Si par le passé les politiques n’étaient que rarement inquiétés pour leurs pas de côté avec la légalité, aujourd’hui plusieurs d’entre eux sont rattrapés par la justice. Le journal suisse “Le Temps” y voit l’“aboutissement d’une exigence de probité nouvelle” de la part de l’électorat français.

Attendees wait in line outside the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. | Graeme Slona/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers who are political junkies, and Washington insiders hooked on technology. If this email has been forwarded to you but you're not a subscriber, sign up here so you can get that pure, uncut Regulator every Wednesday, straight from the source (aka me). I was taking Friday off in Maine when two major pieces of tech news dropped: first, the White House released its framework for a comprehensive national AI bill with the intent of passing it through Congress. (Hayden Field, our AI reporter,...

The former Uber exec is a Perplexity guy.

You've probably heard the US government has banned foreign-made consumer Wi-Fi routers over national security fears.
You might be wondering: WTF is going on?
Just another day in America under Donald Trump and FCC chairman Brendan Carr. You're probably fine for now, but if you want to know why there's so much chaos, read on.
The government's not taking away my router, right? No, you can keep using your router in the United States of America no matter where it was made - the FCC is crystal-clear about that. You can even go buy a replacement: "Consumers will continue to be able to purchase previously authorized routers," it writes.
Is the …
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L’annonce de l’ouverture d’une enquête, en France, sur l’ancien patron de Frontex pour complicité de crimes contre l’humanité fait réagir la presse de gauche en Europe. Pour la première fois, un tribunal national se penche sur “l’éventuelle responsabilité d’un haut fonctionnaire de l’UE pour les pratiques abominables qui ont lieu en Méditerranée”.

The jury in a landmark trial testing claims about social media addiction against Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube determined that the two companies failed to warn users about the risks of using their products. The jury found the companies' negligence was a substantial factor in harms like the mental health issues sustained by a now 20-year-old woman Kaley G.M., who used Instagram and YouTube. The jury ordered both companies to pay a total of $3 million in compensatory damages, with Meta responsible for 70 percent of that balance, according to jurors' responses shared by a firm representing plaintiffs including Kaley. Jurors found that …
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Arnaque amoureuse : comment une faux lien sentimental et des images crédibles piègent une victime sur les applis. Le pirate est une femme !

Ce verdit inédit crée un précédent pour des milliers de plaignants qui accusent les grandes plateformes d’être responsables d’une épidémie d’addiction aux réseaux sociaux.

Showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi explained how their new Apple TV space show is different from the old one.

The Earth's magnetosphere reportedly performs beyond expectations.

In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. They even disabled their own functionality when gaslit by humans.

The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

“We respectfully disagree with the verdict and are evaluating our legal options," said Meta.

The verdict marks the end of a five-week trial on the addictive nature of social media platforms.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launches on May 21st. | Image: Nintendo Nintendo is planning to charge less for digital titles exclusive to the Switch 2 starting in May, the company announced on Wednesday. The new pricing is already in effect for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, which costs $59.99 to preorder a digital copy and $69.99 for the physical version.
In its announcement, Nintendo says both physical and digital copies of its Switch 2 games will offer the same experiences, adding that the price change "simply reflects the different costs associated with producing and distributing each format." It's not clear if Nintendo is tweaking prices in other regions, however, as Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is stil...

The new CDC report found that the new variant has spread to 25 U.S. states and 23 countries worldwide.

Afro Dandyism, Blaxploitation Glam, and Haitian Revival are among the original names Shane V. Charles has coined for aesthetics rooted in the African diaspora, forming the basis of her upcoming book.When I first saw Shane V. Charles’s Instagram posts defining original decor styles drawn from references across the African diaspora, it felt like she was describing the homes I had always imagined but never had the language for. Over the past year and a half, the Chicago- and Los Angeles-based interior designer and founder of Mild Sauce Studio has introduced her social media following of nearly 90,000 on Instagram and over 150,000 on TikTok to a range of what she calls "interior identities" with names she...

