A new imprint called CYOA Unbound will launch interactive fiction beyond Chooseco's usual kid-focused audience.

The new smaller Surface models are closer to their price two years ago, but Microsoft still wants you to buy a keyboard and stylus separately.

Social media is evolving towards AI-driven, user-customized feeds.

Extracellular vesicles from human amniotic membrane cells reached the hippocampus after intranasal delivery and improved several forms of memory in an Alzheimer’s mouse model. Treatment reduced amyloid-beta and altered microglial and astrocyte activity while increasing proteins involved in synaptic function and brain plasticity. The findings remain preclinical: the main experiments used genetically engineered mice, while human evidence came from laboratory-grown neurons rather than treated patients. Tiny packages naturally released by human cells reached the brain after being delivered through the nose and protected memory in mice with Alzheimer’s-like disease. The same vesicles also supported neurons...

New research shows that strokes are increasingly hitting Americans under the age of 55, but scientists aren't sure why.

Sometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a Hackaday expedition back in 2019. [Alec Steele] joined Irish Bloomery Iron, for a weekend with a medieval blast furnace.
Our brush with bog ore came in a trip to Hack42 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, where a team of Dutch hackers built a furnace from firebricks in an attempt to do the same thing. The Dutch attempt ended with a lot of mixed slag and very little iron, and looking at how the Irish furnace was constructed we see some clues to their success. Their air injection using a perforated sheet of clay and the air blast injected to form a venturi is particularly...

From streaming docuseries to feature-length films, these are the true crime documentaries this year that went beyond the usual formula

In these cities, trivia runs nearly every night of the week, draws league-level competition and fills bars that would otherwise be empty on a Tuesday

The Sound Elite platform promises you can lose your phone and still not miss the bass drop as you clean your house.

Pirate streaming sites that cater to a Chinese-speaking audience are typically not a priority for Hollywood’s anti-piracy forces.
This also applies to Olevod. The site, which operates from a .com and .tv domain, has appeared in a batch of DMCA subpoenas obtained by ACE, as well as an Australian blocking order. However, it never showed up in the annual USTR lists of key foreign piracy threats. In recent years the site continued to serve a stable audience, specifically targeting Chinese-speaking people outside of China, including many U.S. residents. Tencent Sues ‘Chinese’ Pirate Site in Florida
In an effort to stop the site, Tencent filed a copyright complaint against Olevod at a federal court in Florida...

An adorable little bear that wants to help you buy things. Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to do with it? The tree just assigned me homework? Oh, our trash collection company canceled our account out of nowhere and now I have to send email about it? Repeatedly? Totally unfair.
These are the things that we've been told for years that AI will help us with. We'll all have a smart virtual assistant to triage and handle the tedious tasks we'd rather …
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These longest-lasting cars, trucks and SUVs have the best odds of reaching 250,000 miles, according to a 2026 iSeeCars study of more than 395 million vehicles

In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers of civilian deaths and widespread destruction.

A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.

Although [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a ‘car guy’, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on a range of cars over the years, a recent misadventure involving a BMW Mini F56’s infotainment system replacement and some light ECU reprogramming included. What happened exactly is covered in a detailed breakdown in a blog post.
The old iDrive infotainment system in the Mini. (Credit: Arkandas)
One of the aspects that [Arkandas] disliked about this car was its iDrive infotainment system, itself a stripped-down version of the full-fat infotainment system in ‘real’ BMW cars, with a small screen and awkward UX. The idea was to replace this with a more...

Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China’s corporate culture and build their future with A.I.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI might stress power grids and local water systems. That's fueled partly by concerns about how difficult it is to see just how much electricity or water they're actually gobbling up. California's new disclosure rules won't offer a full picture, but starting next year, data center operators will have to start s …
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Masoud Pezeshkian's defiant speech to the UN comes after the US president threatened to "annihilate" Iran if a peace deal is not agreed soon.

The British high-end auto company reveals its first-ever full EV: 330 miles of range, 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds, and an orchestra under the hood. Will it be enough to lure high-rollers?

