Doxo, a relatively unknown bill payment platform, has allegedly been deceiving and scamming consumers for years through deceptive online marketing and shady business practices.Read more...

Rubrik, a Microsoft-backed company that makes data management software, went public on Thursday and the stock quickly soared 20% . Under the ticker symbol RBRK, the unicorn company priced its initial public offering at $32 per share. The stock opened at $38.60 per share. Read more...

Coca-Cola is betting that AI can help it pop. The beverage company has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft to streamline its workplace operations, manage costs, and improve productivity, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The partnership is valued at $1.1 billion. Read more...

Illustration: Beatrice Sala The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, is rolling out a program that warns organizations about potential ransomware attacks, CyberScoop reports. The program is currently running as a pilot and will be fully operational by the end of 2024. About 7,000 organizations have signed up for the pilot.
So far, CISA has issued 2,049 warnings since the pilot was launched in January 2023. “The warning pilot is focused on reducing the prevalence of ransomware by using our vulnerability scanning tools to let businesses know if they have vulnerabilities that need to be patched,” CISA Director Jen Easterly told CyberScoop. To get...

The Q6 isn’t known for top-tier gaming specs and ultra-deep black levels, but it offers a lot of TV for just $450. | Image: TCL Here at The Verge, we spend a lot of time reporting on pristine, high-end TV sets — including the latest panels from Sony, LG, and Samsung. That said, not everyone is in the market for a picture-perfect OLED panel or one purpose-built to reduce glare. Thankfully, TCL’s 65-inch Q6 QLED is a more economical option, one you can grab at Amazon and Best Buy today for $449.99 ($250 off), its lowest price to date. Despite being TCL’s entry-level Q Class panel, the Q6 offers a lot for its budget-friendly price tag. The quantum dot-enabled 4K panel is bright and color-accurate, with...

Image: VerticalHis Jekyll and Hyde moment might have evaporated with Universal’s ill-fated Dark Universe, but Russell Crowe hasn’t turned his back on horror: on the heels of The Pope’s Exorcist, which became a surprise Netflix smash, he’s got The Exorcism—an unrelated film that obviously shares some familiar themes.In The Exorcism, Crowe plays “a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film,” according to the film’s official description; from the looks of the first trailer, he gets to play the possessed person this time around! It’s also clear The Exorcism is very aware of horror-movie history—The Exorcist is one of Hollywood’s legendary “cursed”...

From Poor Things to Dune: Part One, here’s everything you need to watch on Hulu right now.

Phish “Evolve”
Last summer I went to see Phish and they played this song. The show was part of a week of Phish gigs at Madison Square Garden, and it was pretty easy to get an inexpensive ticket on a whim on the day of the gig. Phish is known for having very intense and obsessive fans, but Phish shows – and “jam band” shows more generally – are perfect for casual listeners. It’s a situation where knowing a lot of songs going in helpful, but also sets you up for disappointment since there’s no telling what the band might play beyond ruling out whatever they played at the few shows. You’re meant to show up and just go along for the ride. It’s like a musical rollercoaster that they make just...

In a Universe ruled by the harsh and unyielding laws of Physics, it’s often tempting to dream of mechanisms which defy these rigid restrictions. Although over the past hundred years we have made astounding progress in uncovering ways to work within these restrictions — including splitting and fusing atoms to liberate immense amounts of energy — there are those who dream of making reality a bit more magical. The concept of asymmetrical electrostatic propulsion is a major player here, with the EmDrive the infamous example. More recently [Dr. Charles Buhler] proposed trying it again, as part of his company Exodus Propulsion Technologies.
This slide from Dr. Buhler’s APEC presentation shows the custom-made...

Dans l’allocution qu’il a prononcée jeudi 25 avril à Paris, le président de la République a appelé à muscler la défense de l’Union et à doubler le budget communautaire pour ouvrir la voie à une « Europe puissance ».

Victims group describes the New York appeal court's decision to retry Hollywood mogul as "profoundly unjust".

