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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This year marks 13 years of collecting Drive Stats data. Thirteen is an unlucky number (to some), but we count our lucky stars (or perhaps our lucky stats?) that we’ve had 13 years of this experiment.  The traditional 13-year anniversary gift is lace—intricate, impressive, and vulnerable to a snag if you don’t plan ahead to protect the pattern. Systems, like lace, don’t survive by pretending there are no points of vulnerability. When it comes to our infrastructure, we want to build with the snags…
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Prosecutors drop charges against men accused of assaulting an ICE officer in Minneapolis

Prosecutors drop charges against men accused of assaulting an ICE officer in Minneapolis

🚀 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: ice,immigration,immigration enforcement,minneapolis ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis moved to dismiss felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg fired by an immigration officer, after new evidence emerged that undermined the government's version of events. Read more: A Minneapolis man is accused of threatening ICE officers and cyberstalking The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota said in a memo Thursday that "newly discovered evidence" in the criminal case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar…
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TV TONIGHT: Take it off! Take it off! He’s the ultimate masked singer TV and radio

TV TONIGHT: Take it off! Take it off! He’s the ultimate masked singer TV and radio

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Masked Singer7pm on ITV1Moth, Toastie, and Conkers are the three great finalists! Harry Hill, Kate Nash and John Lydon have all been unmasked and booted from the competition so far - but who are the celebrities behind the latest masks? Who will be crowned the winner? Samantha Barks is the guest judge, and former faces Lionfish, Pufferfish and Snail return in three unique duets. Holly RichardsonNavigating the Shipping Forecast with Pastor Richard Coles7pm on Channel 4It's a nice…
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Nothing opens its first retail store in India

Nothing opens its first retail store in India

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,Gadgets,hardware,India,nothing,Carl Pei 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Nothing, the Tiger Global-backed appliance company, is opening its first retail store in India, its largest market. The store is located in Bengaluru, where a large portion of Nothing's user base in India is concentrated, the company said. The new two-story location will showcase Nothing Products and other projects. Customers will also be able to purchase hardware products and other merchandise from the store and select custom items. "We wanted to create a fun space. It's kind of inspired by all the parts associated…
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Scotland v England: The visitors could forge a new era in the Six Nations tie

Scotland v England: The visitors could forge a new era in the Six Nations tie

🚀 Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Because England's winning streak began with some successive victories.Victory over France in the second round of last year's Six Nations was achieved, in part, through expensive butterfingers.A one-point win over Scotland two weeks later would have been a defeat had Russell nailed a conversion shot in the final.After concluding that Six Nations campaign with victories over Italy and Wales, England, without the 14 British and Irish Lions, impressed by beating Argentina twice on a Test tour. But the Pumas, who have struggled with the demands…
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Six Nations: Maro Itoje at Mother’s Funeral and Scotland v England

Six Nations: Maro Itoje at Mother’s Funeral and Scotland v England

🔥 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Florence was a constant sight on the sidelines of her son's matches, having been transformed into a rugby fan by her son's prowess and progress.“I remember when I was 15 or 16, I got a phone call from the academy director at Saracens telling me they needed me to train with the first team,” recalls Itoje, who read a passage from the Bible at Florence’s funeral in Echo."I was so excited, like I'd won a million pounds. I walked up the stairs. My mum was…
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Judge says US should help return some Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison

Judge says US should help return some Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison

🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: cecot,deportations,El Salvador,Venezuelans 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador to return to the United States at the government's expense. The case has been a legal flashpoint in the administration's sweeping anti-immigration campaign. It began in March after President Donald Trump invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuelan immigrants accused of gang membership to a massive prison known as the Center for Terrorism Confinement,…
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Post your questions for Flying Lotus | Flying lotus

Post your questions for Flying Lotus | Flying lotus

💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Flying Lotus,Music,Electronic music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, has been releasing albums of electronic funk music for 20 years, along with a filmmaking career that has grown beyond just an amateur side project. As he gears up to release his new EP, Big Mama, on March 6, he'll be answering your questions.Born into a musical family that included Alice Coltrane as his great-aunt, Ellison released his debut album 1983 in 2006 but established his reputation with 2008's Los Angeles: a lumpy, mesmerizing mass…
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Amazon’s Ring is canceling its partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by the Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and police.

Amazon’s Ring is canceling its partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by the Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and police.

💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,axon,Flock,flock safety,Ring ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, announced Thursday that it will no longer partner with Flock Safety, the maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. The two companies announced a deal in October that would allow Ring Doorbell users to share footage with Flock and its network of public safety agencies to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.” As reported by 404 Media, the Flock footage has been used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Secret Service, and…
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T20 World Cup: Phil Salt calls on England to play ‘chest’ against Scotland

T20 World Cup: Phil Salt calls on England to play ‘chest’ against Scotland

🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: England, still looking to correct course after their Ashes defeat in the winter. They can still progress after the defeat to Scotland, but it will take a string of results to go their way. The Scots face a similar situation, and will likely need a win to hold on to their hopes of progressing.England have chosen an unchanged side, with Tom Banton retaining his place in place of stand-in batsman Ben Duckett.Both Banton, who has been out twice in both innings in the tournament…
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