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Settlers II, ce jeu de stratégie où vous passiez des heures à regarder vos petits bonhommes transporter des planches de bois sur des chemins de terre est quelque part, toujours vivant puisqu'il y a des devs qui bossent sur un jeu open source équivalent depuis 2001. Ça fait + de 24 ans et le résultat vaut carrément le coup d'oeil.
Le projet s'appelle
Widelands
, c'est un jeu de stratégie en temps réel sous licence GPL-2.0, dispo sur Windows, macOS 11+ (j'ai dû le débloquer avec
Sentinel
comme d'hab) et Linux (AppImage, Flatpak, PPA Ubuntu). On y retrouve de la gestion de mines d'or et de fer, de la construction de scieries et de casernes en pierre, des chaînes de production complètes avec des...

Le pirate Nasir enchaîne les revendications cyber au nom du Hamas. Analyse d’un acteur entre influence, intimidation et cyberguerre.

Les conséquences économiques du conflit déclenché par les États-Unis et Israël se retrouvent jusqu’en Europe. L’Allemagne, première économie du Vieux Continent et importante puissance industrielle, pourrait en ressentir les effets de plein fouet, s’inquiète “Stern” depuis Hambourg.

Israël a dit avoir visé de nombreux sites du Hezbollah à Beyrouth et dans le sud du Liban dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, tuant au moins six personnes, selon les autorités locales.

Entre le maire sortant, candidat Horizons soutenu par LR, et l’extrême droite d’Eric Ciotti, « c’est aux Niçois de trancher dans les urnes », a dit le président des Républicains. Rachida Dati a, elle, salue lé « décision responsable et en cohérence » de Sarah Knafo de se désister à Paris, et reconnu des « points de convergence » avec ses électeurs.

Although it dates back to the early days of the Marconi Company in the 1920s, the Franklin oscillator has remained a relatively obscure circuit, its memory mostly kept alive by ham radio operators who prize its high stability at higher frequencies. At the core of the circuit is an LC tank circuit, a fact which [nobcha] used to build quite a precise LC meter.
The meter is built around two parts: the Franklin oscillator, which resonates at a frequency defined by its inductance and capacitance, and an Arduino which counts the frequency of the signal. In operation, the Arduino measures the frequency of the original LC circuit, then measures again after another element (capacitor or inductor) has been added to the...

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Launched in 2024, Italy’s elaborate ‘Piracy Shield‘ blocking scheme was billed as the future of anti-piracy efforts.
To effectively tackle live sports piracy, its broad blocking powers aim to block piracy-related domain names and IP addresses within 30 minutes.
While many pirate sources have indeed been blocked, the Piracy Shield is not without controversy. There have been multiple reports of overblocking, where the anti-piracy system blocked access to legitimate sites and services. €14,247,698 ‘Piracy Shield’ Fine Cloudflare was caught up in several of those incidents and became one of Piracy Shield’s most prominent critics. Following an amendment that extended the scheme’s reach to DNS...

Le MacBook Neo est plutôt une réussite (même si 8 Go de RAM ça fait un peu pitié en 2026) et Apple a fait un petit truc qui fait toujours plaisir, qui date de l’iMac G3 et a été vu aussi sur les iMac Apple Silicon : l’interface de macOS, par défaut, prend la couleur du Mac (qui est disponible en quatre couleurs). Mais il y a un autre petit détail : le fond d’écran. Comme pour le MacBook Air et quelques Mac sortis depuis, le fond d’écran d’Apple – qui varie en fonction de la couleur du Mac, donc – n’est pas juste un truc asbtrait. Quand on prend un peu de recul, on se rend compte qu’il est écrit Mac. Il faut parfois un peu de recul pour bien le distinguer, comme pour d’autres. Au...

Ce nombre est similaire à celui de la nuit de lundi à mardi, d’après les rapports de l’armée de l’air ukrainienne. Les défenses antiaériennes de Kiev ont neutralisé 128 de ces appareils, mais 15 drones d’attaque ont touché 12 sites, tandis que des débris d’engins interceptés sont tombés en trois endroits. La Russie, de son côté, dit avoir éliminé 85 drones ukrainiens lancés au cours de la nuit.

