Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at UC Berkeley, in his office on campus in July 2019. File photo: AP /Ben Margot
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UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid may be the world’s leading deepfake expert. He says AI-generated content is now so convincing that he no longer trusts his own eyes. “We’re pretty screwed,” he says. (New York Times)
Harshita Nair, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student, is dead after being swept to sea in Santa Cruz County. (East Bay Times)
A person was found dead on the UC Berkeley campus near Oxford Street on Friday morning. (Berkeley Scanner)
A political scientist and UC Berkeley alum has been arrested in China and accused of spying. (SF Chronicle, NPR)
NASA Ames and UC Berkeley‘s plans for a $2 billion space center at Moffett Field near Mountain View have raised concerns after an environmental report showed the project would include millions of square feet of research and office space, but little housing. (Mountain View Voice)
When a new collection arrived at UC Berkeley’s California Language Archive, graduate student Tyler Lee-Wynant found hours of recordings of his aunt speaking Northern Pomo — tapes he and his family had never heard before. Now he’s reclaiming his Pomo culture, one recording at a time. (Berkeley News)
A member of BAMPFA’s curatorial team unpacks the artwork “Present Tense (Roll Call),” Stephanie Syjuco’s 63-foot installation — made up of neatly-cut snippets of blown-up textbooks, indexes and course material — that’s been on view in the museum’s lobby for nearly a year. (Panorama)
UC Berkeley has again been named the top public university in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report. (Berkeley News)
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