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by Zataz - about 21 minutes
Fuite DGFiP : pas de panique. Pourquoi vos réactions publiques peuvent aider les pirates à cibler leurs futures campagnes de phishing.
by Wired - about 42 minutes
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
by BBC - about 47 minutes
Russia accuses the UK of escalating the Ukraine war after British-made drones were used, but the MoD says it stands against Russian aggression.
by io9 - about 1 hour
By one count, the number of requests for legislation in 2025 was up 72% from the same period in 2023
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Depuis le mois de juin, la ville de Nice et cinq communes appartenant à sa métropole ont reçu le label “Tsunami Ready” de l’Unesco, qui distingue les municipalités qui se sont préparées à ce type de catastrophe naturelle. Le magazine allemand “Der Spiegel” s’est rendu dans cette partie du bassin méditerranéen considérée comme “particulièrement à risque” en cas de séisme.
by Korben - about 1 hour
Vous posez une VRAIE question à un collègue, et ce connard vous renvoie 800 mots sortis d'un chatbot et qu'il n'a manifestement pas relus. C'est chiant hein ? Parce qu'à ce tarif, autant rien lui demander et aller directement sur ChatGPT vous-même. Hé bien bonne nouvelle, il existe maintenant un site à lui envoyer pour l'éduquer un chouilla sans que vous ayez à lui faire la leçon vous-même.
Ce site s'appelle dontpastetheai.com , et le site propose 2 explications sur pourquoi c'est pas cool de répondre en copiant collant un machin issu d'un LLM. Il y a la version "polie" que vous pouvez trouver ici, et la version énervée lisible ici qui demande direct "devine qui l'IA va remplacer en premier ?".
À...
by QZ - about 2 hours
Home security cameras vary widely in video quality and data protection. Consumer Reports tested 15 models to find the top performers
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Le nombre de demandes pour obtenir la citoyenneté canadienne à travers le monde entier a connu une augmentation rapide ces derniers mois, alimentée par des milliers de sollicitations en provenance des États-Unis. Les délais pour le traitement de ces demandes s’allongent de façon substantielle.
by io9 - about 2 hours
Could Meta really pay $1.4 trillion if it loses in court?
by The Verge - about 2 hours
The AirPods in the video look like a chunkier version of Apple’s AirPods Pro 3. | Image: Apple / MacRumors We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The short video clip features a man - who is wearing the new AirPods - holding up a book with the cover displayed, so that Visual Intelligence can see the book title. A Siri voice-over plays over the clip, saying "with Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later." Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has previously reported that the rumored AirPods with cameras are designed to take in "visual...
by Wired - about 2 hours
Merino is one of the best fabrics you can wear. We explain the different blends, what “GSM” means, and how to care for your clothes.
by QZ - about 2 hours
Home security systems vary widely in cost, contracts and monitoring. Consumer Reports surveyed thousands of members to find the top-rated brands
by Wired - about 2 hours
Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.
by QZ - about 2 hours
Boards are stacking C-suites with AI chiefs who can't overrule each other. The resulting gridlock is stalling the projects they were hired to build
by QZ - about 2 hours
From Tokyo's youth exhibition program to Melbourne's culture and a city where affordability and happiness don't always go hand in hand
by QZ - about 2 hours
From the Orient Express's storied carriages to a six-continent range of palace-on-wheels itineraries built around fine dining and scenic stops
by Le Monde - about 2 hours
Volodymyr Zelensky, le président ukrainien, a dénoncé « une attaque brutale » sur la commune « là où se trouvent un bureau de poste et des magasins, et où sont situées uniquement des habitations ».
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Dans le sud des Pays-Bas, plusieurs centaines d’agriculteurs se mobilisaient le 14 août pour soutenir cinq élevages intensifs de volaille risquant de perdre leur licence à cause de leurs émissions d’azote. Leur blocage de l’autoroute avec des tracteurs a pris cette fois un tour funeste : deux personnes sont mortes dans les embouteillages qui en ont résulté.
by Korben - about 2 hours
Gadgetbridge est une application Android libre qui va vous faire zizir parce qu'elle permet de remplacer l'app merdique du fabricant de votre bracelet ou montre connectée ou encore de vos écouteurs Bluetooth. Comme ça, terminé le compte obligatoire pour utiliser vos "wearables" et fini les serveurs du constructeur localisés en Chine ou je ne sais où qui reçoivent vos heures de sommeil ou votre fréquence cardiaque minute par minute... Puis surtout, ça permet de n'avoir plus qu'une seule application Android pour tous vos appareils et ça c'est cool aussi !
