The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it’s why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup.

The Dell XPS 13 and MacBook Neo are both premium-feeling laptops with only 8 GB of RAM. Which $700 laptop is the better buy?

The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.

The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create.

Cinq ans après le retour au pouvoir des talibans par la force, marqué depuis par l’extrême violence de l’effacement des femmes dans le pays, comment comprendre la normalisation amorcée du régime sur la scène internationale ? L’Europe doit respecter ses principes et agir de manière collective, sous peine de connaître la faillite morale et la déchéance géopolitique dans cette partie du monde.

From Ho Chi Minh City's fine-dining pho to Lima's daring reinventions, ten cities where locals voted on the world's best food scenes

From cities where world-class museums are free to a carnival culture that defines daily life, the ten best cities for art and culture in 2026

Leaf blowers vary widely in power, noise level and price by type. Consumer Reports tested 19 models across categories to find the top performers

Some cheap products are not bargains at all. These five everyday items can break, disappoint, or need replacing, costing you more over time

As AI detectors flag human prose, the real question may be less about who wrote it and more about whether the writing is any good

La vague de chaleur en cours est la deuxième plus longue jamais enregistrée avec 22 jours d’affilée, selon Météo-France.

Pew's survey doesn't say they love AI, but they do seem to hate it the least.

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

In this modern age, if you want a truly swish garden that makes your friends sad when they visit, you need good lighting. [technocraftStudio] has been working on just such a project, creating custom wedge lights to illuminate garden beds in style.
You might look at the plastic housings involved and assume that they’re 3D printed, like the vast majority of such projects we cover these days. Instead, the enclosures are crafted out of PVC plastic, harvested by flattening sections of pipe with a heat gun. It has the benefit of being highly weather resistant, and cheap to boot. The lights themselves are small LED panels mounted on aluminium plate as a heatsink, and fitted with an acrylic diffuser to spread the...

Stripe est visé par une fuite revendiquée avec, selon le pirate, clés API et des données clients sensibles.

Trois chercheurs de l'université du Massachusetts à Amherst ont réussi à régler pour 3,19 dollars d'achats dans un supermarché avec une carte bancaire périmée !
Leur secret ?
Glisser une app maison entre la carte et le terminal qui trafique la date d'expiration de la carte.
En fait, leur montage relaie les échanges NFC et modifie au passage un champ que personne ne protège : la date d'expiration lue par le terminal. Leur papier s'appelle Zombie Cards Back Online , et a été présenté à USENIX Security 2026. La mécanique tient en réalité à une bizarrerie du réseau Visa. Une carte annonce sa date d'expiration à deux endroits différents, et sur le kernel Visa, la date que le terminal consulte...

Hier, je suis tombé sur ce tweet : Kuber, un développeur de 19 ans a demandé à Claude Code, de lui pondre un pilote pour sa vieille imprimante pour macOS. Et visiblement, ça a intéressé pas mal de monde puisque le tweet a fait +3 millions de vues.
Il a ensuite publié le dépôt sur Github et la transcription complète de la session. Et ce que ça raconte c'est surtout un bras de fer avec macOS, et un montage bidouillesque au possible qui finit par tenir sur une machine virtuelle Linux et un daemon root.
Pour la petite histoire, son imprimante est une HP Laser 1008a. C'est en réalité une Samsung rebrandée car HP a racheté la division impression de Samsung , il y a une dizaine d'années. Et ces...

PolyShot Camera Focuses On Nostalgia
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/polyshot-camera-focuses-on-nostalgia/

En mai 1996, sur le forum Usenet consacré à Quake , des joueurs prenaient déjà les paris... Le jeu n'était pas sorti, le CD non plus, et la question qui tournait en boucle à l'époque c'était : combien de temps tiendrait la protection anti-copie du jeu ? Certains misaient deux semaines après la sortie, d'autres 5 jours maximum... De son côté, id Software s'apprêtait à presser son shareware sur un disque mais Quake n'occupait que 22 Mo des 640 disponibles. Du gâchis de place ? Pas vraiment puisque le reste du CD a été rempli avec tout le catalogue maison. Des jeux complets en versions chiffrées, c'est-à-dire plusieurs DOOM, Final Doom, Hexen, Heretic qu'on déverrouillait par téléphone......

J’en avais déjà parlé, Apple organise des petits concours pour ses employés, avec des cadeaux à la clé. L’idée est simple : remplir les anneaux de l’Apple Watch pendant un mois. En 2018 et 2019, Apple avait offert des bracelets d’Apple Watch. Les années suivantes, c’était des t-shirts, serviettes, chaussettes, etc. En 2026, pour les dix ans, Apple a reproposé un bracelet d’Apple Watch. D’abord, il y a un pin’s. Ce n’est pas le même que pour les dix ans de l’Apple Watch, avec une attache en caoutchouc. Le carton
Le pin’s
L’attache en caoutchouc
Le bracelet lui-même est assez proche du modèle de 2019. C’est un boucle sport avec des attaches aux couleurs des anneaux de...

