S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Boeing to “negative” from “stable” on Thursday — just one day after Moody’s Ratings downgraded its rating outlook to negative for the struggling aerospace giant.Read more...

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

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.

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to restore net neutrality rules, reversing a repeal ushered through during the Trump administration.
Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should not be able to discriminate against different kinds of content by blocking or throttling connection speeds or offering paid prioritization for different internet traffic. The FCC has sought to accomplish this by reclassifying ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act, giving the agency more regulatory authority over them.
Democratic FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in remarks ahead of the vote that internet access...

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 peut en trouver quelques minutes sur Twitter Vers 50 secondes de la vidéo, on peut entendre le maestro déclarer 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...

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.

Doctors, lawyers, and salesmen aren't the only people breaking six figures.View Entire Post ›

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction over allegations of rape and ordered a redo, arguing that the judge at the landmark trial acted improperly. Read more...

Image: Wacom Wacom has thrown a tablet-shaped curveball at digital creatives waiting on Apple’s highly anticipated OLED iPads. The company introduced the Wacom Movink 13 on Wednesday, its own OLED-based offering that targets creatives in need of a highly portable display drawing tablet.
Available now for $750 via the Wacom web store, the Movink features a full HD 13.3-inch Samsung OLED display that gives it several advantages over comparably midrange LED-based tablets. The most notable is the lack of a backlight — not only does that prevent light leakage and excess heat, according to Wacom (the latter being a familiar nuisance for display tablet users), but it also allows the tablet to be more...

Chipotle is hogging its chicken from employees in a bid to keep up with surging demand from customers.Read more...

Les attaques contre des journalistes travaillant pour des médias en langue iranienne, comme la chaîne Iran International ou la BBC Persian, s’intensifient, jusqu’à l’agression.

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....

Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google.

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...

US senators have called for fresh scrutiny of crypto’s role in paying for child sexual abuse imagery online, a problem that they say has worsened.

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.

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

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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.

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 Thursday morning as tech stocks continued to decline. The flagship cryptocurrency was trading around $63,240 in mid-morning, with a drop of over 2.5%.Read more...

La récente condamnation du chanteur de 33 ans, très contestée, met en lumière le tour de vis qu’opère le régime des mollahs sur la société civile iranienne. Profitant du contexte de la guerre à Gaza, les autorités sévissent contre des opposants, condamnent des artistes et arrêtent des femmes mal (ou non) voilées.

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...

Image: BBCThere is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who—a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades—having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change. But one major change coming into the show’s new season has had UK audiences concerned... enough that Who’s returning showrunner has spoken up about it.When Ncuti Gatwa’s debut season as the Doctor begins next month on the BBC and across the world on Disney+, it will do so in a staggered release: prioritizing the British series’ new home at Disney. While Doctor Who will still broadcast on TV in its traditional Saturday night time slot in the UK, it will...

Yale’s first deadbolt adapter magically unlocks your door when it senses you’re returning home.

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.

Investment bank Jefferies’ chief executive officer Rich Handler has sold off shares for the first time — to purchase a yacht, among other things, the firm said in a statement on Thursday. “My sale of shares today was a gift to myself and my family, and I do not intend to sell any further shares,” Handler said.Read more...

Image: Ford Ford is the No. 2 seller of electric vehicles in the US. It’s very proud of that fact, but the amount of cash it had to burn to get there is enough to make you wonder whether it can keep that title. The company reported its first quarter earnings last night, and woo boy, it’s rough
The company reported its first quarter earnings last night, and woo boy, it’s rough. Ford said it lost $1.3 billion on the sale of 10,000 electric vehicles in the first three months of the year — a staggering figure that amounts to $130,000 lost for every EV sold. Ford’s Model e division, which oversees some of the company’s EV sales as well as software, reported $100 million in revenue, an 84 percent drop...

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.

Image: LegoIf you thought Lego’s space toys for May were limited to the world of Star Wars, think again—the toymaker’s latest reveals bring things back to our time and our galaxy, and they combine stunning engineering with incredible art.This morning Lego revealed two more entries in its 2024 campaign to bring the ethos of its classic space sets across its various lines: for Lego Art, there’s a beautiful, buildable recreation of the Milky Way, containing 3,091 pieces for you to build into a technicolor spiral galaxy and hang on your wall. For those looking for something a little less macro-scaled, but still high on detail, the new 3,601-piece Artemis Launch System, part of the Lego Icons series,...

