The average student at San Francisco State University probably doesn’t even know it’s there. But on a recent Tuesday morning on campus, as throngs of them dart off to their next class or settle onto the grassy quad to enjoy their lunch, the presence looms over them — a relic of bygone technology no more than a few inches tall and held up by a couple of pieces of blue gaffer tape. Almost instinctively, Andrew Roderick stops in his tracks to look up at it. “There it is,” the associate vice president of the university’s academic technology department says. “In the window just up there.” His colleague, communications coordinator Robyn Ollodort, excitedly rummages through her pocket to pull out her iPhone, then shows me the screen displaying a website that hasn’t changed much since it was launched nearly three decades ago. “The San Francisco FogCam!” it reads in red italicized letters. “The world’s oldest webcam. Live San Francisco views since 1994.” Beneath it is a grainy photograph that reminds me of a home video recorded on a VHS tape; a surreal, bird’s-eye view of where we’re standing, just to the right of the Cesar Chavez Student Center.

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Jones responded, “I went to that school. I pulled the gun out. I shot every one of myself. I mean, I’m guilty.” Later on, he repeats over and over again, “I killed them. I’ll admit it. I did it. I’m the bad guy…. I murdered those children. I did. I did it myself.”

After years of lobbying the state to increase regulations on autonomous vehicles, San Francisco officials are taking their case to the feds. The directors of The City’s two main transportation agencies outlined their concerns about Cruise’s driverless cars in a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regarding Cruise’s application to deploy a custom-built autonomous vehicle. In it, San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority Director Jeffrey Tumlin and San Francisco County Transportation Authority Director Tilly Chang provide a comprehensive overview of disruptive and unsafe incidents that they say Cruise cars precipitated. The letter, sent on Sept. 21, comes as Cruise’s driverless cars continue to stop in the middle of San Francisco’s streets for extended periods of time, often in groups, blocking traffic until they can be remotely restarted or manually retrieved by Cruise staff. Over the past week, there were at least four such incidents, including one that delayed a couple of KRON4 reporters.

Arthur Aslanian was a successful developer in the Valley. He is now accused of trying to have two people he owed money to killed. Arthur Aslanian wasn’t taking any chances when he met his employee, Sesar Rivera, on the side of a road earlier this month. Only after patting Rivera down to check if he was wearing a wire and making him leave his phone in Aslanian’s pickup truck did he look at the photograph Rivera had brought. It was a gruesome image of a dead man who had been shot in the face. The real estate developer studied the photo to make sure it was the proof he wanted. “That’s him, man, that’s him,” he said. Rivera asked Aslanian what to do with the photo. “F— shred it,” Aslanian responded. Aslanian left the roadside meeting believing the photo confirmed that a plan he set in motion had succeeded, according to an account of the meeting provided by the U.S. attorney’s office. The man in the photo was a banker who had been fighting to recoup about $3 million Aslanian owed him. Instead of paying, prosecutors allege, Aslanian had hired an assassin. Aslanian, however, had just been fooled.

Iran says it fired missiles and drones at dissidents who it blames for protests sweeping the country.

Outside of communities seeing "high" levels of COVID-19 transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended a blanket plea for Americans in hospitals and nursing homes to wear masks indoors. The change, one of many published Friday evening to the agency's guidance for COVID-19 infection control for healthcare workers, marks one of the final sets of revisions in a sweeping effort launched in August to overhaul the CDC's recommendations for the virus. Since early in the pandemic, the agency had urged "everyone" to wear "source control" like well-fitting masks or respirators while in healthcare settings.

Gholamreza Hosseini got caught spying for the CIA in Iran. The story of how he was burned casts light on an epic U.S. intelligence failure. Hosseini was the only one of the six men Reuters interviewed who said he was assigned the vulnerable messaging tool. But an analysis by two independent cybersecurity specialists found that the now-defunct covert online communication system that Hosseini used – located by Reuters in an internet archive – may have exposed at least 20 other Iranian spies and potentially hundreds of other informants operating in other countries around the world. This messaging platform, which operated until 2013, was hidden within rudimentary news and hobby websites where spies could go to connect with the CIA. Reuters confirmed its existence with four former U.S. officials. These failures continue to haunt the agency years later. In a series of internal cables last year, CIA leadership warned that it had lost most of its network of spies in Iran and that sloppy tradecraft continues to endanger the agency’s mission worldwide, the New York Times reported.