Alors ça c'est cool ! NVIDIA vient d'ajouter Firefox à la liste des navigateurs autorisés à faire tourner GeForce NOW. Un ordi, un onglet, et plus de 2 000 jeux PC se lancent maintenant en streaming sans qu'un seul octet du jeu n'arrive sur votre disque.
C'est tout le concept du service de cloud gaming de NVIDIA avec une machine RTX chez eux, et une image qui arrive chez vous. Comme ça, votre ordinateur ne fait plus que décoder une vidéo sans rien installer ni avoir une grosse carte graphique.
Après GeForce NOW c'est un peu différent de Xbox Cloud puisque ça permet de jouer aux jeux que vous avez acheté. Ce n'est pas un catalogue imposé en accès libre. GeForce NOW se connecte à vos comptes Steam,...

As popular as the Nintendo Switch and its sequel are, it’s hard to argue that its click-on Joy-Con controllers are ergonomic, barring you having very uniquely shaped hands. This thought and a stack of Wii controllers led [KOUZEX] to the mad project of merging Joy-Cons and WiiMotes into what can affectionately be called Wii-Cons, or perhaps JoyMotes.
Suffice it to say that it’s not a very clean or easy mod, and you could definitely make the point that a custom PCB and 3D-printed shell would  have been a lot easier. Making space for the Joy-Con’s side rail, thumb stick and PCB without simply tossing the WiiMote’s PCB was a tough ask, and these are two WiiMotes that will never connect to a Wii...

It's reminiscent of a stock from the height of the dot-com craze, but we're sure that's nothing to worry about.

Face aux sécheresses intensifiées par le changement climatique, trois spécialistes de l’eau appellent, dans une tribune au « Monde », à renforcer la résilience hydrique en développant des pratiques agroécologiques et en stockant l’eau de pluie dans les nappes phréatiques et la végétation.

Pour la sixième fois de suite, le taux de chômage a augmenté au deuxième trimestre et se rapproche des chiffres de 2017. Les candidats à la présidentielle, comme l’ancien premier ministre Edouard Philippe, critiquent ce bilan.

Le populaire ministre, dont l’exclusion du gouvernement a précipité une crise politique dans le pays, franchit une ligne jamais dépassée depuis le début de l’invasion russe en appelant, dans une vidéo publiée mardi 18 août, à « restaurer le processus démocratique », malgré la guerre.

When it comes to bringing in money, OpenAI seems to be having a hard time keeping up with its chief rival.

Link shorteners have been a staple of the online world for over two decades now, but they’ve got some issues– for one thing, it’s totally non-transparent where the link actually goes, leaving you open to all sorts of shenanigans, of which RickRolling is probably the best case. For two, your traffic is going through an external service who may have their own nefarious intent. [PortalRunner] had an idea: don’t shorten the link, but compress it.
You see, a traditional URL shortener like tinyurl just generates a random code and associates that with your original link in its database. That’s fine, but you’re relying on a third party database. The alternative is to take the URL, encode it in some way,...

How does this even happen?

When it comes to 3D printing in the FDM world, you can go a long way just relying on standard settings that ship with your 3D printer and/or slicer. If you want to push the limits, though, it pays to better understand the hardware and materials you’re working with to know what you can get away with. To that end, [Robert Samples] put together the MeltCalc database to help. 
The purpose of MeltCalc is simple—it collates data on hot ends and materials regarding factors like maximum flow rate, print speeds, and heater requirements. If you’re wondering whether a given hot end can flow a given filament at a given rate, for example, this tool is a great place to start. It features 64 different hot ends and 36...

Trading places.

The Nova 3P in eye-catching cyan. | Image: SteelSeries While many gaming headsets come with extra features, the tradeoff is that they’re often uncomfortable and heavy. A lightweight, affordable alternative that can connect to a bunch of platforms is available at Woot. The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P in cyan is on sale for $59.99, a 45 percent discount from their usual $109.99 price. SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P Where to Buy: $109.99 $59.99 at Woot
This headset, like most of SteelSeries’ models, feature a stretchy strap on the headband to offset its weight, plus a removable boom mic so you can take them on the go. While they sound good right out of the box, the SteelSeries app offers over 200 game-specific...

