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Winter Paralympics 2026: The only Iranian athlete will not participate in the Milan-Cortina Games

Winter Paralympics 2026: The only Iranian athlete will not participate in the Milan-Cortina Games

🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The International Paralympic Committee announced that Iran will not participate in the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympic Games.The IOC said the solo athlete who was preparing to represent the nation at the Games "cannot travel safely to Italy" due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.Cross-country skier Abulfazl Khatibi Miani's withdrawal was confirmed on Friday,, external A few hours before the opening ceremony of the Games in Verona.IOC President Andrew Parsons said it was "really disappointing for world sport and especially for Abou El Fadl"…
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War Machine review – Netflix bravely asks: What if it was Predator but Transformers? | Action and adventure films

War Machine review – Netflix bravely asks: What if it was Predator but Transformers? | Action and adventure films

💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Action and adventure films,Netflix,Film,Culture,Science fiction and fantasy films,Thrillers ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: YYou'd be forgiven for skipping Netflix's gory military thriller War Machine at this very moment. After all, there's an actual war raging (is there ever a right time, one might argue?) but those behind the film are likely to use its science fiction as a defense of differentiation. The war raging here is not between the United States and a foreign terrestrial entity, but rather a war from somewhere above, our thousand soldiers against aliens.…
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Italy v England: Borthwick backs ‘bibs back line’ to ease Six Nations crisis

Italy v England: Borthwick backs ‘bibs back line’ to ease Six Nations crisis

🔥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Last weekend, France launched a new shirt.Antoine Dupont, Louis-Pierre-Pillar and Mathieu Jalibert, along with footballers Djibril Cisse and Hugo Equitiki, appear in the glossy ad., external For the light blue number that France will wear against England on the final day of the Six Nations.By contrast, England, against Italy this weekend, opted to wear bibs.The new-look backline's only experience together is coaching one-on-ones in practice.Look instead for smaller clusters within the whole and you will find only thin threads of understanding.Fly-half Fin Smith and inside…
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After Europe, WhatsApp will allow competing AI companies to introduce chatbots in Brazil

After Europe, WhatsApp will allow competing AI companies to introduce chatbots in Brazil

✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,AI chatbot,Brazil,Meta,WhatsApp ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to make their WhatsApp chatbots available to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision to users in Europe. Earlier this week, Brazilian antitrust authority CADE ruled against Meta and rejected its appeal to block an earlier order suspending its policy change that sought to ban third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp. "After reviewing the case, the CADE Court decided that the necessary requirements to maintain the safeguard measure were in place.…
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AI and the illegal war

AI and the illegal war

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and the current occupant of the White House started a new war. No stupid Congressional approval, no stupid legality or constitutional basis, and no stupid rules of engagement. The press conference came two days after a missile fired by US-Israeli forces slammed into a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran, while class was in session, killing nearly 200 girls and teachers.…
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West Ham’s Nuno Espirito Santo is calling for clarification on what constitutes a foul

West Ham’s Nuno Espirito Santo is calling for clarification on what constitutes a foul

💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: West Ham Head coach Nuno Espirito Santo has called for clarity on what constitutes a foul at set-pieces, warning that current levels of clashing and blocking are "almost crazy".The Hammers boss became the latest Premier League boss to comment on the issue as he invited refereeing officials to visit clubs and explain to players "what's wrong, what's the communication, how far can you go... because we see things that are not normal".Speaking ahead of Monday's FA Cup tie against Brentford, Nuno revealed he had…
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James Acaster Review – Stand in Great Form with a Tangled Tribute to the Same | comedy

James Acaster Review – Stand in Great Form with a Tangled Tribute to the Same | comedy

💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,James Acaster,Comedy,Culture,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'II am the UK's #1 James Acaster tribute act! says Craig Simmons, standing on stage in a shiny blazer and tuxedo shirt. But Simmons is at a crossroads, tired of Acaster's mental health material, but doomed once he repeats it — at least until he finally launches a standup career of his own. That's the conceit of this new touring show featuring a performer who we assume is the real James Acaster - although based on his 2014 show (later…
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The Indian state of Karnataka indicates its intention to ban social media for those under the age of 16

The Indian state of Karnataka indicates its intention to ban social media for those under the age of 16

✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,Social,Bengaluru,Karnataka,Social media ban 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Indian state of Karnataka, home to the tech city of Bengaluru, plans to ban children under 16 from using social media, joining a growing global movement aimed at limiting young people's access to online platforms despite questions about implementation and effectiveness. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced the decision during his state budget speech on Friday. He said: “To prevent the negative effects on children of using mobile phones, the use of social media will be prohibited for children under the…
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Mansfield Town vs Arsenal: Why an FA Cup tie is a ‘shotgun wedding’ for League One Stags

Mansfield Town vs Arsenal: Why an FA Cup tie is a ‘shotgun wedding’ for League One Stags

✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Huge sums of money have been pumped into Mansfield Town since John Radford bought the club in 2010.The Stags were a cash-strapped non-league team at the time, and did not own their own stadium or training facility.They now own both, and have since moved into two divisions and doubled their average home attendance to about 8,000 in that time.However, throughout the years of development, preparing to host Arsenal has been likened to preparing for a “big wedding”, according to Caroline, as “there is not a…
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How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper

How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I recently spent time digging into a production performance issue. The application was running hot — CPU averaging over 50% and spiking into the 90s. We pulled a diagnostic snapshot and started working through the top queries by CPU time. The number one offender? A straightforward Dapper query. Simple WHERE clause on an indexed column. Should have been lightning fast. Instead, it was averaging thousands of milliseconds of CPU per execution across hundreds of thousands of executions per day. A two-character type mismatch that was…
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