La vive réaction de la candidate à l’élection présidentielle et de son clan aux ambitions affichées par Jordan Bardella, porté par sa popularité, a eu raison du mythe d’un parti normalisé, rappelle dans sa chronique Françoise Fressoz, éditorialiste au « Monde ».

Most plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) today get an average of around 30-50 miles of battery-only range: decent, but not mind-blowing. With hybrid sales dominating the market today, Volvo is out to prove that its PHEVs can push the limits of what's possible. Today, the Swedish automaker revealed the updated PHEV versions of its popular XC60 and XC90 SUVs are its first "long range plug-in hybrids," delivering class-leading ranges of 78 miles and 73 miles, respectively. That's more than double the electric range of previous PHEV variant. The numbers are still preliminary and based on EPA testing standards. But if confirmed, they would …
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Si vous avez une petite console rétro portable qui traîne, du genre une Miyoo Mini, une TrimUI Brick, une Anbernic RG35XX , vous avez sans doute remarqué que l'interface livrée avec fait le job mais sans plus. Ça tombe bien, spruceOS est là pour ça ! Et malgré son nom, ce n'est pas vraiment un système d'exploitation. En réalité, il s'agit d'un frontend codé en Python qui vient se poser sur une base système déjà existante. Le code est public, sous une licence Creative Commons donc pour les plus capitalistes d'entre vous, ça veut dire pas d'usage commercial sans permission écrite de l'équipe.
Sur les Miyoo et les TrimUI, la base en question est le système d'origine de la console, celui du...

Before & After: They Remodeled Their San Francisco Home to Capture Views of the City’s Famous Fog
https://www.dwell.com/article/before-and-after-san-francisco-fog-b52bda49

The origin of the drone is currently unknown, but authorities say it likely entered Lithuania from neighbouring Belarus, an ally of Russia.

Sur Mastodon, Sam Henri Gold a pulié un truc qui m’a étonné : dans une vieille version de Mac OS X, il y avait une icône à gauche du Finder dans le Dock. Enfin, plus exactement, on pouvait forcer une icône à gauche. Depuis les débuts de Mac OS X avec la Developer Preview 3 (la première avec un Dock), l’icône à l’extrême gauche est le Finder, et c’est toujours le cas aujourd’hui, plus de vingt-cinq ans plus tard. L’icône du Finder est à gauche, et on ne peut rien mettre à sa gauche. Sauf, donc, avec la Developer Preview 1 de Mac OS X Lion. Vous devriez trouver l’ISO facilement avec son numéro de build (11a390) si vous voulez essayer, sinon j’ai des captures. Par défaut, le...

Pour la première fois, les producteurs de champagne seront autorisés à commercialiser des bouteilles à plus de 13 % d’alcool. La conséquence d’un été chaud qui a donné des raisins exceptionnellement riches en sucre. Mais une boisson aussi alcoolisée correspond-elle aux goûts des consommateurs ? se demande la presse britannique.

Les juges n’ont pas statué sur le fond mais ont considéré, dans une décision rendue lundi, qu’une application aussi rapide de l’encadrement strict demandé par le président républicain aurait pu perturber le scrutin.

L’innovation, les start-up et les Gafam… Chaque semaine, l’actualité de la Silicon Valley vue par les médias américains.

Des voleurs se sont introduits, en escaladant la façade du Plaza Athénée, dans la chambre de M. Gambi, un entrepreneur malien célèbre dans son pays et qui gravite dans l’entourage du président congolais, Denis Sassou Nguesso.

Dans la bande dessinée « Pesticides, leurs ravages sur la santé des enfants », à paraître jeudi 17 septembre, les dessins de Marguerite Boutrolle racontent le travail de la toxicologue Laurence Huc et son engagement pour élucider les origines du cluster de cancers pédiatriques de Sainte-Pazanne (Loire-Atlantique).

If you spend any time near a gym, you may be familiar with Bluetooth heart rate monitors — a small pack of electronics mounted on a strap round the chest which can relay heart rate data to an external logger or display. We’re pleased to see [Milos Rasic]’s project then, an open-source version of one of those monitors.
The heart rate capture is done by an AD8232, while the Bluetooth part is handled by a Seeed Studio XAIO ESP32 board. Power is provided by a single 3.7 V cell, with a boost converter to push that up to 5 V. The design omits a charge controller to keep things simple, so figuring out how to top off the cell is left as an exercise — no pun intended — for the user. Software is loaded through...

Les principales actualités de ces dernières heures vues par la presse internationale.

Après l’alerte lancée par le PDG d’Anthropic ce week-end, le président américain a à nouveau minimisé les inquiétudes sur les risques de l’intelligence artificielle tandis que Pékin dénonce une exagération à l’avantage des groupes américains. Les marchés financiers, eux, ont mal accueilli le débat du moment.

