A new wave of synthetic drugs is sweeping across the United States, raising fear of a worsening drug crisis. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from the frontlines in South Side, Chicago, where communities are battling the crisis.

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a national address after widespread disorder and as some looting continued in Paris.

Sous pression, Emmanuel Macron s’est s’adressé aux Français à 20 heures. Le chef de l’Etat a promis que l’exécutif sera « intraitable » face aux casseurs, ajoutant que les préfets « prendront les décisions » qui s’imposent pour protéger les villes, allant jusqu’à « interdire » si nécessaire « certains rassemblements ».

The rights are his, and the game's helped renew interest in 'Hellraiser.' Now, Barker wants to do something with the ideas in his head.

Dans plusieurs quartiers, les stigmates des débordements des manifestations du 17 octobre sont visibles sur de nombreuses artères. Entre écœurement et compréhension, chacun tente de trouver un sens aux événements. En soirée, des affrontements sporadiques ont à nouveau eu lieu, autour de la place de la République.

At least four people are confirmed to have died after a huge fire swept through the base.

Mister Organ doesn't reach the level of societal horror of The Act of Killing or the creepypasta-meets-true-crime gruesomeness of Beware the Slenderman, but there's something deeply unsettling about Michael Organ and his intimate campaign of terror against everyone who enters his life. Mister Organ is a documentary by David Farrier, an Auckland, New Zealand journalist. The movie starts with Farrier reporting on Bashford Antiques, a shop in Ponsonby that has begun aggressively clamping cars in its lot and demanding exorbitant fees to release them - up to $760. Farrier's article for The Spinoff eventually led the government to introduce legi …
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Before Patrick Stewart returned to 'Star Trek' with 'Picard,' McAvoy hoped to play another of the actor's iconic roles.

L’estimation, avancée par Alexandre Bompard, le président de la Fédération du commerce et de la distribution, n’est que provisoire. Une réunion est programmée à Bercy, le lundi 19 octobre, à 9 heures, avec les organisations représentant commerçants et restaurateurs qui demandent d’ores et déjà une accélération des mesures d’indemnisation.

Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward."
Police responded to the scene and asked Marvin to move out of the robot's way. When she refused, they placed her in cuffs and arrested her. The incident was captured on video and has now garnered considerable media attention. The delivery robots have become a common sight on the …
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Adding seawater-driven melting beneath grounded ice improved a model’s reconstruction of Thwaites Glacier’s retreat, thinning and acceleration. A case using a roughly five-kilometer grounding zone projected about 30 millimeters of sea-level contribution by 2100 under constant climate forcing. The findings highlight an important source of uncertainty, but do not predict complete glacier collapse this century. The boundary beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is less fixed than a line on a map suggests. As tides rise and fall, seawater can push kilometers beneath ice that otherwise rests on the seabed. Melting in that shifting zone could substantially increase the glacier’s contribution to rising seas....

Georgia law appears to let Savannah police share their plate data with ICE, but the city never agreed to do that.

The product pipeline was choked nearly to death by Siri delays.

As electronic components grow ever smaller, a microscope has become an increasingly indispensable tool for any fine work; when inspecting electronics, though, especially solder joints, [Corebb] found a top-down view too limiting, so he built his own microscope with a rotating side-angle view.
The microscope itself is made of a commercial C-mount microscope lens assembly and a USB camera; the lens has a variable magnification factor up to 200x, which is plenty for electronics work, and is mounted on an adjustable stand to move the focal point. This is paired with an LED ring for illumination and two polarizing filters, one mounted on the lens and one one the lighting ring; when adjusted to 90 degrees from each...

Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York's 15th congressional district in the Bronx introduced the Power To The Players Act this week. If passed, the bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish regulations that guarantee consumers ownership of a game when they pay for it, rather than a licensing agreement.
It's increasingly common for games sold to require a connection to a server. Meaning that when a company decides to shut down those servers, the games often become unplayable. Rep. Torres singles out NBA 2K25 as a recent example. 2K will be delisting the game from storefronts at the end of the month and shutting down its servers on …
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Go ahead and duke it out in the comments about whether 'Street Fighter' was perfect or a loser of an adaptation.