The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?

“What homework?” asks Deadpool.Image: Marvel StudiosOutside of Avengers: Endgame, Deadpool & Wolverine may carry the most pre-release baggage of anything in Marvel history. For Deadpool, you’ve got not just two movies, but also all the behind-the-scenes drama leading up to them. With Wolverine, you’ve got 10 X-Men movies with all manner of wild stories, including the character actually dying. Then you’ve got the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself, including the TV shows which, as we’ve seen from the trailers, play a big role.Don’t sweat it, says director Shawn Levy. You can and will be rewarded for knowing all that, but you don’t need to know any of it. “I very much made this film with,...

Photo by Joe Scarnici / Getty Images Blizzard has announced it will not hold BlizzCon, the publisher’s annual fan convention, this year. “After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024,” Blizzard wrote on its website. Instead of BlizzCon, Blizzard wrote that it would be holding other, smaller events throughout the year and mentioned participating in other trade shows, such as Gamescom. Additionally, 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of World of Warcraft, with Blizzard stating that it’s planning “multiple, global, in-person events” as well as sharing updates for WoW’s 10th expansion, The War Within, and Diablo IV’s first...

The council will try to restore order and form a new government in the nation gripped by gang violence.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The State Department will soon impose visa restrictions on people who it says have been involved in the development of spyware. In a press release issued on Monday, the department said it is taking steps to bar 13 people “who have been involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are immediate family members of those involved” from entering the United States.
“These individuals have facilitated or derived financial benefit from the misuse of this technology, which has targeted journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents and other perceived critics, and U.S. Government personnel,” the department’s release read.
The looming...

In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantage of its visit.Read more...

Image: Facepunch Studios The popular physics sandbox game Garry’s Mod is pulling all of its Nintendo-related add-ons following copyright takedown requests from the gaming giant. On Wednesday, the developers of Garry’s Mod made a post on Steam saying users “may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down,” adding that “this is not a mistake,” as the takedowns came from Nintendo.
“Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo’s content and what they allow and don’t allow is up to them,” the post reads. “They don’t want you playing with that stuff in Garry’s Mod — that’s their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we...

Le jeudi 25 avril, le président de la République a prononcé un grand discours sur l’UE à la Sorbonne, où il a notamment parlé d’une “Europe mortelle”, invoquant ainsi une évolution de sa capacité de défense. Un ton “dramatique” qui semble avoir surpris les correspondants de la presse étrangère.

To lure workers back to the office, companies are looking for buildings that feature attractive amenities and are located in vibrant, buzzy neighborhoods.Read more...

The Arizona rancher was accused of killing a migrant. A tragedy, and a possible murder, quickly became a political cause.

Image: ParamountWe’ve said this many times before, and will no doubt say it a least a few times before as it nears its final end this season: Star Trek: Discovery is not a subtle show. It never has been, but ever since it really found its confidence and understood where its strengths were, it has never shied away from yelling them loudly in the audience’s faces.Sometimes this works in Discovery’s favor, like it did in last week’s stunningly tight time-twisting adventure—the show firing on all cylinders to play with a format it knows it’s really good at, and using it to do the character reflection it’s also really good at. Sometimes, it means you get an episode like this week’s “Mirrors,” a...

Citée dans six catégories, Aya Nakamura domine les nominations de cette deuxième édition des Flammes qui récompense les meilleurs artistes rap, R’n’B ou nouvelle pop, devant ses homologues masculins Gazo, Tiakola et Werenoi.

These weatherproof outdoor security cams keep a watchful eye on your property while you get on with life. Our list includes battery-powered and LTE devices and options that need no subscription.

This week, we talk about the looming TikTok ban and what it means for the politicians and influencers who regularly post on the platform.

Conspiracies about outside forces funding and orchestrating the university protests at Columbia and NYU have taken hold online, primarily on X.

Good cold-brewed coffee tastes like magic. Learn how to make it right—no barista necessary.

