There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

The US calls its latest sanctions on Iran an "economic D-Day", but Tehran says it has a plan to counter them.

A l’approche des élections de mi-mandat, la Maison Blanche privilégie la pression économique à l’engagement militaire. Une soixantaine d’entités, personnes et navires iraniens ont été ajoutés à la liste des sanctions, a annoncé, lundi, le secrétaire au Trésor, Scott Bessent. Téhéran a réagi en parlant de « terrorisme économique ».

La venue en France de Mohammed Ben Salman, alors que se tenait, lundi, un premier conseil du partenariat stratégique franco-saoudien, a été scandée par diverses annonces commerciales et considérations diplomatiques.

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Ces nouvelles mesures de rétorsion, concernant des industries de premier plan pour l’économie canadienne, viendront s’ajouter à celles déjà entrées en vigueur ce week-end. À moins que ne soit trouvé un accord plus équitable d’ici la fin de l’année.

Le 19 août, l’entreprise Moderna a fait savoir que la dernière étape d’un essai clinique portant sur un traitement personnalisé à ARNm contre une forme grave de cancer de la peau avait fourni des résultats positifs. Une annonce décryptée par “New Scientist” qui suscite de nombreux espoirs.

Chine – VIIIᵉ siècle. Une orpheline, une aristocrate, une princesse, une nonne taoïste, et enfin une concubine bien-aimée… Yang Guifei sera passée par bien des statuts avant d’accéder à celui de favorite officielle de l’empereur. Elle finira pourtant exécutée, sous la pression de l’entourage impérial. Un récit du “South China Morning Post”.

Elle “sent bon les bougainvillées” et a “le goût des huîtres, du sel et de la pomme de terre”. L’île de Noirmoutier a su ravir les sens de cette journaliste du quotidien espagnol “El Mundo”, partie la visiter le temps d’une journée. Marais salants, longues plages, pinède… elle rêve déjà de son prochain séjour.

Réunis, lundi, autour de Volodymyr Zelensky pour une conférence de la coalition des volontaires, les dirigeants du Vieux Continent ont réitéré leurs marques de soutien, militaires et financières, à Kiev, et dénoncé l’intensification des frappes de la Russie contre les civils.

That's a little over a quarter of its peak valuation.

The 68-year-old man was found dead in California's salt flats amid 116°F (46.6C) heat.

Schematic diagram of the touch-sensitive skin. (Credit: Haofeng Chen et al., ArXiv, 2026)
Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely on our sensation of touch in daily life. From experiencing the world around us, handling objects, noticing when you just bumped into that side table again and the comforting hug of a fellow human being, touch is perhaps the most important of our senses.
In that regard the recently published research by [Haofeng Chen] et al. on giving robots a skin that can experience touch seems rather important as it would give especially humanoid robots a more...

It comes after Moscow warned of "consequences" over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine.

It sounds like Musk is hellbent on Grok becoming dominant in the AI coding world.

The Trump administration has embraced Syria's new president, former al-Qaeda linked militant Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The tornado has injured more than 40 people and destroyed homes in villages.

Cursed BIOS. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge When a company's software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks so. But it's not clear that computing giant Lenovo will go that far.
Three weeks after a Redditor presented a nearly $300 repair bill for their handheld gaming PC - among other reports of damage and high repair bills - the company is breaking its silence. It says, in short: try holding down the power button longer, and if that fails, contact customer support.
Here's the statement Lenovo provided to The Verge, via communications director Jeff Witt: Lenovo is aware that some Legion Go d …
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The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture in a British educational computer, the 68000 series was still a major player, and it was by no means certain that the x86 would maintain its position. It therefore wasn’t an unreasonable choice for someone building a high performance computer at the time, which is what [Oscar Toledo G.] and his father did. If that wasn’t enough, he went on to write an operating system for it in AM29000 assembly, complete with a GUI, a C compiler, and an up-to-date web browser for the late 1990s. The story makes for an engaging read.
It’s written...

The anime's upcoming arc will no longer drop its dubs in small batches.

Live-streaming tragedy and seduction from a nest in the San Bernardino Mountains.

It's called 'Sleepover' and will arrive in time for spooky season in 2027.

Retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run up to October’s election.

L’association de parents d’enfants en situation de handicap mental alerte à chaque rentrée sur l’offre de scolarisation insuffisante ou inadaptée, et demande une meilleure coordination entre l’éducation nationale et le secteur médico-social.

The move might put the MAGA-aligned politician at odds with Trump.

Bitdefender VPN has an excellent starting price, even if it lacks the advanced features that privacy nerds may want.

With advice from infectious disease experts, I tested a low-effort way to pasteurize eggs at home.