Roman is designed to return about 1.4 terabytes of data daily, with observations becoming publicly available after processing. A collaboration of roughly 900 astronomers is preparing to search those observations for planets, black holes and cosmic explosions. The telescope’s surveys could sharpen measurements of dark energy, but their major discoveries still lie ahead. A distant star briefly brightens. A supernova appears in a galaxy. Somewhere else, an unseen object bends passing starlight. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is designed to capture such changes across crowded stretches of sky, then make its observations available for others to investigate. The challenge will be keeping up. Roman is...

Sur les 28 000 immigrés expulsés des Etats-Unis entre le début de 2025 et août 2026, plus de 500 ont été envoyés sur le continent africain, selon les données du Deportation Data Project. La plupart du temps, ils n’ont pas de lien direct avec les pays d’Afrique.

Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité ces derniers jours ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.

At least one person was killed in the strikes, which also hit a data centre used by Russia's equivalent of Facebook.

Et si Napoléon avait eu recours à des forces supernaturelles ? “Valor Mortis”, sorti sur consoles et PC ce 13 octobre, imagine une Grande Armée composée d’horribles zombies. Le joueur doit en venir à bout, dans cette production polonaise qui a convaincu la presse spécialisée en innovant sur la formule en vogue des “souls-like”.

How to claim refunds, rebooking, meals and cash compensation from airlines under U.S. and EU rules

Alors que le président américain a bloqué l’application d’une loi prévoyant des sanctions supplémentaires contre l’économie russe, Kiev a lancé, samedi 17 octobre, l’une de ses plus importantes attaques aériennes de l’année. Les drones ukrainiens ont notamment endommagé le terminal pétrolier de Saint-Pétersbourg.

The Legion Go S with SteamOS is a pretty solid alternative to the $789 Steam Deck OLED. It runs identical software, but ships in a design with two-stage triggers, a bigger eight-inch IPS screen (1080p and up to 120Hz versus 800p and 90Hz in the Deck OLED), and it’s got double the RAM and storage (32GB and 1TB, respectively), not to mention a slightly faster processor in the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. At $999.99, its current discounted price at Best Buy, it’s worth considering if you’re deciding on a handheld. The Legion Go S is not as powerful as the $1,299.99 Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 that just launched, which has the Z2 Extreme and a OLED screen, but it’s no slouch, either.
Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS (Z1...

Practical strategies for landing a better airline seat without elite status, upgrade fees, or extra spending

Male rats exposed to simulated cosmic radiation had roughly twice as much collagen around heart blood vessels at long-term follow-up. Simulated weightlessness produced persistent changes in immune signaling, but combining the two stressors did not consistently worsen their effects. The findings raise questions for astronaut health, while small tissue samples, preliminary DNA results and compressed radiation delivery limit direct human predictions. Heart tissue examined nearly a year after simulated cosmic-radiation exposure carried a warning for long-distance space exploration. Male rats had accumulated roughly twice as much collagen around small coronary blood vessels as unexposed controls. The finding...

We know [The Action Lab] always has something hands-on. This time, the video shows a toroidal plasma demo and how it relates to nuclear fusion. Plasma has a high temperature, and if you use physical electrodes to excite the plasma, this high temperature tends to destroy the electrodes. But thanks to the relationship between electricity and magnetism, you can create plasma with an alternating magnetic field instead of physical electrodes.
The actual practical device is a 10 MHz source with a coil and a low-pressure globe full of xenon gas. It looks pretty cool. Of course, the little tabletop demo isn’t strong enough to drive a fusion reaction. But if you scale it up and make some modifications, including...

En 2020, trois hommes ont été assassinés, dont le demi-frère du militant contre le narcotrafic Amine Kessaci. Parmi les accusés renvoyés devant la cour d’assises à partir de lundi se trouve notamment Amine Oualane, considéré aujourd’hui comme l’un des leaders du groupe criminel marseillais.

Depuis le début du mouvement lycéen, les journées à rallonge se trouvent au cœur des doléances. Quel est l’emploi du temps dans d’autres pays, et notamment en Allemagne connue pour faire sortir les élèves à la mi-journée ? “Courrier international” s’est entretenu avec Annika Joeres, correspondante de l’hebdomadaire “Die Zeit” en France.

