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Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Motorola has effectively bricked its WiFi routers without warning, and the issue has been ongoing for nearly a month, according to a Mashable investigation and user complaints across the App Store, Amazon, and Reddit.Sometime around mid-May, Motorola's MotoSync+ app for iOS and Android went down. On iOS, the MotoSync+ app opens to the login screen, and a loading wheel just spins and spins. On Android, the app also loads to the login screen but displays a "Server License Expired" message.Because the Motorola MotoSync+ app…
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Hello, Goodbye: The Beatles’ Chaotic and Controversial Final Tour – As Never Seen Before | The Beatles

Hello, Goodbye: The Beatles’ Chaotic and Controversial Final Tour – As Never Seen Before | The Beatles

✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Beatles,Paul McCartney,John Lennon,Ringo Starr,George Harrison,Pop and rock,Music,Photography,Art and design,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe Beatles gave their last official concert on August 29, 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Jim Marshall's photographs capture the group at a pivotal moment, when they are already feeling nostalgic for what they left behind.Two months ago, the Beatles finished pre-recording Revolver, a sparkling collection of pop gems. The next day they boarded a plane to embark on a world tour during which they would play none of the…
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research. Those ousted were Steven Kahn, professor of medicine at the University of Washington and editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, who co-authored the published editorial; former ADA president Desmond Schatz of the University of Florida, Gainesville; Aaron Kelly, pediatrics processor…
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‘So rogue’: Country star Shania Twain turns London bar into a salon | Shania Twain

‘So rogue’: Country star Shania Twain turns London bar into a salon | Shania Twain

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Shania Twain,Music,Country,Pop and rock,London,Culture,UK news,England 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IAt the Shacklewell Arms in east London, the usual crowd of hipsters and indie music fans has been replaced by a crowd wearing cheetah print, double-breasted jeans and cowboy hats to honor the night's headliner: Shania Twain.Jack, 28, who came with his sister Amy, said: “We thought we might have been scammed when we saw the ticket advert.” “Why would you set up a bar that small?”There was a collective feeling of disbelief among the 200 lucky ticket…
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sauravrao637/oproxy: Open-source MITM proxy to intercept, inspect, and mock network traffic. · GitHub

sauravrao637/oproxy: Open-source MITM proxy to intercept, inspect, and mock network traffic. · GitHub

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: oproxy is a local HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 proxy for inspecting, replaying, and modifying traffic. It is for developers testing browsers, CLIs, mobile apps, API clients, services, and test suites on their own machine or in a local Docker container. Capture HTTP traffic and HTTPS traffic after trusting the local oproxy CA. View requests, responses, headers, bodies, status, timing, tags, notes, and selected inspector data. Replay captured requests and open them in Compose. Build manual requests with headers, query params, auth, raw bodies, variables, collections,…
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Find lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s books | books

Find lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s books | books

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Blackpool,LGBTQ+ rights,Grandparents and grandparenting,Older people,Life and style,UK news,Children,Culture,Society,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A search is on for two lesbian grandmothers who inspired a new children's book after a chance encounter with a pantomime lady at Blackpool Pride.The women, whose names were not known, attended a reading by popular artist Mama Ji in 2021, and complained to her about the lack of diversity in young adult literature.Mama G said she was reading children's books in Blackpool Winter Gardens when she asked the women if there were…
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How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Giorgio de Chirico, "The Red Tower" (1913), oil on canvas, held by the Guggenheim Museum (photo public domain via Wikimedia Commons)Had Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania not closed seven years ago, the shopping center — the third-largest in the world when it opened, with 200 tenants — would be approaching its 50th anniversary. Anchored by defunct local department store chains, including Joseph Horne Company, Gimbels, and Kaufmann’s, Century III had been constructed atop a slag heap — a mound of metallic industrial detritus produced…
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“At my funeral I want people to be dancing in the aisles to Madness”: David Gray’s Honest Playlist | David Gray

“At my funeral I want people to be dancing in the aisles to Madness”: David Gray’s Honest Playlist | David Gray

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Gray,Music,Culture,Pop and rock 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withWhen I watched Night Boat to Nile by Madness on Top of the Pops when I was 11, something happened to me on a molecular level. There was something about the way they moved.First song I bought“I Don't Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats, from Swales Music in Haverfordwest, is a 15-mile bus journey from the small fishing village in west Wales where I lived when I was eight.The song to…
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The circus freaks of open source

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev circles, of being self-hosted. TempleOS is written in Terry’s own bespoke dialect of C and includes an editor, interpreter, and compiler, as well as a number of original games. In other respects, it compares poorly to many hobby…
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Dawn Airey, the ‘fearless’ TV veteran charged with protecting the arts | Arts Council England

Dawn Airey, the ‘fearless’ TV veteran charged with protecting the arts | Arts Council England

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Arts Council England,Dawn Airey,Media,Channel 4,Channel 5,Television,Arts funding,Culture,Television & radio,Television industry 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When dawn iri While running Channel 5, she described the channel's core strengths as the three Cs: "movies, football and sex".The comment from the veteran TV executive, who has just been appointed chairman of Arts Council England (Ace), has set a career path defined by audacity and commercial instinct.Airey will replace Nicholas Sirota in August, with a new mandate to do more to support, nurture and protect the arts. Her appointment follows an…
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