Arrestation d’un suspect lié à un réseau de SMS frauduleux et d’équipements télécom clandestins....

Six other passengers were wounded in the incident, which took place near an island on Cuba's northern coast.

Make no mistake—this doesn’t mean there is no danger. The researchers urge policymakers to treat seismic risk as a constant.

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the "Tech Corps," threatens to unravel the agency's original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI - many of which have ties to President Donald Trump.
Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the Peace Corps recruited skilled Americans interested in assisting developing countries in industries like education, healthcare, and agriculture. As noted by the Brookings Institution, the agency was created to "win the …
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President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans' concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech by claiming that he's negotiated a "rate payer protection pledge" with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI are expected to attend a March 4th event to sign the pledge, Fox News reported today. There are very few details at this point on what the pledge entails, nor how companies would be held accountable for following through on any commitments. "Under this bold initiat …
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A hero is only as good as his villains—and so far DC's blockbuster new take on the Dark Knight is knocking it out of the park.

This is the first known action that the prediction market has taken against users for alleged insider trading.

Perhaps surprisingly, the answer isn't climate change.

Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S26 lineup at its recent Unpacked event in San Francisco. As expected, the new series consists of the baseline S26, which starts at $899.99, and the bigger S26 Plus, which starts at $1,099.99. At the high end, there's also the $1,299.99 S26 Ultra, which is the largest in the lineup and comes with a bigger battery, better cameras, S Pen support, and expanded options for both storage and RAM. The price difference between Samsung's cheapest and most expensive S26 phones is $400 (last year, it was $500).
While some of its updated Galaxy AI software features are new, it's another year of minor hardware updates for Sam …
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The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference - before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren't released.
Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google's president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini's new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Ge …
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Pressée par le premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, depuis plusieurs semaines de quitter le ministère de la culture, Rachida Dati a tenté d’étirer son bail le plus longtemps possible. Elle a annoncé son départ mercredi soir sur BFM-TV.

If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer. This causes the head to drag through the top of the part, emitting a small amount of plastic to smooth the surface. [Make Wonderful Things] asserts that you don’t need to do this time-consuming step. Instead, he proposes using statistical analysis to identify the optimal settings to place the top layer correctly the first time, as shown in the video below.
The parameters he thinks make a difference are line width, flow ratio, and print speed. Picking reasonable step sizes suggested that there were 19,200 combinations of settings to test. Obviously, that’s too many, so he picked up techniques...

Avant l’attribution de nouveaux contrats, dans un délai de dix-huit mois, des concessions temporaires ont été accordées au groupe danois Maersk et au géant suisse MSC. Une victoire pour Trump, selon “CNBC”.

As expected, Samsung has taken the wraps off its flagship lineup for 2026. Introduced during the company's recent Unpacked event, the new Galaxy devices - which include the standard S26, the larger S26 Plus, and the high-end S26 Ultra - will be available on March 11th. Preorders are now open ahead of launch, with pricing starting at $899.99 for the base-model S26, $1,099.99 for the Plus, and $1,299.99 for the Ultra.
Overall, the forthcoming S26 lineup looks largely similar to last year's S25 series, only with a handful of notable upgrades. The biggest changes this year are on the software side, with Samsung introducing a privacy display in …
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Quel tabou serais-tu disposé à transgresser pour gagner en liberté ?

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

"The real estate market was as brutal as the architecture," says Jeff Gillway. "But here, we could sign a two-year lease," adds Kim Gittleson, "and we basically thought: ‘We’re never leaving.’"Renting doesn’t have to be a consolation prize, but it often feels like one: It’s where we end up when we can’t quite hook onto the property ladder. But in the right conditions, it’s an opportunity to live outside our price point—but within our budget. For architect Jeff Gillway and his wife, Kim Gittleson, it was also a lifeline. The couple uprooted their lives in New York City to move down to Washington D.C. while expecting their first child. A well-timed rental contract offered them the stability to...

Selon un rapport publié ce mercredi 25 février par le Comité pour la protection des journalistes, les forces armées de l’État hébreu seraient responsables de la mort de 86 journalistes et travailleurs des médias en 2025. Soit deux tiers du total des journalistes tués dans le monde l’année dernière.

TRIBUNE // Et si, à l’heure où son PIB est en panne, la France considérait enfin l’économie de la longévité comme un véritable relais de croissance ? C’est la proposition de Charlotte Calvet, la co-fondatrice du Longevity Culture Club, un cercle privé qui ambitionne de devenir un laboratoire d’idées sur cet enjeu sociétal majeur.

