The team announced his updated status after re-evaluating him Wednesday morning. He remains out for Wednesday night’s Game 5 in Minneapolis, which the Warriors must win to stay alive in the series. The Warriors ruled him out Tuesday afternoon for the game.
Curry will be re-evaluated again on Saturday ahead of a potential Game 6 on Sunday night back at Chase Center. The series’ three-day pause offers a window for Curry to rest without risking another loss.
Curry suffered the injury during the second quarter of the Warriors’ Game 1 win over the Wolves last Tuesday.
The Warriors have lost the last three games without Curry, setting them up for an elimination Game 5 Wednesday night. Their offense has suffered greatly without the greatest shooter of all time creating space for the rest of the team.
Jonathan Kuminga and Jimmy Butler have taken on the scoring mantle, but Butler only took nine shots during Monday’s Game 4 as he battled illness and a glute bruise he suffered during the opening round against the Rockets.
The Warriors must weigh Curry’s obvious impact on the court against the risk of reinjury.
San Jose State University has shot past Stanford and UC Berkeley to a top-10 spot in a ranking of U.S. universities based on a standardized computer coding test.
The school leapt to the No. 9 spot this year in rankings by CodeSignal, a San Francisco company whose General Coding Assessment is widely used by major technology companies to evaluate potential hires.
That position put San Jose State in front of Berkeley at No. 19 and Stanford at No. 25, a giant leap from last year, when the school was ranked 32nd, and from 2023, when it ranked 48th.
“This is great news,” said San Jose State engineering school dean Sheryl Ehrman, who attributed the result to eager students, talented tenure-track faculty, and part-time instructors with tech industry experience who are “really trying to impart those real-world skills.”
Whether the university could continue its trajectory to the top of the rankings would require a dramatic upset. This year and last year, Carnegie Mellon took No. 1 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in No. 2, while in 2023, MIT came out on top, followed by New York’s Stony Brook University, with Carnegie Mellon at No. 3.
The downtown San Jose school is an “under-told story” behind Silicon Valley’s success, said South Bay Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna.
“It’s always been such a key component of churning out engineers, churning out people in technology,” Khanna said this week. “A lot of headlines go to Stanford and Berkeley. San Jose State and Santa Clara (University) are really important contributors, and San Jose, of course, being a public school, is more accessible for folks that can’t afford Stanford or Santa Clara.”
CodeSignal CEO Tigran Sloyan said the general coding assessment is taken by the vast majority of U.S. computer science students, and is intended to provide a “data-driven view” of people’s coding ability. Students generally take it annually starting in their junior year, and can share their results with prospective employers, he said.
The 70-minute test includes four questions to measure different coding skills.
Launched six years ago, CodeSignal’s assessment has become very popular among tech and financial companies, Sloyan said.
The test, Sloyan contended, gives prospective employers a much better idea of a software engineering or software development candidate’s qualifications than a resume, which may attract an employer’s attention for the presence of a particularly prestigious school without any guarantee the student or graduate developed the commensurate skills. Every school has brilliant, average and mediocre students, Sloyan said.
“Most companies want to go beyond resumes and find great people regardless of which schools they came from,” Sloyan said.
Sloyan believes San Jose State’s rapid climb toward the top of the university pack in CodeSignal’s rankings reflects the effectiveness of the school’s faculty and programs. “Clearly San Jose State is doing something right when it comes to tech education,” Sloyan said.
“So far, the observation is that what they might be doing different from other schools is having a more hands-on approach to education.”
UC Berkeley and Stanford declined to comment on the rankings.
Harshil Vayas, soon to graduate from San Jose State with a master’s in software engineering, pointed to the school’s tech-veteran instructors as a key benefit, along with large numbers of fellow students like him who have worked in tech and share their varied experiences with each other. The school’s location in Silicon Valley is another boon, said Vayas, 25.
“It’s somewhat a motivation when you see the tech industry around you,” Vayas said. “It helps you push to the goal.”
A man died after collapsing during a Southern California half-marathon on a day when the temperatures reached triple digits.
Spencer Cabral, 38, of Camarillo, was one of four participants in Saturday’s Boney Mountain Trail Run who required medical attention, the Ventura County Fire Department said. He was airlifted to a hospital in Thousand Oaks, where he died, according to the county medical examiner. A cause of death was not released.
A heat advisory had been issued Saturday, May 10, by the National Weather Service for a wide swath of Southern California, including the area of the race. Temperatures that day reached 100 in nearby Moorpark and were in the 90s for much of southern Ventura County.
The Boney Mountain race offered 4.4- and 13.1-mile courses on trails in the hills above the Conejo Valley. The longer race, a half-marathon, started at 8 a.m.; around 11 a.m. emergency crews were called for people reportedly suffering heat-related issues.
The fire department did not release details of Cabral’s case. He wasn’t listed on the race’s results page, which showed 117 finishers in the half-marathon and 21 who didn’t finish the race.
A Facebook post by a person who identified herself as Cabral’s wife said he collapsed on the course, short of the finish line. He was the father of four, she said.
The Boney Mountain Trail Run, overseen by race organizer SoCalTrail, was originally scheduled for February but was moved to May because of poor trail conditions caused by rain.
San Jose State University has shot past Stanford and UC Berkeley to a top-10 spot in a ranking of U.S. universities based on a standardized computer coding test.
The school leapt to the No. 9 spot this year in rankings by CodeSignal, a San Francisco company whose General Coding Assessment is widely used by major technology companies to evaluate potential hires.
That position put San Jose State in front of Berkeley at No. 19 and Stanford at No. 25, a giant leap from last year, when the school was ranked 32nd, and from 2023, when it ranked 48th.
“This is great news,” said San Jose State engineering school dean Sheryl Ehrman, who attributed the result to eager students, talented tenure-track faculty, and part-time instructors with tech industry experience who are “really trying to impart those real-world skills.”
Whether the university could continue its trajectory to the top of the rankings would require a dramatic upset. This year and last year, Carnegie Mellon took No. 1 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in No. 2, while in 2023, MIT came out on top, followed by New York’s Stony Brook University, with Carnegie Mellon at No. 3.
The downtown San Jose school is an “under-told story” behind Silicon Valley’s success, said South Bay Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna.
“It’s always been such a key component of churning out engineers, churning out people in technology,” Khanna said this week. “A lot of headlines go to Stanford and Berkeley. San Jose State and Santa Clara (University) are really important contributors, and San Jose, of course, being a public school, is more accessible for folks that can’t afford Stanford or Santa Clara.”
CodeSignal CEO Tigran Sloyan said the general coding assessment is taken by the vast majority of U.S. computer science students, and is intended to provide a “data-driven view” of people’s coding ability. Students generally take it annually starting in their junior year, and can share their results with prospective employers, he said.
The 70-minute test includes four questions to measure different coding skills.
Launched six years ago, CodeSignal’s assessment has become very popular among tech and financial companies, Sloyan said.
The test, Sloyan contended, gives prospective employers a much better idea of a software engineering or software development candidate’s qualifications than a resume, which may attract an employer’s attention for the presence of a particularly prestigious school without any guarantee the student or graduate developed the commensurate skills. Every school has brilliant, average and mediocre students, Sloyan said.
“Most companies want to go beyond resumes and find great people regardless of which schools they came from,” Sloyan said.
Sloyan believes San Jose State’s rapid climb toward the top of the university pack in CodeSignal’s rankings reflects the effectiveness of the school’s faculty and programs. “Clearly San Jose State is doing something right when it comes to tech education,” Sloyan said.
“So far, the observation is that what they might be doing different from other schools is having a more hands-on approach to education.”
UC Berkeley and Stanford declined to comment on the rankings.
Harshil Vayas, soon to graduate from San Jose State with a master’s in software engineering, pointed to the school’s tech-veteran instructors as a key benefit, along with large numbers of fellow students like him who have worked in tech and share their varied experiences with each other. The school’s location in Silicon Valley is another boon, said Vayas, 25.
“It’s somewhat a motivation when you see the tech industry around you,” Vayas said. “It helps you push to the goal.”
Privacy watchdog Noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta Wednesday, threatening to pursue a potentially billion-dollar class action to block Meta's AI training, which starts soon in the European Union.
In the letter, Noyb noted that Meta only recently notified EU users on its platforms that they had until May 27 to opt their public posts out of Meta's AI training data sets. According to Noyb, Meta is also requiring users who already opted out of AI training in 2024 to opt out again or forever lose their opportunity to keep their data out of Meta's models, as training data likely cannot be easily deleted. That's a seeming violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Noyb alleged.
"Meta informed data subjects that, despite that fact that an objection to AI training under Article 21(2) GDPR was accepted in 2024, their personal data will be processed unless they object again—against its former promises, which further undermines any legitimate trust in Meta’s organizational ability to properly execute the necessary steps when data subjects exercise their rights," Noyb's letter said.
A massive budget deficit means the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will make hard decisions about grant funds for competing community groups that help residents with food, housing and immigration resources — yet two supervisors want to provide a significant grant to a national political group based in Washington, D.C.
Supervisors Margaret Abe-Koga and Otto Lee are proposing a combined $65,000 grant to the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute, for a free one-day leadership training summit in Cupertino this year. The D.C.-based institute focuses on electing LGBTQ+ lawmakers across the U.S. The group is headed by former state Assemblymember Evan Low, who is close with both elected officials. Supervisors will discuss the grant proposal Wednesday.
It’s part of an annual budget tradition where supervisors are given an “inventory item” budget — usually totaling approximately $7 million with each supervisor getting between $1 million to $2 million per district — to help local community groups provide basic needs, education, immigrant legal resources and other safety net services to Silicon Valley’s most vulnerable. But a growing countywide fiscal crisis has put pressure to cut grant spending in recent years, and these allocations matter now more than ever amid threats from the federal government.
Advocates agree it’s important to elect LGBTQ+ leaders — but they’re struggling to reconcile the large grant amount while other basic needs groups, often serving LGBTQ+ people who are homeless, received smaller amounts or have been left out of the board’s grant process entirely.
“I think an LGBTQ leadership program is great,” Azazel Joseph Holmquist, a formerly homeless transgender San Jose resident, told San José Spotlight. “But we need to help stabilize our LGBTQ youth and get them to a safe location to live, and make sure their needs are met. They need to fund basic needs.”
Holmquist said one organization the county should consider for grant funding is Martha’s Kitchen, which distributes meals to homeless people in San Jose.
But Bill Lee, the kitchen’s executive director, said his group was unable to even get a meeting with supervisors during the inventory item selection process.
“It doesn’t sit well with us to see this grant proposal, while knowing that we couldn’t get a conversation,” he told San José Spotlight.
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Todd Langton, executive director of Agape Silicon Valley, said the grant proposal for Low’s group “feels like a slap in the face.”
“$65,000 for a one-day summit — imagine how many homeless LGBTQ people we could feed with that money,” Langton told San José Spotlight.
His organization is set to receive $10,000 from Otto Lee’s office under the current inventory item proposals.
Abe-Koga’s office proposed a bulk of the grant funding — $50,000 — for the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute, while Lee’s office proposed $15,000. Both supervisors have earmarked funding for a list of other causes, including groups that provide food assistance, immigrant rights education and sleeping bags to homeless people.
Both supervisors assured the grant funds for Low’s national group will go back into Santa Clara County.
“These are challenging times, and I put thought into this process,” Abe-Koga told San José Spotlight. “I wanted to encourage projects that have the potential for a greater impact and sustainability, projects or ideas that build capacity, whether it’s human capital or organizational capital.”
Funding is discretionary
Abe-Koga said she told grant applicants the grants are one-time in nature — and they should look for other funding sources outside the county in future years.
Otto Lee said his budget inventory proposals are guided by a community review panel of residents.
“Each year, we are proud to support a diverse range of groups working on behalf of marginalized, targeted and underserved communities,” he told San José Spotlight. “This proposal is a continuation of that vital work.”
Low deferred comment to an official statement from his organization.
“The Public Leadership Summit and reception will bring together over 100 community members — including residents, advocates and public officials — for a day of empowerment, training and connection,” Elliot Imse, the group’s executive director, told San José Spotlight. “We will also partner with local LGBTQ+ organizations, elected officials and community leaders to ensure the program reflects the unique needs and strengths of Santa Clara County.”
It comes as County Executive James Williams has recommended a budget that would cut 279 positions to absorb $70 million in anticipated federal cuts, as well as a county budget shortfall estimated to swell to $476 million over the next five years.
Abe-Koga said an organization doesn’t have to be in Santa Clara County to serve a need in the county.
“We have a large number of LGBTQ constituents in District 5, and the LGBTQ community has been under fire in the current climate. So it’s imperative that we build leadership to fight back,” Abe-Koga said. “What better than a leadership training program that’s happening in Cupertino, in my district?”
But the proposal for Low’s group is sparking a broader discussion about how supervisors should prioritize these grants as they scramble to cover safety net services and state and federal funding cuts. When asking city leaders across the valley for monetary assistance, Bill Lee said he’s told social safety net services are the county’s responsibility to fund.
“In our own organization, we’re running mass operational deficits. We’re trimming our own budget. We’re cutting services,” he said.
