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The Theatre des Vampires debuts a new show for Claudia (Delainey Hayles), while tensions brew among them after Armand (Assad Zaman) went off the script and did not kill Louis (Jacob Anderson) in last week’s episode of Interview With the Vampire.

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• Jim Ward, 61, said he "escaped" to Tennessee after living in Texas for 20 years.
• Ward said he was ultimately tired of Texas' hot climate and relatively higher property taxes.
• Ward had to pay more for his Tennessee house but loves having easy access to hikes in the mountains.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation

• UC Berkeley sees a 48% jump in first-year applications to study computer science.
• Despite generative AI advances, students are eager to pursue computer science careers.
• Human developers remain essential for creating something new.

One of the most persistent concerns around generative AI is

Instagram ads may soon be much harder to ignore. As TechCrunch reports, Meta is testing a new type of non-skippable ad in the Instagram feed, which the company is calling an “ad break.”

With the new ads, which have already been spotted by some users, you can’t scroll past the feed ad until the”ad break” finishes. According to screenshots shared on Reddit and X, it appears that the “breaks” are a

• Israel is considering mounting rotary cannons on armored vehicles to shoot down drones.
• Israel may put the Vulcan cannon used on F-16s on an armored personnel carrier.
• Ukraine uses autocannons and heavy machine guns to target incoming drones.

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• Jeremy Cullifer sold part of his backyard through startup BuildCasa for $100,000.
• The grocery wholesaler, 46, plans to use the money to upgrade his 70-year-old house.
• Cullifer said California's increasingly bad housing crisis was a big motive for splitting his lot.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeremy Cullifer, 46, about

• Is YouTube's massive content library being used to train its AI models?
• CEO Neal Mohan says some creators' contracts with the platform mean their content could be used.
• He also said that if OpenAI trained Sora on

• Both new and used car prices are normalizing from pandemic peaks. But sales have flatlined, Bank of America says.
• Consumers are still priced out of the market due to rising interest and insurance costs.
• Some have turned to electric vehicles and hybrids, with EV loan originations rising steeply.

Car prices are falling back down to earth, in a steady decline from

Instagram is testing “ad breaks” that force you to stop and look at an ad for a period of time before you can continue scrolling. Several X and Reddit users reported seeing the feature, and Instagram spokesperson Matthew Tye confirmed to The Verge that ad breaks are being tested. Tye said Instagram would “provide updates should this

Doctor Who, like all science fiction, has always rooted its storytelling in allegory—raising ideas to challenge its contemporary audience through stories of the past, the future, of monsters, and running down hallways. It always makes the moments the show wants to step away from an allegorical message and explicitly…

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The Internal Revenue Service is giving taxpayers one more option when it comes to filing taxes.

The government agency recently announced that it's making the Direct File pilot program permanent. When it launched earlier this year, Direct File offered eligible taxpayers in select states the opportunity to file their taxes directly with the IRS, using software built by the agency.

At the time, the