The refreshed midcentury is set in Six Moon Hill, a landmark, progressive neighborhood designed by the eight members of the Architects Collaborative for their friends and families.Location: 32 Moon Hill Rd, Lexington, Massachusetts Price: $1,950,000 Year Built: 1950 Architect: The Architects Collaborative Footprint: 2,220 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 0.49 Acres From the Agent: "Nestled within a nationally recognized midcentury-modern enclave, this historically significant home offers curated features throughout. The sunlit foyer features a window seat and double closet. A living room with a fireplace and built-in desk flows into the spacious dining room. The chef’s kitchen features...

The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options.

"The root inspiration was how enchanted I was seeing folk houses during trips to Japan through the years," says Scott Stultz. "I thought, ‘This part of Maine is in some ways a lot like Japan: heavily forested and dominated by the sea.’"Designer Scott Stultz waited a long time for the opportunity to design and build his own house from scratch—in many ways, it’s the culmination of his 30-plus-year-long career. Trained in environmental design and architecture, he has conceived custom kitchens, furniture, baths, and residential interiors as the founder of Scott A. Stultz & Associates, and as a consulting designer for other brands. Scott and his partner, Ina Schonberg, started looking for a place to call...

“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.

The JBL Bar 500MK2 boasts Dolby Atmos support and easy setup and streaming.

X wants to make money on previously used handles. | Image: The Verge X's Head of Product, Nikita Bier, announced a change to the platform's creator payouts on Tuesday, but according to Elon Musk, the change isn't going live just yet. Bier shared a post announcing that in determining payments, X "will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region." The motivation appears to be discouraging engagement farming via political posts, with Bier adding that, "While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts." Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we...

L’artiste congolais de 39 ans est entendu dans le cadre d’une « commission rogatoire de juges d’instruction », suivie par le Pnaco, après une information du site « Africa Intelligence ».

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

New gear for spring cleaning just got cheaper. Don't miss these discounted robot vacuums, stick vacuums, and hand vacs.

Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such as Coca-Cola, Radio Shack, GE, E. W. Scripps, and the media giant Belo Corporation. So what did all these companies want, and why didn’t it catch on? If you are old enough, you might remember the :CueCat, but you probably thought it was Radio Shack’s disaster. They were simply investors.
The Big Idea
The :CueCat was a barcode scanner that, usually, plugged into a PC’s keyboard port (in those days, that was normally a PS/2 port). A special cable, often called a wedge, was like a Y-cable, allowing you to use your...

These Amazon Spring Sale picks actually deserve a spot in your yard.

Depuis plusieurs jours, dans les aéroports aux États-Unis, les temps d’attente sont « les plus longs de l’histoire », avec des passagers devant parfois piétiner pendant quatre heures. En cause, un blocage budgétaire à Washington qui empêche de payer les agents de sécurité. La situation pourrait ne pas être complètement revenue à la normale lors de l’ouverture de la Coupe du monde de football, dans moins de trois mois.

The mazelike floor plan culminates at a set of steps in a shared courtyard that doubles as a performance space.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: Solapur, India Architect: PMA Madhushala / @pma.madhushala Footprint: 1,991 square feet Builder: Ajit Wadekar and Krishnamurty Panchal Photographer: Hemant Patil From the Architect: "This house is designed for a small multigenerational family: a couple, their two children, and aging grandparents. The program reflects the family’s belief in vastu and includes three bedrooms along with essential facilities....

The US presenter says terrifying thoughts wake her at night as she imagines what happened.

À l’occasion de travaux, une dépouille est apparue dans la nef d’une église de Maastricht, ville néerlandaise où d’Artagnan a trouvé la mort il y a trois siècles et demi. Des indices concordants laissent à penser qu’il pourrait s’agir du célèbre mousquetaire, expliquent les médias néerlandais, mais seuls les résultats de l’analyse ADN permettront d’en avoir le cœur net.

