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The United States requires bonds of up to $15,000 for visa applications from 12 other countries

The United States requires bonds of up to $15,000 for visa applications from 12 other countries

✨ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: immigration,State Department,visas βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) β€” The State Department says it will add 12 countries to an expanding list of countries whose citizens must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for U.S. visas. From 2 April, passport holders from Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Grenada, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles and Tunisia will be required to pay a bond, which is refunded if the visa application is rejected, or if granted, the person adheres to the terms of the…
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Derrick Owusu and Sean Hewitt have been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award | books

Derrick Owusu and Sean Hewitt have been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award | books

πŸ’₯ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,Dylan Thomas prize,Awards and prizes,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Derek Owusu and Sian Hewitt are among the writers shortlisted for this year's Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.Harriet Armstrong, Colwell-Brown, Sacha Debevec-McKinney and Susannah Evans have also been shortlisted for the Β£20,000 prize, which celebrates fiction in any form - including novels, short stories, poetry and drama - by writers aged 39 or under, in honor of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age.Author and head of the judging panel, Erinosun Okojie, said the β€œstimulating” shortlisted…
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Liverpool 4-0 Galatasaray: Arne Slott gets the performance the Reds need

Liverpool 4-0 Galatasaray: Arne Slott gets the performance the Reds need

πŸš€ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Despite Liverpool's dominance, the talk at halftime revolved around the missed penalty kick scored by Mohamed Salah. For a man who rarely puts a foot wrong, it was an unusually weak effort, one that would surely have made headlines had Liverpool not qualified.By now, Salah's thirst for success has become evident and he has often talked about the fact that after giving the ball away, he was forced to save a shot from Ugurkan Cakir.Al-Masry was involved in all three of Liverpool's goals in the…
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Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,agentic ai,In Brief,Meta,openclaw πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access it. According to the incident report, viewed and reported by The Information, a Meta employee posted in an internal forum asking for help with a technical question β€” which is standard procedure. However, another engineer asked the AI ​​agent to help analyze the question, and the agent ended up posting an answer without asking the engineer for permission to share it.…
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Football rumours: Rashford, Ndidi, Bender, Sancho, Kamara, Risser, Disasi, Aslani

Football rumours: Rashford, Ndidi, Bender, Sancho, Kamara, Risser, Disasi, Aslani

✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Barcelona wants a second loan for Marcus Rashford, Manchester United Wilfried Ndidi appointed, Dortmund are trying to re-sign Jadon Sancho.Barcelona We will look to maintain Manchester United Striker Marcus Rashford, 28, is on loan for another season to avoid a Β£26m transfer fee. (Daily Mail), externalUnited could look to sign Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 29 BesiktasWhile Turkish goalkeeper Altay Binder (27 years old) is moving in the other direction. (Sporx – in Turkish), externalBorussia Dortmund believe they can convince United's Jadon Sancho, 25, to sign…
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CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

πŸ’₯ Explore this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: The Qualys Threat Research Unit has identified a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop version 24.04 and later. This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to full root access through the interaction of two standard system components: snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles. While the exploit requires a specific time-based window (10–30 days), the resulting impact is a complete compromise of the host system. The vulnerability stems from an unintended interaction between two privileged utilities: snap-confine:Β Manages execution environments for…
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Cuban leader says US aggression will meet “invincible resistance”

Cuban leader says US aggression will meet “invincible resistance”

πŸš€ Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: cuba,Donald Trump news,marco rubio,Miguel DΓ­az-Canel πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: HAVANA (AP) β€” Cuban President Miguel Diaz has criticized Canel after US President Donald Trump said he can do β€œwhatever he wants” with the Caribbean island and that Washington could take β€œimminent action” against it. Diaz-Canel said late Tuesday that the Trump administration "openly threatens" the Cuban government on an almost daily basis with overthrow, and any aggressive action "will meet with impenetrable resistance." These statements came after new threats made by Trump and US Secretary of State…
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Welcome to Pimfort Review – A Shattering Study of Living History and the Past You Can’t Get Rid of | stage

Welcome to Pimfort Review – A Shattering Study of Living History and the Past You Can’t Get Rid of | stage

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Soho theatre πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: eEveryone is doing their best in the Pemfort Castle gift shop, where hundreds of years of history are smoothed out into plastic cups and dragon slippers. Set around a carefully crafted set of wooden swords and jam jars by designer Alice Whitehead, Sarah Power's stunning new play uses a living historical event to grapple with the stories we tell about ourselves, asking what happens when the past can't be shaken off.A β€œmedical leech show” is pinned optimistically on the idea…
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Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doom

Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doom

πŸ”₯ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Apps,doomscrolling,games πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: You open your phone to check the time or a quick message. Next thing you know, an hour has passed and you've scrolled through endless celebrity drama, cat videos, terrible news stories, influencer chatter, and whatever else the algorithm decided to throw at you. Even though you probably don't want to keep wasting your time and energy on this mind-numbing content, you do it again the next day. Doomscrolling, the habit of spending large amounts of time consuming content on social media, has become incredibly…
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Four English teams out – is fifth in the Champions League still a possibility?

Four English teams out – is fifth in the Champions League still a possibility?

πŸ”₯ Read this awesome post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: EnglandAlthough four teams are eliminated this week, the Premier League is certain to gain an extra place. England (23.847) already has an almost identical coefficient score to the country that finished second last season (Spain, 23.892).Nothing should be taken entirely for granted, as England looked destined for a place in the Premier League in 2023-24 but suffered a horrific run of results in the quarter-finals.But it will take another very bad night on Thursday for there to be any real danger.It also helps that Bayern…
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