Mohamed Nour, qui était le président du conseil d’administration de la compagnie, liquidée depuis, sera jugé par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris pour homicides involontaires lors de ce procès.

You can salvage lithium 18650 cells from all sorts of modern gadgets, from disposable vapes to cordless power tools. The tricky part, other than physically liberating them from whatever they are installed in, is figuring out if they’re worth keeping or not. Just because an 18650 cell takes a charge doesn’t necessarily mean it’s any good — it could have vastly reduced capacity, or fail under heavy load.
If you’re going to take salvaging these cells seriously, you should really invest in a charger that is capable of running some capacity tests against the cell. Or if you’re a bit more adventurous, you can build this “Battery Health Monitor” designed by [DIY GUY Chris]. Although the fact that it...

« Rendez-vous avec Le Monde » : comme chaque mois, Gilles van Kote, directeur délégué aux relations avec les lecteurs, répond en direct aux questions des internautes sur la couverture de l’actualité et sur la vie du journal.

An art studio hopes its concept for a phone case that can flip around to cover most of your screen will help cure your screen addiction.

La campagne électorale devrait être très affectée par les décisions judiciaires concernant la candidate d’extrême droite, et, en cas de maintien en appel de la peine d’inéligibilité, pourrait se jouer sur le renouvellement générationnel.

Fini le rêve australien ? “The Telegraph” explore comment de nouvelles restrictions freinent l’installation des Britanniques en Australie, entre barrières immobilières et contraintes migratoires.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says US tariffs will see "uncertainty spiral" as world leaders react to Trump's announcement.

Le dirigeant israélien entame une visite de plusieurs jours dans le pays, à l’invitation de son allié Viktor Orban, bravant le mandat d’arrêt émis par la Cour pénale internationale.

Chercheuse au Peterson Institute, à Washington, la Suédoise Cecilia Malmström, ex-commissaire européenne au commerce, estime, dans un entretien au « Monde », que l’Europe devrait réagir plus fermement qu’elle ne l’a fait ces derniers jours à l’offensive de Donald Trump en matière de taxes.

If you call yourself a neat freak, you're really gonna love this list.View Entire Post ›

Apple, avec iOS 17, a lancé une technologie intéressante pour moi : DockKit. Elle permet de faire un suivi d’une personne en faisant littéralement bouger l’iPhone, qui doit être placé sur un support. J’avais parlé du modèle de Belkin, qui est essentiellement un kit de développement DockKit vendu 100 € pour le moment. Mais il y a beaucoup mieux que support de Belkin : les stabilisateurs Insta360 Flow Pro et Flow 2 Pro. Ils combinent les fonctions DockKit avec un système de stabilisation efficace. Ce test a un parti pris : je ne suis pas vidéaste et je suis incapable de faire de belles images avec un stabilisateur. Je vous conseille plus des vidéos de Youtubeur sur ce sujet, même si ce sont...

Landfills and recycling centers in five California counties are on the list of potential fire debris disposal sites.

Waymos Crash a Lot Less than Human Drivers
https://humanprogress.org/after-50-million-miles-waymos-crash-a-lot-less-than-human-drivers/

Min Aung Hlaing is scheduled to attend a summit of the seven countries that border the Bay of Bengal.

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Face à un contexte géopolitique tendu, Ursula von der Leyen, présidente de la Commission européenne, a dévoilé un plan ambitieux afin de moderniser la défense européenne. Mais comment l'Union européenne compte-t-elle financer cette montée en puissance sécuritaire sans aggraver sa situation financière déjà fragile ? Un plan de réarmement historique pour l'Europe
Le 4 mars 2025, Ursula von der Leyen a présenté « ReArm Europe », un programme destiné à renforcer la défense européenne face aux menaces croissantes, notamment liées à l'agression russe en Ukraine. Ce projet prévoit une enveloppe de près de 800 milliards d'euros à mobiliser d'ici 2030 pour moderniser les capacités...

Get 50% off select appliances, 15% off most regular-price items, free delivery, and other great savings today on WIRED.

There seems to be nothing a 555 can’t do. We’ve seen it before, but [electronzapdotcom] reminds us you can use a 555 and a few parts to make a reasonable touch switch. The circuit lives on a breadboard, as shown in the video below.
The circuit uses some very large resistors so that noise from your body can overcome the logic level on the trigger and threshold inputs. You can easily adapt this idea if you need a simple touch switch. Though we imagine this circuit wouldn’t work well if you were in a quiet environment. We suspect 50 or 60 Hz hum is coupling through your finger and triggering the pins, but it could be a different effect.
How reliable is it? Beats us. The circuit is a bistable, so...