Depuis plus d'une décennie, la Hongrie est devenue l'un des principaux points de tension démocratique au sein de l'Union européenne. Si les débats se sont longtemps concentrés sur l'indépendance judiciaire et la liberté des médias, l'extension progressive des dispositifs de surveillance soulève aujourd'hui une question centrale. Comment protéger l'État de droit lorsque les technologies de contrôle se banalisent ? La situation hongroise révèle surtout une transformation plus inquiétante mais réelle des équilibres démocratiques au sein de l'Union européenne. Une démocratie électorale sous tension : le signal d'alerte « Pegasus »
La Hongrie demeure une démocratie électorale avec des...

Vous êtes en terminale ou en première spécialité histoire-géographie, géopolitique et sciences politiques (HGGSP) ? Chaque semaine, Benjamin Daubeuf, professeur agrégé d’histoire-géographie, vous conseille la lecture d’un article d’actualité qui résonne avec votre programme. Ce mercredi, il a choisi l’entretien accordé à “Die Zeit” par le sociologue allemand Herfried Münkler, autour de l’origine et de l’évolution des conflits armés.

Importés des Etats-Unis, ces « plans de performance » sont souvent utilisés pour constituer un dossier d’insuffisance professionnelle avant un licenciement ou pour pousser à la démission.

Téhéran a confirmé, mardi 17 mars au soir, la mort de son puissant chef de la sécurité, considéré comme l’un des dirigeants les plus influents de la République islamique. La disparition de cette figure pragmatique du régime éloigne la perspective d’une sortie négociée du conflit, note la presse internationale.

Some FDM filaments are pretty brittle even if properly dried and stored, especially those which contain carbon fiber (CF) or similar additives like glass fiber (GF). This poses a problem in that these filaments can snap even within the PTFE tube as they’re being guided towards the extruder. Here a community theory is that having an actively heated chamber can help prevent this scenario, but is it actually true? [Dr. Igor Gaspar] of the My Tech Fun YouTube channel gave this myth a try to either confirm or bust it. The comments suggested that heating the chamber to 65°C will help, but there’s little information online to support this theorem. To test the claim, a heated chamber was used along with a bending...

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Larijani has long been seen as one of the Islamic Republic's most experienced and influential policy makers.

Au premier tour, le candidat « insoumis » n’a pas réussi à mobiliser l’électorat qui l’a porté comme député des Bouches-du-Rhône en 2024.

Les yeux du monde entier sont rivés sur le détroit d’Ormuz, où la navigation des pétroliers est empêchée par la guerre au Moyen-Orient. La plateforme MarineTraffic, qui recense les déplacements des navires, est devenue une référence incontournable pour les experts, explique le quotidien d’Athènes “I Kathimerini”.

Comment les Russes vivent-ils aujourd’hui ? Quatre ans après le début de la guerre en Ukraine, c’est une plongée rare dans ce pays de plus en plus fermé que nous vous proposons dans notre nouveau hors série, en vente à partir du 18 mars. Politique, économie, société, culture : dans la Russie de Vladimir Poutine, la guerre laisse partout son empreinte. Un numéro presque entièrement réalisé à partir de sources russes, la plupart en exil, qui dresse un portrait réaliste de la société russe.

The state’s lieutenant governor has won the Democratic race to fill Dick Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat; Republicans elect Darren Bailey to challenge Governor J. B. Pritzker.

The prediction market is accused of misdemeanors related to illegal gambling.

National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent says Trump "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby".

Many substances display crystallization, allowing them to keep adding to a basic shape to reach pretty humongous proportions. Although we usually tend to think of pretty stones that get fashioned into jewelry or put up for display, sugar also crystallizes and thus you can create pretty large sugar crystals. How to do this is demonstrated by [Chase] of Crystalverse fame in a recent video.
This is effectively a follow-up to a 2022 blog article in which [Chase] showed a few ways to create pretty table sugar (sucrose) based crystals. In that article the growth of single sucrose crystals was attempted, but a few additional crystals got stuck to the main crystal so that it technically wasn’t a single crystal any...

