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How the Department of Homeland Security shutdown affects travel in the United States

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✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: air travel,Department of Homeland Security,shutdown,Transportation Security Administration,tsa ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shutdown, which took effect early Saturday, is affecting the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with nervous flight reservations may remember a 43-day government shutdown that led to historic flight cancellations and lengthy delays last year. TSA officers are expected to work without pay while lawmakers remain without an agreement on annual funding for the Department of Homeland Security. TSA officers also…

Prayer for Death Review – The Pandemic West Feels Like a Short Stretch Over a Long Time | Berlin Film Festival 2026

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Berlin film festival 2026,Film,Westerns,Period and historical films,John C Reilly,Johnny Flynn,Film adaptations,Books,Culture,Music,Berlin film festival,Festivals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere's some highly orchestrated image-making and mood-making in this technically accomplished but unsatisfying drama from first-time Norway resident Dara van Dusen. It's a bleak tale of the American Old West, adapted by Dawson from Stuart O'Nan's novel, and somehow feels like a short film shot at length. His visual gestures and set pieces, while striking and often shocking, felt to me disconnected from any emotional truth – a truth perhaps…

Is safety “dead” in xAI?

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💥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,Elon Musk,xAI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk is "actively" working on making xAI's chatbot Grok "more disruptive," according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk's AI company. This week, after it was announced that xAI would be acquired by Musk's SpaceX company (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders said they would leave the company. Some have said they are leaving to start something new, and Musk himself has suggested this is part of…

Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle: An announcement about VAR technology? How many big decisions were wrong in an FA Cup match?

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✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Has there ever been a better video assistant referee (VAR) ad? Newcastle's 3-1 FA Cup fourth round win over Aston Villa was riddled with controversy with VAR once again the big talking point - even though it was not in use.For this season and the previous FA Cup campaign, it was not used until the fifth round, with many fans looking forward to a return to football uninterrupted by technology.But referee Chris Kavanagh had hoped that the VAR would have resorted to Villa Park…

Premier League: Hull FC 27-20 Bradford Bulls

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Bradford have been through a lot since their last Premier League effort, with Manez Manukavu scoring the winning goal over the London Broncos in September 2014, with the club liquidating and rebuilding from the rubble.But it looked as if they were never far away in the opening exchanges, as they overcame the seventh-placed side in last year's Premier League and scored the first try through Waka Blake, the Fijian international blasting through the fragile defense on six minutes.The excellent Price produced a moment of magic…

CPNs, LLMs, and Distributed Applications

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CPNs, LLMs, and Distributed Applications A big theme in LLM-enabled software dev is that verifiable correctness makes it much easier to take bigger leaps with LLMs. E.g. tests, compilers, state machines, etc. While researching for databuild, I recently came across colored petri nets, and instantly saw opportunity. Colored petri nets (CPNs) are an extension of petri nets. Petri nets are essentially directed bipartite graphs where places can contain tokens, and places are connected by transitions (where the side effects happen). In petri nets, a single…

Sunny Dancer Review – ‘Chemo Camp’ Gives Teen Drama a New Twist | film

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Berlin film festival,Culture,Festivals,Bella Ramsey,Cancer,Drama films,Young people 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forElla Ramsey leads the cast of this beloved coming-of-age film from 25-year-old actor-turned-director George Jack, about a summer camp for teens with cancer. Although it can sometimes be a bit cheery in its positivity, and unrealistic about the life-changing experiences that can be had at a camp like this or any other, it is kind-hearted, well-acted, and topped off with entertaining star appearances - and for those who think they can spot the "tragic, sacrificial" character in…

In a changing venture capital landscape, this CEO is doubling down on overlooked founders

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🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Many Silicon Valley insiders have spent years chasing mega-deals and buzzy AI deals. Meanwhile, Stacy Brown Philpott runs Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to the earlier days of venture capital, writing smaller Series A and B checks to founders who were routinely overlooked by larger firms. The former CEO of TaskRabbit and a decade-long Google veteran launched Cherryrock a year ago after seeing what she calls a persistent gap: access to capital for “underinvested entrepreneurs” in building software companies at a crucial growth stage. “When…

FA Cup: Manchester City 2-0 – Salford – From a ‘frustrating’ 8-0 defeat to pushing Manchester City all the way

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Salford's players remained on the field for a good five minutes after the full-time whistle to show their appreciation to their traveling fans.“Why did you bring that up?” manager Karl Robinson joked in his post-match press conference, when a reporter mentioned the eight-goal defeat last season.He must have feared his side would face another blow when Alfie Dorrington scored an own goal in the sixth minute.But the visitors regrouped.Not only did they prevent their opponents from scoring any attempts on target before half-time, but they…

You Can’t Trust the Internet Anymore

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a "byte" post. It may not be as detailed as other posts. I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wanted to learn about them. I mean, jeez, I’m certainly not writing blog posts about strip mahjong because the people demand it. But I can’t stop seeing misinformation everywhere, and I have to say something. This post is just…