Salmonella outbreaks are seemingly everywhere right now. A good temperature probe is the last and best line of defense.

Deux centres d’hébergement ont été ouverts aux victimes pour la nuit. Plus de 120 sapeurs-pompiers sont mobilisés et des renforts sont attendus.

It’s likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects pedal. The raspy distorted sound has been at the heart of so many very well known recordings. Behind it is a distortion circuit, or as [Bill Jehle’s Mad Scientist Guitar Lab] is here to tell us, eight different circuit topologies.
The result is a fascinating trip through the evolution of rock music through the 1960s, as he examines circuits from simple diode clippers through to frequency doublers and phase shifters. He’s provided a playlist as an accompaniment so you can even have an immediate listen to each sound. It’ll mess up our YouTube...

The creator of the world's first 3D-printed gun claims he's developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant to block 3D printers from making firearms. It's an opening volley in what's shaping up to be an evolving battle between regulators trying to stem the tide of ghost guns and individuals trying to create workarounds. Cody Wilson, who claims to have made the detection-defying tool, is calling it "Hochulization" as a direct jab at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who pushed through the nation's first law mandating gun file detection software on new printers earlier this year. "New York is trying to reach into the internet and pol …
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Many pieces of consumer electronics are build down to a price, and the corners cut show up in their performance. The Gameboy Advance from Nintendo is no exception: its audio is a PWM stream that sounds awful through the included amplifier. [Cajun Panda] has a fix though, in the form of a replacement audio chain.
It takes the form of a PCB that hooks into the pads of the removed GBA audio chip, and provides a much cleaner audio path with filtering and EQ and a class D audio amplifier. In addition there’s an audio codec and an ESP32 for Bluetooth connectivity, enabled by a long press of a GBA button and configured via a web interface on the ESP. Best of all there is no case modification, this is designed to...

I love this multi-device headset, and right now it’s cheaper than what I paid for it in March.

Kaviar Collaborative helps a couple turn a lackluster event space into a cozy home with flowing spaces and storage to spare.When Ardith Vijh and Nikita Rijhwani were looking to move in together, they didn’t have to search far. Ardith had inherited a flat in the building where he grew up, in the Bandra suburb of Mumbai. The apartment had been sectioned off from another family unit, and it was primarily used for parties and events. For that purpose, it was very well equipped. There were no real dividing walls, so people could move easily between the bar, pool table, and home theater, with its row of recliners and permanent projector screen. It had a DJ booth instead of bedrooms, and Ardith would often hang out...

The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 "partnership" between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings.
The FTC's settlement proposal allows Redfin to continue syndicating rental listings from Zillow "unencumbered by the anticompetitive restraints" in the original deal, but also requires Redfin to restart its own rental listings advertising business, which it wound down as part of the partnership. Dani …
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If you’re blessed enough that you haven’t had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process. You might imagine that a needle goes in, a syringe is drawn back, and the venous blood is thusly collected. Indeed, it can be done that way.
However, there is an altogether niftier and more efficient method of fast blood collection for pathology testing. It’s all about using vacuum and smart design to ease the work of phlebotomists, while maintaining a sterile and safe environment. Vacuum, Contained
These days, if you get blood collected for testing, there’s a plenty good chance you’ll have it drawn into a vacutainer. It’s named as a portmanteau of “vacuum” and...

Spanning 23 landscaped acres, the estate includes a 1787 Cape Cod house, two guest cottages, a renovated pool house, a glass-fronted barn, and a greenhouse.Location: 155 Joshuatown Road, Lyme, Connecticut  Price: $3,700,000 Year Built: 1787 Renovation Date: 2017 Footprint: 7,930 Square Feet (8 Beds, 5.5 Baths)  Lot Size: 23.2 Acres  From the Agent: "Nestled between the Lower Connecticut River and Long Island Sound and surrounded by protected land, this enchanting compound brings together five separate living spaces that blend the character of its original 18th-century New England architecture with more modern additions. At its heart is a beautifully preserved 1787 Cape Cod–style house with original...

Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them.
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in the state, and legalization efforts are stalled.
In DC, labor unions are fighting legislation that would legalize commercial robotaxis, while lawmakers are weighing a 200-vehicle cap and a 15-cent-per-mile fee that would fund Metro upgrades and aid workers displaced by autonomous vehicles. A July Cit …
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An off-kilter pitch leans to the rear of the plan, with one eave connecting to the ground to enclose a storage area and pantry.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: Allenspark, Colorado Architect: Renée del Gaudio Architecture / @reneedelgaudioarchitecture Footprint: 2,100 square feet Builder: Coburn Partners Structural Engineer: Correlate Structural Engineering Civil Engineer: Van Horn Engineering Cabinetry: Marc Hunter Woodworking Photographer: David Lauer / @davidlauerphoto From the Architect: "Built at the base of Mt. Meeker, this zero-carbon...