The Fellowship is back in June.Image: New LinePack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we’re going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it’s the first time the re-releases will feature their remastered 4K versions from 2020.The screenings take place on June 8, 9, and 10 with one movie a day: The Fellowship of the Ring on Saturday, The Two Towers on Sunday, and Return of the King on Monday. Tickets are already on sale via this link so head there to check if your local theaters are participating. At first glance, it looks like most major theater chains are participating,...

It’s long been the case that access to certain services, whether on or offline, will only be granted when customers prove their identity. Often linked to financial products but in many cases basic money/goods transactions carried out online, handing over a name, address, date of birth and similar details, can increase confidence that a deal will more likely than not go according to plan. In some cases, especially when buying restricted products, proving identity can be a condition of sale.
Yet, for many years, companies operating in the online space have been happy to do business with customers without knowing very much about them at all. In some cases, where companies understand that a lack of friction is...

Les ailes du célèbre cabaret du Moulin-Rouge se sont effondrées dans la nuit du 24 au 25 avril. Si aucun blessé n’est à déplorer, la presse internationale s’émeut de cet accident qui a endommagé l’un des plus fameux temples de la nuit parisienne.

sur un mur de Marseille (photo : LSP, mars 2024)
 
Vous en souvenez-vous ? c’était le matin du 5 novembre 2018. 9 h 05, à Marseille, les immeubles des 63 et 65 de la populaire rue d’Aubagne viennent de s’effondrer ; on retirera des décombres 8 morts et 2 blessés.Quelques jours plus tard, le maître de la ville, Jean-Claude Gaudin, tient une conférence de presse, on en trouve quelques minutes sur Twitter Vers 50 secondes de la vidéo, le maestro déclare à propos des « immeubles en état d’insalubrité » que , « la plupart du temps », ils appartiennent « à des copropriétés privées, quelquefois même à des marchands de soleil (sic)« .Il ne fallait pas chercher bien loin de la...

Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, des responsables politiques, militants ou étudiants sont convoqués par la police pour « apologie du terrorisme ». Des procédures critiquées comme des atteintes à la liberté d’expression.

Summary: Since the introduction of the first US commercial soft contact lenses, significant advancements have made them more accessible and affordable. This progress in abundance, driven by continuous innovation, underscores the importance of fostering an environment conducive to scientific and entrepreneurial advancements for the prosperity of society. In 1971, Bausch & Lomb manufactured the first US commercial soft contact lenses. An eye doctor fitting ran around $550, and a pair of contact lenses cost $65, putting total costs around $615. Unskilled workers at the time earned about $2 an hour. This means the time price was about 307.5 hours. Today an eye exam is about $120, and lenses start at $200 for a...

Image: Heroes & VillainsRamp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains’ new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has ‘fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day weekend, Father’s Day, and summer vacations at beach destinations like Niamos or Ibiza.io9 exclusively has the first look at the extended Star Wars vacation gear drop that features something for everyone. With prints inspired by Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, and classic Rebel or Jedi symbols, there’s swim and beachside lounge sets that are incredibly subtle with signature “if you know you know”detailing from Heroes & Villains. Take a look at the gallery ahead to see the collection....

Alors que des représentants de 176 pays négocient à Ottawa pour accoucher d’un traité mondial visant à s’attaquer au problème des déchets plastiques, une nouvelle étude montre que la majorité de la pollution plastique peut être attribuée à 56 entreprises, et plus de 20 % à Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé et Danone.

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Aux États-Unis, un tribunal d’appel a statué en faveur de l’ancien producteur d’Hollywood. Même s’il reste sous le coup d’une autre condamnation, la presse souligne l’effet symbolique de cette décision, dans une affaire qui était à l’origine du mouvement #MeToo.