Apple's smart home devices have not seen a major new release in some time, and reporting strongly suggests that's because of the company's struggles with Siri.

In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military.

Tehran residents tell the BBC they're caught between US-Israeli bombing and an Iranian regime trying to reassert its power.

It's all about cost.

J’ai actuellement la possibilité d’accueillir une nouvelle personne en analyse, soit en présentiel, soit à distance.
Depuis plusieurs années, j’ai pu vérifier que la psychanalyse en distanciel se déploie sans inconvénient : elle permet aussi d’instaurer ce « hors champ visuel » qui, depuis Freud, favorise la parole libre.
Pour comprendre plus en détail le cadre, l’esprit et les conditions de ma pratique, vous pouvez lire ce billet de présentation. Si vous souhaitez entrer en analyse avec moi, il vous suffit de me contacter par mail.

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 MB by the end–they never quite had universal appeal, but never really went away until flash memory chased them out of the marketplace in the early 2000s. While not everyone is going to miss them, some of us still think it’s a better form factor than having a USB stick awkwardly protruding from a computer, or microSD cards that are barely large enough to see with the naked eye. [Minh Danh] is one of those who still has affection for Zip drives, and when his parallel port Zip 100 drive started to give up the ghost last year,...

Code is law, some say. That doesn't mean normal laws do not apply.

Key Advisors CEO Eddie Ghabour on how AI sentiment is influencing the stock market

U.S. consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest point this year in early March as the Iran conflict and rising gas prices weighed on economic expectations

Investors pushed Meta stock up 3% after reports of 20% workforce cuts, seeing potential layoffs as a sign of leaner, AI-driven margins

It is day 13 of America's surprise war with Iran - by sheer coincidence, it's Friday the 13th - and I am delirious. I haven't had a coffee since I woke up at 5AM, because I'm not allowed to bring outside beverages into the Pentagon (the security screening cutoff was at 7AM for the 8AM), and ever since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth changed the rules last year, journalists are not allowed to go anywhere in the building without an escort, especially to wherever coffee is available. Also, I am struggling to comprehend why I, a reporter who has never covered a war, was assigned to sit in one of the good seats in the briefing room, watching Hegse …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Earlier this week, Apple unveiled the AirPods Max 2. The forthcoming over-ear headphones build on their predecessor with an H2 chip that powers a range of new features; however, they still don’t offer the sort of cross-OS compatibility you’ll get with a modern pair of Beats headphones — including the Beats Studio Pro, which are on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for an all-time low of around $169.95 ($180 off) in the run-up to Amazon’s annual Big Spring Sale.
Beats Studio Pro Where to Buy: $349.99 $169.95 at Amazon $349.99 $169.99 at Best Buy $349.99 $169.95 at Walmart
Although they’re undoubtedly getting a little long in the tooth — the Beats design hasn’t fundamentally changed since 2017...

Microdramas are the fastest-growing entertainment format in America, and they live on your phone — not Netflix, not network TV, but in your pocket.

“A start-up company wants to light up the night with 50,000 big mirrors orbiting Earth, bouncing sunlight to the night side of the planet to power solar farms after sunset, provide lighting for rescue workers and illuminate city streets, among other things… It is an idea seemingly out of a sci-fi movie, but the company, Reflect Orbital of Hawthorne, Calif., could soon receive permission to launch its first prototype satellite with a 60-foot-wide mirror. The company has applied to the Federal Communications Commission, which issues the licenses needed to deploy satellites. If the F.C.C. approves, the test satellite could get a ride into orbit as soon as this summer.” From New York Times.
The post Start-up...

