The US president said video of crosses on the road was evidence of the scale of attacks on white farmers.

The wireless GameCube controller that’s for use exclusively with the Nintendo Switch 2 can now be pre-ordered by those who have a Switch Online account. The controller costs $64.99, and is currently limited to one per account. For those who’ve bought one, you’ll get it on Switch 2’s launch date, which is June 5th. There’s no waiting room this time, unlike Nintendo’s previous rollout of preorders on May 13. While GameCube controller support on the original Switch is nothing new (made possible thanks to the GameCube controller plug-to-USB adapter, or with newer third-party USB versions based on the original controller’s design), game support for the new wireless version is quite a bit more limited....

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Le président russe, qui s’est rendu mardi dans l’oblast de Koursk, avait déjà évoqué à plusieurs reprises la nécessité de créer une telle zone. Il n’a pas précisé quelle forme elle pourrait prendre. Le chef de la diplomatie ukrainienne a dénoncé des « déclarations agressives ».

RIP to a real one(-cent coin).

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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the handy bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later. The organization announced that Pocket will stop working on July 8th, 2025, as Mozilla begins concentrating its “resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.” Following the shutdown, you’ll only be able to export saves until October 8th, 2025, which is when Mozilla will permanently delete user data. Mozilla says it will start automatically canceling subscriptions as well, and will issue prorated refunds to users subscribed to its annual plan on July 8th. It has also taken down the Pocket web extension and app as of May 22nd, 2025, but users who have already...

Celestial Park, the connecting hub of Universal's new park, doesn't have any splashy franchise theming, but it does have an adorable bear.

Walmart (WMT) is eliminating roughly 1,500 jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported, in what CEO John Furner described as “opportunities to remove layers and complexity” in a memo to staff titled “Building the Future.” Read more...

A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

At $479.99, the AirPods Max are now at their second-best price to date. From savings on big-ticket items like LG’s C4 OLED TVs to smaller ones like the Garmin Forerunner 265, there are plenty of great Memorial Day deals to shop right now – many of which we’ve gathered in our roundup of the best Memorial Day deals. Here’s another good one: the AirPods Max with USB-C are currently available for $479.99 in multiple colors at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart – their best price since January, and just $30 shy of their all-time low. The AirPods Max are among our favorite wireless headphones, delivering excellent sound quality (the recent addition of lossless audio makes them even better). Their active noise...

New drugs being explicitly developed to treat rare diseases are getting more expensive.Read more...

Trials suggested the dual shot was as or more effective than separate vaccines.

Astronomers found an exceptionally rare star system that formed through an elusive cosmic phenomenon.

What Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One lacked in narrative cohesion, it made up for by leaning into the reality that larger-than-life spectacle and Tom Cruise's enthusiasm for doing his own stunt work have always been the franchise's main draw. Even though the film's artificial intelligence-focused plot felt a little shaky, its action was thrilling, and it was obvious that Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie were trying to guide IMF agent Ethan Hunt's overarching story toward a conclusion that would satisfy longtime fans. It was also very clear that Dead Reckoning was just the first half of something bigger and even more ambitious. And while Paramount's original plan to release a sequel...

PinkPantheress “Girl Like Me”
I was always going to be an easy mark for this song, which substantially interpolates and updates Basement Jaxx’s classic “Romeo.” But I love where PinkPantheress goes with the underlying banger, making the Jaxx elements faster and more concentrated while adding a more melancholic melodic hook on the verses. Both songs cover essentially the same lyrical ground – realizing you’re unhappy with your relationship and want more than you’re getting. But whereas the implication of “Romeo” is that the person being addressed used to be incredibly romantic, poor PinkPantheress doesn’t even have that to look back on with some fondness.
Buy it from Amazon.
L’Eclair...

Meta is beginning to test showing 3D photos on Instagram if you’re looking at your feed on a Meta Quest VR headset. “Thanks to our AI view synthesis algorithms, we can transform the existing photos that show up in Instagram feed pixel by pixel – no fancy 3D cameras required,” Meta says in a blog post. “That means flat photos that weren’t originally captured in 3D will automatically be converted into an immersive format that gives 2D images a sense of depth when you view them on Quest.” The test starts this week. “Not everyone will have access to 3D Instagram photos on Quest – and even if you’re in the test group, you may not see it right away,” Meta says. And it’s not the first time...