Many readers will be aware of the trend for disposable vapes, and how harvesting them for lithium-ion batteries has become a popular pastime in our community. We’re all used to the slim ones about the size of a marker pen, but it’s a surprise to find that they also come in larger sizes equipped with colour LCD screens. [Jason Gin] received one of this type of vape, and set about reverse engineering it.
What he found inside alongside the lithium-ion cell (we love his use of the term ” street lithium” by the way) was an ARM Cortex M0 microcontroller, 1 MB of flash, and that 80×160 display. Some investigation revealed this last part to have an ST7735S controller with an SPI interface. He turned his...

Mort à l’âge de 63 ans, le réalisateur travaillait sur un projet de film, intitulé « L’Apprenti », qui devait sortir en 2025.

Intuitions ? ou guidances ? en psychothérapie.

The French president delivers a stark warning for Europe to act fast to survive in a changing world.

Militantisme fiévreux, complotisme échevelé et culte de la personnalité : dans un reportage dans un bastion du trumpisme, Julien Pain donne à voir la nouvelle Amérique pro-Trump, plus désinformée et radicalisée que jamais.

“I didn’t expect today to be Taylor Swift word cloudy.”

Image by [SrBlonde] via Hackaday.IOOkay, so we’re opening with more than just a keyboard, and that’s fine. In fact, it’s more than fine, it’s probably the cutest lil’ ZX Spectrum you’ll see today.
[SrBlonde]’s wonderful micro Spectrum project has only the essential inputs, which makes for an interesting-looking keyboard for sure. Inside you’ll find an Orange Pi Zero 2 board loaded with Batocera so [SrBlonde] can play all their favorite childhood games on the 5″ IPS display.
Something else that’s interesting is that the switches are a mix of blues and blacks — clickies and linears. I can’t figure out how they’re distributed based on the numbers in the components list, but I could see...

The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments in the case of Trump vs. the United States. Before the court is the question of whether a former President has immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while that President was in office, and whether that applies to Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Tune in to KCRW to hear NPR's live coverage at 6:50 a.m. PST.

La cour d’appel a estimé que des erreurs de procédure avaient été commises durant ce procès, qui avait constitué une victoire pour le mouvement #metoo.

Meanwhile, hundreds of students march in Washington DC, and congresswoman Ilhan Omar joins protesters at a New York campus.

But it can't, so you'll just have to be grateful and amazed on your own.View Entire Post ›

C’est un pays aussi impressionnant que mal connu. Etat le plus peuplé d’Afrique avec plus de 215 millions d’habitants, principale puissance économique d’Afrique de l’Ouest, le Nigeria n’en demeure pas moins un impensé de la géographie francophone, une terra incognita aussi fascinante qu’effrayante. Pour mieux comprendre la réalité de ce géant africain au pied d’argile, le chercheur Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos a accepté de nous accompagner pour interroger et déconstruire les stéréotypes toujours tenaces à l’encontre du Nigeria. Une plongée passionnante au cœur « d’un pays qui n’existait pas » pour les uns, d’une puissance en devenir pour les autres.
   

Justices push lawyers for both sides on whether a president can be criminally prosecuted for acts while in office.

Let’s face it — electronics are hard. Difficult concepts, tiny parts, inscrutable datasheets, and a hundred other factors make it easy to screw up in new and exciting ways. Sometimes the Magic Smoke is released, but more often things just don’t work even though they absolutely should, and no amount of banging your head on the bench seems to change things.
It’s at times like this that one questions their sanity, as [Gili Yankovitch] probably did when he discovered that not all CH32V003s are created equal. In an attempt to recreate the Linux-on-a-microcontroller project, [Gili] decided to go with the A4M6 variant of the dirt-cheap RISC-V microcontroller. This variant lives in a SOP16 package, which makes...

Trois questions à l’écrivaine Tania de Montaigne à l’occasion de la présentation de son œuvre immersive Noire, sélectionnée dans le cadre du NewImages Festival, qui se tient jusqu’au 28 avril au Forum des images, à Paris, et dont Usbek & Rica est partenaire.

The protagonist in every movie I’ve seen this month has been a struggling writer of some sort.