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<p><em>Cloud Atlas</em> by David Mitchell is one of the most influential books of the 21st century—it looms so large, in fact, that it’s hard to believe it’s only been around for 21 years. My own novel <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-the-birds-in-the-sky-charlie-jane-anders/7103510?ean=9780765379955&next=t" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All the Birds in the Sky</a></em> boasts a front-cover blurb comparing it to David Mitchell’s masterpiece, something I’m super proud of. But lately, I’ve been thinking that <em>Cloud Atlas</em> has grown beyond being simply an influence and become something more like a genre.</p>
<p>In case you’ve somehow missed hearing about it, <em>Cloud Atlas</em> is an audacious book that weaves together six storylines about oppression and discovery. One of them is in the mid-nineteenth century, two are in the twentieth century, and a fourth takes place in the early twenty-first. Two more storylines are set in the future, including a very distant post-apocalyptic future. The storylines are linked by a comet-shaped birthmark that someone has in each of the timelines, and by characters reading each other’s writings across time.</p>
<p>That structure—weaving together past, present, and future in storylines that are linked thematically—had a huge impact on a lot of people, though I’m sure Mitchell wasn’t the first to do something along those lines. Lately, I feel as though I’m constantly seeing books that are described as “<em>Cloud Atlas</em> meets ———.” And I’m also coming across a steady flow of books that use that time-spanning structure, though not always with six whole storylines. I also feel like <em>Cloud Atlas</em> has become a shorthand for “genre-hopping novel with literary aspirations.”</p>
<p>As <a href="https://reactormag.com/where-do-genres-come-from/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I’ve said before</a>, this is how genres happen: a book comes along that everybody loves so much, they want more of the same. And “more of the same” leads to the use of tropes or devices that are reminiscent of that influential work. </p>
<p>To find out more, I talked to four authors of recent books that seemed to bear a clear influence from <em>Cloud Atlas</em>. Here’s what they told me.</p>
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<p>“I conceived of <em>Down in the Sea of Angels</em> as <em>Cloud Atlas</em> meets X-Men,” says Khan Wong of his brand-new novel. <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773354/down-in-the-sea-of-angels-by-khan-wong/?utm_source=charliejane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=has-cloud-atlas-become-a-genre" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Down in the Sea of Angels</em></a> is about Maida Sun, who can touch any object and see the stories of anyone who’s interacted with it in the past. Maida’s story in 2106 becomes intertwined with stories of a girl in a 1906 brothel and a tech worker in 2006. Wong describes it as “a time-hopping dystopian fantasy about psychic powers, liberation, and our interconnectedness through time.”</p>
<p>Wong says that he started out doing something more similar to <em>Cloud Atlas</em>’ format of six storylines spanning vast periods of time. But as he developed the novel, he “scaled it back, both in terms of the span of time and the number of storylines and genres.”</p>
<p>“I’ve been reading and loving David Mitchell’s fiction ever since <em>Ghostwritten</em>—he’s one of my biggest influences as a writer,” says Charles Soule, author of <a href="https://www.charlessoule.com/endless-vessel?utm_source=charliejane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=has-cloud-atlas-become-a-genre" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Endless Vessel</em></a>. “The fingerprints of <em>Cloud Atlas</em> are all over <em>The Endless Vessel</em>.” <em>The Endless Vessel</em> weaves together a near-future plague of nihilism, a terrorist organization called Team Joy Joy, and an 18th century project to create a ship that sails forever.</p>
<p>Soule adds:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>When I began building <em>The Endless Vessel</em>, I knew I wanted to go big, to push myself. I wanted to create a book that was propulsive and engaging, but also tried things, spoke to the moment, spoke to me, hopefully spoke to anyone who read it. I also wanted to write a book where I could do absolutely anything, and maybe get a sailing ship in there. In other words, I wanted to write my version of <em>Cloud Atlas</em>. Did I succeed? Of course not. I wrote <em>The Endless Vessel</em>, which is its own thing. But I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t have even tried to write <em>The Endless Vessel</em>, and take the swings that book’s story takes, if <em>Cloud Atlas</em> hadn’t opened the doors of possibility for me.</p></blockquote></figure>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Some folks hadn’t read <em>Cloud Atlas</em> yet</strong></h3>
<p>“Often, when a writer is asked about influence, they will scoffingly reply that they have no influences; they are sui generis, thank you very much; utterly original; totally unique,” says Namwali Serpell, author of <em>The Old Drift</em>. (And then, she adds, people will usually point out an obvious antecedent, at which point the author will grudgingly concede that perhaps there was a precursor after all.) For her part, though, Serpell “happily and publicly calls <em>Cloud Atlas</em> an influence” on <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537834/the-old-drift-by-namwali-serpell/?utm_source=charliejane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=has-cloud-atlas-become-a-genre" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Old Drift</em></a>. Her award-winning novel follows three generations of three interwoven families in Zambia, through the early days of colonialism into the near future where a totalitarian regime deploys tiny “microdrones.”</p>
<p>And yet, says Serpell, “I read Mitchell’s novel after I had already conceived my own multigenerational and multigenre structure.” She started working on <em>The Old Drift</em> when she was in college, back in 2001, a few years before <em>Cloud Atlas</em> was published, and her earliest drafts already “had this formal play with time and genre.” She adds, “My notes date a complete outline of the whole to 2005, and I remember reading <em>Cloud Atlas</em> in my Berkeley apartment, which means some time after 2008.”</p>
<p>Similarly, Roisin Dunnett says, “When I first started writing <em>A Line You Have Traced</em>, I had not read <em>Cloud Atlas</em>, although I’m certain that as such a well-known multi-genre speculative fiction work… its influence had trickled down to me.” <a href="https://www.feministpress.org/books-overflow/a-line-you-have-traced?utm_source=charliejane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=has-cloud-atlas-become-a-genre" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>A Line You Have Traced</em></a> takes place in 1920s London, where a young Jewish wife sees ghosts; present-day London, where a young queer person believes time travelers are visiting; and the far future, where a collective are planning to use time travel to avert humanity’s end.</p>
<p>“While I was writing my first draft I decided to read <em>Cloud Atlas</em> as part of my research,” adds Dunnett. She says she was “genuinely surprised and intrigued by the book’s structure, the exploding and imploding, the unfolding and folding up again.” She says she found <em>Cloud Atlas</em> “straightforwardly very enjoyable to read. It always felt like a wrench to leave one voice and section, before being drawn into (or back into) the next.”</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Why <em>Cloud Atlas</em> holds such sway</strong></h3>
<p>Science fiction has been obsessed with the grand sweep of history forever: see <em>The Time Machine</em> by H.G. Wells, but also <em>Last and First Men</em> by Olaf Stapledon and other huge future histories. Where <em>Cloud Atlas</em> feels innovative is in wrapping together past and future and making them both feel foreign and thematically linked.</p>
<p>Says Soule, “<em>Cloud Atlas</em> is about the way ideas move and change over time, over generations, over millennia, creating unbroken silver threads of thought that tie us back to our earliest versions of ourselves and who we’ll eventually become. We are all connected by the things we think, the things we create, the things we lose and the things we fight to keep. I think all of Mitchell’s work is about that basic concept, one of the truest ideas of all—we’re all from the same place, and we’re all going into the future together.”</p>
<p>Says Wong, “The most significant <em>Cloud Atlas</em> element for me was the way it used these period-specific and personal stories to look at the grand arc of history.” This is elevated, he feels, “by the use of different genres for each character/time period, and the sort of mosaic approach to the storytelling.”</p>
<p>“Stories about people in the past, present, and future gain their power from showing the long-term impact of decisions and actions taken even by ordinary people,” says Wong. “And, in the contrasts and echoes of their different realities, even if they exist in the same place, meaning arises. Such stories are also powerful for showing, whether implicitly or explicitly as I attempted to [in <em>Down in the Sea of Angels</em>], how we all exist in an eternal Now.”</p>
<p>“I found that way of looking at cause and effect through history quite depressing, which I’m certain was the author’s intention,” says Dunnett. She adds that she takes “a more ‘optimistic’ view with my own interlinked timelines in <em>A Line You Have Traced</em>.”</p>
<p>Even though Serpell discovered <em>Cloud Atlas</em> long after she started <em>The Old Drift</em>, it’s still the book that “sealed my relationship with my agent” of the past fifteen years. “We discussed it at length over a lunch, and I knew we were a perfect match.”</p>
<p>And Serpell found <em>Cloud Atlas</em> helpful as she revised <em>The Old Drift</em>—and for explaining to other people what her own book was about. “When revising, I was often trying not to be like Mitchell,” she says. “Sometimes trying to avoid what I saw as flaws (the birthmark link), sometimes trying to lean into them (exaggerated, even “bad” genre tropes).”</p>
<p>Serpell adds:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>It was great to have an alternative to play things off of as I finished the novel, and it was really nice to have a sense that I wasn’t alone doing this genre-combinatory thing. It made me more confident that [<em>The Old Drift</em>] could work. I like to think of <em>Cloud Atlas</em> as an older sibling text rather than a parent, but it’s maybe more fun to think that Mitchell’s games with time mean that influence can work backwards—this seems to be one implication of the “Cloud Atlas Sextet” in the novel, after all! However one imagines literary influence works, I’d say that, fundamentally, the existence of <em>Cloud Atlas</em> in the world made me feel a thrilling sense of freedom as a writer.</p></blockquote></figure>
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<p>For my part, I’m grateful to <em>Cloud Atlas</em> for pushing the conversation about literary-genre hybrids forward and proving that literary fiction and speculative fiction exist in one ecosystem and can influence each other. But please sound off in the comments: what’s your favorite <em>Cloud Atlas</em>-inspired book?[end-mark]</p>
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LOS ANGELES — Authorities said Tuesday that a man who attacked rapper Tory Lanez in a California prison is an inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder who was previously convicted for an in-prison assault with a deadly weapon.
Lanez was in fair condition a day after the attack in a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, where he’s serving a 10-year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, Pedro Calderon Michel, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an email.
Authorities did not specify how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the rapper’s Instagram account Monday evening said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and both his lungs collapsed.
This June 7, 2022 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows inmate Santino Casio, 42, who is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder who was previously convicted for an in-prison assault with a deadly weapon. (California Department of Corrections via AP)
Prison officials identified the alleged attacker as Santino Casio, 42. He has been put in restricted housing pending an investigation by the prison and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office.
Casio has been in the facility since 2004, after he was sentenced to life, with parole possible, for convictions of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder. In 2008, he was sentenced to six more years for assault by a prisoner with a deadly weapon, and in 2018 he was sentenced to two more years for possession and manufacture of a deadly weapon by a prisoner.
An email seeking comment sent to an attorney who previously represented Casio was not immediately answered.
The prison is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles in the mountains of the Mojave Desert and houses about 1,700 medium- and maximum-security inmates.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding.
She had bullet fragments in both feet that had to be surgically removed. It wasn’t until months after the incident that she publicly identified Lanez as the person who had fired the gun.
A judge rejected a motion for a new trial from Lanez’s lawyers, who are appealing his conviction. They had no immediate comment after the attack.
Megan recently alleged that Lanez was harassing her from prison through surrogates, and in January a judge issued a protective order through 2030 ordering him to stop any such harassment or any other contact.
The 32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums, two of which reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
The Monday Instagram post on Lanez’s status said he was “talking normally, in good spirits, and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through.”
Federal prosecutors in San Diego unsealed a first-of-its-kind indictment Tuesday, alleging narco-terrorism charges against suspected drug traffickers linked to the Sinaloa cartel.
The criminal indictment against members of the Beltrán Leyva organization, which prosecutors described as a violent faction of the Sinaloa cartel responsible for one of the largest fentanyl production networks in the world, is the first use of narco-terrorism charges against a Mexican-based drug-trafficking organization. The Trump administration paved the way for such charges earlier this year when it designated the Sinaloa cartel and five other Mexican criminal groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
“To the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, you are no longer the hunters, you are the hunted,” San Diego-area U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon said during a Tuesday morning news conference announcing the indictment. “You will be betrayed by your friends, you will be hounded by your enemies, and you will ultimately find yourself and your fates here, in a courtroom in the Southern District of California.”
It’s believed that all the defendants named in the indictment remain at large. Along with counts of narco-terrorism and providing material support to terrorism, the indictment contains charges more typically used against leaders of drug-trafficking organizations, such as drug and money laundering conspiracy charges and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.
“The Sinaloa cartel is a complex, dangerous terrorist organization and dismantling them demands a novel, powerful legal response,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “Their days of brutalizing the American people without consequence are over — we will seek life in prison for these terrorists.”
Pedro Inzunza Noriega, 62. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control)
The lead defendant in the indictment is 62-year-old Pedro Inzunza Noriega, who also goes by the monikers “Sagitario” and “El de la Silla,” a reference to the wheelchair he has used since he was partially paralyzed in a shooting by a rival cartel, Gordon said. His son, 33-year-old Pedro Inzunza Coronel, was also named in the indictment.
“They are … (the) leaders of one of the largest and most sophisticated fentanyl production networks in the world,” Gordon said, adding that since the early 2000s, Inzunza Noriega has also been one of the top traffickers of cocaine into the U.S.
In a motion to unseal the indictment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Mellor wrote that over the past several years, the father and son “have trafficked tens of thousands of kilograms of fentanyl into the United States.”
Mellor wrote that in December, Mexican law enforcement raided multiple fentanyl production labs across Sinaloa that were controlled by the father and son and made the world’s largest ever fentanyl seizure, which totaled more than 3,300 pounds of the ultra-potent drug.
The U.S. Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury had identified Inzunza Noriega in 2023 as one of the three top leaders of the Beltrán Leyva organization alongside Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe, alias “El Musico,” and Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, who is also known as “Chapo Isidro” and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the FBI. Both Gastelum Iribe and Meza Flores have been indicted in multiple federal districts in the U.S., including San Diego.
The Beltrán Leyva organization was once one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels and was so named for five brothers who led the group. Mellor said during Tuesday’s news conference that the group has always had strong ties to the Sinaloa cartel, despite some periods of violent disputes, including a particularly bloody period that began around 2008.
“But they’ve always remained part of the Sinaloa cartel, and in fact in about 2019 or 2020, they kind of reconstituted and split up territories and areas and put forth some ground rules for the different factions,” Mellor said.
In the motion to unseal the indictment, Mellor alleged that the Beltrán Leyva faction now controls the drug trade in several states and regions across Mexico, including Tijuana, “and operates with violent impunity … all while making millions of dollars from their criminal activities.”
Gordon said the indictments against the Beltrán Leyva organization leadership add to an expanding prosecution against the Sinaloa cartel by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego. He said local prosecutors have previously indicted Sinaloa cartel leaders Ivan “Chapito” Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, one of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the legendary Sinaloa kingpin who is now imprisoned in the U.S.; Ismael “Mayito Flaco” Zambada Sicairos, the son of former Sinaloa cartel co-leader Ismael ” El Mayo” Zambada García, who is in U.S. custody; and Jose “El Chino” Gil Caro Quintero, the cousin of former drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, the alleged mastermind behind the 1985 slaying of Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
Gordon declined to answer questions at Tuesday’s news conference about a recent video that showed 17 family members of Ovidio Guzmán López, another son of “El Chapo,” entering the U.S. from Tijuana. But the Associated Press reported Tuesday that Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed the report, which was first published by independent journalist Luis Chaparro.
The video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents, according to the Associated Press.
Rumors had circulated last week that Guzmán López would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U.S. after being extradited in 2023. The news service reported that García Harfuch confirmed the family members’ crossing in a radio interview and said it was clear to Mexican authorities that they were doing so after negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. government.
A massive budget deficit means the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will make hard decisions about grant funds for competing community groups that help residents with food, housing and immigration resources — yet two supervisors want to provide a significant grant to a national political group based in Washington, D.C.
Supervisors Margaret Abe-Koga and Otto Lee are proposing a combined $65,000 grant to the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute, for a free one-day leadership training summit in Cupertino this year. The D.C.-based institute focuses on electing LGBTQ+ lawmakers across the U.S. The group is headed by former state Assemblymember Evan Low, who is close with both elected officials. Supervisors will discuss the grant proposal Wednesday.
It’s part of an annual budget tradition where supervisors are given an “inventory item” budget — usually totaling approximately $7 million with each supervisor getting between $1 million to $2 million per district — to help local community groups provide basic needs, education, immigrant legal resources and other safety net services to Silicon Valley’s most vulnerable. But a growing countywide fiscal crisis has put pressure to cut grant spending in recent years, and these allocations matter now more than ever amid threats from the federal government.
Advocates agree it’s important to elect LGBTQ+ leaders — but they’re struggling to reconcile the large grant amount while other basic needs groups, often serving LGBTQ+ people who are homeless, received smaller amounts or have been left out of the board’s grant process entirely.
“I think an LGBTQ leadership program is great,” Azazel Joseph Holmquist, a formerly homeless transgender San Jose resident, told San José Spotlight. “But we need to help stabilize our LGBTQ youth and get them to a safe location to live, and make sure their needs are met. They need to fund basic needs.”
Holmquist said one organization the county should consider for grant funding is Martha’s Kitchen, which distributes meals to homeless people in San Jose.
But Bill Lee, the kitchen’s executive director, said his group was unable to even get a meeting with supervisors during the inventory item selection process.
“It doesn’t sit well with us to see this grant proposal, while knowing that we couldn’t get a conversation,” he told San José Spotlight.
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Todd Langton, executive director of Agape Silicon Valley, said the grant proposal for Low’s group “feels like a slap in the face.”
“$65,000 for a one-day summit — imagine how many homeless LGBTQ people we could feed with that money,” Langton told San José Spotlight.
His organization is set to receive $10,000 from Otto Lee’s office under the current inventory item proposals.
Abe-Koga’s office proposed a bulk of the grant funding — $50,000 — for the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute, while Lee’s office proposed $15,000. Both supervisors have earmarked funding for a list of other causes, including groups that provide food assistance, immigrant rights education and sleeping bags to homeless people.
Both supervisors assured the grant funds for Low’s national group will go back into Santa Clara County.
“These are challenging times, and I put thought into this process,” Abe-Koga told San José Spotlight. “I wanted to encourage projects that have the potential for a greater impact and sustainability, projects or ideas that build capacity, whether it’s human capital or organizational capital.”
Funding is discretionary
Abe-Koga said she told grant applicants the grants are one-time in nature — and they should look for other funding sources outside the county in future years.
Otto Lee said his budget inventory proposals are guided by a community review panel of residents.
“Each year, we are proud to support a diverse range of groups working on behalf of marginalized, targeted and underserved communities,” he told San José Spotlight. “This proposal is a continuation of that vital work.”
Low deferred comment to an official statement from his organization.
“The Public Leadership Summit and reception will bring together over 100 community members — including residents, advocates and public officials — for a day of empowerment, training and connection,” Elliot Imse, the group’s executive director, told San José Spotlight. “We will also partner with local LGBTQ+ organizations, elected officials and community leaders to ensure the program reflects the unique needs and strengths of Santa Clara County.”
It comes as County Executive James Williams has recommended a budget that would cut 279 positions to absorb $70 million in anticipated federal cuts, as well as a county budget shortfall estimated to swell to $476 million over the next five years.
Abe-Koga said an organization doesn’t have to be in Santa Clara County to serve a need in the county.
“We have a large number of LGBTQ constituents in District 5, and the LGBTQ community has been under fire in the current climate. So it’s imperative that we build leadership to fight back,” Abe-Koga said. “What better than a leadership training program that’s happening in Cupertino, in my district?”
But the proposal for Low’s group is sparking a broader discussion about how supervisors should prioritize these grants as they scramble to cover safety net services and state and federal funding cuts. When asking city leaders across the valley for monetary assistance, Bill Lee said he’s told social safety net services are the county’s responsibility to fund.
“In our own organization, we’re running mass operational deficits. We’re trimming our own budget. We’re cutting services,” he said.