MIT researchers combined Raman microscopy with single-cell and spatial gene-expression measurements to identify biochemical patterns associated with cellular senescence without destroying the tissue being examined. Senescent cells showed distinctive molecular changes, including a recurring lipid-associated Raman signature, while lung and skin displayed different age-related gene programs. The team used these combined signals to build a machine-learning “barcode” for senescence, raising the possibility of future imaging tools that could locate senescent cells inside living tissue. Cells that stop dividing but refuse to disappear are notoriously difficult to identify without destroying them. MIT researchers...

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.

Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after searching through a massive database of DNA sequences, adding that its scientists' involvement was limited to the initial prompt and lab work. Over 21 hours, Anthropic said nearly 950 Claude agents worked through 210 million tokens before one spotted an unusual repeating pattern in the datas …
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Mardi 22 septembre, dans le cadre de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, le président américain a une nouvelle fois menacé d’“anéantir” l’Iran. Le président de la République islamique, Massoud Pezechkian, s’est exprimé à son tour aujourd’hui, en passant à l’offensive contre les États-Unis.

Quelques heures après les déclarations de Sergueï Lavrov, qui a dit que la Russie ne fera « pas de trêve » dans sa guerre en Ukraine, le président ukrainien a pris la parole à la tribune de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU.

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, ainsi que le Français Clément Delangue, cofondateur de Hugging Face, s’expriment devant le Conseil de sécurité, à New York, où la question de l’intelligence artificielle y est abordée pour la première fois.

Le “female gaze”, ce regard féminin, qui permet de représenter les femmes dans leur subjectivité, s’est installé sur nos écrans jusqu’à devenir quasi mainstream notamment grâce aux séries. Décryptage avec le quotidien britannique “The Guardian”.

Le gouvernement portugais veut rendre aux mairies le pouvoir de limiter l’ouverture des boutiques de souvenirs dans les centres historiques. Leur étonnante prolifération et leur modèle économique alimentent depuis plusieurs années enquêtes et soupçons sur les activités qui se cachent derrière certaines vitrines.

ShinyHunters menace des rivaux et prend en otage, quelques heures, une adresse appartenant aux pirates du groupe Cl0p.

Perhaps one of the most contentious issues in 3D printing is that of supports, both because they’re an uncomfortable reminder of how gravity affects our prints and because the very idea of there being ‘one right way’ is bound to get you into some spirited discussions. That said, [Matthew Trahan] figured that neither regular grid supports nor organic tree supports are the answer here, and that the better answer is found in fins.
The problem with existing support approaches especially with FDM prints is that they can be fairly wasteful in terms of material, and they can leave serious marks on the printed object’s surface that require post-processing. These fins on the other hand are designed to require...

The local authorities reportedly seize Tigray's airports following reports of recent drone strikes.

Raphaël Glucksmann, Ségolène Royal, Olivier Faure, Jérôme Guedj et Emmanuel Maurel se confrontent, mercredi, sur TF1-LCI, à un panel de Français lors d’une émission animée par David Pujadas.

Le 10 septembre, l’armée malienne a subi l’un de ses pires revers : au moins 100 soldats sont morts dans l’attaque du camp de Dioura par le GSIM. Une défaite qui met à nouveau sous pression le chef de la junte.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligence - a technology the bill describes as capable of the "destruction or disempowerment of humanity," including by overthrowing the government. Under the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, AI leaders would face up to 20 years in prison for violating the law.
The bill doesn't just take aim at the more powerful superintelligence, a term President Donald Trump said the US will use in place of "AI" in official documents. It would also pause the development of advanced AI systems, which lawmakers …
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Obsédé par le désir de s’emparer de ce territoire autonome danois, le président des États-Unis a obtenu un nouvel accord de sécurité, mais sans avancée majeure, souligne “The New York Times”. Du côté du Groenland, on se réjouit d’un fait nouveau : le territoire est signataire à part entière, aux côtés du Danemark, du texte paraphé à New York le 22 septembre.

