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VAR: Do lengthy decisions ruin matches as a spectacle?

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tammy Abraham thought he had a dream goal on his Aston Villa debut.Four minutes after he celebrated the goal, the goal was canceled after a review by the video assistant referee.Aston Villa have good reason to feel aggrieved.Nineteen seconds is a long time to go back to prevent a goal in the Premier League. The ball was next to the corner flag at the opposite end of the field.It's been a very long time in fact, the furthest the VAR system has gone back…

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 2026-02-02 Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcementhttps://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider. According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself. Traffic from…

This pocket-friendly e-reader is full of frustration and potential

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🚀 Read this insightful post from The Verge 📖 📂 **Category**: Gadgets,Hands-on,Reviews,Tech ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I've used and reviewed dozens of e-readers over the years, but the 5-inch Kobo Mini remains my favorite for one simple reason: It was small. Although it lacked useful features like screen lighting and page-turn buttons, its size made it an e-reader I wanted to carry every day. The $69 Xteink X4 e-reader is smaller than Kobo Mini and E Ink smartphones like the Boox Palma. It's satisfactorily pocket-friendly but also frustratingly unintuitive and functionally limited out of the box. This could be a…

European Championships: British cyclists win team sprint silver

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Great Britain's women's and men's track and field teams took silver at the opening Sunday of the UEC Track Elite European Championships in Türkiye.The women's team of Lauren Bell, Rihanna Paris Smith and Lori Thomas looked strong in the qualifiers and easily beat the Czech Republic in the first round.Olympic champion Sophie Capewell came on for Bell in the final against Germany and although the British trio led after two of the three laps in Konya, they overhauled late on.The Germans clocked 45.710 seconds, 0.003…

“It’s not often you can write Arsenal’s history” – The Gunners win the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup against Corinthians

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: For Arsenal, the European Champions Cup title comes at a vital moment in their season.Having failed to capitalize on Chelsea's stumble in the Premier League and were knocked out of the League Cup by Manchester United less than two weeks ago, the tournament provided a welcome distraction and a win will give them a boost as they enter the second half of the season.But they had to do it the hard way in the final against a determined Brazilian opponent.The home team was dominated for…

Xikipedia

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Xikipedia Loading... Xikipedia is a pseudo social media feed that algorithmically shows you content from Simple Wikipedia. It is made as a demonstration of how even a basic non-ML algorithm with no data from other users can quickly learn what you engage with to suggest you more similar content. No data is collected or shared here, the algorithm runs locally and the data disappears once you refresh or close…

You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock recording “Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts”

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from The Verge 📖 📂 **Category**: Column,Entertainment,Music,Music Review 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: New York City was hit by a severe snow storm last week. And inevitably, watching the snow fall, wandering the eerily quiet streets after dark, people hunkering down inside and staying warm, I hit the M83 student record, Dead cities, red seas and lost ghosts.Before Nicola Fromajo left the band and Anthony Gonzalez adopted traditional pop song structures, saxophone solos and teenage angst, M83 released two albums of mostly instrumental music. The self-titled debut album is somewhat forgettable, but the second finds…

Football Gossip: Beto, Marcus Rashford, Indrek, Davide Fratesi, Denzel Dumfries

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🚀 Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Juventus want Everton's Beto, Marcus Rashford's future could be out of Manchester United's control, and Newcastle United's Jamaal Lascelles could be headed to the Championship.Juventus I've been investigating Everton Beto, but the Toffees are reluctant to let the 28-year-old Guinea-Bissau striker leave as he is one of only two senior strikers in the squad. (talk sport), externalJuventus They are close to reaching an agreement on Manchester City 19-year-old English striker Justin Obuafodo. (Sky Sports Italia – in Italian), externalTottenham, Leeds United and Sunderland It is…

Luke Littler “The greatest darts player of all time,” says Luke Humphreys after the teenager wins the World Masters Championship

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🚀 Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Luke Humphries described Luke Littler as "the greatest darts player of all time" after the teenager won his maiden World Masters title to become the third most successful player of the PDC era.The 19-year-old beat world number two Humphries 6-5 and now has 11 PDC major titles, which puts him level with James Wade and behind Michael van Gerwen (48) and Phil Taylor (79).Defeated finalist Humphreys told ITV4: "You look back at the whole game. It's hard to find holes in it. It's just the…

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync — Sam Hewitt

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Posted on 05 Jun 2018 Data Hoarding 101 I have digital backups of data, especially of my photos, going back almost a decade (I’m not that old) but it’s only recently that I got into creating time-snapshots of my backups, after I mistakenly deleted a bunch of (non-crucial) personal files with a stray rsync --delete on a directory I had not backed-up. My home server used be compatible with macOS’s Time Machine and when I kept most things on my Mac that was useful, but…