Whoop’s new 5.0 hardware launched this week, along with a premium version of the device that they’re calling the MG. Along with the launch came a new upgrade policy, requiring users to pay for what many thought would be a free upgrade. The company has walked back some of the new policy, but most users will still need to pay to get the new device. Here’s what you should know.
Hardware comes bundled with Whoop’s subscriptions, which are typically sold in 12-month or 24-month memberships. Whoop said upon launching the 5.0 and MG that you can get the new hardware in two ways:
You can pay to add 12 months to your subscription (a “membership extension”) and receive the new device.
You can pay a $49 fee and receive the new device without changing the term of your membership.
(There was also a mention of a $79 fee for upgrading to the MG hardware, but that hardware requires a more expensive subscription, so people who plan to upgrade to MG would be expected to pay more for their subscription anyway.)
After some backlash, Whoop published an article “clarifying and updating our upgrade policy” in which they announced a policy to send upgraded hardware to some customers without any further payment:
Members who already have more than 12 months left on their membership (for example, someone who bought a 24-month membership and still has 13 months left) can get the new hardware for free.
Members who purchased a 12-month (or more) membership or renewal in the 30 days before the 5.0 was announced on May 8 can also get the new hardware for free.
Why people are mad
This new upgrade policy is different from how Whoop handled upgrades in 2021, when the previous device—the 4.0—came out. And until the launch of the 5.0 earlier this month, at least two pages on Whoop's website appeared to say that members would get to upgrade to the next generation of hardware for free. Whoop has addressed one of these as a mistake—a blog post referencing a six-month commitment—but hasn't commented directly on the other, a FAQ that seems to say everyone gets free upgrades. I'll start with the FAQ.
Until recently, that FAQ stated “WHOOP is a membership, which means you get the latest and greatest technology as soon as it's available as long as you are an active member. No need to buy a new device each time it is released; you can upgrade for free.” Here is an archive of that page that I made on May 2, 2025, still showing that language less than a week before the 5.0 launched. The date on the page says that it was published in April of 2020.
The page still exists on Whoop’s website here, but now says something very different: “WHOOP is committed to a membership model where hardware is always included. When new devices launch, you’ll have the opportunity to upgrade by extending your membership and you'll receive the new device at no additional cost. If you're not ready to extend at that time, you can receive the latest hardware by paying a one-time upgrade fee.” There is no indication on that page that it has been changed, and it still bears the April 2020 date. (Here is an archive of how it looks today, for future reference.)
I wrote to Whoop asking if they had any comment on that change, along with a few other questions. In response, they sent me the new upgrade policy (also found here), addressed a different blog post that had changed—more about that below—and later sent along this statement:
"We've always tried to make it as easy and accessible as possible for our members to get on WHOOP. Since 2021, we've required members have a certain number of months remaining on their membership to receive a free upgrade. That remains true today. You can receive a free upgrade to WHOOP 5.0 with 12 months remaining on your membership. Alternatively, you can also pay a one-time upgrade fee if you'd prefer not to extend. You can also choose to renew your subscription when it is up, and you’ll be eligible to upgrade to WHOOP 5.0 at that time for free. With this launch, we introduced two new devices -- 5.0 and MG -- both of which offer 14+ day battery life, a 7% smaller size, and the Wireless PowerPack. Given MG is our most premium offering with different medical-grade capabilities, it does come with more premium cost. We ensured members could still receive a free upgrade to WHOOP 5.0, but have a different option if they were looking for different features and functionality."
Whoop has also been criticized for a blog post, found here by Whoop users on Reddit, that shows another discrepancy in stated policies. That blog post, which bears a date of September 30, 2024, said that the policy was to give upgraded hardware to anyone who had been a member for at least six months. The blog post was still live as of March 28 of this year, as shown on this Wayback Machine archive. Whoop says that “was never our policy and should never have been posted,” saying instead that they had offered free upgrades to anyone with six months or more remaining on their subscription at the time of the 4.0 launch.
This appears to be correct—emails sent in 2021 mentioned that Whoop users with “6+ months left on their membership” were eligible to upgrade for free. Whoop showed me screenshots from such emails, and I dug into my own inbox (never delete anything, folks) and found the same. The screenshot below is from an email I received in 2021.
From an email dated Sep 17, 2021. Credit: Whoop
So that historical fact about six-month memberships checks out, but I see why many Whoop users say they feel misled. Meanwhile, the FAQ's statement about free upgrades for all active members certainly influenced my long-term review of the 4.0, published just last month, in which I reported (based on that FAQ on Whoop’s own website) that “you don’t have to pay for new hardware to get new hardware.”
Angry Whoop users are discussing on Reddit and other forums the question of whether the company’s actions may run afoul of truth-in-advertising laws in Australia, the UK, the EU, and/or the U.S. Some are suggesting that U.S.-based customers consider submitting a complaint to the FTC (here is the form) or to your state's attorney general.
Is it even worth upgrading from the 4.0 to the 5.0?
After all that, it’s not even clear whether the move from 4.0 to 5.0 is worth paying anything. If you’re happy with your current membership (now known as Peak), all you’d gain with 5.0 is a longer battery life.
But you’d lose the ability to use any straps or accessories you bought for your 4.0. The new device is 7% smaller, Whoop says, which smacks of “we wanted you to buy all new accessories.” It sure seems like they could have easily stuffed those seven-percent-smaller internals in the same size housing as the 4.0 and had everything still be compatible. Heck, fill the extra space with an even bigger battery!
I would only pay to upgrade if you feel the longer battery life is more important than back-compatibility with your old straps and accessories. (And if you have a lot of Whoop Body clothing, you may want to wait for more 5.0 users to weigh in before you toss it all—I saw at least one Reddit comment saying that the old boxers fit the new device just fine.)
Should you "upcycle" your old 4.0?
There’s another strange thing going on with Whoop’s upgrade plans. If you upgrade from the 4.0 to the 5.0, they’ll send you a gift box with a sanitizing wipe and a brand-new strap, so that you can pass your old 4.0 on to a friend. They call it “upcycling,” and the full details are here.
But why would your friend want your old 4.0? They would still have to sign up for a Whoop membership, and any new membership comes with a free 5.0 (or MG).
Whoop attempts to sweeten the deal by giving you (the gifter) a $50 credit that can be used for accessories for yourself—but not put toward membership. You only get this once your giftee signs up for a paid membership. As for the person you gift your old device to, there are a few ways for them to get a discount on membership with the used 4.0:
You (the gifter) can prepay for a 12-month Peak membership for them, for $190 rather than the usual $239.
They can join for $199 for a 12-month Peak membership
They can use the 4.0 for a two-month free trial, which automatically rolls over into a full-price $239 12-month Peak membership.
As soon as you pay for a membership, and have 12 months remaining, you can upgrade to the 5.0 or MG—so that gifted 4.0 may have a short lifespan indeed.
This doesn’t feel like upcycling at all to me, just a way to pretend you’re doing something useful with a device that will shortly get thrown away. For devices you actually buy, like a Garmin or an Apple Watch, going with an older model can often save you some cash. With the Whoop’s cost being baked into any new subscription, it seems strange to recommend that some users forgo the brand-new hardware that would otherwise be included.
If you have a friend getting rid of an old 4.0, you might as well use the upcycling program to get a small discount on the membership with 5.0 that you were planning to buy anyway (using one of the two options above). Or if you already have a 4.0, you might as well ask your friend to get the re-gifting kit just for the free spare band—those things still cost 49 dollars.
The transition rate to serious delinquent is generally increasing and foreclosures are close to pre-pandemic levels. The Q1 increase is likely due to the end of the VA foreclosure moratorium.
... There is much more in the report.
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<p><em>Boy and the World</em> (Portuguese: <em>O Menino e o Mundo</em>) (2013). Written and directed by Alê Abreu. Art direction by Priscilla Kellen. Music by Ruben Feffer and Gustavo Kurlat.</p>
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<p>Back in 2010, Brazilian filmmaker and animator Alê Abreu was working on a very ambitious project: an animated documentary titled <em>Canto Latino</em>. That never-finished film would have presented the sweeping story of the post-colonial hardships and growth of Latin American nations. In <a href="https://variety.com/2016/film/awards/director-ale-abreu-on-his-animated-feature-boy-and-the-world-1201672438/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">an interview with <em>Variety</em></a>, Abreu described the political ideas he wanted to showcase: “I asked myself during my research for <em>Canto Latino</em> how these Latin American countries, born as exploited colonies with such difficult ‘childhoods,’ and marked by military dictatorships that served specific economic interests, came into today’s globalized world.”</p>
<p>Abreu didn’t end up making that film. He made <em>Boy and the World</em> instead. Because, it turns out, the difference between a wide-ranging political documentary and a whimsical child’s adventure story is a matter of perspective.</p>
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<p>This is the first Latin American film I’ve written about for this column, which is a shameful oversight considering that I’ve been doing this for over a year. I do in fact try to include films from all around the world, although that’s sometimes easier said than done, as it’s a combination of who was making sci fi or speculative films at what point in time, as well as what is available online and relatively accessible to watch. Regular readers have probably noticed that I keep stretching my definitions of both “sci fi” and “relatively accessible,” but we’re all here to enjoy movies from around the world, so I hope nobody minds.</p>
<p>Before we get into that, let’s take a very quick look at the history of Brazilian cinema.</p>
<p>There has been filmmaking in Brazil for as long as there has been a filmmaking anywhere. Mere months after the Lumière brothers presented the first public screening of a film in Paris in 1895, one of their Cinématographes (combination camera and projector) was being showcased in Rio de Janeiro. This caught the attention of Alfonso Segretto, who acquired one of the contraptions for himself and set about becoming (probably) Brazil’s first filmmaker. Segretto started out filming short clips of real events, but he eventually branched out into what film historians describe as “filmed recreations of notorious local crimes”—or what anybody who has ever succumbed to a <em>Forensic Files</em> marathon would recognize as true crime.</p>
<p>Film flourished in Brazil in the early years of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, but it took longer for it to become a broader cultural or economic force. The reason is simple: you can’t really build a widespread film culture in public cinemas without a stable power grid, and Brazil in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century did not yet have one. There were cinemas in Rio de Janeiro and S<em>ã</em>o Paulo, however, and some early films did become popular. The film generally regarded as Brazil’s first hit was Francisco Marzullo and Antônio Leal’s <em>Os Estranguladores Do Rio</em> (<em>The Stranglers of Rio</em>) from 1908, a 40-minute true crime drama about the murder of a teenage boy.</p>
<p>It’s hard to find information about <em>Os Estranguladores</em>; I’m not even sure how much, if any, of the film survives. A runtime of 40 minutes means it would have used multiple reels of film, but I haven’t found any details about its production. (That information is probably out there, but not in a place I can easily find before this article’s deadline!) That wasn’t quite unheard of; in Australia Charles Tait’s 1906 film <em>The Story of the Kelly Gang </em>ran for 70 minutes on more than 4000 feet (1200 meters) of film. But films of longer than a single reel were <em>extremely </em>rare in the first decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. A 40-minute narrative film was a truly unique accomplishment in 1908.</p>
<p>It was also a largely insular accomplishment. Early Brazilian films were rarely viewed outside of Brazil, even though Brazilian filmmakers were making a lot of them, and kept making a lot of them through the first half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Brazil imported a lot of foreign films—particularly from the United States—and Brazilian films tended to echo what was popular in Hollywood during that time, such as comedies, musicals, and epics. This included the wildly popular chanchada films, the joyfully theatrical musical comedies that propelled singer and actor Carmen Miranda to fame. Miranda was born in Portugal but lived in Brazil from before her first birthday, and she is generally acknowledged to be the first Brazilian performing artist to gain international recognition. That’s resulted in a somewhat complicated legacy, as international audiences associated Brazilian entertainment with Miranda’s image long after both the nation’s arts and the woman herself had evolved beyond what made her famous.</p>
<p>It wasn’t until the 1960s that Brazilian films began to intersect more directly with international films. Brazilian filmmakers, like everybody else in the film world, became enamored of developments in post-World War II cinema, particularly our old friends in Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave. The Brazilian take on this filmmaking era is known is <a href="https://thirdcinema.net/portfolio/cinema-novo-social-disparity-and-the-future-of-the-cinema-in-brazil/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cinema Novo</a>, which began by exploring gritty realism about social issues, such as Glauber Rocha’s <em>Black God, White Devil </em>(1964). At the same time, Brazilian film—like all Brazilian arts—was complicated by the 1964 military coup and dictatorship that followed. Complicated, but certainly not <em>stopped.</em> Some Brazilian filmmakers left the country due to the government’s censorship, but others remained and found ways to create stylized, ironic, and symbolic protest art under the nose of the regime. That included a bizarre but notable detour into politically-themed cannibal films. No, really. You can go watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqbiWanj4E" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nelson Pereira dos Santos’ <em>Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês </em>(<em>How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman</em>) (1971)</a> if you don’t believe me. But you should always believe me. I never joke about cannibal films.</p>
<p>Brazilian filmmakers kept making a lot of movies during the 21-year dictatorship, many of them state-sponsored, and some of those films <a href="https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2011/brazilian-cinema-and-the-festival-de-cannes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">did gain some international attention</a> from filmmakers, festivals, and critics, if not from general audiences. The problem is, a strictly censored, state-sponsored film industry is a rather fragile thing once the regime that controls it ends. Brazilian cinema fell into a sort of fallow period in the ’80s, with movies struggling due to the lack of state support and the widespread popularity of television. But filmmakers kept making movies, because if we’ve learned anything from the history of film around the world it’s that filmmakers <em>always </em>keep making movies. This included some very good ones; Héctor Babenco’s <em>Kiss of the Spider Woman </em>(<em>O Beijo da Mulher Aranha</em>) (1985) was an international sensation—albeit one that even many cinephiles mistakenly think of as an American film, even though it was an independent American-Brazilian co-production that was filmed in São Paulo and had an Argentine-Brazilian director.</p>
<p>It wasn’t until the release of Walter Salles’ <em>Central Station </em>(<em>Central do Brasil</em>) in 1998, followed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s <em>City of God </em>(<em>Cidade de Deus</em>) in 2002, that Brazilian cinema finally started getting lasting attention outside of Brazil. That’s rather late for a nation that has been making feature-length films for longer than just about anybody else. The economics and influence of Brazilian cinema have gone through a lot of ups and downs, but the movies and the filmmakers have always been there, even when the rest of the world wasn’t paying attention.</p>
<p>That film history is long, but it’s rather spotty when it comes to animation. The first feature-length Brazilian animated film was <em>Amazon Symphony</em> (<em>Sinfonia Amazônica</em>), a black-and-white film which was entirely created by Anelio Latini Filho over the course of five years before its release in 1954. The film is similar to Disney’s <em>Fantasia</em> (1940) in structure: an anthology that tells stories from folklore with musical accompaniment. But unlike <em>Fantasia</em>, <em>Amazon Symphony</em> does not seem to have been part of any expansion in the popularity of animation; there are very few animated feature films in Brazil’s film history, and fewer still that survive intact. Another early example is <em>Piconzé </em>(1973), made by the Japanese-born animator Ypê Nakashima, and there have been various children’s cartoons and television series over the years. Another significant Brazilian animated film came along with Clóvis Veira’s <em>Cassiopeia </em>(1996), which has the honor of being the world’s second fully computer-animated feature film; John Lasseter’s <em>Toy Story </em>(1995) beat it to the title of first by a few months.</p>
<p>I have brought you through this abbreviated summary of Brazilian cinema not because it all leads in some obvious way to this week’s film, but because it doesn’t, and that in itself is curious. We’ve watched many films that grow organically out of cherished cinematic traditions; <em>The Iron Giant </em>(1999) is the perfect example, as it is an homage and a love letter to both American sci fi cinema and animation from earlier eras.</p>
<p><em>Boy and the World </em>is different. Neither its storytelling nor its artistic style is obviously inspired by trends in Brazil’s long cinematic history. In fact, Abreu has specifically cited another unusual film as the inspiration that got him excited about animation at a young age: <a href="https://reactormag.com/fantastic-planet-a-surreal-unsettling-allegory-of-oppression/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">René Laloux’s <em>Fantastic Planet</em> (1973)</a>.</p>
<p>As I said above, the process that led to <em>Boy and the World</em> began when Abreu was developing a wide-ranging political documentary. He was going through his sketchbooks when <a href="https://www.format.com/magazine/features/illustration/ale-abreu-filmmaker-interview-boy-and-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the scribbled, scratchy drawing of a young boy caught his attention</a>. That was when he started thinking about telling that big political story—the story of urbanization, industrialization, and wealth inequality in post-colonial Latin America—from a child’s point of view.</p>
<p>I think that anybody who writes fiction can recognize that lightbulb moment that happens when you realize that changing the point of view changes everything about your story. I don’t know what Abreu’s <em>Canto Latino</em> would have looked like, but I’m glad he was seized by a wild fit of creativity that inspired him to rework his entire approach.</p>
