? Or even just the gentle warmth and breeze of a sunny day in the wasteland? If you said yes, you’re in luck because [GingasVR] created an immersive heat mod and wind mod for the VR version of Fallout 4 that leverages economical smart outlets and game scripting to do just that.
The heart of this hack lies in gluing two things that don’t normally go together. In this case [GingasVR] uses a bit of game scripting to control TP-Link HS100 or HS110 Smart Plugs, allowing virtual events to control things in the real world. An ordinary fan in a smart plug creates wind on demand, and heat comes from a 250 watt infrared heat lamp aimed toward the player....

Designed for grandparents who love to host, the residence is divided into quadrants centered around an airy kitchen and dining area.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Melbourne, Australia Architect: Office MI—JI / @office_mi.ji Footprint: 4,209 square feet Builder: Dimpat Structural and Civil Engineer: Keith Long and Associates Landscape Design: SL.ug Projects Photographer: Ben Hosking / @benhoskingphotographer From the Architect: "A new house on a large block, this residence brings the garden inside. Through a planimetric arrangement that separates...

On a narrow creekside lot in the Twin Cities, CityDeskStudio built a multigenerational home with lifted rooflines, curved plaster ceilings, and custom windows to draw light deep into the interior.Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality. When a Minnesotan woman had the opportunity to move back into the 1950s home where she grew up with her three sisters, she realized that it wasn’t the house that she wanted to revisit, but the land it stood on. The property had stayed in the family, but the house was small and rundown. It certainly wasn’t suitable for the "forever...

There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer things, or you could observe the levels of hormones like cortisol in the blood.
Or… you could pull some parts out of a Playstation 4, and get hacking. Edwin Hwu did precisely that, creating a device that can image the skin down to the nanometer and potentially even determine fine details about an individual’s health status. He came to Hackaday Europe 2026 to tell us all about it. Look Closely Edwin’s background is very relevant to this project. He worked in a research institute in Taiwan where he collaborated with the German...

“Heat- and drought-driven limits on once-through cooling are cited as evidence that riverine nuclear power is incompatible with a warming, water-constrained world. We compile the first global event inventory of weather-linked nuclear curtailments (2003–2022) and a cross-jurisdiction chronology of regulatory-flexibility episodes that relaxed thermal-discharge limits during heatwaves (2003–2024). These records are merged with monthly generation data for six European fleets, and degradation is modeled under elevated intake-water temperatures. Across more than 500 reactor-years, curtailments totaled just 0.6% of affected reactors’ generation, never exceeding 1.3% in any national fleet. In the same fleets,...

“The Apache trout and roundtail chub that are native to Arizona’s West Fork Black River have long struggled to compete against invasive brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). So it may seem strange that biologists are dumping even more hatchery-raised brook trout into the river. But these new trout are bred to have a genetic quirk designed to doom the population. Sometimes called supermales or Trojan YY males, they have two Y chromosomes instead of one. When supermales mate with female wild trout, the offspring are all male—eventually producing a population that consists only of elderly bachelors. In the Black River, the population last year climbed to 61% male—' good sign,' says Zachary Beard, the...

“Grape growers in Mexico have a new tool to fight powdery mildew, a common fungal disease, after the country became the first in the world to approve the commercial sale of an RNA-based biofungicide… Oifirax, developed by the U.S. company GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to silence a gene essential for the survival of the disease-causing fungus Erysiphe necator. The Mexican government announced the product’s commercial approval on 12 August, following a 9-month regulatory process involving the country’s health, agricultural, and environmental authorities… Scientists have spent more than a decade developing products to control pests and diseases using a process called RNA interference. First...

“Despite an ever-growing armory of pills, injections and lifestyle interventions to lower the risk of heart disease, it remains the No. 1 killer of Americans. About half of people who start taking a daily statin stop, and many who could benefit from the drugs don’t start them. Lack of access to health care, an inability to tolerate the drugs and concerns about taking a medicine for life all can play a role. In the new study, funded by the biotechnology company CRISPR Therapeutics, 15 patients received a one-time infusion of lipid nanoparticles, essentially fat bubbles, carrying gene-editing machinery to their livers. That machinery was programmed to snip and disable a gene involved in cholesterol...

Major efforts to rescue hydropower workers continue as Nepal's death toll exceeds 1,000.

The 1953 home is clad entirely in timber, and nearly every room offers views of the surrounding forest.Location: 4645 SW Fairview Blvd, Portland, Oregon Price: $2,205,000 Architect: John Yeon Year Built: 1953 Footprint: 4,296 square feet (4 beds, 4 baths) Lot Size: 3.95 acres From the Agent: "Designed for Dr. Kenneth and Virginia Swan by John Yeon in 1953, this rare Northwest Regional residence is located within one of Portland’s most remarkable architectural enclaves, neighboring Pietro Belluschi’s Sutor House and adjacent to Yeon’s celebrated Watzek and Cottrell houses. A sheltering roof superstructure unifies the home, covered walkways, and outdoor spaces, creating what Yeon described as a distinctly...

