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Fancy a job at the messaging service Telegram? You might want to look out for the next coding competition the company organizes to recruit engineers.Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, said in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, which aired on Tuesday, that he prefers to assess candidates through a coding contest instead of the standard interview process.”It’s in line with my overall philosophy. I think competition leads to progress,” Durov said.”If you want to create an ideal process for selecting the most qualified people for certain specific tasks you have in mind, what can be better than…
Goncalo Ramos struck a 90th-minute winner as Paris Saint-Germain sealed a statement win over Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday.Trailing 1-0 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys and without injured star forwards Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, defending champion PSG fought back for a 2-1 victory against one of the favorites to lift the trophy in May.“It doesn’t matter which of our players are in the team. When they are wearing our shirt, carrying our badge on their shirt, then the amount of attitude and effort is non-negotiable,” PSG coach Luis Enrique said. Manchester City had to…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday shuttered its two clinics in Louisiana over what the organization said were mounting financial and political challenges that made operating in the state no longer possible after more than 40 years.The closures make Louisiana the most populous of just four states with no Planned Parenthood locations.The exit underlines the pressures on Planned Parenthood as it warns of wider closures nationwide in the face of Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill. The organization is also halting advocacy work in Louisiana, where the state’s Republican leaders have cheered…
A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces are looking to accomplish something only done once before by winning a third WNBA championship in four seasons. Standing in the way are the Phoenix Mercury, who are making their first championship appearance since 2021.The WNBA Finals will begin Friday in Las Vegas between the second-seed Aces and No. 4 seed Mercury. This year for the first time the two teams will play in a best-of-seven format as the league expanded its championship round from a five-game series.The Aces were pushed to the brink in both the opening round of the playoffs and…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández hit two home runs apiece, Blake Snell struck out nine over seven strong innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 10-5 in their NL Wild Card Series opener Tuesday night.Tommy Edman also went deep for the Dodgers, who tied a franchise postseason record with five homers and pounded out 15 hits as they opened their bid to become the first back-to-back World Series winners in 25 years.Ohtani, who had a career-high 55 homers in the regular season, homered leading off the first. His 117.7 mph drive off a…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Fever, with about half their roster in street clothes, weren’t supposed to be this kind of challenge for the Aces.And then when Kelsey Mitchell left Game 5 on Tuesday night because of severe leg cramping, victory seemed assured for Las Vegas — only to have Indiana keep fighting back.But the Aces, pushed to the brink for the second postseason series in a row, survived 107-98 in overtime to advance to the WNBA Finals for the third time in four years. A’ja Wilson, with 35 points, and Jackie Young, with 32, became the first teammates to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Already diminished by cuts by the Trump administration, the U.S. Education Department will see more of its work come to a halt due to the government shutdown. The department says many of its core operations will continue in the shutdown kicking off Wednesday. Federal financial aid will keep flowing, and student loan payments will still be due. But investigations into civil rights complaints will stop, and the department will not issue new federal grants. About 87% of its workforce will be furloughed, according to a department contingency plan.Since he took office, President Donald Trump has called for…
NEW YORK (AP) — Garrett Crochet was in Boston’s dugout on the day before the playoffs began when manager Alex Cora picked up the phone to the bullpen to contact a member of the front office.“`Tomorrow you’re going to make one call to the bullpen,’” Cora recalled the pitcher telling him.“I said: `Maybe two,’” the manager responded.“He’s like: `No, no, no. One. It’s going to be straight to Chappy,’” Cora said.Crochet backed up his bravado with his pitches. He threw 117 of them, most in a postseason game in six years, besting Max Fried and the New York Yankees with…
OpenAI just fired a shot across the bow of the software industry.With the launch of its own AI-powered sales, support, and contract tools, the company is no longer simply powering the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market; it’s competing with it.For years, OpenAI has provided AI infrastructure, selling tools that software players could build on. Now it’s embedding AI directly into everyday processes, such as sales, support, and document analysis. That makes it both a partner and a rival — a dynamic that could reshape the software landscape dominated by giants like Salesforce.Software rivals are already taking a hit on the stock market.…
The most-talked-about legal drama last week wasn’t on a streamer, but on Reddit. Harvey, an AI-for-law startup valued at $5 billion, found itself on defense after a purported former employee claimed in a post that lawyers weren’t actually using its tools. Harvey pushed back with internal stats, as screenshots of the post jumped to LinkedIn and the debate spilled beyond the startup.Legaltech has long promised to draft contracts, sift data, and give lawyers their nights and weekends back. The reality has lagged. Lawyers are cautious and demand accuracy.Harvey bills itself as the platform lawyers can finally trust: chatbots that don’t…