“Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR) announced it is tripling its driverless network with the launch of its latest software release, which also provides the Aurora Driver with the capabilities to begin expanding across the Southern United States and serve customer endpoints in 2026… Aurora expects its newest software to provide the Aurora Driver with the capabilities to navigate the diverse geography and climate of the southern United States, a region home to over half of the country’s population. Before clearing the release, Aurora executed its rigorous validation process comprising over four million tests. Driverless operations have been validated on the approximately 1,000-mile lane between Fort...

ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

Lots of familiar faces from Flanagan's Netflix horror era will join Scarlett Johansson in his new take on the spooky classic.

“The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey has been at the centre of Fauna & Flora’s primate conservation activities for most of this millennium. By the time we discovered a globally important population of this monkey in 2002, it was already on the brink of extinction; a mere 50-60 individuals were confirmed to be present in the forest at Khau Ca where it was found. Five years later, Fauna & Flora discovered a separate population of this monkey – subsequently confirmed as the second largest – in a forest fragment near the border with China. Fauna & Flora has focused on engaging local communities in species monitoring and habitat protection at both these sites. In order to safeguard the largest surviving...

After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the most important yet.

Pokémon Pokopia features, of all things, a 3D printer. I wasn't sure why this surprised me so much, given all the other high-tech gear in pretty much every Pokémon game. But I was not expecting to find, inside the once-crumbling Pokémon Center I'd just worked hard to restore, a kind of machine I'd never seen before.
Until Pokopia, I hadn't spent much time thinking about tech in the Pokémon world. I've been Pokémon-pilled for so long that I took all its sci-fi technology for granted. Sure, there are magic PCs that can digitally store living creatures - that's how it's always been. Obviously fossils can be resurrected and obviously sometimes …
Read the full story at The Verge.

“SpaceX’s Starlink will partner with German telco giant Deutsche Telekom to launch a satellite-based mobile service in 10 European countries, the companies announced on Monday. The service will go live in 2028 and bring mobile communications to areas where network expansion is particularly challenging, including in areas with nature conservation requirements or demanding topography, Deutsche Telekom said in a statement. The launch will be the first in Europe to use Starlink’s second-generation satellites, known as V2, the company said.” From CNBC.
The post Starlink and Deutsche Telekom to Launch Satellite Mobile Service appeared first on Human Progress.

Early March is the best time to see rare migratory species in your own backyard, and a smart feeder can help you ID them.

If you're having issues shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music, you're not alone. Downdetector is showing a sizable spike in people reporting issues with checkout, search, and logging in. The problem seems to be affecting both the site and the mobile apps.
Several Verge staffers have experienced issues themselves. Clicking through to many products produces a "sorry, something went wrong" error, and even pages that do load are not showing pricing. Users have reported being repeatedly logged out of their accounts when trying to check out or load their cart. Even the parts of Amazon.com that are working seem to be loading …
Read the full story at The Verge.

United Airlines has updated its "Contract of Carriage" to include a line that requires passengers to wear headphones while listening to audio and video content on flights, CBS News reports. Under the updated contract, United can "refuse transport on a permanent or temporary basis" to passengers who don't follow a list of rules, which now includes listening to audio without wearing headphones. The policy also states that United can remove those passengers from the aircraft "at any point." United spokesperson Stella Balaskas confirmed in a statement to The Verge that the policy was updated on February 27th, saying, "We've always encouraged …
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This 2-in-1 laptop bundle comes with a case, a stylus, and way too much love for GoPro.

The next-generation Xbox console will play both Xbox and PC games, and its codename is "Project Helix," according to Asha Sharma, who took over as Microsoft's gaming CEO last month.
"Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console," Sharma wrote on X. "Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!"
The official Xbox account on X also posted about the name. The next generation of Xbox console: P …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Roz and Brightbill, stars of one of the best animated films in recent memory, are returning with a new director.

Maybe it really is the dawning of the Chinese Century.

Daredevil: Born Again, The Dinosaurs, and For All Mankind are just a few of the TV shows we’re springing for this month.

Le président aurait pris sa décision après des auditions parlementaires de la ministre ultraconservatrice, mise en difficulté sur l’attribution d’un important contrat public. Elle sera remplacée par le sénateur républicain d’Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin.

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq tell the BBC they have plans to cross the border but deny already doing so.

