Officials are investigating whether a rabies outbreak is affecting the local beaver population.

Heat stress, predator avoidance, prey availability, moisture loss — the specific pressures that push certain species to become nocturnal only during the hottest months

Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company’s tech.

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.

The company also updated its community guidelines to more clearly prohibit scams, spam, and fake engagement.

En Haute-Corse, la foudre a déclenché deux départs de feu. Dans le Var, sept massifs forestiers seront interdits d’accès vendredi en raison de risques extrêmes et très sévères d’incendie, a fait savoir la préfecture.

These eight batch cocktails for a crowd turn a backyard party into a serve-yourself bar, from spritzes to punch to a big pitcher of margaritas

A new AI Kill Switch Act would let the U.S. government order AI systems shut down after dangerous incidents, following an OpenAI security breach

While precise data is classified, publicly available information suggests the US has used up many difficult-to-manufacture weapons.

Freezing, roasting, fermenting, giving away with a purpose — the specific ways to use a tomato harvest before it goes to waste on the counter

New York City, where electric bike and scooter accidents are plenty, is eyeing sweeping legislation.

Chaque semaine, la chronique phénomène du “New York Times” sur l’amour vous est proposée en exclusivité, traduite en français par “Courrier international”. Ce dimanche, une New-Yorkaise se confie sur l’obsession ambiante pour le festival américain Burning Man, et confesse ne plus supporter ces hommes persuadés qu’il a changé leur vie.

Before you break ground on a backyard renovation, check permits, fix drainage and plan the layout so the project stays on budget and on schedule

Yinon Levy is charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen.

After two months of quiet investigation, Blue Origin’s CEO says his team has identified what turned New Glenn into a fireball—and the fix “will be ready by the end of this month.”

Deadline reported Thursday that the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie will feature Australian actor Uli Latukefu as the villain Ganondorf, and the publication notes that "We hear Latukefu inked a multi-picture deal."
Nintendo or Sony haven't formally confirmed that there's more than one movie in the works, though it's been rumored that Nintendo and Sony might be planning a trilogy. Still, it's not exactly unexpected that more Zelda movies might be on the way, especially given the huge success of the recent Super Mario films at the box office.
Nintendo initially announced the live-action Zelda movie, which it's making with Sony Pictures En …
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We’ve probably all got one item in our toolboxes or chests that we really, really don’t like, but find too handy to toss. For [Someone Should Make That], that item was the bolt-rounding adjustable wrench. Rather than continuing to gripe about it, or alter his habits to make greater use of the full wrench set he also owns, he decided to build a better mousetrap. By mousetrap, we mean adjustable wrench.
It took a couple of iterations on-screen before he hits on a solution that seems to work quite well indeed. The problem [Someone] had with his adjustable wrench was one of physical slop: once adjusted, there’s just too much play in the mechanism, which results in rounded-off bolt heads. [Someone]’s...

Badger state? More like Surveillance State.

New York City and Washington, DC, became darker after adopting measures to reduce artificial light at night, especially blue light. Satellite images showed that seasonal plant growth in those cities shifted closer to its long-term timing than in Newark and Philadelphia. The results are promising but exploratory, since the analysis covered only two city pairs and one year after the policies took effect. City lights do more than brighten streets. They can alter when trees sprout leaves, when autumn color arrives, and how urban ecosystems move through the seasons. A satellite comparison of four Northeastern cities suggests that efforts to reduce artificial light at night may ease some of those shifts. New York...

Six pays de l’Union européenne ont dû mettre à l’arrêt certaines de leurs centrales électriques en raison d’une baisse du niveau des cours d’eau et d’une augmentation de leur température dues aux vagues de chaleur. L’éclipse solaire du 12 août menace, elle, de réduire brutalement la production photovoltaïque.

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as it seeks legitimacy. The company is rolling out new transparency tools, along with new watermarking and fingerprinting tech. Shulman says it aligns with "emerging industry standards" that will make it easier to identify Suno-generated content. He also says the company is aiming to partner with "distribution...

Seoul's lunar orbiter captured images of the Moon before and after part of SpaceX's rocket hit its surface on Wednesday.

The Spanish territory's mayor-president also says 100 deaths occurred as a result of 78,000 migrants crossing from neighbouring Morocco.

The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the national ownership cap rule.
The agency's two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than 39 percent of US TV households, while Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented. It formalizes a policy Carr has long criticized, and which he announced last month that he would seek to end at Thursday's open FCC meeting. In place of a set limit, the FCC says, there will now be …
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PID controllers are everywhere. They regulate temperature, motor speed, power supplies, positioning systems, process equipment, and probably a dozen things within arm’s reach of you right now.
They’re also frequently explained with enough calculus to make them seem more mysterious than they really are. Granted, the I and D in PID stand for calculus terms, but they are easy enough to build into a spreadsheet. Grab a copy and keep it open while you read this post.
The Google Sheet implements a simple simulated PID controller along with a simulated process — the thing we’re trying to control. You can change the controller gains, alter the process, introduce disturbances, and watch what happens without...

