Geoffrey Delcroix

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Une vidéo du cambriolage au Louvre ? C'est une séquence générée par IA

👑Une vidéo du cambriolage du Louvre, montrant les malfaiteurs en pleine action ?

❌ Attention, cette séquence très virale a été générée par IA et ne montre pas les images authentiques connues du cambriolage ⤵️
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Deux chercheuses créent un test de parité pour le jeu vidéo (et les résultats ne sont pas brillants) Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche à l'EDHEC, Guergana Guintcheva et Hager Jemel ont développé un outil inspiré du fameux "test de Bechdel" du cinéma, mais pour le jeu vidéo ! Elles ont étudié le...

Deux chercheuses de l'EDHEC ont élaboré un "test de Bechdel" adapté aux jeux vidéo, pour évaluer la manière dont ils intègrent des femmes dans leurs histoires. Elles l'ont appliqué à 129 jeux vidéo et 8.500 personnages. La suite ne va sans doute pas vous étonner. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Netflix’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Gets a Second Season | Restart The first season only began airing this week, but Netflix has already given a green light to the second season to the animated series based on Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell.

The first season only began airing this week, but Netflix has already given a green light to the second season to the animated series based on Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

Révélations sur le « Group 78 », une unité secrète américaine chargée de la lutte contre les cybercriminels En novembre 2024, la présentation de cette task force par le FBI à des policiers et des magistrats européens a choqué certains enquêteurs. Ils craignent notamment pour l’intégrité de leurs investigati...

Scoop : révélations sur le "Group 78", l'unité secrète du FBI chargée de faire la guerre aux cybercriminels, quitte à utiliser des méthodes illégales et au risque de faire dérailler les enquêtes judiciaires européennes (avec @flrnd.bsky.social et @kaibiermann.bsky.social). Thread ⤵️

Déjà j’adore ce titre :)

Couverture du cahier avec une silhouette qui regarde derrière elle des 0 et 1 qui la suivent comme des traces de sa vie.

Téléchargez et découvrez le Cahier Innovation et Prospective de la CNIL :
💀"Nos données après nous", une exploration des usages et enjeux des données post mortem, de la mort à l’immortalité numérique

👉 linc.cnil.fr/cahier-ip10-...
👉 et le pdf : linc.cnil.fr/sites/defaul...

Intimité des disparus Mémoire des vivants. Quelle éthique pour les traces numériques ?

Après-midi à la CNIL pour discuter de pratiques de l'histoire et de "nos données après nous" (quelle formule 😊)

Here is a new concept for the Valley of Memory DLC of Assassin's Creed Mirage showcasing the Lion Tombs in AlUla!

Source: Gamerant

This moment in Bg2 Podcast with Nvidia CEO is insane for anyone working in foresight :-) I had to stop watching TWICE because I'm so in awe that I can't get over it...
youtu.be/pE6sw_E9Gh0?...
(a lot of cool and smart stuff though in the 1h45mns though)

Ubisoft launches Vantage Studios subsidiary to develop its biggest franchises https://thever.ge/nWzj #Entertainment #Gaming #News

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I know Oliver is working on a video but I've also played a bit and, man, this is insanely impressive. It's doing more than expected - cutbacks are there but, honestly, it's legit with a nice suite of RT features intact. Amazing work from Ubi here (it's also a solid game)

Silksong's first boss is tricky as hell

How funny it is that one consequence of this story is that we all want to subscribe to your playlist :). I mean on top of great music, you got the Mogwai score for a Zidane's portrait, what's not to love there <3 Hang it in the Louvre.

When I wrote in January about the woman who fell in love with ChatGPT & created r/MyBoyfriendIsAI (www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...), the subreddit had 200 members.

Now it has 20,000 and Altman uses it as shorthand for a subset of users. Perception (& use?) of ChatGPT has shifted a lot this year.

The Compact Disc is 43 years old The old saw about the CD's 74-minute specification being defined by Beethoven's 9th is a myth. But everything else you hear is high fidelity.

The Compact Disc is 43 years old boingboing.net/2025/08/18/t...

Screencap from linked article, reading: Meta spokesman Andy Stone acknowledged the document’s authenticity. He said that following questions from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children and is in the process of revising the content risk standards.

To recap: Meta is pushing "AI companions", because Zuck see a "market" for artificial friends. They have a large workforce "training" these chatbots, presumably doing content-moderation style work, according to guidelines.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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L'après-BLOCKBUSTERS Bonjour Vous! J’espère que ma petite carte postale de vacances va vous trouver heureux et épanouis, tel un moustique au Cap D’Agde. Voici des nouvelles concernant l’après Blockbuster. « LES FANTASMES...

@fredericksigrist.bsky.social nous parle de son avenir et à des questions à nous poser.

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Très triste d'apprendre la disparition de Gilles Dowek, je garde un excellent souvenir des échanges avec lui dans le cadre des travaux CNIL-Inria du linc et ensuite lorsque j'étais membre du Comité d'éthique Inria... Une pensée pour tous ses proches et amis, à Inria et ailleurs

Current Model picking is a failed ux .

Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world’s most prestigious competition for young...

It wasn't just OpenAI.

Google also used a general purpose model to solve the very hard math problems of the International Math Olympiad in plain language. Last year they used specialized tool use

Increasing evidence of LLMs generalizing to novel problem solving deepmind.google/discover/blo...

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Ukrainian weapons account for more than 40% of arms used in defense against Russia, Zelensky says The government and Ukrainian businesses now provide over 40% of the weapons used to defend the nation's independence against Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelensky said on June 27.

⚡️Ukrainian weapons account for more than 40% of arms used in defense against Russia, Zelensky says.

The government and domestic businesses now provide over 40% of the weapons used to defend Ukraine's independence, the president said on June 27.

Wait a minute. What in the word « croissant » don’t you understand? 🥐

Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide Which AIs to use, and how to use them

The two most common questions I get asked about AI are “which AI should I use” and “how do I start using AI?”

I wrote a short guide attempting to answer both questions. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-r...

We urgently need better data on mental health and AI chatbots.

There are lots of individual stories of terrible (and also good) outcomes, but the actual studies we have are somewhat mixed and few of them have been conducted long enough to get a sense of the impact over time.

In their updated system prompt for Claude (which is always public, thumbs up) @anthropic.com added a part on the US election results... Directly in the system prompt! I would really like to know why they thought it was necessary...

docs.anthropic.com/en/release-n...