• Jon Stewart says Joe Biden, 81, is just too old to be president.
• "When you watch him on television, you're nervous, aren't ya?" Stewart said on Friday.
• If Biden wins in November, he will be 82 on Inauguration Day and 86 by the time he leaves office.

A second Trump term may be frightening, but President Joe Biden is just too old to be reelected, says comedian Jon Stewart.

"I know liberals say, 'Don't say Joe Biden is old' — don't say what people see with their own eyes," Stewart said of the 81-year-old president. "I know you know how fucking old he is, and I know you don't want to say it because Trump is so scary, but he's so fucking old."

"When you watch him on television, you're nervous, aren't ya?" Stewart continued.

"The Daily Show" host offered his assessment on Biden and his rival, former President Donald Trump, 77, on Friday while performing at this year's Netflix Is a Joke Festival, per The Hollywood Reporter.

"I'm not saying that Biden can't contribute to society, he just shouldn't be president," Stewart told his audience.

Putting both Biden and Trump on the ballot, Stewart said, was a mistake.

"Why are we allowing this? And now we're going to have a president that's the two oldest people that have ever run for the office of the presidency," Stewart said earlier in his segment.

This isn't the first time Stewart has commented on the upcoming presidential election. When Stewart made his return to "The Daily Show" in February, the late-night host questioned Biden's and Trump's fitness for the Oval Office.

"These two candidates. They are both similarly challenged," Stewart said on February 12. "And it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges."

Both Biden and Trump will make history no matter who prevails in this year's presidential election.

If Biden wins, he would be 82 years old on Inauguration Day and 86 by the time he leaves office. Likewise for Trump, who will become oldest person ever to be inaugurated if he beats Biden. Trump will turn 78 on June 14.

But criticisms about Biden's age hasn't dulled the octogenarian's confidence in his campaign. In fact, Biden says his age is actually an asset for his candidacy.

"I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people. And I'm more experienced than anybody that's ever run for the office," Biden told MSNBC in May.

Representatives for Stewart, Biden, and Trump didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

Stewart's remarks about Biden and Trump come months before the November polls, with the two presumptive nominees now locked in an intense fundraising battle.

Biden's campaign revealed last month that it raised more than $90 million in March. The campaign accumulated over $187 million in donations in the first quarter of this year.

And on Saturday, Trump's team told donors they raised more than $76 million in April, Politico reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

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• Qantas was accused in 2023 of advertising tickets to flights that were already canceled.
• Regulators announced Sunday that the airline agreed to pay $13.2 million to impacted customers.
• Qantas will pay $149 to domestic ticket holders and $298 to international ticketholders.

Regulators said on Sunday that Qantas Airways has agreed to pay about 20 million Australian dollars to more than 86,000 customers to settle allegations that the airline misled them by selling them tickets for canceled flights.

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said in a Sunday press release that the Australian airline company will pay 225 Australian dollars to domestic ticketholders and 450 Australian dollars — about $149 and $298 in US currency — to international ticketholders.

A spokesperson for Qantas did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In August 2023, the ACCC accused Qantas of misleading customers by advertising tickets for over 8,000 flights that had already been canceled.

The regulators alleged that the airline kept the tickets up for sale online for an average of two weeks after the flights were canceled.

"We allege that Qantas' conduct in continuing to sell tickets to canceled flights, and not updating ticketholders about canceled flights, left customers with less time to make alternative arrangements and may have led to them paying higher prices to fly at a particular time not knowing that flight had already been canceled," the ACCC said in 2023.

Qantas responded that it did not "delay communicating with our passengers for commercial gain" or cancel flights to "protect slots."

The airline is now agreeing to pay up to $13.2 million to settle the case brought by the ACCC. According to the ACCC, the payments to impacted customers will be in addition to any refunds or alternative flights that the airline may have already paid.

In addition to paying customers, the airline agreed to pay a civil penalty of 100 million Australian dollars or $66.1 million.

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• Jack Dorsey was very active on X this weekend.
• During a posting frenzy, he announced that he has left the Bluesky board.
• Dorsey backed the decentralized social network for years, but it's unclear why he left.

Jack Dorsey has been X-ing up a storm.

He's delved into the tumultuous rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake (briefly; he's Team Kenny), preached about X being "freedom technology," and unfollowed over 2000 accounts — leaving only Julian Assange's wife, Stella Assange, Edward Snowden, and Elon Musk.

However, for a man who has had a lot to say this weekend on X, Dorsey's announcement that he left Bluesky — the Twitter offshoot he helped get off the ground — was briefer than his comments on Lamar's and Drake's monthlong back-and-forth.

Dorsey, who led a team at Twitter to begin building Bluesky in 2019, replied to a comment on X Saturday asking if he was still on the Bluesky board.

