Words with no English equivalent, from Finnish sisu to Welsh hiraeth, show how 15 cultures name feelings English never bothered to

These 10 best abs exercises build real core strength, targeting obliques, deep stabilizers and the rectus abdominis beyond basic sit-ups

10 wrongful convictions in American history, from false confessions to mistaken eyewitnesses, and the evidence that finally freed each man

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest models coming out of China, impressive as they were, appeared to be playing catch-up.
Then, in the space of a few days, everything changed. Google and Meta both unveiled frontier models they claim can go toe to toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic. Suddenly, the race is back on - and it's anyo …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Starring Hollywood actors Jonathan Bailey, Ella Purnell, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the Audible Original transforms the classic gothic tale into an intimate, ASMR-style theatrical performance.

Hypoallergenic dog breeds won't end your allergies, but these 15 light-shedding coats make living with a dog far more manageable

The best video game releases of fall 2026 range from GTA VI to a remade Ocarina of Time — here's what's actually behind the hype

Le collégien de 14 ans qui a tiré, lundi, sur le principal et une enseignante de son établissement a été mis en examen, mercredi, pour des faits de nature terroriste. Depuis 2008, neuf attaques commises en milieu scolaire en France pourraient être liées à cette communauté en ligne, selon le chercheur Alexandre Rodde.

New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding.
James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who filed a notice of interest in Character.AI's bankruptcy case "to put all parties on notice of the regulatory issues that will need to be addressed in any sale or transfer of the Debtor's business or assets." Character.AI announced Tuesday it was filing for Chapter 11 and selling some assets to Disney. But the AGs warn there could be serious risk involved in the transfer of the technology due to the "hi …
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A guy allegedly looking to steal someone else's idea looked up to Musk. Interesting.

The new Apple TV 4K and remote look just like the old ones and mostly have the same features. It's been four long years since the last Apple TV 4K was released, and in that time there have been lots of hopes and dreams for features in whatever comes next. A new chip, 4K/120Hz support, audio passthrough, a remote locator, better home control integration - the 2022 Apple TV 4K is a great box, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. With the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K announced on Tuesday, some of those hopes were met, while others were unfortunately left out.
Coloring the announcement is the device's price. Apple eliminated the cheaper 64GB, Wi-Fi-only model, leaving just the 128GB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet...

YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it includes things like "using a generative model to create the composition and vocals." In its rules for music partners who upload their songs, YouTube lays out how to disclose generative AI use, and says that if there's no disclosure, it may use "other signals" to decide if a song is AI-generated.
The label is rolling out starting today in the YouTub …
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While we cover a lot of deals on specific products, it’s rare that we find worthwhile savings on gift cards that let you save on essentially anything the store sells. However, until October 19th, you can save up to twenty percent on gift cards when you buy them through the Google Play store. There are a variety of discounts and retailers available, including 20 percent off $50 at Barnes and Noble, 20 percent off $100 at REI, and 10 percent off $100 at GameStop. You don’t need an Android phone or tablet to save, but you’ll need to sign up for a Google Play account if you don’t have one already. In addition to the gift cards, Google is offering discounts on subscriptions like Calm and DuoLingo, as well...

“Officials at Bangladesh’s Rooppur plant say a single working reactor could save the country about $1 billion a year in fuel imports. That plan took its biggest step yet on Sunday, when the plant’s first unit achieved criticality at 15:34, sustaining a nuclear chain reaction for the first time in Bangladesh’s history. Criticality does not yet mean electricity. The reactor now runs at minimum controlled power while engineers confirm its stability and run tests in sequence. Output will then rise in stages. Rosatom has scheduled the power start-up for November 20, and officials aim to begin feeding the national grid in late November. Commissioning follows International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines....

AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.

“Nepal has more than halved its multidimensional poverty over the past decade, with the proportion of people experiencing overlapping deprivations in health, education and living standards falling to 13.9% in 2024/25 from 30.1% in 2014, according to the latest Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2026: Statistical Update identifies Nepal as one of 33 countries that have reduced their MPI values by at least half in fewer than 15 years, marking significant progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nepal’s MPI value...

However, he has zero regrets about turning down the chance to direct a 'Star Wars' movie.

