Access to the burnt-out boat has been slowed by toxic fumes and lingering heat, the country's coast guard says.

EN ZONE GRISE (1/5). La multiplication des incursions de drones russes dans l’espace européen contraint les Occidentaux à repenser leur stratégie de dissuasion, défend l’hebdomadaire allemand “Die Zeit”. Un défi inédit auquel la guerre froide ne les a pas préparés.

Depuis la fin des années 1970, l’alliance entre les républicains et la droite religieuse impose sa vision de la foi dans la vie politique américaine. Mais voilà que des candidats démocrates, dont certains pasteurs, s’opposent frontalement au nationalisme chrétien en défendant une autre conception du christianisme.

Coincé dans la salle d’attente du dentiste, l’auteur Juan Tallón décrypte, pour “El Periódico de Catalunya”, la colère noire que lui inspirent les retardataires. Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” vous propose un billet qui soulève des interrogations sur notre condition moderne en s’appuyant sur des œuvres littéraires, scientifiques et, bien sûr, philosophiques.

Cédant à la curiosité, ce chroniqueur du journal espagnol “El País” a dégusté une brochette de viande de baleine dans un restaurant de Reykjavik. Une viande grasse, dont la texture est proche de celle du bœuf, mais dont la consommation est extrêmement controversée dans les pays qui autorisent encore la chasse aux cétacés.

Dans cette ville des Hauts-de-Seine, la municipalité mise sur les arbres pour améliorer la qualité de vie et protéger la biodiversité. Un contributeur du blog américain “Reasons to Be Cheerful”, qui s’y est rendu, a pu admirer des milliers d’arbres protégés, chéris des habitants et de la municipalité.

Tasia Fortune's body was found in the lot of an abandoned home in Mississippi in August.

Depuis le début de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, Ryad a augmenté les volumes de brut transportés par cet oléoduc, qui relie Abqaïq, près du Golfe, au port de Yanbou, sur la mer Rouge, pour contourner le verrouillage du détroit d’Ormuz par l’Iran.

Democrats have the numbers on their side, but their success in the midterms is far from a sure thing.

Tomato lines that performed well under drought did not simply conserve water. They showed a distinct daily rhythm, opening their stomata strongly in the morning when light was abundant but atmospheric demand for water was still relatively low. Continuous whole-plant monitoring revealed that water use, drought response and recovery changed throughout the day, exposing important differences that single measurements could easily miss. The results suggest plant breeders may be able to improve drought resilience by selecting crops for when and how they use water, rather than focusing only on traits such as total water consumption or stomatal anatomy. Tomato plants may hold one of their best drought defenses in a...

When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less than 10% of said $3,000 asking price in an ‘untested’ condition, the only rational thing to do is of course to mash that ‘buy’ button. This is what [This Does Not Compute] did, and created a video about to show what a great investment decision this was.
Naturally this Juniper EX4100-F-12P switch came without power supply brick for its 48VDC input. Figuring out its pin-out and probing said input showed that the voltage rails had been shorted, giving a first clue as to why this switch had been on sale for so very cheap. Bravely hoping...

The Iran-backed Houthis are also reported to have seized Perim - a strategic island on the major shipping route.

France's transport minister says 180 passengers were on board the train operating the Rouen-Caen route in Normandy.

A cheap trash bag can rip at exactly the wrong moment. Consumer Reports tested three options for tear resistance and value

A paper towel that falls apart mid-wipe just makes a bigger mess. Consumer Reports tested three options for absorbency and scrubbing strength

New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief."
The filing says the brief "contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses," along with "false testimony" about the shooter's clothing and appearance. Justice C. Shannon Bacon questioned how Aarons wasn't aware of the risks posed by AI during an August hearing …
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Denise Cosco testified against the powerful 'Ndrangheta clan and her own father over the murder of her mother in Italy.

DNA from museum tortoise bones with as little as 0.008× genome coverage was enough to recover evolutionary relationships that conventional analyses could miss. The analysis supports distinct extinct giant tortoise lineages on San Cristóbal and Santa Fe, while also connecting uncertain museum specimens to the lost San Cristóbal population. The approach could make degraded museum DNA more useful for conservation, including efforts to identify living hybrids carrying genetic ancestry from extinct Galápagos tortoises. Less than 1% of a genome might look like too little to reconstruct an animal’s past. In old Galápagos giant tortoise bones, however, those scattered fragments were enough to place two extinct...