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<p>Because <em>Boy and the World</em> is a marvel. It’s beautiful, poignant, and painful. It tells the story of a boy and a nation in a way that is both loving and critical. The parallels between a child searching for his father and a nation searching for its identity are deliberate and powerful. The film begins, as a child’s life begins, with a small, protected world of innocence, one full of color and wonder in the countryside. When the child leaves his home, that world expands to include the precarious lives of migrant farm laborers, the toil of exploited factory workers, and the weary anonymity of life in a favela, as well as clashes between protesters and military troops, a glimpse of the futuristic cities across the ocean that benefit from unseen human labor, and the persistence of a creative, rebellious spirit in the most crushing of circumstances.</p>
<p>It’s all in there, so rich and vibrant, and conveyed without any words, because the film has no dialogue. Some characters do speak a little, but the Portuguese dialogue is muddled and played backwards, giving viewers a child’s sense of experiencing but not fully understanding adult conversations. In place of the dialogue is music. The soundtrack is the work of Brazilian composers Ruben Feffer and Gustavo Kurlat, who made a point of creating an immersive soundscape in which the sound effects of the film—everything from the birds to the factories, the storms to the protest marches—are part of the score.</p>
<p>Among the musicians they brought on to create the soundtrack was the legendary Brazilian percussionist <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/arts/music/nana-vasconcelos-daring-brazilian-percussionist-dies-at-71.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Naná Vasconcelos</a>. In <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/boy-and-the-world-animated-brazilian-music-voices-6812809/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">an interview with <em>Billboard</em></a>, Abreu talks about the ingenuity Vasconcelos brought to the film’s score, such as using unique instruments and recording in a dynamic, improvisational way. Equally important, however, was to bring the film back down to earth at the end, which is why it ends with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpOb3db_Xuc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a song by Emicida</a>, a rapper out of São Paulo’s underground hip hop community, a choice that Abreu describes as a deliberate nod to Brazilian protest music of the past.</p>
<p>The film doesn’t need dialogue—nor does the audience need in-depth knowledge of Brazil’s history—to understand the significance music plays in political protest. The message is there every time the colorful parade appears and every time the music endures when other sounds try to drown it out.</p>
<p>And we can’t talk about <em>Boy and the World</em> without talking about its art and animation. The style is unique for an animated feature film, and it’s one that <a href="https://vimeo.com/154262228" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Abreu and art director Priscilla Kellen</a> sought to preserve throughout the story. That meant maintaining not just the childlike simplicity of the forms but also the visual textures of the tools of childhood art: crayons, markers, colored chalk, watercolors, cutouts. Some scenes are as simple as a single figure on a blank white background, while others are an ornate symphony of colors and shapes. What we see on the screen is a combination of hand-drawn images in different media and layered computer animation, which allows even the roughest drawings to move and interact smoothly.</p>
<p>All of the art is beautiful, and some of it is truly breathtaking. A few of my favorite visual elements are tied in with the film’s larger themes. I love that every machine is portrayed as an animal, from the trains and trucks to the long-necked dinosaurs that make up the shipping port. It is exactly the sort of imagery we might expect from an imaginative child experiencing a world of unknown rules, but it’s also a nod to the process of industrialization, particularly when paired with the clever, machine-like patterns that develop from the work of the human farm and factory laborers.</p>
<p>It’s not a subtle point, nor should it be. There are humans driving the massive economic machine that feeds endless goods to the ravenous floating cities across the ocean. The gears might change, the process might evolve as workers are shunted from one part of the system to another, from the cotton fields to the factories to the cities and back again, but they are always there. The machine doesn’t exist without them.</p>
<p>There is a brief section late in the movie when the animation is replaced by real footage of destructive industrialization and deforestation. This is, again, not a subtle choice. It’s a way of contextualizing the whimsy, a way of reinforcing that what is rendered so beautifully in crayon drawings is, in fact, representative of a rather ugly reality. The characters in <em>Boy and the World</em> do not have realistic faces and many are not distinctive; they are not individuals but symbols of entire populations. All of the men who spill from the train are identical and it’s impossible for the boy to recognize his father, because they are every father who left his family due to economic necessity. They are every family torn apart by the juggernaut of so-called progress.</p>
<p>And the boy’s journey is not a childhood adventure. It is the story of a lifetime, as we see when we reach the end and the boy is an old man returning to his rural home. It was never going to end with the family reunited; it’s simply not that kind of tale. The hardships of the world are too present, for all the charm and wonder that goes along with them.</p>
<p><em>Boy and the World</em> is a beautiful movie. It’s also sad and painful in a way that leaves the heart aching. I adore the art and animation style, and even more I love the juxtaposition of the childlike perspective, bright imagery, and heavy themes. Some of the scenes that stick with me are the moments throughout the film that emphasize the importance of art in times of hardship: the impoverished father playing his flute, the factory worker spinning color and music amidst dreary oppression, the determined march of protesters, the way that people throughout the story, old and young, find their community and voices by making music together. It’s a rare and lovely accomplishment, I think, for a film to tell a story so well, with so much heart, without any words but with perfect understanding.</p>
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<p>What do you think of <em>Boy and the World</em>? Thoughts on its art, its music, its story? I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked it to watch; all I knew was that it was a darling among critics and film festivals. This is one case where choosing a movie on a whim seems to have worked out quite well, as I think it’s wonderful and I’m very glad to have found it.</p>
<p><strong>Next week</strong>: The insects are coming and we are not ready for them. Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s <em>Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind</em> (1984) on <a href="https://www.max.com/movies/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind-japanese-audio/c357bcf1-2d7f-4393-b3f4-d1e779806228" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Max</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0K1WDUC18MU1UVVIQEY2EKPEKX" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amazon</a>, or <a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/umc.cmc.5a19fikldgwe4cnl8smazz6tx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple</a>.[end-mark]</p>
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FLAGSTAFF, AZ – A Navajo family said hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Native American jewelry were stolen from their locked trailer while attending the Stanford Powwow.
Maryetta and Henry Jackson have been creating handmade jewelry for more than 50 years.
“It’s been part of us for all these years,” Maryetta Jackson said.
They decided to attend the Stanford Powwow for the first time over Mother’s Day weekend, driving from Flagstaff to San Jose.
“They’ve created these on their own, they’ve found their own style,” granddaughter Tracie Jackson said. “We use this work to help educate our community, to help educate non-natives.”
But before the event even started, Maryetta Jackson said they woke up to a nightmare Friday morning.
“They apparently drilled the lock,” she said. “We don’t have a single item, not one ring, nothing. So, we’re going to start all over again.”
San Jose police confirmed that they are investigating the theft after someone broke into a trailer sometime between Thursday and Friday. Police did not share any more information about their investigation.
The family has a unique combined HJ symbol and Diné stamp on every piece.
Maryetta Jackson said that although she’s restarting after 50 years, she’s not giving up her passion.
“You put so much of yourself into the jewelry that you’re making that it becomes part of you,” Jackson said.
Their grandkids jumped into action, sharing information with police, posting their story online and creating an online fundraiser to help rebuild the family business.
“I’m so thankful to be a part of the native community because of this, we look out for each other and we have each other’s backs during these times,” Tracie Jackson said.
The Jackson family is asking for the public’s help to identify any of their jewelry that may have been stolen.
The lack of clues about what happened to an outgoing young bicyclist is “definitely troubling,” a sheriff’s officer said in an update about the search for Tiffany Slaton.
Tiffany Slaton, reported missing April 2025 in Fresno County, Calif. (Image from video / Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)
A news conference Tuesday, May 13, fielded questions about Slaton, a 27-year-old woman on a solo bicycle camping trip who was last seen almost three weeks ago in the southern Sierra Nevada.
It also gave the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office another chance to solicit video from the public that may shed light on the case.
Slaton had been bicycling through California after completing a stint as a traveling dialysis technician in Oregon, said her parents, who live in Georgia. They said she was in touch with them daily until April 21; the last reported sighting of her was April 24 near Shaver Lake, in the Sierra National Forest above Fresno.
In Tuesday’s conference, sheriff’s public information officer Tony Botti said all possible explanations for her disappearance are still on the table: accident, foul play, voluntarily going missing.
He said the search team is asking for any images or video taken on or around April 24 in the Shaver Lake area. “Anything that can further our timeline is a huge plus,” he said.
On Monday, the sheriff’s office released video of Slaton recorded April 8 in Santa Cruz County, with the intent of prompting information from others who may have seen her in the following weeks. Botti said the video was given to them by a person who met Slaton when she was stopped at a farm in the Santa Cruz area and later saw her on the road.
The released clip shows Slaton on her electric bicycle, towing a small two-wheeled trailer. Though it has no sound, it presents Slaton as Botti described her, outgoing and upbeat.
“She knows how to get around in strange areas, where she doesn’t know anybody — make friends, live off the land, be conversational,” Botti said. ” … It seems like when times are tough she’s going to reach out and make the best of a bad situation and be able to survive. So that does raise a flag to us: How can somebody so outgoing and who has traveled so much of the world suddenly just vanish? … It’s definitely troubling.”
Botti said an intensive five-day search that ended Saturday, May 10, covered “most of the places she would possibly be” and turned up nothing as much as a snack wrapper or orange peel. The search continues in a scaled-down mode.
Though the sheriff’s team has not ruled out foul play, Botti said there is no “person of interest” in her disappearance.
Slaton’s itinerary had her continuing east from Shaver Lake to Mono Hot Springs, but that road is closed by snow.
Slaton is described as 5-foot-10 and 125 pounds; she had been wearing her hair in braids. Besides the bike and trailer, she had a gray and green tent, which has not been found.
SAN JOSE — A big luxury apartment complex at Santana Row in San Jose has been bought in a deal that tops $70 million and suggests investors still seek multifamily residential properties in choice spots.
Levare, an apartment property at 3003 Olin Road in San Jose, has been bought for $73.9 million, according to documents filed on May 13 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.
Both the buyer and the seller were affiliates of two of the nation’s largest and most successful real estate firms, the county records show.
Hines Interests bought the apartment complex from Federal Realty Investment Trust, Santana Row‘s principal owner and developer.
Levare contains 108 units, according to the Apartments.com website.
The maladies that afflict the East Bay apartment market consist of fading values, loan delinquencies and even foreclosures of failed loans.
As for the just-bought apartments at Santana Row in San Jose, the price that the Hines affiliate paid for Levare works out to roughly $684,300 a unit.
Levare contains one-, two- and three-bedroom units, the Apartments.com site states. Unit sizes range from 748 square feet to 2,399 square feet.
Amenities include a pool, lounge, fitness center, game room, cabana, courtyard, grill and picnic area.
Levare is on the eastern edge of Santana Row, a mixed-use destination neighborhood of shops, restaurants, homes, offices, hotel facilities, open spaces, and entertainment hubs.
Santana Row has been on a hot streak lately with lease deals that have attracted office, retail and restaurant tenants to the neighborhood.
The Santana West office building has attracted tenants at a brisk enough clip that the eye-catching office building, which totals 375,000 square feet.
Forty-eight hours removed from a one-day cameo appearance by rain, the next question forecasters are probing is when the high pressure will build high enough and thick enough to create a summer-like simmer.
“We’re getting more and more into a summer-like pattern,” National Weather Service meteorologist Dial Hoang said Wednesday morning. “It’s gonna mean the warmer weather inland, clouds over the coast that clear out in the morning and temperatures getting warmer.”
That means a slow build in temperatures leading to the weekend, and then a bit of a leap by Monday, according to the weather service. Temperatures in the low 90s in some of the region’s hottest regions and in the mid-to-low 80s elsewhere are expected while the sun sparkles without clouds through much of next week.
“It does look like it’s going to be mainly dry and clear,” Hoang said. “These is going to be high pressure that builds over the region.”
That accumulation of high pressure is expected to be interrupted briefly Friday night into Saturday with an upper-level trough that will lower the temperatures and increase the cloud cover, Hoang said. That trough won’t bring any precipitation but it could set up a situation that could lead to the type of northerly winds that can increase fire danger.
“That’s one thing we are going to watch closely,” Hoang said.
Those winds are expected to be minimal once the trough moves through the region, and the high pressure begins to build again, Hoang said.
How strong and long-lasting that upper-pressure will last is likely to determine how long the temperatures stay high, Hoang said. He added that the marine layer will remain positioned to provide some natural air conditioning to the region and overnight lows even in the hottest places are expected to dip back into the 50s.
Still, that will be warmer than the overnight lows that dotted the region on Wednesday; many of them were in the 40s.
“It’s going to stay pretty steady, at least through the first few days of next week,” Hoang said.
FLAGSTAFF, AZ – A Navajo family said hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Native American jewelry were stolen from their locked trailer while attending the Stanford Powwow.
Maryetta and Henry Jackson have been creating handmade jewelry for more than 50 years.
“It’s been part of us for all these years,” Maryetta Jackson said.
They decided to attend the Stanford Powwow for the first time over Mother’s Day weekend, driving from Flagstaff to San Jose.
“They’ve created these on their own, they’ve found their own style,” granddaughter Tracie Jackson said. “We use this work to help educate our community, to help educate non-natives.”
But before the event even started, Maryetta Jackson said they woke up to a nightmare Friday morning.
“They apparently drilled the lock,” she said. “We don’t have a single item, not one ring, nothing. So, we’re going to start all over again.”
San Jose police confirmed that they are investigating the theft after someone broke into a trailer sometime between Thursday and Friday. Police did not share any more information about their investigation.
The family has a unique combined HJ symbol and Diné stamp on every piece.
Maryetta Jackson said that although she’s restarting after 50 years, she’s not giving up her passion.
“You put so much of yourself into the jewelry that you’re making that it becomes part of you,” Jackson said.
Their grandkids jumped into action, sharing information with police, posting their story online and creating an online fundraiser to help rebuild the family business.
“I’m so thankful to be a part of the native community because of this, we look out for each other and we have each other’s backs during these times,” Tracie Jackson said.
The Jackson family is asking for the public’s help to identify any of their jewelry that may have been stolen.
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If you’re getting excited for spring and summer home improvement projects, or if you plan to expand your yard care equipment collection, the expense of new tools can be an important consideration. Getting deals on new cordless tools is a game-changer for DIYers everywhere, and the following deals can get you up to 67% off right now. Ryobi cordless tools are a go-to for many DIY enthusiasts because of the variety of tools they make that fit their batteries, their affordability, and their quality, so saving some money on this brand will allow you to add to your quality cordless tool kit as you go.
Drivers
Power drivers have come a long way from back when you only had a drill with one or two speeds and a few attachments. These days, you can use power drivers on much larger hardware and on a wider range of parts, including nuts and bolts.
The 18-volt Ryobi ⅜ inch impact wrench is on sale for $99, 67% off its regular price. The driver kit comes with 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery and a charger. This is a good deal if you need batteries or if you are planning on building a larger kit—it comes with everything you need to operate the tool as well as batteries you can use with all other 18-volt Ryobi tools.
The Ryobi 18-volt powered ratchet is on sale for $99, 65% off its usual price. This set comes with two 4-amp-hour batteries and a charger, and it’s good for driving nuts in tight spaces where a larger tool wouldn’t fit.
Having the right type of cutting tool for your job and material is crucial for DIY success. Here are some deals of cutting tools that will get you through almost any DIY job.
The Ryobi 18-volt jig saw is on sale for $99, 60% off its usual price. This saw comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery and a charger. A jig saw is good for making cuts that aren’t in a straight line and can be handy for trimming pieces that need custom shapes, like flooring cut to fit around a doorway.
The Ryobi 18-volt, 18-inch hedge trimmer is on sale for $99, 65% off its usual price. This trimmer comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery.
The Ryobi 18-volt oscillating tool is on sale for $99, 65% off its typical price. This tool comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery and a charger. The oscillating tool is more than just a cutting tool that can be used for plunge cutting and trimming, it can also be used for sanding and buffing, making it one of the more versatile tools in your cordless kit.
The Ryobi 18-volt angle grinder is on sale for $199, 41% off its usual price. This kit comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and two 4-amp-hour batteries. An angle grinder can be used for cutting metal or nipping off screw tips that poke out.
The Ryobi 18-volt reciprocating saw is on sale for $199, 59% off its regular price. This kit comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and two 4-amp-hour batteries. A sawzall can take a variety of blades for cutting many materials and can be used to trim material in tight spots where a circular saw might not fit.
