The legal manoeuvre comes as Trump sues a newspaper that wrote about his past connections to Epstein.

Cette annonce de Tom Barrack, vendredi sur le réseau social X, survient deux jours après les frappes israéliennes ayant visé Damas.

Happy Friday. I'm back from vacation and still getting caught up on everything I missed. AI researchers moving jobs is getting covered like NBA trades now, apparently. Before I get into this week's issue, I want to make sure you check out my interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Decoder this week. It's a good deep dive on the main topic of today's newsletter. Keep reading for a scoop on Substack and more from this week in AI news. From chatbots to browsers
So far, when most people think of the modern AI boom, they think of a chatbot like ChatGPT. Now, it's becoming increasingly clear that the web browser is where the next p …
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Today in the submersibles department our hacker [Rupin Chheda] wrote in to tell us about their submarine project.
This sub is made from a few lengths of PVC piping of various diameters. There is an inflation system comprised of a solenoid and a pump, and a deflation system, also comprised of a solenoid and a pump. The inflation and deflation systems are used to flood or evacuate the ballast which controls depth. There are three pumps for propulsion and steering, one central pump for propulsion and two side pumps for directional control, allowing for steering through differential thrust. Power and control is external and provided via CAT6 cable. We have covered various submarine projects here at Hackaday before...

The third part in the 'Spider-Verse' trilogy has shifted back three weeks, to June 25, 2027.

Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture !
Je me souviens très bien, la première fois que j’ai entendu parler de Phil Zimmermann… C’était à la fin des années 90 quand pour la première fois, j’ai installé PGP sur mon ordinateur en me disant “Trop cool, on peut chiffrer en 4096 bits, c’est dingue (en plus d’être interdit à l’époque) !”.
Philip R. Zimmermann est né le 12 février 1954 à Camden dans le New Jersey aux Etats-Unis et il est surtout connu de tous les techos que nous sommes pour avoir marqué l’histoire de l’informatique grâce à son invention : PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).

From Hollywood to the Hasty Pudding, we waft like smoke from an unfiltered Pall Mall through Carson’s worlds, most of which are gone.

Big screen footage of the two people went viral after reports they were colleagues and at least one was married to another person.

With test flights in Dubai and U.S. production scaling up, Joby is turning a sci-fi fantasy into a high-speed reality.

After the year of self-induced tumult that Sonos has been through, I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But interim CEO Tom Conrad has shown that he’s determined to get back on track and revitalize Sonos as the leading whole-home audio brand. The contentious mobile app is in a much better place today than just a few months ago, though some customers still encounter bugs and the frustration of speakers randomly vanishing from their system. It’s not all roses, but the situation is moving in the right direction — and I took Sonos’ decision to cancel its video player as a promising sign of renewed focus.  I’m not about to sell any of my Sonos gear....

Le président américain riposte en justice après la publication par le quotidien d’un article lui attribuant l’écriture d’une lettre salace adressée au financier en 2003, ce qu’il nie.

In a lawsuit filed against prominent leaker Jon Prosser, Apple alleges a conspiracy to break into a development device and steal its trade secrets. Prosser insists Apple has it all wrong.

The Oscar winner just signed on to a new 'Judge Dredd' movie—but what about all those other previously announced movies and TV shows?

The company notified users of the shutdown today.

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras, but their soft images and imperfections are often a big part of the allure. Yet not all instant cameras are the same, and some of them are better suited for different needs and budgets. That’s why we tested some of the most popular instant cameras on the market from brands like Fujifilm, Polaroid, Leica, Canon, and...

The Superman director talked about the iconic DC character and confirmed the movie is a priority.

The Twelve South Butterfly SE conveniently folds down, making it easy to throw in a bag. | Image: Twelve South Keeping multiple devices charged while traveling usually means packing several wall warts and cables. Thanks to the clever design of the Twelve South Butterfly SE 2-in-1 Qi2 Charger, however, you can power two devices with a single, compact accessory. Best of all, the foldable charger is now on sale at Amazon and Best Buy starting at $40.99 ($59 off), which is the lowest price we’ve seen.
Twelve South Butterfly SE 2-in-1 Qi2 Charger Where to Buy: $99.99 $40.99 at Amazon $99.99 $40.99 at Best Buy
The Butterfly SE features two soft-touch charging discs, one that delivers up to 15W for your phone and...

Only July 17, Congress voted to rescind federal funding for public broadcasting. The bill is now headed to the President’s desk and will be signed into law very soon. After that, federal funding for KCRW and the entire network will disappear on October 1. We are devastated. But we will not be deterred. This moment cannot be the end of the fight for independent public media.