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Après des années de galère avec un NAS bruyant puis un miniPC pas beaucoup mieux, j'ai fini par trouver la configuration Plex idéale.
Un Mac Mini M4
, deux
SSD Lexar SL500
, et le silence absolu. Retour d'expérience.
Le bruit, l'ennemi numéro un
J'ai un serveur Plex depuis des années. Un serveur que je partage avec ma famille et mes amis les plus proches, et qui me sert à stocker des films et des séries souvent introuvables sur les plateformes légales, ou des versions numérisées de DVD et Blu-Ray que j'ai achetés, mais que je veux pouvoir streamer sur mon Apple TV. Vous voyez l'idée. Pendant longtemps, tout ça tournait sur un NAS Synology d'entrée de...

Plusieurs journaux américains affirment depuis le début de la guerre que les Saoudiens seraient d’ardents partisans de la guerre contre l’Iran, malgré les dénégations de Riyad. Le prince héritier saoudien, Mohammed ben Salmane, craindrait par-dessus tout une guerre “inachevée” qui laisserait les pétromonarchies seules face à un régime iranien toujours plus menaçant.

“Last summer, scientists in China reported promising results from clinical tests of a new drug for people with the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The compound, rentosertib, performed well in the phase 2 trial, being safe and well tolerated, and is set for phase 3 and possible approval. So far so good. But why has this drug been labeled as a breakthrough that could ‘change drug discovery forever’? The answer is that it was discovered not by a diligent chemist or through an arduous trial-and-error assay but by several smart artificial intelligence (AI) models. Both the drug target and the small-molecule compound were identified by generative AI platforms from Insilico Medicine in Boston,...

When a Virginia jury ordered internet provider Cox to pay $1 billion in damages for failing to take appropriate actions against pirating subscribers, shockwaves rippled through the ISP industry.
The verdict, in favor of major record labels including Sony and Universal, was a catalyst for many other ‘repeat infringer’ lawsuits. This resulted in yet more multi-million dollar claims and awards, with many still in the pipeline today.
Meanwhile, Cox did everything it could to fight the verdict, all the way up to the Supreme Court, which formally heard the case last December. The panel had to decide whether an ISP can be held liable for not taking any action in response to piracy notices, which which the Court...

“A line of electric vehicles (EVs) plugged into rechargers as their drivers wait patiently for their batteries to be topped up has become a familiar sight at many service stations. Though some of the latest EVs can recharge in 20 minutes, many take much longer. Yet some EV drivers could soon be back on the road much more quickly. Companies are developing ultra-fast charging systems which can refill a battery almost as fast as a fossil-fuel car can be filled up. Rapid recharging could dispel one of the last remaining obstacles to widespread EV adoption. One such system will be unveiled in Paris on April 8th by BYD, a Chinese firm that is the world’s biggest EV maker. It consists of a powerful 1,500kW...

The US congressman responded to a BBC Newsnight interview with a group of survivors of the late financier's abuse.

“The population of monarch butterflies in Mexico increased 64% this winter, compared with the same period in 2025, offering a glimmer of hope for an insect considered at risk of extinction. The figures, released this week by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mexico, showed that the area occupied by monarchs expanded to 2.93 hectares (7.24 acres) of forest from 1.79 hectares (4.42 acres) the previous winter, the largest coverage since 2018.” From The Guardian.
The post Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Population Jumps 64 Percent appeared first on Human Progress.

Faux freelances, pubs opaques, applis massives : comment l’espionnage économique vise la France au quotidien.

Un mec de 54 ans vient de plaider coupable pour avoir siphonné 8 millions de dollars aux artistes musicaux en utilisant 10 000 bots et de la musique générée par IA. Michael Smith, résident de Cornelius en Caroline du Nord, a monté pendant des années une ferme à streams qui écoutait en boucle des centaines de milliers de fausses chansons sur Spotify et Apple Music.
Le truc, c'est que ces plateformes ne paient pas un tarif fixe par écoute. Elles fonctionnent avec un pot commun mensuel qu'elles redistribuent proportionnellement au nombre de streams. Du coup, chaque fausse écoute générée par les bots de Smith grignotait directement la part des vrais artistes. En gros, c'est pas Spotify qui se faisait...

