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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war. Rescue services scrambled to the scene in search of possible casualties, though as it turned out, the projectile had struck a forested area just outside the city, around 500 meters from homes. On The Times of Israel’s liveblog that day, I reported that the missile had hit an open area and no injuries were caused, citing the rescue…

Six reasons why these are the best Oscars in years

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🔥 Discover this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Popular wins in every roundFrankenstein, which won three Oscars, and KPop Demon Hunters, which won two, were both Netflix films that had limited theatrical releases but, unlike a lot of streaming, millions of people watched them, loved them, and wanted to see them get some Oscars. Meanwhile, Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for her role as creepy Aunt Gladys in the hit horror film, Weapons; Brad Pitt's F1 race car movie won Best Soundtrack. Avatar: Fire and Ash won Best Visual Effects. In other…

Arsenal: When can the Gunners win the Premier League title?

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💥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: City have a game in hand against Arsenal and also host the Gunners at the Etihad Stadium on April 19, but the title is now out of their hands.The match between City and Crystal Palace has not yet been rearranged, but could take place between Week 32 and 33 if both clubs exit Europe.If Arsenal win all their remaining matches, including a win over City, they could be crowned champions with two games to go with a draw with West Ham on May 9.But if…

Tesla influencers leave the “cult”

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✨ Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Tunnel Vision 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: She believes some of these individuals will never stop covering the company because of their long-term investments. “For me, it's a lot about the money, and it's more about the money than Elon — even though they say it's Elon,” she says.but no one, Tesla squadrons like Dan O'Dowd are irritated.The tech billionaire, who founded and serves as CEO of Green Hills Software, has also been a vocal supporter of Tesla vehicles and Musk's leadership. In 2016, he owned two…

More than the score – Ilana Myers Taylor’s 20-year journey to Olympic gold

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✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Available for over a yearIlana Myers Taylor became the oldest ever winner of an individual Winter Olympic gold medal when she won the women's monopop event in Milano Cortina, at the age of 41. It was the United States' sixth Olympic medal, and first gold, having first won bronze in 2010 at the Vancouver Games. She is the most decorated black athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics, and the mother of two sons - both of whom are deaf. Her eldest son,…

Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

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✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?73 points by tathagatadg 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 44 commentsHow has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their students to explain why the course they enrolled in deserves the rigorous study? Are the students buying it - and is it matching reality at the end of the course? It’s hard to get a feel from the continuous pendulum swing of “it’s dead” to “it’s better…

London Book Fair roundup: Idris Elba’s sensational deal, the rise of romantic comedies, and the fight against censorship | London Book Fair

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: London book fair,Publishing,Books,Culture,UK news,Fiction,Autobiography and memoir,Children and teenagers,Fantasy books,Romance books,Censorship,DEI policies,Idris Elba ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The annual London Book Fair concluded on Thursday, marking the end of three days that saw 33,000 people connected to the book industry - agents, publishers, authors and more - gather at Olympia to cut deals and discuss the state and future of the publishing world. Here's our roundup of the biggest deals, trends and takeaways from the show.The most stellar book deal of the week was a new thriller…

COBOL is the asbestos of programming languages

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💥 Discover this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Business,Business / Computers and Software,Machine Readable 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Early in After the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: COBOL developers had run out. The state's unemployment insurance systems were written in a 60-year-old programming language and needed to be updated to handle hundreds of thousands of claims. The problem is that few state employees know how to do this. The crisis has gone far beyond New Jersey, which is just one of many states that have relied on these unworkable systems. By one…

Players Championship ‘special but unlikely to become fifth major tournament’

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💥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of the main reasons this rivalry is so compelling is the stadium itself. It does what it says on the tin, delighting huge crowds with an unnerving test of the best players in the world year after year.“I remember when I played it, I stood on the 18th tee and I was scared aimless,” European Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson recalls. “You can never relax on this golf course.”And so it came to pass that Young and Fitzpatrick arrived at the final tee box…

Linux 7.1 To Retire UDP-Lite – Allows For Better Performance With Cleansed Code

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle is set to retire UDP-Lite support. The UDP-Lite protocol allowed for partial checksums where potentially damaged/corrupted packets are still delivered to the application. Since the Linux 2.6.20 days there has been UDP-Lite support but the kernel is now set to retire it given breakage that has persisted for years and cleaning up the networking code can yield a performance advantage for non-UDP-Lite users. Kuniyuki Iwashima of Amazon/AWS took to retiring the UDP-Lite code. He explained of the issues that…