J Mascis on stage during Dinosaur Jr.’s Baby’s Alright show in NYC. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis is known as something of a slacker guitar god. He stands stoically onstage, barely moving, as he seemingly effortlessly works through deft guitar solos and lopsided riffs. Unfortunately, Mascis has developed a similar reputation as an interview subject, quietly sitting and offering deft nonanswers.
That's not to say that Mascis can't be funny or charming. As our interview was winding down and I was thanking him for his time, he started to loosen up a bit. He told me about his youth as a mini golf "enthusiast." "I had a 3-foot putt for the win" at a mini-golf tournament, he said,...

Au Soudan, la guerre civile qui sévit depuis avril 2023 menace aussi des milliers d’années d’histoire. À Khartoum, le Musée national a été pillé, incendié et transformé en zone de combats, tandis que des dizaines de milliers d’antiquités ont disparu. La destruction du patrimoine soudanais met en péril la mémoire et l’identité du pays, constate le “Los Angeles Times”.

Visée par des sanctions occidentales, la Russie a été contrainte de trouver d’autres marchés et s’est rapprochée des pays asiatiques depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine, en 2022. Mais le poids pris par ces partenaires, en particulier la Chine, rend Moscou vulnérable, prévient “Kommersant”, l’un des principaux quotidiens du pays.

The Israeli military condemns the violence but the prime minister's office says it is part of a "smear" campaign.

Orbital observations suggest that a deeply eroded region near Mars’ equator contains the remains of a giant volcanic complex. Landforms and sulfate deposits point to past interactions between volcanic material and ice, but surviving buried glacier ice remains unconfirmed. Follow-up research and a proposed helicopter mission highlight the region’s scientific appeal without establishing present volcanic activity or a usable water reserve. A maze of fractured plateaus and canyons near Mars’ equator may preserve the remains of an enormous volcano. Within that landscape, scientists have also identified clues that glacier ice could survive beneath volcanic debris. Together, the observations make eastern Noctis...

When you need something that’s as mannishly masculinized as you can get for the Man™ in your life, we have you covered.

We are surrounded by evolving algorithms and AI models, and it feels like we have to evolve to them as well. Of course, the world itself is always evolving, and when we have to implement filtering circuits based on current environments it might not last all that long. [Saikarthik Ramakrishnan] realized that this phenomenon can easily apply to simple RC circuits, so why not make them adapt to the changing world itself? This is exactly what the Darwin Board is meant to do: act like an evolving simple RC circuit for whatever environment or signal you want gone.
RC circuits are normally considered to be relatively simple in the world of circuits; however, the real world isn’t always all that simple. This simple...

Last month, Chinese streaming giant Tencent won the first round of its legal battle against the pirate site Olevod, when a Florida judge ruled that the case can proceed in the United States.
Tencent is not the only Chinese platform to try its luck there. Last year, rival streaming service iQIYI used the same court and the same legal team to sue Aiyifan, a pirate streaming service for Chinese speakers outside China.
Aiyifan also operates under the names YFSP and IYF, with domains including aiyifan.tv, yfsp.tv and iyf.tv. According to Similarweb, yfsp.tv alone drew roughly 14 million visits last month.
Unlike Olevod, Aiyifan never appeared in court, and none of its operators were named as defendants. However,...

Adult performers are questioning why Meta allows its AI agent to sext while restricting their social media accounts.

Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

La Chine veut encadrer les exportations de 23 technologies d’IA, sur fond de rivalité stratégique avec Washington.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, they’re running for office—and winning.

The author reads his story from the October 26, 2026, issue of the magazine.

The Valerion VisionMaster Max 4K Projector delivers superb blacks, great brightness, and more adjustment capabilities than many users need.

CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different.

Sometimes a person has to be bold and trust that the person he’s being bold to will rise to the occasion.

The actor discusses Tom Cruise, the Coen brothers, and his lifelong quest to feel at ease in his own skin.

FFTir : un pirate vend 40 Go de données, dont des photos et certificats médicaux de licenciés sportifs.

