The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, kicked off on Friday with a vibrant opening ceremony featuring fireworks, a performance by Mariah Carey, and a dancing stovetop espresso maker, according to NPR. The games, hosted at Milan's San Siro Stadium, saw American skaters Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea compete in the team pair short program, though a fall marred their performance.
The opening ceremony included the Parade of Nations, where women escorting athletes wore floor-length puffy coats and oversized sunglasses. The games are being held in the spirit of unusual circumstances, according to NPR.
Meanwhile, in the world of software engineering, the rise of AI is causing concern. One software engineer, Nolan Lawson, expressed dismay over the use of AI to consume and regurgitate blog posts and code, potentially reducing the role of programmers. "I didn't ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it," Lawson wrote in a blog post on February 7, 2026, according to Hacker News.
In other news, Al Lowe, the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry games, was interviewed. Lowe, who started making games in the early eighties, also enjoys playing the saxophone and working with model trains.
On television, the Emmy-winning HBO Max drama "The Pitt" is back for a new season. The show, which follows the lives of medical professionals in a Pittsburgh emergency department, focuses on what doesn't happen in a single day, according to NPR. The first season of the show included deaths, a mass casualty event, and a doctor caught stealing pills.
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