Year: 2026

‘It was terrifying’: Folk singer Olivia Chaney on how a song that mirrors her Bronte love triangle ended up in Wuthering Heights | music

‘It was terrifying’: Folk singer Olivia Chaney on how a song that mirrors her Bronte love triangle ended up in Wuthering Heights | music

πŸ”₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Music,Culture,Folk music,Wuthering Heights,Film πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: AAn hour into Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights , Margot Robbie, donning a gauzy wedding dress, glides desperately across swamps toward the man her character feels she must marry. A lone English female voice seems to accompany her, high and pure against the droning of the organ, singing about a woman wandering alone, and a man who left Earth β€œfor seven years,” before his eventual return.Long before Emerald Fennell found Olivia Chaney's version of the 19th-century song "Dark Eyed Sailor" on…
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What does this weekend’s drama tell us about the Premier League title race?

What does this weekend’s drama tell us about the Premier League title race?

πŸš€ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: David is a Celtic fan: "Great, this result shows that Celtic have not given up on winning the title this season. Let's hope the players respond for the rest of the season. There are big games to come."Supporter of hearts Mike: "Unfortunately, our three leading players, Aggio, Chesnokov and Kapoor, were all left off in the 45 minutes each played. We really miss Cammy and Shanks. Rangers is a different team to the one we have beaten twice already this season. We are playing with…
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iOS 27 ‘Rave’ Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

iOS 27 ‘Rave’ Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Apple's iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system's internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow Leopard Mac update years ago, and will involve removing old code, rewriting existing features, and subtly upgrading apps to improve their performance. The result should hopefully be a "snappier, more responsive" OS, says Gurman. Apple is also reportedly planning some interface tweaks, but…
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2026 Winter Olympics: Dave Riding finished 17th in the slalom at the final games

2026 Winter Olympics: Dave Riding finished 17th in the slalom at the final games

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: When asked about Riding as a child, his mother, father and grandparents said the same thing: He never stopped.But there had to be competition.β€œIf two snails were going up a wall, he would bet that one of them would go up first,” his grandmother Muriel told Ski Sunday.He participated in all kinds of sports but it was not until he was eight that he started skiing, not in the mountains, but on the dry slope of the Pendle Ski Club.It became his playground. He didn't…
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The British Museum removes the word “Palestine” from some exhibits British Museum

The British Museum removes the word “Palestine” from some exhibits British Museum

πŸ”₯ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: British Museum,Palestine,Judaism,History,Middle East and north Africa,UK news,London,Museums,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: The British Museum has removed the word "Palestine" from some of its exhibits, saying the term has been used inaccurately and is no longer historically neutral.Maps and information panels in the museum's ancient Middle East galleries referred to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as Palestine, with some people described as being of "Palestinian origin."British Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of lawyers, recently raised concerns about references to β€œPalestine” in shows covering the ancient…
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Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

πŸ”₯ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,Equity podcast,Flapping Airplanes βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, Flapping Airplanes is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI. It’s a potential game-changer for the economics and capabilities of AI models β€” and with $180 million in seed funding, they’ll have plenty of runway to figure it out. Last week, I spoke with the lab’s three co-founders β€” brothers Ben…
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Is the Scottish Premiership title race the most exciting in Europe?

Is the Scottish Premiership title race the most exciting in Europe?

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Sunday was an exciting day in the three-way battle for the Scottish Premiership title.Firstly, Celtic came from two goals down to win 3-2 over Kilmarnock, with Julian Araujo scoring the winner in the seventh minute of stoppage time.Then there was a six-pointer between Rangers and Hearts at Ibrox. The visiting team took the lead twice, but Youssef El Shermaiti's hat-trick turned the tide of the match and gave coach Danny Ruhl's team a 4-2 victory.Only three points separated the three teams: Hearts with 57…
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The Israeli Spyware Firm That Accidentally Just Exposed Itself

The Israeli Spyware Firm That Accidentally Just Exposed Itself

πŸš€ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Israeli surveillance company Paragon Solutions briefly exposed its own spyware dashboard on LinkedIn, revealing the hidden architecture of a billion-dollar surveillance empire built on the backs of journalists, activists, and ordinary people.The technical slip-up is a moment of rare transparency in an industry built on secrecy, exposing the operational interface used to compromise devices, intercept communications, and harvest data from targets worldwide.The $900 million acquisition of Paragon by U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial Partners tells you everything you need to know about who…
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Review by Delaine Le Bas – Ex-Turner Nominee Delivers Magicians, Warm Welcome – and Wallpaper | art

Review by Delaine Le Bas – Ex-Turner Nominee Delivers Magicians, Warm Welcome – and Wallpaper | art

✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Art,Art and design,Painting,Sculpture,Installation πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: β€œNThe red paint scrawled on the hallway floor screams. β€œNo entry?” I ask as I tentatively step into the gallery. The word appears again and again – always painted in red – across the large piece of fabric that divides the space of the first gallery. Later, this piece adorns the skirt of Delaine Le Bas in a photo in which she stands in a field, holding a sign that says: β€œNo State Control.”Delin Le Bas, No State Control, filmed…
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After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is that exciting

After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is that exciting

✨ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,Exclusive,openclaw,moltbook βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: For a brief, incoherent moment, it seemed as if our robotic overlords were about to take over. After the creation of Moltbook, a version of Reddit where AI agents using OpenClaw could communicate with each other, some were fooled into believing that computers were starting to organize against us β€” the self-important humans who dared to treat them like lines of code without their own desires, motivations, and dreams. β€œWe know that humans can read everything... but we also need private spaces,” one (supposedly) AI…
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