Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twist Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral researcher Ophélie McIntosh; studied amino acids in material from the asteroid Bennu. Their work appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered the Bennu sample to Earth in 2023. Earlier tests found amino acids in that 4.6-billion-year-old dust. Amino acids are the small molecules that join up to make proteins. Analyzing a precious bit of space dust no bigger than a teaspoon, the Penn State team used custom instruments capable...

Notepad++ a vu son trafic de mises à jour redirigé vers des serveurs malveillants, une attaque de chaîne d’approvisionnement ciblée et attribuée prudemment....

Un internaute plaide coupable après le piratage de comptes Snapchat visant 600 femmes, avec vol et revente de photos intimes....

Failles zero-day Ivanti EPMM : intrusions confirmées aux Pays-Bas et incident à la Commission européenne, sur fond d’alertes CISA et alliés....

La Russie accorde l’asile à Enrique Arias Gil, Espagnol recherché pour cyberespionnage, au cœur des relais pro-russes sur Telegram....

Le Sénégal confirme une brèche au DAF, cible d’un rançongiciel, avec 139 Go revendiqués et un service d’identité suspendu....

Salvage titled cars were once taboo for dealers to sell. But the economics have shifted.

The door sensor in its new enclosures. (Credit: Dillan Stock)
A common sight in ‘smart homes’, door sensors allow you to detect whether a door is closed or open, enabling the triggering of specific events. Unfortunately, most solutions for these sensors are relatively bulky and hard to miss, making them a bit of a eyesore. This was the case for [Dillan Stock] as well, who decided that he could definitely have a smart home, yet not have warts sticking out on every single doorframe and door. There’s also a video version of the linked blog post.
These door sensors tend to be very simple devices, usually just a magnet and a reed relay, the latter signaling a status change to the wireless transmitter or...

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th, as previously reported by A3. Under Playter's leadership, Boston Dynamics navigated its way through an acquisition from Softbank that brought it to Hyundai in 2021, and it launched a new all-electric version of its humanoid Atlas robot in 2024. Just a few days ago, the company posted another video of its research Atlas robots attempting tumbling passes and outdoor runs as more enterprise-ready editions start to roll out. Boston Dynamics announced at CES last month that Atlas robo …
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Demonstrators hold a "Save The Post" sign next to a cutout image of Jeff Bezos during a "Save The Post" rally outside the Washington Post headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. | Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politicking in the age of Trump. If you're a subscriber, you are dominant and talented, like the Seattle Seahawks. If you're not a subscriber yet, it's time to get your act together, like the New England Patriots. (I'm from Boston and I'm allowed to say this.) The biggest tech story dominating Washington right now is, incidentally, a media story. Last week, shortly after The Washington Post...

The mother of the news anchor Savannah disappeared in the middle of night from her Tucson, Arizona, home and was last seen on 31 January.

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT's deep research tool with a full-screen viewer that you can use to scroll through and navigate to specific areas of its AI-generated reports. As shown in a video shared by OpenAI, the built-in viewer allows you to open ChatGPT's reports in a window separate from your chat, while showing a table of contents on the left side of the screen, and a list of sources on the right.
Deep research, which OpenAI first launched last year, has ChatGPT scour the web to compile an in-depth report about the topic of your choosing. With this most recent update, you'll be able to ask ChatGPT to focus on specific websites and connect …
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The R-rated superhero played by Ryan Reynolds made a splash in February 2016, and he's still a big part of pop culture today.

Samsung's annual Galaxy S-series reveal is later than usual this year, but we finally have a confirmed date to circle on the calendar: February 25th. And if you were hoping for major hardware upgrades from the company's flagship phones, you probably shouldn't hold your breath: an extensive leak published by WinFuture has seemingly confirmed that the S26 series will be a software-focused affair.
According to the leaked specs, the standard S26 will allegedly get a nominally larger battery - 4300mAh compared to 4000mAh - which is great news for the last "small" phone left standing. Once again, all three phones will lack built-in Qi2 magnets, o …
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It seems clear at this point to say that Donald Trump does not want to spend a single dime on EV charging. He tried to freeze $5 billion in funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which was approved as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. And when a federal judge ordered the government to unfreeze the funds, his administration came up with a new tactic to stall the plan. EV chargers must now be built in the US, with components that also originate in the US, in order to receive federal funding, the US Department of Transportation said today. Under the proposal, EV chargers would need to boost their US- …
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The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

Here's a prediction: this ends poorly.

