En 2022, Semiconductor Technologies Limited a bénéficié de la volonté des États-Unis de s’approvisionner auprès d’alliés géopolitiques comme le Kenya. Mais le retour de Donald Trump au pouvoir a marqué l’abandon de cette stratégie et fragilisé l’entreprise, explique l’hebdomadaire sud-africain “The Continent”.

For most of us the abbreviation “CRT” brings to mind a monitor or TV. But at its core it’s about the special vacuum tube that makes the images appear.
Regardless of whether it’s just a simple monochrome CRT in an oscilloscope or a full RGB CRT, the basic steps to make it work in a device remain the same. In a recent video by [Void Electronics] these steps are worked through, including the biasing at the end that is necessary to get a stable image.
A big part of installing a CRT and driving it is knowing how to read its datasheet. Much like other vacuum tube types, there are heaters, control grids and a range of voltages to get right and keep happy. Even then you can still have a situation where you...

Le deuxième tour de l’élection présidentielle colombienne se tient ce dimanche 21 juin et oppose le philosophe Ivan Cepeda, candidat de la gauche, au très controversé Abelardo de la Espriella, avocat d’extrême droite. Entre intimidations, menaces de mort et promesse de sortir du système onusien, ce dernier, soutenu par Donald Trump, cristallise les craintes d’une partie de l’intelligentsia du pays.

Our Third Year Of Solar
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Après avoir été tenue en échec par le Cap-Vert pour son entrée en lice, l’Espagne affronte l’Arabie saoudite, dimanche. Dans les autres rencontres du jour : l’Iran défie la Belgique et la Nouvelle-Zélande se frotte à l’Egypte.

Nouvelle journée de lutte avec kermesse, conférence, discussions, Assemblée générale et finir avec un concert et DJ Sets -
Initiatives / Reims, Assemblée, Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats

Les forces russes ont annoncé la fermeture du pont de Crimée peu avant minuit, heure de Paris, dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, tandis que des informations circulaient sur les réseaux sociaux concernant des explosions en Crimée.

Cette semaine, dans notre newsletter consacrée à ce que la presse étrangère écrit de meilleur et de pire sur l’Hexagone : l’“homme de palais”.

Depuis quelques années, j’ai des alertes sur de nombreux sites japonais pour chercher des jeux Pippin et récemment, je suis tombé sur une personne qui vend des jeux Pippin assez rares. Il y a Odotte AIUEO, Dinosaur Museum, Franklin the Turtle Learns Math… et un second jeu Franklin que je ne connaissais pas et qui n’est pas dans les listes classiques de jeux de la console. Il s’agit de Franklin’s Reading World. Le jeu est bien trop cher pour moi, il est vers 40 000 à 46 000 ¥ selon les sites (le vendeur essaye partout) et uniquement pour le disques, a priori. C’est à peu près 250 €, sans la TVA (comptez 20 %) et les différentes taxes (petits colis, frais de dossiers, etc.). Je suis quand...

Le second épisode de chaleur précoce de l’année doit s’intensifier ce week-end et pourrait se prolonger la semaine prochaine. Parcourez la carte des prévisions de Météo-France, région par région.

The Bernoulli disk was a wild piece of 1980s hardware. Take a big floppy. Spin the platter at 1500 RPM just a micron or so from a read head. The airflow around that rapidly-spinning disk actually stabilizes the disk that close to the read-head via the Bernoulli effect, hence the name. Once upon a time, everybody wanted a Bernoulli Box to put under their Macintosh 512, but [Will It Work?] wanted to see how well these old drives held up to the 21st century… by using it to load games onto a WiiU. 
It’s not as crazy at is it seems. The WiiU is happy to read and write anything that looks like a USB mass storage device. The Bernoulli Box is of course pre-USB– even the later model 5 1/4″ drive [Will] is...

The US disputed Iran's claim the waterway is shut, a move Tehran says was a response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

Le vice-président des Etats-Unis, J. D. Vance, a rejoint, tôt dimanche matin, l’émissaire Steve Witkoff et le gendre du président Donald Trump, Jared Kushner en Suisse. Dans la délégation iranienne figurent notamment le négociateur en chef, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, et le chef de la diplomatie, Abbas Araghtchi.

Les principales actualités de ces dernières heures vues par la presse internationale.

Après plusieurs jours d’incertitude, les délégations iranienne et américaine devaient se retrouver en Suisse, dimanche 21 juin, pour lancer les négociations visant à mettre un terme à la guerre au Moyen-Orient. Le Liban, où Israël et le Hezbollah continuent de s’affronter malgré un nouveau cessez-le-feu, sera au cœur des discussions.

Vieillissants, énergivores et coûteux pour les communes, beaucoup d’établissements aquatiques ruraux ferment. Ils sont pourtant garants d’un égal accès au rafraîchissement et à l’apprentissage de la nage, comme à Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe. Un député vient d’alerter sur la situation préoccupante de ces services publics de proximité.