He becomes the first person to win two lead acting prizes in one night at the prestigious TV ceremony.

The US president's comments come after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC an AI "kill switch" may need to be mandatory.

Le taux d’intérêt auquel la France doit s’endetter est monté à 4,5 %, lundi 14 septembre. Du jamais-vu depuis 2008. L’écart avec l’Allemagne, un pays jugé beaucoup plus fiable, a également atteint un nouveau record.

Des documents confidentiels révèlent comment l’Industrial and Commercial Bank of China a courtisé des entreprises à haut risque, tel un géant russe du nickel, secteur frappé en 2024 par les sanctions occidentales, pour garantir des ressources et des alliances au régime de Xi Jinping.

Depuis cet été, avec le piratage par des agents d’IA de la plateforme Hugging Face, les appels à endiguer la toute-puissance de l’intelligence artificielle se multiplient. Spécialiste du sujet pour “CNN”, Hadas Gold incite à prendre la mesure de la menace dans cet article écrit pour “Courrier international”.

Les attaques de Kiev sur les raffineries et entrepôts commerciaux ont fait entrer la guerre dans le quotidien des Russes, à la veille des élections législatives qui doivent se tenir du 18 au 20 septembre. Si l’économie reste relativement résiliente, les problèmes se multiplient, inflation en tête.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman requested a private meeting with Trump last week, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dialed up him on stage at an event.

With Trump opposed and Congress divided, new safety legislation on AI is unlikely to pass anytime soon despite mounting pressure.

[Bas BotBerg] wanted to use a portable Bluetooth thermal printer to run off reports on sensor data collected by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller. But as is so often the case these days, the only official way to interface with the printer was through a proprietary smartphone application provided by the manufacturer. With no documentation on how the thing works, he set out to reverse engineer the printer’s communications protocol so he could control it from the MCU — but the route he took to get there was a bit different than what we usually see, and is an excellent case study for those who might have similar projects in mind.
The standard procedure for something like this, if it can be called that, is to use...

The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

Donald Trump's EPA not only abandoned greenhouse gas limits on the power sector, but is practically begging for a court ruling that it never can again.

The ruling bars the United States Postal Service from implementing restrictions that experts and election officials say would upend voting in November.

The Nvidia CEO answered a call from the president while he was onstage at a summit. Put on speakerphone for the crowd, Trump called data centers "the oil of the next 20, 25 years"

Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup - the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today's Steam Frame - are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn't saying so yet. The company is figuring out "how and when we can deliver something like that," Valve designer Pierre-Loup Griffais now tells IGN.
Valve has been clear for years that 1) a Steam Deck 2 will indeed happen, and 2) it's not coming until Valve finds the right chip. The original Steam Deck worked because it delivered the right combination of price, performance, and battery life, and Valve has repeatedly said it won't sacrifice effici …
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Crypto enthusiasts who once promised that permissionless payments would shatter the tyranny of traditional finance are now trying build third-party trust.

America's grid runs at about half its capacity. AI needs more power. What's the problem?

AI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. An investigation into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics of AI development.

Being able to monitor voltages and currents is essential for many applications, with the national electrical grid being no exception. The obvious complication here is that the voltages and currents are massively higher than for those other applications, making safely monitoring these somewhat of an engineering challenge. The used systems for current monitoring are detailed by [Jordan Taylor], also known as [The Electric Brit], in an explainer of grid-level current transformers (CTs) and associated elements that help to provide galvanic isolation for safe current measurements.
Even if the basic principles remain the same, when you’re dealing with currents of 5 kA and more, the associated clearances and...

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a proposal for embedding third-party auditors, regulating domestic labs, and reaching a global slowdown agreement. Their critics, however, argued they simply wanted to stop would-be competitors, kneecap the open-source movement, and avoid real legal safeguards - some dubbed it an outright "cartel." The truth …
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America is rebuilding its power grid for AI before anyone can agree on how much power AI will need. We looked into it.

New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. | Image: The Verge With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it.
Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, along with the clip. It also adds a new video search feature and the ability to stitch footage from multiple cameras into one clip, making it easier to keep an eye on what's happening around your home without scrolling through footage. But to get these features, you'll need to pay $9.99 a...

Synergy between global warming and a type of El Niño not seen since the late 1990s could create unprecedented weather that scientists don’t have enough climate data to model.

Un virement de 1,3 milliard de dollars, effectué dans l’urgence par une filiale londonienne après l’inculpation de Huawei aux Etats-Unis début 2019, révèle l’inféodation de l’ICBC, leader bancaire chinois, à la ligne politique de Pékin, selon une enquête du Consortium international des journalistes d’investigation (ICIJ).

The FX series has also announced a pop-up immersive experience for fans in Los Angeles.