À l’occasion du 20e anniversaire de cette organisation fédérant des acteurs publics et privés, en vue de transformer les rendements et les revenus des paysans dans 13 pays africains, le bilan est nuancé. La presse souligne notamment une réorientation vers la culture du maïs qui s’est faite au détriment des cultures traditionnelles, plus résistantes face au changement climatique.

Astronomers report the first radio emission directly localized to a confirmed exoplanet, the young giant Beta Pictoris b, about 64 light-years from Earth. Rapid, highly circularly polarized bursts detected with South Africa’s MeerKAT array are consistent with auroral emission generated by the electron cyclotron maser instability. The highest detected frequency implies a local magnetic field of at least 1.25 kilogauss, providing the first direct magnetic-field strength measurement for an exoplanet. Radio bursts from a young giant planet have given astronomers something they have sought for decades: a signal that can be confidently traced to an exoplanet rather than its host star. Using the MeerKAT radio...

The LED control display includes a Yeti mascot, because of course it does. | Image: Logitech G The original Blue Yeti has been one of the most recognizable go-to USB microphones for content creators since it launched in 2009, and now it finally has a successor. Launching today under Logitech G, the Blue Yeti 2 adds some modern upgrades, including an interactive LED display, AI de-noising, and a proximity based voice sensor - which resolves a notable flaw with its predecessor's design while still paying homage to it.
It's available in black or white color options for $159.99, which is comparatively cheaper than Shure's popular MV7 series USB microphones, which are the current choice for podcasters and start at...

Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California! Below is just the tip of the speakers’ iceberg, but if that’s not enough to convince you to attend, well, stay tuned and we’ll reveal more speakers early next week.
Speakers, workshops, food, drink, music, badge hacking, and general merriment? That’s what we do every year at our annual gathering. This year is even bigger, as we’re moving a few blocks south to the Art Center campus, so be sure to come join us. Get your tickets now. Addison Vogt
Overengineering a CD shelf: A tale of packing software, electronics and dozens of motors into tight spaces
Revisit the educational journey of packing 24...

In Brent Katz’s short documentary “Josh’s Wedding,” a group of groomsmen reckon with a technology that one of them is building.

Alors que Donald Trump déroule le tapis rouge à son homologue chinois à Washington, mercredi, Pékin semble être parvenu à imposer ses propres conditions à un président américain affaibli sur les plans militaire et intérieur.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Trump and Xi are expected to discuss a range of issues from trade to AI during the latter's multi-day visit to Washington.

In YouTube’s latest update, viewers can tweak what the algorithm shows on their front page and curate it to a specific vibe.

A new CMS analysis found no evidence that the Large Hadron Collider produced microscopic black holes or electroweak sphalerons in proton collisions recorded from 2016 through 2018. The null result excludes semiclassical black holes below roughly 9.0 to 11.4 tera-electron volts in the extra-dimensional models tested, extending previous limits by as much as 1.6 TeV. Researchers also demonstrated a new machine-learning approach based on the geometric distance between collision events in phase space, which could help search for other rare forms of undiscovered physics. A microscopic black hole created inside the Large Hadron Collider would vanish almost instantly. Its brief existence, however, could leave behind a...

Dans un avenir où des plateformes pilotées par l’intelligence artificielle gèrent notre argent à notre place, à quoi pourrait encore servir une agence bancaire ? Avec la banque fictive Verso, l'agence créative frog imagine un lieu physique chargé de rendre les décisions financières compréhensibles, contestables et, surtout, dignes de confiance.

Dans un futur de pénuries durables, l'agence créative frog imagine deux magasins. Le premier sait tout de nous et transforme chaque visite en expérience sur mesure. Le second ne collecte rien, mais ne propose presque plus rien à choisir. Une fiction qui pose une question embarrassante : le respect de la vie privée deviendra-t-il le prix de la standardisation ?