Can the U.S. win an AI arms race against China when its own government attacks the American companies doing the racing?

Anthropic's AI products are destabilizing software, reshaping how engineers work, and putting it at the center of a full-blown Pentagon standoff

Stocks slipped again as oil pushed higher and Treasury yields followed, a one-two punch that dragged the Dow down and had the S&P 500 back in retreat

Donald Trump said he would replace the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Noem’s tenure was marked by aggressive anti-immigration tactics and ICE’s killing of two US protesters.

Most end tables that you might find in a home are relatively static objects. However, [Peter Waldraff] of Tiny World Studios likes to build furniture that’s a little more interesting. Thus came about this beautiful piece with a real working railway built right in.
The end table was built from scratch, with [Peter] going through all the woodworking steps required to assemble the piece. The three-legged wooden table is topped with a tiny N-scale model railway layout, and you get to see it put together including the rocks, the grass, and a beautiful epoxy river complete with a bridge. The railway runs a Kato Pocket Line trolley, but the really neat thing is how it’s powered.
[Peter] shows us how a small...

Israelis broadly support the US-Israeli military campaign with Iran, even if they are tired of air raid alerts and constant upheaval.

Infighting and backlash among Heated Rivalry fans is most pronounced on X—fueled in part by censorship-driven migration from platforms like Tumblr.

En ce sixième jour de guerre entre l’Iran, les États-Unis et Israël, le conflit semble se stabiliser en ce qui concerne les zones géographiques concernées, à l’exception notable du territoire de l’Azerbaïdjan, qui a été touché pour la première fois. Cependant, l’intensité des combats (et des déclarations) ne semble pas vouloir s’estomper.

Birdbuddy’s smart hummingbird feeder can capture both photo and video of your feathery friends. | Image: Birdbuddy Spring is peak bird-watching season, and if you want a closer look this year, Birdbuddy’s Smart Hummingbird Feeder Pro Solar has you covered. Normally $299, Birdbuddy is now selling the solar-powered feeder for $189 ($110 off), which matches its lowest price to date.
Birdbuddy Smart Hummingbird Feeder Pro Solar Where to Buy: $299 $189 at Birdbuddy $299 $239 at Amazon $299 $199 at Chewy
Although the feeder is designed for hummingbirds, when paired with its companion app, it can identify a wide range of species using AI and alert you when they arrive. Using a motion-activated 2K camera, it can...

En 2025, les juges d’instruction avaient ordonné un procès du fonctionnaire pour homicide volontaire du jeune conducteur, tué à Nanterre en 2023 ; la cour d’appel de Versailles a requalifié les faits jeudi en « violences ayant entraîné la mort sans intention de la donner ».

Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

Voiture connectée et IA : VillainNet viserait les supernets des voitures autonomes, dormant dans un sous-réseau puis agissant lors d’un basculement.

The company resumed stock buybacks for the first time since 2024 as the new CEO said he and Warren Buffett still speak every day

A la suite du démantèlement brutal de son aide au développement international, en janvier 2025, l’administration américaine conditionne désormais ses financements à des contreparties commerciales ou au partage de données de santé.

Curious about split keyboards, but overwhelmed by the myriad options for every little thing? You should start with [thehaikuza]’s excellent Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards.
Image by [thehaikuza] via redditYour education begins with the why, so you can skip that if you must, but the visuals are a nice refresher on that front.
He then gets into the types of keyboards — you got your standard row-staggered rectangles that we all grew up on, column-staggered, and straight-up ortholinear, which no longer enjoy the popularity they once did.
At this point, the guide becomes a bit of a Choose Your Own Adventure story. If you want a split but don’t want to learn to change much if at all about your typing...

Les habitants de la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, bastion du Hezbollah, ont reçu un appel de l’armée de l’Etat hébreu à évacuer « immédiatement » la zone, provoquant une fuite massive. Le chef de la diplomatie française, Jean-Noël Barrot, a déclaré que 750 Français ont été rapatriés et 5 000 souhaitent quitter le Moyen-Orient.

Leak YGG : CardsShield, faux e-commerce, PayPal/Stripe, crypto et Tornado Cash, un pipeline taillé pour masquer les dons.

Ecuador's military says the drug-trafficking submersible was loaded with fuel and "ready to go".

The singer was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at around 21:30 PT (05:30 GMT) on Wednesday.

