“A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse. Scientists at the US biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences plan to “de-extinct” the prehistoric pachyderms by genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them woolly mammoth traits. They hope the first calf will be born by the end of 2028. Ben Lamm, co-founder and chief executive of Colossal, said the team had been studying ancient mammoth genomes and comparing them with those of Asian elephants to understand how they differ and had already begun genome-editing cells of the latter.” From The Guardian.
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President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already selected nominees and chairs for key agencies that oversee tech. This time, Trump has the backing of many tech billionaires who attended his inauguration and showed up at his home in Mar-a-Lago. Read on below as we keep track of all the ways Trump is leaving his mark on tech in his first 100 days in office. Now Trump tells Cabinet members they’re in...

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Apple has been told it has to allow alternative app stores on iOS in Brazil within 90 days, as reported by Brazilian publication Valor International and 9to5Mac. Apple has already been forced to allow third-party app stores on iOS in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. The judge who issued today’s ruling said that “Apple has already complied with similar obligations in other countries without demonstrating significant impact or irreparable harm to its economic model,” Valor reports. Brazil’s investigation into Apple began with a complaint filed by Mercado Livre in 2022. In November, Brazil gave Apple 20 days to let developers offer alternative in-app payment options and allow sideloading, but in...

'Huge reinforcements' are heading to the coastal province city of Jableh following reports of deadly clashes.

Le président américain a reporté au 2 avril une partie de la taxation des produits canadiens et mexicains. Un revirement qui n’a « rien à voir avec les marchés », a-t-il prétendu, alors que l’« effet Trump », la hausse des cours de la Bourse dans les semaines qui ont suivi son entrée en fonction, est désormais totalement effacé.

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Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it.

The tale of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect is one of those sad situations where a great product was used in an application that turned out to be a bit of a flop and was discontinued because of it, despite its usefulness in other areas. This article from the Guardian is a quick read on how this handy depth camera has found other uses in somewhat niche areas, with not a computer game in sight.
It’s rather obvious that a camera that can generate a 3D depth map, in parallel with a 2D reference image, could have many applications beyond gaming, especially in the hands of us hackers. Potential uses include autonomous roving robots, 3D scanning, and complex user interfaces—there are endless possibilities. Artists...

Read 'Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library' by Cadwell Turnbull, author of The Lesson; No Gods, No Monsters; and We Are the Crisis.

English-speaking Gundam fans won’t have to wait long before they can stream dubbed versions of the franchise’s newest (and most difficult to pronounce) series. Today, Amazon Prime announced that it has secured the rights to stream dubbed and subbed versions of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, a new show produced by studio Khara, directed by Kazyua Tsurumaki, and co-written by Hideaki Anno and Yōji Enokido. Beginning April 8th, Amazon will begin streaming Gundam GQuuuuuuX in over over 240 countries as new episodes of the show simultaneously debut on Japanese television. GQuuuuuuX making its Western debut on Amazon tracks with the streamer’s recent moves to add highly-anticipated, Japanese animation like Tatsuki...

We live in a golden age of gaming controllers. The gamepads on the market now are higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from just a few console generations ago. If you play on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you can choose between several high-quality controllers from Microsoft as well as a plethora of great options from the likes of 8BitDo, PowerA, Razer, Scuf, Nacon, and Turtle Beach, some of which have even started using drift-proof Hall effect sticks for improved longevity. The days of the cheap “little sibling” controller that looked cool but barely worked are over. We’ve spent a ton of time playing all kinds of games (first-person shooters, fighters,...

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Daredevil: Born Again kicked off with a banger this week—and a series of events that has fans scrambling to the comics for answers.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to vote on an inquiry to explore alternatives to GPS, FCC chair Brendan Carr says in a blog post. Carr says that while GPS has been “indispensable,” the technology “isn’t infallible” and that “disruptions to GPS have the potential to undermine the nation’s economic and national security.” Carr says that “we need to develop redundant technologies,” which is why the FCC will “vote on an inquiry to explore other Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems” that can serve as “complements or alternatives” to GPS. In addition to GPS, Carr also says the commission will vote on two proposals regarding 911 technology. One is “a...

Costco (COST) shoppers are on a bulk-buying spree, snapping up groceries, home furnishings and electronics, as the retailer defies growing concerns over rising tariffs and living costs.Read more...

Vous vouliez savoir comment on calcule les scores et le classement des équipes de rugby en Pro D2 ? Figurez-vous que c’est très simple.

A 17-year-old has been charged after being detained by crew and members of the public on a plane in Australia.

The U.S. should not create its own Manhattan Project for AI, because such a project would invite retaliation from adversaries.

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has long held anti-surveillance views. Now she oversees a key surveillance program she once tried to dismantle.

