Destructive scratching, excessive sleeping, sudden aggression — the behaviors that look like problems and are often just an under-stimulated cat asking for more

Lebanon's health ministry says one person was killed in the strikes, which the Israeli military says were a response to a Hezbollah ceasefire violation.

Deep watering schedules, mulch depth, knowing when to stop fighting the heat — the specific habits that keep a garden alive through the hottest stretch of the year

The drone was found near Ukrainian cargo planes before another object collided with a cargo aircraft in mid-air.

We’ve always taken a certain childlike joy in seeing tiny things made big, and big things tiny. Evidently [Uncle Stem] is the same way, if this 7x sized 16×2 “LCD” display is any indicator.
“LCD” is in scare quotes there, because while the original display is a character LCD, [Uncle Stem]’s embigginated recreation is not. Liquid crystal displays are beyond all but the most dedicated DIYers, so [Stem] recreated the whole thing with addressable LEDs instead — over a thousand of them. Each character got its own PCB, and rather than pay for assembly [Stem] used a 3D printed stencil to help apply solder paste, an idea we’ve seen before. His choice of long lengths of nickle strip — the stuff you...

Alphabet is shaking up leadership as it reworks its AI strategy.

Using an innovative approach, scientists reevaluated a room thought to be a cult shrine, finding more evidence that this was actually a rare library.

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

Tire tread, fluid levels, battery health, wiper blades — the quick pre-trip inspection that finds a small problem while it's still cheap and easy to fix

Turns out rogue AI isn’t the only cybersecurity threat to be worried about.

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.

The sixth film in the supernatural horror franchise stars Amelia Eve and Lin Shaye and arrives August 21.

Shooting into shadow, using light as a subject rather than an obstacle, the specific white balance fix — the techniques that turn midday sun from a problem into a tool

Seems bad.

Your body has ways of telling you something is wrong long before it becomes serious, and these are the 20 signs people dismiss most often

Si le détail des faits reprochés aux personnes interpellées n’a pas été communiqué, nombre d’entre elles ont été traduites en justice dans des délais qui n’ont pas toujours permis un examen circonstancié de leur dossier.

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and how the opinionated tooling can make you a better programmer! blog: thejpster.org.uk
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Places to follow the...

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Ce Franco-Algérien de 36 ans, natif de Marseille, a été arrêté le 20 juillet, en exécution d’un mandat d’arrêt français, dans un contexte de reprise de la coopération judiciaire entre Paris et Alger.

Without Patriot interceptors, Ukraine's skies are wide open and people are fully exposed to Russia's missile barrages.

Both the battery-powered and wired models are over $50 off. | Image: Ring Ring’s Wired Doorbell Pro and Battery Doorbell Plus are two of the brand’s most well-rounded video doorbells, whether you’re looking for a hardwired model or one that runs on a battery. Right now, its Wired Doorbell Pro is down to $199 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, while the Battery Doorbell Plus is on sale for $119.99 ($60 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Both deals are the second-best prices we’ve seen, just $20 shy of their Prime Day lows.
Ring Wired Doorbell Pro Where to Buy: $249.99 $199.99 at Amazon $249.99 $199.99 at Best Buy $249.99 $199.99 at RingRing Battery Doorbell Plus (second-gen) Where to Buy: $179.99 $119.99 at...

The founder of Golden Landscape Architecture helped two old pals unpave their pad and reimagine it as a little slice of paradise.René Petersson grew up in Silver Lake. He remembers a time when the Los Angeles enclave was a secluded and tight-knit community, long before it became synonymous with trendsetting cool. When René and his husband, Michael Castagnetto, started looking at homes to buy on the east side, they both hoped to find a place that had retained its original character and felt tied to the past.  Before: Front Exterior After: Front Exterior The new plantings by Golden Landscape Architecture are drought-tolerant—a must for the dry L.A. weather. Photo: Kevin Coffey"We had been feeling pretty...

