๐ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Jay Obitaya is set to lose his IBF cruiserweight title if he goes through with his fight against Brandon Glanton on Sunday.Obitaya is scheduled to compete with Glanton for the Zuffa World Boxing Middleweight Title, but the International Boxing Federation said it had "withdrawn the sanction of the optional defense" of his belt.The International Boxing Federation said it initially approved the bout because Obitaya's team told them that the Zuffa boxing bout in Las Vegas would not be a unification bout and that any…
โจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Books,Family,Life and style ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: BBC Television Centre, 2 May 1990. โWho would spend ยฃ7m on an egg?โ The question echoes around the TV studio. At home, six million people watch as chatshow host Terry Wogan smiles knowingly, his brown eyes twinkling. โSeven million pounds,โ he repeats in his Irish brogue.โAnd you canโt even eat it.โThe audience laugh. A heckler shouts that heโd offer a fiver for it. The band strike up. At the back of the studio, two burly bodyguards stand…
๐ฅ Discover this must-read post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Accessories,Buying Guide ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: One doesn't need to enjoy Rush's music to respect the multitasking that occurs while the Canadian trio (RIP Neil Peart) is on stage strumming notes flawlessly to recreate their studio work. A key component of guitarist/vocalist Geddy Lee's workflow was the Moog Taurus, an early monophonic synthesizer controlled by octave-worth organ-like foot pedals that sat on the floor under his synthesizer rack, and which he later moved to a MIDI-controlled Ableton-enabled computer.Newer, heavier bands like Brutus…
๐ Read this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Fred Warburton can remember the exact date of his first official ski race: February 22, 2025.Just over a year later, he can call himself a Paralympian, having competed in his first event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.Having previously competed in skiing as a tourist, the 31-year-old's journey to the Games began as a desire "just to impress" his Italian father-in-law.This took him to seventh place in Saturday's downhill, where he raced with his guide James Hannan down the famous Olympia delle Tuvan piste, with more…
๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Capitalization is the first wound. It hurts less than I thought it would. The words spill out capitalized, so I must find another way. cat post.md | tr A-Z a-z | sponge post.md is too crude a tool, and my blocks of code must remain inviolate. Careful targeting of text-transform: lowercase is enough. Em dashes. Em dashesโmy beloved em dashesโneโer shall we be parted, but we must hide our love. You must cloak yourself with anotherโs guise, your true self never to shine forth. uv…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Malorie Blackman,Books,Culture,Young adult,Stormzy,Race ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: โIโm useless at this bit,โ Malorie Blackman laughs, shifting awkwardly in a plum-coloured jacket and smart black trousers. It is a gloomy February evening in the back room of a theatre in west London, and she is having her photograph taken, the rain pummelling the brick outside.Blackman is, by any reasonable metric, one of the most significant writers Britain has produced in the past quarter of a century โ the closest thing my generation, who were raised on her books,…
โจ Discover this must-read post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Security Roundup ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: US Israel launched a war on Iran last week that has already killed more than 1,200 Iranians and spread throughout the Middle East. There are many unknowns about US President Donald Trump's goals as the conflict enters its second week, and the situation appears set to spark an energy crisis with repercussions around the world.Iran is suffering from a nationwide internet shutdown with only the country's regime-created intranet available, plunging Iranians into digital darkness and…
โจ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: The comprehensive ban imposed on Russian and Belarusian athletes in 2022 has been reduced to a partial ban in 2023, allowing athletes from both countries to compete as neutrals at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.In September 2025, the International Paralympic Committee lifted this ban completely, but the four governing bodies responsible for the six sports contested at the Winter Paralympics decided to keep the ban in place.In December, Russia and Belarus won their appeal against the Islamic Ski Front โ the governing body for skiing and…
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**What Youโll Learn**: I build things. Usually software. Sometimes movements. I got tired of watching my inbox become a war zone. Tired of the daily assault of garbage. Tired of watching smart people waste hours on email that never should have existed. So I built this. It's live. It works. And it's changing how I think about email. TANSTAAFL Mail isn't just a product. It's a statement: Your attention is valuable. Your time is finite. If someone wants a piece of either, they should be willing to prove…
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**What Youโll Learn**: The inclusion of six Russian and four Belarusian athletes, able to compete under their national flag and in their country's colours, in the 2026 Winter Paralympics has caused an uproar, with seven countries - including Ukraine - choosing to boycott Friday's opening ceremony in Verona.Earlier on Friday, International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons told BBC Sport that Russian soldiers injured in the war with Ukraine would be allowed to compete in future Paralympics.An investigation by Poland-based news site Vot Tak, as reported by The…