L’augmentation de l’endettement public n’est pas seulement la conséquence d’une insouciance des Etats : c’est aussi le moyen d’éponger un trop-plein mondial d’épargne, analyse, dans un entretien au « Monde », l’auteur de « Géopolitique de la dette ».

Des plateformes de « marchés prédictifs », des paris en ligne très peu régulés, se développent fortement, en misant notamment sur l’attrait exponentiel pour les paris sportifs.

With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does Not Compute] having used 10 Gbit SFP+ modules over regular Cat-5e copper to connect to a NAS in the next room. Only problem was that after a while these SFP+ modules began to start dropping frames. On taking a closer look at these modules, he found that they were running pretty hot: 40°C while idle. A teardown of one of these modules showed severe discoloration due to heat.
Side view of the SFP+ module’s PCB. (Credit: This Does Not Compute, YouTube)
Inside these 10Gbit modules is the Marvell-branded Alaska X 88X3310/40P PHY, which...

A left-wing senator who backs talks with armed gangs faces an outsider endorsed by Trump.

One of the stun gun modules with battery pack. (Credit: Dani Cruster DiWHY, YouTube)
Few things are more satisfying during a Summer night than hearing the crackle and pop of another mosquito hurling itself against a bug zapper and knowing that it won’t be trying to suck your blood any more. The only problem with those bug zappers, whether the mounted or hand-held type is that you cannot get every single attacking mosquito. Unless you were to put the bug zapper on yourself, of course. This is basically what [Dani Cruster] of the aptly named ‘DiWHY’ channel decided would be the right course of action.
The video is apparently dubbed over from the original Russian – with the team claimed to be based in...

Trump spoke of his need for a "plane that’s much newer ​and much better." Is it actually better?

The hit studio wanted to remind everyone why it's still around with new looks at 'Chainsaw Man,' 'Jujutsu Kaisen,' and more.

Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then calculate the angle of arrival from this difference), the radio hardware to actually implement this has historically been hard for hackers to access. The QuadRF project aims to change this by building a phase-coherent four-channel SDR which makes direction mapping easy (GitHub repository).
The QuadRF uses two boards: one to receive and pre-process radio waves, and a Raspberry Pi 5 for additional processing. The RF board has four patch antennas, each capable of either transmitting or receiving in the 4.9 GHz to 6.0 GHz range, with switchable right- or left-hand...

In 2026, even the Bible is gamified.

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each.
According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Google and Stability have both confirmed they have in research papers. Some of the sources, like the Free Music Archive dataset, are free to stream for personal use but re …
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Sounds like Netflix may have its sights set on a 'Sesame Street' movie, and already has two directors in mind for it.

Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died after several days in hospital, an environmental group said.

The bunk treatment is currently relegated to a London clinic, but the American "bleacher" community is hoping to bring it stateside.

Pour la deuxième fois de l’année, nous traversons un épisode de canicule, et ce n’est peut-être pas le dernier. Les effets de l’évolution du climat sont évidents, et nier ce changement relève de l’idiotie. Ou de la politique, tout comme insister lourdement sur ces épisodes (en dramatisant à outrance). En partant du postulat que plus […]

Travelling with a humanitarian convoy, BBC's Hugo Bachega has been given rare access to a part of Lebanon under Israeli occupation.

Rudy Reichstadt et Tristan Mendès France décryptent et analysent, dans ce nouveau numéro de Complorama, le retour de la théorie du complot selon laquelle les Etats-Unis financeraient des laboratoires secrets en Ukraine pour préparer des armes biologiques.

The US president earlier questioned Meloni's popularity after suggesting she "begged" for a photo at G7 summit

Indulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific, releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum, is a collaboration with Ah! Kosmos (Turkish composer, Başak Günak). The album...

Starcloud, Axiom Space, Lonestar, and others are betting they can stake claims in orbit before Google and SpaceX scale up

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027.
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access videogame available on PC, macOS, and steamOS (including the Steam Deck, where I played it) from musician and game designer Cosmo D. The game looks and feels like a 2000s-era first-person RPG or immersive sim: environments are grimy, stark, and blocky …
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From a $180-per-night Rhine cruise with Black Forest cake demos to an all-inclusive Mississippi sailing that departs from New Orleans' French Quarter

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder, trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube Music, free trial-hopping my way through the World Cup, finally upgrading my camera setup with the E …
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After adding one to my home, here's why you might want a home battery, how they work, and what to look for, plus some installation tips.

We’ve trawled the depths of Amazon to find the best deals on gear we’ve tested.

I did the research and taste-testing to find the best greens powders worth your money. Bloom Nutrition’s Superfood Greens Powder is my tried-and-true pick.

Starting nearly a decade ago, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched a plan to cut off revenue streams to pirate sites.
WIPO is well-respected internationally and part of the United Nations, which ensured cooperation from a wide variety of countries. In 2019, WIPO launched an advertising blocklist that lets member states flag infringing sites. This list can then be shared with advertisers, who can use it to make sure that revenues don’t end up going to these sites.
This “WIPO Alert” system has been running for years with thousands of domain names being added. While it still functions today, WIPO has quietly been working on a new “WIPO Alert Pay” system that targets the payment...

