Nancy Lacore, the former U.S. Navy admiral who was ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, did not mince words about the leader of the armed forces in a new interview.

Lacore, a Democrat and a retired three-star admiral who served in the military for 35 years before her removal in August 2025, was elected to Congress during last week's midterm elections. Come January, she will represent South Carolina's 1st Congressional District after defeating Republican rival Jenny Costa Honeycutt by fewer than 4,000 votes.

The congresswoman-elect was asked Sunday morning on CBS News' Face the Nation With Margaret Brennan about her thoughts on Hegseth, who has been at the center of impeachment rumors since Democrats' big election victories last week.

House Democrats are demanding that the Interior department retain documents related to Donald Trump’s construction projects around Washington after whistleblowers warned that key paperwork has already been destroyed before Democrats take power, congressional sources tell CNN.

The warnings come as the Trump administration is signaling it will accelerate plans for moving ahead with the projects — a key part of what the president sees as his legacy — to lay as much groundwork as possible before the Democrats take over Congress in January.

On Tuesday, the top Democrat in the House Natural Resources committee, which has oversight of the agency that has helped fast-track many of Trump’s projects, plans to issue letters to the Interior Department as well as other federal agencies and private companies, requesting that they “preserve all records and data responsive to oversight” the congressional panel oversees.

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BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6m2d0e91e18t?app-referrer=push-notification David Walliams named as celebrity who tried to block publication of sexual misconduct allegations - BBC News

The United States is set Tuesday to become the first country to fully shun a regular review of its human rights record at the U.N.'s top rights body since it was created two decades ago.

The Trump administration last year pulled the U.S. out of the Human Rights Council, accusing it of an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel bias, and alleging that it didn’t uphold the very values it promotes.

Supporters back the council’s mandate to keep tabs on human rights in all U.N. member states including the U.S., which has drawn criticism for its policies including strong-arm deportations and targeted killings of alleged drug-runners in the Caribbean and Pacific — which the administration has said are designed to protect U.S. workers and help keep the country safe.

I currently work at an "AI First" 🤢 fintech company, and we're mandated to program agentically. I was fortunate enough to start working before the AI hype, but the environment right now is daunting.

There's too much unmaintainable code slop and throw away scripts committed that I can't keep track anymore. Each PR has so much diffs that it feels like someone had diarrhea and shat all over.

I try to manually review the code, but it feels like best effort at most. Like I may only understand 70% of the thing that I'm reviewing. What ends up happening usually is that I just ask the model and verify the output(which is horrifying I know)

I spend the whole day arguing with AI, reviewing, and pushing back against its output that sometimes I wonder if I am the one driving AI or is it driving me.

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Recently, I noticed that I've becoming more reliant on the model and that my skills have been atrophying. What would've taken me an afternoon if I program it by hand, would take me a week now if I do it now. I also find my head hurting and myself glossing over the code in code reviews and prompting claude to do even the basic of commands.

I get that there's more to programming in software engineering (collaboration, dealing with people, etc etc), but I don't feel like I am in control of the systems I am building anymore with the engineering aspect being replaced with babysitting and self lobotomy.

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Off work hours, I try to brush up by reading on system design and architecture books, typing by hand if I'm learning a new technology or stack, but I feel like it's not enough to prevent from skill atrophy.

How are y'all coping and how do you recover from this? I am afraid on what skills that I'll be able to bring at my next place of employment if I resign and that I'm becoming a jack of all trades master of none type of thing - having only shallow understanding.

THE US GOVERNMENT is examining whether Waymo’s recall of software involved with a series of school bus passing incidents last fall actually fixed the safety issue.

The formal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will determine whether the company’s supposed software fix succeeded in preventing its robotaxis from improperly passing stopped school buses with red lights on and their stop arms extended—indicators that the buses were picking up and dropping off students. It is illegal to pass these stopped school buses in all 50 states.

According to a filing, Waymo issued a fix for the software issue in mid-November and a voluntary recall a month later. But the government says that the majority of school bus issues occurred after that date.

Because they always wear their belt buckles on their hats!

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the left image is of a native port recompiled for PC, and the right one is an emulator being developed to run Switch 2 games