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The stereotypical millennial plight goes something like this: A guy or gal staring down 40 is trapped in a perpetual struggle to launch. They've finally moved out of their parents' homes, but later than their judgmental relatives expected. They're getting around to marriage and kids, but they're forever screwed on housing, still trying to shake the ghosts of the post-Great


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Seth Meyers has weighed in on President Donald Trump's meeting with New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani last week, joking about the U.S. commander-in-chief's complete capitulation to his charm offensive.

Trump and his supporters made their disdain for Mamdani obvious throughout his mayoral campaign, with right-wing pundits foretelling the fall of New York if he was elected. However, months of this fearful rhetoric was swiftly undercut upon Trump actually meeting Mamdani last Friday

Meyers noted that Trump seemed practically smitten by Mamdani, even jumping to his defence several times during a press conference.

"That is the flirtiest I've ever heard anyone say, 'you can call me a fascist,'" quipped Meyers. "I've never seen someone so desperate to have another male friend. The nervous smile, the giddy laughter. And look, I'm not judging the man. I've been there."

Elected as New York's next mayor earlier this month, Mamdani has long been a vocal critic of Trump. Considering the president's history of hitting out at his detractors, few likely expected them to be amicable, much less that Trump would apparently try to endear himself to Mamdani.

"[Fox News host] Sean Hannity is like, 'all my friends in New York are scared,'" Meyers said. "And meanwhile Trump is like, 'I have a friend in New York too, his name is Zohran. He's so rad!'"



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The best soundbars can completely transform your TV setup, turning flat, lifeless audio into something that actually sounds cinematic. Whether you're watching blockbuster movies, listening to music or gaming, a good soundbar delivers clearer vocals, deep bass and better overall playback than most built-in TV speakers ever could.

In 2025, there’s a soundbar for every kind of home entertainment setup


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Maor Shlomo sold his vibe-coding startup for $80 million. He warns that these tools are easy to copy, making them risky bets.
  • A vibe coding startup founder says vibe coding tools are easy to clone.
  • Startups built only on prompting an LLM or light fine-tuning could struggle to defend their business.
  • Maor Shlomo's comments come as vibe coding

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  • Michelle Obama says it's time to stop treating 35 as the age when everything should be figured out.
  • "I would just say there are no 'shoulds'. There are so many ways to live a happy, fulfilling life," she said.
  • Moreover, much of what shapes the future comes down to circumstances beyond one's control, she added.

Michelle Obama wants people to stop stressing about


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The Protector UGV is seen with a mounted M2 Browning machine gun firing on a target at a range.
  • Ukrainians are experimenting with ground drones to make a remotely piloted attack truck.
  • Ukrainian Armored Vehicles released test footage of its Protector drone with an M2 Browning turret.
  • It's a combination of two emerging technologies on Ukraine's

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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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President Donald Trump has issued a new Executive Order that launches the “Genesis Mission,” an AI-focused initiative that will be led by the Department of Energy. It will “harness the current AI and advanced computing revolution to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade,” the DOE explained. One of the mission’s main goals is to build a centralized


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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you



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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easy if you know defensive football.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set


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llustration by ANTHROPIC, August 1, 2025. Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) (intelligence artificielle (IA) company founded in 2021. It develops Claude, a family of large language models, and is also known for its research in AI safety, particularly interpretability.
Anthropic said its Claude Opus 4.5 AI model outperformed all humans on its coding test.
  • Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 AI model outperformed all humans on the company's own coding test.
  • The two-hour engineering exam measures technical ability and judgment under time pressure.
  • The new release is another notch for Anthropic in the AI coding tools space.

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