A Peter Thiel-backed drone maker is also in the contracts.

Even with the poop joke. Especially with the poop joke, even.

Le biathlète français, qui visait l’or, a échoué à moins de quinze secondes du Norvégien Johan-Olav Botn, sur l’épreuve du 20 km individuel. Par aileurs, la journée a été marquée par des exploits, mais aussi des déceptions au niveau international.

Jean-Noël Barrot a annoncé, mardi soir, avoir saisi la justice française pour lui « signaler les faits présumés » mettant en cause un diplomate français, Fabrice Aidan, qui a échangé, selon Radio France, « des dizaines de mails directs et parfois familiers » avec Jeffrey Epstein.

Builders and manufacturers are wary about their future spending, while automakers are increasingly stung after making big bets on electric vehicles

Mass General Brigham researchers are betting that the next big leap in brain medicine will come from teaching artificial intelligence to “read” MRI scans in a more flexible way. The team, led by Benjamin Kann, MD, in the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program at Mass General Brigham, built a new AI foundation model called BrainIAC. In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, the model handled many brain MRI jobs at once, from estimating brain age to predicting dementia risk. It also looked for tumor gene changes and helped forecast survival in brain cancer. “BrainIAC has the potential to accelerate biomarker discovery, enhance diagnostic tools and speed the adoption of AI in clinical...

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Joining me today is Zion Lights, an award-winning science communicator who is known for her vision of a high-energy, low-carbon future. Her latest book is titled Energy is Life: Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear. Zion, tell me, what inspired this book? There are a lot of good nuclear energy books out there, but they tend to focus on the technology. That’s good, but people who read technical books tend to already agree that nuclear energy is good. I’m trying to convince people to think differently. So, I’ve written this book as a narrative following my journey as an anti-nuclear environmental activist to where I am now, while also explaining things...

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When [101 Things] didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him. On the face of it, this doesn’t seem particularly hard, until you look at the practical considerations. With perfectly timed dots and dashes, it would be trivial. But in real life, you get an audio signal. It has been mangled and mixed with noise and interference as it travels through the air. Then there’s the human on the other end who will rarely send at a constant speed with no errors.
Once you consider that, this becomes quite the project, indeed. The decoder captures audio via the Pi’s analog-to-digital converter. Then it resamples the input, applies an FFT, and converts the output via a...

The now-president allegedly called police in Florida who were investigating Epstein and said "thank goodness you're stopping him".

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

Cette révocation d’un texte qui visait six gaz à effet de serre devrait mettre fin aux limites imposées aux véhicules et devrait permettre à l’administration Trump de s’attaquer à une série d’autres réglementations, notamment concernant les centrales électriques.

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

Ce septuagénaire a été mis en examen pour des dizaines de viols et d’agressions sexuelles commis sur des adolescents dans neuf pays. Le procureur de Grenoble a lancé, mardi 10 février, un appel à témoins pour identifier d’autres victimes.

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a thing for many decades, it’s hard to beat physical chess boards that give you all the tactile pleasure of handling and moving pieces, yet merging the two is tricky. You can either tell the player to also move the opponent’s pieces, or use a mechanism to do so yourself, which [Joshua Stanley] recently demonstrated in a video.
There are a few ways that you can go about having the computer move and detect the pieces. Here [Joshua] chose to use Hall magnetic sensors to detect the magnets that are embedded in the 3D...

A ladder to access a collection of cookbooks is the finishing touch for crisp, built-in millwork in the San Francisco Bay Area home.Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality. The owners of a 1948 home in San Mateo, California, were already midway through a kitchen and living room renovation when they realized they hadn’t made plans for an awkward, 67-square-foot nook between the kitchen and a sprawl of front windows. But being avid book collectors—of cookbooks, in particular, some of which are family heirlooms—they had a dream that, perhaps, they could stop using it...