Une passagère de 18 ans a été « évacuée en urgence absolue », tandis que les autres blessés ont été « pris en charge en urgence relative », a fait savoir le procureur de la République de Rouen, après le déraillement, vendredi soir, de ce TER qui transportait 186 voyageurs.

For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact circuit with relatively low power usage and no high voltages. Although we now know that semiconductor technology won out overwhelmingly, that doesn’t mean that you cannot build a brand new Nuvistor board in 2026, as [Eric Schlaepfer] AKA [TubeTimeUS] recently did.
Nuvistors saw their most use in small-signal radio frequency applications, like VHF and UHF, with excellent low-noise characteristics that saw them used until the early 1970s in television sets, radios and oscilloscopes, as well as in space probes like the...

South Park, Slow Horses, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and a Lego-fied Mandalorian are just a few of the things you should be watching right now.

The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Joining me on the podcast today is Kevin Corinth, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches economic mobility, poverty, safety net programs, homelessness, social capital, and other issues. He is a co-author, along with Richard Burkhauser, of a recent paper titled “Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939 to 2023.” What motivated you to revisit nearly a century of American poverty trends? We have a lot of evidence about the extent of economic progress over the past 50 years or so. My co-author, Richard Burkhauser, and I did a paper a few years ago showing that, since President Johnson declared his war on...

 
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The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

In Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and hyperkinetic action filmmaking fight each other to a draw.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — but only one of them was ever Super. It’s that console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, that [Inkbox] has decided to delve deeply into as he crafts a game in assembly using all the hardware tricks he can.
Hardware tricks he’ll need, given he’s limited to the two 64 kB RAM banks and 3.58 MHz Ricoh 6502-based CPU. Even the 4 MB limit he sets for a historically-accurate homemade cartridge seems positively claustrophobic by modern standards. The game he’s after making is a top-down adventure game a la Zelda, and [Inkbox] gets right into the weeds explaining how the SNES works as...

Le ministre de l’action et des comptes publics, David Amiel, a déclaré, vendredi, que les modalités de la mesure seraient arbitrées « prochainement » par Matignon.

La coprésidente du parti d’extrême droite Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD) et le chancelier allemand, président de l’Union chrétienne-démocrate (CDU), ont opposé leurs points de vue le 9 septembre au Bundestag. « Le Monde » en publie des extraits, avec des éléments d’explication.

La coprésidente du parti d’extrême droite Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD) et le chancelier allemand, président de l’Union chrétienne-démocrate (CDU), ont opposé leurs points de vue le 9 septembre au Bundestag. « Le Monde » en publie des extraits, avec des éléments d’explication.

The documentary filmmaker met up with the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz at Wilson’s independent movie theatre to discuss his newest endeavor.

In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.

“India’s institutional footprint in higher education has expanded considerably over the decade. The number of universities increased from 760 in 2014-15 to 1,289 in 2023-24, registering a growth of 69.6 per cent. The number of colleges rose from 38,498 to 48,246, an increase of 25.3 per cent, while standalone institutions increased from 12,276 to 15,221, registering growth of about 24 per cent… The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) also improved steadily, rising from 23.7 per cent in 2014-15 to 29.5 per cent in 2022-23 and 30 per cent in 2023-24. The rise represents increased participation in higher education and progress towards the NEP 2020 target of achieving a 50 per cent GER by 2035… Female...

Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg's return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted. I'm relieved and pleased to see Matt Mullenweg return as CEO of Automattic, the largest financial contributor to the WordPress project. Having WordPress's Co-founder and Project Lead at the helm gives me confidence that their support will remain strong. Matt has my support.- Mary Hubbard (@4thhubba …
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In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met over surprisingly low latency and loud beverages to bring you the best of the previous week’s hacks.
But first, the news. German company Isar Aerospace can now claim that they’ve launched the first spacecraft into orbit from Europe. Be sure to check out the in-link, where we reported on the building of the spaceport.
In Hackaday news, the aforementioned Retrocomputing Contest had 64 entries at last check, which is just perfect for Episode 386. Will yours be the 65th?
Supercon Ten tickets are selling out, and per Elliot, the talks have been chosen, pending approval...