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of them here.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Amodei's Saturday morning essay outlined three steps for pacing AI development: embedded third-party evaluators that can verify if a company is adhering to safety practices and commitments and report incidents, coordination between frontier AI companies in democratic countries on standards and li …
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The director of “The History of Concrete” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments and the rules that govern the Hallmark Channel.

There are many uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the Raspberry Pi that take the form of HATs with a battery on board, but they’re not suitable for every situation. Web3-Pi are using the Pi 5 as an Ethereum node, and found the need for a UPS that didn’t sit on top of the Pi. Their solution is the Web3 Pi UPS, a device that sits in the USB power chain.
It’s a box that takes three power inputs, USB-C PD, a barrel jack, or a hot-swappable Sony camera battery, and puts out the constant 5 V at 5 A the Pi requires. The USB output isn’t just for power, it can communicate with the Pi to deliver telemetry and ask the OS to shut itself down if power reserves are failing. Inside are a CH32 RISC-V...

The latest iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri.

The sinuous 2012 residence is clad in standing-seam zinc and walls of glass that let you look right through it.Location: Fiac, France Price: €820,000 (approximately $943,754 USD) Architect: Jean-Marie Pettès Year: 2011 Footprint: 1,991 square feet (4 beds, 2 baths) Lot Size: 0.5 acres From the Listing: "Built in 2012 by Jean-Marie Pettès, this house with its sinuous lines offers a peaceful living environment in complete tranquility. Adapted to the local climate and surrounding nature, it has been certified as a low-energy building. Set in the heart of a  wooded plot in the Tarn, this single-story house is organized around three distinct modules, brought together at their center by the living spaces....

With VHDL being arguably more deterministic and bullet-proof than Verilog, it’s good to see another open source VHDL simulator joining the fray that is not a variation of ghdl. Written by [Óscar Grimal] in C++ with an MIT license, the Pulse project is a still in progress package that provides the entire toolchain, from the compiler to the requisite waveform output.
This waveform output is provided in the form of a text-based user interface (TUI), which at the very least helps a lot with making it cross-platform compatible. As dependencies only a C++20 capable compiler and CMake are indicated.
Of course, with VHDL being a rather hefty language especially once you start piling up the associated standard...

Bach Architecture reworked a 1910 Edwardian home so a Finnish-American couple could engage in all of their favorite activities, including cooking, using the sauna, and sky scanning.

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

La visite du président vietnamien Tô Lâm en France s’est traduite par de nombreux accords et déclarations d’intention mais peu de contrats. Alors que le Vietnam est devenu un nouveau dragon asiatique avec une croissance exceptionnelle de 8% par an et un commerce extérieur flamboyant, la France compte davantage par son rôle en Europe, sa diplomatie indépendante et son potentiel militaire que par sa présence économique au Vietnam, qui reste modeste.

Dans l'Union européenne, 16 villes comptent au moins un million d'habitants. Saurez-vous toutes les retrouver ? A vous de jouer. Attention ! On parle ici de la population municipale, et non pas de la population de l'agglomération, de la métropole ou encore de l'aire urbaine. Par exemple, Marseille compte une population municipale de 886 040 habitants, selon l'Insee tandis que son agglomération compte 1 939 077 habitants. La cité phocéenne n'apparaît donc pas dans ce quiz, étant donné que sa population municipale est inférieure à un million. Comment jouer ? Cliquez sur "Play quiz" pour lancer la partie. Vous disposez alors de 10 minutes pour trouver un maximum de bonnes réponses. Entrez le nom...

Trois sièges. C'est, à ce stade, ce qui sépare les deux camps qui se disputent le pouvoir en Suède. Selon les résultats préliminaires basés sur 95 % des bureaux de vote, le bloc d'opposition, emmené par le Parti social-démocrate suédois (S) de l'ancienne Première ministre Magdalena Andersson, obtiendrait 176 des 349 élus du Riksdag, le Parlement suédois. Avec ce score, ces formations ne possèderaient qu'une très faible marge de manœuvre, avec un siège de plus que la majorité requise. Elles devanceraient donc d'une courte tête le camp gouvernemental sortant d'Ulf Kristersson (Les Modérés, M), recueillant 173 sièges au sein du Parlement suédois. Lors du dernier scrutin en 2022, le rapport...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

“Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2,702 TWh of electricity in 2025, beating the previous year's record of 2,667 TWh, according to the World Nuclear Outlook Report… Looking ahead at the prospects for new nuclear capacity, the report projects that it could reach 1,457 GWe by 2050 if all national targets and goals are achieved and the existing fleet continues to operate. With current operating capacity being 423 GWe, that projected figure would be 200 GWe more than a tripling of the current levels.” From World Nuclear News.
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“Some people without plane tickets will be allowed to pass through security at US airports and go to gates to see off family or friends, rolling back a rule that was introduced after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Certain people who are part of the TSA PreCheck program but who do not have tickets to fly will be able to go through security to airport gates, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said… The program, called Gateside by TSA PreCheck, is free, but interested members must apply online one to three days before their planned visits and receive approval before going to the airport. If approved, they can enter security using a TSA PreCheck lane with an acceptable form of identification. The...