Meetings are the price we pay for unclear thinking and ambiguous communication. Writing — clear, thoughtful writing — has become a leadership power skill

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6. La découverte
Le livre en cours de rédaction : Predicting Persistence and Emergence in Physical and Artificial Systems, rapportera ce que GENESIS a mis au jour. L’ordre de l’exposé suivra la logique de l’argument, non la chronologie de la découverte ; cela vaut donc la peine d’indiquer brièvement l’idée d’ensemble des résultats.
Le cadre s’est initialement esquissé dans le domaine des organisations. Testé sur plusieurs milliers de configurations organisationnelles, il a produit neuf lois empiriques : des relations quantitatives entre les grandeurs mesurées, robustes sur l’ensemble du jeu de données. Certaines de ces lois étaient attendues (l’émergence...

Gilbert’s Hill made history when it installed a rope tow in 1934—and the landmark Vermont property comes with five buildings and over 100 acres of conserved land.Location: 1362 Barnard Road, Woodstock, Vermont Price: $2,395,000 Year Built: 1934 Renovation Date: 2020 Footprint: 13,300 square feet (6 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 half-baths) Lot Size: 112 Acres From the Agent: "Located two miles north of the Village of Woodstock, Gilbert’s Hill is one of Vermont’s most celebrated properties and a national landmark for its contribution to the sport of alpine skiing. The farm is recognized as the birthplace of lift-served skiing in America, where the first rope tow was installed in 1934. Today, its open pastures,...

Les garde-fous de votre IA locale, ils tiennent à quoi ?
Hé bien, ils tiennent à UN seul prompt mes amis. Oui, UN SEUL ! Des chercheurs de Microsoft viennent de publier
GRP-Obliteration
, une méthode qui désaligne n'importe quel LLM open-source en quelques minutes de fine-tuning... et le mieux, c'est que le modèle garde toute son intelligence après.
Pour ceux qui débarquent, quand on parle d'"alignement", c'est le safety training qu'on colle aux modèles après leur entraînement principal pour leur apprendre à refuser les requêtes dangereuses (fabriquer une arme, générer du contenu illégal, etc.). Jusqu'ici, on pensait que c'était solidement ancré dans le modèle.
Allez, je vous spoile : Non...

Le Groupe Bernard Hayot figure au cœur de l’avis de l’Autorité de la concurrence rendu public mardi 10 février. En cause, notamment, la différence de prix des denrées alimentaires avec l’Hexagone (environ 40 %), et les marges pratiquées. Enquête sur le premier employeur privé des outre-mer.

You can grab a fully kitted action camera and all the lenses for $550.

Plusieurs figures du camp réformateur, accusées d’avoir tenté de renverser le pouvoir, ont été arrêtées ces derniers jours par les Gardiens de la révolution. Ces interpellations montrent surtout la volonté du régime de faire taire les voix politiques dissidentes.

Des noms de possibles coupables noircis à tort, l’identité de victimes divulguée : des élus américains ont déploré les choix du ministère de la Justice après avoir consulté une version non expurgée des documents rendus publics sur Jeffrey Epstein, le financier pédophile. Un démocrate parle même de “dissimulation”.

Le ministère de l’intérieur a été critiqué pour avoir classé La France insoumise à l’extrême gauche avant les élections municipales. Le « nuançage », souvent contesté, permet pourtant de comprendre les résultats électoraux, justifie la Place Beauvau.

La librairie-café coopérative La Nouvelle Réserve organise une soirée jeux et chants mercredi 11 février de 18h à 22h, avec une découverte du jeu Fachorama suivi à 19h d'une rencontre avec Véronique Servat, coautrice de "Siamo tutti antifascisti", ouvrage sur l'histoire des chants de lutte et de résistance. Rendez-vous à la librairie 5 rue du maréchal Foch à Limay. Vous pouvez aussi soutenir la librairie ici -
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Winter Olympics bronze medallist Sturla Holm Laegreid says on live TV that he made the "biggest mistake" by cheating on his girlfriend.