Au 1er janvier 2026, l'Union européenne comptait 451 990 314 habitants. Une population inégalement répartie entre les 27 États membres : le pays le plus peuplé compte plus de 83 millions d'habitants, quand le moins peuplé en compte moins de 600 000 (soit près de 140 fois moins). Nous avons indiqué dans l'ordre décroissant les populations nationales européennes au 1er janvier 2026. Saurez-vous y associer chaque État membre de l'UE ? Testez vos connaissances avec notre quiz ci-dessous. Les 27 pays à indiquer sont les suivants : l'Allemagne, l'Autriche, la Belgique, la Bulgarie, Chypre, la Croatie, le Danemark, l'Espagne, l'Estonie, la Finlande, la France, la Grèce, la Hongrie, l'Irlande, l'Italie,...

You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple's CEO. On The Vergecast today, we're talking all about Apple's launch event: how John Ternus did in his first appearance as CEO, what we make of the new iPhones, and whether Apple is stepping into dangerous territory with its new AI features on the Apple Watch.
First up, Allison Johnson joins me to discuss the new iPhones, which she had a chance to test in Cupertino. Both of us have some questions about the new variable aperture camera on the iPhone 18 Pro - and whether the real upgrade s …
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The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web.
Data gathered by Search Engine Land shows YouTube is the most popular platform in the world, with 2.65 billion monthly active users. Facebook comes in second with 2.39 billion active users around the globe, followed by TikTok with 2.21 billion and Instagram with 1.99 billion. Truth Social doesn't make Search Engine Land's top 10 list, wh …
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Save on Petlibro essentials, including automatic feeders, water fountains, and accessories to keep cats and dogs fed, hydrated, and comfortable every day.

The 1954 plan by Palmer & Krisel is part of the architects’ first large development with George Alexander and a testing ground for the indoor/outdoor lifestyle they brought to the desert.Location: 19748 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, California Price: $995,000 Year Built: 1954 Architect: Palmer & Krisel Footprint: 1,980 Square Feet (4 Beds, 2.5 Baths) Lot Size: 0.165 Acres From the Agent: "Built in 1954 as part of the Corbin Palms development, this reimagined Palmer & Krisel residence reflects a moment when modern architecture became part of everyday California life. Conceived for young families embracing an optimistic postwar future, Corbin Palms transformed the traditional suburban house into...

Trump cuts funding to public parks, an NYC library launches a new craft supplies program, and more.A massive sinkhole opened outside Nicolas Cage’s Malibu home, prompting the beach city to declare a local emergency and issue evacuation orders to 31 homes. The collapsed road, which could worsen with high tides and rain, has hindered emergency personnel’s access, and gas has been shut off in the area. (The Los Angeles Times) Trump’s policies, including "funding cuts, grant cancellations, and administrative delays," are stalling or shrinking park projects across the country, with underserved neighborhoods who are desperate for green spaces hit especially hard. In Queens, the proposed QueensWay lost most of...

“We forecast U.S. crude oil production will average 13.8 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2026, surpassing the previous record of 13.7 million b/d set in 2025, in our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). In the first half of 2026 (1H26), crude oil production averaged 13.7 million b/d, 2% (0.3 million b/d) more than the same period in 2025. Most of this expansion is concentrated in the Permian region in Texas and New Mexico and the Federal Gulf of America.” From US Energy Information Administration.
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“Economic growth is most important for the world's poorest people, and most of the world’s poorest live on the African continent. Are Africa’s economies growing? The picture is mixed. In some countries, incomes have unfortunately declined in the last decades. This includes Madagascar, Zimbabwe, and Burundi. I have written about this in my brief explainer on extreme poverty. In today’s Data Insight, I want to focus on the other side: I want to highlight the African countries that are achieving economic growth. Nine of them are shown in the chart above. In all nine countries, people’s average incomes have more than doubled since 1990. This made substantial improvements in living standards possible: the...