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L'Offensive Antifasciste Bordeaux organise un concert en solidarité avec les militantEs antifascistes qui subissent la repression. -
Initiatives / Solidarité antifasciste, Bordeaux, Initiative culturelle

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Smartphone apps that track our driving behavior may be the key to safer road conditions.  The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety just published a study that found that using smartphone apps to monitor driver behavior, and then providing summaries of that behavior via text message or a data dashboard, leads to safer driving.  Researchers borrowed techniques from usage-based insurance (UBI) programs, in which insurance companies use smartphone apps to measure dangerous driving behaviors, like hard braking, sudden acceleration, and speeding. Rather than rely on actuarial data, like driving records and vehicle type, UBI programs use real-time data from app trackers to determine premiums. These are typically...

Le président américain a annoncé mercredi qu’il imposerait des droits de douane d’au moins 10 % sur toutes les importations aux États-Unis, avec des taux plus élevés pour des dizaines de pays, dont ceux de l’UE (20 %) et la Chine (34 %). Pour la presse européenne, les dégâts économiques seront lourds.

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Condamnée à une peine d’inéligibilité de cinq ans avec exécution provisoire, Marine Le Pen s’est empressée de fustiger la décision des juges. Ce faisant, la triple candidate à la présidence du pays laisse “transparaître au grand jour sa conception de l’État de droit”, analyse la “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, en Allemagne.

Apple, Amazon, and other tech companies reliant on global supply chains stand to lose the most from Trump's trade policies, but some software firms expect more demand for their services.

The plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportunities, but it’s fair to say that interfacing with them is more often done in the browser or an app than in the terminal. WattWise from [Naveen Kulandaivelu] is a tool which changes all that, it’s a command-line interface (CLI) for power monitoring smart plugs.
Written in Python, the tool can talk either directly to TP-Link branded smart plugs, or via Home Assistant. It tracks the power consumption with a simple graph, but the exciting part lies in how it can be used to throttle the CPU of a computer in order to use power at the points in the day when it is cheapest. You can find the code in a GitHub repository.
We like the...

After years of rumors, Nintendo has finally announced a release date for the Switch 2. The long-awaited successor to the Switch will be available on June 5th for $449.99, bringing a handing of games and accessories along with it. It will be available for preorder in the US from select retailers starting on April 9th, as both a standalone console and as a limited-edition bundle with Mario Kart World for $499.99. As predicted, the Switch 2 features a larger 7.9-inch LCD display, with support for 1080p resolution and HDR, 256GB of built-in storage, and up to 6.5 hours of battery life. The Joy-Cons are bigger, too, and now magnetically attach to the console instead of relying on a pair of sliding rails to snap...

Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba, Ariana Grande's Glinda, and more familiar Wizard of Oz characters star in the sequel musical, out in November.

The President’s one-man trade war was already hurting the economy. His expansive new tariffs will make things worse.

Tortoise “Oganesson”
I bought a copy of Tortoise’s TNT when I was a teenager in art school. It was highly acclaimed in the music magazines I read at the time, and very much the kind of CD you bought to be cool and smart in the late 1990s. I liked it well enough and it included at least two songs that I put on mix tapes for a while (partly so I could seem cool and smart), but it mostly went over my head. I had almost no context for jazz or fusion, though I think hearing TNT was crucial in getting started with those genres. Jump ahead a few decades, and now I do have a lot of necessary context for Tortoise and appreciate their music far more than I did when I was young. “Oganesson,” the first track the...

The sequel based on the hit horror game series and starring Josh Hutcherson lights up only in theaters this December.

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President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.

The first live-action How to Train Your Dragon arrives June 13, and now we know its story will continue.

Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?

La nouvelle ère protectionniste de Trump
Faire exploser le système commercial mondial a des conséquences que le président se garde bien d’annoncer.
Le président Trump a dévoilé mercredi ses nouveaux droits de douane pour le « jour de la libération », qui constituent un nouveau grand pas vers une nouvelle ère de protectionnisme commercial. En supposant que cette politique se maintienne – et nous espérons que ce ne sera pas le cas -, elle équivaut à une tentative de refonte de l’économie américaine et du système commercial mondial.
Tous les détails ne sont pas clairs à l’heure où nous écrivons ces lignes, mais les tarifs douaniers de M. Trump n’ont de « réciproque » que le nom....

Whatever your reason for searching for a VPN, we’re confident this deal will grab your interest.

Somewhere in the universe, there’s a place that lists every x86 operating system from scratch. Not just some bootloaders, or just a kernel stub, but documentation to build a fully functional, interrupt-handling, multitasking-capable OS. [Erik Helin and Adam Renberg] did just that by documenting every step in The Little Book About OS Development.
This is not your typical dry academic textbook. It’s a hands-on, step-by-step guide aimed at hackers, tinkerers, and developers who want to demystify kernel programming. The book walks you through setting up your environment, bootstrapping your OS, handling interrupts, implementing virtual memory, and even tackling system calls and multitasking. It provides just...

Russell T. Davies explains the scheduling that could either be perfectly timed, or the complete opposite.