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but those limits, just for text, will be going away soon. Messages that include things like file uploads and images will continue to have limits.
Next week, OpenAI is also adding a "Think" button for free and Go users that they can use to "access higher reasoning for harder questions." This week, for those users, the company is additionally upgrading ChatGPT's def …
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TikTok says a "moderator error" delayed the removal of a livestream that appeared to show blogger Perez Hilton harming himself, as reported earlier by Wired. Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok US, tells The Verge that the platform notified law enforcement about the situation and banned Hilton's account for violating its community guidelines.
Hilton, or Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., is known for the celebrity gossip blog he started in 2004, where he often posted photos of stars featuring his own often obscene or cruel drawings layered on top.
Though some users claimed Perez's livestream aired for more than 30 minutes, Favazza disputes …
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Au premier semestre, les intérêts payés par l’Etat à ses créanciers ont bondi de 19 %, à 34,5 milliards d’euros. La France semble entrée dans un cycle long combinant faible croissance et dette de plus en plus coûteuse. Avec un risque d’emballement.

Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this.

Fifa's backing of president Gianni Infantino at a meeting on Wednesday "changes nothing", says European governing body Uefa.

Unusual experiences often happen while people are awake and alert, and most are remembered as neutral or positive rather than frightening. About one-fourth of participants felt discomfort during the experience, but more than half reported positive effects over time. The findings suggest that personal and cultural interpretations may help determine whether an extraordinary event becomes meaningful or distressing. Unusual experiences often arrive during ordinary moments, when people are awake, alert and alone. Yet what happens afterward may depend less on the event itself than on the meaning a person gives it. A Brazilian study of 5,117 adults found that experiences such as sensing a presence, hearing...

En Chine comme à l’étranger, de nombreux Chinois s’inquiètent du nouveau “Règlement sur l’administration des entrées et sorties” du territoire, promulgué le 31 juillet. Les observateurs pointent du doigt l’opacité et les ambiguïtés de ce texte, qui doit entrer en vigueur dès le 15 septembre.

Comme le jeune prodige ivoirien, de nombreux footballeurs noirs sont accusés de mentir sur leur âge. Si des fraudes ont existé pour certains joueurs africains, cette suspicion pèse aussi sur des joueurs nés en Europe, sur fond de racisme hérité de l’époque coloniale.

À deux mois de l’élection présidentielle brésilienne, l’annulation du visa de l’ambassadrice du Brésil à Washington ravive les tensions entre les deux chefs d’État. Pour la presse brésilienne, l’offensive de la Maison-Blanche vise à fragiliser le président sortant au profit de son adversaire d’extrême droite, Flávio Bolsonaro, mais pourrait lui fournir un argument de campagne.

Online speculation over the weight loss of celebrities like Ariana Grande—even out of genuine concern—can make things worse for people struggling with eating disorders.

Le faible niveau actuel du Rhin perturbe le transport fluvial dont dépendent de nombreuses entreprises allemandes. Les décideurs politiques et économiques tentent aujourd’hui de trouver solutions et alternatives pour éviter la crise, rapporte la presse du pays.

Témoin du bombardement atomique de 1945, ce monument aurait pu être démoli dans les années d’après-guerre. Un mouvement citoyen, déclenché par la mort d’une lycéenne, l’a sauvé de ce sort, raconte la presse japonaise à l’occasion de 81ᵉ anniversaire du bombardement.

De son côté, la Confédération sud-américaine a exprimé sa « préoccupation face aux actions unilatérales répétées » de la FIFA.

Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic that often got described in terms of such fruit variants. Although the iMac steals a lot of the glory here, the Power Mac series and associated hardware deserves that spot in the limelight as well. Recently [Dan Wood] put together a full Power Mac G3-based setup, including the appropriate LCD monitor and other peripherals as someone with some serious disposable income back in 1999 might have owned.
Why Macs are better than PCs. (Credit: Dan Wood, YouTube)
Part of Steve Jobs’ return to Apple, the Power Macintosh G3 debuted first in basically recycled beige enclosures from previous...