Surtout que ça fonctionne en OFFLINE... Hé oui, le manifeste de cette app indique bien que jamais, Ô grand jamais, elle ne se connectera au net....
by Korben - about 2 hours
Si comme moi, vous aimez les livres, ce que je vais vous raconter aujourd'hui va vous rendre fous ! Hier, 404 Media a publié une enquête qui suit le trajet d'un AirTag. Mais pas n'importe lequel... C'est un AirTag qu'un libraire a glissé, à la demande de la rédaction, dans un livre parti au sein d'une commande d'un millier d'ouvrages. Et son terminus va vous surprendre (ou pas, parce qu'on commence à les connaitre les lascars...) : un entrepôt Amazon de Las Vegas.
Ce qu'on apprends dans l'article de 404 Media c'est qu'en fait, là-bas, une équipe interne baptisée VGT3 reçoit des tonnes de cargaisons de livres, en découpe les reliures et les passe au scanner afin d'en numériser les pages.
Pour la...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
De mystérieuses attaques de bateaux de pêche équatoriens par des drones, précédées du survol d’un avion privé parti du Salvador, domicilié dans une boîte postale en Virginie. Dans une enquête, “The Washington Post” dessine les contours d’une opération secrète de la CIA.
by BBC - about 3 hours
Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by the parents.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project which purports to store a song on a single sheet of paper via QR code and transmit the data over LoRA. If it was a MIDI sequence, maybe. But the promise of Paper Tunes is to take any MP3 and give it this treatment, and that just seems like an impossible level of compression at first glance.
The music is heavily compressed, make no doubt about that. There’s samples in the Instructables link above and in the video below, but it sounds far better than it has any right to. The secret is Meta’s EnCodec neural codec, which like you’d guess uses neural nets...
by Les Décodeurs - about 3 hours
Par leur retentissement, ces procès ont dépassé le simple cadre de la salle d’audience pour entrer dans les livres d’histoire. Les connaissez-vous tous ? Testez vos connaissances avec notre « chronoquiz ».
by Korben - about 3 hours
Enfin !! Le compteur du projet de décompilation de GoldenEye 007 affiche dorénavant 208 fichiers traités sur 208, et cela pour les trois versions de la cartouche, japonaise et européenne comprises. Le dernier commit du dev KholdFuzion est d'ailleurs classe, puisqu'il porte le titre "*james bond will return. *".
Oh yeah ! Techniquement, le code C reconstitué ressort du compilateur sous la forme d'une ROM identique à celle de 1997, octet pour octet. C'est précisément ce que veut dire le mot "matching" dans ces projets. Ce n'est donc pas un jeu équivalent qui se comporterait pareil que le jeu d'origine... Non, c'est exactement le même binaire !
Après comme vous vous en doutez, le dépôt, lui,...
by Courrier International - about 3 hours
Déjà très critiquée pour ses méthodes brutales et ses bavures à répétition, la police fédérale de l’immigration et des douanes a passé commande de gants à impulsions électriques pour équiper ses agents. De quoi susciter de nouvelles craintes outre-Atlantique, soulignent les médias américains.
by BBC - about 3 hours
While hailing Zhu’s legacy, authorities are wary that the nostalgia could lead to criticisms of Xi’s rule.
by Korben - about 4 hours
GitLab a sorti hier (lundi 17 août), un correctif d'urgence , complètement en dehors de son calendrier habituel, pour une faille qui permet à quelqu'un sans compte ni mot de passe de modifier ou de supprimer vos projets publics et des données utilisateur. Hé ouais c'est chaud et c'est pour ça que son score CVSS est de 9,4 sur 10.
5 jours plus tôt, le 12 août, GitLab publiait son patch de routine pour la 19.2, 19.1 et 19.0. C'est un périmètre normal puisque sa politique de maintenance ne couvre que la version stable et les deux précédentes. Mais comme là, on est dans l'exceptionnel, ce correctif du 17 août en couvre une quatrième, la 18.11, dont le support avait pris fin le 16 juillet dernier....
by daryo Bluesky - about 4 hours
13/08 : Apéro antifa au Geyser
https://lahorde.info/13-08-Apero-antifa-au-Geyser
by Journal du Lapin - about 5 hours
Il y a une dizaine d’années, j’avais parlé d’un truc qui m’avait étonné : en 1986, Canon proposait un dos (presque) numérique pour le T90, un de ses reflex. Le Data Memory Back 90 est un accessoire optionnel qui permettait d’enregistrer des données sur le film (physiquement) mais aussi de stocker des informations dans une mémoire, l’équivalent des EXIF actuels. Et avec un (autre) kit optionnel, il était possible de relier l’appareil à un ordinateur MSX pour lire les données. J’ai voulu essayer, j’ai récupéré le matériel… et ça ne fonctionne pas vraiment. Même si ça n’a pas fonctionné, ce n’est pas totalement un échec : j’ai quelques trucs à montrer et à dire.