Sanding and finishing
Getting a polished look on your DIY projects can feel satisfying after all your hard work, and smoothing everything out can also help to avoid splinters. Here are some deals on sanding and finishing cordless tools.
The 18-volt Ryobi hand planer is on sale for $99, 69% off its regular price. This kit comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery, and a charger. A hand planer can be used to smooth and shape rough boards
The 18-volt Ryobi orbital sander is on sale for $99, 62% off its usual price. This kit comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery, and a charger. A random orbital sander can help smooth rough surfaces and prep for paint.
While it might be an afterthought when investing in cordless tools, batteries and accessories can really make a difference in the amount of time and effort it takes to complete a project. Having extra fresh batteries means you can use multiple tools at a time without stopping to swap batteries, allowing you to work faster.
The Ryobi 18-volt battery starter kit is on sale for $99, 67% off its regular price. It comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and two 4-amp-hour batteries. This is a good kit if you're starting out or if you’re expanding your kit to allow you to use multiple tools simultaneously.
The Ryobi gutter cleaner attachment for your Expand-It yard maintenance tool allows you to use the base edger/string trimmer handle to clear leaves and debris from your gutter. It’s on sale for $79, 39% off its usual price.
The Ryobi 18-volt 7 and ½ inch fan is on sale for $99, 62% off its typical price. The fan comes with one 2-amp-hour battery and one 4-amp-hour battery, and a charger. Having a fan can do more than just cool you down while you’re working. You can use it to help dry paint faster or blow dust away from where you’re working to keep your paint dust-free.
Cats are family. We thought that was a simple fact that every single cat owner knew. But no, apparently we were wrong. Apparently, some people don't understand that adopting a cat means taking responsibility over that cat and having the cat until the end of its life, or until the end of yours. And we don't understand it. We, as people who have cats, don't understand how people can abandon their cats so easily, so carelessly, so callously. People abandon their pets over the smallest things.
People abandon cats when they move. People abandon cats because suddenly the cats start "bothering" them. Heck, we have even read a story, just a little while back, about someone abandoning their loyal cat of 15 years because their new girlfriend doesn't like cats and then having the audacity to ask the shelter to console them because they felt guilty. And here comes another one - another person who has had their cat for years just throwing the cat away because it hisses at their new girlfriend. These people don't deserve cats in the first place.
San Jose is carving out its place as a leader among U.S. cities, topping the charts for new graduate hiring growth. Data from Gusto, a payroll and management software company, shows a remarkable 13.1% rise in the city’s new grad hiring rate from April 2024 to March 2025.
What’s fueling this surge? A sharp focus on AI is driving both hiring and salary increases across the Bay Area, with San Jose at the forefront. New grads here are seeing starting salaries climb by 7.6% year-over-year, reaching an average of $91,453 as of March 2025. Compare that to the national average of $61,996, and it’s easy to see why San Jose stands out. While hiring for new graduates has dipped nationally—down 16% from 2024 and expected to drop 44% from 2022 levels by mid-2025—San Jose is defying the trend, alongside neighbor San Francisco, thanks to its deep roots in tech innovation.
San Jose State University (SJSU) is a big part of this story. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, SJSU is equipping students with the skills to thrive in an AI-driven future. From specialized AI courses to hands-on projects and internships, students are immersed in cutting-edge tech—some even contributing to city initiatives. Partnerships with industry giants like Nvidia and Adobe further amplify these opportunities, creating a direct pipeline from classroom to career. This synergy between education and industry is a key reason San Jose continues to lead.
Beyond the numbers, San Jose offers something unique: a front-row seat to the tech revolution. The city’s position in Silicon Valley means innovation is everywhere, especially in AI. Local businesses using generative AI report higher satisfaction with their hires, which speeds up recruitment and boosts the workforce. For new grads, this translates to not just jobs, but careers with real impact and paychecks to match.
President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a tougher stance on Chinese technology advances, warning companies around the world that using artificial intelligence chips made by Huawei could trigger criminal penalties for violating US export controls.
The commerce department issued guidance to clarify that Huawei’s Ascend processors were subject to export controls because they almost certainly contained, or were made with, US technology.
Its Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees export controls, said on Tuesday it was taking a more stringent approach to foreign AI chips, including “issuing guidance that using Huawei Ascend chips anywhere in the world violates US export controls.”
SAN JOSE — A big luxury apartment complex at Santana Row in San Jose has been bought in a deal that tops $70 million and suggests investors still seek multifamily residential properties in choice spots.
Levare, an apartment property at 3003 Olin Road in San Jose, has been bought for $73.9 million, according to documents filed on May 13 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.
Both the buyer and the seller were affiliates of two of the nation’s largest and most successful real estate firms, the county records show.
Hines Interests bought the apartment complex from Federal Realty Investment Trust, Santana Row‘s principal owner and developer.
Levare contains 108 units, according to the Apartments.com website.
The maladies that afflict the East Bay apartment market consist of fading values, loan delinquencies and even foreclosures of failed loans.
As for the just-bought apartments at Santana Row in San Jose, the price that the Hines affiliate paid for Levare works out to roughly $684,300 a unit.
Levare contains one-, two- and three-bedroom units, the Apartments.com site states. Unit sizes range from 748 square feet to 2,399 square feet.
Amenities include a pool, lounge, fitness center, game room, cabana, courtyard, grill and picnic area.
Levare is on the eastern edge of Santana Row, a mixed-use destination neighborhood of shops, restaurants, homes, offices, hotel facilities, open spaces, and entertainment hubs.
Santana Row has been on a hot streak lately with lease deals that have attracted office, retail and restaurant tenants to the neighborhood.
The Santana West office building has attracted tenants at a brisk enough clip that the eye-catching office building, which totals 375,000 square feet.
Forty-eight hours removed from a one-day cameo appearance by rain, the next question forecasters are probing is when the high pressure will build high enough and thick enough to create a summer-like simmer.
“We’re getting more and more into a summer-like pattern,” National Weather Service meteorologist Dial Hoang said Wednesday morning. “It’s gonna mean the warmer weather inland, clouds over the coast that clear out in the morning and temperatures getting warmer.”
That means a slow build in temperatures leading to the weekend, and then a bit of a leap by Monday, according to the weather service. Temperatures in the low 90s in some of the region’s hottest regions and in the mid-to-low 80s elsewhere are expected while the sun sparkles without clouds through much of next week.
“It does look like it’s going to be mainly dry and clear,” Hoang said. “These is going to be high pressure that builds over the region.”
That accumulation of high pressure is expected to be interrupted briefly Friday night into Saturday with an upper-level trough that will lower the temperatures and increase the cloud cover, Hoang said. That trough won’t bring any precipitation but it could set up a situation that could lead to the type of northerly winds that can increase fire danger.
“That’s one thing we are going to watch closely,” Hoang said.
Those winds are expected to be minimal once the trough moves through the region, and the high pressure begins to build again, Hoang said.
How strong and long-lasting that upper-pressure will last is likely to determine how long the temperatures stay high, Hoang said. He added that the marine layer will remain positioned to provide some natural air conditioning to the region and overnight lows even in the hottest places are expected to dip back into the 50s.
Still, that will be warmer than the overnight lows that dotted the region on Wednesday; many of them were in the 40s.
“It’s going to stay pretty steady, at least through the first few days of next week,” Hoang said.
“From the Classroom” is a series that features some of the great work and research from students who visit Special Collections and Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries. Below is a blog by Andrew Newell from Dr. Jennifer Burek Pierce’s class “Reading Culture History & Research in Media” (SLIS:5600:0EXW). Newell explores the history, use,Continue reading "Form and symbolism in Pam Spitzmueller’s tarot decks"
If you're unable or unwilling to upgrade to Windows 11 and you're running Microsoft Office (now known as Microsoft 365, of course), there's some good news: Support for Word, Excel, and the other Office apps is being extended for an extra three years beyond the end-of-life date for Windows 10 itself.
The end-of-life date support for Windows 10—after which no further software updates or technical support will be offered by Microsoft—has been set for Tuesday, October 14, 2025. Support for Microsoft 365 apps will now go all the way up to Tuesday, October 10, 2028.
That's as per an updated support document published by Microsoft and spotted by The Verge. Before now, there had been some confusion about whether Microsoft would cut off support on the same date for both Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 programs running on it, so we now have some clarity.
The shift is to "help maintain security while you transition to Windows 11," Microsoft says, so it obviously still wants you to start using Windows 11 as soon as possible. The extension applies to both the version of Office that can be purchased for a one-off fee, and the Microsoft 365 subscription version based on monthly or yearly payments.
There are also some important caveats here: Even if the Office apps are being kept up to date until 2028, you really don't want to be running them on an unsupported operating system. If you're sticking with Windows 10 past October this year, you'll want to pay for Extended Security Updates ($30 a year for home users) to make sure you're protected against hackers and viruses.
Even though you won't be getting any new features with the Extended Security Updates, your PC will at least be patched up against whatever nasty security threats emerge, so you can carry on using Microsoft 365 without worry. The extended support for Word, Excel, and the other apps won't cost you any extra on top of what you've already paid for them.
Ideally, Microsoft wants to get everyone running Windows 11, and the advice if your system doesn't meet the required specs is to go out and buy a new PC with Windows on it. That's more of a challenge for businesses who've got dozens or hundreds of workstations to upgrade, of course.
Microsoft has put splash screens in Windows 10 encouraging users to upgrade to the latest operating system, as well as telling anyone who'll listen about the benefits of the Windows 11 experience. Windows 11 was launched back in October 2021, but it's thought that more than 60% of PCs are still using Windows 10.
There's another caveat when it comes to the support you can expect from Microsoft beyond October: If you ask for technical help from Microsoft with Office apps on Windows 10, and the issue doesn't occur on Windows 11, you'll be advised to upgrade the operating system. "If the customer is unable to move to Windows 11, support will provide troubleshooting assistance only; technical workarounds might be limited or unavailable," Microsoft says.
Krispy Kreme is marking the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man with three doughnuts based on the 1980 video game.
The collection includes Pac-Man, an Original Glazed doughnut topped with yellow buttercream frosting; a Team Ghost doughnut topped with black frosting and ghost pieces; and a Strawberry Power Berry Doughnut filled with strawberry-flavored cream.
But there’s more to the celebration, according to a news release. Through May 18, the company aims to give away 45,000 free Original Glazed doughnuts through Sunday, May 18. Customers can get one only during hours when the Hot Light is on at Krispy Kreme shops. Hot Lights indicate when Original Glazed doughnuts are available hot off the conveyor belt, usually 7 to 9 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., the news release said.
Pac-Man will officially mark its anniversary on May 22, according to the game’s website, although the celebration began in December and will last until May 22, 2026.
St. Ignatius’ Jayden Jew shot a 5-under 66 on Tuesday to capture the Central Coast Section boys golf championship at Laguna Seca Golf Ranch in Monterey.
Jew’s sizzling round helped St. Ignatius finish third in the team standings, which qualified the Wildcats for the CIF NorCal championships on May 27 at the Berkeley Country Club in El Cerrito.
Pebble Beach-based Stevenson took the top spot in the team competition with a score of 351, followed by runner-up Palo Alto (364). St. Ignatius shot 367.
The top three teams — plus the top four individuals not on a qualifying team — advanced to NorCals.
Among Bay Area golfers, Serra’s Kyler Heath (68, tied for second), Los Altos’ Jack Wang (70, tied for seventh) and Gunn’s Rithvik Jayaraman (70, tied for seventh) also advanced.
St. Ignatius’ Dylan Wickum shot a 70 to tie for seventh.
NCS DIVISION II CHAMPIONSHIP
The North Coast Section hosted its Division II championships on Monday at Foxtail Golf Club North in Rohnert Park, and while no East Bay schools finished among the top three teams, a group of individual golfers punched their tickets to the Division I championships next Monday, where they will have a chance to qualify for a spot in NorCals.
Will Chang of College Prep (69, first); Archer Eames of Miramonte (74); Chris Chang of College Prep (74), Carson Limpus of Berean Christian (74), David Navarro of El Cerrito (74), Aditya Das of Dublin (75), Cindy Yuan of Athenian (77), Austin Wang of Athenian (78) and Shamaak Goyal of Monte Vista (78) all finished among the top 18 players and earned berths in the Division I championship round.
The NCS Division I final is May 19 at Rancho Solano Golf Course in Fairfield.
Boys volleyball
NCS SEMIFINALS
Division I
No. 1 Northgate 3, No. 5 De La Salle 0
Can anyone stop Northgate in the D-I bracket? No one’s had any luck thus far. The top seed Broncos have not dropped a set and haven’t been in serious jeopardy of doing so, except for one 25-23 set win over Liberty in the quarterfinals. They beat De La Salle 25-15, 25-20, 25-17 on Tuesday.
No. 3 Amador Valley 3, No. 15 Las Lomas 0
The Dons ended Las Lomas’ Cinderella run to the semis with a came to a 25-19, 25-17, 25-18 victory. Amador Valley has only dropped one set so far in the tournament and might have what it takes to give Northgate a good matchup. The final is Thursday at Northgate.
Division II
No. 5 Redwood 3, No. 16 Irvington 2
Irvington’s charmed upset run in the D-II bracket met a hard-fought finish in the North Bay as Redwood advanced with a 25-14, 20-25, 25-16, 21-25, 15-9 victory. Redwood will visit second-seeded International-San Francisco in the final on Thursday. Redwood beat No. 14 American Canyon 0 25-22, 25-20, 25-20 in the semifinals.
Division III
No. 5 Albany 3, No. 1 Encinal 2
A thriller in Alameda came down to the final point. The visitors from Albany dropped the first set, rallied to go up 2-1, then dropped the fourth set in extra points. Didn’t matter. The Cougars rallied to win 18-25, 25-20, 25-17, 26-28, 15-13 and will host the D-III title game on Thursday.
No. 6 Washington-Fremont 3, No. 2 St. Joseph-Notre Dame 1
Washington took care of business in Alameda 22-25, 25-14, 25-20, 25-16 to earn a trip to the championship match. Despite dropping the opening set, the Huskies were firmly in control the rest of the way.
Division IV
No. 12 Benicia 3, No. 9 Quarry Lane 0
The only double-digit seed to make a championship game in the NCS, Benicia did so in style with a 25-23, 25-20, 25-22 win over Quarry Lane. After getting past No. 5 Windsor 3-2 in the opening round, the Panthers have not dropped a set since.
No. 2 Berean Christian 3, No. 6 Alhambra 2
Berean Christian, meanwhile, had to gut out a tough 6-25, 25-23, 25-21, 22-25, 15-10 win over a feisty Alhambra bunch. They will now host Benicia on Thursday night in Walnut Creek.
Baseball
EBAL SEMIFINALS
No. 4 Granada 6, San Ramon Valley 0
No. 1 De La Salle 6, No. 6 Foothill 0
Two identical shutout wins in the East Bay Athletic League semifinals set the stage for a highly anticipated rematch between two of the Bay Area’s best teams.
De La Salle (22-3) has lost just three games all season, the second of which was a 6-2 defeat to Granada at home in Concord on March 13. The Spartans have not lost since dropping a 3-2 decision to Whitney-Rocklin on April 15 at the Boras Classic.
Granada (20-5) is the defending EBAL, NCS Division I and NorCal Division I champion, but the Matadors have not been nearly as dominant as in their 32-1 dream season last year. Still, the Mats are set up to make some more history, starting at 4 p.m. on Thursday in Livermore.
The two teams had a legendary postseason battle last season in the NCS title game, stretching across two days, two facilities, two counties and 14 innings. Granada ultimately won 1-0.
What will this one have in store? We’ll find out Thursday at Granada.
WCAL QUARTERFINALS
Bellarmine 4, St. Francis 1
Apolo Lapiz pitched a complete game and Vincent Kim and Dash Knight each knocked in a run to lead fifth-seeded Bellarmine to a victory on the road over No. 4 seed St. Francis in the first round of the West Catholic Athletic League playoffs.
The Bells will travel to top-seeded Serra for a semifinal game on Wednesday.
Serra advanced with a 3-0 victory at home over No. 8 seed Archbishop Riordan as Kelley Crawford pitched a two-hitter with eight strikeouts and Tyler Harrison and Ian Josephson each had two hits and an RBI.
On the other side of the bracket, second-seeded Valley Christian edged No. 7 seed Sacred Heart Cathedral 2-1 behind Quinten Marsh and Rohan Kasanagottu, who combined for 14 strikeouts.
