Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, speaks to reporters at the White House in July. Voice comes from the use of AI. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, alleges that U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and others President Trump has clashed with misrepresented facts in mortgage documents to secure favorable tax or loan terms.

After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she's not ready to quit the battle. After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn, who has led the San Francisco-based nonprofit since 2015, says she will leave the role later this year, concluding a chapter that helped define the modern fight over online freedom. Cohn first rose to prominence as lead counsel in, the 1990s case that overturned federal restrictions on publishing encryption code. As EFF's legal director and later executive director, she guided the group through legal challenges to government surveillance, reforms to computer crime laws, and efforts to hold corporations accountable for data collection. Over the past decade, EFF has expanded its influence, becoming a central force in shaping the debate over privacy, security, and digital freedom. In an interview with WIRED, Cohn reflected on EFF's foundational encryption victories, its unfinished battles against National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, and the organization's work protecting independent security researchers.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. 'Breaking Bad' actor accused of spraying woman with water in L.A. parking dispute Raymond Cruz attends the premiere of Season 2 of "Breaking Bad" at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood on Feb. 26, 2009. Voice comes from the use of AI. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for five hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three women in his Los Angeles neighborhood.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Voice comes from the use of AI. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . OpenAI will roll out parental controls within the month, allowing parents to link accounts and receive alerts when the system detects "acute distress." The changes follow a California family's lawsuit after their 16-year-old son died by suicide following intimate conversations with ChatGPT about his mental health struggles.

The Twitch streamer could pivot from influencer to candidate. But he tells WIRED's podcast he'd rather use his platform to tell Dems "you can't podcast your way out of this problem." Hasan Piker is many things to many people. They don't all feel the same way about Piker or his politics, but most presumably agree on one thing: He is a relentless human being. Most days a week, you can find the 34-year-old Twitch streamer talking to his audience, often for six to nine hours at a stretch. And during President Trump's second term, there's plenty of that to go around. He has nearly 3 million followers on Twitch and has hosted conversations with Senator Bernie Sanders and US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He claims his election night stream in 2024 reached a staggering 7.5 million viewers. On this episode of, I talked to Piker about his looks, his love of Italian sandwiches, and any future political aspirations he might (or might not) want to tease. It's great to be here. I heard you were just at the gym. Yeah, I was at the park. Some days I take my dog and I play a little bit of basketball and get to hang out with some people.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. The first woman to pilot a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the last to "touch" the Hubble space telescope retired after more than two decades with NASA Some explorers have focused on alpine heights. Megan McArthur is one of the elite few who can say she's piloted both submarines and spacecraft, exploring expanses from the ocean floor to low Earth orbit, looking down on the planet from 250 miles above. Now McArthur, 54, is retiring from NASA, where she has served for more than two decades as an astronaut and senior leader at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Houston. Emily Carney, a space historian, described McArthur as a pioneer, one of the first 100 women to fly in space, and someone with a "magnificent career."

Help! My therapist is secretly using ChatGPT Some patients have discovered their private confessions are being quietly fed into AI. In Silicon Valley's imagined future, AI models are so empathetic that we'll use them as therapists. They'll provide mental-health care for millions, unimpeded by the pesky requirements for human counselors, like the need for graduate degrees, malpractice insurance, and sleep. Down here on Earth, something very different has been happening. Last week, we published a story about people finding out that their therapists were secretly using ChatGPT during sessions. In some cases it wasn't subtle; one therapist accidentally shared his screen during a virtual appointment, allowing the patient to see his own private thoughts being typed into ChatGPT in real time.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Online dating murder suspect lured men into brutal robberies, L.A. County prosecutors allege Rockim Prowell allegedly met his victims online. Above, a person uses a cellphone. Rockim Prowell, 44, fis accused of murder, attempted murder, carjacking and burglary. Prosecutors allege Prowell lured robbery victims using a dating site.

Recent advancements in deep learning models for time series forecasting have been significant. These models often leverage fundamental time series properties such as seasonality and non-stationarity, which may suggest an intrinsic link between model performance and data properties. However, existing benchmark datasets fail to offer diverse and well-defined temporal patterns, restricting the systematic evaluation of such connections. Additionally, there is no effective model recommendation approach, leading to high time and cost expenditures when testing different architectures across different downstream applications. For those reasons, we propose ARIES, a framework for assessing relation between time series properties and modeling strategies, and for recommending deep forcasting models for realistic time series. First, we construct a synthetic dataset with multiple distinct patterns, and design a comprehensive system to compute the properties of time series. Next, we conduct an extensive benchmarking of over 50 forecasting models, and establish the relationship between time series properties and modeling strategies. Our experimental results reveal a clear correlation. Based on these findings, we propose the first deep forecasting model recommender, capable of providing interpretable suggestions for real-world time series. In summary, ARIES is the first study to establish the relations between the properties of time series data and modeling strategies, while also implementing a model recommendation system. The code is available at: https://github.com/blisky-li/ARIES.

This paper presents Project Riley, a novel multimodal and multi-model conversational AI architecture oriented towards the simulation of reasoning influenced by emotional states. Drawing inspiration from Pixar's Inside Out, the system comprises five distinct emotional agents - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust - that engage in structured multi-round dialogues to generate, criticise, and iteratively refine responses. A final reasoning mechanism synthesises the contributions of these agents into a coherent output that either reflects the dominant emotion or integrates multiple perspectives. The architecture incorporates both textual and visual large language models (LLMs), alongside advanced reasoning and self-refinement processes. A functional prototype was deployed locally in an offline environment, optimised for emotional expressiveness and computational efficiency. From this initial prototype, another one emerged, called Armando, which was developed for use in emergency contexts, delivering emotionally calibrated and factually accurate information through the integration of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and cumulative context tracking. The Project Riley prototype was evaluated through user testing, in which participants interacted with the chatbot and completed a structured questionnaire assessing three dimensions: Emotional Appropriateness, Clarity and Utility, and Naturalness and Human-likeness. The results indicate strong performance in structured scenarios, particularly with respect to emotional alignment and communicative clarity.