The FBI says American facilitators helped North Korean workers obtain remote jobs under false identities, generating millions for Pyongyang.

Dans un entretien avec le journaliste britannique Piers Morgan, le président ukrainien a également dénoncé les nouvelles restrictions imposées au réseau Starlink, qui perturbent les opérations de drones ukrainiens.

A new model suggests the Thwaites Glacier could contribute twice as much sea-level rise.

“Frontier models excel at many digital benchmarks, yet their ability to drive a real car, an everyday human skill, remains largely untested. We present DrivingBench, to our knowledge the first benchmark where general-purpose vision-language models must drive a real car. Through three tools, the models see camera frames from a Toyota Corolla and directly command its steering and velocity around a parking lot cone course at low speeds. The car may continue moving while the model thinks and new commands replace the currently running one, so inference latency is part of the task, testing the models' abilities to observe, act, monitor, recover, and complete a long-horizon objective under such constraints. We...

“Onchocerciasis is caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus and transmitted through the bites of blackflies (Simulium spp.). Adult worms live in subcutaneous nodules, where the females release millions of microfilariae (first-stage larvae, L1) that migrate through the skin and eyes, causing intense itching, disfiguring skin disease and, after prolonged exposure, visual impairment and irreversible blindness. Early exposure to infection in childhood has also been associated with onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy… In 2025, 255.7 million people required PC for onchocerciasis, of whom 180.3 million were treated, representing 70.5% global coverage, the highest number of people ever treated for...

“NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has driven farther than any vehicle ever has on the surface of another world. On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) set by NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of its mission, covering in five and a half years a distance that took Opportunity almost 15… Much of the credit belongs to Perseverance’s self-driving capability. Using an autonomous navigation system known as AutoNav, the rover images the terrain while rolling, builds a 3D map of hazards, and plots its course between waypoints...

À Nemours, en Seine-et-Marne, un collège a récemment interdit aux élèves de porter des maillots de football. Une façon d’éviter les bagarres qui avaient éclaté entre jeunes supporteurs récemment. Voilà une décision qui ne convainc pas “La Gazzetta dello Sport”, principal quotidien sportif transalpin.

Le ministre de l’éducation nationale a annoncé, mercredi 14 octobre au Sénat, que les deux tiers des remplaçants disponibles avaient été affectés. Mais de nombreuses questions demeurent, notamment sur l’adéquation entre discipline enseignée et remplacement et sur le nombre exact de postes vacants.

Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there.
Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered, thanks to moving to a bigger venue and to our awesome community of hackers stepping up to give them. There’s something here for everyone, so if anything strikes your fancy, be sure to book yourself a slot soon. Workshops always fill up fast, due to the small and hands-on nature of the beast. If you’ve never been to Supercon, the short version of the story is that it’s three days of hacking, hanging out, food, drink, merriment, and great talks all rolled into one long weekend. Fridays are chilled out, and simply a great time...

Le Parlement régional de Saxe-Anhalt a adopté, mercredi 14 octobre, sous l’impulsion des partis populistes AfD et BSW, un texte visant à mettre fin au soutien de l’Allemagne à l’Ukraine. Pour la presse d’outre-Rhin, la mesure ne devrait pas infléchir la politique étrangère du gouvernement fédéral, mais elle montre à quel point les discours prorusses gagnent du terrain.

En 2021, le territoire autonome danois a décidé d’interdire la production d’hydrocarbures. L’entreprise américaine Greenland Energy espère prendre le contrôle des trois licences d’exploration et d’exploitation encore actives.

Rendez-vous à 15h à Pléguien -
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Rendez-vous à 10h30 boulevard de la Résistance ! -
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Mercredi 14 octobre, un conseiller technologique de Volodymyr Zelensky a annoncé qu’une limitation de vitesse a été introduite cette nuit sur certains terminaux Starlink en mouvement, entravant des missions militaires ukrainiennes. Le signe qu’Elon Musk, propriétaire de ce réseau satellitaire, est en train, lui aussi, de lâcher le président ukrainien ?

