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Today Briefly

A daily 10-minute routine of gentle, targeted stretches restores joint mobility and reduces stiffness without requiring full yoga sessions.

Sustainable daily movement and simple routines integrated into everyday life maintain fitness and vitality more effectively than intense gym-focused workouts.

Retirees often feel lost because they prepare financially but neglect social connections, identity, and daily purpose outside the workplace.

Vagueposting is intentional, contextless social media posting that provokes engagement and rage by hinting at information without revealing details.

Children gain pronunciation and implicit-learning advantages, while adults offer stronger explicit learning strategies and cognitive control for successful second-language acquisition.

Certain comforts—luxurious mattresses, lie-flat business seats, high-trust environments, solitary living, and bidet toilets—create permanent expectations that are hard to relinquish.

Google's AI Overviews and Gemini integration are reducing publisher traffic while personalization and legal actions reshape SEO and local search.

Brain hemispheres are structurally and functionally specialized yet continuously communicate via the corpus callosum, with contralateral control enhancing perceptual and motor efficiency.

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays carry enormous energy but pose minimal damage to a human; even the Oh-My-God particle would cause negligible harm.

Comprehensive state consumer privacy laws fail to protect public servants, enabling a data-to-violence pipeline by allowing public-source personal data to be sold and exposed.

Federal agencies accessed Mountain View's Flock Safety license-plate camera data without the police department's permission, prompting the chief to disable the cameras.

Mountain View turned off Flock automated license plate readers after federal agencies accessed city data without permission; cameras will stay off pending a Feb. 24 City Council review.

SpaceX acquired xAI to integrate AI, rockets, satellite internet, and communications under one corporate structure to accelerate innovation and enable space-based AI ambitions.

Microsoft is retiring standalone SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Plan 1 and Plan 2 SKUs, urging customers toward Microsoft 365 suites.

AI can automate initial technical documentation while increasing compliance demands, requiring visibility, strict data-access controls, guardrails, and security permissions to protect sensitive data.

YouTube launched Player for Publishers to give news publishers improved viewer experience, control over ads, and enhanced monetisation options alongside European partners.

Strong design-to-development workflows reduce friction, align intent, and make Figma a shared workspace enabling consistent, efficient implementation.

Data often becomes a safe substitute for judgment, enabling teams to avoid accountability and favor incremental, low-risk product choices over bolder, unproven innovations.

Design teams often ask whether AI can do a task before defining user problems, causing strategic questioning to be dismissed as a bottleneck.

European enterprises are shifting sensitive data and workloads from US cloud providers to local sovereign cloud and on‑premises solutions due to geopolitical trust concerns.

EU is investigating X's AI chatbot Grok under the Digital Services Act after it generated millions of sexualized images, including many appearing to depict children.

MarkDash centralises real-time reporting, optimisation signals, and financial workflows to provide unified visibility, automated alerts, role-based control, and operational efficiency for programmatic advertising.

Shift AI-era focus from speed to context: journalism should add context, counter algorithm-driven polarization, and platforms must be redesigned away from outrage-driven models.

Americans are drinking less, driving declines in alcohol sales and pushing the industry toward nonalcoholic products while wine faces the steepest slump.

The Braves plan to launch their own TV network to control game distribution and retain a larger share of broadcast revenue while other teams link to MLB.

Generative AI will reshape news: AI-driven audience access, greater verification needs, newsroom automation and agents, AI skill-building and infrastructure, and enhanced data journalism.

Ocean View Fishing Pier in Virginia is a nearly 1,700-foot seafood-focused pier offering dining, live music, happy hours, on-pier fishing, and event accommodations.

George Saunders' childhood praise and confidence, plus transformative experiences and setbacks, ultimately propelled him to achieve his dream of becoming a successful novelist.

Creators must emphasize unique human perspectives and trust to compete with homogenized feeds and AI-generated content in the evolving creator economy.

White River Crossing portrays greed, deception and imperial exploitation during the 1766 Hudson's Bay Company gold expedition from Prince of Wales Fort.

Firefox desktop adds a single settings control to fully block current and future generative AI features, with per-feature management and an opt-out toggle.

Signal's end-to-end encryption and privacy features make it a strong tool for organizing nonviolent community action, but users must enable settings and follow legal limits.

India's Supreme Court sharply rebuked Meta, halted WhatsApp from sharing user information, and questioned how WhatsApp monetizes user and metadata for advertising.

Mike Soroka signed a one-year deal with the Diamondbacks and, after adding a slurve and halving sinker use, improved K-BB%, FIP, and xERA.

Russia launched large-scale missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, damaging energy infrastructure and residential buildings and leaving many without heating during severe winter conditions.

Paying for views inflates numbers but rarely produces meaningful engagement or sustained channel growth; platform ads give better reach but still deliver limited watch-time and retention.