This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and inequities.

Most migrants have returned to neighbouring Morocco, but as many as 5,000 remain in the Spanish exclave.

Deux bandes dessinées évoquent la terrible « reine des pirates » chinoise du XIXe siècle. Deux autres volumes se penchent sur la jeunesse de Chine et de Taïwan.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.

« Les candidats face au climat » (1/5). Le Rassemblement national et Marine Le Pen défendent une version « positive » de l’écologie centrée sur la réindustrialisation de la France et le déploiement de la climatisation, des propositions au chiffrage pour le moment obscur.

Depuis ce week-end, bonne nouvelle les zamis, puisque ce bon vieux ffmpeg sait maintenant fabriquer des images qui n'ont jamais été filmées. Oui oui ! Et ça c'est possible grâce à un filtre qui s'appelle fruc_vulkan, qui permet de calculer le mouvement entre deux images grâce au bloc dédié des GeForce RTX, pour ensuite synthétiser ce qui manque entre les deux. Grâce à ça, un 24 images par seconde ressort sans souci en version 60 images par seconde.
La cadence de sortie se paramètre, donc vous pouvez aussi faire du 25 vers du 50, du 30 vers 60, ou n'importe quelle valeur intermédiaire. C'est donc beaucoup plus souple que le filtre équivalent côté AMD, frc_amf, qui ne sait que doubler la...

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"Maintenant", ce n'est pas qu'un adverbe à la con pour apprécier l'instant présent ou faire péter ses ordres comme votre Belle Mère ! C'est également un conteneur à lancer, qui se connecte en lecture seule à un socket Docker pour réaliser en un battement de cil, tout l'inventaire de votre home lab !
Il relève ainsi l'état de chaque conteneur, ses healthchecks, ses boucles de redémarrage, ses logs, et vos projets Compose regroupés comme vous les avez écrits.
Ensuite, tout ce qui vous alerte pour de bon se déclare à la main. Les checks HTTP et TCP se configurent sous la forme de labels sur les conteneurs à surveiller. Par exemple, un maintenant.endpoint.http avec son intervalle et son seuil...

Last September, Anthropic paid $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit brought by book authors over seven million pirated titles.
That settlement closed one case, but it did not stop other rightsholders from pursuing their own legal claims. In a complaint filed at the Northern District of California late last Friday, several music publishers including Sony and Warner, argue that the same book data haul included many of their songbooks, sheet music collections, and lyrics.
“Indeed, each pirated work that Defendants torrented was likely shared thousands if not tens of thousands of times, depriving Music Publishers of substantial revenue,” the complaint notes. The complaint
The lawsuit alleges direct...

You can optimize your chances by insuring that you’re in the best possible position to get whacked in the face by wealth and prosperity.

He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump?

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.

Je ne sais pas vous, mais chez moi, mes câbles USB-C se ressemblent tous. Et dans le tas, j'en ai qui chargent mon MacBook deux fois plus vite que d'autres. Et franchement, en les regardant, je ne peux pas vous dire lesquels sont les plus efficaces. Alors que mon Mac, lui, apparemment, il le sait déjà.
En tout cas, c'est ce que j'ai compris en allant lire le site de WhatCable. Ce qu'ils expliquent, c'est qu'à chaque branchement, le contrôleur de port d'un Mac Apple Silicon envoie un message à la puce que certains câbles embarquent et récupère sa fiche d'identité : débit annoncé, ampérage, fabricant. De ce que j'ai compris, macOS range la réponse dans le registre IOKit sous forme d'objets bruts,...

Dans le secteur de l'IA, plusieurs entrepreneurs s’engagent à reverser, en partie ou en totalité, l'argent que leur rapportera la vente de leur start-up à des associations caritatives. Promesse humaniste ou façon habile de faciliter les levées de fonds tout en faisant oublier les dégâts collatéraux d’une course technologique effrénée ? Le média américain Wired a décrypté ce phénomène qui prend de l’ampleur.

Récemment, Jean-Manuel m’a envoyé un drôle de CD. C’est un CD-ROM qui date de 2003, une publicité pour l’album Mach 6 de MC Solaar. Ce qui est intéressant, c’est le fonctionnement : le disque (pour PC) contient des morceaux à écouter avant le 30 novembre 2003, et sans connexion à Internet. Premier réflexe, un peu basique, se dire que changer la date va permettre de lire les morceaux. Mais c’est franchement plus compliqué que ça et finalement assez intéressant. Il y a quelques explications là, mais faisons simple. Quand on insère le disque dans un PC sous Windows, une interface en Flash se lance et elle permet en théorie de lancer les morceaux. Il y a des extraits de l’album et un...

As of August, the number forced to return this year from Pakistan and Iran had reached another million.

Avant de partager un contenu politique spectaculaire, quelques vérifications simples peuvent révéler une possible intox.