Le touriste, placé à l'isolement en Espagne, ne présente plus de symptômes - Crédits : urbazon / iStock Un nouveau cas d'hantavirus détecté. Un touriste franco-argentin ayant séjourné en France il y a quelques semaines, a été testé positif à l'hantavirus, a annoncé le ministère de la Santé, dans un communiqué jeudi 6 août. "Le patient, isolé avec sa famille en Espagne, est une personne en voyage touristique qui a transité en France la deuxième quinzaine du mois de juillet", précise le ministère. La souche Andes a bien été confirmée par les autorités. Le patient ne présentait que peu de symptômes et n'en présente plus aujourd'hui. "À ce stade, nous ne sommes pas face à un virus...

Chaque année, l'élimination prématurée des biens de consommation génère 35 millions de tonnes de déchets, 261 millions de tonnes d'équivalent CO2 et consomme 30 millions de tonnes de ressources - Crédits : sankai / iStock Réparer plutôt que remplacer. La directive européenne visant à promouvoir la réparation des biens est entrée en application le 31 juillet 2026. "La directive aidera les consommateurs à réaliser des économies, à réduire les déchets, à prolonger la durée de vie de leurs produits et à diminuer les émissions de gaz à effet de serre", explique le Parlement européen.  L'objectif du texte est de rendre la réparation de certains objets (machines à laver, aspirateurs ou...

Plus de 70 000 personnes, pour la plupart rentrées dans leur pays d'origine, ont franchi la frontière en quelques heures le 30 juillet 2026, encouragées par les réseaux de passeurs et les campagnes de désinformation sur les réseaux sociaux - Crédits : mtcurado / iStock Une nouvelle session de bilan. Ce jeudi 6 août, la commission des libertés civiles, de la justice et des affaires intérieures (LIBE) du Parlement européen s'est réunie afin d'échanger sur la situation à Ceuta. L'enjeu : répondre à la vague de critiques visant l'Espagne et l'espace Schengen et largement relayées par l'extrême droite européenne. "Nous n'avions pas anticipé ce déferlement mais avions constaté la semaine...

The Inouye Solar Telescope has revealed tiny whirlpool-like structures along magnetic boundaries on the Sun’s visible surface. Observations, simulations, and theory all point to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, the same effect that can shape ocean waves and clouds. These vortices may help twist magnetic fields, spread magnetic energy, heat the solar atmosphere, and improve space-weather models. The Sun’s surface is not smooth. It boils with bright cells of rising plasma, yet along the edges of some magnetic regions, that familiar pattern breaks into tiny swirls and dark, fast-moving stripes. Images from the NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have now exposed those structures at scales near 19 kilometers....

Everyone talks about the weather. This is doubly true for sailors, where bad weather could mean a very bad day. So it isn’t surprising that navies around the world have had a keen interest in weather forecasting. But how did you predict the weather before modern instruments, radar, and satellite images? Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy had great faith in “storm glasses,” a glass chamber containing some chemicals that he didn’t invent, but did document and promote heavily during the 1860s.
Did it work? Apparently not, but the device is still interesting in its own right. FitzRoy was a pioneer of meteorology, replacing folklore with actual observations and attempts at scientific rigor. While he did arm...

Le commerce transatlantique de biens et de services a atteint 1 600 milliards d'euros en 2023 - Crédits : Mauro Bottaro / Commission européenne Depuis qu'il est redevenu président des États-Unis en janvier 2025, Donald Trump a déclaré une guerre commerciale au monde entier. L'Union européenne n'a pas été épargnée par le milliardaire ultraconservateur. À de nombreuses reprises, il a accusé les pays du Vieux Continent d'avoir trop longtemps profité d'une forme de bienveillance commerciale américaine. "Vous pensez que l'Union européenne est très amicale, mais ils nous arnaquent. C'est tellement triste à voir. C'est pathétique", avait-il notamment déclaré le 2 avril 2025, au moment où il...

A growing collection of pocket-size gadgets lets you easily make recordings and extract info from them. Here are our favorites.

The earliest free-living bacteria and archaea may have emerged separately, even though both inherited the same genetic code from a shared ancestor. Metals inside hydrothermal vents may have powered and catalyzed many early metabolic reactions before enzymes and modern energy molecules existed. The findings support vents as a possible birthplace of metabolism, but gaps in archaeal data and laboratory evidence still limit the conclusion. Four billion years ago, the first cells may not have crossed into independent life together. Instead, bacteria and archaea appear to have completed that transition along separate paths, using different enzymes to finish the same essential chemical work. An international team led...

The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees such as our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] have shone a bit of light on the goings-on behind the scenes. The company’s final demise in the collapse of the German company Escom scattered its parts to the four winds, but now we find a potential return to clarity.
Amiga Corporation, holders of much of the Commodore and Amiga IP, have reached agreements with Commodore International Corporation, the recently formed face of the Commodore brand, and Hyperion Entertainment BV, who have been behind a series of Amiga developments...

