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Imaginez le bazar si quelqu’un ajoutait par erreur tous les Jean-Michel de votre entreprise dans une conversation de groupe ! C’est un peu ce qui est arrivé chez Microsoft cette semaine. De nombreux employés prénommés Mike ou Michael ont eu la surprise de se retrouver sans le vouloir dans une boucle d’échanges par mail.
Michael Schechter, le VP de Bing, raconte s’être réveillé avec une quantité inhabituelle d’emails non lus. Sur le coup, il a cru à un gros plantage en prod pendant la nuit, mais non, en fait c’est juste une personne qui s’est amusée à créer un groupe avec beaucoup de gens qui s’appellent Mike ou Michael chez Microsoft. Et pas de bol pour eux, ils sont nombreux !
Face à cette situation ubuesque, Michael a eu le réflexe de demander à Copilot (l’assistant d’IA de krosoft) de résumer le fil de discussion et croyez-moi, ça vaut son pesant de cacahuètes ! D’après Copilot, les participants ont commencé par demander des explications sur le but de ce groupe, tout en notant avec amusement qu’ils avaient le même prénom. Évidemment, ça n’a pas manqué de partir en vrille et chacun y est allé de sa petite blague, de jeux de mots rigolos comme renommer le groupe en « Mikerosoft« . Certains se sont même demandé avec humour si ce n’était pas un piège pour les virer !
Le plus drôle dans l’histoire, c’est que malgré les nombreux messages, personne n’a compris qui avait créé ce groupe ni pourquoi. Un beau mystère ! En attendant, les participants en ont profité pour faire connaissance. Si ça se trouve, il y en a même qui en ont profité pour corriger des bugs… roooh.
Ça rappelle quand même qu’il faut toujours faire attention avec les emails de groupe ou les mises en copie. Une erreur est vite arrivée et on a vite fait d’envoyer des conneries et de les regretter après ! Une histoire similaire a d’ailleurs eu lieu dans les années 90 selon Eric Lippert. Un type voulait contacter « Mike de Microsoft » qu’il avait rencontré à une conf sauf qu’il a réussi à chopper les adresses des 600 Mike de la boîte. La presse avait titré à l’époque « Heureusement qu’ils ne cherchaient pas Bill » !
L’histoire ne dit pas s’il vont s’organiser un barbecue ou séminaire entre Mike, mais je troue que « Mikerosoft », ça sonne quand même mieux que Microsoft, non ?
Accrochez-vous à vos chapeaux à rayures, le bio-exorciste le plus déjanté du cinéma est de retour pour vous hanter ! 35 ans après avoir mis le feu aux salles obscures avec son humour macabre et son esthétique inimitable, Beetlejuice s’apprête à faire son grand come-back sur grand écran. Et pour ce retour très attendu, le réalisateur gothique Tim Burton a réuni un casting en or, avec en tête d’affiche le seul et unique Michael Keaton (a.k.a. Julien Lepers) dans le rôle-titre qui l’a révélé au monde entier. J’y croyais pas !
Beetlejuice, pour ceux qui auraient eu la malchance de passer à côté de ce classique absolu des années 80, c’est l’histoire complètement loufoque d’un couple de fantômes aussi gentils que coincés (Geena Davis et Alec Baldwin) qui font appel à un excentrique « bio-exorciste » (Michael Keaton) aux méthodes peu orthodoxes pour chasser de leur maison hantée une famille d’humains envahissants, les Deetz. Le tout orchestré par un Tim Burton.
Pour cette suite très attendue intitulée Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Attention, une fois de plus et vous êtes mal !), le cinéaste aux influences gothiques remet le couvert avec Michael Keaton, qui n’a rien perdu de son énergie folle et communicative sous les traits du fantôme déluré. À leurs côtés, on retrouve également Winona Ryder qui reprendra son rôle de Lydia, l’ado délicieusement morbide et seule humaine capable de voir et d’interagir avec Beetlejuice.
