Les huit principaux syndicats de la fonction publique appellent les agents à faire grève et à manifester le 29 septembre, pour réclamer des hausses de salaires et davantage de moyens pour les services publics.

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DÉCRYPTAGE - Dans le projet de Marine Le Pen, les actifs entrés tôt sur le marché du travail bénéficieraient d’un double avantage : un départ anticipé, mais aussi une durée de cotisation ramenée à 40 annuités. Une mesure qui vise à améliorer le sort des travailleurs les plus précaires.

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Les blessés, une ambulancière de 24 ans et un chauffeur de bus de 48 ans, ont été admis au CHU de Reims en urgence relative.

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Actuellement, les retraités ayant eu au moins trois enfants obtiennent une majoration de pension de 10%. Un dispositif qui profite davantage aux pères, du fait de leur pension moyenne plus élevée. « Ce n’est pas normal », a estimé Jean-Pierre Farandou.

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La patronne du syndicat, Sophie Binet, a demandé aux salariés de la fonction publique de cesser le travail pendant 24 heures pour faire comprendre «ce que c’est une journée noire sans services publics».

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Le syndicat majoritaire des pilotes basés en France dénonce notamment «les conditions de travail difficiles» du personnel navigant de la compagnie, ainsi que leur «niveau de rémunération parmi les plus bas du marché».

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À compter de ce mardi 1er septembre, deux changements importants en matière de bonifications de retraite liées aux enfants, votés dans le cadre du budget de la Sécurité sociale 2026, entrent en application.

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En redressement judiciaire depuis avril, cette enseigne historique fait face à une nouvelle journée de mobilisation, sur fond de tensions autour du plan de sauvegarde de l’emploi (PSE) et de difficultés d’approvisionnement dénoncées par la CGT.

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À compter du 1er novembre, les indemnités journalières versées après un accident du travail ou une maladie professionnelle pourraient être plafonnées à 1,8 Smic, contre plus de 3 actuellement, selon un décret préparé par le gouvernement.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned "Twitter" name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. "We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product," Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird's cofounders, told Ars. "And we have waited months and months to launch, and we are not going to wait anymore." [...] Twitter.now, still in its nascent stage, only has hundreds of users for the time being. The social media network looks and feels much like the Twitter of old and many of its offshoots -- it has replies and retweets. A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based "veracity engine for real-time analysis" ("Vera" for short), which runs on every tweet. Coates has been testing Vera in recent days by posting obviously false messages, like "George Washington was our second president." "Our first goal is to see if we can truly bring back a town square that's safer and less harmful," he said. "We say freedom of speech and not freedom of reach. We want people to say what they want, but we also want to create a platform that's not financially locked into that viral content that's harmful or inaccurate." Operation Bluebird argues that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the Twitter brand and trademarks when he renamed the company X, opening the door for the startup to claim them. X Corp. sued to stop the effort, but a federal judge tentatively ruled in April that X appeared to have relinquished rights to "tweet," the bird logo, and possibly "Twitter" itself, though no written ruling has been issued. Bluebird has taken that as enough of a green light to move forward while emphasizing that its new Twitter is not affiliated with X. "Operation Bluebird, Inc. picked up the name X Corp. walked away from and is rebuilding it on trust, in your browser at twitter.now," it states prominently on its website. "We are not X, and we are not affiliated with X Corp."

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Jean-Pierre Farandou a mis en garde contre les «marchands d’illusion qui lancent des idées en l’air» à ce sujet, tout en soulignant ne pas viser le Medef, dont il juge la proposition «solide».

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DÉCRYPTAGE - Face au déficit de l’Assurance-maladie, le gouvernement vient d’entériner un vaste «transfert de charges» vers les complémentaires santé. Estimé à plus de 1,5 milliard d’euros, il risque de ne pas être indolore pour les assurés.

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New Zealand has introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI companion services. "We have protections to keep children safe in the real world and we need them in the virtual world too," said Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in announcing the bill. Jurist.org reports: The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would require an age restriction on platforms with harmful features for children. These features include recommender systems, endless feeds, feedback features and time-limited features. The bill also seeks to restrict underage users from accessing AI companion services. However, it explicitly excludes messaging apps, professional networking sites, gaming and music platforms, and other educational and health tools. Notably, age verification through self-declared dates of birth and formal identification does not satisfy the platforms' duty under the law. It also requires platforms to verify their users' age through other methods such as facial scans and user activity patterns. The bill would also require platforms to conduct child safety risk assessments for all users under 18 and protect them from harmful content such as bullying, violence, and sexually explicit materials.

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Le gouvernement compte demander des efforts généralisés pour réaliser les économies nécessaires à la réduction du déficit. Les retraités les plus aisés pourraient être mis à contribution.

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Il y a quelques jours, le site Ameli.fr a discrètement modifié la fiche consacrée à cette maladie, retirant les mentions relatives à un «trouble psychiatrique ou psychologique». Les associations de malades saluent cette avancée.

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«À ce jour, aucun signalement sanitaire lié à ces préservatifs n’a été rapporté», a précisé la ministre, après que les autorités ont annoncé la veille que 40.000 préservatifs non conformes avaient été vendus en France ces derniers mois.

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Pour le président libertarien argentin, l’IVG perturberait la croissance et le système de retraites du pays. Plusieurs études ont pourtant démontré que la baisse de la natalité était principalement due aux conditions économiques des ménages.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help them stay focused and weigh longer-term goals. When people watch a short video they enjoy enough to finish, two brain regions involved in cognitive control show significant deactivation. That is the central finding of a new study from Zhejiang University, published in NeuroImagein January 2026. Using functional MRI alongside proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-MRS), the research team examined 56 young adults while they freely watched short video clips inside an MRI scanner. Both the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) showed reduced activity specifically when participants watched clips they liked enough to view to completion. Cognitive control helps people balance immediate pleasures against longer-term goals, and impairments in this system are linked to conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, and addiction. Short-video platforms present rapid, algorithmically curated streams that are built for continuous, low-effort consumption. Prior behavioral research has tied both internet addiction and smartphone addiction to weaker self-control, and separate neuroimaging work has documented disruptions to reward and cognitive-control circuits in people with behavioral addictions. Despite this, few studies had directly tested whether the act of watching entertaining short videos itself suppresses the brain's cognitive control regions. The Zhejiang University team set out to answer that question, along with a second one: what neurochemical factors might explain why this suppression varies from person to person?

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Le député PS de l’Eure Philippe Brun, candidat à la primaire du camp social-démocrate, a annoncé vouloir créer «un système mixte avec beaucoup de capitalisation». Une première à gauche, là où l’idée fait plutôt consensus à droite.

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