The D.O.J. has fast-tracked immigration cases for unaccompanied minors and fired judges who appear not to comply.

The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened.

The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city’s public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren’t so sure.

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

D'habitude, une batterie domestique, c'est un gros bloc qu'on planque à la cave ou au garage. SAMDUO prend le contre-pied avec sa gamme Nex, présentée cette semaine à Amsterdam, et veut en faire un objet qu'on assume de laisser à la vue de tous.
Le modèle E6000 ressemble à un grand cadre fixé au mur, 11,9 cm d'épaisseur seulement, soit la plus fine du monde d'après la marque. Sa variante E6000H abandonne le mur pour un cube de la taille d'un micro-ondes, à glisser dans un coin. Même capacité. Deux façons de la ranger. Derrière SAMDUO se cache un industriel chinois quasi inconnu il y a encore six mois, qui arrive en Europe avec de gros moyens. Les deux E6000 stockent 6 kWh et visent le tarif de...

Plus: Gay bars in San Francisco using face scanners, France quits Palantir, Apple plans to change its private email, and more.

Sébastien Lecornu vient d’ordonner la réalisation, régulière et de manière inopinée, de tests salivaires au sommet de l’État. Le but est de repérer les ministres, membres de cabinets, et hauts fonctionnaires, qui prennent de la drogue, et les virer si c’est le cas. La démarche provoque le buzz, et l’irritation chez une partie du public […]

From the Grand Canyon's mile of open air to Acadia's lighthouse silhouetted against the Atlantic, the national parks with the best sunsets

From Crested Butte's July wildflower meadows to a Maine coastal town where advisors say lobster rolls are among the best they've had anywhere

Aluminum-free deodorants vary widely in how well they hold up through an active day. Consumer Reports tested nine to find the top picks

I’m a fan. I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot.
As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a room. It looks okay, despite all the plastic, is relatively quiet, runs for hours on battery, has an integrated nightlight, transforms from a desktop to standing fan in seconds, and works on its own or as part of a smart home. There's a lot to like here.
Over …
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Le recyclage n'est pas une solution miracle, il faut organiser la décroissance matérielle
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/le-recyclage-n-est-pas-une-solution-miracle-il-faut-organiser-la-decroissance-materielle

SimpleSound est un petit utilitaire dans les vieilles versions de Mac OS, qui se trouve soit dans le menu , soit dans le dossier Applications (Mac OS 9)/Compléments Apple dans mon cas. C’est un Easter Egg qui n’est pas très impressionnant, comme le dit MacKiDo : si vous faites  -> A propos de SimpleSound et que vous cliquez sur l’icône, vous verrez le nom de Kip Olson, qui a développé l’app. Le nom n’est visible que si vous gardez le bouton de la souris enfoncé.
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Un inquiétant retour en arrière ? La durabilité et le succès du projet européen seront définis par un équilibre prudent, mais non moins ferme, entre ses valeurs fondamentales, le pragmatisme, la promotion de la compétitivité mondiale et une voix internationale unifiée et proactive. Tel est le discours moteur qui résonne aussi bien dans les couloirs des institutions de l'Union européenne que dans les cabinets des États membres. Si la théorie est bien étudiée, sa mise en œuvre pratique demeure loin d'être concrétisée. Un inquiétant retour en arrière ?
La durabilité et le succès du projet européen seront définis par un équilibre prudent, mais non moins ferme, entre ses valeurs...

“After four decades of stagnation, the United States is seeing a resurgence of nuclear technology. At about 4:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Valar Atomics’ small modular reactor in Orangeville, Utah, reached zero-power fueled criticality. The feat marks the first time a Department of Energy-authorized reactor has been built outside of a national laboratory.” From Deseret.
The post Valar Atomics’ Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality in Utah appeared first on Human Progress.

“For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first reported use of a vision-language model in orbit, and offers a glimpse of how AI could fundamentally change what space-based sensors are capable of — and how much they’re worth. Typically, satellites download large chunks of data to analysts on the Earth below, who use machine learning algorithms or their own eyes to figure out what’s going on. But onboard YAM-9, a spacecraft built by space infrastructure company Loft Orbital, a software package built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory identified areas of...

“Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved sweeping reforms backed by the Communist ​Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of the country’s socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing U.S. sanctions. The ‌measures, if implemented as passed, would represent the single largest change to Cuba’s socialist model since former leader Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution and a major shift towards a market economy. The reforms open the door to private real estate development on the Caribbean island, propose to transform state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes and would allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance...

“Deaths from infections that cause diarrhea and other intestinal illnesses have fallen sharply since 1990, according to a study published last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023, an international team of researchers examined mortality from enteric infectious diseases across 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023. The category included diarrheal disease, invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections, enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid), and other intestinal infectious diseases, which are typically transmitted through the fecal-oral route by contaminated food, water, or hands and can be highly...