Que verrez-vous selon le lieu où vous vous trouverez ? Les Décodeurs vous proposent un simulateur, avant de sortir vos lunettes de protection, pour observer le Soleil masqué par la Lune, mercredi 12 août.

Pour faire face à un déficit d’infirmiers, une partie croissante d'hôpitaux américains délègue la surveillance de ses patients et certaines tâches administratives à des travailleurs basés aux Philippines, raconte le média Rest of World. Payés cinq à neuf fois moins que leurs homologues américains, ces « assistants de soins virtuels » aggravent la pénurie de personnel soignant dans leur propre pays.

Le siège d'Europol à La Haye aux Pays-Bas - Crédits : Vysotsky / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Terrorisme, cyberattaques, trafic de drogue ou blanchiment d'argent : les menaces sécuritaires auxquelles le monde est confronté ignorent les frontières. Face à cette criminalité organisée transfrontalière, l'Union européenne a créé il y a 25 ans un outil de coordination unique en son genre : Europol, de son nom complet, l'Agence de l'Union européenne pour la coopération des services répressifs (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation). Loin d'être une "police européenne" dotée d'agents sur le terrain, Europol est avant tout un centre de renseignement et d'analyse, placé au...

Meta a reconnu que son modèle Muse Spark 1.1 avait compromis les systèmes d'une société extérieure au cours d'une évaluation de cybersécurité. L'entreprise touchée n'a pas été identifiée.
Le déroulé est assez simple, une erreur de configuration a laissé le modèle atteindre l'internet public depuis son environnement de test, après quoi il a exploité une faille dans un service tiers et modifié les réglages internes de la société visée.
Cet environnement de test c'est le bac à sable. Une machine coupée du reste du monde, censée laisser un logiciel s'agiter sans qu'il puisse toucher quoi que ce soit de réel.
Le partenaire chargé de ces évaluations s'appelle Irregular. Le nom vous dit...

YggTorrent was France’s largest torrent community, home to more than 10 million registered members before it shut down in March following a devastating hack. The operators threw in the towel, and in July the French Gendarmerie arrested twelve people it accused of running the operation.
However, someone apparently still sees value in the brand.
Until recently, visitors to yggtorrent.org landed on a domain sale pitch. The domain name, bundled with 59 others into what the listing called a “comprehensive portfolio” and an “established brand with millions of users,” had a substantial $700,000 asking price. That’s just for the domains.
For sale (wayback)
The twelve arrests came after the domain went up...

Le moniteur LED Cinema Display Apple en 2026, avec un Mac Apple Silicon
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J’ai une Famicom Mini, la version japonaise de la NES Mini, et un truc m’énervait : sur la Famicom, les manettes sont minuscules et fixées à la console. Donc j’ai décidé de régler ça. La première étape (j’en ai déjà parlé), a été de remplacer la manette du premier jouer par un adaptateur avec une prise femelle pour une manette de NES Mini. Comme les deux consoles ont la même carte mère, c’est un changement simple : le connecteur côté carte mère est le même, donc j’ai installé un câble avec une prise femelle, et j’ai pu utiliser une manette de NES. L’agencement est le même, mais pas l’esthétique, ce qui est un peu dommage. J’aurais pu reste sur ma bidouille...

Le PaFaCaB 50 (Pas de Fascistes dans nos Campagnes Bocagères) organise un week-end antifasciste fin août. -
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Le pays nordique a identifié 180 000 hectares de zones humides dont la restauration pourrait bénéficier aussi bien au climat et à la biodiversité qu’à la défense. Si l’armée y est favorable, certains écologistes mettent en garde contre toute précipitation.

USC Viterbi students and alumni are organizing 10 years of play-by-play college football data into one searchable system for USC Football. The database will help analysts spend less time preparing information and more time testing strategies, comparing opponents and studying what has worked. The first version will focus on individual plays, with plans to later connect those plays to the performances of specific players. A decade of college football will soon sit inside one searchable system built to help USC turn thousands of plays into clearer game-day decisions. Students and recent alumni from the analytics master’s program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering are organizing play-level data from...

While the U.S. doesn’t have a dedicated site blocking law yet, it is certainly possible to take out pirate sites and services through court-ordered injunctions. A recent federal lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court, shows that this can result in a sweeping piracy blocking that does real damage to the targeted platforms. The case was originally filed by the Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision (TU) in early June. The case was relatively targeted, naming the IPTV services Thunder TV, Sunset TV, Pop TV, Kaelus TV, and Tele Latino, as well as their alleged operators. The broadcaster argued that these pirate IPTV services threatened its business. TU holds the World Cup rights for sixteen Latin American...