LA fires: “It was like watching the end of the world”

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The Chinese cyber-attack that could have stolen data from every American

In 2024, reports emerged of a highly sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against US telecoms companies, which some analysts believe went all the way up to the Chinese government.The group behind this campaign would later be codenamed Salt Typhoon, and it is believed to have qu ...  Show more

Mythos: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ for public release

Anthropic, one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms, have built a new model which they say is too dangerous to be released to the public.Instead, they are only giving access to Claude Mythos Preview to a handful of big companies to help them find and fix security vulnerabilities. ...  Show more

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The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must Do Now
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With so many confusing narratives unfolding around a fire that is still raging out of control, I wanted to talk to somebody I knew and trusted to get stories like this right. Robinson Meyer is the founder and editor of Heatmap News and a former staff writer at The Atlantic, where ...  Show more

Los Angeles is burning
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Early Tuesday, wildfires started burning across Los Angeles County. The scale of the destruction is massive; entire neighborhoods are in flames, with longtime businesses, schools and houses of worship burnt to t ...

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L.A. on Fire
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Over the past 48 hours, wildfires have consumed acre after acre and building after building across greater Los Angeles. More than 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and at least five people have died.

The Times’s L.A. bureau chief, Corina Knoll, and our staff ...

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Could the L.A. Fires Have Been Stopped Sooner?
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 A week after fires broke out in the Los Angeles area, Californians are grappling with the widespread destruction.

They’re also seeking answers from their leaders about why so much has been lost.

Mike Baker and Christopher Flavelle, who have been covering the fires ...

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