Valley will play host to third-seeded St. Ignatius on Wednesday. The Wildcats opened the playoffs with a 9-1 rout of sixth-seeded Archbishop Mitty as SI scored five runs in the first and two in the second to take command.
Emmett Johnson had four hits, including three doubles, and Archer Horn had a home run among his three hits to lead SI.
Bay Area News Group’s Darren Sabedra contributed to this report.
Young students of internationally renowned South Bay pianist Jon Nakamatsu will perform a recital on May 17 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga.
Nakamatsu is launching a concert series to feature his students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. They will be playing an Imperial Bosendorfer grand piano, the only in a South Bay music venue.
“For budding pianists, the most important thing is for them to have performance opportunities to hone their craft,” says Nakamatsu. “Professional engagements are very different than just performing for your school. It kind of transforms them into something more than just students, and that’s invaluable. This is a tremendous opportunity that the church has spearheaded.”
Six students will be playing selections by Debussy, Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms. Nakamatsu will also perform.
The free concert starts at 7 p.m. at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 13601 Saratoga Ave. Reservations are requested to https://bit.ly/4mdyCNi.
Village Preschool closing
The Village Preschool in Saratoga will be closing on May 22, the end of this academic year.
The preschool has served families for over 60 years. It is operated by the Saratoga Federated Church, whose staff said that the closure is due to financial constraints.
“We have come to the realization that this type of program is not meeting our community’s needs,” said a statement on the church’s website. “It has become too hard to compete with universal (transitional kindergarten) in the public schools and daycare centers offering fulltime hours.”
A farewell and alumni celebration will be held on May 22, 5-7 p.m. There will be bouncy houses, balloon artists, a petting zoo and a performance by San Jose musician, artist and magician Peter Apel.
Memorial Day observance
The Saratoga Foothill Club is holding a Memorial Day observance to honor veterans and U.S. Armed Services members. The event is organized by the Foothill Club and sponsored by the city.
The program will start with a flag ceremony at the Memorial Arch in Blaney Plaza at 9:30 a.m. followed by a procession from Oak Street to Madronia Cemetery at 10 a.m.
Former U.S. Navy Dental Corps member Dr. Gary B. Laine will serve as a guest speaker. He is a World War II history enthusiast and Bay Area Honor Flight board member. His speech is titled “Greatest Generation, Greatest Inspiration.”
A ceremony is set for on May 22.to recognize older adults for their service to the town of Los Gatos.
This is the 25th year of the Seniors of Distinction Awards reception. Awardees were chosen by service groups and commissions in town for their volunteer service and contributions to Los Gatos and Monte Sereno.
The reception will occur at the Terraces of Los Gatos from 3-4:30 p.m. There will be champagne and live music.
Radio boot camp
Radio station KPCR will be hosting a boot camp for teenagers interested in a career in audio storytelling this summer. The station, also known as Pirate Cat Radio, serves listeners throughout the South Bay and Santa Cruz.
Students will learn broadcast writing, voice training and segment planning. They will be involved in all aspects of broadcasting — deejaying, producing and editing — and have the opportunity to record, produce and air their own show.
The camp will run weekly from June 9-Aug. 8. Students will work out out of KPCR’s studio in Los Gatos. Scholarships are available, and spots are limited. For more information, visit KPCR.org/RadioCamp.
‘Dreamscape’ winner
Los Gatos High School junior Estelle Paduano was among the winners in ArtNow 2025, the annual juried art show for high school artists produced by New Museum Los Gatos, aka NUMU. Paduano earned a Judges’ Recognition award for her mixed media work, “Samsāra: Death of a Desert.”
In total, NUMU awarded over $10,000 in cash prizes, scholarships, and University Art gift certificates at a May 3 ceremony.
The ArtNow exhibit features works by 83 students from across Santa Clara County, all on the theme of “Dreamscapes.” It is on view at the museum, located at 106 E. Main St. in Los Gatos, through July 20.
Los Gatos Town Council on May 6 deferred a resolution that would have made it easier to build 100% affordable housing.
Vice Mayor Rob Moore’s resolution would have allowed 100% affordable housing developments to be built in areas zoned for mixed use without needing commercial use on the ground floor. It also would have allowed for these projects to be built in commercial highway zones.
Instead, council unanimously approved a recommendation by Mayor Matthew Hudes for staff to collaborate with the state Department of Housing and Community Development to evaluate whether and where 100% affordable housing developments could be built within those zones. Hudes also asked staff to figure out how a buffer could be implemented for projects that take advantage of waivers to height limitations so that single-family homes wouldn’t be overshadowed.
Moore and Councilmember Maria Ristow both spoke in favor of the rezoning, saying that it would lower the restrictions for affordable housing in Los Gatos. Moore received clarification that a 100% affordable housing project would mean that each unit is deed-restricted. According to town staff, at least 13% of housing developments in Los Gatos need to be deed-restricted as affordable.
Ristow said the resolution was a way to pre-emptively exempt affordable housing from certain barriers.
“I want 100% affordable housing projects where they make sense and where the developer can do it, and the barriers to that are high,” Ristow said. “The only way you get affordable housing units is that they’re subsidized by something else, which is why there’s usually a small percentage.”
Moore said the resolution would help Los Gatos progress in its affordable housing commitments since the town didn’t take advantage of Measure A funding to build affordable housing. Measure A was approved by Santa Clara County voters in 2016, allowing the county to issue up to $950 million in general obligation bonds to provide affordable housing. Moore said Saratoga, Monte Sereno and Los Altos Hills also didn’t take any funding from the measure.
A representative from housing advocacy organization SV@Home also spoke in favor of the resolution, saying, “By allowing affordable housing without a commercial component in areas currently designated for mixed use and highway commercial, Los Gatos is unlocking more opportunity sites for much-needed housing, especially for low-income residents.”
Hudes and Councilmember Mary Badame were concerned that of the mixed use and commercial highway zones mapped out by town staff, many parcels were near single-family homes.
Badame said she wouldn’t support Moore’s resolution because she didn’t want to make a zoning amendment near single-family neighborhoods. The resolution did not specify that all mixed use and commercial highway zones would allow 100% affordable housing.
“To honor the rights, feelings and expectations of our residents that when they purchase a home, there was a certain zoning that came with it,” Hudes said. “And yes, we may have to do certain things to comply with state law and we certainly will, but to go above and beyond state law, to me, is not the way to proceed.”
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program starting in 2026 and begin charging those already enrolled a monthly premium the following year.
The decision is driven by a higher-than-expected price tag on the program and economic uncertainty from federal tariff policies, Newsom said in a Wednesday announcement. The Democratic governor’s move highlights Newsom’s struggle to protect his liberal policy priorities amid budget challenges in his final years on the job.
California was among one of the first states to extend free health care benefits to all poor adults regardless of their immigration status last year, an ambitious plan touted by Newsom to help the nation’s most populous state to inch closer to a goal of universal health care. But the cost for such expansion ran $2.7 billion more than the administration had anticipated.
Newsom in March suggested to reporters he was not considering rolling back health benefits for low-income people living in the country illegally as the state was grappling with a $6.2 billion Medicaid shortfall. He also repeatedly defended the expansion, saying it saves the state money in the long run. The program is state-funded and does not use federal dollars.
Under the plan, the changes won’t impact children
Under Newsom’s plan, low-income adults without legal status will no longer be eligible to apply for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, starting in 2026. Those who are already enrolled won’t be kicked off their plans because of the enrollment freeze, and the changes won’t impact children. Newsom’s office didn’t say how long the freeze would last.
Starting in 2027, adults with “unsatisfactory immigration status” on Medi-Cal, including those without legal status and those who have legal status but aren’t eligible for federally funded Medicaid, will also have to pay a $100 monthly premium. The governor’s office said that is in line with the average cost paid by those who are on subsidized heath plans through California’s own marketplace. There’s no premium for most people currently on Medi-Cal.
In total, Newsom’s office estimated the changes will save the state $5.4 billion by 2028-2029.
“The state must take difficult but necessary steps to ensure fiscal stability and preserve the long-term viability of Medi-Cal for all Californians,” his office said in an announcement.
The Medi-Cal expansion, combined with other factors such as rising pharmacy costs and larger enrollment by older people, it has forced California to borrow and authorize new funding to plug the multibillion hole earlier this year. California provides free health care to more than a third of its 39 million people.
Wildfires, tariff policies and health costs strain California’s budget
The proposals come ahead of Newsom’s scheduled presentation on the updated budget. Recovery from the Los Angeles wildfires, changing federal tariff policies and the expensive health care expansion are putting a strain on California’s massive state budget. Lawmakers are expecting a multibillion dollar shortfall this year and more deficits projected for several years ahead.
Newsom is expected to blame President Donald Trump’s tariff policies for the shortfalls, estimating that the polices have cost the state $16 billion in tax revenues. California is also bracing for major budget hits if Republicans in Congress follow through with a plan to slash billions of dollars in Medicaid and penalize states for providing health care to immigrants without legal status.
Newsom now opens budget negotiations with lawmakers and it’s unclear how Democrats who control the Legislature will react to his plan to freeze new Medi-Cal enrollment for some immigrants. A final budget proposal must be signed by June. California’s budget is by far the largest among states.
“This is going to be a very challenging budget,” Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, who chairs the budget committee, said before Newsom’s proposals were announced. “We’re going to have to make some tough decisions.”
The budget proposals presented this week will build in some of the impacts from federal policies, but many unknowns remain.
California could face bigger budget deficits in coming years
The governor already said he’s planning to scale back on baseline spending this year. Analysts and economists also warn that California will face bigger deficits in the tens of billions of dollars in coming years due to economic sluggishness and stock market volatility brought on by the tariff war.
The budget Newsom first proposed in January included little new spending. But it allows the state to fully implement the country’s first universal transitional kindergarten program and increase the state’s film and TV tax credit to $750 million annually to bring back Hollywood jobs that have gone to New York and Georgia. He recently called on Trump to pass a $7.5 billion film tax credit at the federal level.
Last year, Newsom and the Legislature agreed to dip into the state’s rainy day fund, slash spending — including a nearly 10% cut for nearly all state departments — and temporarily raise taxes on some businesses to close an estimated $46.8 billion budget deficit.
Cyber attackers are capitalizing on user demand for AI-generated content by spreading malware targeted at creators and small businesses in the form of fake AI content services.
As Bleeping Computer reports, a new infostealer known as Noodlophile exfiltrates web browser data, including account credentials, session cookies, tokens, and cryptocurrency wallet files. The malware may also be deployed with XWorm, which gives attackers remote access to your device in order to steal sensitive information and install ransomware.
How a Noodlophile attack works
According to a threat analysis by security firm Morphisec, Noodlophile hides in fake AI video generators—notably, those named "Dream Machine." These tools are advertised on Facebook, leading users to fraudulent websites to upload images or video to create AI-generated content.
Users are then prompted to download a completed video as a ZIP archive named VideoDreamAI.zip, which contains an executable file (Video Dream MachineAI.mp4.exe) as well as hidden folders with components to infect the target's device with malware. The scheme uses legitimate editing tools you might find in a video editor like CapCut, as well as files disguised as PDFs and Word docs to avoid detection by both users and malware scanners.
Once deployed, Noodlophile communicates stolen information back to hackers in real time using a Telegram bot.
How to protect your data from Noodlophile
Always use caution when downloading and executing files from the internet, especially when using websites you don't know and trust. Noodlophile hides behind a seemingly benign file name verified with a certificate created via WinAuth, so it may not seem suspicious on the surface.
But if you look at the file extension—which you should always verify—you'll see that it's actually a .exe, not a .mp4 video. Make sure file extensions are set to show on your device, as having these hidden allows hackers to spread malware undetected. You can also use a malware scanner to check downloads before opening them.
A woman died after she was allegedly thrown from a third-story balcony during a fight with her boyfriend in San Ysidro on Monday.
Officers received calls from witnesses who said they had seen a man throw a woman over the railing of a balcony corridor in an apartment building on San Ysidro Boulevard near Averil Road around 7:20 p.m., San Diego police Lt. Lou Maggi said.
When officers arrived, they found 61-year-old Irene Williams lying in a courtyard with severe head trauma and a broken femur, Maggi said. She was taken to a hospital where she died.
Investigators used the description of the man provided by witnesses to find and arrest the woman’s boyfriend, 57-year-old Albert Turner, at the scene within minutes of officers arriving, Maggi said.
Investigators said they believe the two had been involved in an altercation inside an apartment earlier in the evening. At some point, Williams began throwing Turner’s belongings off the balcony.
He then allegedly threw Williams over the edge onto the concrete below, Maggi said.
Police booked Turner into San Diego jail on suspicion of murder.
Los Gatos Town Council on May 6 deferred a resolution that would have made it easier to build 100% affordable housing.
Vice Mayor Rob Moore’s resolution would have allowed 100% affordable housing developments to be built in areas zoned for mixed use without needing commercial use on the ground floor. It also would have allowed for these projects to be built in commercial highway zones.
Instead, council unanimously approved a recommendation by Mayor Matthew Hudes for staff to collaborate with the state Department of Housing and Community Development to evaluate whether and where 100% affordable housing developments could be built within those zones. Hudes also asked staff to figure out how a buffer could be implemented for projects that take advantage of waivers to height limitations so that single-family homes wouldn’t be overshadowed.
Moore and Councilmember Maria Ristow both spoke in favor of the rezoning, saying that it would lower the restrictions for affordable housing in Los Gatos. Moore received clarification that a 100% affordable housing project would mean that each unit is deed-restricted. According to town staff, at least 13% of housing developments in Los Gatos need to be deed-restricted as affordable.
Ristow said the resolution was a way to pre-emptively exempt affordable housing from certain barriers.
“I want 100% affordable housing projects where they make sense and where the developer can do it, and the barriers to that are high,” Ristow said. “The only way you get affordable housing units is that they’re subsidized by something else, which is why there’s usually a small percentage.”
Moore said the resolution would help Los Gatos progress in its affordable housing commitments since the town didn’t take advantage of Measure A funding to build affordable housing. Measure A was approved by Santa Clara County voters in 2016, allowing the county to issue up to $950 million in general obligation bonds to provide affordable housing. Moore said Saratoga, Monte Sereno and Los Altos Hills also didn’t take any funding from the measure.
A representative from housing advocacy organization SV@Home also spoke in favor of the resolution, saying, “By allowing affordable housing without a commercial component in areas currently designated for mixed use and highway commercial, Los Gatos is unlocking more opportunity sites for much-needed housing, especially for low-income residents.”
Hudes and Councilmember Mary Badame were concerned that of the mixed use and commercial highway zones mapped out by town staff, many parcels were near single-family homes.
Badame said she wouldn’t support Moore’s resolution because she didn’t want to make a zoning amendment near single-family neighborhoods. The resolution did not specify that all mixed use and commercial highway zones would allow 100% affordable housing.
“To honor the rights, feelings and expectations of our residents that when they purchase a home, there was a certain zoning that came with it,” Hudes said. “And yes, we may have to do certain things to comply with state law and we certainly will, but to go above and beyond state law, to me, is not the way to proceed.”
After almost a decade spent bringing the winery up to code, House Family Vineyards in Saratoga will be allowed to continue operating pending numerous conditions, including the construction of two fire roads and an open space exchange.
The winery has managed to stay open thanks to a series of temporary compliance permits after it was discovered in 2017 that the city hadn’t approved its tasting deck and winery operations.
The Saratoga City Council approved the winery’s conditional use permit on May 7 in a 3-1 vote, with Councilmember Tina Walia dissenting and Councilmember Yan Zhao absent.
“I can say with confidence and assure you that this is thorough. This has been going on for 10-plus years,” House Family Vineyards winemaker Jim Cargill said at the meeting. “We can’t change the beginning of the story but we can change the ending, and that’s what we intend to do with this project.”
The council’s approval allows the winery to operate its 6,000-square-foot tasting area, which includes a tasting room, office, two bathrooms, an open space seating area and a 2,600-square-foot private underground wine cave for storage. To operate the existing deck area, House Family Vineyard is swapping out 11,000 square feet of vineyards with native vegetation per staff’s suggestion that a vineyard does not make an adequate firebreak. Two roads leading to Garrod Road and Old Oak Way will be modified to allow for fire and emergency vehicle access.
The winery can host up to 120 guests for public tastings, while private tastings are restricted to 25 guests. The city council’s vote affirmed that the winery can hold events and tastings on the same day, just not at the same time.
Cargill encouraged the council to approve the conditional use permit, highlighting support from residents of Saratoga and the Bay Area as well as the vineyard’s history of cultivation. He said the winery is a community asset where people can gather and a destination business that attracts visitors from other cities.
