By Jen Rose Smith, CNN

(CNN) — For travelers stepping into their first Parisian pâtisserie, a few of the treats on offer might already be familiar — some famous French pastries have long since entered the world’s collective culinary lexicon.

“Everyone knows macarons, croissants and pains au chocolat,” said Gale Gand, an American pastry chef and television personality who studied at La Varenne Cooking School in Paris. “But there’s so much more than that. There’s a next level.”

The hefty cookbook “The Art of French Baking,” recently released by Phaidon and adapted from a pair of classic 1930s tomes by Ginette Mathiot, has more than 350 recipes, including little-known treats from the simple puff-pastry fingers allumettes glacées to Visitandines, tiny almond cakes invented by nuns.

Regions like Brittany and Bordeaux have their own distinctive baking traditions, with buttery treats that come shaped like bicycle wheels or coated in beeswax. Among the fairytale mountain villages of Alsace, where it’s still possible to hear old Germanic dialects, the sky-high, ring-shaped kugelhopf hints at a history of intermingling French and German cultures.

“We’ve got the basics down,” said Gand. “It’s time to expand our repertoire.”

Here are some of the essential French pastries to try next. What sweet treats did we miss? Share your favorites in the comments below.

Kouign Amann

Farms and dairies in rain-lush Brittany produce some of the finest butter in France, which is the defining ingredient of a perfect kouign amann — a layered, yeasted pastry whose name, in the Breton language, translates to “butter cake.” (It’s pronounced “queen uh-man.”)

The coastal town of Douarnenez, where the kouign amann was invented in the 1860s, is the object of pilgrimages for aficionados of the deeply caramelized dessert. Today it’s home to a professional association of artisans dedicated to producing authentic versions of kouign amann — like the golden pastries filling the cases of Pascal Jaïn, a bakery overseen by the president of the association.

Religieuse

France might be an adamantly secular state, but its pastry shops like to flirt with religion. Sweets inspired by nuns range from the gingerbread nonettes, or “little nuns,” to the feather-light fried choux buns known as pets-de-nonnes: nuns’ farts.

The religieuse — which also translates to “nun” — is a bit more literal. The dessert stacks two cream-filled choux buns into mini towers baptized with a dollop of sweet glaze. Some say it resembles a pope’s towering mitre; others see the adorably round-bottomed shape of a chubby nun.

You can find an old-school religieuse in nearly any Parisian bakery, and creative variations abound. For a modern twist, visit the city’s Carl Marletti for choux buns baked with a crunchy craquelin coating and plump with rose-flavored cream.

Cannelé

Baked in fluted c

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Por Karina Tsui y Martin Goillandeau, CNN

Las tensiones volvieron a intensificarse la noche del miércoles afuera de un centro federal de detención migratoria en Nueva Jersey, mientras los manifestantes continúan protestando en medio de una huelga de hambre de varios días que, según reportes, llevan a cabo detenidos por condiciones inhumanas.

Los manifestantes ocuparon parte de la calle y aparentemente levantaron barricadas improvisadas durante enfrentamientos con agentes federales vestidos con equipo antidisturbios la noche del miércoles, en el sexto día de protestas desde que activistas y abogados anunciaron el viernes pasado una huelga de hambre y laboral de detenidos recluidos en el centro Delaney Hall de Newark.

Agentes federales usaron bastones y aparentemente desplegaron gas pimienta y otros dispositivos de control de multitudes contra los manifestantes, según videos de Freedom News TV obtenidos por CNN. Se vio a los manifestantes utilizando conos de tránsito, colchones y trozos de madera como escudos y para bloquear zonas alrededor del centro de detención migratoria.

No está claro si hubo arrestos. CNN se comunicó con el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional para obtener más información.

Los detenidos en Delaney Hall mantienen una huelga de hambre desde el viernes pasado, según familiares y abogados de algunos de ellos. Legisladores demócratas que visitaron el centro más temprano el miércoles dijeron haber visto condiciones “horribles” en el interior. El DHS ha negado categóricamente las denuncias de condiciones inaceptables en las instalaciones.

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By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, CNN

(CNN) — When President Donald Trump promised, seemingly out of the blue, in late January that prosecutions would “soon” be coming for 2020 election rigging, the Justice Department was already mobilizing an effort behind the scenes to build out a portfolio of cases that would boost the White House’s narrative.

Since then, a rotating cast of attorneys — both political appointees and prosecutors — have attempted to carry out Trump’s wishes.

The sprawling effort, however, has already hit substantial roadblocks and has not publicly surfaced any information that would shake past authoritative findings that Trump’s loss in the 2020 election wasn’t fraudulent. That hasn’t stopped prosecutors from taking sweeping and unprecedented actions to obtain ballots and other 2020 election materials, with an approach that prompted discomfort and resistance from even the Trump-appointed US attorney initially tasked with steering the department-wide initiative.

The department’s election fraud tactics have been questioned in court, too. One federal judge in Georgia said this month that a search warrant affidavit the FBI submitted to seize Atlanta-area ballots was “troubling” and “misleading,” even as he ruled against a request by Fulton County that the materials be returned.