Jeudi 22 mai, le gouvernement britannique a signé un accord qui attribue la souveraineté de cet archipel situé dans l’océan indien à l’île Maurice. Cependant, le Royaume-Uni conservera une base militaire sur place.

A group of global tech giants gathered in Abu Dhabi to pose for a photo as an AI supergroup, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison, Nvidia’s (NVDA) Jensen Huang, and Chuck Robbins of Cisco (CSCO), along with their new UAE partners. Read more...

En l’espace de douze mois, la migration nette vers le Royaume-Uni, soit la différence entre le nombre d’immigrants et le nombre d’émigrants, a chuté de moitié, selon les chiffres officiels dévoilés ce 22 mai. Les conservateurs s’en attribuent le “mérite”, mentionnant la série de restrictions introduites par le gouvernement de Rishi Sunak.

Plaidoyer pour une femme victime de l’oppression masculine, le quatrième long-métrage du cinéaste iranien pousse à fond les manettes du drame, oubliant parfois la nuance des sentiments.

The aid, including flour and baby food, was picked up three days after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade.

As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.

Après la vaste opération lancée mardi dans 66 établissements pénitentiaires, les investigations sur « cette filière de distribution » en prison des téléphones portables miniatures se poursuivent désormais sous la direction d’un juge d’instruction.

We’re tremendously excited to be able to announce that the Hackaday Supercon is on for 2025, and will be taking place October 31st through November 2nd in Pasadena, California.
Supercon is about bringing the Hackaday community together to share our great ideas, big and small. So get to brainstorming, because we’d like to hear what you’ve been up to! Like last year, we’ll be featuring both longer and shorter talks, and hope to get a great mix of both first-time presenters and Hackaday luminaries. If you know someone you think should give a talk, point them here.
The Call for Participation form is online now, and you’ve got until July 3rd to get yourself signed up.
Honestly, just the people that...

DOGE tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous “Fork in the Road” email.

Several homes were destroyed and cars caught fire after the private aircraft crashed, forcing the evacuation of 100 people.

When Anthropic's older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, the team noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

Ahead of her new album and tour, pop titan Kesha says she wants to start a new platform called Smash that helps artists connect, collaborate, and collectively heal the wounds of the past.

Getting access to popular weight loss drugs will be simpler and cheaper for some.Read more...

La Commission européenne envisage d'imposer un coût de deux euros sur chaque petit colis arrivant dans l'Union européenne - Crédits : simonkr / iStock Pourquoi cette mesure et pourquoi maintenant ? Les plateformes ultra bon marché comme Temu ou Shein inondent l’Europe de petits colis en provenance de Chine, livrés directement à domicile en quelques jours. C’est précisément ce que Bruxelles souhaite désormais encadrer. À l’initiative notamment de la France, la Commission européenne a proposé, le 20 mai, d’instaurer des frais de deux euros par colis de "faible valeur", c’est-à-dire ceux dont le montant est inférieur à 150 euros. Ces frais, à la charge des plateformes, ne constituent...

Selon une enquête Eurobaromètre sur la santé mentale menée en octobre 2023, 46 % des Européens ont rencontré un problème émotionnel ou psychosocial au cours des douze derniers mois - Crédits : Nataliia Prachova / iStock Un enjeu de société dont la résonance ne cesse de croître. Dans son discours sur l’état de l’Union européenne de 2022, la présidente de la Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, avait fait part de son intention de présenter "une nouvelle initiative sur la santé mentale" en 2023. Un engagement qu'elle a tenu. Le 7 juin 2023, l'exécutif européen a adopté une communication sur une approche globale en matière de santé mentale. Son objectif : aider les États membres et les...

Microsoft (MSFT) has reportedly implemented internal email filters that restrict messages containing terms such as “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “genocide.” The move, which Microsoft described as part of an effort to limit mass, non-work-related messages, has sparked accusations of censorship and bias — particularly amid…Read more...

Cinquante-cinq hommes ont été arrêtés en France, soupçonnés d’avoir participé à un vaste réseau pédocriminel via Telegram, une messagerie chiffrée devenue la nouvelle plaque tournante de contenus illégaux....