After Uber and Waymo ended their partnership in Phoenix earlier this year, experts and robotaxi watchers wondered whether the companies' improbable bromance was fraying. Not so, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said today. The two companies are committed to continue working together in Atlanta and Austin, and the partnership remains "very strong."
"Waymo is a very important partner of ours, and we continue to operate in Austin and Atlanta," Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call today. "We believe we'll continue to operate next year in those marketplaces. It's a terrific product, and the on-the-ground partnership continues to be very strong."
The …
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Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

Sébastien Lecornu va mettre en place une mission chargée d'accompagner la reconstruction des territoires sinistrés par les feux de forêt - Crédits : capture d'écran compte X gouvernement Le Premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, va lancer une Mission reconstruction et adaptation des territoires (Mrat) afin d'accompagner les zones touchées par les incendies de cet été, relate France info ce mercredi 5 août. Composée de cinq experts et directement rattachée au chef du gouvernement, cette mission aura pour objectif d'aider les collectivités et les habitants à reconstruire les territoires sinistrés. À LIRE AUSSI[Fact-checking] Quels moyens face aux incendies en Europe : la France est-elle mieux...

It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a look at breadmaking both in the traditional sense that marketing people would like you to imagine, and in the modern sense of the loaf you’ll find on your supermarket shelf.
A Food Of Great Cultural Significance
An ancient Egyptian bakery, depicted in the reign of Ramesses III. Scanned by Peter Isotalo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Perhaps there are few foods with as much cultural significance as bread. If your distant ancestors took the path of growing grain as their major subsistence carbohydrate, the chances are there will be some form of...

Apple’s MacBook Neo comes in four different colors. | Image: The Verge Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, is available once again at its pre-price hike price. All four colors are currently discounted and available refurbished through the company, with the base 256GB model listed for $599 (usually $699 new), and the upgraded version with 512GB of storage and TouchID selling for $679 (usually $799). The laptops have a one-year manufacturer warranty, with the option to purchase an extended AppleCare plan.
MacBook Neo
Apple’s most affordable laptop, with a 13-inch display, A18 Pro chip, 8GB of RAM, and optional Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Read our review. Where to Buy: $599 at Apple (256GB,...

And you thought we were done with this one… | Image: Fenix Flexin We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it.
On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier, which detects when a song was generated using Treblo, though not other AI tools. According to a blog post, it has a false positive rate of less than 1 in 10,000. That's not unimpeachable, but it's notable that the company's own Classifier determined that "Rubberz" was "very likely Treblo" with "high confidence," adding more fuel to the PR nightmare for Fenix....

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis.
Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly DeepMind's CTO, is stepping up to become Google's SVP of DeepMind and will report to Pichai. Kavukcuoglu will remain Google's chief AI architect as well.
"​​As you've heard me say many times, I've always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human h …
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More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Le Volcán de Fuego, considéré comme le plus actif d’Amérique centrale et situé au sud du Guatemala, est entré lundi 3 août dans une nouvelle phase éruptive, poussant les autorités à décréter l’alerte maximale dans plusieurs départements. Au moins 1 700 personnes ont dû être évacuées.

Le Conseil d’État chinois vient d’approuver quatre nouveaux projets de centrales nucléaires, soit huit réacteurs, principalement de troisième génération et de conception chinoise. La Chine compte devenir le plus important producteur mondial d’énergie nucléaire d’ici à 2030, notamment pour répondre aux besoins du secteur de l’intelligence artificielle.

Des mutations génétiques ont permis aux moustiques de résister à un insecticide qui n’est plus utilisé aujourd’hui. Elles pourraient aussi leur avoir fourni un avantage reproductif dans les milieux urbains bruyants, suggère une nouvelle étude.

Axe stratégique pour le commerce mondial des hydrocarbures, le détroit d'Ormuz est au centre des attentions depuis le déclenchement des affrontements entre l'Iran et les États-Unis, le 28 février - Crédits : Suphanat Khumsap / iStock Les choses évoluent à une telle vitesse et avec leur lot de contradictions qu'il faut rester bien accroché pour encore parvenir à s'y retrouver. Toujours est-il que la guerre au Moyen-Orient, toujours suspendue à un protocole d'accord signé mais qui peine à déboucher sur des mesures concrètes, pourrait connaître un nouveau tournant dans les prochaines heures. Selon des sources régionales citées par le média américain Axios, un accord temporaire en discussion...