En...
by BBC - about 5 hours
After he was shot multiple times, Tupac Shakur refused to cooperate with police and told an officer "we'll take care of it", an officer testified.
by BBC - about 6 hours
German authorities seize dinghies and life jackets during their first raids under a new law that cracks down on smuggling.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al. with a paper in Science Advances and associated summary article by EPFL’s School of Engineering.
Although probably better known from something like musical instruments, Helmholtz resonance can be used for more than creating or deadening noise. If stimulated with an external acoustic source that matches the chamber’s resonance frequency the result is a jet of air at the neck of the chamber. This acoustic actuation can thus be used for a number of applications.
In the paper a number of such applications are demonstrated,...
by Wired - about 6 hours
Unlock exclusive discounts on SteelSeries' award-winning gaming headsets, keyboards, and accessories.
by Wired - about 6 hours
Discover the best ways to save on Noom subscriptions, including free trials, limited-time offers for GLP-1Rx Plus, and essential tips for redeeming your Noom discount.
by Le Monde - about 6 hours
Dans les territoires occupés, ces deux derniers mois, les scènes de pillage et de meurtre se sont multipliées. A l’approche des élections législatives en Israël, fin octobre, et en Palestine, fin novembre, l’historien appelle, dans une tribune au « Monde », la France à prendre des sanctions.
by Le Monde - about 7 hours
Pour lutter contre les embouteillages, la capitale de l’Arabie saoudite a construit le plus grand réseau de métro automatique du monde. Un chantier colossal qui a fait appel à tout ce que la planète compte de champions en la matière, dont plusieurs acteurs français du secteur, comme la RATP, Alstom ou Systra.
by io9 - about 7 hours
Is this the quiet—and presumably accidental—unveiling of the fabled AirPods with cameras?
by Le Monde - about 8 hours
Le versement de l’allocation de rentrée scolaire aux familles éligibles, mardi 18 août, lance la saison des achats de trousses, cahiers, classeurs et stylos. Les ventes sont pourtant en recul malgré des offres intéressantes, alors que les tensions au Moyen-Orient devraient relancer l’inflation sur ces produits à la fin de l’année.
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard — their BDE series truck will be offered first without the electric hybrid drive that first piqued our interest. They make a good case for why in the video below, in which the production prototype tows around a junked Nikola semi as a sort of memento mori of what Edison does not want to end up as.
Now, make no mistake: Edison Motors is going to be selling the series-hybrid version of these big rigs eventually. That truck will have a Scania diesel rated at 500 kW driving electric motors rated at a combined 1800 kW peak power — that’s 2400 ponies. Along with the diesel generator...
by io9 - about 9 hours
It wasn't music streaming that killed it, because it pivoted.
by The Verge - about 11 hours
Reddit is trying out a new way for people to take in content on Reddit: by turning text posts into audio / video content. As part of an experiment, some posts are being adapted into videos that use AI voices to read the text of the main post and some comments. The video highlights the text as it's read by the AI voice, and under the video, a note says that it's a "Real conversation voiced by AI."
An old post in r/boardgames from eight years ago with 101 responses to a request for good road trip games that adults will like is an example of Reddit's AI at work. Instead of the usual text thread, it has the main question above a three-minute vi …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by HackAdAy - about 12 hours
Perfection is an inherently subjective measure, in that one must choose the criteria against which to measure. A perfect circle is an absolutely rubbish octagon, for example. So when you see that [RetroBuiltGames] declares that he has built “the perfect multi-input display for retro gaming and vintage computing” — dubbed the “PixelVision AV1000 MKII”— keep in mind that he means the perfect display for his use case. That’s who he’s building it for, after all! The degree to which you find his product perfect is going to depend by-and-large how similar his use case is to yours. In that sense detailed explanations in the design/build video embedded below may be more valuable than the STEP files and...
by io9 - yesterday at 23:51
Unitree’s "Superman" humanoid robot was recorded running at a top speed of 12.66 meters per second.
by Zataz - yesterday at 23:41
Un pirate informatique revendiqué une intrusion dans des systèmes de l’Éducation nationale : élèves et enseignants impactés ?
by FluxBlog - yesterday at 23:00
Jungle “Where Are You Now“
Jungle default to making music that sounds like paradise. The grooves are relaxed, the sound is sleek, the arrangements are so harmonically satisfying that they almost feel too good. As they’ve refined their sound they’ve gradually dialed back musical tensions, so at this point a song like “Where Are You Now?” is the musical equivalent of perfectly comfortable weather. There’s a melancholy current to the song, a genuine bit of sadness in the midst of all this beauty, but it registers as more nostalgic than negative. I can understand being suspicious of music this warm and ingratiating, but I think the guiding creative impulse here is a celebration of sensual pleasure...
