Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Nine former DOJ attorneys investigating UC antisemitism told The Times they felt pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff. The attorneys resigned during the course of their UC assignments, some concerned that they were being asked to violate ethical standards. UC says it is open to talks with the Trump administration to protect $17.5 billion in federal funding.

Students at Columbia University have been instructed that classes have shifted to virtual or hybrid amid ongoing safety concerns stemming from anti-Israel protests. The new guidelines said all courses on the Morningside main campus have moved to hybrid learning "until the end of each school's Spring 2024 semester." "Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our students' learning and all the required academic operations," the school's Provost Angela Olinto wrote in a statement released early Tuesday morning. "It's vital that teaching and learning continue during this time." The announcement comes amid continued antisemitic protests on the New York City campus and just a day after classes were made virtual on Monday.

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its kind in the United States. Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city's district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies' algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests. Some of the capabilities the pilot project is pursuing – such as identifying potholes and cars parked in bus lanes – are already in place in other cities. But San Jose's foray into automated surveillance of homelessness is the first of its kind in the country, according to city officials and national housing advocates.

Academy of Media Arts Founder Dana Hammond joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why the school was forced to close to accommodate the homeless population. An Austin resident who has been documenting the city's homeless crisis has helped develop an AI interactive map to track camps and communities. Jamie Hammonds, who has been documenting the crisis through DASH Media, provided data to the group Nomadik, which developed the full-featured AI map. The map vividly depicts where homeless encampments are concentrated throughout the city. A map, powered by AI, provides a visual representation showing where Austin's homeless are concentrated.

'San Fransicko' author Michael Shellenberger discusses the homeless crisis in California and how to solve it. A federal judge has issued a temporary ban on San Francisco clearing most homeless encampments amid an ongoing lawsuit against the city filed by advocacy groups seeking to stop police sweeps of homeless encampments. Last week, Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in the U.S. District Court in Oakland questioned the tactics used by the city of San Francisco in its homeless encampment cleanups, suggesting that the city is not adhering to its own policies of providing shelter beds to individuals who are being asked to vacate a public area. In her decision, Ryu stated that the city did not offer shelter to homeless individuals before clearing encampments and confiscating their property. The judge also found the city's justification for taking enforcement actions to be "wholly unconvincing," stating that the defendants did not adequately dispute that they cleared people without first providing shelter.

Law enforcement agencies are just loving spending tax dollars on Boston Dynamics' horrifying robo-dog, Spot, to test out in increasingly tasteless, abjectly dystopian scenarios. Recently, the NYPD proudly trotted out its own $94,000 quadrupedal dog-bot for street patrols, only to terminate its contract with Spot's makers barely two months later following New Yorkers' collective "Fuck this shit" response. Now, renewed inquiries are detailing somehow even more horrifying usages -- Honolulu police employed their own $150,045 federally funded Spot to "take body temperatures, disinfect, and patrol the city's homeless quarantine encampment" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Costly thermometer -- "As for its use helping Honolulu combat COVID-19, the city's spending data says Spot was purchased to take people's temperatures at HPD's tent city for homeless people," reported the Honolulu Civil Beat back in January, "In other words, its ostensible use is as a thermometer, according to the city's spending justification, though HPD says it can do more." "The only question the city council asked of HPD [during a January hearing] was whether the robot could be used to crack down on Honolulu's fireworks problem," added Motherboard in an update earlier today.

Seattle's financial future is brighter than originally predicted, having taken a positive turn over the last five months according to a new budget forecast. Rantz: Sword, meth, trash remain as School Board refuses to sweep tents 44 minutes ago Sound Transit's dilemma: What to delay, cut, or scale with $11.5 billion hole 23 minutes ago Wyman: New voting law would'force us to make changes' in Washington 40 minutes ago Ross: Artificial intelligence is coming, like it or not 12 minutes ago Over 19,000 complaints against SPD from 2020 COVID updates: King County launches in-home vaccination program 25 minutes ago Sound Transit's dilemma: What to delay, cut, or scale with $11.5 billion hole 23 minutes ago Wyman: New voting law would'force us to make changes' in Washington 40 minutes ago What Aldon Smith's charge could mean for his Seahawks future Auburn considers tightening rules for homeless camping Six Seattle mayoral candidates lead the fundraising race What Aldon Smith's charge could mean for his Seahawks future What Aldon Smith's charge could mean for his Seahawks future Dave Ross Ross: Artificial intelligence is coming for cars, like it or not Artificial intelligence is coming, like it or not. Cornell philosophy professor Shaun Nichols even predicts you'll be able to select your driving algorithm. Chokepoints Sound Transit's dilemma: What to delay, cut, or scale with $11.5 billion hole With an $11.5 billion budget hole, the Sound Transit board has to make tough choices of cutting projects, delaying projects, and ways to make up the gap. Jason Rantz Rantz: Sword, meth, and trash remain as School Board refuses to sweep encampment A growing encampment that threatens student and staff safety at Seattle's Broadview-Thompson K-8 remains in place.

The nonprofit faces $1,000 per-day fines imposed by the city if the roving 5-foot-tall Autonomous Data Machine dubbed "K-9" is caught making the rounds without a proper permit. This shouldn't be an issue, however, as the SPCA has presumably returned the $6-per-hour rental robot with a "commanding presence" to its maker, Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, following significant public uproar and threats of retribution. The backlash began in earnest after the San Francisco Business Times published an interview with SF SPCA President Jennifer Scarlett in which she implied that the robot, adorned with stickers of cute-as-a-button kittens and at least one life-sized Chihuahua, was enlisted with the purpose of shooing away homeless San Franciscans living in encampments on the fringes of the SPCA campus, which encompasses an entire city block in the rapidly gentrifying Mission District. San Francisco, which is in the throes of a seemingly never-ending affordable housing crisis, has the sixth highest largest homeless population in the United States. Just under 7,000 people are living on San Francisco's streets per estimates from the Department of Housing and Urban Development although local authorities and homeless advocacy groups believe the number to be much higher.