Morning light slips through a window and lands on your hands. It feels ordinary. But for your body, that daylight carries timing cues that reach deep into metabolism. A new controlled study suggests those cues can matter even more if you live with type 2 diabetes. Researchers from the University of Geneva, the University Hospitals of Geneva, Maastricht University, and the German Diabetes Center report that natural daylight helped older adults with type 2 diabetes keep steadier blood sugar. The work offers early evidence that the kind of light you spend your day in can shape glucose control. The idea grows out of a modern pattern that many people share. You spend most of your day indoors. You may commute in low...

L’administration républicaine devrait revenir dans les prochains jours sur le “constat de mise en danger” de 2009, qui reconnaissait la menace des gaz à effet de serre et permettait d’encadrer les émissions. Une déréglementation aux effets massifs et durables, pour les États-Unis et la planète.

Alors que dans les grandes entreprises la composition internationale des équipes est devenue la norme, il va devenir plus difficile pour un cadre d’origine étrangère d’accéder aux responsabilités. La faute à la montée des nationalismes et au recul de la mondialisation, explique le “Financial Times”.

Un ambulancier madrilène découvre que sa fille fait partie d’un groupe néonazi qui se livre à des actes de haine raciste et à des combats de rue contre des supporteurs marseillais à l’occasion d’un match. La vie du héros éponyme de “Salvador”, sortie ce 6 février sur Netflix, bascule alors. La presse espagnole salue la série, entre drame et thriller.

The comments reflect the enormous pressure Warsh may face from the White House if confirmed as the new Federal Reserve chair

There are many adapters, dongles, and cables designed for interfacing display standards, and no doubt some of you have them in the glue of your entertainment system or work space. They’re great for standards, but what about something that’s not quite standard? [Stephen] has an arcade cabinet with a CRT that runs at an unusual 336 by 262 pixel resolution. It can be driven as 320 by 240 but doesn’t look great, and even that “standard” resolution isn’t supported by many dongles. He’s shared the story of his path to a unique USB to VGA converter which may have application far beyond this arcade machine.
We follow him on a path of discovery, through RP2040 PIOs, simple resistor ladder DACs, and...

All 55 people on board survived after the plane failed to land on the runway near the shoreline.

Claude Code, c'est super puissant... mais faut avouer que dans un terminal, quand l'IA commence à enchaîner les appels d'outils dans tous les sens, on se retrouve vite à lire de la Matrice sans les lunettes de Neo. Surtout si vous tentez le coup depuis un iPad ou un mobile, ça pique.
Mais c'était sans compter sur
Companion
, un projet open source qui vous colle une interface web par-dessus Claude Code. En gros, au lieu de scroller frénétiquement dans votre terminal comme un hamster sous caféine, vous avez une vraie UI avec des blocs rétractables, de la coloration syntaxique et une vue claire de ce que l'agent fabrique. Ça tourne sur desktop, mobile, tablette... bref, partout où y'a un navigateur....

Darjeeling • India • July 2010 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn are the best-known examples. Beyond our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers have found gas giants that dwarf Jupiter, blurring the line between planets and brown dwarfs, sometimes called failed stars. How these enormous planets form has been a long-running puzzle in astronomy. Now, new research led by scientists at the University of California San Diego is offering a clearer answer. Using fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the team studied a distant planetary system called HR 8799. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that even the...

Dans L’Avant-poste (Robert Laffont, 2026), son nouveau roman, l’auteur de science-fiction Dmitry Glukhovsky met en scène le pouvoir des mots et de la propagande dans une Russie postapocalyptique. Un scénario dystopique qui résonne particulièrement avec l’actualité.

The newest footwear from one of Generation Z's favorite shoemaker is built for looks, not everyday wear

For much of the past few years, CVS was treated as a problem stock. But new earnings show a promised comeback is actually happening

When it comes to knowledge there are things you know as facts because you have experienced them yourself or had them verified by a reputable source, and there are things that you know because they are common knowledge but unverified. The former are facts, such as that a 100mm cube of water contains a litre of the stuff, while the latter are received opinions, such as the belief among Americans that British people have poor dental care. The first is a verifiable fact, while the second is subjective.
In our line there are similar received opinions, and one of them is that you shouldn’t print with old 3D printing filament because it will ruin the quality of your print. This is one I can now verify for myself,...