“We’re not developers. We’re not in this for a quick buck,” Cargill said. “In fact, we hope to be profitable one day and to be able to preserve this legacy business for future generations.”
Over a dozen residents and employees of the vineyard spoke favorably of the project, expressing gratitude that the emergency roads would be built in case they need to evacuate during a wildfire.
Councilmember Kookie Fitzsimmons said the winery would benefit Saratoga, which is why she voted to approve its conditional use permit.
The emergency access roads, open space easement exchange and capacity restrictions are among 85 conditions for approval that House Family Vineyards has to meet before opening to mitigate adverse impacts to the neighborhood, mostly related to increased traffic. Cargill assured the council that these conditions would be met.
However, several hillside residents expressed concern over safety. They cited existing traffic issues on nearby roads and the fact that the vineyard would be used as an event venue when it is near a hillside conservation area.
“Let me say this clearly for everyone in the room and those that are hearing online: They are granting fire safety exceptions for a commercial event venue in a high fire-prone hillside, and they’re doing it on the watch of Mayor (Belal) Aftab and this council,” said a resident named Mona.
Councilmember Walia echoed the worries about safety, saying she couldn’t support the project for that reason.
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program starting in 2026 and begin charging those already enrolled a monthly premium the following year.
The decision is driven by a higher-than-expected price tag on the program and economic uncertainty from federal tariff policies, Newsom said in a Wednesday announcement. The Democratic governor’s move highlights Newsom’s struggle to protect his liberal policy priorities amid budget challenges in his final years on the job.
California was among one of the first states to extend free health care benefits to all poor adults regardless of their immigration status last year, an ambitious plan touted by Newsom to help the nation’s most populous state to inch closer to a goal of universal health care. But the cost for such expansion ran $2.7 billion more than the administration had anticipated.
Newsom in March suggested to reporters he was not considering rolling back health benefits for low-income people living in the country illegally as the state was grappling with a $6.2 billion Medicaid shortfall. He also repeatedly defended the expansion, saying it saves the state money in the long run. The program is state-funded and does not use federal dollars.
Under the plan, the changes won’t impact children
Under Newsom’s plan, low-income adults without legal status will no longer be eligible to apply for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, starting in 2026. Those who are already enrolled won’t be kicked off their plans because of the enrollment freeze, and the changes won’t impact children. Newsom’s office didn’t say how long the freeze would last.
Starting in 2027, adults with “unsatisfactory immigration status” on Medi-Cal, including those without legal status and those who have legal status but aren’t eligible for federally funded Medicaid, will also have to pay a $100 monthly premium. The governor’s office said that is in line with the average cost paid by those who are on subsidized heath plans through California’s own marketplace. There’s no premium for most people currently on Medi-Cal.
In total, Newsom’s office estimated the changes will save the state $5.4 billion by 2028-2029.
“The state must take difficult but necessary steps to ensure fiscal stability and preserve the long-term viability of Medi-Cal for all Californians,” his office said in an announcement.
The Medi-Cal expansion, combined with other factors such as rising pharmacy costs and larger enrollment by older people, it has forced California to borrow and authorize new funding to plug the multibillion hole earlier this year. California provides free health care to more than a third of its 39 million people.
Wildfires, tariff policies and health costs strain California’s budget
The proposals come ahead of Newsom’s scheduled presentation on the updated budget. Recovery from the Los Angeles wildfires, changing federal tariff policies and the expensive health care expansion are putting a strain on California’s massive state budget. Lawmakers are expecting a multibillion dollar shortfall this year and more deficits projected for several years ahead.
Newsom is expected to blame President Donald Trump’s tariff policies for the shortfalls, estimating that the polices have cost the state $16 billion in tax revenues. California is also bracing for major budget hits if Republicans in Congress follow through with a plan to slash billions of dollars in Medicaid and penalize states for providing health care to immigrants without legal status.
Newsom now opens budget negotiations with lawmakers and it’s unclear how Democrats who control the Legislature will react to his plan to freeze new Medi-Cal enrollment for some immigrants. A final budget proposal must be signed by June. California’s budget is by far the largest among states.
“This is going to be a very challenging budget,” Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, who chairs the budget committee, said before Newsom’s proposals were announced. “We’re going to have to make some tough decisions.”
The budget proposals presented this week will build in some of the impacts from federal policies, but many unknowns remain.
California could face bigger budget deficits in coming years
The governor already said he’s planning to scale back on baseline spending this year. Analysts and economists also warn that California will face bigger deficits in the tens of billions of dollars in coming years due to economic sluggishness and stock market volatility brought on by the tariff war.
The budget Newsom first proposed in January included little new spending. But it allows the state to fully implement the country’s first universal transitional kindergarten program and increase the state’s film and TV tax credit to $750 million annually to bring back Hollywood jobs that have gone to New York and Georgia. He recently called on Trump to pass a $7.5 billion film tax credit at the federal level.
Last year, Newsom and the Legislature agreed to dip into the state’s rainy day fund, slash spending — including a nearly 10% cut for nearly all state departments — and temporarily raise taxes on some businesses to close an estimated $46.8 billion budget deficit.
The Tamalpais Union High School District mishandled an investigation into alleged antisemitic speech by a teacher, state officials said.
The California Department of Education said the district should have indicated there was unlawful discrimination under the state education code. The department issued its decision on Friday in response to an appeal by a parent.
The investigation involved remarks a Spanish teacher at Redwood High School allegedly made on Oct. 11 during the Jewish holiday season, specifically during the observance of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.
“Isn’t it weird that we have a day off for a Jewish holiday and not for Indigenous Peoples Day?” the teacher said to her class, according to the state decision. “That’s because we have too many Jews in the district.”
Some students gasped when they heard the remarks, according to the state, which did not name the teacher. A parent of one of the students filed a complaint.
The district investigated the complaint and issued its report on Nov. 12. The investigation report, or IR, determined that the complaint was “not sustained.”
The parent appealed the finding to the California Department of Education in March.
The department’s decision said the district erred in following a “complaint against a teacher” policy. Instead, the district should have used a “uniform complaint policy” process, or UCP. The latter would have been the appropriate vehicle to address allegations of “unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying based on religion,” the state said.
“Consequently, instead of advising the appellant how to timely appeal to CDE, the IR did not advise appellant of the right to appeal to CDE at all, which the appellant argues caused confusion and delay,” the state said.
“CDE has reviewed the entire investigation file provided by the district and concludes that, contrary to the IR’s ultimate resolution, the bulk of the evidence in the file, coupled with the district’s factual findings, amounts to a violation warranting corrective action,” the state said.
“The fact that the teacher’s personal social media profile pictures contained ‘Free Palestine’ images was protected speech and ‘not under the jurisdiction of the school district,’” the education department added.
Tara Taupier, the Tamalpais Union superintendent, denied the parent’s claim that the district tried to cover up the initial incident.
“The CDE found that we should have used the Uniform Complaint Policy while conducting the investigation, which may have led to a different conclusion,” Taupier said in an email. “We acknowledge and respect the CDE’s findings and will comply fully with the required corrective actions.”
Marc Levine, regional director for the American Defamation League, said, “This kind of rhetoric does the exact opposite of what educators are meant to do: create a safe and collaborative learning environment for their students.”
“We urge the district to ensure that the required training from this incident meaningfully addresses ways to prevent antisemitism from entering the classroom,” said Levine, formerly Marin’s representative in the state Assembly.
Taupier said corrective actions will include mandatory training for all high school teachers by Sept. 30 on “students’ rights to be free from discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying on the basis of protected characteristics.”
The training will also include “students’ rights to be protected from retaliation for filing complaints alleging such conduct,” Taupier said.
“We want to be clear that we take all allegations of antisemitism — and any form of discrimination — very seriously,” Taupier said. “We are committed to creating safe, respectful and inclusive learning environments for all students.”
She declined to comment on potential disciplinary actions.
“Our focus remains on supporting students, upholding our values and ensuring that every classroom reflects a culture of respect,” Taupier said.
The state decision is the third this spring involving alleged incidents of antisemitism in Bay Area school districts. Last month, the state education office ordered two South Bay school districts to provide anti-bias training after finding that teachers discriminated against Jewish students by providing lessons slanted against Israel when teaching about the war with Hamas in Gaza.
In one case, the state found that two ethnic studies teachers in the Campbell Union High School District discriminated against Jewish students and violated state education code by describing Israel as a settler-colonial state and its war against Hamas as genocide against the Palestinian people.
In the other, the state said Jewish students at a school in the Santa Clara Unified School District experienced discrimination when a history teacher took a “clear” pro-Palestinian stance during class. Also, another teacher told a student it would be “a bad look” to invite an Israeli speaker to campus.
The Bay Area News Group contributed to this article.
After almost a decade spent bringing the winery up to code, House Family Vineyards in Saratoga will be allowed to continue operating pending numerous conditions, including the construction of two fire roads and an open space exchange.
The winery has managed to stay open thanks to a series of temporary compliance permits after it was discovered in 2017 that the city hadn’t approved its tasting deck and winery operations.
The Saratoga City Council approved the winery’s conditional use permit on May 7 in a 3-1 vote, with Councilmember Tina Walia dissenting and Councilmember Yan Zhao absent.
“I can say with confidence and assure you that this is thorough. This has been going on for 10-plus years,” House Family Vineyards winemaker Jim Cargill said at the meeting. “We can’t change the beginning of the story but we can change the ending, and that’s what we intend to do with this project.”
The council’s approval allows the winery to operate its 6,000-square-foot tasting area, which includes a tasting room, office, two bathrooms, an open space seating area and a 2,600-square-foot private underground wine cave for storage. To operate the existing deck area, House Family Vineyard is swapping out 11,000 square feet of vineyards with native vegetation per staff’s suggestion that a vineyard does not make an adequate firebreak. Two roads leading to Garrod Road and Old Oak Way will be modified to allow for fire and emergency vehicle access.
The winery can host up to 120 guests for public tastings, while private tastings are restricted to 25 guests. The city council’s vote affirmed that the winery can hold events and tastings on the same day, just not at the same time.
Cargill encouraged the council to approve the conditional use permit, highlighting support from residents of Saratoga and the Bay Area as well as the vineyard’s history of cultivation. He said the winery is a community asset where people can gather and a destination business that attracts visitors from other cities.
“We’re not developers. We’re not in this for a quick buck,” Cargill said. “In fact, we hope to be profitable one day and to be able to preserve this legacy business for future generations.”
Over a dozen residents and employees of the vineyard spoke favorably of the project, expressing gratitude that the emergency roads would be built in case they need to evacuate during a wildfire.
Councilmember Kookie Fitzsimmons said the winery would benefit Saratoga, which is why she voted to approve its conditional use permit.
The emergency access roads, open space easement exchange and capacity restrictions are among 85 conditions for approval that House Family Vineyards has to meet before opening to mitigate adverse impacts to the neighborhood, mostly related to increased traffic. Cargill assured the council that these conditions would be met.
However, several hillside residents expressed concern over safety. They cited existing traffic issues on nearby roads and the fact that the vineyard would be used as an event venue when it is near a hillside conservation area.
“Let me say this clearly for everyone in the room and those that are hearing online: They are granting fire safety exceptions for a commercial event venue in a high fire-prone hillside, and they’re doing it on the watch of Mayor (Belal) Aftab and this council,” said a resident named Mona.
Councilmember Walia echoed the worries about safety, saying she couldn’t support the project for that reason.
The Tamalpais Union High School District mishandled an investigation into alleged antisemitic speech by a teacher, state officials said.
The California Department of Education said the district should have indicated there was unlawful discrimination under the state education code. The department issued its decision on Friday in response to an appeal by a parent.
The investigation involved remarks a Spanish teacher at Redwood High School allegedly made on Oct. 11 during the Jewish holiday season, specifically during the observance of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.
“Isn’t it weird that we have a day off for a Jewish holiday and not for Indigenous Peoples Day?” the teacher said to her class, according to the state decision. “That’s because we have too many Jews in the district.”
Some students gasped when they heard the remarks, according to the state, which did not name the teacher. A parent of one of the students filed a complaint.
The district investigated the complaint and issued its report on Nov. 12. The investigation report, or IR, determined that the complaint was “not sustained.”
The parent appealed the finding to the California Department of Education in March.
The department’s decision said the district erred in following a “complaint against a teacher” policy. Instead, the district should have used a “uniform complaint policy” process, or UCP. The latter would have been the appropriate vehicle to address allegations of “unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying based on religion,” the state said.
“Consequently, instead of advising the appellant how to timely appeal to CDE, the IR did not advise appellant of the right to appeal to CDE at all, which the appellant argues caused confusion and delay,” the state said.
“CDE has reviewed the entire investigation file provided by the district and concludes that, contrary to the IR’s ultimate resolution, the bulk of the evidence in the file, coupled with the district’s factual findings, amounts to a violation warranting corrective action,” the state said.
“The fact that the teacher’s personal social media profile pictures contained ‘Free Palestine’ images was protected speech and ‘not under the jurisdiction of the school district,’” the education department added.
Tara Taupier, the Tamalpais Union superintendent, denied the parent’s claim that the district tried to cover up the initial incident.
“The CDE found that we should have used the Uniform Complaint Policy while conducting the investigation, which may have led to a different conclusion,” Taupier said in an email. “We acknowledge and respect the CDE’s findings and will comply fully with the required corrective actions.”
Marc Levine, regional director for the American Defamation League, said, “This kind of rhetoric does the exact opposite of what educators are meant to do: create a safe and collaborative learning environment for their students.”
“We urge the district to ensure that the required training from this incident meaningfully addresses ways to prevent antisemitism from entering the classroom,” said Levine, formerly Marin’s representative in the state Assembly.
Taupier said corrective actions will include mandatory training for all high school teachers by Sept. 30 on “students’ rights to be free from discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying on the basis of protected characteristics.”
The training will also include “students’ rights to be protected from retaliation for filing complaints alleging such conduct,” Taupier said.
“We want to be clear that we take all allegations of antisemitism — and any form of discrimination — very seriously,” Taupier said. “We are committed to creating safe, respectful and inclusive learning environments for all students.”
She declined to comment on potential disciplinary actions.
“Our focus remains on supporting students, upholding our values and ensuring that every classroom reflects a culture of respect,” Taupier said.
The state decision is the third this spring involving alleged incidents of antisemitism in Bay Area school districts. Last month, the state education office ordered two South Bay school districts to provide anti-bias training after finding that teachers discriminated against Jewish students by providing lessons slanted against Israel when teaching about the war with Hamas in Gaza.
In one case, the state found that two ethnic studies teachers in the Campbell Union High School District discriminated against Jewish students and violated state education code by describing Israel as a settler-colonial state and its war against Hamas as genocide against the Palestinian people.
In the other, the state said Jewish students at a school in the Santa Clara Unified School District experienced discrimination when a history teacher took a “clear” pro-Palestinian stance during class. Also, another teacher told a student it would be “a bad look” to invite an Israeli speaker to campus.
The Bay Area News Group contributed to this article.
Visitors to his museum love to open up about their connections to this 393-acre island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, a landmass that didn’t even exist 100 years ago. Nonetheless, this flat, man-made island has played a unique, outsized role in illuminating the region’s vision of itself as a vanguard for American progress.
A drone view of Treasure Island seen from Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
Two years after it was built in 1937, Treasure Island hosted 17 million people for a World’s Fair to promote international unity, then served as the point for wartime embarkation and debarkation for 4.5 million sailors, Marines and servicewomen headed to the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. More servicemen and women passed through Treasure Island in the years that followed — up until 1997 — as the Navy continued to use the island for command, electronics and nuclear weapons training and for regional command operations.
I recall my father, a Naval Reserve captain and veteran of the Pacific Theater, bringing our family to special-occasion dinners at the Officer’s Club in the 1970s. It seemed so elegant, like a scene from a World War II movie, with my father donning his uniform and inviting my mother to dance.
People who currently live and work on the island talk about building a new sense of community, with a demographically diverse population that includes formerly unhoused people, creative entrepreneurs and denizens of new low- and high-rise buildings along the waterfront.
“We got the water, we got walking paths. This is so beautiful. It’s a miracle on Treasure Island,” Melanie Williams Jones, who raised her two children on the island, said in a recent oral history anthology.
