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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making it a dependable source of insults hurled in my general direction; if you want a taste, this article has been called “watered-down” and “slop”.The site is run by geeks and for geeks, so it’s not immune to tech trends; for example, around 2018, it…

Stephen Robinson: ‘Hiding in plain sight’ – but why did Aberdeen move for him now?

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🔥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Why did Aberdeen suddenly move to appoint St Mirren's Steven Robinson as their new manager? This seems to be the obvious answer. Saturday's tragic end to their Scottish Cup defense at Dunfermline marked the latest low in a 16-month downward spiral that even lifting that trophy last season could not hide.Aberdeen have been heading in one direction – the wrong direction – for some time. Having long been talked about since Jimmy Thielen's departure in January to flirt with options including Erik Hornlund and…

Inflation stabilized last month before the attack on Iran led to higher energy costs

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✨ Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: affordability,Federal reserve,inflation,iran attacks 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: KANSAS CITY (AP) — Inflation remained stubbornly high last month as gas prices rose in a snapshot of what consumer prices looked like before the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran sent energy costs soaring. The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices rose 2.4% in February from a year earlier, matching January's increase of 2.4%. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.5% from a year ago, which is also in line with January's level, which was the…

‘My family has been threatened several times’: Arab-American rockers Slut talk about US anti-Islam confrontation | music

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Experimental music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I“I'm the bastard who brought down the towers,” screams Mo Kazra of the hooker band All Hail, opening her nightmarish, theatrical debut album, “Atempted Martyr.” Through an overwhelming fusion of industrial punk with elements of Middle Eastern, African and East Asian music, the band explores the denigration of Arabs in the post-9/11 United States through sinister characterizations – those directed at their Arab-majority community in Dearborn, Michigan. “A lot of Arabs in the region come up to us and say,…

Postponing the Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka series in the UAE

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💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Afghanistan's upcoming series against Sri Lanka in the UAE has been postponed until the end of the year due to... The current conflict in the Middle East.The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has confirmed that the bilateral series, scheduled to begin on March 13 in the UAE, has been rescheduled to the fourth quarter of 2026 "due to logistical challenges, including flight restrictions arising from the ongoing regional situation".Sharjah was scheduled to host three Twenty20 internationals on March 13, 15 and 17, followed by three one-day…

Ford’s new AI assistant will help fleet owners know if seat belts are being used

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🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Transportation,Ford,Ford Pro 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ford rolled out an AI assistant this week that can monitor and analyze millions of data points to help Ford Pro commercial customers boost their bottom lines. The bet most other automakers are making is that money can be made from software. Ford Pro AI debuted at Work Truck Week in Indianapolis, and is now available to all Pro telematics subscribers in the US. The AI assistant is included in the subscription. Ford does not disclose how many U.S. subscribers it has; It has…

About the security content of iOS 15.8.7 and iPadOS 15.8.7

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security releases page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible. For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security page. Available for: iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able…

The files show that the British Prime Minister was warned of the “reputational risks” in appointing Mandelson

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💥 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,epstein files,jeffrey epstein,Keir Starmer,peter mandelson ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: LONDON (AP) — Documents released by the British government on Wednesday show that officials believe there is a “reputational risk” in appointing Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador because of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave Mandelson the job anyway, but fired him nine months later when new details of the relationship with Epstein emerged. Starmer is now facing a political storm over the decision. Read more: New Mexico prosecutors…

Antonin Kinski: Tottenham goalkeeper grateful for support after Atletico Madrid ‘nightmare’ in Champions League

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💥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Antonin Kinski has thanked those who sent him messages of support on social media after a "nightmare" display in Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.The Czech goalkeeper was replaced after 17 minutes, when Tottenham was 3-0 behind in the Spanish capital, after he committed errors that led to the first and third goals for Atletico.The English Premier League team lost the first leg in the round of 16, 5-2.Kinski posted on his Instagram story: “Thank you for the messages. From…

Review of the Gilbert Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum – a fascinating treasure that must be seen to be believed | art

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,V&A,Museums,Heritage,Collecting,Art and design,Culture,Life and style,The art market,Art theft,Design,Craft 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWe periodically hear when a masterpiece is “saved for the nation,” usually when a museum has to raise enormous sums to prevent the export or sale of a work of art considered to be of national importance. Museums also sometimes purchase at auction for the same purpose. However, they swim in a pond among the wealthy, as many record sales that make the news later disappear into someone's yacht or bathroom.It is this market…