Des conseillers de Donald Trump rémunérés par le camp de la figure sécessionniste Milorad Dodik, des millions de dollars dépensés en lobbying et un grand projet gazier convoité par une entreprise américaine. Les révélations de la presse mettent en question les liens entre Washington et le dirigeant prorusse de la Republika Srpska.

Retourné vivre avec sa famille dans le kibboutz de Nahal Oz, près de Gaza, trois ans après le 7 Octobre, le journaliste israélien Amir Tibon s’est confié au magazine américain “The Atlantic”. Il dit songer sérieusement à quitter Israël si le camp du Premier ministre Benyamin Nétanyahou remporte les élections législatives du 27 octobre.

Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more desirable for certain purposes like side-stick flight simulators, because they measure the force applied instead, as per the name. They can be expensive to buy off-the-shelf, but you can build a cheap set on your own if you know what you’re doing, as [tekasza] demonstrates.
The build that [tekasza] put together is based around the Teensy 4.0 microcontroller. It’s set up to read a series of load cells that determine the force applied to the stick in the X and Y axes. The cells are wired up to HX711 load cell...

The pace of price rises increased to 3.7% in the year to September, driving by higher motor fuel costs.

The 71-year-old Pope was diagnosed with lung cancer after the 90-minute procedure on Tuesday.

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

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

If you already know what a nonius is, you can probably skip this post. But, if like us, you would have to look it up, we’ll tell you what we found out. It turns out, a translation mistake taught us a new word and some history we weren’t aware of.
In the manual, this is captioned: Figure 4-7 Nonius Display (Standard Mode)
Have a look at the adjacent graphic from a waveform display. What would you call the vertical red lines at positions 139 and 200?
We’d probably call them markers. Or maybe cursors. The manual, however, calls each one a “nonius”. It refers to them that way multiple times.
Oddly, the manual also has sentences like “Select one nonius and right-click, and then select ‘Remove...

Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.

Four years after the attacks, Serhii Kuznetsov appears in court accused of a plot to destroy Russia's gas pipelines to Germany.

All of the spots are in South Australia, reportedly because the state government paid for incognito inspectors to visit.

Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen Dune: Part Three and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.”

Elon Musk's system allows Kyiv to protect Ukrainian skies and effectively guide drones to Russian targets.

The Form Studio 1 is a $699 desktop-sized printer that fits on a desk and only stinks a little bit.

Le Futur Festival, organisé par Usbek & Rica, revient pour une nouvelle édition, les 27 et 28 novembre prochains au Théâtre de la Concorde, à Paris. Deux jours de débats, de rencontres et d’expériences pour répondre à la question suivante « Où est passé le fun ? ».

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les « nudges », ces petits coups de pouce qui modifient notre environnement pour orienter nos comportements, se sont imposés comme un outil phare des politiques publiques. De la mouche dans l’urinoir aux escaliers colorés à proximité des escalators, vous en avez forcément croisé.

Last year, Anna’s Archive warned its users about WeLib, a “new entrant” in the shadow library ecosystem.
The site appeared to have mirrored most of Anna’s collection and used a fork of its codebase. Since WeLib wasn’t sharing new collections or code improvements in return, Anna’s Archive cautioned prospective users. “We recommend not using them,” the team wrote at the time.
In June, major book publishers came to a similar conclusion, but for different reasons. They filed a lawsuit against WeLib in New York federal court, alleging that the site “was created after its operators copied the source code and most of the contents of” Anna’s Archive.
WeLib
Despite these and other copyright...

The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you. Sometimes a page catches the eye that’s not a Hackaday piece per se, but makes for interesting reading. Today there was an example which provides a catalyst for a story if not being one itself.
It’s an AI skill intended to make a slop-writing operation look less sloppy, and since it contains a list of slop behaviours, of course it’s irresistible to turn it on yourself. To delve into the archives, if you will. So here goes, how slop-like is your scribe?
It kicks off with the old favourite, “Delve“. Oh dear, that one’s in the List Hackaday corpus quite a bit. Earliest...

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

The experts recommend favorite titles for kids and their grownups.

