The Daily News — 2026-04-17 Edition

A selection of current stories highlights Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s VR launch, Epic Games’ HR shakeup, tech and politics developments, gaming updates, corporate shifts, and industry insights.

My Hermes Agent team just finished 140 minutes of focused research and writing work. In one go. Very impressive.

I’m seriously thinking about just setting up my wife with Hermes agent and a nice chat UI and be done with it.

Is it just me or is Claude Cowork no fun at all? Its restrictions make even the most basic agent workflows a tedious token burning chore. I wanted to set up Claude Cowork for my wife, because she is not very technical. But everything that is just easy in Claude Code is hampered by permission issues.