Year: 2026

In a changing venture capital landscape, this CEO is doubling down on overlooked founders

In a changing venture capital landscape, this CEO is doubling down on overlooked founders

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Startups,Venture đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Many Silicon Valley insiders have spent years chasing mega-deals and buzzy AI deals. Meanwhile, Stacy Brown Philpott runs Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to the earlier days of venture capital, writing smaller Series A and B checks to founders who were routinely overlooked by larger firms. The former CEO of TaskRabbit and a decade-long Google veteran launched Cherryrock a year ago after seeing what she calls a persistent gap: access to capital for “underinvested entrepreneurs” in building software companies at a crucial growth stage. “When…
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FA Cup: Manchester City 2-0 – Salford – From a ‘frustrating’ 8-0 defeat to pushing Manchester City all the way

FA Cup: Manchester City 2-0 – Salford – From a ‘frustrating’ 8-0 defeat to pushing Manchester City all the way

🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Salford's players remained on the field for a good five minutes after the full-time whistle to show their appreciation to their traveling fans.“Why did you bring that up?” manager Karl Robinson joked in his post-match press conference, when a reporter mentioned the eight-goal defeat last season.He must have feared his side would face another blow when Alfie Dorrington scored an own goal in the sixth minute.But the visitors regrouped.Not only did they prevent their opponents from scoring any attempts on target before half-time, but they…
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You Can’t Trust the Internet Anymore

You Can’t Trust the Internet Anymore

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a "byte" post. It may not be as detailed as other posts. I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wanted to learn about them. I mean, jeez, I’m certainly not writing blog posts about strip mahjong because the people demand it. But I can’t stop seeing misinformation everywhere, and I have to say something. This post is just…
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Swiss Minister: Iran and the United States will hold nuclear talks in Geneva

Swiss Minister: Iran and the United States will hold nuclear talks in Geneva

🚀 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Donald Trump news,Iran,iran nucelar program,Nuclear Talks,steve witkoff âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Geneva (AFP) - The Swiss Foreign Ministry announced Saturday that Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks on Tehran's nuclear program next week. The Swiss ministry said that Oman, which welcomed the first round of indirect talks on February 6, will host the talks in Geneva, without specifying the days. After the first discussions, US President Donald Trump warned Tehran that failure to reach an agreement with his administration would be…
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Mansfield brilliant pressure on Parker – is his time at Burnley over?

Mansfield brilliant pressure on Parker – is his time at Burnley over?

🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The loss to the team sitting 13th in the third tier of English football marks a new low in Burnley's season just as renewed optimism is beginning to creep in.Burnley's impressive 3-2 win over Crystal Palace on Wednesday was their first win in 16 Premier League matches. The gloom was starting to lift a little.Parker's side showed real fight and spirit at Selhurst Park, which made his decision to make nine changes to his side for the visit of Mansfield all the more puzzling.“When…
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Review of No Good Men – A smart and urgent Afghan romance | Berlin Film Festival 2026

Review of No Good Men – A smart and urgent Afghan romance | Berlin Film Festival 2026

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Berlin film festival 2026,Berlin film festival,Festivals,Culture,Film,Romance films,Drama films,Afghanistan đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: TAfghan director Shahrbano Sadat is a warm, approachable presence as writer, director, and star of No Good Men — the story of the women of Afghanistan in 2021 as they are on the verge of surrendering to the Taliban as American forces withdraw. It's an urgent tale, which incidentally ends with a rousing finale reminiscent of Casablanca — though the central shift in the heart of the male hero, which the title gamely refutes, is…
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Hollywood is not happy with the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

Hollywood is not happy with the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,bytedance,Disney,motion picture association,seedance 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hollywood organizations are opposing a new AI-powered video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say is quickly becoming a vehicle for "blatant" copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese company that recently completed a deal to sell TikTok's U.S. operations (it retains a stake in the new joint venture), launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week. According to the Wall Street Journal, the updated model is currently available to Chinese users of ByteDance's Jianying app, and the company says it will soon be…
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Man City 2-0 Salford City: James Trafford talks about the reality of his situation after the FA Cup

Man City 2-0 Salford City: James Trafford talks about the reality of his situation after the FA Cup

🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When James Trafford returned to... Manchester City In June l The fee is around ÂŁ30 millionwas hoping to emerge as the club's first-choice goalkeeper.He started this season in this role, and participated in City's first three matches in the English Premier League this season.But the arrival of Gianluigi Donnarumma spoiled the arrangement.City took their chance to bring in one of the best goalkeepers in the world when the Italian was made surplus to requirements by Paris Saint-Germain on the summer deadline day.Donnarumma has made 30…
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback Machine. But as AI bots scavenge the web for training data to feed their models, the Internet Archive’s commitment to free information access has turned its digital library into a potential liability for some news publishers. When The Guardian took a look at who was trying to extract its content, access logs revealed that the…
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Rubio is trying to reassure skeptical European allies but is following Trump’s vision for reshaping the alliance

Rubio is trying to reassure skeptical European allies but is following Trump’s vision for reshaping the alliance

✨ Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Donald Trump news,europe,marco rubio,NATO âś… **What You’ll Learn**: MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a reassuring message to America's allies on Saturday, striking a less aggressive but still firm tone about the administration's intent to reshape the transatlantic alliance and advance its priorities after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often hostile rhetoric toward traditional allies. Reminding his audience at the annual Munich Security Conference of America's centuries-long roots in Europe, Rubio said the United States would remain forever tied…
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