“Scientists have used stem cells to make bioengineered oesophagi that they successfully implanted into pigs, restoring the animals’ ability to swallow and eat. Similar lab-grown structures could be used to treat people with cancer and other conditions affecting the muscular tube that connects the throat to the stomach, researchers say. Paolo De Coppi, a paediatric surgeon and researcher at University College London, says his team has been investigating minimally invasive ways to treat children born with a large hole in their oesophagus, a condition called long-gap oesophageal atresia. The current treatment is to move the child’s stomach up to their neck and join it directly to the back of their throat,...

Tech has a problem, an e-waste problem. Google is a common offender when it comes to this, creating a product just to end support a couple of years later. Thankfully, there are some lasting capabilities left in their defunct Stadia controllers. After hearing about these capabilities, [Bringus Studios] managed to turn this future e-waste into something new: a Bluetooth adapter for game controllers.
To give some credit to Google, once they announced the Stadia program was winding down, they released an updated firmware that let you use the controller as a generic Bluetooth gamepad. But there was also a rather unusual feature added — if another controller is connected to it via USB, its output will be passed...

Selon la police portugaise, les corps ont été retrouvés « enterrés dans un lieu isolé ». Une information judiciaire pour « enlèvement et séquestration de plusieurs personnes » avait été ouverte vendredi. L’homme de 42 ans, actuel compagnon de l’une des victimes et ancien de l’autre, a été arrêté avec son fils, âgé de 12 ans, et sa fille, de bientôt 2 ans.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Today, I’m pleased to have with me Steven Pinker, a world-renowned Harvard University psychologist and author of best-selling books including The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Enlightenment Now, and of course, most recently, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. Highly recommend all of them. Let’s start at a high level and look at how Americans think about the country. Gallup shows that 80 percent of Americans are either satisfied or very satisfied with their lives, but only 20 percent are satisfied with the way that America is going. That’s a bit of a discrepancy. What does a psychologist have to say about that? It’s a...

SynthID, le filigrane invisible que Google injecte dans chaque image Gemini, c'était censé être incassable. Sauf qu'un dev a eu l'idée toute bête de générer des images noires et blanches avec Gemini, puis de regarder ce qui restait dans le domaine fréquentiel. Et là, surprise... le watermark est apparu en clair avec toutes ses fréquences porteuses !
Le projet
reverse-SynthID
documente le truc de A à Z où on comprend en gros, que le marquage IA de Google fonctionne en injectant de l'énergie à des fréquences bien précises dans le spectre de l'image via une
transformation de Fourier
. Le chercheur a identifié 6 fréquences porteuses principales, toutes avec une cohérence de phase supérieure à...

Des chercheurs de l'université de Californie du Sud viennent de publier une étude improbable : demander à un modèle d'IA de jouer les experts dégrade ses performances sur les tâches factuelles. Commencer un prompt par "Tu es un expert en programmation" produit de moins bons résultats que de poser la question directement.
Le piège du "tu es un expert"
L'étude, intitulée "Expert Personas Improve LLM Alignment but Damage Accuracy", a mesuré l'impact des instructions de rôle sur les réponses des modèles de langage.
Sur le benchmark MMLU, qui teste les connaissances générales et le raisonnement, les modèles avec une persona d'expert ont obtenu 68 % de bonnes réponses contre 71,6 % sans aucune...

Emily Gregory’s projected victory comes in a legislative district which a Republican candidate won by 19 percentage points in 2024.

