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Raiders strength coach son of Jon Gruden breaks power lifting record https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/12/raiders-strength-coach-deuce-gruden-son-of-jon-grud…
Bears place CB Gordon (groin) on injured reserve https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47296235/chicago-bears-put-cornerback-kyler-gordon-injured-reserve
Climate amnesia: in the Netherlands, we had some winter weather since New Year. Nothing special a few decades ago, but now in the news as "1.5 week of harsh winter weather".
I just looked it up: the period of 1-12 January (average 0.6°C) would rank as #32 coldest in the 126-year record. 25% was colder.
Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11…
The Guardian names Netflix's former director of product Allan Donald as its first VP of product; Donald oversaw the content discovery operation at Netflix (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me
Nonlinearly Preconditioned Gradient Methods: Momentum and Stochastic Analysis
Konstantinos Oikonomidis, Jan Quan, Panagiotis Patrinos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11312 https://…
Just finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
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Grading all 32 first-round picks from 2025 NFL Draft: Which high-profile rookies have thrived? Flopped? https://www.nfl.com/news/grading-all-32-first-round-picks-from-2025-nfl-draft-which-high-profile-rookies-have-thrive…