A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

As the company posted strong second quarter earnings, some analysts warn that Netflix's growth is increasingly dependent on higher prices and ad revenue

The Federal Reserve chair sent a letter to the White House meant to counter a litany of attacks on the central bank's costly renovation project

States are pushing back after the spectacular collapse of two large PE-owned healthcare systems that left communities and patients without access to care

The record-breaking moment comes on the heels of a strong altcoin rally and a wave of regulatory momentum out of Washington

In a landmark victory for the crypto industry, President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, establishing a regulatory framework for a type of digital currency known as stablecoins. The GENIUS Act creates rules for entities that issue stablecoins, whose value is tied to an asset like the US dollar. Those rules govern who’s allowed to issue stablecoins, how they need to maintain reserves, what happens in the case of bankruptcy, and an obligation to prevent money laundering.  Trump congratulated members of the crypto industry who attended the signing ceremony at the White House, including the CEOs of Coinbase and Tether. He drew a stark contrast between the Biden administration, which he called “a...

When asked ‘what makes you tick?’ the engineers at Vacheron Constantin sure know what to answer – and fast, too. Less than a year after last year’s horological kettlebell, the 960g Berkley Grand Complication, a new invention had to be worked out. And so, they delivered. Vacheron Constantin’s Solaria Ultra Grand Complication is more than just the world’s most complicated wristwatch. It’s a fine bit of precision engineering, packed with 41 complications, 13 pending patents, and a real-time star tracker the size of a 2-Euro coin.
Yes, there’s a Westminster chime and a tourbillon, but the real novelty is a dual-sapphire sky chart that lets you track constellations using a split-second chronograph....

Federal agents are investigating, but authorities describe it as "an isolated incident" with no further threat to the public.

“I think the Supreme Court, in particular, has proven that it is really fine with a lot of what the Administration is doing, and that they are basically willing to bend over backwards and ignore their own rules and procedures to allow the Administration to do what it wants,” Litman says.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Today, I have with me Don Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University. He has a new book out, co-authored with the former senator from Texas, Phil Gramm, called The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism. It’s a fantastic read, full of information and killer arguments. We’re going to discuss that book today. But first, Don, why is the study of economic history important? What we think we know about the past determines how we assess the present. For example, if we think that in the past, a certain monetary policy did this or did that, that’s going to affect how we think monetary policy...

The post Donald Boudreaux: The False History of American Capitalism appeared first on Human Progress.

“Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co. will begin studying plans for a nuclear power reactor, the first step toward constructing a new one since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, Nikkei reported. The regional utility, which currently operates seven reactors in western Japan, will start geological surveys at its Mihama Nuclear Power Plant, Nikkei reported without citing where it got the information. Kansai Electric will announce plans to resume studying new reactor builds in the coming days, the report said, after such surveys had been suspended since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.” From Bloomberg.
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Bluefin Tuna. For years we were told to "just say no." But Bluefin fishing season recently opened in Southern California and Conner Mitchell says now is the time to say "yes." Conner is the owner and operator of Dudley Market in Venice. He's also a fisherman, and these days, he supplies many of LA's top restaurants with the bluefin he catches off the Southern California coast. He's here to help us navigate when it's ok to say "yes" to these kings of the sea, and when we should be skeptical. In addition to Dudley Market, here are restaurants where you can find the bluefin tuna that Conner is fishing: Yess Tomat RVR Found Oyster Queen's Raw Bar & Grill Little Fish Evan Kleiman: It's a pleasure to have you. And...

For this week's Market Report, Gillian Ferguson went to Marshall, California in Marin County to talk to Vivian Straus, to discuss the history of farming and ranching in this region. For anyone who's been to the Tomales Bay area, you know this is a bucolic part of Northern California where cows graze on the hillsides and oysters grow in the bay. Her father, Bill Straus, began his dairy farm in the early 1940s in Marshall. Her mother, Ellen, joined him in 1950. Later, Vivan's brother Albert started Straus Family Creamery , where she served as the marketing/sales director for 11 years. She also worked for several years at Cowgirl Creamery . These days, Vivan and others are working to preserve the region's...

An east coaster by birth, Scott Clark migrated to California. After experiencing the pressure cooker of working in Michelin-starred restaurants, he now cooks at Dad's Luncheonette , a diner located in a train caboose on the side of Highway 1 in Half Moon Bay. "People who visit California miss the Central Coast entirely when they're speeding down I-5 hustling between San Francisco and LA," he writes in his first cookbook, Coastal: 130 Recipes from a California Road Trip . It's more than a cookbook, it's a love letter to the Golden State. At Dad's Luncheonette in Half Moon Bay, chef Scott Clark cooks out of a refurbished train car. Photo courtesy of Chronicle Books. "But it's a horn of plenty. You leave Devil's...

Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Bill Addison has spent a good chunk of the year driving around the Golden State to determine the 101 Best Restaurants in California . "I did not rank these restaurants," Bill writes. "This isn't about numerals or symbol ratings. It's one glimpse into our cultures and diversities — into cuisines that uphold traditions, or disrupt with originality, or inhabit some fruitful middle ground." He had a lot of finds in and around Sacramento "because the city's restaurant scene feels perpetually underrepresented in the broader conversation about California." They include Restaurant Josephine , Jim-Denny's , and Magpie Cafe . Bombera in Oakland also made the cut for the California...

“Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, in a move the streaming company’s boss said would make films and programmes cheaper and of better quality. Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The Eternaut) was the first it had made that involved using generative AI footage… He said the series, which follows survivors of a rapid and devastating toxic snowfall, involved Netflix and visual effects (VFX) artists using AI to show a building collapsing in Buenos Aires. ‘Using AI-powered tools, they were able to achieve an amazing result with remarkable speed and, in fact, that VFX sequence was completed...

“Baidu has struck a partnership with Uber to deploy its autonomous cars on the ride-hailing giant’s platform outside the U.S. and mainland China. The first deployments are expected to happen in Asia and the Middle East later this year. The two companies said the multi-year partnership will see ‘thousands’ of Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles on Uber globally. Baidu shares jumped 4.5% in premarket trade in the U.S. following the news, while Uber stock was more than 1% higher. For Baidu, the move will help to internationalize its driverless car business outside of China. Uber will meanwhile gain a proven partner to take on autonomous driving rivals around the world.” From CNBC.
The post China’s...

The journalist talks about his interviews with the infamous abuser, and the political fallout from the White House’s attempt to close his case.

Alors que Donald Trump parle d’augmenter encore les droits de douane, les conflits avec Pékin se multiplient. Le commissaire Maros Sefcovic est rentré de Washington vendredi 18 juillet, sans faire état de progrès notables dans les négociations. Les Européens n’attendent pas grand-chose du sommet UE-Chine, prévu jeudi 24 juillet.

Arrêté le 15 juin aux Emirats arabes unis, il était recherché par la justice française dans un dossier de corruption en lien avec Interpol, l’agence de coopération policière sise à Lyon, dont il est un ancien haut cadre dirigeant.

Ari Aster’s neo-noir Western involves a gun-toting sheriff, COVID, the George Floyd protests, and a mysterious A.I. data center. The writer-director talks with Adam Howard.

Le groupe originaire de Bristol, imité par quelques grands noms de la musique, a appelé jeudi 17 juillet à la création d’un collectif pour défendre la liberté d’expression des artistes sur la guerre à Gaza. Il dénonce notamment la pression exercée par certains groupes pro-Israël sur les musiciens prenant fait et cause pour les Palestiniens.

Bon, je suis tombé sur un truc rigolo qui va vous faire reconsidérer la sécurité des robots modernes. Vous vous souvenez de cette vidéo virale de juillet 2022 où on voyait un robot chien Unitree avec une mitraillette montée dessus ? Bah figurez-vous qu’un hacker nommé d0tslash a prouvé qu’on pouvait mettre KO ce genre de bestiole avec un simple Flipper Zero à 169 balles. Il suffit littéralement d’appuyer sur un bouton et le robot s’effondre comme une marionnette dont on aurait coupé les fils. Pas de piratage complexe, pas de lignes de code interminables, juste un signal radio sur la fréquence 433 MHz et pouf, le chien robot fait dodo.

J’sais pas si vous avez vu, mais Google vient de dévoiler quelque chose d’absolument incroyable. Votre smartphone Android, celui-là même qui traîne dans votre poche, fait partie depuis 2021 d’un réseau mondial de détection de séismes. Et le plus fou, c’est que ça marche vraiment bien !
D’après une étude publiée dans la revue Science aujourd’hui, Google a réussi à transformer plus de 2 milliards de téléphones Android en mini-sismomètres. Entre 2021 et 2024, ce système a ainsi détecté plus de 11 000 tremblements de terre et envoyé des alertes à des millions de personnes dans 98 pays. Pas mal pour des téléphones qui n’étaient pas du tout conçus pour ça, non ?

Le parquet de Paris a ouvert, en juillet 2024, une enquête préliminaire pour travail dissimulé et blanchiment de fraude fiscale. Au cœur du dossier, des « dons » de l’attaquant français à plusieurs policiers, dont le commandant S., surnommé « Momo », cheville ouvrière de la sécurité des Bleus depuis vingt ans.