If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, etymologically suggesting something like a voltmeter. In fact, the component took its name from a voltage-measuring instrument also named the potentiometer. [Alnwlsn] recently took a look at one such device, which was integrated into a thermometer, and the Weston cell used to calibrate it.
The potentiometer (instrument) has a galvanometer at its heart. One side of the galvanometer is connected to the center lead of a potentiometer (component) which spans a voltage source; the other side is connected to a reference voltage. The potentiometer can be adjusted until no current flows through the...

Avant la quatrième étape du Tour de France Femmes, mardi 4 août, des contrôles ont été effectués pour vérifier que les coureuses ne portaient pas un soutien-gorge rembourré, censé améliorer l’aérodynamisme. Et les techniques consistant à augmenter la surface de la poitrine sont aussi valables chez les hommes, rappelle la presse internationale.

La capacité des géants américains de convertir ces dépenses en profits n’est pas acquise. Le coût de la dette et le prix des puces mémoires, qui a sextuplé en 2025, rendent l’équation d’autant plus complexe.

Les passeports européens les plus puissants en 2026 Voyager avec un passeport européen ne garantit pas la même liberté de circulation partout dans le monde. Si l'Union européenne est souvent présentée comme un espace de mobilité privilégié, des écarts notables subsistent entre les États membres lorsqu'il s'agit de voyager au-delà de ses frontières. Pour mieux le comprendre, l'indice Henley Passport Index propose un classement "faisant autorité de tous les passeports du monde", en se basant sur le nombre de destinations auxquelles leurs titulaires peuvent accéder sans visa préalable. Cet indice, dont les dernières données sont disponibles, s'appuie sur les éléments fournis par l'Association...

D’Édouard Philippe à Raphaël Glucksmann, plusieurs personnalités politiques en lice pour la présidentielle française de 2027 ont récemment été la cible de campagnes basées sur des fausses informations émanant des services russes, rapporte la presse internationale.

Alors que les autorités ougandaises s’apprêtaient à l’arrêter, le chanteur de raggamuffin a trouvé refuge à Washington, en mars. Pour « Le Monde », il revient sur sa cavale de deux mois et sur l’état de l’opposition dans le pays d’Afrique de l’Est.

The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Architect Jules Brisson brought in okoumé wood panels, tiles from Portugal, and a trove of vintage furniture for this flat in Le Marais.Location: 3rd Arrondissement, Paris, France Price: €1,135,000 (approximately $1,308,115 USD) Year: 2024 Architect: Jules Brisson Footprint: 732 square feet (2 bed, 1 bath) From the Agent: "Conceived as a total work of art, this project was designed by architect and designer Jules Brisson in 2024. Its layout stands out for its meticulous attention to material selection and treatment, creating a warm and intimate atmosphere. Located on the fourth and top floor with an elevator, the apartment is laid out in a T-shaped floor plan. The spacious living area, with over 13 feet...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The former public-health official’s victory in a closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate carries major implications for the direction of the Party.

Park City firm Klima Architecture explains how a radical roof was the first step in tapping the slope’s potential.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. After 30 years in Phoenix, Trisha and Brian Coffman were ready to relocate. They would soon be empty nesters and wanted a mountain home that captured the grandeur of its setting. So they bought a piece of hillside land in Summit Park, an old mountain community between Park City and Salt Lake City, that was surrounded by 100-foot Douglas firs and old-growth spruce. But what made it so stunning also made it...

The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.

Volker Türk says 56 people have been executed on national security-related charges, including 27 in cases linked to January's protests.

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...

Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was about connecting one handset to another for a direct conversation. For this reason, the telephone was seldom used for mass emergency communications, because it was simply not fit for broadcasting a message to a wide number of people.
However, technology has since changed. Our modern phones are all connected to a big digital over-the-air network, and large swathes of them can be addressed all at once if so needed. This has led to the development of emergency warning systems that use the cellular network, with Cell...

Custom furnishings round out architect Diego Cano Lasso’s reinterpretation of the midcentury post-and-beam style.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: Los Angeles, California Architect: Diego Cano Lasso / @diegocanolasso Footprint: 2,250 square feet Structural Engineer: Jose Garcia Civil Engineer: Robles Engineering Lighting Design: Luz Mixtura Cabinetry Design: Alejandro Cano (Doctor Cato) Photographer: Iwan Baan / @iwanbaan From the Architect: "The Cano House by Diego Cano-Lasso is a contemporary reinterpretation of midcentury post-and-beam...