If you are a regular reader, then the odds are you have taken apart an electronic gadget, either for a fix, or simply because your curiosity got the better of you. Once inside, it’s all but impossible to help yourself from doing at least a little reverse engineering. That’s what happened when [PRBS23] took a look inside a Gravity 800 Grill for a simple wire fix. But one thing led to the next, and now open source firmware for the grill is freely available!
Control board schematic.
The first order of business in creating the firmware is reverse engineering the original controller. Opening it up immediately reveals an ESP-32 and a well-labeled programming port. The rest of the control board is equally simple,...

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor's Instagram profile to be a "safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos, and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity, warmth, and care."
A story posted to Zelda Williams' own Instagram account expands on the decision to bring back her father's profile, saying that it's meant to help combat "rampant AI abuse," according to The Wrap: I'm sorry if anyone found Da …
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OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes on a new model, Astra, that it thinks could have "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, and the company says it instituted a two-week pause in reinforcement learning (RL) training on its "latest models intended for deployment" while it tightened up security. The company's "largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold."
For its frontier model research, OpenAI now r …
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Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. What inspired you to write this book? The economic arguments for markets have generally been won, but the moral argument hasn’t. Even if people admit that markets lead to greater growth and prosperity, they often say, “But aren’t we losing our souls when we do all this type of stuff?” I wanted to show them how much data there actually is on this topic and make a robust argument for the moral character of markets. In your first chapter, you discuss the building blocks of a commercial society. What are those building blocks? When I use the term “commercial society,” I’m riffing off of Adam Smith. The way that he talks about commercial society...

To build a 400-square-foot structure behind his parents' Marin County home, designer Toby Watters had to navigate strict environmental protections and sewage problems—and win the neighbors' approval.In 2020, Marin County, California, adopted a new ordinance making it easier for property owners to build ADUs. Around then, Toby Watters and his family were thinking about relocating his grandmother from a care facility on the East Coast to his parents’ house in Inverness, a small town on Tomales Bay. Watters—who was an engineering student with a growing interest in architecture at the time—began to explore how they might take advantage of this new policy. "My reaction, as a designer, was thinking this is a...

 
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Using money previously allocated for a trip, Catherine Pearson reimagined her home with new kitchen fixtures, colorful curtains, and gallons of paint.When Catherine Pearson decided to renovate her Ridgewood rental in Queens, New York, where she’s lived since 2018, she set herself up for a challenge. In New York City, money leaves your hand quickly—but Catherine is crafty, and she’s not afraid to roll up her sleeves. She works as a set designer and art director for luxury and design clients, including Balmain, Vanity Fair, L’Officiel, and even Dwell. And while Catherine’s worked with modest budgets before, her renovation fund was especially tight: She gave herself $1,000 cash to cover all costs. It...

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro. If you’re looking for a feature-packed pair of earbuds that won’t break your wallet, Best Buy has the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro on sale for $139.99. That’s $40 lower than the current Amazon price, and a big discount from their original retail price of $249.99. These well-equipped earbuds feature excellent sound quality, crisp transparency mode, and a clear microphone for taking calls on the go.
Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro
The Galaxy Buds 3 Pro are Samsung’s best-sounding wireless earbuds yet. They have a stemmed design similar to the AirPods Pro, but even if their design is a little bland, the Buds 3 Pro make up for it with great call quality, useful voice commands, and...

Sony's Pulse Elevate wireless gaming speakers are launching on November 12th and will cost $219.99, the company announced on Tuesday. Announced nearly a year ago, the speakers are compatible with a PS5, PlayStation Portal, PC, and Mac, and they include "studio-inspired planar magnetic drivers" that offer "lifelike sound across the entire audible spectrum," Sony says. They also include a built-in mic for voice chat, Sony's PlayStation Link low-latency tech, and charging docks for topping up the batteries. The Pulse Elevate speakers come in two colors, black and white, and preorders begin on September 1st at 10AM ET in the US or 10AM local t …
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The 1908 A.C. Tobias Residence has original millwork, an updated kitchen, and a lush site overflowing with citrus trees and succulents.Location: 2915 S Budlong Ave, Los Angeles, California Price: $1,249,000 Footprint: 2,237 Square Feet (2 Beds, 2 Baths) Architects: George J. Webster and Neal Dow Barker Year Built: 1908 From the Agent: "The A.C. Tobias Residence is a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and a remarkable expression of early Arts and Crafts design. Designed in 1908 by George J. Webster and Neal Dow Barker as the personal residence of developer Archibald Clark Tobias, the home was built during Los Angeles’s transformation from a landscape of orange groves and farmland into a...

