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Could gravity be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation? My new study suggests why this might be so Suppose the law of gravity is simply a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code.

🤯 Could gravity be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation? My new study suggests why this might be so theconversation.com/could-gravit...

In China, a Forbidden Question Looms: Who Leads After Xi?

Plongée fascinante dans les méandres du plan de succession de Xi Xinping www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

A l'ère de l'IA lectrice de signaux et de l'automatisation des routines, qui maitrise la métadonnée, maitrise sa carrière www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks The empty boulevards that once symbolized the mainland’s property bust now serve as testing grounds for hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks restofworld.org/2025/china-o...

How China Is Outperforming the United States in Critical Technologies Measuring a nation’s technological leadership is a complex task. However, when it comes to China and the United States, several existing measures suggest China has taken the lead in technological deve...

Intéressant itif.org/publications...

[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled… Secret History of Silicon Valley

Fascinante conférence sur l'importance du complexe militaro industriel dans la création de la Silicon Valley on y apprend notamment que la CIA traquait les signaux radars russes qui rebondissaient... sur la lune ! Secret History of Silicon Valley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_...

To Understand Ukraine at War, Stop by a Gas Station Filling stations have become must-stop spots for soldiers traveling to and from the front, helping them win a place in Ukrainians’ hearts.

To Understand Ukraine at War, Stop by a Gas Station www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

US hits milestone in World War II airfield restoration North Field on Tinian Island will serve as an alternate site for flight operations at Andersen Air Force Base if the hub becomes unusable.

WWIII will be fought on WWII grounds - reuse, repair, recycle - www.newsweek.com/us-hits-mile...

How the Infamous APT-1 Report Exposing China’s PLA Hackers Came to Be This is the first in a series of pieces I’ll publish that take an in-depth look at significant events, people and cases in security and surveillance from the past. If there’s something you think would...

Incredible piece of cybersec reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social www.zetter-zeroday.com/how-the-infa...

Great art from @adamtooze.bsky.social 's newsletter www.cafa.com.cn/en/news/deta...

Is Xi Jinping Funny? An official investigation into "Xi-style" humor

Je ne savais pas que le PC chinois tenait un recueil officiel de blagues de ses dirigeants >>> Is Xi Jinping Funny? www.ramble.media/p/is-xi-jinp...

Is Xi Jinping Funny? An official investigation into "Xi-style" humor

Is Xi Jinping Funny? www.ramble.media/p/is-xi-jinp...

Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time Astronomers get rare glimpse of earliest stages of planet formation around a baby star.

😍 😍 😍 Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time www.nature.com/articles/d41...

La culture OpenAI: chaos organisé ou ethos de la subsidiarité extrême ? Cher lecteur, je rechausse ici mes lunettes à double foyer d'eternel sorbonnard adepte du structuralisme social de Claude Levi-Strauss. Si vous êtes comme moi obsédés par les « machines sociales qui f...

J'ai essayé de résumer l'excellent article de "Reflections on OpenAI". Un article bien écrit, informé et très amusant à lire de de Calvin French-Owen (ex-équipe CODEX) qui essaye d'en définir le fonctionnement et la culture >>> www.linkedin.com/pulse/la-cul...

Obama on the male malaise: 8 takeaways Why he thinks it is time to focus more on boys and men

Super intéressant point de vue sur la crise de la masculinité et les manières de rendre le narratif masculin des mascus aux hommes >>> Obama on the male malaise: 8 takeaways ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/obama-on-t...

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Reflections on OpenAI I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024.

"this company runs on twitter vibes" - Plongée ahurissante dans l'univers OpenAI calv.info/openai-refle...

DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of a book scanner that could crunch textbooks and spit out digital files he could then read on his PC. Book scanners, like the ones Google is using in its…

Histoire folle >>> DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes www.wired.com/2009/12/diy-...

2024 YR4 - Wikipedia

😬😬😬 Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth, but 4.3% probability to hit the Moon in 2032. A paper estimates 100 million kg of material could be ejected, 10% of which could enter Earth’s atmosphere. Little would reach the ground, but orbiters would be at risk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner | TechCrunch Amazon Web Services is launching an AI agent marketplace and Anthropic is one of its partners.

The machine keeps machining other machines... AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/a...

Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents | TechCrunch Cursor is launching a web app thats allow users to manage a network of AI coding agents via browser, on desktop and mobile.

Mamma mia on commence à voir l'intégration de l'IA propre à toute la chaine de productivité, on ne reconnaitra pas le travail de bureau dans 1 an >>> Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/c...

How big could an “AI Manhattan Project” get? An AI Manhattan Project could accelerate compute scaling by two years

How big could an “AI Manhattan Project” get? epochai.substack.com/p/how-big-co...

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the…

This i am excited about : OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

How the Assad Regime Buried Its Victims in a Mass Grave in Syria A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.

Papier bien fait et poignant du NYT sur le travail d'analyse des sépultures de masse du régime Assad, un travail de reconstruction mémoriel difficile et nécessaire pour évaluer l'ampleur de cette machine répressive et tenter d'identifier les victimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI Silicon Valley wins big in the accelerated authoritarianism of Trump's beautiful bill

Je ne sais pas si l'on se rend compte des impacts de la "big beautiful bill" en termes de capacités de surveillances globales (évidemment augmentées avec de l'IA) www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-budget...

Why we will need universal basic income at some point.

America's largest firms employ fewer workers (from Adam Tooze's excellent newsletter).

SAGAS. Qui sont les Apaches ? Au début des années 1900, ils ont fait régner la terreur dans les rues de Paris. Attaques au couteau, proxénétisme, vols… Ces b... Les Apaches, le premier gang parisien de l'histoire

Hyper interessant pour tout parisien interessé par l'histoire de sa ville : The Apaches, the first Parisian gang in history youtu.be/LpiYEOK_okk?...

Entre 21 et 26 % de temps économisés. C'est le gain de temps scientifiquement observé sur des tâches de développement logiciel assistées par outils de production intégrant des assistants IA. Le lien vers le papier est là arxiv.org/pdf/2410.12944

China's curious cult of the mango Benjamin Ramm discovers a period during China's Cultural Revolution when the country was gripped by a mania for mangoes.

En bon enfant de la société de consommation et de la mondialisation, je découvre effaré l'existence des "Mangues de Mao". Un fruit exotique offert pendant la révolution culturelle aux travailleurs, embaumées et faisant l'objet d'un culte de la part des masses prolétaires
www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

The furniture fraud who hoodwinked the Palace of Versailles Bill Pallot and Bruno Desnoues falsified 18th-century furniture they said belonged to French royalty.

J'adore les faussaires mais les faussaires ébénistes encore un cran au dessus >>> The furniture fraud who hoodwinked the Palace of Versailles www.bbc.com/news/article...