Mais la vraie surprise du casting (non), c’est la présence de la jeune actrice prodige Jenna Ortega, révélée récemment dans la série à succès Mercredi (produite par Burton également), qui incarnera la fille de Lydia. Nul doute qu’entre Ortega et le duo Burton/Keaton, l’alchimie devrait être électrique à l’écran !
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice promet d’être une suite fidèle à l’esprit décalé et irrévérencieux de l’original, en y ajoutant une bonne dose de nostalgie et de clins d’œil aux fans de la première heure. Au menu : des effets spéciaux encore plus dingues, des répliques cultes à foison (« It’s showtime ! »), des créatures monstrueuses et loufoques qui n’ont pas peur d’en faire des tonnes, et bien sûr un humour noir assumé qui lorgne parfois vers le macabre. Bref, du pur Burton dans toute sa splendeur !
Côté intrigue, les détails restent encore assez mystérieux, mais on sait que l’histoire se déroulera plusieurs années après les événements du premier film. Lydia, désormais adulte, est de retour dans la maison hantée de son enfance avec sa propre fille, Astrid. Mais à l’instar de sa mère au même âge, l’ado rebelle ne tarde pas à invoquer Beetlejuice par inadvertance, libérant à nouveau le fantôme fou dans le monde des vivants. S’ensuivra un joyeux bordel paranormal et délirant comme Tim Burton en a le secret.
Espérons juste qu’il sera à la hauteur de nos souvenirs d’enfance émerveillés devant le premier film.
Ca sort début septembre 2024 au cinéma 🙂
Merci à Lorenper pour l’info !
Enlarge / Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to former US President Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in New York on December 14, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
A federal judge decided not to sanction Michael Cohen and his lawyer for a court filing that included three fake citations generated by the Google Bard AI tool.
Cohen's lawyer, David M. Schwartz, late last year filed the court brief that cites three cases that do not exist. It turned out that Cohen passed the fake cases along to Schwartz, who didn't do a fact-check before submitting them as part of a motion in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
US District Judge Jesse Furman declined to impose sanctions on either Cohen or Schwartz in a ruling issued today. But there was bad news for Cohen because Furman denied a motion for early termination of his supervised release.
Enlarge / Climate scientist Michael Mann. (credit: Slaven Vlasic)
This is a story I had sporadically wondered whether I'd ever have the chance to write. Over a decade ago, I covered a lawsuit filed by climate scientist Michael Mann, who finally had enough of being dragged through the mud online. When two authors accused him of fraud and compared his academic position to that of a convicted child molester, he sued for defamation.
Mann was considered a public figure, which makes winning defamation cases extremely challenging. But his case was based on the fact that multiple institutions on two different continents had scrutinized his work and found no hint of scientific malpractice—thus, he argued, that anyone who accused him of fraud was acting with reckless disregard for the truth.
Over the ensuing decade, the case was narrowed, decisions were appealed, and long periods went by without any apparent movement. But recently, amazingly, the case finally went to trial, and a jury rendered a verdict yesterday: Mann is entitled to damages from the writers. Even if you don't care about the case, it's worth reflecting on how much has changed since it was first filed.
Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin the Ax-3 commercial crew mission. (credit: Stephen Clark/Ars Technica)
For the third time, an all-private crew is heading for the International Space Station. The four-man team lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday, kicking off a 36-hour pursuit of the orbiting research laboratory. Docking is scheduled for Saturday morning.
This two-week mission is managed by Houston-based Axiom Space, which is conducting private astronaut missions to the ISS as a stepping stone toward building a fully commercial space station in low-Earth orbit by the end of this decade.
Axiom's third mission, called Ax-3, launched at 4:49 pm EST (21:49 UTC) Thursday. The four astronauts were strapped into their seats inside SpaceX's Dragon Freedom spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket. This is the 12th time SpaceX has launched a human spaceflight mission, and could be the first of five Dragon crew missions this year.
Enlarge / Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to US President Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in New York on December 14, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
Donald Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted providing fake AI-generated court citations to his own lawyer, who failed to check whether the cited cases were real before submitting them in a court brief. Cohen said the fake court cases came from Google Bard and that he thought Bard was like "a super‑charged search engine" rather than a generative AI tool.