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

Dirt 3 qui passe de 110 à 860 FPS sous nunux, non, j'ai pas fumé la moquette ! En fait c'est surtout grâce au fameux module de synchronisation kernel NTSYNC promis avec
Wine 11
qui est enfin dispo dans certaines distros. Et la bonne nouvelle c'est que les premiers benchmarks développeurs viennent de tomber, donc on va regarder ça ensemble !
Concrètement, Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04 et SteamOS 3.7.20 beta embarquent maintenant le module par défaut avec le kernel 6.14. Du coup Resident Evil 2 bondit de 26 à 77 FPS, Call of Juarez grimpe de 99 à 224 FPS, et Tiny Tina's Wonderlands passe de 130 à 360. Et Call of Duty Black Ops est maintenant devenu... jouable ! Woohoo !
Alors attention, ces benchmarks...

The Linux world is currently seeing an explosion in new users, thanks in large part to Microsoft turning its Windows operating system into the most intrusive piece of spyware in modern computing. For those who value privacy and security, Linux has long been the safe haven where there’s reasonable certainty that the operating system itself isn’t harvesting user data or otherwise snooping where it shouldn’t be. Yet even after solving the OS problem, a deeper issue remains: the hardware itself. Since around 2008, virtually every Intel and AMD processor has included coprocessors running closed-source code known as the Intel Management Engine (IME) or AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP).
M1 MacBook Air, now...

Phishing UPS : faux avis de livraison, domaine piégé, tokens opaques et signaux utiles pour repérer l’arnaque.

Hormis une opération visant plusieurs candidats « insoumis » dans la dernière ligne droite du scrutin, les manœuvres d’immixtion ont été rares et peu efficaces.

La Maison Blanche a refusé de confirmé l’existence de ce plan pour un cessez-le-feu, rapporté par plusieurs médias. Israël a annoncé l’élargissement de sa présence militaire dans le sud du Liban.

Once upon a time, they told us we wouldn’t download a car, and they were wrong. Later, Zero Motorcycles stated in their FAQ that you cannot hack an electric motorcycle, a statement which [Persephone Karnstein] and collaborator [Mitchell Marasch] evidently took issue with. Not only can you hack an electric motorcycle, it is — in [Persephone]’s words — a security nightmare.
You should absolutely go over to [Persephone]’s website and check out the whole write-up, which is adapted from a talk given at BSides Seattle 2026. There’s simply way more detail than we can get into here. Everything from “what horridly toxic solvents would I need to unpot this PCB?” to the scripts used in de-compiling and...

Dans un long article publié le 12 mars, le Los Angeles Times révèle une tendance émergente en Californie : des travailleurs sont désormais rémunérés pour filmer leurs tâches quotidiennes, transformées en données précieuses pour entraîner les robots de demain. Derrière ces gestes ordinaires se développe un marché en pleine expansion, porté par les ambitions de l’IA physique, mais qui repose sur une main-d’œuvre précaire, invisible et mondialisée.

As the weather becomes less predictable, we need forecasts that are better at telling us what we don’t know.

In a new memoir, Minnelli discusses her life more candidly than she has before. But her truest self has always emerged on stage.

France has been at the forefront of the fight against online piracy for years. It pioneered the three-strikes “graduated response” system back in 2009, where the Hadopi agency tracked, warned, and fined online pirates, mostly those using BitTorrent. As piracy shifted to streaming, however, enforcement became more complicated. Unlike BitTorrent, IPTV services don’t broadcast users’ IP addresses publicly, which has made individual subscribers difficult to identify and prosecute.
However, IPTV operators and resellers keep records. When investigators reach those records, subscribers can find themselves exposed.
19 IPTV Subscribers Fined
Last week, the French football league LFP announced that the Arras...

After a lot of debugging, [Seth Kushniryk] has managed to get the last issuess shaken out of his port of MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple II, and has released the project to the public. If you have the requisite AD8088 or similar co-processor expansion card with onboard x86 CPU, this should be all you need to get started.
Although this co-processor card contains effectively a self-contained x86 system, its only I/O goes via the expansion bus, so it has to play nice with the 6502 CPU of the Apple II system. When we last reported on [Seth]’s efforts he had just managed to get MS-DOS 2.0 booting and basically in a barebones working state.
Since then he’s been working on the bridge program that provides communication...