Following the opening day of the Barcelona Shakedown, F1.com has the lowdown on which teams ran and what the drivers said after their early laps in the 2026 cars.
With the first day of the Barcelona Shakedown complete, we round up the best social media posted by F1 and the teams at the track.
Nike says it is investigating a potential data breach, after a group known for cyber attacks reportedly claimed to have leaked a trove of data related to its business operations. From a report: "We always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously," Nike said in a statement. "We are investigating a potential cyber security incident and are actively assessing the situation."
The ransomware group World Leaks said on its website that it had published 1.4 terabytes of data from Nike.
The ransomware group World Leaks said on its website that it had published 1.4 terabytes of data from Nike.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making -- and breaking -- fortunes at a rapid pace. One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the ".ai" top-level domain in the mid-1990s. Indeed, since ChatGPT's launch at the end of 2022, the gold rush for websites to associate themselves with the burgeoning AI technology has seen a flood of revenue for the island of just ~15,000 people.
In 2023, Anguilla generated 87 million East Caribbean dollars (~$32 million) from domain name sales, some 22% of its total government revenue that year, with 354,000 ".ai" domains registered. As of January 2, 2026, the number of ".ai" domains surpassed 1 million, per data from Domain Name Stat -- suggesting that the nation's revenue from ".ai" has likely soared, too. This is confirmed in the government's 2026 budget address, in which Cora Richardson Hodge, the premier of Anguilla, said, "Revenue from domain name registration continues to exceed expectations."
In 2023, Anguilla generated 87 million East Caribbean dollars (~$32 million) from domain name sales, some 22% of its total government revenue that year, with 354,000 ".ai" domains registered. As of January 2, 2026, the number of ".ai" domains surpassed 1 million, per data from Domain Name Stat -- suggesting that the nation's revenue from ".ai" has likely soared, too. This is confirmed in the government's 2026 budget address, in which Cora Richardson Hodge, the premier of Anguilla, said, "Revenue from domain name registration continues to exceed expectations."
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Television marks its centenary today, exactly 100 years after Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his electro-mechanical system to journalists and members of the Royal Institution in a cramped attic workshop above what is now Bar Italia in London's Soho.
On January 26, 1926, small groups of visitors climbed to 22 Frith Street and watched fuzzy images of a ventriloquist's dummy called Stooky Bill appear on screen, followed by each other's faces transmitted from a separate room. One visitor got too close to the spinning discs and ended up with a sliced beard. The Times published a short account two days later.
Baird had built his first transmitting equipment in Hastings in 1923 using a hatbox, tea chest, darning needles and bicycle light lenses. A 1000-volt electric shock and a displeased landlord pushed him to London, where Gordon Selfridge soon invited him to demonstrate the device during the store's Birthday Week celebrations. The building at 22 Frith Street now carries three plaques commemorating the invention.
On January 26, 1926, small groups of visitors climbed to 22 Frith Street and watched fuzzy images of a ventriloquist's dummy called Stooky Bill appear on screen, followed by each other's faces transmitted from a separate room. One visitor got too close to the spinning discs and ended up with a sliced beard. The Times published a short account two days later.
Baird had built his first transmitting equipment in Hastings in 1923 using a hatbox, tea chest, darning needles and bicycle light lenses. A 1000-volt electric shock and a displeased landlord pushed him to London, where Gordon Selfridge soon invited him to demonstrate the device during the store's Birthday Week celebrations. The building at 22 Frith Street now carries three plaques commemorating the invention.
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Not unexpectedly, both Gueye and Ndiaye come straight back into the Everton XI. Rohl can count himself a little unlucky to find himself back on the bench after his Villa heroics, while Barry and McNeil are preferred to Beto and Dibling. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is available again for the first time since 13 December, but is among the subs. As mentioned in the preamble, Grealish is injured. The home side will line up in a 4-2-3-1.
Continue reading...Every year since 2016, Literary Hub has asked a group of book cover designers for their picks for the best book covers of the year. Using 10 years of data, here are their picks for the best covers of the last decade. I’ve included a few of my personal favorites below.
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Starting with the inherently gridded layouts of LEGO baseplates, Katherine Duclos creates vibrant, undulating compositions of pastels and gradients. The Vancouver-based artist employs the colorful bricks in a variety of geometric patterns and low-relief textures to achieve dynamic compositions that appear almost kinetic, adding her own effects with paint. The impression of movement, paired with the tactility of the toy pieces, transforms a familiar object we typically associate with childlike play into a elegant assemblages cradled in wood panels.
A large-scale, participatory exhibition of new work by Duclos, including a couple of LEGO pieces, marks the first presentation of the new ACT Arts Centre in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The compositions you see here go on view in Grid Memories at Heron Arts in San Francisco alongside works by Alexis Arnold, Gina Borg, and Kim Bennett, running from January 31 to March 5. And she’s currently working toward another interactive show slated for June in Sweden, during which visitors will be able to interact with Duclos’ LEGO pieces. Find more on her Instagram.
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