As previously reported, Cohen's lawyer, David Schwartz, cited three cases that do not exist in a motion seeking early termination of Cohen's supervised release. The fake citations were meant to show previous instances in which defendants were allowed to end supervised release early—two involved fictional cocaine distributors and the other an invented tax evader.
The brief provided case numbers, summaries, and ruling dates for the citations, but the judge determined that the cases never happened. Facing punishment for violating federal rules, Schwartz filed an explanation that apologized "for not checking these cases personally before submitting them to the court," but also blamed "the conduct of his client."
Enlarge / The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 and is still located in the same historic building at 21 Albermarle Street in London. (credit: Griffindor/CC BY-SA 3.0)
If you're a fan of science, and especially science history, no trip to London is complete without visiting the Royal Institution, browsing the extensive collection of artifacts housed in the Faraday Museum and perhaps taking in an evening lecture by one of the many esteemed scientists routinely featured—including the hugely popular annual Christmas lectures. (The lecture theater may have been overhauled to meet the needs of the 21st century but walking inside still feels a bit like stepping back through time.) So what better time than the Christmas season to offer a virtual tour of some of the highlights contained within the historic walls of 21 Albemarle Street?
The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 by a group of leading British scientists. This is where Thomas Young explored the wave theory of light (at a time when the question of whether light was a particle or wave was hotly debated); John Tyndall conducted experiments in radiant heat; Lord Rayleigh discovered argon; James Dewar liquified hydrogen and invented the forerunner of the thermos; and father-and-son duo William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg invented x-ray crystallography.
No less than 14 Nobel laureates have conducted ground-breaking research at the Institution over the ensuing centuries, but the 19th century physicist Michael Faraday is a major focus. In fact, there is a full-sized replica of Faraday's magnetic laboratory—where he made so many of his seminal discoveries—in the original basement room where he worked, complete with an old dumbwaiter from when the room was used as a servant's hall. Its arrangement is based on an 1850s painting by one of Faraday's friends and the room is filled with objects used by Faraday over the course of his scientific career.
Enlarge / Picture of attorney David Schwartz from his website. (credit: David Schwartz)
A lawyer representing Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen filed a court brief that cited three cases that do not exist, according to a federal judge. The incident is similar to a recent one in which lawyers submitted fake citations originally provided by ChatGPT, but it hasn't yet been confirmed whether Cohen's lawyer also used an AI tool.
"On November 29, 2023, David M. Schwartz, counsel of record for Defendant Michael Cohen, filed a motion for early termination of supervised release," US District Judge Jesse Furman wrote in an order to show cause yesterday. "In the letter brief, Mr. Cohen asserts that, '[a]s recently as 2022, there have been District Court decisions, affirmed by the Second Circuit Court, granting early termination of supervised release.'"
Schwartz's letter brief named "three such examples," citing United States v. Figueroa-Florez, United States v. Ortiz, and United States v. Amato. The brief provided case numbers, summaries, and ruling dates, but Furman concluded that the cases are fake.
Netflix continue sa collaboration avec David Fincher. The Killer sonne comme un retour aux sources pour le réalisateur de Seven.
David Fincher à la réalisation d’un nouveau thriller sur Netflix
Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife — today’s project is NSF(some)W, or for your kids. LOTS OF SWEARS. You have been warned. We’re not embedding the video here so you can decide for yourself whether or not to watch it — click on the image below to watch a sweary robot on YouTube.
Michael Reeves is best known for such… educational Raspberry Pi projects as:
He’s back, this time with yet another NSFW (depending on your W) project that triggers the sensors in a Roomba smart vacuum to scream in pain whenever it bumps into an object.
Because why not?
We have no clue. So very done with fans asking for the project to be made — “I hate every single one of you!” — Michael refuses to say how he did it. But we know this much is true: the build uses optical sensors, relays, a radio receiver, and a Raspberry Pi. How do I know this? Because he showed us:
But as for the rest? We leave it up to you, our plucky community of tinkerers, to figure it out. Share your guesses in the comments.
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