Court of the Seven Seas at the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition (Gift of Janis Bosenko/Courtesy of the Treasure Island Museum)
For thousands of years, Treasure Island existed only as a submerged outcropping of rocks in San Francisco Bay. Ohlone tribes likely fished here while visiting or living on adjacent Yerba Buena Island, which was later used for goat farming, until the U.S. Army seized it in 1866 for coastal defense purposes
San Francisco leaders came up with the idea of building a new island in the 1930s, inspired by the construction marvel that was the Bay Bridge. They wanted to host a world’s fair to promote San Francisco as a center for progress, then transform the island into a major new airport. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed off on the proposal after being persuaded that building an island and airport would put thousands to work during the Depression. Of course, the military also recognized its potential as a future Navy base.
It took the US Army Corp of Engineers just 22 months to finish the island, connecting it to Yerba Buena Island via a causeway. The federal government also funded the construction of elegant new airport buildings, including the stately Art Moderne-style Administration Building and control tower, which served as a terminal for the Pan American Airways Clipper flying boats that landed in the Bay.
The airport idea never progressed further, not after the Navy moved onto the island in 1940 to prepare for the possibility of war. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy stayed for another 55 years, until the island’s transfer to the city of San Francisco for future redevelopment.
Now, both Treasure and Yerba Buena islands are undergoing another transformation for the 21st century. By 2041, up to 8,000 new homes, along with restaurants, retail centers, public transportation hubs, parks and open spaces are expected to be built on the two islands under a master plan overseen by San Francisco’s Treasure Island Development Authority. The idea is to rekindle the island’s original mission to provide a vision for the future.
As this transformation unfolds, here are two other stories about the island’s unique role in American history.
Anne Schnoebelen of the Treasure Island Museum visits a collection of statues from the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition stored in a hangar on the island, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Amazing hidden art
Getting a rare peek at the 12 Pacific Unity sculptures stored in an old warehouse on Treasure Island may not entirely compare to the experience of the Chinese archaeologist discovering the ancient tomb holding 8,000 terra-cotta warriors. There’s an echo, though.
Stepping behind a fence to see these seemingly forgotten, nearly 90-year-old sculptures still inspires a heart-pounding sense of awe and discovery. The works are stunning and historically significant in their own right.
For the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition, eight Bay Area artists — four women and four men — were commissioned to create monumental works that presented America’s hope for global unity, even with World War II looming.
The Court of Pacifica during the Golden Gate International Exposition 1939-40 (Gift of Kelly Williams/Courtesy of the Treasure Island Museum)
The sculptures are among the original 20 featured in one of the Expo’s most spectacular locations: the Court of Pacifica, named for an 80-foot-tall figure of a mythological goddess. Each of the sculptures represented people of the Pacific Rim.
They are in storage now with the expectation that they will again be publicly displayed on the island at housing and retail centers, said Bob Beck, director of the Treasure Island Development Authority.
The group includes one of three dancing Chinese musicians crafted by Fresno-born Helen Philips, who was later known for her avant-garde and surrealist bronzes, and two massive figures of Incan soldiers riding llamas by Sargent Johnson, a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, even though he lived much of his life in San Francisco’s North Beach.
The majestic figure of a seated Polynesian woman is by Brents Carlson, who, like these other artists, trained at the now-shuttered San Francisco Art Institute. And an almost kinetic figure of an Indigenous boy wrestling an alligator, which shows signs of decades of wear, was made by Cecelia Graham, another San Francisco native.
The artists were among the thousands who found work on Treasure Island during the Depression, helping to prepare the island to host the exposition.
A few months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Navy took formal possession of the island and knocked down or repurposed exposition buildings. It kept the Court of Pacifica and allowed the statues to stay, though the goddess Pacifica came down in 1942. By the early 1990s, six of the sculptures had been restored and were displayed in front of the Administration Building, which also houses the Treasure Island Museum. But the grand former Court of Pacifica eventually became a parking lot.
The Port Chicago Mutiny Trial
The island was also the setting for a pivotal moment of civil rights history, a court martial for mutiny in the wake of the 1944 Port Chicago disaster that carried the threat of years of prison or even the death penalty.
Even though they were the defendants, Jack Crittendon and 49 other Black sailors, many in their teens and early 20s, had to occupy seats in the back of the room on Yerba Buena Island, which was part of the U.S. Navy’s World War II-era Treasure Island Training and Distribution Center at the time. Their offense: refusing to return to work loading munitions at the Port Chicago Naval facility on Suisun Bay two months after an explosion killed 320 sailors and civilians, most of them Black.
The 1944 trial of the “Port Chicago 50” became a pivotal moment in the history of 20th century civil rights and military history. (Unknown photographer/Courtesy of the Treasure Island Museum).
In October, an exhibit commemorating the “largest mass military trial in U.S. history” was unveiled in Panorama Park at the top of Yerba Buena Island. The trial is now recognized as one of the defining moments in 20th century civil rights and military history.
The explosion and trial were “devastating to him,” Jack Crittendon’s son, Hiram Crittendon said. The trial ended with Jack’s conviction, and he was initially sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Born in rural poverty in Alabama, drafted into the Navy after Pearl Harbor and serving his first assignment, Jack Crittendon was scheduled to go on guard duty the night of July 17, 1944. He told author Robert L. Allen, there was “a great big flash,” then he was thrown out of a building. “People running and hollering, (men in the barracks) blown to pieces,” he said. The next morning, he was ordered to help with the search and rescue, finding “a shoe with a foot in it” and “a head floating in water.”
Three weeks later, he was among 258 Black sailors who refused to do the hazardous work, unless they received proper training.
The work stoppage was classified as mutiny, and 50 sailors put on trial that September. In an unusual move, the Navy opened the trial to local and national media, prompting NAACP attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to attend and eventually commission a blistering, nationally distributed 18-page pamphlet on the Navy’s “bias, bigotry and bungling” that found its way to activist first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Public outcry over the trial became a catalyst for change in the military, with President Harry S. Truman signing an executive order in 1948 to desegregate the armed forces. Jack Crittendon died in 2017 at age 92, seven years before advocacy by groups like the Port Chicago Alliance convinced the Navy to finally issue a full exoneration of the sailors.
Now, the sailors’ heroism is being remembered with a set of panels in Panorama Park, some 300 feet above where the trial took place.
Treasure Island: If you go
Pretty much any waterside perch on Treasure and Yerba Buena islands offers spectacular views of San Francisco Bay, the San Francisco and Oakland skylines and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Construction crews install Point of Infinity, a 69-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, Calif., May 23, 2023. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Yerba Buena’s Panorama Park delivers a 360-degree view of the Bay, the exhibit dedicated to the Port Chicago 50 and the Point of Infinity, a 69-foot-tall stainless steel spire by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
The Treasure Island Museum occupies just one room in the historic Administration Building, but it offers well-curated displays and a wealth of information about the island’s cultural and military past and its future. The museum also hosts special events and is a good place to start a self-guided walking or driving tour. Among other things, the museum’s downloadable guide recommends stops at “the YMCA mural,” which depicts the island’s history, and at the famed Doggie Diner heads, as well as a swing over to Yerba Buena Island to see the Nimitz House, the home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during WWII.
With the San Francisco skyline in the distance, a pair of cyclists relax in the courtyard at the Mersea Restaurant on Treasure Island, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Dining on Treasure Island? Two excellent, innovative restaurants emphasize outside dining. Mersea Restaurant, which serves casual comfort fare and boasts incredible views, is built out of container ships arranged around a garden of succulents; www.mersea.restaurant. Aracely Cafe offers a cozy, intimate experience whether you are sitting indoors or in the outdoor lounge areas around a fireplace. Aracely is known for its daily brunch service. It’s open for dinner Wednesday-Saturday as well; aracelysf.com.
At the rocky edge of Alcatraz, a Brandt’s cormorant is committing a crime.
A cormorant neighbor just returned from a patch of nearby grass, where it plucked a mouthful of greens and waddled back to its mate to help build their nest. But the happy couple is about to make a mistake.
They turn their attention elsewhere, leaving their pile of vegetation unprotected just for a moment, and a crafty avian miscreant spots an opportunity.
Thief!
“It’s like watching a soap opera,” says Julie Thayer, a senior scientist at the Farallon Institute who has studied the birds of Alcatraz for almost 30 years.
Standing by the railing on the western edge of the island with the old cellhouse lurking on the hill behind you, it’s easy to forget about the island’s gloomy history and get lost in the wonder of the vibrant scene unfolding just below.
A National Park Service staff walks down the stairs as a colony of Brandt’s cormorants hang out on the structure’s roof recreation yard at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
A colony of maybe a hundred Brandt’s cormorants is hustling about, and there’s a lot to keep track of. The birds are madly collecting nest material, stealing from one another, fighting a little, flapping their wings and displaying their best courtship maneuvers.
Tourists come here for the felonious tales, of course, but this may be the best place in the world to see the Brandt’s cormorant. The toddler-sized, 5-pound bird has a 4-foot wingspan, black feathers and a majestic, bright blue pouch that males show off proudly when trying to attract a mate. They shake their wings, open their mouths, tilt their heads back and boom, there it is — a pouch so blue it could have its own Crayola shade.
A Brandt’s cormorant is displayed as part of the Birds in a Changing Climate exhibit created by National Park Service staff at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
“We often have people from Britain coming here,” says Thayer. “They really want to see Brandt’s cormorant, because it doesn’t exist anywhere else.”
For birders, Alcatraz is an unusual environment. Seabirds often breed on land that’s not accessible to humans to observe. But there are no land predators on this island, so the birds don’t have to worry about exposing their nests.
The rocky shores, abandoned buildings and cozy structures provide plenty of space for birds who like to nest in large groups. And because the waters of San Francisco Bay are lush with marine life, there’s an abundance of nearby food for birds that feast on ocean creatures.
The result is magnificent, with cormorant and gull colonies spread out over the island, as if it were theirs alone. Snowy egrets and black-crowned night herons nest more discreetly in the bushes. Geese are everywhere. Sparrows and hummingbirds can be found, too. Ravens, of course. And until recently, there were a couple of peregrine falcons nesting on the island, but as of March, park rangers had gone months without spotting them, a particular concern, given the recent bird flu outbreak.
Vistors look at a colony of Brandt’s cormorants during their tour at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
The National Parks Service, with help from scientists like those at the Farallon Institute, has been carefully protecting the island to ensure it remains a flourishing location for birds.
Imagine how many birds were there in the early 1800s, when Spanish explorers named the island after alcatraces or seabirds. Military takeover in the 1850s pushed the birds out, and for the next century, cannon fire and military activity made it an unwelcoming place for birds. Not even the famous “Birdman” prisoner, Robert Stroud, was allowed to have birds on the island.
The prisoners, however, were allowed to help tend the gardens and did such a good job introducing resilient plants that many continued to flourish years after the prison closed in 1963. Today, volunteers through the Alcatraz Historic Gardens Project keep the gardens blooming.
“It’s poignant to think about,” says local naturalist John Muir Laws. “Here you are in lockup for the rest of your life, but what you can do is nurture some growth and beauty back into the world. Next time you’re over there, explore those gardens and think about the impact that’d have on your humanity, if you’re incarcerated. Gardens are still active parts of many prisons and something inmates can do to be connected with the cycles of life that otherwise they’re not connected to.”
It’s the gardens and bushes along the western side of the island that have made fantastic homes for the egrets and herons.
A snowy egret opens its winds after landing on a branch at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
They nearly went extinct in the early 1900s, when it was popular for women to wear plumes in their hats. Egrets returned to Alcatraz in 1997, though numbers have declined in recent years. There were only a few dozen snowy egret nests located last year.
Spotting them would be worth a visit all on its own. Their fluffy white feathers are often visible poking from the bushes. When their eggs hatch in May and June, the chicks will spend time around the nest and in surrounding trees, while the adult birds put on big, noisy displays as they feed them, sometimes just 10 feet from the walkway.
“Watching egrets breeding and feeding is so much fun,” says Muir Laws. “(On the mainland), they’re way off on distant eucalyptus trees somewhere you can’t see. But because there’s a wall at Alcatraz that everybody respects, you’ll be walking on the path and a couple meters away, there’s an egret on its nest right next to the trail.
“It reminds me of going to the Galapagos Islands. These are animals that know human beings stay over there, ‘We’ve got them fenced in — this is our island.’”
To ensure their safety, the park keeps parts of the island closed from February through September to protect the birds’ nesting areas.
A pair of Brandt’s cormorants collect weed for their nest as the mating season is in the making at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Climate change is a battle, too.
Take the Brandt’s cormorants, for example. They were first spotted repopulating Alcatraz in the early 1990s with a handful of nests. Then the numbers exploded, reaching the thousands by 2009. Then they disappeared. There was an anchovy shortage, and they had to go elsewhere to find food.
“A shift in the ocean climate caused a shift in their prey,” Thayer said. “There was also a big marine heatwave in 2014-16. People were seeing a lot of dead birds, seals, sea lions washing up on beaches, just because the waters were so warm that the things they normally eat died or moved northwards.”
When the anchovy returned a few years later, so did the cormorants. And by 2023, there were almost 5,000 Brandt’s cormorant nests on Alcatraz.
Muir Laws says his favorite thing to do at the island is watch the “kleptomaniac cormorants” steal nest material from one another.
“If you look at the spacing of the nests, they’re all about two neck lengths away,” he said. “So if you lean over, you won’t be able to peck or steal stuff from your neighbor.”
That’s a general rule of bird behavior on the island: lose focus, lose your nest. Or your chicks.
Ravens and, since 2019, peregrine falcons are waiting for unprotected nest eggs or for baby gull chicks to hatch, as they become easy prey.
The gulls don’t seem too concerned; they’ve nested everywhere on the island, with almost 1,000 pairs spotted there last year. From the old officers’ quarters to the warden’s house near the parade grounds, the western gull has never looked more proud to make a home.
These birds can live to be as old as 30, though most live between 15 and 18 years.
Lucky birders might also catch a glimpse of the great blue herons. There are only a few, and they can be found in the eucalyptus tree above the Alcatraz rose garden.
It may require binoculars, but the pigeon guillemots can be spotted nesting in pipes and nest boxes near the shores. The black birds blend in with the darkness of their cavernous homes, but their bright red feet and bright red throats are unmistakable. Sometimes, you’ll see them right when you get off the ferry.
It takes some effort, but chasing the birds at Alcatraz can reward you with cheery entertainment.
At “The Rock,” it’s the birds’ world — we’re just visiting it.
“Whenever I’m over there, I think of being incarcerated on that island,” Muir Laws says. “You may never fly again, but I wonder if the inmates looked out at the birds, if that could bring them comfort and hope.
“The birds can go in and out. And they chose to come there.”
Details: Take the ferry to Alcatraz ($48 for adults, $29 for children) as early as 8:20 a.m. returning as late as 6:35 p.m. through November; cityexperiences.com. See the “Birds of a Changing Climate” exhibit in the island’s New Industries Building, open from 3 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursday-Saturday and other times depending on staff availability; nps.gov.
If you were affected by 23andMe's data breach that compromised 14,000 user accounts—plus 6.9 million DNA Relatives and Family Tree profiles—you can now claim your compensation.
Following the 2023 credential-stuffing attack, 23AndMe in 2024 agreed to a $30 million payout for impacted consumers. The genetic testing company then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year (introducing new privacy concerns around the potential sale of customer data), and the settlement money will soon be distributed amid the proceedings.
How much you'll receive from 23andMe
If everyone whose account was involved received an equal payout, that would come to about $4.35 per person. However, users with an "extraordinary claim"—those who experienced identity theft or fraudulent tax filings as a result of the breach—could qualify for up to $10,000 to reimburse verified expenses, including costs for physical or cyber security systems as well as mental health treatment.
Individuals residing in Alaska, California, Illinois, and Oregon will receive roughly $100 thanks to state privacy laws, and this same amount will likely be paid to users whose personal health information was leaked.
The settlement also provided for three years of identity monitoring services through a customized program called Privacy & Medical Shield + Genetic Monitoring.
How to file a 23andMe claim
There are actually two types of claims permitted as part of 23andMe's bankruptcy filing. Consumers who were impacted by the 2023 data breach can file a Cyber Security Incident Claim, which must be submitted by July 14, 2025. To be eligible, you must have been a 23andMe customer between May 1, 2023 and October 1, 2023 and have received a notice (via letter or email) that your information was compromised in the breach. You also must attest that you incurred damages (monetary or non-monetary) as a result of the incident.
Claims can be filed online via the Kroll Restructuring Administration portal, or you can mail a hard copy of your claim form to the address listed. To complete a claim, you must provide some personal information as well as details about the harm incurred with supporting documentation, such as bank or credit card statements substantiating losses.
If you weren't affected by the breach but have other grievances with 23andMe, you can submit a general claim form using the same process with the same deadline.
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