La coalition des volontaires pour l'Ukraine, qui rassemble les pays soutenant Kiev, s'était réunie la dernière fois à Paris le 13 juillet 2026 - Crédits : Conseil européen Continuer d'accroître la pression sur la Russie tout en espérant obtenir de nouveaux équipements de défense antiaérienne. Tel était le principal objectif de Kiev avant une nouvelle réunion ce lundi 24 août de la Coalition des volontaires, coprésidée par le Royaume-Uni, la France et l'Allemagne. Une rencontre d'autant plus symbolique qu'elle avait lieu le jour du 35e anniversaire de la proclamation de l'indépendance de l'Ukraine, le 24 août 1991. "Nous continuerons à soutenir l'Ukraine aussi longtemps que nécessaire et à...

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, chef de file de La France insoumise, Marine Le Pen, présidente du groupe Rassemblement national à l'Assemblée nationale et Gabriel Attal, secrétaire général de Renaissance, prendront part à ce débat - Crédits : Thomas Bresson / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 | Mélanie Wenger / Parlement européen | Ismail Aissoub / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 (montage Toute l'Europe) Un premier test grandeur nature. Alors que les déclarations de candidature à l'élection présidentielle 2027 (18 avril ; 2 mai) se poursuivent, un grand débat réunissant plusieurs candidats souhaitant prendre part au scrutin va se tenir le 27 août. Participants, horaire, chaîne TV… voici ce qu'il faut savoir...

CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video. CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a target release window for when the game might actually come out.
There's more new Witcher to come before The Witcher 4, though. At this week's Gamescom event, CD Projekt Red will be showing off its upcoming Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, which is scheduled to release sometime in 2027. Songs of the Past is also set to be part of Gamescom's Opening Night Live event hosted by Geoff Ke …
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“During the last three years, an average of 270 orbital rockets have launched from Earth, a more than threefold increase from only a decade ago. By every metric available, the launch industry is crushing it: Prices have never been more competitive, launches never more frequent, and access to space never more rapid. Paradoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability. As part of his job as the director of research at Quilty Space, Caleb Henry speaks with satellite operators all the time. And he is hearing a constant and increasingly loud refrain from companies that want to put stuff into space. A Canadian satellite company, Telesat, recently received inquiries from other companies asking...

“The expense of launching cargo into space will plummet over the next few years, with the cost of reaching orbit forecast to more than halve between now and the end of the decade, and fall around 93% by 2040, according to new Cambridge-led research. The cost of sending a kilogram of payload into low Earth orbit, an average of $3,868 last year, is set to fall more than 58% to just $1,569 by 2030, and could reach as little as 273 US dollars per kilo by 2040, the study suggests.* Researchers analysed the economics of the space industry using the largest global dataset of rocket launches yet assembled, covering more than 4,400 launches between 1960 and 2025, to project future trends.” From Cambridge...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Après sa sélection estivale de romans, BD et mangas, la rédaction d’Usbek & Rica vous présente ses podcasts préférés du moment. Au programme : des entretiens pour tout comprendre sur l’IA, une enquête sur la difficulté d’être à la fois un bon parent et un bon ami, et l’exploration d’une hypothèse vertigineuse digne du film Matrix.

Raphaël Glucksmann vient de se lancer dans le grand bain de l’élection prsidentielle. Même s’il m’est sympathique, je ne donne pas cher de sa candidature. Il y a trop de faiblesses potentielles et de signaux d’alerte. C’est un candidat très seul, à la tête d’un parti à faibles effectifs, qui ne lui donne pas la […]

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Vous avez trouvé quelque chose ? Peut-être votre adresse, votre numéro de téléphone, votre email, vos anciennes adresses, peut-être même votre numéro de sécu ou votre date de naissance. Le tout exposé sur des sites que vous ne connaissez même pas. Des sites avec des noms à la con du genre PeopleSearchPro ou Spokeo ou je sais pas quelle autre saloperie. Et le pire ? C'est légal. Ces mecs vendent vos données comme si c'était des bonbons.
Moi, j'ai découvert ça par hasard. Je cherchais un truc, je tape mon nom, et BIM,...

Mid August, shadow library Anna’s Archive faced extended downtime, which had many regular visitors concerned. These worries didn’t come out of nowhere as the site has been under quite a bit of legal pressure in recent months. Lawsuit Takes Domains Offline
In January, the site lost its flagship .org domain. Initially it wasn’t clear what was behind this action but unsealed court records eventually connected it to a lawsuit filed by music companies. This case was a direct response to a Spotify scrape Anna’s Archive announced a few weeks earlier. The music companies obtained an injunction from a U.S. federal court to go after the site’s domain names. This took out not only the .ORG domain but also the...

