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Agents stand guard after the shooting at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Hours after a gunman attempted to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, details are slowly emerging about who he is. The alleged gunman has been identified as Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. He is believed to have been targeting administration officials, as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning.…

In many ways, my grandmother raised me. Loading audio narration… We spent countless days together, and her face is at the center of some of my fondest childhood memories. She’s one of the greatest influences in my life, shaping everything from how I see the world to how I dress.Even as a 23-year-old, I admire her sense of style. Throughout her life, she’s built an elegant wardrobe that draws from trends without necessarily following them.At 70 years old, she continues to inspire me. Whenever I open my wardrobe to choose an outfit, I carry one of her invaluable lessons with…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Zachary Biss, 29, a musician from St. Petersburg, Florida, who moved with his girlfriend, Marina, to Portugal by boat. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’m a full-time musician. Back in the States, I played gigs at bars and restaurants with my guitar, singing and playing covers for a living.I’ve always had the same job in music, and over time, I was able to play all my gigs and have enough money at the end of the month to put away in savings and invest…

A bummer for benefitsIt’s no secret that the era of generous employee perks is fading. Free food, on-site laundry, and gym subsidies are all becoming less common. Even full-time remote work is becoming increasingly rare. Loading audio narration… Amid all the cutting, I really thought certain benefits like paid time off and parental leave would be untouchable.I was wrong.Earlier this month, my colleague Polly Thompson reported a bombshell scoop that Deloitte plans to pare back or cut several core benefits for some of its employees. Internal documents and a meeting recording revealed the consulting firm is planning cuts to parental…

You may have never tuned into N3on’s livestream. Thanks to “clipping,” he might have popped up in your social feeds anyway. Loading audio narration… The top-10 Kick streamer, 21, belongs to a group of livestreamers who have gained mainstream attention in recent months thanks to clipping, where people are paid to post grabby moments from longer videos or podcasts on social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.An hourslong stream might only get 40,000 live viewers, but a successful clip can fetch millions of views, helping a streamer land partnerships with brands and celebrities.Streamers like N3on have helped create an…

Kavitta Ghai wants her startup’s engineers to spend more tokens. Loading audio narration… The 29-year-old cofounder of Nectir started setting minimum quotas for Claude Code use. First it was at least $100 in tokens a week, then $200. Now, the expectation is that her engineers each spend a couple thousand in AI tokens a month.The strategy has been successful, Ghai said. Some of Nectir’s senior engineers were previously skeptical of AI coding tools; now, they call it their “army of coders,” she said.But she doesn’t think Nectir is “tokenmaxxing,” the buzzword du jour for techies racing to spend as much…

Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, everyone from the C-suite to new grads looking for their first job has been wondering what AI means for the future of work. Loading audio narration… Some employees are using it to get tasks done and worry about what AI means for job security. Job seekers are using it for their résumés and outreach messages. Some employers are citing it as a reason they’re laying people off.But that’s not the only A-word shaping the job market. “Even as artificial intelligence and its uncertain impact grabs headlines, it is another A—aging—that stands to…

Can’t see the video above? Watch it here. Police in Virginia used a technique called geofencing to tap into Google’s databases to find out who was near the scene of a bank robbery in the town of Midlothian, where a robber pulled out a gun and subsequently fled with $195,000. Geofencing allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant — not to search a home or office, but to require a tech company to search its data to identify any of its millions of users…

CBS’s Weijia Jiang is receiving praise for her poise under pressure during the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Loading audio narration… The network’s senior White House correspondent is the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which hosts the annual dinner. She was seated next to President Donald Trump onstage when bedlam broke out in the Washington Hilton ballroom, after gunshots were heard.Jiang later took a front-row seat in the briefing room and asked the first question when Trump took questions from the media.”I came to the WH with President Trump, who is preparing for a press conference…

CBS’s Weijia Jiang is receiving praise for her poise under pressure during the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Loading audio narration… The network’s senior White House correspondent is the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which hosts the annual dinner. She was seated next to President Donald Trump onstage when bedlam broke out in the Washington Hilton ballroom, after gunshots were heard.Jiang later took a front-row seat in the briefing room and asked the first question when Trump took questions from the media.”I came to the WH with President Trump, who is preparing for a press conference…