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:59
ABC News has officially introduced Searched, a livestreamed show that highlights stories people are discussing on social media and searching on the web, as reported earlier by Variety. Though the network just announced the show now, Searched began airing on the ABC News Live streaming channel in April, which appears on both Disney Plus and Hulu.
In the press release, ABC News says Searched "pulls real-time data from the top search engines and social media platforms to provide topical news for the audience." A recent episode of Searched highlighted an Illinois Powerball winner, NBA star Russell Westbrook's retirement, and Tropical Storm Lala …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 22:13
In David Robert Mitchell’s film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, a family is endangered not only by dinosaurs but also by the director’s penchant for Spielbergian nostalgia.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
OLED displays solve many of the problems suffered by LC displays, including color fidelity, dynamic range and power usage. That said, especially in the early days OLED gained a reputation for dim screens, short lifespans and burn-in. Over time better organic dyes were developed, along with burn-in prevention methods that have made OLEDs much closer to LCDs in terms of longevity. In a recent comparison between OLED TVs by RTings it’s however clear that between 2017 and 2023 there haven’t been any major advances beyond bumps in brightness.
The relatively dim screens were a major problem, as they prevented OLEDs from displaying HDR content. This issue has been well and truly addressed, as confirmed by...
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:27
The discounted GMMK 3 doesn’t include the pictured wrist rest. | Image: Glorious Are you curious about custom mechanical keyboards, but don’t want to spend hundreds just to get started without being sure you’ll enjoy the hobby? You can grab the 65-percent Glorious GMMK 3 mechanical keyboard at Woot for $34.99 (usually $139.99) by entering the coupon code WOOTGAMING at checkout, and first-time Woot customers will get an extra $5 off when using the same code. It’s a well-equipped keyboard out of the box, particularly for this price, and with its support for swappable switches, it’s a great platform for exploring keycap and switch options from different makers. It’s wired only, includes a full set of...
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:03
Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he's also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the space. "When I was a kid and I played word games with my family, they weren't the New York Times puzzle games," Rosenthal explains. "We were sitting in a car on a road trip playing these really loose games that couldn't be made digitally before. Things like the alphabet game or our own riffs on 20 questions. That felt like a really int …
Read the full story at The Verge.
by dwell - yesterday at 20:09
MVRDV combined nine visually distinct units to form a multifaceted home surrounded by gardens and apple orchard.Location: Sohnckestraße 6A, 81479, Munich, Germany Price: €10,000,000 (approximately $11,408,400 USD) Architect: MVRDV Year: 2005 Footprint: 11,840 square feet (6 Beds, 4 Baths) From the Agent: "In the south of Munich, on the quiet Prinz-Ludwigs-Höhe in Solln, the Barcode House stands as an architectural statement that consistently defies convention. From the outside, the ensemble appears like an abstract code: nine vertical ‘strips’ that coalesce into a clear, almost graphic silhouette. Each of these structures has its own materiality—stainless steel, wood, polycarbonate, glass—and...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:01
Le premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, a présidé, lundi, une cellule interministérielle de crise pour faire le point sur le piratage informatique d’ampleur qui a touché l’administration fiscale. Une commission d’enquête pourrait voir le jour au Sénat.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 18:54
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
by dwell - yesterday at 18:23
The new envelope makes the home more energy-efficient while preserving its traditional form.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: Zunderdorp, The Netherlands Architect: Bastiaan Jongerius Architecten / @bastiaanjongeriusarchitecten Footprint: 2,580 square feet Photographer: Jansje Klazinga Fotograaf From the Architect: "When the owners of a modest 1970s farmhouse in the village of Zunderdorp approached Bastiaan Jongerius Architecten, the assumption was that the existing house would come down to make way for something new. Instead, the studio proposed...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 17:48
“Wildlife groups in Florida are celebrating record numbers of sea turtle nests this season… With more than two months of the summer nesting season still to run, loggerhead turtles have already made 13,770 nests, hundreds more than recorded in any previous year, along an 8.5-mile stretch of shoreline monitored by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, on Florida’s Atlantic coast. The same record has fallen on Sanibel island, on the Gulf coast, where loggerheads have laid 922 nests so far this year, surpassing the 2023 total of 878, according to the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation.” From The Guardian.
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by Chez Foucart - yesterday at 13:56
avec une préface – mise à jour – de Mme la Présidente honoraire du Syndicat de la Magistrature, Simone Gaboriau-Monthioux :
by daryo Bluesky - monday at 12:40
France • August 2019 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯
by New Yorker - monday at 12:00
“All my friends have their gods & their heavens / & their plans on how to get there.”
by New Yorker - monday at 12:00
A moment of stillness.