Junsoo and Hyunyoung Bae will open Monami, a premium Korean barbecue at 2001 Fillmore in Fall 2026 with premium meats and an expanded wine program.

Valente Bellozo signed a minor-league deal with the Rockies as a non-roster invitee and could compete for a rotation spot or a long-relief role.

Commercial, modular drones have transformed Sudan's war, enabling both sides to strike civilians and infrastructure with devastating, hard-to-trace attacks.

Martinez Refining Company released 1,075 pounds of sulfur dioxide during a flaring event caused by an electrical issue; odors reported, no injuries or exposures.

Bestseller cover design has evolved over 25 years, reflecting global events, social media influence, and contributions from both publishers and freelance designers.

Nostalgic, discontinued childhood snacks like Bubble O' Bill and Flintstones Push Ups inspire strong desire and willingness to pay to taste them again.

Language and etiquette evolve; gendered job titles fall out of common use, and gifts should be chosen with recipients' circumstances in mind.

Facebook launched a global multichannel ad campaign around the Tokyo Olympics celebrating skateboarding communities and tools that connect, grow, and advance the sport.

Thomas Gerbasi teased the narrator about their enduring passion for the sport, its athletes, and the week-to-week excitement that never dimmed after a decade.

Rebecca Goldstein and Kelsey Dixon constructed the Monday crossword, edited by Hoang-Kim Vu, with a lighthearted Atlanta babysitter rumor and an AVCX partnership.

A family acquires a donkey named Cocolo in Jerusalem, creating vivid childhood memories, neighborhood tensions, and eventual separation when Cocolo is sent to a farm.

Lei Wine is a modern, restrained wine bar by Annie Shi on Doyers Street pairing contemporary design and a curated wine list with Chinatown heritage.

Liverpool and Newcastle play a Premier League match shaped by Champions League stakes; Chelsea recovered to level 2-2 with West Ham late at Stamford Bridge.

Plan chip usage around scheduled blanks and double gameweeks to exploit fixture disruption and maximize points during the season run-in.

Tottenham Hotspur's squad is thinner than at the start of the year due to injuries and player departures during the January winter transfer window.

The EU imposed sanctions on prominent Russian state TV figures and other pro-Kremlin individuals under measures addressing Russia's destabilizing activities, including asset freezes and visa bans.

Yulia Tymoshenko faces bribery charges and is accused of obstructing cabinet appointments, clashing with President Zelenskyy and potentially weakening wartime governance.

Russian forces continued offensive operations, seizing settlements, striking energy and military targets, causing civilian casualties, widespread power outages, and prompting emergency repairs and humanitarian concerns.

New York City may require speed-limiting devices for repeat speed-camera offenders, but implementation details and enforcement mechanisms remain unresolved.

Zohran Mamdani blames former mayor Eric Adams's underbudgeting for creating a $12 billion budget crisis that undermines city services.

Embrace unexpected change as Uranus turns direct; prioritize completing tasks, do less when the moon neighbors the south node, and release what no longer serves.

The EU is open to a UK customs union, but the UK government rejects it; talks include reducing food checks and defence loan access.

Marc Guehi joined Manchester City from Crystal Palace for 20 million in January but is ineligible to play further in this season's Carabao Cup.

The Golden State Warriors are aggressively pursuing Giannis Antetokounmpo, willing to trade four first-round picks to pair him with Steph Curry for a title push.

Jeff Koons attended a 2013 dinner at Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side home; documents link Epstein to multiple art-world figures and raise scrutiny over patronage.

Sotheby's Saudi 'Origins II' sale signaled strong demand for regional and Arab-referencing blue-chip works, with improved sell-through and near-estimate totals but mixed global interest.

AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, designed by Lina Ghotmeh, will open in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, focusing on heritage, environment, community and artist-centred collections.

Cole Payton, a North Dakota State quarterback, possesses NFL-caliber traits despite limited exposure and a brief starting resume.

Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi exemplify aging, long-serving lawmakers who remain in office despite visible health decline, advanced age, and rising questions about retirement.

Christian Parker is interviewing Georgia outside linebackers coach Chidera Uzo-Diribe as the Cowboys prepare to shift their base defense from a 4-3 to a 3-4.

California is auditing hundreds of schools due to low vaccination rates and reporting gaps, with measles rising nationally and high noncompliance in Oakland.

Barcelona are planning next season assuming Robert Lewandowski may leave, prioritizing a new striker (e.g., Julian Alvarez) and at least one centre-back.

Ter Stegen's three-to-four month injury while on loan at Girona jeopardizes Barcelona's plan to offload his wages and complicates summer transfer and salary-cap planning.

The Chiefs lack quarterback depth for 2026 and are likely to evaluate Haener as an alternative while Mahomes recovers from a torn ACL.

Community-driven social platforms enable stronger brand marketing outcomes by increasing attention, trust, and word-of-mouth conversion potential.