Alors ça c’est pas cool ! Un YouTuber italien risque jusqu’à 3 ans de taule pour avoir fait… des vidéos de test de consoles retro gaming. Non, non, pas pour avoir vendu des ROMs piratées, pas pour avoir cracké des jeux… Juste pour avoir fait des reviews YouTube.
Francesco Salicini, qui tient la chaîne “Once Were Nerd” avec ses +50 000 abonnés, s’est fait perquisitionner le 15 avril dernier par l’unité des crimes économiques et financiers de la police italienne. Les flics ont débarqué chez lui et ont embarqué 30 consoles portables, des TrimUI, des Powkiddy et surtout des Anbernic et ils ont même confisqué son téléphone perso, qu’il n’a récupéré qu’en juin.

Si le feu a pu être maîtrisé vendredi soir après vingt-quatre heures de combat, 300 pompiers resteront à l’œuvre dans la nuit pour noyer les dernières braises.

[Robert Morrison] had an ancient HP 545A logic probe, which was great for debugging SMT projects. The only problem was that being 45 years old, it wasn’t quite up to scratch when it came to debugging today’s faster circuitry. Thus, he hacked it to do better, and entered it in our 2025 One Hertz Challenge to boot!
[Robert’s] hack relied on the classic logic probe for its stout build and form factor, which is still useful even on today’s smaller hardware. Where it was lacking was in dealing with circuits running at 100 MHz and above. To rectify this, [Robert] gave the probe a brain transplant with a Sparkfun Alorium FPGA board and a small display. The FPGA is programmed to count pulses while measuring...

Conçue comme un récit choral, “Furia” fait le portrait croisé de femmes qui ont toutes les raisons de succomber à des accès de furie. La série espagnole, sortie sur HBO Max le 11 juillet, mêle l’humour et la tension, le réalisme et l’absurde, au plus grand plaisir de “La Vanguardia”, qui y voit la meilleure production ibérique de l’année.

Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they talk about their favorite hacks and stories from the previous week. They’ll start things off with a small Supercon update, and go right into fusion reactors, AI surgeons, planned obsolescence, and robotic cats and dogs. They’ll also go over several entries from the ongoing 2025 One Hertz Challenge, an ambitious flight simulator restoration project, old school lightning detectors, and how Blu-ray won the battle against HD DVD but lost the war against streaming. Stick around to the end to hear an incredible story about a clandestine machine shop in a WWII prisoner of war camp, and the valiant fight to restore communications with the Lunar...

A court in Brazil also bars the ex-president from using social media and put him under 24-hour surveillance.

Le gouvernement burkinabè a annoncé, le 16 juillet, la révocation de la Commission électorale nationale indépendante (Céni). Pour les observateurs, cette mesure, jugée liberticide, n’est pas étonnante : depuis sa prise de pouvoir, en 2022, la junte a considérablement restreint les libertés fondamentales.

The rise of inexpensive yet relatively powerful electronics has enabled a huge array of computing options that would have been unheard of even two decades ago. A handheld gaming PC with hours of battery life, for example, would have been impossible or extremely expensive until recently. But this revolution has also enabled a swath of inexpensive but low-quality knockoff consoles, often running unlicensed games, that might not even reach the low bar of quality set by their sellers. [Jorisclayton] was able to modify one of these to live up to its original promises.
This Ultimate Brick Game, as it is called, originally didn’t even boast the number of games, unlicensed or otherwise, that it claimed to....

A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus.

Alors que le gouvernement israélien cherche à maintenir le nouveau pouvoir syrien dans un état de faiblesse et à empêcher le déploiement de ses forces à sa frontière, le président américain Donald Trump – qui a rencontré Ahmed El-Charaa en mai dernier et levé les sanctions contre la Syrie – mise sur un pouvoir syrien fort et la signature d’un accord de normalisation entre Damas et Tel-Aviv, explique “L’Orient-Le Jour”.

Le terme “Yookay” désigne, aux yeux de ses tenants, un pays enlaidi par le multiculturalisme et baignant dans une stagnation délétère. Issu des réseaux sociaux, le concept s’impose peu à peu dans la presse, au grand dam de son bord gauche, qui y voit le signe de la nette radicalisation des conservateurs.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Gither ward • Kenya • May 2011 📷 #flashes

This flashy indoor hydroponic garden is a great way to grow your own greens. Just watch out for bugs.

I tested the robot vacuum with the retractable arm, which got a lot of attention at CES. It still has a long way to go.

One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".