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1+ hour, 13+ min ago (887+ words) The incident was a "disturbing and unacceptable act of antisemitism," Silbergeld said in a statement, reiterating the school's commitment to creating a community where BIPOC, Jewish and LGBTQ+ students feel "safe, respected, and valued." "CUHSD and Branham stand firmly against all forms of hate, discrimination, and intolerance," Silbergeld said. "While this incident does not reflect the values of the vast majority of our students and families, the harm it caused is real and must be addressed." The school is investigating the incident and has identified the students involved, Silberman said. The students are "committed to taking accountability for the harm that was done," she added, but the school cannot share the students' names or any details of disciplinary action under federal law. The incident was reported to the San Jose Police Department, which said Monday that the investigation into the…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago (1592+ words) The 14-page motion looked like any standard court filing in a civil lawsuit. Filed in April in San Diego Superior Court, attorneys defending a local company were making a routine request for a judge to authorize additional expert witnesses in a vehicle collision injury case. But on the sixth page of the motion, the attorneys cited legal authority from a case that does not exist " it was hallucinated by artificial intelligence. RELATED: Stanford AI expert's credibility shattered by fake, AI-created sources: judge A San Diego judge wrote in October that she was "deeply troubled" by the conduct of the company's civil defense attorneys. She found they had filed multiple documents containing AI hallucinations, including citations to non-existent cases, fake quotes from real cases and inaccurate citations to real but irrelevant legal authorities. That is one of at least two known…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago (686+ words) With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La Jolla waters has been described by researchers as "impressive" and "distinctive" within the local ecosystem. "The snails themselves can get huge, like grapefruit sized," said Charlotte Seid, manager of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. "They have a very thick round shell. They are distinctive and look like a full moon. The rest of the animal is fleshy'has a huge muscular foot and can propel itself to glide along the sea floor." While hunting on the seafloor, she added, "It has a special structure on the front that acts like a snow plow. But the…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (1405+ words) In "Dust Bunny," an imaginative 10-year-old named Aurora is terrified of the monster under her bed. It's real to her, and when her parents vanish one night and their bedroom is torn to pieces, she's sure it's coming for her next. But Aurora, played by Sophia Sloan, has a whole lot of moxie, too. After following her mysterious, melancholy neighbor, played by Mads Mikkelsen, into Chinatown one night " and spying him take down a team of assassins who approach him in an alley hidden inside a Chinese New Year's dragon dance puppet " she decides he's the one to rid her of her monster. "I had a hunch of what it was," the Danish actor says of the movie that reunites him with Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV series "Hannibal," in which Mikkelsen played the title role of Hannibal…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago (548+ words) Sure, California can swear off fossil fuels and shut down its nuclear plants, powering itself entirely with wind, water and sun. All it takes is getting used to weekly rolling blackouts. Some energy predictions are tricky; this one isn't. We can estimate how much electricity each solar panel and wind turbine will produce, and when they'll produce it. Then we can plug those numbers into a computer, along with green advocates' optimistic projections of future electricity demand, to see how supply and demand match up on an hourly and seasonal basis. Even with vastly expanded battery storage capacity to smooth things out, the match is poor. California will sometimes generate renewable energy in abundance, but grid operators will still face tough choices " such as disconnecting generators when there's too much sun and little demand or firing up fossil-fuel based gas…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago (662+ words) CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Felicity Huffman, 63; Donny Osmond, 68; Beau Bridges, 84; Dame Judi Dench, 91. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Turn your attributes into something so desirable that everyone you encounter will want to be a part of whatever you pursue. You can build a solid platform if you are positive, forthright and engage in accomplishing what you set out to do. Travel, communication and finishing what you start are the keys to your success. 5 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Change is within reach. Don't wait for someone else to make the first move. Claim what's yours, and move forward boldly. Thoughts, followed by actions, will get you where you want to go and encourage you to walk away from situations that are standing between you and your happiness and peace of mind. 4 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Go through the proper channels, and you'll…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago (54+ words) TODAY'S WORD " FICTITIOUS ( fik-TISH-us: Imaginary.) Average mark 12 words Time limit 30 minutes Can you find 20 or more words in FICTITIOUS? The list will be published tomorrow. YESTERDAY'S WORD " PASSIVITY: pass past pasty patsy pita pity psst apsis sati spat spay spit stay vast visa visit vista vita tipsy...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago (220+ words) Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern Monterey Bay and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast as well as San Francisco County are under a beach hazards statement which was released by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 2:45 a.m. The statement is valid from Wednesday 7 a.m. until Friday Dec. 12, at 10 p.m. Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern Monterey Bay and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast as well as San Francisco County are under a beach hazards statement which was released by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 2:45 a.m. The statement is valid from Wednesday 7 a.m. until Friday Dec. 12, at 10 p.m. The NWS San Francisco CA states to be ready for, "Long period westerly swell will result in strong rip currents, sneaker waves, and breaking waves of 12 to 16 feet....

2+ hour, 58+ min ago (527+ words) At least President Donald Trump didn't "kill all the lawyers" first, literally following Shakespeare's words in "Henry VI, Part 2" on evading the rule of law. Instead, just a month into his second term in February, he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth simply fired the top lawyers at the Army, Navy and Air Force, known as judge advocates general, or JAGs. "It's what you do when you're planning to break the law: You get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down," Georgetown Law professor Rosa Brooks'said'at the time, according to the New York Times. She wasn't alone in her fear, or her prescience. Nine months later, the storylines embroiling Trump are getting all tangled up, creating a knotty mess of lawlessness, hypocrisy and potential war crimes in what conservative columnist George Will has'dubbed'this moral slum of an…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago (750+ words) Dear Eric: Recently, I was trying to figure out why two friends of mine, James and Jon, had decided to stop talking to me and not continue our friendship. It wasn't based on anything that happened between any of us. But then, upon thinking about what we all had in common, there was our mutual friend Paulo. And then I realized what must have happened was when Paulo and I were having problems in our friendship, he probably complained to them about me. James and Jon didn't just drop our friendship out of the blue on their own, but it was heavily influenced by Paulo repeatedly complaining about me, specifically. What I'm wondering is how do I address this with Paulo to make him realize that he was a big influence and somehow steered them away from me permanently. This…...