Nvidia (NVDA) stock fell 5.7% on Thursday, bringing its decline this year to more than 17% amid concerns about declines in spending on AI, amid a general selloff in that took the tech-centered Nasdaq 100 down 2.8%. The wider Composite index fell 2.6%.Read more...

Vanessa Marshall, Tiya Sircar, and Taylor Gray are teaming up for a Star Wars Rebels rewatch podcast.

Le chef de l’Etat a répété que la Russie constituait « une menace existentielle dans la durée pour l’ensemble des Européens » et souligné le fait que l’Ukraine menait une « guerre de résistance ». Il est intervenu à l’issue du Conseil européen au cours duquel les Vingt-Sept ont validé le plan Réarmer l’Europe visant à « accroître substantiellement les dépenses en matière de défense ».

Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.

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We’ve seen several methods of repairing plastic gears. After all, a gear is usually the same all the way around, so it is very tempting to duplicate a good part to replace a damaged part. That’s exactly what [repairman 101] does in the video below. He uses hot glue to form a temporary mold and casts a resin replacement in place with a part of a common staple as a metal reinforcement.
The process starts with using a hobby tool to remove even more of the damaged gear, making a V-shaped slot to accept the repair. The next step is to create a mold. To do that, he takes a piece of plastic and uses hot glue to secure it near a good part of the gear. Then, he fills the area with more hot glue and carefully...

U.S. stocks extended declines as markets reacted to ongoing tariff tensions and relief measures. As the day ended in New York, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 slid 1.7% and 2.6%, respectively, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.9%, or 427 points.Read more...

Big Pharma is pushing to bring back a tax break that could have saved them at least $15.4 billion in 2023 alone, according to a new analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and Lower Drug Prices Now (LDPN).Read more...

On Uncanny Valley this week, our hosts talk about the pronatalism movement, and how the push to increase birth rates is trending among some of Silicon Valley's biggest and wealthiest names.

D’ici à la fin de l’année, ces deux centres pénitentiaires de haute sécurité accueilleront les 200 trafiquants de drogue considérés comme les plus dangereux du pays.

Ces combats, qui ont lieu depuis plusieurs jours dans la région de Lattaquié, bastion de la minorité alaouite du président déchu, ont entraîné la mort de seize membres des forces de sécurité et de vingt-huit combattants « fidèles » au président déchu, selon l’OSDH.

The latest film releases include Mickey 17, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Night of the Zoopocalypse, and The Rule of Jenny Pen. Weighing in are Witney Seibold, contributor to SlashFilm and co-host of the podcast Critically Acclaimed, and Amy Nicholson, host of the podcast Unspooled and film reviewer for The Los Angeles Times. Mickey 17 In this sci-fi thriller from Oscar-winning Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite), Robert Pattinson plays a space mission volunteer who repeatedly dies and is resurrected. Seibold: “He does live in this future where he can just get reprinted. … All the people around him treat him like his life has no value. They send him on these dangerous missions. He falls down a crevasse...

Sly Lives!, A Real Pain, and Alien are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

With roughly two dozen hostages still alive, the Gaza ceasefire is in trouble. How is Trump impacting the negotiations?

Canada is the top export market for California wine. Trump’s threatened 25% tariffs on our northern neighbor have led some Canadian provinces to pull not just wine, but all American alcohol, from their shelves.

President Trump’s ambitious goal to deport 10 million immigrants faces legal challenges and pushback. What do the on-the-ground realities look like?

No, we've never had Russian neighbours.
You are the first.

Many of us use touch pads daily on our laptops, but rarely do we give much thought about what they really do. In fact they are a PCB matrix of conductive pads, with a controller chip addressing it and sensing the area of contact. Such a complex and repetitive pattern can be annoying to create by hand in an EDA package, so [Timonsku] has written a script to take away the work.
It starts with an OpenSCAD script (originally written by Texas Instruments, and released as open source) that creates a diamond grid, which can be edited to the required dimensions and resolution. This is then exported as a DXF file, and the magic begins in a Python script. After adjustment of variables to suit, it finishes with an...

Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

However the researchers say butterflies may be able to recover if urgent conservation measures are taken.

Banks “Delulu”
I’m sure plenty of people can and will take “Delulu” at face value, but it’s pretty clearly written as a parody of someone so utterly convinced their situationship with an indifferent guy is leading to something more profound, to the point that she’s frustrated her therapist to the point of being dropped as a client. Banks sounds like she’s having a good time with this song, hamming it up for the fun of it, but also to make it apparent she’s singing in character. But still, there’s enough potent emotion in how she sings “I only wanna be with you, I know we’re gonna see it through” that you could easily not clock the bitter irony of the next line in the chorus being...