Rendez-vous au Molodoï à partir de 18h30 pour participer à un atelier de théâtre forum. -
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Nouvelle édition du Lyon Antifa Fest, festival militant contre les violences coloniales et policières, le racisme, le sexisme, la Igbtqiaphobie, l'islamophobie et l'antisémitisme, qui associe concerts et conférences en soutien aux luttes antifascistes. Pour les préventes, cliquez ici. Après une édition 2025 riche en émotions suite à des tentatives d'interdiction par la préfecture du Rhône et l'extrême droite lyonnaise, sans oublier un boycott de la plateforme Pass Culture, nous sommes de (…) -
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Pour la première fois, des humoristes se produiront dans le cadre du Lyon Antifa Fest. -
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These accessories add personality to your Apple headphones case, make them easy to find, and offer some protection, too.

Since the discovery of an undocumented I/Q sampling feature in ESP32 chips about two weeks ago, there’s been a flood of similar features being found in other wireless chips, including LoRa and Wi-Fi chipsets. The latest chip to join their ranks is the MediaTek MT7921AU, often used in Wi-Fi adapters, with two different projects developing independent SDR drivers for it in the last few days.
The first was BirriaSDR, which discovered that the chip exposes raw I/Q samples for debugging and calibration; BirriaSDR instead streams these to the host at 40 Msps in 14-bit resolution, with the option to tune from 2156 to 2610 MHz. BirriaSDR uses libusb to directly communicate with the Wi-Fi adapter and access its...

Fitting a Sig Sauer Air-Reflex Sight To a P229 CO2 Air Pistol
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Vu sur Mercari, pour beaucoup trop cher (30 000 ¥), une casquette aux couleurs de la Pippin. Sur l’avant, on voit une référence à Apple, sur l’arrière on apprend qu’elle provient de l’E3 1996.
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An engineer’s greatest tool is the writing utensil. Be it pen or pencil, we use them for everything from making diagrams to marking out cuts. But as with any practitioner of an art, we can tend to become rather particular about the details. [Choronva Engineering] is not different, and to that end set out to re-invent the pencil sharpener. 
In this case, [Chronova]’s ideal pencil tip shape is a concave cone. This is a shape quite trivial to make by using a knife, but rather impossible with a traditional twisting motion. But what if one automatized the knife whittling motion? This is actually a very old idea, with examples dating back to at least 1910. In this example, the blade is guided along two tracks...

Two ultrashort laser pulses revealed a difficult-to-measure quantum property in an atomically thin semiconductor. Combining optical measurements with an analytical model yielded a local Berry curvature consistent with theoretical calculations. The approach could help track rapid changes in electronic quantum states, although broader applications require further testing. A crystal can send electrons sideways even without an external magnetic field. Behind that unexpected motion lies Berry curvature, a geometric property of electronic quantum states. Measuring it experimentally, however, has remained considerably harder than calculating it. A collaboration between the universities of Jena and Regensburg has...

La Chine, confrontée à la menace d’une guerre commerciale avec l’Union européenne, a consenti à un premier geste début octobre en promettant une limitation de ses exportations de véhicules hybrides. Mais l’Europe est encore loin du compte tant la menace que représente l’industrie chinoise est majeure. Elle ne compte pas en rester là et entend aller de l’avant pour adopter en 2027 un arsenal de mesures pour faire à ce « choc chinois 2.0 » qui a commencé.

- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon - Je vous parlais hier de mon NAS UGREEN DXP8800 Ultra , ce 8 baies dans lequel j'ai regroupé mes deux anciens serveurs et des dizaines de téraoctets de données. Fanxiang, une marque chinoise de stockage qu'on croise partout sur Amazon, m'a envoyé un SSD NVMe de 1 To au format M.2, cette petite barrette qui se branche directement sur la carte mère. Ça tombe plutôt bien, le NAS garde justement deux emplacements M.2 en PCIe 4.0 à côté de ses huit tiroirs.
Les disques durs mécaniques encaissent très bien les gros transferts qui s'enchaînent, mais ils s'écroulent dès qu'on leur demande des milliers de petits fichiers d'un coup, et c'est exactement le genre de...

Des pirates ciblent des industriels français et des opérateurs étatiques. L'un des groupes vend DDoS et exfiltration de données !

Une opération vise CoGUI et deux kits de phishing, avec saisies de domaines et action judiciaire.