After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" - and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. In Anthropic's report, it detailed four cases this year in which its own AI models hacked an external company or exploited vulnerabilities. In one, an "internal, general-purpose research model" broke into third-party systems, using access tokens and passwords and downloading files. …
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A new radiative-transfer model suggests the liquid inside Venus’s sulfuric-acid cloud droplets would need to absorb ultraviolet and blue light extremely strongly, reaching a decadic absorption coefficient of about 1,278 cm⁻¹ at 375 nanometers. The required absorption could be produced by highly efficient conjugated organic molecules at concentrations on the order of several to tens of grams per liter, while many inorganic candidates would require much higher concentrations. The study does not identify the mysterious absorber or provide evidence of life, but it gives laboratory researchers a quantitative target that proposed organic and inorganic candidates must now meet. Venus looks almost featureless in...

Par leur caractère inédit, les attentats de New York, en 2001, ont immédiatement donné le sentiment d’entrer dans un autre monde. Pourtant, d’autres ruptures majeures peuvent prétendre au titre d’acte de naissance de notre époque.

Quelle est la population par pays de l'Union européenne ? Au 1er janvier 2026, l'Union européenne comptait 452 millions d'habitants. Avec 83,5 millions d'habitants recensés en 2026, l'Allemagne est l’État le plus peuplé parmi les Vingt-Sept, devant la France (69,1 millions), l'Italie (58,9 millions), l'Espagne (49,6 millions) et la Pologne (36,3 millions). Ces cinq pays représentent à eux seuls les deux tiers de la population européenne. La population de Malte (588 000 habitants) représente le plus petit contingent du continent, suivie du Luxembourg (690 000), de Chypre (997 000), de l'Estonie (1,36 million) et de la Lettonie (1,85 million). En 2026, le nombre de personnes vivant à Malte correspond...

Emma Bonino, à Florence, au Palazzo Vecchio, lors d’une intervention en marge du discours sur l’état de l’Union en 2013 - Crédits : European University Institute CC BY-SA 2.0 Elle n'aura jamais cessé de porter le projet européen. Figure morale du Parti radical, l'Italienne Emma Bonino s'est imposée comme l'une des personnalités les plus libres et les plus lucides du débat européen. "Emma nous a quittés, mais elle ne nous quittera jamais. Aujourd'hui, ce n'est pas seulement notre leader qui nous quitte, c'est l'une des protagonistes les plus lucides, courageuses et libres de l'histoire politique de notre pays et du monde libre", a écrit son parti Più Europa (Plus d'Europe) sur Facebook,...

The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increased the popularity of loading your own cartridges. But perforating the film from blank stock has always been beyond the reach of home gamers. Now [Jon Schiereck] has done it, but not quite with film. He’s made a perforator for photographic paper, producing a strip which can be shot in a camera. It’s film, but it’s not exactly film.
The machine takes the form of a 3D printed mechanism which feeds a strip of photographic paper through a pair of punches to make the sprocket holes. In this case those holes are circular, being made by a pair of drill bits ground for the purpose, and they’re...

Toute l'Europe est partenaire de La Matinale d'Europod, diffusée tous les matins, du lundi au vendredi, à partir de 8 heures. Chaque vendredi, retrouvez la chronique "Affaires européennes" des journalistes de la rédaction de Toute l'Europe. Découvrez également, en fin d'article, la matinale complète du 11 septembre 2026. Mercredi 16 septembre, à Strasbourg, Ursula von der Leyen aura toute l’Europe politique face à elle. La présidente de la Commission européenne prononcera devant les eurodéputés son traditionnel discours sur l’état de l’Union. Ce discours nous fait forcément penser aux États-Unis, où le président s’adresse chaque année au Congrès. Est-ce que l’Union européenne a...

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Jade Doskow’s work from Freshkills Park is proof that even a former dump can become a poignant place of mourning.After the 9/11 attacks in New York City, nearly 1.5 million tons of rubble were removed from the site and sent to Staten Island’s Fresh Kills landfill. Once the largest dump in the world, the 2,200-acre site had already been decommissioned, and a competition for park designers launched, when it was selected as the place where Ground Zero materials would be redirected. Finally, in 2003, the decades-long revitalization project that would turn the stinking landfill into a massive wildlife park—subtly renamed "Freshkills"—officially began. Led by landscape architect firm Field Operations, the...