It's not the flashiest deal, but if you need a new pair of our favorite earbuds for iPhone owners, you can snag them at a slight discount.

La mort du chef de cartel ravit le président des États-Unis, qui n’a cessé de pousser le Mexique de Claudia Sheinbaum à agir contre le narcotrafic, quels qu’en soient les risques. Le rôle de Washington dans cette opération est cependant débattu.

Climbing is a cool sport. With that said, like everything, it’s even better if you integrate lots of glowing colorful LEDs. To that end, [Superbender] worked up this fun climbing wall that features interactive lighting built right in.
Structurally, there’s nothing too wild going on here. It’s a wood-framed climbing structure that stands 10 meters long and 2.5 meters high, and can be covered in lots of climbing holds. It’s the electronic side of things where it gets fun. An Arduino Due is installed to run the show, hooked up with a small TFT display and some buttons for control. It’s then hooked up to control a whole bunch of LEDs and some buttons which are scattered all across the wall. It’s also...

Huit jours après la victoire du PSG lors du match aller (3-2), le club champion d’Europe accueille l’AS Monaco pour le retour, mercredi, au Parc des Princes. L’équipe qui ressortira victorieuse de cette confrontation se qualifiera pour les huitièmes de finale.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “Almost Home.”

Samsung’s new phones all get AI enhancements, and the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra has a Privacy Display that can block the screen from nosy neighbors.

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

Larry Summers, devenu président de l’université Harvard dans les années 2000, a annoncé sa démission de l’université après la publication de sa correspondance électronique avec le financier et criminel sexuel américain.

A new roof addition transforms the attic into a living area, complete with splashy colors and a surprising bathroom fresco.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: Bagnolet, France Architect: 127af / @127_a_f Footprint: 592 square feet Builder: Renobati Structural Engineer: StructuraLab Photographer: Filip Dujardin / @filipdujardin From the Architect: "The project concerns the first house in a row of four terraced dwellings, built along a narrow plot. Originally conceived as modest workshops made with ordinary materials, typical of the fabric of Bagnolet,...

Garrison Architects gave the midcentury-inspired home floor-to-ceiling windows, a large deck, and the requisite woodburning stove.Location: 120 Cauterskill Avenue, Catskill, New York Price: $1,275,000 Year Built: 2025 Architect: Garrison Architects Footprint: 3,115 square feet (3 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 18.42 Acres From the Agent: "Welcome to Sylvan Wald House, a newly built midcentury-inspired home set at the end of a long, private driveway on 17+ wooded acres in the northern Catskills. The 3,115-square-foot residence includes a first-floor primary suite, white oak millwork throughout, and a wall of large picture windows with views that shift with each season. The first-floor primary suite offers a...

Deux semaines après la mort de l’étudiant Abdoulaye Ba lors d’une opération de la police sur le campus universitaire de Dakar, le Premier ministre était sur le gril mardi 24 février, à l’occasion des questions d’actualité à l’Assemblée nationale.

Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.

Some major tech companies are taking steps to finance their own power generation so Americans don't get stuck with the bill from new AI data centers

453 200 infractions numériques en France en 2025 : arnaques, cyberviolences, vols de données et profils des victimes....

One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word. If your system isn’t totally locally-hosted, that can raise some privacy eyebrows. Perhaps that’s part of what inspired [SpannerSpencer] to create this 24th century solution: a Comm Badge straight out of Star Trek: The Next Generation he uses to control his smart home.
This hack is as slick as it is simple. The shiny comm badge is actually metal, purchased from an online vendor that surely pays all appropriate license fees to Paramount. It was designed for magnetic mounting, and you know what else has a magnet to stick it to things? The M5StickC PLUS2, a handy ESP32 dev kit. Since...

Très actif sur les réseaux sociaux, le Comité Trump France est plus qu'un simple mouvement d'opinion. Son objectif est clair : trumpiser la France en hystérisant le débat public.

“NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled explorer its own version of GPS… with the new upgrade, called Mars Global Localization, Perseverance can match its own panoramic imagery to orbital terrain maps onboard, calculate its precise position and continue along its planned route without waiting for Earth-based confirmation. An onboard algorithm performs the comparison in about two minutes and can pinpoint the rover’s location to within roughly 10 inches (25 centimeters), all without assistance from human planners, NASA said. This capability allows the...