Tours, 2033. Alors que le thermomètre menace d’atteindre 46 degrés, une mère et ses enfants sont évacués vers une gare transformée en abri. Avec Lieux de résistance, l'agence créative frog imagine des services publics capables d’anticiper les catastrophes, de protéger les plus vulnérables et de mobiliser les citoyens. Une fiction désirable, traversée par des choix très politiques.

Si vous faites tourner Veeam Agent pour sauvegarder un poste Windows, et surtout si plusieurs personnes s'y connectent, allez vérifier tout de suite son numéro de build parce que depuis quelques jours, un vilain exploit circule pour la faille CVE-2026-32996. Ce dernier est chaud patate parce qu'il permet à un utilisateur local sans droits particuliers de grimper jusqu'au compte SYSTEM, c'est à dire le compte le plus puissant de la machine.
Veeam évidemment ne minimise pas le problème et classe cette élévation de privilèges en gravité haute, avec un score CVSS de 7,3 sur 10. Elle touche l'agent en version 13.0.2.1102 comme toutes les versions antérieures de la branche 13.
Rassurez-vous, ils n'ont pas...

Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.

The tenant of the flat in Madrid, Maricarmen, was unable to pay the rent set by the firm which recently bought it.

Bryan Seaver, who announced Parton's death to the world, is accused of trying to extort her estate.

A circular feature first noticed by an amateur astronomer planning a camping trip in Quebec has turned out to be strong evidence of a previously unrecognized impact crater about 25 kilometers wide. Fieldwork in 2025 uncovered shatter cones, the clearest visible sign of an impact event, and rock samples suggest the structure formed roughly 390 million years ago. The site, named Uhackatik after consultation with the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit, would become one of Quebec’s known impact structures if formally recognized by the Meteoritical Society. A remote lake in Quebec has gone from a possible campsite marker to one of the most intriguing geological finds in recent years. The discovery began when amateur...

Dans une série documentaire en quatre épisodes, six lanceurs d’alerte racontent comment ils ont dénoncé l’usage dangereux de l’hydroxychloroquine. Face à eux, le professeur Raoult et son « shérif », Éric Chabrière.

If you weren’t already aware, it will probably come as no surprise to hear that the pioneering computer-animation studio Pixar built its early workflow on Silicon Graphics SGI workstations. These were beefy Unix machines that, as the name implied, were developed for graphical work. When the age of the RISC workstation came to a close, many Unix users were pushed onto Windows NT — but not at Pixar. At Pixar, they learned to love the penguin.
It comes down to hardware rather than software. You know the story: PCs got faster and cheaper with different vendors competing for a giant market, while the world of RISC workstations couldn’t keep its lead. Pixar would have been happy staying on Unix workstations,...

September 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Un pirate propose 10,69 millions de fiches de véhicules français. Volume, origine et authenticité restent à vérifier.

Le « deface » revient chez les vendeurs de données, utilisé comme preuve publique d’accès et de compromission.

Le 4 mai 2026, le Bengale-Occidental a voté à 92,47 % — la participation la plus élevée de l'histoire indienne. Le même pays est classé 157e sur 180 pour la liberté de la presse et qualifié d'« autocratie électorale » par les politologues de Göteborg. Ces deux affirmations sont exactes. Comprendre l'Inde contemporaine, c'est comprendre comment elles tiennent ensemble.

Sur la photo officielle que j'ai mise en illustration de cet article, Dirk Schrödter, ministre du Numérique et chef de la chancellerie du Land allemand du Schleswig-Holstein, pose assis dans un escalier avec un Tux en peluche. Et il a le smile puisque plus de 200 agents de sa chancellerie bossent maintenant uniquement sous Linux, exactement comme il l'a annoncé aux 24e Open-Source-und-Linux-Tage de Kiel. Alors attention, on n'est pas à 100 % parce qu'il reste quand même une vingtaine de postes sous Windows à la chancellerie qui sont nécessaires pour cause de dépendance technique à des logiciels métiers purement Windows.
Mais le ministre assure dans l'annonce officielle du Land que ses équipes...