“An educational programme for young girls in northern Nigeria that involved local religious leaders massively reduced the number of child marriages, a study reported in Nature today has found… In the first year of the programme, out-of-school girls were offered accelerated learning in reading, mathematics, life skills and business skills in ‘safe spaces’ dedicated to them. In the second year, the emphasis was on ensuring that the girls return to school. Parents were helped with the costs of school fees and uniforms, and girls continued to have access to tutoring and mentoring in the safe spaces, which were like after-school clubs. Those who did not return to school were offered vocational training...

Consumer Reports ranked the safest new cars of 2025 based on crash avoidance, occupant protection, and pedestrian safety — here are the top nine

“Satellites are giving scientists a powerful new way to watch over the world’s bridges. Using radar imaging, researchers can detect millimeter-scale movements that may signal early structural problems long before inspectors notice them. The study found many bridges—especially in North America—are aging and increasingly vulnerable, but satellite monitoring could sharply reduce the number classified as high-risk. The approach could be especially valuable in regions where traditional monitoring barely exists.” From ScienceDaily.
The post Satellites Are Identifying Weak Bridges Around the World appeared first on Human Progress.

Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding No Man’s Land, there was still active trade between the Soviet Union and the West. This included devices like the M4100/4 insulation tester that the [Three-phase] YouTube channel recently looked at, after previously poking at a 1967 USSR resistance bridge.
This particular unit dates to 1985, and comes in a rather nice-looking case that somewhat looks like bakelite. It’s rated for up to 1 gigaohm, putting out 1,000 V by using the crank handle. Because of the pristine condition of the entire unit, including seals, it was decided to not look at the internals but only test its...

FBC: Firebreak. | Image: Remedy Entertainment Remedy is winding down its team shooter FBC: Firebreak with a big update that launches today. But while the game won't be getting any new content going forward, the studio intends to keep it alive for the foreseeable future. It's yet another example of a live-service game struggling amidst a volatile market.
The new update is called "Open House," and it includes a handful of new areas pulled from Control (Firebreak is a spinoff that takes place in the Control universe), along with what Remedy describes as "gameplay improvements and balance changes aimed at making combat clearer, smoother, and more flexible." You can check out Steam for the …
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Starting Tuesday, Spotify users will have access to "Exclusive Mode," a new feature in the streaming service's Windows app that can help maximize audio quality by giving the Spotify app full control over your device's audio processing. According to Spotify, "your computer may alter audio before it reaches your DAC by resampling it, mixing other system sounds in, and changing the volume." Turning on Exclusive Mode prevents this, which Spotify says allows for "Bit Perfect playback." Exclusive Mode is currently only available to Spotify Premium users on Windows, but Spotify says it will also be coming to the Mac app "in a future release." To …
Read the full story at The Verge.

King Felipe appears to have helped thaw frosty relations with Mexico while reviving a fierce debate over events 500 years ago.

The exact number killed in Monday night's strike by Pakistan is still not known, but is feared to be in the hundreds.

Ikea’s new smart bulbs, sensors, and remotes use Matter-over-Thread to connect to any compatible ecosystem — including Apple Home and Amazon Alexa. In theory. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ikea's new Matter-over-Thread products were supposed to prove that the smart home could be cheap, accessible, and reliable. The highly anticipated line - which includes sensors, remotes, smart plugs, air-quality monitors, and smart bulbs - has most everything you need to build a smart home, with prices starting at $6. It's an exciting idea, but it's still not ready for primetime.
When I first got the Ikea devices in January, I had a lot of problems connecting them to my main platform, Apple Home. And it...

The post-and-beam residence was recently updated with solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling, and a pair of backup batteries.Location: 23 Crossbar Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Price: $1,999,000 Year Built: 1963 Architect: Harry Wenning Renovation Date: 2025 Renovation Architect: Gabriel Köche Cé Footprint: 3,122 square feet (5 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 0.26 Acres From the Agent: "Welcome to this exceptional 1963 midcentury-modern residence by Harry Wenning, fully renovated for contemporary living. The home offers five bedrooms and three bathrooms and stands as a rare example of near off-grid, climate-resilient living in Westchester County. Upstairs are three bedrooms and two baths, including a...