A separate judge in Georgia last week grilled the DOJ on whether the administration was attempting an “overbroad fishing expedition” with its demands for the personal contact information for thousands of county election workers, so that investigators could interview them. The prosecutor defending the subpoena was parachuting into the Rome, Georgia, hearing from a US attorney’s office in Alabama. Also present was US Attorney Dan Bishop, who leads a US attorney’s office in North Carolina, and is coordinating election integrity efforts at Washington’s command.

Lawyers for Fulton County, critics of this Justice Department, state leaders and other Trump legal and political opponents say that backward-looking investigative steps picking at the 2020 election could brew mistrust in this year’s elections. They’ve also raised concerns that the election integrity efforts are intimidating election workers and voters from participating in future contests.

Absent any new cases suggesting massive fraud, the Justice Department’s election integrity efforts have now broadened to look at one-or two-person indictments for a small number of votes cast by non-citizen immigrants in past elections.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche himself seemed to lower expectations that the department would be able to deliver prosecutions that would show a sweeping election conspiracy against Trump, even as he doubled down on 2020 vote-rigging conspiracy theories.

In a recent interview on Fox News, he claimed there was “a ton of evidence that the election was rigged … there’s been evidence about that for many, many years.”

But Blanche also alleged that the supposed perpetrators were “very good at hiding up misconduct and hiding what they’re doing.”

“You’ll say to me: How long has it taken? Why is it taking so long? And the reality, the answer is that because it takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020,” he said.

Internal clashes over the probes

Litigation over the ballots seized in Georgia revealed that Tom Albus, the top Trump-appointed prosecutor in St. Louis, had been tapped to lead the department’s work on election issues in recent months. His reign, however, was short lived.

As the county’s

Por Lisa Eadicicco, CNN

El mercado laboral para quienes aspiran a ser ingenieros de software es muy competitivo. Decenas de miles de despidos en todo el sector han intensificado la competencia por las vacantes.

El auge de la IA ha generado temores de fraude en las entrevistas, y las prioridades de las empresas cambian constantemente a medida que la tecnología evoluciona casi a diario.

Pero los responsables de contratación tienen una preocupación mayor: ahora que la IA puede escribir código, ¿cómo se puede determinar quién, o incluso qué conjunto de habilidades, hacen que alguien sea un buen ingeniero de software?

Según expertos en desarrollo profesional e ingenieros de software consultados por CNN, el proceso de entrevistas no se ha adaptado a la forma en que la IA ha transformado las responsabilidades diarias de los programadores.

Esto ha hecho que el proceso de contratación sea más complejo tanto para quienes buscan empleo como para los responsables de recursos humanos.

“Yo diría que la IA ha impactado las entrevistas de ingeniería como una bomba atómica”, declaró Stefan Mai, exingeniero de Meta y Amazon y cofundador del servicio de preparación para entrevistas tecnológicas Hello Interview.

La ingeniería de software ha sido una de las primeras industrias en verse notablemente impactada por la IA.

Un informe de la división de investigación de Google del año pasado reveló que el 90 % de los trabajadores tecnológicos utilizan la IA para tareas como escribir y modificar código, un 14 % más que el año anterior.

Este sector ha sido observado de cerca como un indicador clave a medida que se expande la adopción de la IA.

La IA ahora puede ayudar a los ingenieros de software a escribir código y documentación, analizar datos, aprender conceptos de programación y solucionar problemas, entre otras cosas. Esto permite a las empresas tecnológicas avanzar mucho más rápido, afirman algunos ejecutivos.

Un ingeniero de OpenAI utilizó inteligencia artificial para implementar un cambio en el sistema que, de otro modo, le habría llevado a su equipo una semana, declaró recientemente el presidente de la compañía, Greg Brockman, durante una charla en Sequoia Capital.

Muchas aplicaciones internas de Google se están desarrollando “en su mayor parte” con la herramienta de codificación de IA Antigravity de la compañía, explicó a CNN a principios de este mes Varun Mohan, director de Google DeepMind.

Boris Cherny, director de Claude Code en Anthropic, escribió en X en diciembre que el “100 %” de sus contribuciones al producto durante los últimos 30 días fueron escritas por Claude Code.

Cherny cree que la IA está transformando el rol del ingeniero de software, orientándolo hacia la toma de decisiones estratégicas en lugar de la escritura de código.

El título de “ingeniero de software” podría ser reemplazado por un término como “constructor”, que refleja mejor la función del puesto, comentó anteriormente a CNN.

La IA no pretende reemplazar a los ingenieros, declaró Mohan, de Google, a CNN.

“Creemos que los desarrolladores deberían dedicar la mayor parte de su tiempo a intentar averiguar qué deberían construir”, agregó. “Esa es la cuestión”.

Madhu Kurup, vicepresidenta de ingeniería de Indeed, comparó la IA en la ingeniería de software con el papel de Google Maps en los viajes.

Google Maps puede indicar a una persona qué salida de la autopista tomar, señalar las condiciones del tráfico y encontrar cafeterías en la ruta de un conductor, pero no elige el destino ni decide a qué hora salir.

Sin embargo, ese informe de Google del año pasado indicaba que el 46 % de los trabajado