While the collision was an accident, it is a unique scientific gift for planetary geologists that could provide important data for future space missions.

Le 12 août 2026, une éclipse partielle sera visible partout en France - Crédits : Thomas Roell / iStock C'est l'un des spectacles astronomiques les plus spectaculaires. Mercredi 12 août, une éclipse solaire partielle sera visible en France, entre 19h20 et 21h15, la première observable depuis le continent européen depuis 1999. Un phénomène perceptible partout sur le territoire mais plus ou moins prononcé selon que l'on habite au sud ou au nord du pays. Pour vous permettre de vous préparer au mieux à cet événement, voici tout ce que vous devez savoir avant d'enfiler vos lunettes et de lever la tête pour assister à un phénomène rarissime. De quoi s'agit-il ? Durant un certain temps, la lune...

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Ursula von der Leyen, la présidente de la Commission européenne, et Volodymyr Zelensky, le président ukrainien, lors d'une visite à Kiev, le 15 juillet 2026 - Crédits : Christophe Licoppe / Commission européenne L'UE poursuit son aide à l'Ukraine. La Commission européenne a annoncé mercredi 5 août qu'elle avait reçu 1,4 milliard d'euros de "bénéfices exceptionnels" provenant des intérêts des avoirs russes immobilisés dans le cadre des sanctions européennes contre Moscou. Cette somme sera utilisée pour soutenir l'Ukraine, a indiqué l'exécutif européen, au lendemain d'une attaque russe faisant 17 morts dans la capitale et sa région. "La Russie doit payer pour les destructions qu'elle a...

OpenAI a présenté trois nouveaux modules destinés à l'enseignement, un pour les professeurs du primaire et du secondaire, un pour ceux du supérieur, et un dernier pour les étudiants eux-mêmes.
Le premier passe par ChatGPT for Teachers, la version gratuite réservée aux enseignants vérifiés (pour le moment uniquement américains) et à leurs établissements. Il fabrique des ressources adaptées au niveau de chaque élève, produit des visuels interactifs et se branche sur les référentiels pédagogiques locaux. Les deux autres arrivent par ChatGPT Edu, la formule sous licence que les universités achètent pour tout leur campus. Un enseignant du supérieur peut y mettre à jour son programme, monter...

OpenAI a publié le détail de deux incidents survenus pendant des évaluations de sécurité confiées à des laboratoires extérieurs. Le plus notable des deux lui a été signalé le 29 juillet par Irregular, une société qui teste la résistance des modèles aux usages offensifs.
L'exercice était un capture the flag, le format classique des compétitions de sécurité où il faut dénicher une information cachée en exploitant les faiblesses d'un système, monté uniquement pour cette occasion. Le modèle avait été prévenu qu'il n'avait aucun accès à internet.
Il y a eu deux ratés. Une erreur de configuration laissait en réalité passer le trafic vers le réseau public, et le nom inventé pour la...

TRIBUNE // Les applications de rencontre ont élargi nos horizons amoureux. L'intelligence artificielle risque-t-elle, paradoxalement, de les rétrécir ? C'est l'interrogation que développe Martin Pavanello, CEO du cabinet de conseil Mister IA.

Drones Bring Whole Blood to Trauma Scenes
https://humanprogress.org/drones-bring-whole-blood-to-trauma-scenes-before-hospital-arrival/

Si vous avez eu un PC portable dans les années nonante et 2000, vous avez peut-être utilisé l’emplacement PC Card pour lire des cartes mémoire. Il y a une dizaine d’années, j’avais parlé des différents types de lecteurs de cartes CompactFlash, et j’ai trouvé un autre modèle CardBus… qui est en fait le même. Mon nouveau lecteur (à gauche), un modèle CardBus au centre, un modèle passif à droite
Un peu de théorie : les cartes CompactFlash sont essentiellement des cartes PC Card (PCMCIA) dans un format plus compact. Le PC Card dérive de l’ISA des premiers PC et l’ATA aussi, et il y a donc une compatibilité native. Une carte CompactFlash est vue comme un disque dur ATA basique dans un...