Working with Julia Child and a host of author-chefs, the editor Judith Jones transformed American kitchens.

Twenty-five years ago, peer-to-peer file-sharing took the Internet by storm. The ability to search for and share content with complete strangers was nothing short of a revolution. In the years that followed, media consumption swiftly moved online. This usually involved content shared without permission, but pirate pioneers ultimately paved the way for new business models.
The original ‘pirate’ ethos has long since gone. There are still plenty of unauthorized sites and services, but few today concern themselves with decentralization and similar technical advances; centralized streaming is the new king with money as the main motivator.
AI Meets BitTorrent
There are areas where innovation and technological...

Vous avez une vieille vidéo toute pourrie, floue à souhait, qui date de Mathusalem et bien avec VideoGigaGAN d’Adobe, elle va se transformer en une magnifique séquence HD, avec des détails si nets que vous pourrez compter les poils de nez des gens qui sont dessus ! VideoGigaGAN est ce qu’on appelle un modèle d’IA génératif. En gros, ce machin est capable de deviner les détails manquants dans une vidéo pourrave pour la rendre méga classe. Les petits gars d’Adobe ont balancé des exemples sur leur GitHub et franchement, c’est impressionnant. On passe d’une vidéo degueulasse à un truc ultra net, avec des textures de peau hallucinantes et des détails de fou ! En plus, cette IA est capable...

Vous connaissez OpenELM ? Non, normal, ça vient de sortir. Et c’est une famille de modèles IA open-source made in Apple conçus pour tourner directement sur vos appareils, sans passer par le cloud. En gros, c’est de l’IA maison dans nos iPhone, iPad et Mac…etc. OpenELM combine plusieurs modèles de langage naturel (LLMs) utilisant des algorithmes évolutionnistes qui exploitent les principes techniques suivants : Layer-wise scaling strategy : Cette stratégie consiste à allouer les paramètres dans les couches d’un modèle transformeur pour améliorer l’exactitude. Les modèles sont pré-alourés avec un budget de paramètres de 270 millions, 450 millions, 1,1 milliard et 3 milliards....

Battery technology is the major limiting factor for the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage. Marginal improvements have been made for lithium cells in the past decade but the technology has arguably been fairly stagnant, at least on massive industrial scales. At smaller levels there have been some more outside-of-the-box developments for things like embedded systems and, at least in the case of this battery that can recharge itself, implantable batteries for medical devices.
The tiny battery uses sodium and gold for the anode and cathode, and takes oxygen from the body to complete the chemical reaction. With a virtually unlimited supply of oxygen available to it, the battery...

— Article en partenariat avec Incogni — Ah, les data brokers, ces entreprises mystérieuses dont on entend parler à peine plus souvent que de la météo sur Pluton (jamais en gros). Pourtant, ces entités obscures ont les mains (ou plutôt les serveurs) pleines de données, récoltées dans les plus sombres recoins numériques. J’ai déjà abordé le sujet sur ce site, mais comment opèrent-ils concrètement ? Voyage dans les entrailles du web pour percer le mystère des data brokers et comment lutter avec l’aide d’Incogni. Qui sont-ils et que font-ils ? Les data brokers, ce sont un peu les fantômes du cyberespace. On les connait rarement de nom, mais ils traquent nos traces numériques comme...

Localsumm est un générateur de résumés nouvelle génération qui tourne direct dans votre navigateur Chrome, sans envoyer vos données sur le cloud. Sous le capot, cette petite extension magique utilise un modèle de langage maison développé par Microsoft : le fameux Phi-3. C’est une sorte de cousin du célèbre GPT, mais en version allégée et spécialisée dans le résumé de texte. Pour tester cette merveille, c’est assez simple. Déjà, il faut avoir Chrome (ou un clone open source comme Brave ou Chromium) puis : Installez et lancez Ollama Entrez la commande ollama run phi3 dans le terminal pour déployer le modèle Phi-3 Bidouillez un peu les paramètres CORS de votre navigateur (voici un tuto...