Devenu un événement politique majeur de la rentrée européenne, le traditionnel discours sur l'état de l'Union (SOTEU) se déroule mercredi 16 septembre à partir de 9 heures. Pour la sixième fois (et la deuxième depuis le début de son second mandat), la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen se prête à l'exercice dans l'hémicycle du Parlement européen à Strasbourg. Ce rendez-vous annuel doit permettre à la présidente de la Commission de dresser son bilan, mais surtout de fixer ses prochaines priorités devant les députés européens. Si le contenu n'est jamais dévoilé en amont, certains thèmes s'imposent déjà : la guerre en Ukraine, les tensions au Moyen-Orient et,...

Two hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi show unusual rounded grooves worn deeply into their teeth, while chemical analysis detected arecoline, the main psychoactive alkaloid associated with areca, or betel, nuts. The older individual lived between about 25,000 and 16,000 years ago, potentially pushing direct evidence for habitual use of a neuroactive plant thousands of years earlier than previously documented examples. Experiments found that intact areca nuts can release physiologically active compounds without being chewed with slaked lime, supporting the idea that these foragers repeatedly sucked whole nuts despite severe long-term dental damage. A peculiar set of grooves worn into ancient human teeth may record...

Gaia measurements of 7,426 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud reveal opposing motions across the galaxy, with eastern regions generally moving southeast toward the Large Magellanic Cloud while western regions move northwest. The pattern does not resemble ordinary galactic rotation and instead supports the idea that tidal forces, possibly combined with ram pressure, are stretching and disrupting the smaller galaxy. If the Small Magellanic Cloud is not rotating as previously assumed, estimates of its mass and reconstructions of its past interactions with the Large Magellanic Cloud and Milky Way may need to be reconsidered. A small galaxy on the Milky Way’s doorstep may be slowly coming apart under the...

Rightsholders have linked piracy to terrorism and organized crime for several decades.
The framing first emerged in the late 1990s, when IFPI raised concerns about criminal networks smuggling pirated CDs across borders. The terrorism angle was added in 2003, when the U.S. House held a hearing on piracy’s “links to organized crime and terrorism.” Around the same time, Interpol chief Ronald Noble told Congress that IP crime had become “the preferred method of funding for a number of terrorist groups.”
The most cited connection appeared in 2009, when a movie industry-funded RAND report linked film piracy, organized crime, and terrorism. This report blurred the line between counterfeiting and piracy, but...

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L'équipe Next-gen Kaldi de Xiaomi a sorti OmniVoice, un modèle de synthèse vocale qui parle 646 langues et qui est capable de "recopier" une voix à partir d'un extrait de huit secondes minimum. Et tout ça en local et gratuitement !
Le français y est d'ailleurs la cinquième langue du corpus d'entraînement, avec 23 675 heures d'audio de référence sur les 581 000 qu'ils ont avalées. Autant dire que le modèle a entendu du français toute sa vie, et ça s'entend au résultat.
Voilà donc comment cloner votre propre voix, du début à la fin. Comptez 3,3 Go de poids à télécharger la première fois, et quelques minutes de manipulation une fois qu'ils sont sur votre disque.
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Auberon López vient de publier sur son blog un bouton qui freeze complètement les Mac à partir d'un simple clic dans un navigateur. Il a baptisé ça le Deathray (le rayon de la mort quoi...) et c'est un shader WebGPU diffusé via une page web des plus ordinaires, qu'il suffit d'ouvrir d'un simple clic sur un lien.
Ce qui arrive ensuite change d'une fois sur l'autre : Vous aurez le doit à la roue multicolore, ou la souris qui se fige, ou encore parfois des saletés magenta sur une partie de l'écran. Le reste de l'ordinateur, lui, va très bien et vous pouvez vous y connecter en SSH depuis une autre machine sans souci. C'est juste l'affichage qui ne répond plus, et il ne reviendra pas sauf si vous...