Des militants armés kurdes iraniens s’apprêteraient à attaquer l’Iran depuis son voisin irakien, avec le soutien d’Israël et des États-Unis, selon les sources de l’historien et essayiste Arash Azizi, né en Iran et basé aux États-Unis. Il met en garde contre ce projet risquant de déboucher sur une guerre civile.

Avec plus d’un million de militaires et de paramilitaires, plus de 2 000 missiles balistiques et environ 80 000 drones kamikazes, l’Iran fait partie des vingt plus grandes puissances militaires mondiales et n’entend pas facilement capituler. Le régime a aussi adapté sa stratégie pour tenir le plus longtemps possible. Mais le stock de certaines munitions clés pourrait s’épuiser d’ici à plusieurs semaines, estiment des experts.

Après avoir déménagé en Thaïlande, cette Américaine qui était en surpoids a complètement changé de régime alimentaire. Elle raconte sur le site “Business Insider” que sa vie à l’étranger, plus active et plus saine, lui a permis d’échapper à de graves problèmes de santé.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Alors que le pape Léon XIV appelle à limiter son utilisation, l’intelligence artificielle se fraie désormais un chemin dans les milieux religieux, annonce l’hebdomadaire allemand “Die Zeit”. Des outils comme SermonAi, géré depuis 2021 par un prêtre orthodoxe américain, permettent de générer artificiellement des sermons, adaptés à différentes confessions.

« L’histoire, une bataille culturelle » (2/3). Annoncé en fanfare en 2022, le grand parc historique devait incarner l’ambition mémorielle et politique de la région. Quatre ans plus tard, le projet semble enlisé dans les arbitrages et les études.

Vibe coding is all the rage at the moment if you follow certain parts of the Internet. It’s very easy to dunk upon it, whether it’s to mock the sea of people who’ve drunk the Kool-Aid and want the magic machine to make them a million dollar app with no work, or the vibe coded web apps with security holes you could drive a bus through.
But AI-assisted coding is now a thing that will stick around whether you like it or not, and there are many who want to dip a toe in the water to see what the fuss is about. For those who don’t quite trust the magic machines in their inner sanctum, [jscottmiller] is here with Clix, a bootable live Linux environment which puts Claude Code safely in a sandbox away from your...

Europol, Microsoft et plusieurs agences de six pays européens viennent de mettre hors service Tycoon 2FA, une plateforme de phishing vendue sur abonnement qui contournait la double authentification. 330 domaines ont été saisis, et le développeur principal a été identifié au Pakistan.
Une machine à phishing sur abonnement
Pour mieux vous poser le tableau, le Tycoon 2FA fonctionnait comme un service clé en main pour cybercriminels. Pour 120 dollars les dix jours ou 350 dollars par mois, n'importe qui pouvait accéder à un panneau de contrôle avec des pages de phishing prêtes à l'emploi, qui imitent les interfaces de connexion de Microsoft 365, Outlook, Gmail ou même SharePoint.
Le kit interceptait...

Past conflicts eroded Congress’s ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump’s attack on Iran destroyed it.

The grocery and pharma businesses are performing steadily, even if the company, with its 2,700 stores, may be running out of spots to build new ones

France • May 2015 📷 #flashes

Plus de 600 employés de Google et OpenAI ont signé une lettre ouverte baptisée « We Will Not Be Divided », pour demander des limites claires sur l'usage militaire de l'IA. Le nombre de signataires est monté à près de 900 en quelques jours. Il y a deux gros problèmes dans cette histoire : la surveillance de masse et les armes autonomes. Le contexte est tellement tendu que le Pentagone a même blacklisté Anthropic pour avoir refusé de coopérer.
Une lettre, deux lignes rouges
La lettre, publiée le 28 février sur le site notdivided.org, a d'abord réuni 573 employés de Google et 93 d'OpenAI. En quelques jours, le compteur est monté à près de 900 signatures, dont 800 côté Google. Les...

In the 1970s, the USSR had an undersea cable connecting a major naval base at Petropavlovsk to the Pacific Fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The cable traversed the Sea of Okhotsk, which, at the time, the USSR claimed. It was off limits to foreign vessels, heavily patrolled, and laced with detection devices. How much more secure could it be? Against the US Navy, apparently not very secure at all. For about a decade starting in 1972, the Navy delivered tapes of all the traffic on the cable to the NSA.
Top Secret
You need a few things to make this a success. First, you need a stealthy submarine. The Navy had the USS Halibut, which has a strange history. You also need some sort of undetectable listening device...