He simply replied, "no."

The company later confirmed Dorsey's departure, thanking him for "funding and initiating the Bluesky project."

"Today, Bluesky is thriving as an open-source social network running on atproto, the decentralized protocol we have built," a statement from the official Bluesky account read. "With Jack's departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky public benefit company who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience."

Neither Dorsey nor Bluesky clarified when Dorsey decided to drop out of the project, and neither immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. However, Dorsey deleted his account on the social network he backed last September, TechCrunch noted, citing social media posts at the time.

Dorsey initially created the Bluesky initiative while working at Twitter, and the social network became a separate entity in 2022.

At the time, the company announced it had received $13 million in funding from Twitter to get off the ground and that Dorsey was on the board of directors.

It formed as a Public Benefit LLC, Vox reported, meaning its mission to design its decentralized protocol supersedes its priority to make a profit.

CNBC reported that Dorsey also helped financially support Nostr, an open app protocol, by donating 14 bitcoins, or $245,000, to the company in December 2022.

Dorsey hasn't posted about Nostr or Bluesky on X since the summer of 2023.

Meanwhile, Bluesky has gone from an invite-only app to a social network with 3 million users, Business Insider previously reported.

When Musk took over Twitter and turned it into X, Dorsey advertised the alternative social network, which provides a "decentralized" experience by allowing users to create their own communities and moderation rules.

It is still unclear why he left the social network. Maybe he'll reveal it in his own diss track.

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• Sahil Dua taught himself the basics of software engineering while at university.
• Dua shares the résumé that helped him land his first job, a software development role in Amsterdam.
• He also emphasizes the importance of gaining visibility both in-person and online.

Sahil Dua's journey into software and computer science began with a robotics competition.

In his first year of college in Delhi, where he studied electronics engineering, he started building some robots with friends. He soon realized he was more passionate about software than hardware, which led him to learn outside the classroom.

"Everything I learned in computer science is actually what I learned in my own time on top of studying for my electronics degree as well," he told Business Insider.

Over the next three years of university, Dua taught himself coding and learned about different operating systems and networks. He applied those lessons at several tech internships and by cofounding a startup.

While students in India often seek job placements through their university, Dua proactively applied to jobs on his own as well, including opportunities overseas.

This is the résumé he used to land a software development graduate program role at Booking.com in Amsterdam right after college. Later, he used an updated version of that résumé — with the same template — for a software engineering role at Google, where he's worked for more than four years.

Dua is currently a senior machine learning engineer at Google's Zurich office.

BI has verified his employment history.

Looking back on the document, Dua said two things on his résumé helped in his job search. He would also change two things if he were a junior developer now.

1. Emphasize projects: Dedicating a section to projects and listing them out helped give interviewers starting points for discussion before he had a lot of job experience, he said. "Those projects would make me stand out because they demonstrated that I had practical experience, even when I was looking for a job straight out of university." Dua said he applies the same principle to his LinkedIn profile, where he lists 26 projects.

2. Use unique formats: Dua wanted a template to solve two purposes. First, he found that a single-column résumé would not give him enough space to list everything. "The second reason was that I wanted my résumé to stand out" but also not be so "extreme that it seems weird to look at," he said about his two-column template. He found this template on GitHub.

While he would make a couple of tweaks, such as removing links to his personal Twitter account and decreasing emphasis on education, there are two other ways he would enhance his profile now.

1. Build a personal brand: Dua said that he would revamp the "achievements" section of his résumé to include projects such as giving talks at technical conferences. Speaking at events like Python-focused conference PyCon gave him visibility within the industry, even in the early years of his career, and led to the opportunity to write a book.

2. Make yourself searchable online: Dua adds links to his online profiles on his résumé and takes steps to build more online visibility. "Anytime I'm doing any courses online, I make sure that I post it on LinkedIn as a certificate," he said about learning new skills like machine learning. This ensures that "my profile is getting clicks or it's getting up there when people are searching for those fields." On LinkedIn, he uses his current job section to add more about his role and achievements than his one-page résumé allows.

   Career experts recommend Dua's approach to enhancing LinkedIn profiles to be more search-friendly.

   Recruiters actively seek candidates using keywords, said Nick Shah, founder of Peterson Technology Partners, a 26-year-old tech staffing agency based in Park Ridge, Illinois.

   "Job seekers should research the keywords that are relevant to their industry and incorporate them into their profile to increase their chances of appearing in search results and catching the attention of recruiters," Shah previously told BI.

   Shah said job seekers should clearly define their roles in LinkedIn's work experience section and provide examples and achievements, much like what Dua does on his profile.

