Year: 2026

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to expose anti-ICE accounts

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🔥 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Government & Policy,Google,Department of Homeland Security,discord,Immigration and Customs Enforcement 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Department of Homeland Security has increased pressure on technology companies to identify owners of social media accounts critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the New York Times. This echoes other recent reports, with Bloomberg citing five cases in which the Department of Homeland Security sought to identify the owners of anonymous Instagram accounts, with the department withdrawing subpoenas after the owners filed a lawsuit. A Washington Post story described the Department of Homeland…

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Joel Fearon: From pizza delivery man to Winter Olympics hope

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🚀 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Like many athletes, Veron's career was affected by traumatic injuries at key moments.He has wires in his lower leg bones holding them together, after suffering a serious injury while running for the British relay team. "After that, I almost retired from athletics, and I still did some things, but it wasn't the same," he said.“It took two years out of my sports career.”But while that pain eased over time as he recovered, what happened to his family next was difficult to put into words.In 2023,…

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Six Nations 2026: Mystery, magic and madness – Scotland’s perfect day against England

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🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Scotland travel to Cardiff as favourites, but without three players from the Calcutta Cup. Victory came at a cost. Jack Dempsey, aggressive on the legs, Jamie Ritchie, a warrior in his 40 minutes, and Jamie Dobbie, outstanding in every area after a difficult experience in Roma, will not make it to Wales.Dempsey and Ritchie may never be seen again in the tournament. Townsend could do without those blows, but he is used to the carnage of Six Nations rugby. He also has fit MPs…

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abdimoallim/vdb: A header-only C vector database library

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💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A lightweight, header-only C library for storing and searching high-dimensional vector embeddings with optional multithreading support. Header-only implementation (single file: vdb.h) Multiple distance metrics (cosine, euclidean, dot product) Optional thread-safe operations via #define VDB_MULTITHREADED Save/load database to/from disk Custom memory allocators support No dependencies (except pthreads for multithreading) Python bindings (refer to vdb.py) /*test.c*/ #include "vdb.h" int main(void) { vdb_database *db = vdb_create(128, VDB_METRIC_COSINE); float embedding[128] = 🔥; vdb_add_vector(db, embedding, "vec1", NULL); float query[128] = { /* ... */ }; vdb_result_set *results = vdb_search(db,…

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How the Department of Homeland Security shutdown affects travel in the United States

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✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: air travel,Department of Homeland Security,shutdown,Transportation Security Administration,tsa ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shutdown, which took effect early Saturday, is affecting the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with nervous flight reservations may remember a 43-day government shutdown that led to historic flight cancellations and lengthy delays last year. TSA officers are expected to work without pay while lawmakers remain without an agreement on annual funding for the Department of Homeland Security. TSA officers also…

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Prayer for Death Review – The Pandemic West Feels Like a Short Stretch Over a Long Time | Berlin Film Festival 2026

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Berlin film festival 2026,Film,Westerns,Period and historical films,John C Reilly,Johnny Flynn,Film adaptations,Books,Culture,Music,Berlin film festival,Festivals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere's some highly orchestrated image-making and mood-making in this technically accomplished but unsatisfying drama from first-time Norway resident Dara van Dusen. It's a bleak tale of the American Old West, adapted by Dawson from Stuart O'Nan's novel, and somehow feels like a short film shot at length. His visual gestures and set pieces, while striking and often shocking, felt to me disconnected from any emotional truth – a truth perhaps…

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Is safety “dead” in xAI?

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💥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,Elon Musk,xAI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk is "actively" working on making xAI's chatbot Grok "more disruptive," according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk's AI company. This week, after it was announced that xAI would be acquired by Musk's SpaceX company (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders said they would leave the company. Some have said they are leaving to start something new, and Musk himself has suggested this is part of…

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Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle: An announcement about VAR technology? How many big decisions were wrong in an FA Cup match?

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✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Has there ever been a better video assistant referee (VAR) ad? Newcastle's 3-1 FA Cup fourth round win over Aston Villa was riddled with controversy with VAR once again the big talking point - even though it was not in use.For this season and the previous FA Cup campaign, it was not used until the fifth round, with many fans looking forward to a return to football uninterrupted by technology.But referee Chris Kavanagh had hoped that the VAR would have resorted to Villa Park…

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Premier League: Hull FC 27-20 Bradford Bulls

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Bradford have been through a lot since their last Premier League effort, with Manez Manukavu scoring the winning goal over the London Broncos in September 2014, with the club liquidating and rebuilding from the rubble.But it looked as if they were never far away in the opening exchanges, as they overcame the seventh-placed side in last year's Premier League and scored the first try through Waka Blake, the Fijian international blasting through the fragile defense on six minutes.The excellent Price produced a moment of magic…

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CPNs, LLMs, and Distributed Applications

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CPNs, LLMs, and Distributed Applications A big theme in LLM-enabled software dev is that verifiable correctness makes it much easier to take bigger leaps with LLMs. E.g. tests, compilers, state machines, etc. While researching for databuild, I recently came across colored petri nets, and instantly saw opportunity. Colored petri nets (CPNs) are an extension of petri nets. Petri nets are essentially directed bipartite graphs where places can contain tokens, and places are connected by transitions (where the side effects happen). In petri nets, a single…

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