Summary: There is a common fear that intelligent machines will inevitably develop a drive for self-preservation and resist being turned off. This “instrumental convergence” thesis over-analogizes AI with biologically evolved organisms. Unlike biological life, properly designed AI systems have goals that are conditional and externally controlled, and therefore they need not develop autonomous ambitions for dominance or survival. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spacecraft’s crew decides to disconnect their onboard computer, HAL 9000, after it makes an error that raises doubts about its reliability. But HAL eavesdrops on their conversation and responds with cold precision, methodically killing the crew...

Proton vient de lancer Born Private, un programme qui permet aux parents de réserver une adresse mail chiffrée pour leur enfant dès la naissance. L'adresse reste verrouillée pendant 15 ans maximum, le temps que l'enfant soit en âge de s'en servir, sans aucune collecte de données entre-temps. Le tout pour un dollar symbolique, intégralement reversé à la Proton Foundation.
Un email chiffré dès la naissance
Les parents
choisissent ici
une adresse @proton.me pour leur enfant, versent un dollar minimum, et l'adresse est verrouillée pendant 15 ans. Pas de boîte de réception active, pas de collecte de données, pas de profilage publicitaire.
L'enfant n'existe tout simplement pas dans le système. Le...

Google durcit le ton avec Android 17. La prochaine version de l'OS mobile va empêcher les applications non certifiées d'accéder aux services d'accessibilité, une API très puissante et régulièrement détournée par les malwares pour espionner les utilisateurs et vider des comptes bancaires.
Ce qui change avec Android 17
La nouveauté est apparue dans la Beta 2 d'Android 17, repérée la semaine dernière. Quand le mode Advanced Protection est activé, le système bloque automatiquement l'accès à l'API AccessibilityService pour toutes les apps qui ne sont pas de vrais outils d'accessibilité.
Seules les applications qui portent le marqueur technique isAccessibilityTool restent autorisées : lecteurs...

Vous avez des vieilles caméras de surveillance chinoises qui prennent la poussière parce qu'il vous est impossible de trouver leur flux vidéo ? Y'a pas de RTSP, y'a pas de doc, y'a juste un pauvre port 80 ouvert et une app Android en Mandarin qui est périmée depuis 2021 ?
JE VIENS VOUS SAUVER LES ZAMIS ! Hé oui, grace à
Strix
qui est capable de tester 102 787 patterns d'URL en 30 secondes et qui vous sort miraculeusement le bon flux vidéo qui marche, avec la config
Frigate
prête à être collée.
En fait, le principe est simple. Vous lancez un conteneur Docker, vous entrez l'IP de votre caméra et l'outil bombarde en parallèle toutes les URL connues pour ce type de matos. RTSP sur le port 554, MJPEG...

"I briefly considered a fog machine," says one of the owners, who wanted to bring home the feeling of Berghain.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: Berlin, Germany Architect: Studio Karhard / @ Footprint: 1,022 square feet Builder: PlanB Works Sound Engineer: H.A.N.D. Hifi Light Programming: Room Division Smart Home: m.integration Photographer: Robert Rieger / @robertrieger From the Architect: "Twenty years ago, the German architecture firm studio Karhard designed one of Berlin’s most famous clubs—Berghain. That project inspired a German-American...

Vous connaissez cette sensation bizarre quand un personnage de jeu vidéo est presque réaliste, mais que quelque chose cloche ? Les yeux morts, la peau en plastique, le sourire figé comme un masque en silicone... Hé bien ce phénomène, c'est ce qu'on appelle l'uncanny valley (la vallée de l'étrange), et Nvidia vient d'annoncer à la GTC 2026 que c'était bientôt terminé grâce à DLSS 5. Jack Lang, prends garde !!
Leur concept s'appelle "rendu neuronal" et en gros, ça fusionne l'IA générative avec le moteur 3D classique. En fait, le processeur graphique analyse chaque image de votre écran 4K et comprend ce que sont la peau, les cheveux, les vêtements, puis recalcule l'éclairage et les ombres pour...

France • August 2018 📷 #flashes

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.