Last week, Apple announced that lossless audio and ultra low latency would be coming to the AirPods Max with USB-C. It was a pleasant surprise for owners of Apple’s over-ear headphones, which have fallen behind the AirPods Pro in recent years when it comes to offering new features. The company briefly hit a snag in releasing the firmware update necessary for the AirPods Max to unlock these newfound capabilities, but resolved the issue on Wednesday afternoon. Firmware version 7E99 was supposed to arrive early this week alongside iOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4. But late in the day Tuesday, Apple added an unusual “coming soon” asterisk next to the AirPods Max on a support site that lists each device’s...

More than two hundred protests against Elon Musk and DOGE took place worldwide over the weekend. The staff writer Sarah Larson attended one.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is coming in the Switch 2's GameCube collection at launch. Before this morning, I knew I was going to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 but I didn’t know when. After watching Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct today, in which a purple block traced the GameCube’s stylized “G” logo, followed by high-res footage from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and F-Zero GX and an announcement that they’ll be playable at launch, I realized I’ll be doing my damndest to get it on day one. It was the cherry on top of a stellar presentation that made the console’s $449.99 price tag way easier to swallow. GameCube games are coming to the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) subscription’s Classic...

Investors greeted President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs less than enthusiastically, sending the Magnificent 7 and other stocks lower. Futures linked to the the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average point to a lower opening Thursday.Read more...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is basically a bigger, more capable Switch. The Switch 2 is here — well, almost. Nintendo took the wraps off its new console during its latest Direct event, providing us with a closer look at the $449.99 console ahead of its release on June 5th. In many ways, the sequel is a generational leap from the original console / handheld hybrid that rocked the gaming world over eight years ago. Nintendo is building upon the successful foundation it laid with the original Switch by offering a larger screen, more internal storage, and magnetic Joy-Con controllers that can operate like mice. It’s also introducing some new features, like GameChat, which lets players make...

President Donald Trump has finally announced his reciprocal tariffs, which are set to hit every country that trades with the U.S. — and will likely hurt American consumers. Read more...

Congrats to Gusto Bread, Strong Water, Tobin Shea of Redbird, Daniel Castillo of Heritage Barbeque, and Jon Yao of Kato.

Hims & Hers (HIMS) stock slid Wednesday, a day after the company announced new weight-loss drug offerings — an update that left investors unimpressed.Read more...

Sean Cassidy, chief executive officer at public relations firm DKC, spoke with NYSE (ICE) TV for a special video interview.Read more...

In the race to build the most capable LLMs, several tech companies have sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners.
Many of those companies are now being sued for alleged copyright infringement. The list includes Meta, which faces a class action lawsuit filed by authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden, among others.
This case has a clear piracy angle, as Meta used BitTorrent to download archives of pirated books to use as training material. Notably, the authors argue that, in addition to copying pirated books from Anna’s Archive and Z-Library, in the same process Meta also uploaded pirated books to third parties.
Last month,...

Happy Liberation Day to those who celebrate. The market appears to have belatedly joined the festivities.Read more...

Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly used keyboard shortcuts. But why stop there?
That’s what [Jeroen Brinkman] must have been thinking while creating the Programmer’s Macro Pad. Based on the Arduino Pro Micro, this hand-wired pad is unique in that a single press of any of its 16 keys can virtually “type” out multiple lines of text. In this case, it’s a capability that’s being used to prevent the user from having to manually enter in commonly used functions, declarations, and conditional statements.
For example, in the current firmware, pressing the “func” key will type out a boilerplate C function: int () { //
;
return 0;
}; // f It will also enter...

The best-selling author of “A Man Called Ove,” “Anxious People,” and the “Beartown” trilogy highlights four novels from his native Sweden that are making their English débuts this year.

New auto tariffs are supposed to be for “foreign” cars and parts, but no U.S.-made vehicle will escape the impact. Detroit’s obsession with big cars won’t help.

Democrats won a key Wisconsin Supreme Court race. The result is being seen as a rebuke of Elon Musk, who campaigned in the state and spent millions on the GOP candidate.

Bernie Krause’s thousands of hours of recordings reveal how climate change is affecting the natural world. His life and work are the subject of the documentary “The Last of the Nightingales.”

L’IA « agentique » chinoise.
Manus est un agent d’intelligence artificielle autonome développé par la startup chinoise Butterfly Effect, lancé le 6 mars 2025.
Conçu pour exécuter de manière indépendante des tâches complexes sans intervention humaine continue, Manus se distingue des chatbots traditionnels en planifiant et réalisant des projets complets, tels que l’analyse financière, la création de sites web, la planification de voyages et la gestion de plannings.
L’architecture de Manus repose sur un système multi-agents, intégrant plusieurs modèles d’IA spécialisés qui collaborent pour décomposer et accomplir des tâches complexes. Il utilise notamment des modèles comme Claude...

Souvent, je n’écris rien. Mais là, il faut mettre quelque chose. Je ne sais pas… « Salut l’artiste ? ». Oui, chapeau ! Chapeau bas !