Engagé dans une vaste restructuration pour accroître sa rentabilité, le géant des télécoms s’apprête à réduire significativement ses effectifs dans trois de ses filiales espagnoles.

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Plafonner la durée des arrêts de travail «mobiliserait plusieurs centaines de milliers d’heures de consultation dans un contexte d’accès aux soins déjà fragilisé», a affirmé la sénatrice Corinne Imbert, favorable à la «liberté de prescription» des médecins.

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Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them "do you ever use" YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results? YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X.com (formerly Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% An announcement from Pew Research adds some trends and demographics: The Center has long tracked use of many of these platforms. Over the past few years, four of them have grown in overall use among U.S. adults — TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Reddit. 37% of U.S. adults report using TikTok, which is slightly up from last year and up from 21% in 2021. Half of U.S. adults now report using Instagram, which is on par with last year but up from 40% in 2021. About a third say they use WhatsApp, up from 23% in 2021. And 26% today report using Reddit, compared with 18% four years ago. While YouTube and Facebook continue to sit at the top, the shares of Americans who report using them have remained relatively stable in recent years... YouTube and Facebook are the only sites asked about that a majority in all age groups use, though for YouTube, the youngest adults are still the most likely to do so. This differs from Facebook, where 30- to 49-year-olds most commonly say they use it (80%). Other interesting statistics: "More than half of women report using Instagram (55%), compared with under half of men (44%). Alternatively, men are more likely to report using platforms such as X and Reddit." "Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are more likely to report using WhatsApp, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Threads."

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DÉCRYPTAGE - La chambre haute termine cette semaine l’examen en séance publique du projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale. Les sénateurs sont revenus sur nombre de dispositions votées par les députés. Le Figaro fait le point.

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ANALYSE - En 2025, seule la moitié d’entre eux a été augmentée, indique une étude de l’Apec. Une proportion en nette diminution.

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PORTRAIT - Il y a deux ans et demi, les Français ont été marqués par l’attaque à la voiture-bélier dont il a été victime en tant que maire. Ils apprennent désormais à connaître la politique ferme du nouveau ministre du Logement.

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Le mouvement social est en cours depuis le 12 novembre et a été reconduit pour ce lundi 17 novembre.

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La commission des Affaires sociales de la Chambre haute a proposé samedi de revenir sur de nombreuses mesures votées à l’Assemblée nationale sur le budget de la Sécu.

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DÉCRYPTAGE - Promise par Emmanuel Macron dès 2017, relancée par les premiers ministres Michel Barnier puis François Bayrou, cette mesure fera l’objet d’un projet de loi en décembre, a annoncé Sébastien Lecornu. Elle serait synonyme de refonte en profondeur de notre système de redistribution.

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Cette mesure, déjà évoquée par François Bayrou, est destinée à rapprocher plusieurs prestations sociales comme le RSA ou certaines aides au logement.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine's six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's backing. On Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored from an older backup that was created before Vine's shutdown. The app won't just exist as a walk down memory lane; it will also allow users to create profiles and upload their own new Vine videos. However, unlike on traditional social media, where AI content is often haphazardly labeled, diVine will flag suspected generative AI content and prevent it from being posted. According to TechCrunch, a volunteer preservation group called the Archive Team saved Vine's content when it shut down in 2016. The only problem was that everything was stored in massive 40-50 GB binary blob files that were basically unusable for casual viewing. Evan Henshaw-Plath (who goes by the name Rabble), an early Twitter employee and member of Jack Dorsey's nonprofit "and Other Stuff," dug into those backup files to try and salvage as much as he could. He spent months writing big-data extraction scripts, reverse-engineering how the archived binaries were structured, and reconstructing the original video files, old user info, view counts, and more. "I wasn't able to get all of them out, but I was able to get a lot out and basically reconstruct these Vines and these Vine users, and give each person a new user [profile] on this open network," he said. Rabble estimates that through this process he was able to successfully recover 150,000-200,000 Vine videos from around 60,000 creators. diVine then rebuilt user profiles on top of the decentralized Nostr protocol so creators can reclaim their accounts, request takedowns, or upload missing videos. You can check out the app for yourself at diVine.video. It's available in beta form on both iOS and Android.

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Lors des quelques jours de débats, les élus ont «réduit les mesures d’économies (...) d’environ 3,8 milliards d’euros et les recettes supplémentaires de 4,8 milliards d’euros», selon le rapporteur, Thibault Bazin.

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Annoncé début octobre par Sébastien Lecornu, ce texte doit permettre de récupérer plus de deux milliards d’euros, espère le gouvernement. Un chiffrage surévalué, selon le Haut conseil des finances publiques (HCFP).

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Cet élargissement sera financé par la hausse de la CSG sur les revenus du capital, a précisé le ministre du Travail Jean-Pierre Farandou, mercredi matin.

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L’Élysée n’a pas confirmé dans l’immédiat, se bornant à dire que des discussions étaient en cours avec les représentants agricoles.

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«Entre 70% et 85%» des radiologues seront en grève lundi, a affirmé dimanche au micro de BFMTV Jean-Philippe Masson, président du syndicat de la profession, la Fédération nationale des médecins radiologues (FNMR).

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Les députés ont également exhorté l’exécutif à renoncer au doublement de ces franchises, prévu par décret en marge des débats budgétaires.

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L’Assemblée nationale poursuit ce dimanche l’examen du budget de la Sécurité sociale, avec à l’horizon mercredi la suspension de la réforme des retraites.

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Un rejet aurait interrompu les débats dans l’Assemblée avant même l’examen de l’article 45 bis actant la suspension de la réforme des retraites.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Denmark's government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial interests. The move would give some parents -- after a specific assessment -- the right to let their children access social media from age 13. It wasn't immediately clear how such a ban would be enforced: Many tech platforms already restrict pre-teens from signing up. Officials and experts say such restrictions don't always work. Such a measure would be among the most sweeping steps yet by a European Union government to limit use of social media among teens and younger children, which has drawn concerns in many parts of an increasingly online world. "We've given the tech giants so many chances to stand up and to do something about what is happening on their platforms. They haven't done it," said Caroline Stage, Denmark's minister for digital affairs. "So now we will take over the steering wheel and make sure that our children's futures are safe." "I can assure you that Denmark will hurry, but we won't do it too quickly because we need to make sure that the regulation is right and that there is no loopholes for the tech giants to go through," Stage said.

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