Year: 2026

Lawmakers are pushing to make companies tell customers when their products will die

Lawmakers are pushing to make companies tell customers when their products will die

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Trends,Grow Old Together ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Tuesday two Massachusetts lawmakers have introduced bills in the state House and Senate that, if passed, would create a state law requiring companies to tell customers when service on their connected products ends. It is an effort aimed at reducing cybersecurity risks as well as enhancing consumer protection. With knowledge of future support, consumers can purchase a device with confidence, knowing how long they can expect it to work reliably, and when they plan for eventual obsolescence.The pieces of the…
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Trinity Rodman signs historic three-year Washington Spirit deal

Trinity Rodman signs historic three-year Washington Spirit deal

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: "I think it's a huge, game-changing moment right now. I can't even put into words how I feel."Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmatti, who won the Ballon d'Or in 2023, 2024 and 2025, was said to have been the highest-paid player before the Rodman deal. In 2025, the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) salary cap is $3.5 million (ยฃ2.6 million) per team. But the NWSL board approved a new โ€œhigh-impact playerโ€ rule in December, which allowed teams to spend up to $1 million (ยฃ760,000) over the cap…
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Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Jan 22nd, 2026Lev Kokotov PgDog is a proxy for scaling PostgreSQL. Under the hood, we use libpg_query to parse and understand SQL queries. Since PgDog is written in Rust, we use its Rust bindings to interface with the core C library. Those bindings use Protobuf (de)serialization to work uniformly across different programming languages, e.g., the popular Ruby pg_query gem. Protobuf is fast, but not using Protobuf is faster. We forked pg_query.rs and replaced Protobuf with direct C-to-Rust (and back to C) bindings, using bindgen and…
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FPL Talking Point: When will you reintroduce Bruno Fernandes?

FPL Talking Point: When will you reintroduce Bruno Fernandes?

โœจ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Holly Shand: โ€œFernandez is quickly gaining a starting place again, having been the highest-scoring midfielder in the game before a hamstring problem kept him out for most of the festive period. โ€œPlaying as a No. 10 increased his attacking threat and we saw him make six key passes in the 2-0 win over Manchester City, including four big chances. โ€œHe is the most prolific creator in the Premier League this season, leading the way among all players in terms of key passes (62) and big…
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Harry Styles: Aperture Review โ€“ An upbeat, laid-back, laid-back track designed to embrace strangers on the dance floor | Harry Styles

Harry Styles: Aperture Review โ€“ An upbeat, laid-back, laid-back track designed to embrace strangers on the dance floor | Harry Styles

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Harry Styles,Pop and rock,Dance music,Music,Culture ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: nAs the proud owner of six Brit hits, three Grammy Awards, and seven UK Top 10 singles, it's fair to say that Harry Styles has elegantly avoided the potholes that litter the path from former boyband member to solo star. His well-earned confidence means that instead of bridging the gap between 2022's Harry's House and last week's announcement of his fourth album - the confusingly titled Kiss All the Time. Disco, sometimes โ€“ with so many one-off releases,…
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Waymo continues to ramp up its robo-taxis with its Miami service now open to the public

Waymo continues to ramp up its robo-taxis with its Miami service now open to the public

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,miami,robotaxi,Waymo โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Waymo robot can now be welcomed by the public in Miami. The company said Thursday that it will initially open the service, on a rolling basis, to the approximately 10,000 local residents on its waiting list. Once accepted, riders will be able to hail a robo-taxi within a 60-square-mile service area in Miami that covers neighborhoods such as the Design District, Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables. Waymo said it plans to eventually expand to Miami International Airport, but did not provide a timeline beyond…
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Australian Open 2026: Yulia Putintseva drowns ‘disrespectful’ crowd with rabbit song

Australian Open 2026: Yulia Putintseva drowns ‘disrespectful’ crowd with rabbit song

โœจ Read this must-read post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: With the majority of the audience opposed, Yulia Putintseva turned her attention to a song about rabbits.Her Turkish opponent, Zeynep Sonmez, who qualified from the qualifiers, received vociferous crowd support in Melbourne after she was forced into a deciding set in a close match in the third round.So, in an attempt to block it all out, Putintseva repeated the lyrics to a song from an old Russian movie in her head, instead of her usual Taylor Swift.She admitted this was not her usual coping mechanism,…
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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a CLAUDE.md file โ€“ Hugo Daniel

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a CLAUDE.md file โ€“ Hugo Daniel

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 22-Jan-2026 About me All posts Feed API Error: 400 โšก One minute I'm a โ‚ฌ220/month "Max 20x" AI "power user" (is this even a thing?). The next, I am a disabled non-person "organization". Like a lot of my peers I was using claude code CLI regularly and trying to understand how far I could go with it on my personal projects. Going wild, with ideas and approaches to code I can now try and validate at a very fast pace. Run it inside tmux and…
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Saipan: Roy Keane fallout with Mick McCarthy – Dean Kelly in infamous row

Saipan: Roy Keane fallout with Mick McCarthy – Dean Kelly in infamous row

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Kane, who won seven Premier League titles during his 12 years at United under Sir Alex Ferguson, was not happy with the training facilities on Saipan.In May 2002, after once threatening to quit the team, he told the Irish Times that the pitches were "very difficult"."I can't imagine any other country in the world that is much worse off than us, playing on something like this," Keane said.He said he was not the "first singer" and described the facilities as "dangerous."Days later, during a team…
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‘Some artists thought it was too political’: Can Jarvis, Damone, Olivia Rodrigo and the Arctic Monkees reboot the biggest charity album of the ’90s? | music

‘Some artists thought it was too political’: Can Jarvis, Damone, Olivia Rodrigo and the Arctic Monkees reboot the biggest charity album of the ’90s? | music

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Indie,Charities,Kae Tempest,Pulp,Jarvis Cocker,Damon Albarn,Fontaines DC,Blur,Arctic Monkeys,Depeche Mode,Jonathan Glazer,Film,Culture,Oasis,Paul McCartney,Radiohead ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: WWhen Kae Tempest was asked to contribute to a new track by Damon Albarn, which would also feature Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten, Tempest says he jumped at the chance. It wasn't just the artists involved, nor the fact that it was destined for a new compilation for War Child, called Help (2): a sequel to the charity's huge hit Help (2): After seven solo albums, Tempest began to think about working…
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