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Add to playlist: Boundless bedroom-made black metal from Powerplant and this week’s best new songs | music

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Metal 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from LondonRecommend if you like Defoe, Home Front, Sniperthe next The new album Bridge of Sacrifice was released on March 13Theo Zikharev is one of those genius eccentrics who can turn wild ideas into reality. Since starting Powerplant as a bedroom recording project in 2017, two years after leaving Ukraine to study in London, he has released records built on raucous electro punk, dungeon synth and treble-heavy hardcore, and concocted Dungeons & Dragons-inspired role-playing adventures to accompany some of them, while visually…

a16z partner Kofi Ampadu will leave the company after the TxO program is discontinued

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Venture,a16z,Startups,venture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Kofi Ampadu, a partner at a16z who led the firm's Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the company, according to an email he sent to employees and obtained by TechCrunch. This comes months after the company temporarily shut down TxO and laid off most of its employees. “During my time at the company, I have been extremely grateful for the opportunity and trust I have been given to lead this business,” Ampadu wrote in an email sent Friday afternoon, titled “Closing…

Under-19 World Cup: Manny Lumsden wins 5-17 as England beat New Zealand to reach semi-final

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✨ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Manny Lumsden took five wickets as England booked their place in the semi-finals of the Under-19 Men's World Cup by 65 points over New Zealand.Hampshire seamer Lumsden bowled superbly on a slow pitch at Queen's Sports Club in Bulawayo to finish with impressive figures of 5-17 as the Kiwis were bowled out for 169 in pursuit of 235.England will play Australia or Afghanistan in the semi-finals on February 3 or 4 depending on India's performance in their final group match in the Super Six stage…

Tottenham coach Thomas Frank talks about trying to sign Semenyu – The transfer market is “not like a football manager”

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🔥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Frank took over as coach of Tottenham, succeeding Ange Postecoglou, in June last year, and signed a contract with the north London club until 2028. He has been under increasing pressure during his first season at Tottenham, with the club sitting 14th in the Premier League table and without a Premier League win in five matches. There were boos from fans in recent home matches, as well as chants demanding Frank's dismissal. However, Wednesday's win over Eintracht Frankfurt confirmed an eighth-place finish in the Champions…

Over 175,000 publicly exposed Ollama AI servers discovered worldwide – so fix now

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 175,000 Ollama systems misconfigured, publicly exposed without authentication Attackers exploit instances via LLMjacking to generate spam and malware contentIssue stems from user misconfiguration, fixable by binding to localhost onlySecurity researchers have claimed around 175,000 Ollama systems worldwide are exposed, putting them at risk of all sorts of malicious activities. In fact, some are already being abused, and if you’re among those running an Ollama instance, you might want to consider reconfiguring it.Recently, SentinelOne SentinelLABS and Censys discovered many businesses are running AI models locally (the…

What to expect in the special runoff election for Texas’ 18th Congressional District

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💥 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,Houston,special elections,Sylvester Turner,texas,Vote 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Houston voters who have gone nearly a year without representation in the U.S. House of Representatives will finally hold the seat in a special runoff on Saturday. Meanwhile, voters in the Fort Worth area will elect a new state senator. Democrats Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards were among the top vote-getters in the Nov. 4 special election to replace Sylvester Turner, a Democratic congressman who died two months into his term on March 5, 2025. No…

Ballad Lines Review – Heartbreaking, soulful folk music for the ages | Musicals

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Musicals,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Southwark Playhouse,Folk music,Country,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MMost of the music of Central Appalachia—the mountainous region connecting Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas—derives from the Scots-Irish people who settled there. It was Ulster immigrants, who passed on their loud tunes and sad sing-alongs, who gave the United States some of its first versions of country music.Composer Finn Anderson and director Tania Azevedo use that journey to tell a musical story across generations. Our starting point is New York couple Sarah and Alex moving into their new home…

Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building the brains of Silicon Valley’s coolest robots

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🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Robotics,TC,Venture,Exclusive,Khosla Ventures,Physical Intelligence,robot brains,Sequoia Capital,Skild,Thrive Capital 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: From the street, the only sign I could find of the Physical Intelligence headquarters in San Francisco is the pi symbol, which is a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I enter, I am immediately confronted with activity. There is no reception desk, no logo shining in the fluorescent lights. Inside, the space is a giant concrete box made somewhat less austere by a random expanse of long, blond-wood tables. Some are clearly for lunch, dotted…

Derek Chisora vs. Deontay Wilder has been confirmed at the O2 Arena in London on April 4

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🚀 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Dereck Chisora's fight with former world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has been confirmed at the O2 Arena in London on April 4. The event will be the 50th professional fight for both 42-year-old Chisora and 40-year-old American Wilder. Chisora said last year that he would retire after his 50th match abroad, but the Briton is now set to face Wilder on home soil. The pair were scheduled to fight 13 years ago, but Wilder withdrew from the bout after his arrest for domestic violence prevented…

MCC: Fined former president Philip Hodgson over his discriminatory comments

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Former Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) president Philip Hodson has been fined over offensive and discriminatory comments he made in an after-dinner speech when he was Yorkshire vice-president.Hodson, a Yorkshire businessman and former Cambridge cricketer, was presenting as a guest speaker at Scarborough Cricket Club in July last year when he made two comments relating to sexual orientation and people with disabilities.The Independent Disciplinary Commission for Cricket imposed a reprimand, a £1,000 fine and a requirement to undertake a course covering equality and diversity on…