L’Afghanistan a commémoré le 15 août dernier l’entrée de l’Émirat islamique d’Afghanistan dans sa 6e année de gouvernance obscurantiste des talibans après un quinquennat (août 2021 – août 2026) aux affaires laissant dans son sillage désillusions, interrogations pour l’avenir et désespoir pour les femmes dont l’effacement dans la société n’a jamais été aussi criant.

L'été 2026 a une nouvelle fois battu des records de chaleur au Japon. Les autorités ont multiplié les alertes aux coups de chaleur, tandis que les hôpitaux accueillaient des milliers de patients victimes d'hyperthermie. Pour beaucoup, ces épisodes restent des anomalies météorologiques. Pour les climatologues, ils annoncent plutôt ce que deviendra le quotidien de l'archipel dans les prochaines décennies.

Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, who was appointed to his South Carolina Senate seat upon his death, may soon be elected to a full term. Political insiders say she is a “black box.”

Thirty-odd years ago, the Treasury Secretary was one of the speculators who broke the Bank of England in a famous trade. Now he’s on the other side of the markets, struggling to contain rising bond yields.

À l'approche de la présidentielle de 2027, les autorités françaises alertent sur le risque d'ingérences étrangères et de campagnes de désinformation en ligne - Crédits : Alicja Nowakowska / iStock À chaque grande échéance électorale, le risque d'ingérence étrangère ressurgit. À moins de huit mois du premier tour de l'élection présidentielle française, prévu le dimanche 18 avril 2027, la campagne a déjà été visée par plusieurs opérations de désinformation. Sur les réseaux sociaux, depuis fin juillet, trois candidats déclarés ou alors pressentis pour l'Élysée ont été la cible de telles opérations : les anciens Premiers ministres Édouard Philippe et Gabriel Attal, ainsi que...

Près de la moitié des Islandais vivent dans la capitale à Reykjavík - Crédits : Paola Giannoni / iStock Bien que l'Islande soit rattachée au Vieux continent, elle n'est pas membre de l'Union européenne. Toutefois, l'île a déjà entrepris un processus d'adhésion à l'Union européenne avant d'y renoncer. Quels sont les liens entre l'UE et l'Islande ? Processus d'adhésion interrompu L'Islande (389 444 habitants) s'est officiellement portée candidate à l'intégration en 2009, dans le contexte de la grave crise financière qui a touché le pays. Mais les négociations ont été difficiles, notamment en raison de différends sur les quotas de pêche. Le gouvernement islandais ne voulait pas soumettre...

Toutes les fuites de données ne se valent pas, et celle-ci a de quoi faire transpirer pas mal de monde. Des pirates ont siphonné le registre des ayants droit économiques du Liechtenstein dans la nuit du 29 au 30 juillet, embarquant les informations de 31 000 sociétés, fondations et fiduciaires d'un coup.
Un ayant droit économique, pour faire simple, c'est la vraie personne en chair et en os qui possède ou contrôle une société, celle qui empoche l'argent tout au bout de la chaîne même quand une cascade de sociétés-écrans s'emploie à la rendre invisible.
C'est tout le problème. Ce registre a été monté pour lutter contre le blanchiment, en forçant chaque structure à déclarer noir sur blanc...

Pour que leur candidature soit retenue, les prétendants doivent obtenir 500 parrainages d'élus issus d'au moins 30 départements ou collectivités d'outre-mer - Crédits : Wikimedia CC-BY-SA-4.0 - CC-BY-2.0 - Flickr Vox España CC0 1.0 - Flickr The Left CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - Commission européenne - Parlement européen. À moins de huit mois du premier tour, la course à l'Élysée prend forme. L'élection présidentielle française aura lieu les 18 avril et 2 mai 2027. Plusieurs responsables politiques ont déjà annoncé leur candidature ou ont été désignés par leur parti. Mais la liste reste encore provisoire : aucun nom ne sera officiellement retenu avant la validation des parrainages par le Conseil...

Le bracelet Apple Watch du challenge Close Your Rings 2026
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Vu sur eBay et visiblement parti pour 350 $, le chargeur de l’Apple Watch Edition. C’est un boîtier qui intègre un chargeur, avec du Lightning. Et j’en ai un. Le boîtier Du Lightning
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The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two newcomers on the list. “Mutiny” is the most shared title.
The most torrented movies for the week ending on August 24 are: Movie Rank
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Mutiny
5.7 / trailer 2
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
8.2 / trailer 3
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The Odyssey
8.5 / trailer 4
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Toy Story 5
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