GUEST COLUMNS
Monday, March 20, 2023
"It's a fabulous success story," said Kathleen Curtis, president of Friends of the Elephant Seal, a nonprofit organization based in San Simeon, California, home to what's now the biggest elephant seal colony on the mainland. "It's such a privilege to be able to peek into elephant seals' lives the way we can," she said.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
According to Getty Images, Stability copied Getty's photographs with associated text and metadata to train its Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to generate computer-synthesized images in response to text prompts.
CEQA's use, or misuse, as a weapon in the state's perpetual battles over housing has been well documented.
For many communities around the state, the disappearance of COVID-19 resources is merely a reminder that the health disparities highlighted during the pandemic are long-entrenched.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Requests for public records are choking some agencies and costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
The sharpest conflict in California's housing war pits a not-so-wealthy Orange County city, Huntington Beach, against the state.
Kickoff of construction, which includes two large dams, had been scheduled for 2024, but likely will be delayed another year. Completion is expected in 2030 or 2031.
The California Homeless Housing Needs Assessment in December concluded that California can solve homelessness through investments of $8.1 billion in housing, shelter and supportive services every year for the next 12 years.
New York Times News Service
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies via videoconference before a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies via videoconference before a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
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NEWS
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General News
Monday, March 20, 2023 |
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| The pair of lawsuits filed Tuesday and Wednesday by two separate legal teams cite the recent "right to repair" movement that advocates for consumers to have better access to the tools necessary to repair their vehicles and Tesla's opposition to the movement as a key component of the case. | |
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General News
Monday, March 20, 2023 |
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| Funds would be used for legal resources to enforce the 2020 COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, crack down on workers' rights violations, bolster antitrust enforcement and fund the department's housing strike force, among other things. | |
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General News
Monday, March 20, 2023 |
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| The Central District would get nine new judges; Northern District, 6; and Eastern District, 4 | |
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General News
Friday, March 17, 2023 |
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| The unpublished ruling said that the lower court erred in concluding that Section 533 of the California Insurance Code did not apply because there was no final adjudication that the law firm engaged in malicious prosecution. | |
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General News
Friday, March 17, 2023 |
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| U.S. District Judge James Donato, in his order, found the sablefish pot fishery, with its 2-mile long strings of pots to harvest the bottom-dwelling delicacy, were inappropriately issued permits allowing incidental "takes" of the endangered humpback whales. | |
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General News
Friday, March 17, 2023 |
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| An artificial intelligence model created by OpenAI exceeded the 68% student average for multiple choice performance in the Uniform Bar Exam by nearly 7% but barely passed the essay portion, researchers said. It would not have passed the California Bar Exam. | |
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General News
Friday, March 17, 2023 |
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| An artificial intelligence model created by OpenAI exceeded the 68% student average for multiple choice performance in the Uniform Bar Exam by nearly 7% but barely passed the essay portion, researchers said. It would not have passed the California Bar Exam. | |