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Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code
A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents. But it doesn’t sound like it’s a whole better for the ones who avoided getting the axe, either. According to Deedy Das, a partner at the VC firm Menlo Ventures, the rapid embrace of AI tools is tearing companies…
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Republican lawmaker faces felony charges after 16 documents forged: report
A South Dakota state senator was charged with two felonies Tuesday for allegedly trying to put candidates for county party leadership posts on the primary election ballot without those candidates’ knowledge. If convicted on both counts of offering a false or forged instrument for filing, 44-year-old Dell Rapids Republican Tom Pischke faces up to four…
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Superman’s Dog Krypto Is Getting A New Animated Series
Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman’s dog! “Krypto,” a new animated series from Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios, is currently in development. The news was announced during a panel at the Annecy International Animation Festival devoted to all things Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios. The series comes…
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The AI-Tutor Revolution That Wasn’t
In a 2023 TED Talk watched by millions of people, the American educator and entrepreneur Sal Khan declared that AI was about to deliver “probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen.” The founder and CEO of Khan Academy was touting the company’s new educational chatbot, Khanmigo, claiming it promised to be an…
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Trump’s Great American State Fair off to rough start as fans walk out on his speech
Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” being held on the Mall in Washington, DC, is off to a ragged start with supporters of the president walking out on him as he was still speaking at an opening rally Wednesday night. As NBC News reported, hours after the president got into a shouting match with Republicans…
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First DC Anime Series, ‘Joker: Laugh Riot,’ Coming from DC Studios, Warner Bros. Animation
DC Studios, Warner Bros. Animation and SOLA Entertainment are teaming up for DC’s first anime series, “Joker: Laugh Riot.” The show was announced during a Warner Bros. Animation panel devoted to their partnership with DC Studios, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The show has been greenlit to series. The official logline for “Joker:…
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The Story Behind TIME’s 250th Anniversary of America Issue
The Empire State Building lit up in red, white, and blue —Gary Hershorn—Getty Images At the beginning of 2026, to kick off this year’s celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, we published a list of America’s Most Iconic Companies. Based on a national survey, conducted with our research partner Statista, we ranked companies—including…
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Europe Cannot Cope With This Heat
A summer escape to Paris, at least in the American mind, evokes a certain set of images: quiet strolls along the canals, long hours in bookstores and museums, a pleasant park bench, a glass of wine. Those pleasures are now contending with one of the most brutal and dangerous heat waves that Europe has faced…
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From Queens to Ireland and back, Des Bishop turns a turbulent past into comedy in ‘Bridge and Tunnel’
It took Des Bishop, 50, a while to find his “American voice.” “I’ve spent the last decade trying to develop my American career,” he says. That sounds strange from a veteran stand-up whose voice shouts New Yawker the minute he starts talking at volume. But Bishop’s journey from Queens to Greenwich Village’s Comedy Cellar, where…
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ICE agents stalk woman into polling place over Instagram post: report
Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stalked a New York woman at a polling place over a social media post identifying Jonathan Ross as the killer of Minnesota mother Renee Good. The federal immigration agents walked into an active polling site Tuesday in Syracuse to pressure an on-duty poll worker into deleting a social…