Le rapport sur les Frères musulmans et l’islamisme en France, débattu mercredi 21 mai au sein d’un Conseil de défense à l’Élysée, est aussi très médiatisé à l’étranger. La presse internationale voit l’exécutif français “tirer la sonnette d’alarme” sur un sujet des plus inflammables.

BBC Verify analysed footage, gathered witness testimony and spoke to munitions and legal experts to examine how one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals came under Israeli attack.

Depuis janvier 2025, la CNIL a infligé pour 104 000 euros d’amendes via sa procédure simplifiée, ciblant en majorité des pratiques abusives de surveillance des salariés au sein des entreprises françaises....

Le président américain a donné le tournis en jonglant avec les milliards tout au long de son périple effectué du 13 au 16 mai en Arabie saoudite, au Qatar et aux Émirats arabes unis. Mais il s’agit largement d’effets d’annonce et de chiffres dont il faut se méfier. Certains titres de la presse internationale ont tenté de démêler le vrai du faux et la réalité des fanfaronnades.

Alors que les attaques israéliennes ont tué plus de 50 personnes, jeudi, selon la défense civile palestinienne, l’ONU a constaté qu’aucun convoi humanitaire n’a pu entrer dans l’enclave. La veille, « environ 90 camions », transportant notamment de la nourriture pour bébé, ont pu y entrer, dont certains ont été « interceptés » par des habitants menacés par la famine.

“Famines are still a major global problem. From 2020 to 2023 alone, they caused over a million deaths. Yet the long-term trend shows significant progress. In the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, it was common for famines to kill over 10 million people per decade. This was true as recently as the 1960s, when China’s Great Leap Forward became the deadliest famine in history. But as you can see in the chart, that number has dropped sharply, to about one to two million per decade. This improvement is even more striking given that the world’s population has grown substantially.” From Our World in Data.
The post Famines Kill Far Fewer People Today than They Did in the Past appeared first on Human...

If you work with virtual machines, perhaps to spin up a clean OS install for testing, historically you have either bitten the bullet and used one of the commercial options, or spent time getting your hands dirty with something open source. Over recent years that has changed, with the arrival of open source graphical applications for effortless VM usage. We’ve used GNOME Boxes here to make our lives a lot easier.  Now KDE are also joining the party with Karton, a project which will deliver what looks very similar to Boxes in the KDE desktop.
The news comes in a post from Derek Lin, and shows us what work has already been done as well as a roadmap for future work. At the moment it’s in no way production...

“For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1% in the latest 12 months. Electricity supply from new wind, solar and nuclear capacity was enough to cut coal-power output even as demand surged, whereas previous falls were due to weak growth. The analysis, based on official figures and commercial data, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable, or falling, for more than a year. However, they remain only 1% below the latest peak, implying that any...

Le 20 mai, une dizaine de personnes, dont un Vietnamien et un Birman, ont été expulsées vers le Soudan du Sud, en dépit de la situation de guerre civile qui y perdure. Cette expulsion suscite des inquiétudes concernant la sécurité et les droits humains des individus renvoyés.

“The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the species to reproduce. Now, scientists have mapped the entire genome of a northern white rhino. This represents a crucial step toward bringing the critically endangered species back from the edge using advanced reproductive technologies. The complete genome can be used as a reference to analyze the health of previously developed northern white rhinoceros stem cells. Eventually, those stem cells may be able to generate sperm and eggs to yield new rhinos.” From ScienceDaily.
The post Genome of Northern White Rhino Offers Hope of Revival appeared first on Human Progress.

“It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland. In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that wouldn’t make it out of the lab. ‘All these people came to him,’ said Alex Lau, CEO of InventWood, ‘He’s like, OK, this is amazing, but I’m a university professor. I don’t know quite what to do about it.’ Rather than give up, Hu spent the next few years refining the technology, reducing the time it took to make the material from more than a week to a few hours. Soon, it was ready to commercialize,...

August 2017 📷 #flashes

If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is another device that does this that is both very similar and very different from a battery: the fuel cell.
In a very simple way, you can think of a fuel cell as a battery that consumes the chemicals it uses and allows you to replace those chemicals so that, as long as you have fuel, you can have electricity. However, the truth is a little more complicated than that. Batteries are energy storage devices. They run out when the energy stored in the chemicals runs out. In fact, many batteries can take electricity and reverse the chemical reaction,...

