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Reconnaissance faciale et contrôle d'identité : que peut faire la police ?

"Chaque jour, la police se sert de la reconnaissance faciale lors de contrôles d'identités. C'est illégal. Ce guide a pour but d'organiser la riposte et de se défendre contre ces pratiques abusives. Il rassemble l'ensemble des arguments juridiques permettant de démontrer que l'utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale au cours d'un contrôle d'identité est toujours illégitime et illégale. Il…

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Is Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Rated R for Violence?

Are you planning on taking the whole family to see the new Christopher Nolan epic? Well, think again.

We still have no official word out of the MPAA about _The Odyssey_ or its rating, but the movie’s page on the TCL Chinese Theatres website says that _The Odyssey_ is Rated R.

If true, this would be a shocking revelation for an historical epic that was shot on IMAX cameras and so costly to…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.2.7-1 on CRAN: Micro Upstream Update

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and…

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Relationner en anarchiste

"En tant qu'anarcha-féministe cisgouine, prolo et métisse, j'ai appris que les communautés politiques et affectives sont centrales dans la lutte. L'amitié, la camaraderie, les différentes formes d'amour, tout cela n'a rien de futile. Loin d'être la base arrière de la révolution, c'est une part déterminante de la transformation sociale, personnelle et spirituelle que nous désirons. En plusieurs…

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Les réseaux d'intervention rapide dans la région de Minneapolis-Saint Paul [USA]

"Note de la traduction
Cet article raconte l'auto-organisation des habitant-es de
Minneapolis-Saint Paul (Minnesota, USA) face au Service de l'immigration
et des douanes "ICE", millice d'état renforcée par Trump pour rafler et
expulser les personnes sans papiers. Ecrit en janvier 2026 il se place
dans un contexte d'occupation massive par des forces policières dans les
villes jumelles depuis le…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.27 on CRAN: Upstream Adjustment

A new maintenance release 0.4.27 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers
(“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol. The new release is also already as a binary via r2u.

This release adjusts to a…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.2.6-1 on CRAN: Several Updates

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and…

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Las llamadas wifi llegan por fín a todas las marcas MásMóvil: Yoigo, Pepephone, Euskaltel, R y Telecable

Los clientes de marcas heredadas de MásMóvil, como Yoigo, Pepephone y las antiguas cableras regionales del norte Euskaltel, Telecable y R, han perdido el acceso al respaldo que proporcionaba la triple cobertura de Movistar en las zonas sin presencia de la red de MásOrange. Pero a cambio, como había prometido la operadora, han recibido una prestación muy esperada, destinada a mejorar la cobertura…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.2.4-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and…

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Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, Injecting Even More AI Into Games

Nvidia has announced DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, a new iteration of the company's gaming AI suite that it is describing as "the GPT moment for graphics."

DLSS debuted back in 2018 with the RTX 2080, and it was initially just the Deep Learning Super Sampling that it's named after. The idea was to take a game, render it at a lower resolution and then upscale it using AI back to your native resolution.…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppCNPy 0.2.15 on CRAN: Maintenance

Another maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN today, and has already been built as an r2u binary. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers along with Rcpp for the glue to R.

The changes are minor and similar to other recent changes. We aid Rcpp in the transition away from calling Rf_error() by relying in…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.26 on CRAN: More Maintenance

A new maintenance release 0.4.26 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol. The new release is also already as a binary via r2u.

This release brings an…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppGSL 0.3.14 on CRAN: Maintenance

A new release 0.3.14 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL by relying on the Rcpp package. It has already been uploaded to Debian, and is also already available as a binary via r2u.

This release, the first in over three years, contains mostly maintenance changes. We polished the fastLm example implementation a little more, updated…

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: x13binary 1.1.61.2 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance

The x13binary team is happy to share the availability of Release 1.1.61.2 of the x13binary package providing the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau which arrived on CRAN earlier today, and has already been built for r2u.

This release responds to a CRAN request to display the compiler version when building. x13binary, just like three other packages there, creates and ships a local…

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