Add extra security and privacy to your smart home gadgets, streaming boxes, and every device in your house by running a virtual private network on your router.

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

« Un tir effectué par un tiers n’est pas compatible avec les constatations », a également fait savoir le procureur de Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson. Le chanteur a déclaré aux enquêteurs avoir voulu « simuler un suicide » pour faire peur à sa compagne qui menaçait de le quitter après une dispute.

Illustration: The Verge Google is making it a lot easier to move between devices during a meeting. The new “Switch here” feature allows you to move an active Meet call from your computer to your smartphone or vice versa. This means you can swap devices as you sit down at your desk or get up to go somewhere during a full group session without your tile bouncing in and out of the window.
There’s also a new function that allows you to join a call in two places. So, you can have your call active on the kitchen tablet and office computer while you run back and forth, flipping an egg and pulling an espresso shot (note for boss: I do not do this). GIF: Google While another call is active, the same meeting...

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.

Want a robot vacuum that mops, but don’t want damp pads dragged on your carpet? The Dreame X30 Ultra is the pricey solution.

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.

Image: Courtesy of Don Coscarelliio9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli when he released his memoir in 2018. Now, the director of Phantasm I-IV, as well as Bubba Ho-Tep, The Beastmaster, and John Dies at the End, is trying something new: fiction. Or rather, Phiction—a book of short stories that explores “tales from the world of Phantasm.” We caught up with Coscarelli over video chat to learn more about the book, as well as what he’s been working on lately. What follows is a condensed and edited version of our conversation.Cheryl Eddy, io9: Phiction expands on the world of the Phantasm movies. What was the genesis of writing the book?Don Coscarelli: When I wrote the memoir, I really had a lot of...

Demonstrators and police clash in Austin, while scores are taken into custody in Boston and Los Angeles.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Spotify submitted a new version of its iOS app with in-app pricing information for users in the European Union about how much they’ll pay for subscriptions made outside of Apple’s payment system — but Apple has stonewalled it again.
Spotify says Apple rejected the request because it won’t request an entitlement and pay Apple the commission it takes from purchases made from external links. As part of an EU ruling from earlier this year, Apple must allow music streaming apps to include external purchase links. However, Apple’s updated rules say app developers will need to use the Music Streaming Services Entitlement and that it’s still taking a commission from these...

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Supercell, bien connu pour ses titres Clash of Clans, Brawl Stars, et Clash Royale, s'apprête à lancer un nouveau jeu qui promet d’être un futur hit sur smartphone. Le 29 mai prochain, "Squad Busters" sera disponible à l'échelle mondiale pour les utilisateurs Android et iOS. Squad Busters se présente comme un jeu multijoueur compétitif, mais avec une plus grande envergure que celle des sorties mobiles habituelles. Il implique des matches où dix joueurs s’affrontent pour collecter le maximum de gemmes, tout en développant une équipe de personnages contrôlés par ordinateur. Inspiré des MOBA, mais dans une forme simplifiée, le futur titre du studio finlandais permet aux joueurs de déplacer...

Image: ParamountHasbro is working with Sony on bringing Clue back to the world of film and TV. The producers of Dead Boy Detectives tease the new adaptation. Plus, Furiosa gets rated. Spoilers, away!ClueVariety reports Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with both Sony’s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights to its murder mystery board game, Clue. Sonic the Hedgehog 3Sonic the Hedgehog 3 “takes a lot from Sonic Adventure 2,” according to producer Toby Ascher in a recent interview with GamesRadar+.It’s going to be this giant, fun, incredible movie that obviously takes a lot from Sonic Adventure 2 and some of the games that I know the core Sonic Team grew up...

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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.
   

One justice warns Oval Office could become "seat of criminal activity" if presidents knew they could not be prosecuted.

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...

Hamas issues a proof-of-life video of US-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, abducted on 7 October.

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.

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

Rediscovering the tastes of childhood in New York’s biggest Chinatown.

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

The famous liberal economist wants to take back the language of liberty from the right.

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....

« Notre Europe aujourd’hui est mortelle. Elle peut mourir et cela dépend uniquement de nos choix », a martelé jeudi le président, qui a également évoqué les valeurs de la « démocratie libérale », « de plus en plus critiquées et contestées ».

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...