Gena “Circlez”
Every sound in “Circlez” is so gorgous and precisely calibrated – that organ tone with the just-right level of warmth radiating through the mix, the subtle high-pitched clatter punctuating Karriem Riggins’ percussion, the piano part mixed to sound as though it’s bleeding in from the next room, the heavily reverbed yells on the outro. It makes me wonder how much of Gena’s decisions came quickly from raw instinct, and how much may have been sweated over in the studio. Not that it makes a lot of difference – if it’s more the latter, they’ve achieved the illusion of convincing me that it could have just happened this way. Buy it from Bandcamp.
Beba Rexha “Çike...

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avec Surfshark
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On entend beaucoup parler de l'IA générative ces derniers temps. Et dans les médias classiques, c'est souvent pour s'en inquiéter (pas ici, vous savez que j'essaye de rester positif). Il faut quand même reconnaitre que : phishing plus convaincant, deepfakes, malware qui s'adapte tout seul... la liste des risques est longue et légitime.
Mais il y a un angle qu'on oublie parfois : cette même technologie peut aussi renforcer sérieusement nos défenses. C'est exactement la position que défend Surfshark depuis quelques mois. Pas en mode "l'IA va tout résoudre", mais avec une approche pragmatique. À savoir comment utiliser ces outils pour anticiper, tester et...

There’s just something delightful about scaled items. Big things shrunk down, like LEGO’s teeny tiny terminal brick? Delightful. Taking that terminal brick and scaling it back to a full-sized computer? Even better. That’s what designer [Paul Staal] has done with his M2x2 project.
In spite of the name, it actually has a Mac Mini M4 as its powerful beating heart. An M2 might have been more on-brand, but it’s probably a case of wanting the most horsepower possible in what [Paul] apparently uses as his main workstation these days. The build itself is simple, but has some great design details. As you probably expected, the case is 3D printed. You may not have expected that he can use the left stud as a...

It’s so important to care about your health, and you’re so clever to check!

The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes.

Even the most seasoned performers have had trouble nailing the gig. Why is it so hard to get right?

Saisie de LeakBase : forum cybercriminel fermé, données et domaines saisis, action coordonnée dans 14 pays.

Votre PC Windows rame ? Vous ouvrez Chrome et il met 10 secondes à afficher une page vide ? Sans parler de Windows Update qui mouline en arrière-plan et qui transforme votre PC en radiateur ?
Et bien il existe quelques astuces simples pour regagner en fluidité, améliorer la vitesse et la réactivité de votre système, le tout sans avoir à tout réinstaller ou à acheter du nouveau matos.
Je vais vous montrer 9 manipulations concrètes qui peuvent vraiment faire la différence, surtout si votre PC commence à prendre de l'âge ou si vous avez peu de RAM. Rien de révolutionnaire, juste des réglages qui marchent.
Ce qu'il faut savoir avant de commencer
Ces astuces fonctionnent sur Windows 10 et Windows...

J'avoue que faire tourner un agent IA en mode YOLO sur votre machine, y'a de quoi flipper un peu. Un mauvais prompt et hop, votre répertoire home part en fumée.
Mais heureusement, pour ça y'a
Yolobox
, un outil en Go qui fait tourner vos agents IA dans un conteneur Docker isolé. En gros, l'agent a les pleins pouvoirs dans son bac à sable par défaut comme ça, votre répertoire home reste intouchable. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, tout est compatible, préconfiguré et prêt à l'emploi.
En fait avec Yolobox, seul votre dossier projet est monté en lecture-écriture avec le même chemin que sur votre machine et comme ça, l'agent bosse comme si de rien n'était. Sauf que tout le reste...

Dans sa (très) Brève histoire de l’espoir (Lux), le professeur de littérature montréalais Mathieu Bélisle ausculte notre incapacité - très contemporaine - à imaginer un monde meilleur et à le faire advenir. Son remède ? Renouer avec le temps long et se distancier des dystopies. Entretien.

Les élections municipales permettront aussi d’élire les conseillers qui siégeront aux intercommunalités, échelon méconnu du maillage territorial malgré son importance sur la vie locale.