BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
Kristina VölkBBC News and Kevin NguyenBBC Verify BBC An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into “AI slop” has found.…
Beverly Hills superintendent overrules plan to display Israeli flag
The superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District overruled a plan approved by the Board of Education to display Israeli flags on all campuses during Jewish American Heritage Month,…
His Fresno restaurant was struggling, so he allegedly hired a gang member to set it on fire, prosecutors say
A Fresno restaurant owner has been charged with hiring a motorcycle gang member to set fire to his underperforming restaurant, according to authorities. Robert “Bobby” Salazar, 63, was charged with…
Ex-Angels star Mark Teixeira announces congressional campaign in Texas
Slide over, Steve Garvey. It appears another former Major League Baseball slugger with Southland ties will run for political office. Mark Teixeira, who batted a robust .358 in a two-month…
Ada Harris students fund well to provide clean water to South Sudanese village – San Diego Union-Tribune
An Ada Harris School project seven years in the making recently became a reality, bringing clean, safe water to a village in South Sudan. Over the years, Ada Harris’ fifth-grade…
Floyd Levine dead: Actor, dad of exec Brian Robbins was 93
Actor Floyd Levine, whose career spanned numerous decades and a variety of projects ranging from films “The Hangover” and “Norbit” to TV shows “Melrose Place” and “Murder, She Wrote,” has…
Rohingya refugees: ‘India put us on the boat like captives
Samira HussainSouth Asia Correspondent, BBC News, Delhi BBC Soyed Noor (centre) and some of the other refugees spoke to the BBC via a video call from Myanmar Noorul Amin last…
The loneliest phone booth in the world
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE — With only the lazy Joshua trees and hovering buzzards out here to bear witness, this isolated expanse of high-desert plain could well be among the quietest…
Chargers’ Marlowe Wax, Nikko Reed made the cut, now hope to stick on roster – Orange County Register
EL SEGUNDO — Marlowe Wax and Nikko Reed arrived at the Chargers’ training camp last month feeling confident in their abilities and in their respective chances to make the team.…
La Jolla board and architect ask San Diego to revisit approval of ADU project – San Diego Union-Tribune
A La Jolla planning group is working with a Country Club-area resident and a local architecture firm to ask the city of San Diego to reconsider a recent decision to…