“The human genome is made of about 3 billion base pairs of DNA — but much of it remains a mystery. Scientists understand the 2% of the human genome that codes for proteins relatively well, but have only limited knowledge of the remaining 98%. Our AlphaGenome model has already shown how single changes in these non-coding DNA regions can disrupt molecular processes like protein production, but the bigger picture remained unclear. Today, we're introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database that predicts the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome. We used the AlphaGenome AI model to pre-calculate the regulatory impact of all 9 billion single-letter genetic changes, resulting in a...

“The global population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros has reached a record 4,075, with Assam accounting for nearly 80% of the species’ population and Kaziranga National Park alone sheltering more than 2,600 rhinos, state forest minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said. According to him, the global population of one-horned rhinoceroses was fewer than 100 in the early 1900s but has now crossed the 4,000 mark for the first time, and Assam’s contribution to this is particularly significant.” From Hindustan Times.
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“Coal generation has stopped growing in 17 of 26 provinces and regions in China, and fossil fuel use has passed its peak in eight of 11 industrial sectors, according to a new analysis by global energy think tank Ember. Thermal generation, most of it coal, fell 0.7% in 2025 while electricity demand rose 5%. It has fallen before, but the last time was 2015, when demand was almost flat at 0.5% growth. A fall under strong demand growth is different: it shows that clean electricity is growing quickly enough to both meet rapid demand growth and replace coal.” From Ember.
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À Strasbourg, la présidente de la Commission européenne présente ce mercredi ses priorités pour les prochains mois devant le Parlement européen. Un discours suivi d'un débat avec les eurodéputés. Toute l'Europe vous propose de suivre l'événement en direct sur cette page, avec la retransmission vidéo et un live écrit alimenté par nos journalistes pour retenir l'essentiel des annonces, des réactions et des enjeux. Un rendez-vous politique majeur Prononcé chaque année en septembre, sauf les années d'élections européennes, le discours sur l'état de l'Union - ou SOTEU - permet à la présidente de la Commission de dresser le bilan de son action et de présenter ses priorités. Ursula von der...

- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon - Vous savez ce que c'est une caméra thermique ? Oui, probablement, mais au cas où, c'est un appareil qui affiche les écarts de température sous forme de couleurs, pour chercher un défaut d'isolation autour d'une fenêtre par exemple ou repérer un composant qui chauffe trop. Avec la Thermal Master P3, cette image apparaît sur votre téléphone, grâce à un petit module branché à sa prise USB-C. Il faut d'abord installer l'application du fabricant, puis connecter la caméra à un smartphone Android ou à un iPhone compatible. L'adaptateur Lightning est dans la boîte pour les anciens iPhone, et l'alimentation passe par le téléphone : la P3 n'a aucune batterie à...

As part of my back-away-from-burnout plan, I've been trying to re-awaken my enthusiasm for tech by finding things to tinker with.
Someone recently posted in the fediverse about a small e-ink name badge that they'd had delivered. Unfortunately, the kit that they bought only seems to be available in the US, but I instead stumbled upon Badgeware's Badger.
Badger is a name badge made of a 2.7" e-ink display and powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350.
I've played around with programmable wearables before, so I thought that this might be a good way to encourage some unstructured tinkering.
This post talks about getting started with the Badger 2350. Connecting To A PC
Badger has MicroPython installed on it and, to be...

La messe d'inauguration du pontificat du nouveau pape Léon XIV s'est tenue le 18 mai 2025 - Crédits : Sénat italien / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 Le Vatican, État le plus petit et le moins peuplé au monde, est souvent perçu comme une entité à part, tant sur le plan géographique que politique. Située en plein cœur de Rome, cette enclave de 44 hectares est entourée par l'Italie, membre fondateur de l'Union européenne. L'État de la Cité du Vatican est avant tout le territoire du Saint-Siège, institution suprême de l'Église catholique. Si le Vatican n'est pas membre de l'Union européenne, il entretient avec celle-ci, ainsi qu'avec les pays qui en sont membres, des relations diplomatiques,...

Le recul des glaciers de l’Arctique trace un nouveau passage pour la flotte de commerce entre l’Asie et l’Europe. Un raccourci établi dans un contexte géopolitique sous tension, révélant les nouvelles ambitions sino-russes dans le commerce maritime et fragilisant l'écosystème qu'il traverse.