It stretches down to meet the sidewalk at the end of the cul-de-sac, creating a social space for the block.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: Northcote, Australia Architect: Prior Barraclough / @priorbarraclough Footprint: 2,045 square foot Builder: Camson Homes Structural Engineer: Argall Cabinetry: Limitless Joinery Photographer: Ben Hosking / @benhoskingphotographer From the Architect: "At the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Northcote, the Bank Street House reimagines the suburban home through its modest scale and generous engagement with both...

[SÉRIE D’ÉTÉ] Cet été, Usbek & Rica retourne dans le passé. Sites Internet, réseaux sociaux, jeux vidéo : on vous dresse la liste de ce qui fait le sel de nos vies numériques depuis trois décennies. Après l’année 1996, marquée par AOL, Mario et l’USB, et 2006, placée sous le signe de MySpace, de la Nintendo DS et des lolcats, cap sur 2016.

“The Arctic is emerging as a viable alternative to the world’s traditional shipping routes as melting polar ice shortens the journey between Europe and Asia and vessels seek to avoid maritime chokepoints. Sea Legend, a Chinese container shipping company focusing on the Turkish and North African markets, will this week launch the first regular container shipping service through the Arctic. The weekly service will skirt the north Russian coast on its journey between Ningbo on China’s east coast and Felixstowe in the UK. The company has branded the service the 'Ice Silk Road' in reference to the Silk Road trading route that once connected China and Europe. The voyage will cut the usual 40-day sailing time...

Since 2021, major German Internet providers have agreed to block the country’s most egregious pirate sites through the Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet, better known as CUII.
The system started as an administrative scheme without judicial oversight. CUII’s own committee issued blocking recommendations, and the Federal Network Agency signed off before providers acted. This setup changed in mid-2025, when the stakeholders rewrote their code of conduct so that every block now starts with a rightsholder suing one ISP. Once a court confirms the block, the other providers follow.
CUII no longer issues the orders, but it will still communicate the recommendations to all participants. In recent weeks,...

“The U.S. violent crime rate plunged 9.7% last year — the largest annual drop since the FBI’s national estimates began in 1936 — according to the bureau’s data released Friday and reviewed by Axios… Among the declines cited by the FBI: Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter dropped 18.1%. Robbery fell 18.5%, rape 7.6% and aggravated assault 7.2%. Meanwhile, the U.S. murder rate decreased 18.5% to 4.1 per 100,000 residents, tying 1955 and 1956 for the lowest rate since FBI national estimates began. Property crime declined 12.4%, led by drops in motor vehicle theft (22.7%), burglary (15.8%) and larceny-theft (9.8%).” From Axios.
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Aprés le Ministére des Finances, le Ministére de l'Éducation confirme un piratage de son informatique. Maintenant à savoir si les informations diffusées par le pirate sont vraies.

Une étude du Pew Research Center publiée le 15 juillet 2026 montre que, pour la première fois, la Chine est perçue plus positivement que les États-Unis dans la majorité des 36 pays sondés — y compris chez des alliés historiques de Washington comme le Canada. Nous y trouvons là principalement le résultat de l’imprévisibilité, l’arrogance et les actes bellicistes de Donald Trump depuis son retour à la Maison Blanche en janvier 2025. Cette dégradation vertigineuse de l’image des États-Unis est sans doute la pire depuis la Guerre du Vietnam.

Un casino en ligne aurait exposé 16,9 millions d’entrées, révélant joueurs, bots, portefeuilles et infrastructure Web3.

Une base belge piratée de 148 251 profils, avec IBAN et données personnelles, aurait été exposée selon un pirate sans authentification.

SpyGuard et MVT aident à rechercher des traces de spyware sur smartphones grâce au réseau et à l’analyse forensique.

Je viens d'apprendre qu'une carte Nvidia normalement dédiée au minage de cryptomonnaies, vendue avec 8 Go de mémoire en expose aujourd'hui 64 Go, sans que rien n'ait été remplacé ou soudé dessus... C'est ça la magie de Nvidia, la mémoire était bien là depuis le début, mais était juste maintenue en sommeil par le firmware.
Cette carte, la CMP 170HX est sortie il y a 5 ans pour miner de l'Ethereum. Elle est bâtie sur le GA100, le même silicium 7 nm que l'accélérateur A100 que Nvidia vend aujourd'hui autour de 3 500 dollars en version 40 Go. Et la mémoire HBM2e qu'on y trouve est physiquement présente sur la carte, quoi qu'affiche la fiche technique. Alors certes, débrider une carte Nvidia par...

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 ».

13/08 : Apéro antifa au Geyser
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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.
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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...

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...

“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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avec une préface – mise à jour – de Mme la Présidente honoraire du Syndicat de la Magistrature, Simone Gaboriau-Monthioux :