“Almeria has been farmland since the time of the Umayyad caliphate—Campo de Dalías is derived from the Arabic word daliyah, meaning “vine”. But the geography of the region has historically been unkind to farmers. The towering peaks of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gádor mountain ranges to the north block rain clouds from reaching the coastal plains. Water is scarce (rain falls on average fewer than 50 days a year), and the Levanter wind tears across the plains, sometimes at over 100kph (62mph). The plastic sea developed in response to these unfavourable conditions, beginning as a handful of simple shelters to shield local crops against the elements. In the 1960s pioneering farmers realised that...

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“A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor. Hugo Powell was delivered at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital in London weighing 3.09kg (6lb 13oz), after his mother, Grace Bell, received a transplanted womb from someone who had died. It is the first birth in the UK using a womb from a deceased donor, with only two previous cases reported in Europe. Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare condition resulting in an underdeveloped or missing womb. She was told as a teenager she would be unable to carry a child, and has described Hugo’s birth as a ‘miracle’. She said:...

“Restoration efforts including a dam and water use controls are helping Kazakhstan revive part of the shrinking Aral Sea… On a recent session of the people’s assembly, the National Kurultai, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev emphasised the significance of preserving the North Aral Sea and reaffirmed it as one of the key priorities of the country’s water policy. In his address to the nation he also emphasised the restoration gains already made. He noted that in 20 years of systematic efforts, the surface area of the Northern Aral grew by 36 per cent, the water volume nearly doubled, and salinity decreased by half.” From Euronews.
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“Since the Industrial Revolution, our jobs have gradually improved, becoming better paid, more interesting, and less dangerous. Economists Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hamermesh detail another aspect of this development: that fewer and fewer Americans are working in the evenings and at night… Together, these studies suggest that the share of Americans working in the middle of the night has fallen by more than 50 percent since the 1970s.” From The Update.
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A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The next round of talks between the US and Iran in Geneva on Thursday could be decisive in the president's decision-making.

The kit includes assorted grilling gear, gardening tools, and other outdoor equipment

It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days, from Florida to Maine. For the past two days, that order has included military aircraft, including those certified “all weather” – with one notable exception. A few miles offshore, rocking and bucking in the gales, a U.S. Navy airship braves the storm. Sleet pelts the plexiglass windscreen and ice sloughs off the gasbag in great sheets as the storm rages on, and churning airscrews keep the airship on station.
If you know history you might be a bit confused: the rigid airship USS Akron was lost off the...

New earnings reports and consumer confidence data show that affordability remains a major worry for Americans

But at least the President thinks everything is going great.

Chris Baghsarian, 85, was taken from his home and murdered, in what authorities believe was a case of mistaken identity.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon a choisi de faire relayer ses prises de parole par des influenceurs et des médias amis, excluant certains médias qu’il considère comme lui étant hostiles. Cela ne me choque absolument pas, et les protestations (parfois ridicules, comme celle de la porte-parole du gouvernement) sont d’une grande hypocrisie. Au lieu d’instrumentaliser cela, à des […]

A newspaper reports Gates apologised to staff over his links to Epstein and said: "I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit."

Nvidia's fourth quarter earnings are expected to be enormous. But that can still disappoint a crowd that paid for a bigger and louder fireworks show

A new study found that the states where people spend the greatest percentage of their income on groceries weren't actually those with the highest prices

One of the more promising 3D printing technologies that hasn’t quite yet had its spotlight is volumetric 3D printing. Researchers from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, have developed a new method that uses a high-speed periscope instead of rotating the printing volume — resulting in print times of less than one second.
Normal volumetric printing uses a rotating volume of photosensitive resin to print nearly any geometry desired. However, this method presents issues when printing at high speeds. If you rapidly rotate a liquid, it won’t exactly stay still. So why not rotate the projector itself? This change also allows the use of less viscous resins, which is particularly useful if you...

Sur TikTok, un faux hacker terrorise des préados en live grâce à des données fuitées, pour extorquer et intimider....

Fabricant du traitement contre l’obésité Wegovy et de l’antidiabétique Ozempic, le laboratoire danois est en perte de vitesse aux Etats-Unis, son principal marché, où il fait face à la concurrence de l’américain Eli Lilly.

A book of reportage on kinky subcultures describes how “deviant desire” can be transcendent —and completely mundane.

La publication de 3 millions de documents liés au criminel sexuel américain a emballé les sphères complotistes et réveillé des mythes déclinants, comme QAnon, le « Pizzagate » et l’« adrénochrome », sur fond d’antisémitisme larvé.

Quatre suspects arrêtés en Espagne, soupçonnés de DDoS Anonymous Fénix, avec un pic après les inondations de Valence....