Si vous avez lu mon article sur QBZ , le client Qobuz open source qui permettait d'écouter sa musique en "bit-perfect" sous Linux, hé bien oubliez-le. En effet, Qobuz a demandé à son développeur d'arrêter le projet, et ce dernier n'a pas eu d'autre choix que d'obéir. Bref, le dépôt est fermé et il n'y aura plus de mise à jour.
C'est sacrément dommage je trouve...
Après la raison, comme expliquée ici par le support de Qobuz, c'est que cette application plaçait Qobuz en position "non conforme" vis-à-vis des ayants droit notamment parce que les lectures ne sont pas comptabilisées côté Qobuz, ce qui laisserait les artistes sans rémunération.
Perso, j'aime bien Qobuz et je trouve qu'ils font du...

Les émissions de CO2 indiennes et chinoises plafonnent depuis deux ans. Une première et une bonne nouvelle au moment où l’Europe ralentit son effort et l’Amérique fait volte-face. Mais les incertitudes sont nombreuses pour les dix ans à venir, et le monde reste tributaire de ce que l’Asie, qui représente 54% des émissions mondiales de GES, sera capable de faire.

For decades, the novelist has dismantled the tropes of realist fiction, writing about mysterious individuals trapped in byzantine systems. In “The Rhyl Poster,” that approach may have reached its limit.

Dexter Filkins on Pete Hegseth’s planned public execution of Nidal Hasan and his memory of a public execution by the Taliban in Kabul.

REA , pour "Reverse Engineer Anything", c'est un serveur MCP qui buzze ces derniers jours et qui permet de connecter votre agent IA (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor...) sur Ghidra, Hopper ou IDA, et sur des analyseurs pour les applis Electron, .NET ou les sites web.
Vous repérez ainsi une fonction qui vous plaît dans une appli, puis l'agent la décortique sans le code source et vous en code une version toute fraiche... Tiens ça me rappelle quelque chose... Comme je voulais voir ce que ça donnait, je me suis donc monté un petit banc d'essai à l'arrache sur mon ordi avec Claude Code en Opus 5.5, REA 6.4.0 comme seul serveur MCP et Ghidra comme moteur.
Mes tests se découpent donc en 4 exercices : un keygen, un...

Your CAD software generally has some rudimentary tools for rending images of your parts, from simply-textured models to more photo-realistic options. However, those renders are of the geometry you created—not how that geometry would look after it was sent to a 3D printer. Extrudio is a tool that aims to create more realistic renders for 3D printed parts.
Rather than rendering from the geometry of your model, such as by using an STL file, Extrudio uses G-Code instead. It creates its render based on the instructions your 3D printer uses to produce your part, sweeping a virtual bead of plastic along the toolpaths in the code. In doing so, it can realistically display layer lines in a 3D print and other...

Mercredi, c'est le jour des enfants, mais c'est surtout celui des adultes qui n'ont aucune envie de bosser !!
Alors pour ceux-là, je vous ai débusqué Ported2Browser , un annuaire qui recense +200 jeux et logiciels capables de tourner directement dans l'onglet de votre navigateur. Bref de quoi jouer sans rien installer sur l'ordi...
Vous vous baladez sur le site ou vous cherchez ce que vous voulez, vous cliquez et hop, ça se lance directement depuis le site qui héberge le portage. Vous pouvez ainsi filtrer par plateforme (NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy et d'autres), par tags, ou par façon de jouer. Par là, j'entends soit au clavier et à la souris, ou la manette ou directement via...

Les nombreuses petites références et secrets du keynote de l’iPhone Duo
https://www.journaldulapin.com/2026/10/10/easter-egg-keynote-2/

Dans les débuts de Mac OS X, Apple avait intégré un logiciel pour le chat, iChat. Il permettait les appels audio et vidéo (avec l’iSight) et a été remplacé peu à peu par Messages et FaceTime. Si Apple a supprimé iChat de Mac OS X (enfin, OS X à l’époque) avec 10.8 Mountain Lion, iChat a encore fonctionné auelques années, avant qu’Apple coupe les serveurs entre 2015 et 2022 (je n’ai pas trouvé de date). Mais un développeur a remis en place le nécessaire. Techniquement, il est toujours possible de faire des appels en local (à travers Bonjour) ou d’utiliser la messagerie elle-même. Apple proposait plusieurs protocoles à l’époque, dont le XMPP (Jabber). Pour tester rapidement,...