Les voyageurs européens possèdent des droits pour voyager dans l'UE - Crédits : Alina Humeniuk / iStock Accédez directement à une rubrique Passeport ou carte d'identité ? Droits des passagers aériens Droits des passagers ferroviaires Droits des voyageurs par bateau Droits des voyageurs à mobilité réduite Contenu des bagages Voyager en voiture Soins de santé Téléphonie mobile En cas de problème Partir avec son animal de compagnie Voyager : passeport ou carte d'identité ? Tout d'abord, en tant que citoyen de l'Union européenne vous n'avez pas besoin de posséder un visa pour vous rendre dans l'un des 27 États membres de l'UE pour voyager ou travailler. Cela reste valable quelle que soit la...

A major milestone.

“The CRISPR family’s most versatile member has made its medical debut: a cutting-edge gene-editing technique known as prime editing has been used to treat a person for the first time. The recipient is a teenager with a rare immune disorder. Researchers designed the treatment to correct a mutation that causes chronic granulomatous disease, a dangerous condition that disables a variety of immune cells, including those called neutrophils. A month after the teenager received the treatment, he had experienced no serious side effects. And the therapy seemed to have restored the function of a crucial enzyme in two-thirds of his neutrophils — more than enough to provide a significant boost to his immune...

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– Article invité, rédigé par Vincent Lautier, contient des liens affiliés Amazon –
On ne va pas se mentir : entre deux notifs, trois livraisons Amazon et le syndrome du panier oublié, trouver un vrai bon cadeau pour la fête des mères peut vite virer au casse-tête. Alors, pour tous ceux qui s’y prennent à la dernière minute (je vous vois), voici un coup de cœur technophile tout simple : le cadre photo numérique Pexar, signé Lexar. Si vous le commandez tout de suite sur Amazon il devrait arriver à temps pour dimanche (oui dimanche c’est la fête des mères) !

L’intelligence artificielle s’impose dans les entreprises françaises, mais son usage caché inquiète les responsables de la sécurité informatique....

Plenty of consumer goods, from passenger vehicles to toys to electronics, get tossed out prematurely for all kinds of reasons. Repairable damage, market trends, planned obsolescence, and bad design can all lead to an early sunset on something that might still have some useful life in it. This was certainly the case for a sound system that [Bill] found — despite a set of good speakers, the poor design of the hardware combined with some damage was enough for the owner to toss it. But [Bill] took up the challenge to get it back in working order again.
Inside the DIY control unit.
The main problem with this unit is that of design. It relies on a remote control to turn it on and operate everything, and if that...

To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that contain allegedly infringing content.
For years, little was known about the scope of these copyright claims. That changed three years ago when the streaming platform published its first-ever transparency report.
The report showed that roughly 99% of all copyright claims on YouTube are handled through the Content ID system. Since many claims are automated, without human intervention, access is restricted to a few thousand vetted rightsholders.
4,564 Users, 2.2 Billion Claims
Published this week, YouTube’s latest Transparency Report shows that the number of automated claims continues to rise. In 2024, the streaming...

A historically Catholic American city considers the election of Leo XIV, a home-town Pontiff.

“R.F.K. Jr. got so much gas in his tank by doubting the authorities that now he is the authority,” the historian Daniel Immerwahr says. “And he's really ill-suited for that.”

Amid the destruction of America's public-health systems, Trump’s Surgeon General nominee believes that your wellness is yours alone to defend.

How do I put this . . . I want to make sure that you all look worse than me, physically.

Signé en 1995 puis entré en vigueur en juin 2000, cet accord constitue la base légale des relations entre l'UE et Israël - Crédits : MicroStockHub / iStock L’Union européenne se dit favorable à un réexamen de son accord d’association avec Israël. La question se posait avec acuité depuis les attaques du Hamas le 7 octobre 2023, qui ont fait près de 1 200 morts et 252 otages en Israël. En réponse, l’État hébreu a lancé une offensive militaire d’envergure sur Gaza, marquée par de nombreuses violations présumées du droit humanitaire. Une situation particulièrement fragile qui appelle des réponses devenues urgentes. Mardi 20 mai, Jean-Noël Barrot avait appelé à trouver des solutions....