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Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. 'No smoking gun': Why Eaton fire report didn't name names or assign blame A resident tries to defend his home from nearby flames during the Eaton fire in Altadena. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . A $2-million county report examined botched Eaton fire evacuation alerts but stopped short of naming officials or assigning individual blame.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. What counts as cheating with AI? Teachers are grappling with how to draw the line This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Teachers say AI cheating is "off the charts," but research shows cheating rates remain unchanged since before ChatGPT. Schools favor "AI literacy" and redesigning assignments to encourage ethical technology use.

Russian freediver Alexey Molchanov plunged 126m (413ft) in a single breath to set a new world record at the AIDA Freediving World Championships in Limassol, Cyprus. He descended deep below the Mediterranean Sea with nothing but a headlight, two fins and a rope as a guide, in a feat considered one of the most technically challenging freedive categories. Mr Molchanov broke his own 2024 world record of 125m, during which he held his breath for a staggering four minutes and 32 seconds. The BBC's Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, reports from joint manoeuvres by Russia and Belarus, as part of the Zapad 2025 (West 2025) military drills. 'Looks like a toy, but it's real': BBC examines a downed Russian drone Drones like this one were shot down over Polish airspace in the early hours of Wednesday.

Identifying sequences of syllables within birdsongs is key to tackling a wide array of challenges, including bird individual identification and better understanding of animal communication and sensory-motor learning. Recently, machine learning approaches have demonstrated great potential to alleviate the need for experts to label long audio recordings by hand. However, they still typically rely on the availability of labelled data for model training, restricting applicability to a few species and datasets. In this work, we build the first fully unsupervised algorithm to decompose birdsong recordings into sequences of syllables. We first detect syllable events, then cluster them to extract templates -- syllable representations -- before performing matching pursuit to decompose the recording as a sequence of syllables. We evaluate our automatic annotations against human labels on a dataset of Bengalese finch songs and find that our unsupervised method achieves high performance. We also demonstrate that our approach can distinguish individual birds within a species through their unique vocal signatures, for both Bengalese finches and another species, the great tit.

Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital? On this special episode of recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history and future. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Earlier this month, we took the show to San Francisco for a live recording in front of a great audience at KQED's The Commons. WIRED's Lauren Goode, Katie Drummond, and Jason Kehe asked themselves and answered a perennial question: Is Silicon Valley still the tech capital of the world? Plus, they put themselves to the test with a new game and some questions from the audience. Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com . You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link . This week, we wanted to share with you the live show that we hosted in partnership with KQED earlier this month. Our global editorial director, Katie Drummond, had a really fun and sharp conversation with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon, about what it takes to make authentic work in the era of AI and influencers. Then my cohosts, WIRED's Lauren Goode and Jason Kehe, joined the stage for a special roundtable discussion. I sadly couldn't make it, but I feel very thankful for everyone who came through that night. I hope you enjoy it. I just want to say before we officially get started, Michael Colore, who a lot of you know and love, our beloved "Snackfight," could not be here tonight because he is weathering Covid. He said we can share that, but we are so glad to have Jason here in his stead. Actually, how do we say that? I suppose you could say that in Mike's stead-- I forced Jason to come do it tonight. Bully was the word I was using. It's going to be great. We're so thrilled, and he's going to have plenty of spicy takes. So without any further ado, welcome again everyone to our first live edition of the Roundtable here in San Francisco with our partners, KQED.

Oregon authorities recaptured Ty Anthony Sage after he was accidentally freed on bail despite a judge's order denying bail in the 2021 killing of Lowgunn Ivey.

Military veteran Travis Decker's remains were found in Washington wilderness, ending a three-month manhunt after he murdered his daughters Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia.

Broadcast TV Is a'Melting Ice Cube.' Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat After Sinclair and Nexstar pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air, the old affiliate model looks shakier than ever. Even Disney might do better without broadcast. Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC this week. About a quarter of ABC's usual audience couldn't see the talk show host this week after two major owners of ABC affiliates, Sinclair and Nexstar, refused to carry the show. Those right-leaning companies apparently felt that Kimmel's joke--which included some disputed facts--was so unpardonable that they couldn't expose their viewers to the comedian.