Do you work in tech, finance, or consulting and have a story to share about your personal résumé journey? Email this reporter at shubhangigoel@insider.com.

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• Tesla's Cybertruck doesn't appear as "apocalypse-proof" as Elon Musk first suggested.
• Since its November debut, the vehicles have gotten stuck in rough terrain and are facing recalls.
• When the $80,000+ car was first revealed, its windows were smashed during a live demonstration.

Tesla's Cybertruck hasn't had quite the debut Elon Musk said it would.

Since its November launch, the $80,0000+ vehicle has repeatedly made headlines for issues including displaying inexplicable "critical steering error" warning alerts, becoming stuck in rough terrain, and facing widespread recalls — a far cry from being the "apocalypse-proof" behemoth it was touted as.

"If you're ever in an argument with another car," Elon Musk pledged at the truck's launch event last year, "you will win."

He added: "The apocalypse could come along at any moment, and here at Tesla, we have the finest in apocalypse technology."

But on May 2, a tourist on Nantucket found their Cybertruck trapped in the sand, requiring a tow truck to free it. According to the tow operator, the driver made one crucial error: He forgot to let air out of the tires.

Normally, Cybertruck tires are inflated to around 50 psi. In the Cybertruck owner's manual, though, Tesla warns drivers to lower tire pressure before off-roading, to increase traction and decrease the risk of punctures. The tow operator said the safe spot for beach driving is between 18 and 22 psi.

"Unfortunately, they had neglected to do that or did not know to do that," the tow operator, who asked to remain anonymous because he runs his one-man towing operation informally, told Business Insider. "So that set them three steps back, right from the word go."

The operator said most tow jobs like these stem from inexperience, adding that he's often called in the summer months to help tourists who've misjudged how soft the sand is near the coastline or were completely unaware of how tire pressure impacts a vehicle's off-roading capabilities.

What happened with the Cybertruck, the operator said, could have happened to any other pickup driver. He noted, though, that the Cybertruck's extra weight — about 1,000 lbs heavier than comparable gas-powered pickups — didn't help.

"There's always been a question as to how electric vehicles with the excess weight will handle beach driving," he said. "They'll wear the same size tires as a regular F-150 or, you know, insert your standard pickup truck here, but they will have a higher weight."

The all-electric pickup was eventually freed — though not before it attracted a crowd of bemused onlookers from the small island community.

The tow operator said he "wasn't all that" surprised to get the phone call, given the buzz surrounding the arrival of the first Cybertruck on the island "earlier that day."

"He immediately gets off the boat and then parks in the heart of town on a crosswalk," he said. "It sort of made the internet rounds — and then, by 5 o'clock, it was stuck on the beach."

"We were joking [that] we sort of applaud his ability to really check off all of the things not to do on Nantucket in very quick succession," he added. "Really made the most out of the day."

The incident went viral on social media as only the latest blunder involving the Cybertruck.

Cybertruck's problems aren't all user error

As in the Nantucket incident, the 6,600+ lb. vehicles have also been seen stuck in the snow and struggling to climb steep hills. While the official causes of these incidents remain unconfirmed, the Cybertruck's problems can't all be chalked up to user error.

The cars, touted by Tesla as bulletproof, have also struggled with nagging quality issues. The stainless steel body is prone to rust spots and collecting handprints, and the massive vehicles have unsightly gaps in the door panels that YouTube tech influencer Marques Brownlee described as "worst I've ever seen in a production vehicle."

Despite being marketed as an iron dome on wheels intended to protect occupants from anything the outside world can throw at them, the features inside don't all appear to offer the safety they're meant to supply. A YouTuber reported their finger got caught in the car's frunk after its sensor failed to detect the obstruction, leaving a dent and small cut on the skin despite a recent software update intended to prevent such issues.

Firsthand accounts of the Cybertruck's accelerator pedal getting stuck at full throttle also attracted regulators' attention, with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reporting concerns that an "unapproved change" during the production process likely caused the problem, increasing the risk of collision. The NHTSA report prompted Tesla to recall about 3,878 of the vehicles in April voluntarily, which impacted virtually every Cybertruck that had been shipped to customers since the launch.

Business Insider previously reported that safety experts called the Cybertruck a "guideless missile" and a "death machine" due to its size, speed, and autopilot features.

Problems with the tank-like car aren't limited to production models. When the prototype Cybertruck was first displayed in 2019, early demonstrations of its "shatterproof" glass were thwarted when the car's windows were easily smashed in a live test.

Musk warned investors last October during an earnings call that the car's unique design created massive problems with scaling production, saying: "We dug our own grave with the Cybertruck."

And with Tesla's stock down nearly 25% since the Cybertruck debuted last year — from $241.20 to $181.14 per share — it's possible he could be right.

Representatives for Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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