Arizona Republican governor candidate Kari Lake has made her support for law enforcement a centerpiece of her campaign—but her campaign also employs an interesting character: a convicted criminal who pleaded guilty to battery against a peace officer and who once plotted to kill an FBI informant. The staffer, Kenneth Ulibarri, previously campaigned with Lake, Salon reported in February. But his official status with the campaign was not known until now. Ulibarri confirmed in a Tuesday phone call with The Daily Beast that the Lake campaign had hired him to manage its “Latino Engagement” efforts. A man who answered at the phone number listed on Ulibarri’s official campaign ID badge said he was Kenneth Ulibarri and confirmed, only speaking in Spanish, that he handled Latino Engagement for the Lake campaign. They had hired him for that job “several months ago,” he said, then hung up. While Ulibarri told The Daily Beast he didn’t speak English well, that isn’t true. He was featured at Lake’s first campaign rally last July, where he joked that his accent came from the land of his birth—“the liberal cesspool of New Mexico.” He then denounced in that speech “liberal policies that are destroying our country,” including mask mandates, critical race theory, and a college education where kids “come back with purple hair and gay.” “This country is headed down a dark path, and it’s up to us to stand up and get it on the right path,” Ulibarri told the crowd, invoking his story as a drug addict turned small business owner and youth advocate as a lesson in the power of religious redemption. Lake stands for “everything that I hold near and dear to my heart,” he said. The Lake campaign did not reply to a request for comment. The Salon report laid out Ulibarri’s violent criminal history, including targeting law enforcement, which The Daily Beast has independently confirmed through state and federal court records. According to a superseding federal indictment, the Justice Department alleged in 2014 that Ulibarri had “attempted to kill” an FBI informant to stop the informant from testifying at a cocaine distribution and money laundering trial. Ulibarri later admitted in a plea agreement that he had in fact told an undercover FBI informant—while trying to sell him heroin—that Ulibarri knew that the first informant was working for the feds and that he and others “were hiring a hitman to kill” him, for $20,000. Ulibarri claimed in his agreement that he had not been serious about the murder plot, but was only using it to try to get more money out of his supposed heroin client. “In May 2014, I met with a confidential source (CHS1) to discuss selling heroin to CHS1. In those meetings, I told CHS1 that I and some others were hiring a hitman to kill another confidential source (CHS2) for $20,000,” Ulibarri wrote in his agreement, noting that “CHS2” was a “testifying cooperator” in the trial.

In the recording, Greene can be heard saying he’s going to start firing black people who are “guilty by f**king association” with the former African-American sheriff. Several black members in his department were fired or demoted, and he no longer has any minorities on his command staff.

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Peterson then broke down into tears and said, “It’s very difficult to understand how demoralized people are, and certainly many young men are in that category. You get these casual insults, these incels — what do they mean? These men, they don’t know how to make themselves attractive to women who are very picky, and good for them. Women, like, be picky. That’s your gift, man. Demand high standards from your men. Fair enough. But all these men who are alienated, it’s like they’re lonesome and they don’t know what to do and everyone piles abuse on them.”

“It's very, creatively it's a very crazy thing because it turned my world upside down. Because everything I thought and believed was no longer the case. And I think that was maybe a sign that something major was going to happen in the world and that people were needing to be introduced to this concept. But I always found the concept of Christianity quite basic."

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On Monday morning, Hurricane Ian had wind speeds of 75 miles per hour. Just 48 hours later, those speeds had more than doubled. On Wednesday, as the storm made landfall in southwestern Florida, Ian’s wind hit 155 mph — just shy of a Category 5 storm, the most severe category for a hurricane. Such rapid growth is known by meteorologists as “rapid intensification.” It’s defined as storms whose wind speeds increase by roughly 35 mph or more in less than 24 hours. “Ian definitely met that criteria,” said Paul Miller, a professor of oceanography and coastal sciences at Louisiana State University. While wind speed isn’t the only force that makes storms dangerous, hurricanes that rapidly intensify are especially worrisome. They can easily catch coastal communities off guard, giving them little time to prepare, Miller said. So how did Ian get so big, so fast?

Officials in charge of enforcing safe operations at city jails recently shared never-before-seen photos and videos from Rikers Island with assistant district attorneys in Manhattan, giving the very prosecutors who file criminal charges and request bail an unprecedented look at the squalid and deadly conditions in which defendants are held. Prosecutors “never see Rikers — they never see where they’re sending people to die,” said Five Mualimm-ak, a former Rikers detainee who, as a panelist for the event, watched the board’s presentation. “The purpose was: When you’re sending people to Rikers, when you’re asking for high amounts of bail when they’re poor, you’re condemning them to a death sentence, essentially.” Most of the men and women held at Rikers Island are there pre-trial, meaning they have not been convicted of crimes and are only awaiting hearings on the disposition of their cases. Some have lived at Rikers for years; recently, both the population and the average length of stay in city jails have increased. Nearly 30% of the incarcerated population in the city has been in custody for more than a year, according to the mayor’s office.

After abortion restrictions began going into effect in US states this year, Google recognized that an update to its policies was in order. For years, anti-abortion organizations had been paying to advertise alongside searches related to the procedure, confusing women in need of medical care, and drawing criticism from reproductive health advocates. In June, Google moved to more prominently note when advertisers don’t offer medical services to terminate a pregnancy with a label, “Does not provide abortions.” Shortly thereafter, the company expanded the label for advertisers that do offer abortions to include providers that mail pills to patients. The change was welcome news for Elisa Wells, whose group, Plan C, competes with non-medical advertisers to educate pregnant women about pill-based abortion, a procedure known as Plan C. Her optimism dimmed after she tried a few searches. Google’s rules, it turns out, are narrowly applied. In many abortion-related searches, Google still doesn’t apply the labels to ads for crisis pregnancy centers, the non-medical organizations that aim to convince women not to get abortions. CPCs are not labeled in ads shown against Google queries for “Plan C pills” and other search terms such as “pregnancy help” and “Planned Parenthood,” a joint analysis by Bloomberg News and the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate has found. Google’s failure to apply such labels consistently allows the tech giant to continue to collect ad revenue from crisis pregnancy centers on abortion-related searches, without any disclosure that such places never provide abortions or refer patients to clinics that do. Wells said Plan C repeatedly brought up the issue to the company, but the group has never gotten a response. “The idea that there is something that we can do to influence Google is, forgive me, fairly laughable,” Wells said in an interview. “The deck is stacked against us.”

In phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv.

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