If you’re coming to Hackaday Europe 2025, you’ve got just over a week to get your bags packed and head on out to Berlin. Of course you have tickets already, right? And if you were still on the fence, let us tempt you with our keynote talk and some news about the Friday night meetup, sponsored by Crowd Supply. But first, the keynote! You might know David Cuartielles as one of the four founders of Arduino. As a telecommunications engineer and doctor in design, he has devoted the last 25 years to experimenting with different educational models centered on the creation of interactive artifacts and platforms.
His talk, “What if the future (of electronics) was compostable?”, asks the question of whether or...

La Cour suprême du Japon a innocenté la direction de l’opérateur d’électricité Tepco, accusée d’être responsable de l’accident de 2011. Cette décision pourrait avoir de profondes répercussions dans un contexte de retour du nucléaire, s’inquiète la presse nippone.

Les taux auxquels le pays – mais aussi toute l’Europe – emprunte s’envolent, mettant en avant l’étrange impuissance de la Banque centrale européenne.

Si Téhéran a salué l’appel historique à déposer les armes lancé à la fin de février par le chef de la guérilla kurde en Turquie, Abdullah Öcalan, les autorités iraniennes craignent que des membres du PKK rejoignent le PJAK, une organisation armée kurde qui lutte contre le régime iranien.

Dans une adresse télévisée aux Français, le président français a dénoncé la menace russe pour la sécurité européenne. Un discours qui a fait réagir la presse russe proche du Kremlin pour qui Emmanuel Macron “se sert de la Russie pour faire peur aux Français”, et dont la “rhétorique nucléaire” est “hautement belliqueuse”.

Contrairement à ce qu’affirmait le gouvernement thaïlandais, des pays tiers étaient prêts à accueillir une cinquantaine de demandeurs d’asile ouïgours, révèle l’agence Reuters. Bangkok a préféré les renvoyer vers la Chine.

Mardi 4 mars, les conservateurs et les sociaux-démocrates allemands ont proposé un vaste plan d’investissement de 500 milliards d’euros sur dix ans destiné à la modernisation des infrastructures. Un revirement dans la politique budgétaire de Berlin.

We’ll take a guess that most readers have a set of digital calipers somewhere close to hand right now. The cheapest ones tend to be a little unsatisfying in the hand, a bit crusty and crunchy to use. But as [Matthias Wandel] shows us, these budget tools are quite hackable and a lot more precise than they appear to be.
[Matthias] is perhaps best known around these parts for making machine tools using mainly wood. It’s an unconventional material for things like the CNC router he loves to hate, but he makes it work through a combination of clever engineering and a willingness to work within the limits of the machine. To assess those limits, he connected some cheap digital calipers to a Raspberry Pi by hacking...

Sarah Kempa’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk and DOGE’s firing of federal workers and conflicting orders regarding five accomplishments.

D'après l’économiste américain Nicholas Eberstadt nous sommes sur le point d’entrer dans une nouvelle ère de l’Histoire : une ère de la « dépopulation ». Mais qu'en est-il vraiment ? La Terre est-elle réellement sur le point de se « dépeupler » de ses êtres humains ? La réponse dans ce nouvel épisode.

Caroline Darian - who says she is her father's "forgotten victim" - is convinced he drugged and raped her.

Making the great ape great again.

– Article invité, rédigé par Vincent Lautier –
Alors je vous le dis tout de suite, ce test n’est pas rémunéré (et les liens ne sont même pas affiliés, c’est dire), mais Thomson nous a envoyé un exemplaire de ce téléviseur 43QG7C14 pour qu’on puisse le tester (et le garder, merci bien), et je dois attendre qu’on a été très surpris… on n’attendait pas grand-chose de ce téléviseur, et pourtant… autant le dire tout de suite : on a été bluffés. Une image fluide, une super télé pour gaming, une interface bien pensée… À ce prix-là, c’est clairement une très belle surprise.

Valerii Zaluzhnyi's comments come amid an apparent cooling of tensions between Kyiv and Washington.

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Le blog ici est entré il y a quelques jours dans sa 19e année. On y a parlé et on y parle, de multiples sujets. À tel point que certaines et certains sont pris de vertige. Dans la première année, alors que je discutais un jour d’anthropologie, une commentatrice s’est plainte ici : « Vous devriez vous concentrer plutôt sur ce que vous connaissez ? ». Jusque-là en effet, je n’avais fait qu’une seule chose : parler de finance, annoncer une crise majeure qui serait provoquée par un secteur obscur et sans grande importance économique : les prêts aux logement accordés aux gens de peu de moyens aux États-Unis. Je n’avais rien dit de la matière que j’avais...

More detentions will lead to more deaths, but the Trump Administration has options to conceal the losses.

I don’t think any other country has dog mayors or dog elected officials.