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

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Cool temperatures and rain are in the forecast Thursday. Many areas have rain chances up to 70% with some of the heaviest rain occurring in San Luis Obispo County. This may impact your early morning commute and some major highways. Use caution and travel slowly. We start to see rain pushing south by lunch time. We will see less than a quart inch of rain in Santa Maria and around a tenth of an inch or Less in Santa Barbara. Thunderstorms are possible in high terrain. Winds will be breezy at times but not up to advisory level. This is a late season and unusually cold system bringing temperatures to the 60s and frigid overnights expected.

We dry out Friday afternoon. Skies return to mostly sunny and temperatures rebound. A few pop up light rain showers are expected but impacts will be dismal. Cool morning temperatures may prompt you to bring an extra layer to work or school. Winds and waves die down and it'll be a great way to start your weekend.

A weekend warm up is ahead as many areas jump back to 70s and 80s with mostly sunny skies. high pressure will keep this summer-like pattern in place through the end of the month of May and well into the month of June. Enjoy!

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By Hanna Ziady, CNN

London (CNN) — Albert Manifold, the ousted chairman of BP, is refusing to leave quietly, creating a headache for the British oil giant as it seeks to move on from the latest bout of leadership upheaval.

In a blistering response to his removal from the company Thursday, Manifold hit out at allegations about his conduct, calling them “lies.” His nearly 800-word statement suggests that his focus on cost-cutting – including eschewing a chauffeur in favor of public transport – may have made him unpopular at the firm.

BP dismissed Manifold on Tuesday after less than a year in the role, citing “serious concerns” about “governance standards, oversight and conduct,” which it described as “unacceptable.”

BP declined to provide further details, but media reports alleged that there were whistleblower complaints about bullying. A spokesperson for Manifold did not address these allegations specifically when asked by CNN, but referred us to Manifold’s statement in which he said he did not accept that “lies can be told about me.”

The surprise ouster marks the latest round of turmoil at BP, which has suffered flip-flops on strategy and leadership instability in recent years. The company is on its third CEO since 2019.

In his statement, Manifold said that he had sought to defend shareholders’ interests while at BP and call out “unnecessary or excessive expenditure,” including by playing his own part in keeping costs down.

“I had no interest in having a dedicated chauffeur-driven limousine at my beck and call on the occasions that I was in London. I, like most people, walked, took taxis, trains, etc.,” he noted.

“I had no interest in taking private aviation nor in availing myself of corporate tickets for sport events. I made my own coffee, bought my lunch in the local café. I sat in a small office, eschewing the grand corner-office privilege of previous chairmen,” he added.

Manifold said he did these things to set an example during a time in which the company was laying off thousands of employees.

Manifold acknowledged that his priorities, which included streamlining the board to make it more efficient, were “not always shared by everyone,” nor was his approach always welcome.

“Is it possible that in my determination to drive change on costs, performance, the balance sheet and shareholder communications, I pushed hard and challenged people directly? Yes, it is,” he wrote.

“But there is a considerable distance between driving an organisation with urgency and the characterisation of my conduct that is now being put about… I dispute entirely this characterisation of my conduct.”

Manifold said that no one had raised any issues with him about his conduct while he was chairman of BP. The company did not comment on whether it had given him a chance to respond to allegations made against him before removing him, when asked by CNN.

“We note the comments of our former chair. We stand by the statement we have made. We have a duty of care to all our employees, particularly those impacted by his behavior,” BP said in a statement.

The company’s shares have fallen by around 6.5% this week.

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