Wactor, de 37 años, apareció como Brando Corbin en 164 episodios de la exitosa serie de televisión “General Hospital” entre 2020 y 2022. Ella apareció en otros programas. Como Westworld y Criminal Minds.
Según el Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, los agentes acudieron al área de Pico Boulevard y Hope Street alrededor de las 3:25 a.m. del sábado. Al llegar encontraron a un hombre herido de bala.
La policía dijo que el hombre vio a tres hombres robando el convertidor catalítico de su coche. Cuando los enfrentó, se dieron vuelta y le dispararon.
El hombre, que ahora se revela como Wactor, murió en un hospital local. La policía dijo que no se encontraron sospechosos.
No se proporcionaron detalles adicionales de inmediato.
Dos personas fueron trasladadas al hospital después de una emboscada por parte de un gran grupo de adolescentes en el condado de San Bernardino.
Los sospechosos fueron identificados el martes como Kessler Pelfrey, de 18 años, de Yucaipa y un hombre de 15 años, según el Departamento de Policía del Condado de San Bernardino.
El 3 de mayo, dos adolescentes caminaban cerca de Center Park cerca de 1st Street y Avenue B en Yucaipa cuando de repente fueron confrontados por un grupo de 10 a 15 adolescentes y estalló una gran pelea.
Las autoridades dijeron que las dos víctimas fueron atacadas por el grupo y apuñaladas varias veces antes de caer al suelo.
Mientras una adolescente no identificada yacía en el suelo, pisó la cabeza de una de las víctimas.
Cuando las víctimas se pusieron de pie, comenzaron a huir del parque pero el nutrido grupo de adolescentes continuó persiguiéndolos.
Aproximadamente a las 10:30 p.m., los agentes acudieron a una gasolinera donde encontraron a una víctima con múltiples laceraciones y una herida de arma blanca.
Mientras los paramédicos transportaban a la víctima al hospital, las autoridades se enteraron de que una segunda víctima adolescente había ingresado a un hospital cercano y también sufría múltiples heridas de arma blanca.
Los investigadores descubrieron varias grabaciones de vídeo del asalto y pudieron identificar a dos sospechosos principales de la emboscada.
El 9 de mayo, los investigadores entregaron una orden de allanamiento en la casa del sospechoso de 15 años en Beaumont.
Se emitieron dos órdenes de registro adicionales en dos casas relacionadas con Pelfrey, el sospechoso de 18 años.
El joven de 15 años fue arrestado e ingresado en el Centro de Menores de San Bernardino. Pelfrey fue arrestado e ingresado en el Centro Central de Detención de San Bernardino.
El accidente sigue bajo investigacion. Cualquier persona que tenga información debe llamar al Detective E. Pérez al 909-918-2305.
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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang shows off the new Blackwell GPU chip (left) at an 18 March event in San Jose, California.Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty
China’s AI sector could be five to ten years behind the United States, partly because it can’t access the most advanced computer chips. In 2022, the United States imposed export controls on the fastest chips and on equipment that could be used to produce such chips. Even foreign suppliers that produce chips for the US market won’t sell to Chinese developers to avoid falling foul of US sanctions. This has “dramatically limited” China’s progress with training AI models, says computer engineer Yiran Chen.
In a randomized trial in two Taiwan hospitals, an AI system trained on electrocardiograms reduced deaths among high-risk patients by 31% and deaths by heart problems by more than 90%. “It’s very rare for any medication to [produce] a 31% reduction in mortality, and then even more rare for a non-drug — this is just monitoring people with AI,” says cardiologist Eric Topol. The researchers speculate that the AI predictions increased physicians’ focus on the highest-risk individuals.
Almost 40% of made-up text generated by the audio-to-text AI Whisper is harmful or concerning, according to a preprint study that is not yet peer reviewed. While the OpenAI tool only fabricated sections in about 1% of transcripts, these hallucinations often alluded to violence or false personal information. “Doctors are using speech-to-text tools to transcribe patient notes,” says computer scientist and study co-author Allison Koenecke. “If Whisper is making up some transcription that isn’t being said, about how this patient killed someone and they are also taking this medication that is totally made up, imagine how severe those consequences are.”
This tiny drone on a pogo stick is a Hopcopter. It can bounce up to 1.6 metres high and even do mid-air somersaults. And the hop–flying is remarkably efficient: with a fully charged battery, Hopcopter can move continuously for more than 20 minutes — whereas the same drone without the leg can hover for only a little more than 6 minutes at a time. (IEEE Spectrum | 9 min read)
AI and robotics are changing how wildfires are detected and controlled. Drones can provide firefighters with real-time data on how a fire spreads and where the hotspots are — something that currently requires satellite images, which are often many hours old. “Speed is one of the key points. We want to be accurate, but also we want to be very fast in the predictions,” says machine-learning researcher Rossella Arcucci. Her team’s AI systems scour social media for posts about wildfires, which helps to identify an inferno’s starting point. Eventually, AI-controlled water bombers could put out fires autonomously, without putting human firefighters at risk.
“We shouldn’t fear AI as a technology,” writes media researcher Joseph Jones. “We should instead worry about who owns AI and how its owners wield AI to invade privacy and erode democracy.” Our browsers, apps and smart devices collect huge amounts of information on us. Instead of using this data for everyone’s benefit, it is used to feed machine learning models that suggest ways to ‘nudge’ us towards interacting more with technology and generate even more data, Jones explains. “Under the current business model, the advances of AI and robot technology will enrichen the few while making life more difficult for the many.”
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a warning that hackers are attempting to target the helpdesks of hospitals in order to gain access to critical hospital systems.
The hackers have been observed contacting hospital IT help desks using local area code phone numbers and then pretending to be a hospital employee, providing the helpdesk with stolen identification.
The hackers then request that their device be set up to use the employee’s multi-factor authentication. Once they have access to the hospital’s internal systems, they are free to steal data and re-route transactions into their own bank accounts.
Hospital data and finances a honeypot for hackers
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a warning for hospitals to be vigilant in the face of hackers using elaborate social engineering campaigns to gain access to hospital systems. The HC3 stated that the hackers “specifically targeted login information related to payer websites, where they then submitted a form to make ACH changes for payer accounts” in order to steal money.
“Once access has been gained to employee email accounts, they sent instructions to payment processors to divert legitimate payments to attacker-controlled U.S. bank accounts,” HC3 continued. “The funds were then transferred to overseas accounts. During the malicious campaign, the threat actor also registered a domain with a single letter variation of the target organization and created an account impersonating the target organization’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
While no threat actor has been formally identified as responsible for these attacks, HC3 issued a number of guidance points to IT help desks in order to avoid succumbing to such an attack: (PDF)
Require callbacks for employees requesting new device MFA enrollment or password resets using the number on file for the employee
Monitor ACH changes for suspicious activity and frequently revalidate users who have access to payer websites
Employees requesting MFA device enrollment, password resets, or ACH changes should report in person to the IT helpdesk
Where this is not possible, contact the employee supervisor for verification
Train helpdesk employees to identify social engineering techniques and spearphishing attempts
