NEWS FORJAYASRI

The United States carried out fresh strikes on Iranian targets in and around the Strait of Hormuz, DW reported with Reuters, AFP and dpa. US Central Command said the attacks responded to attempted Iranian attacks on shipping and American personnel. Iran threatened retaliation. Those explanations are claims by the respective authorities; the latest exchange adds uncertainty around a strategically important shipping route.

Google Research’s MAPL-EMIT automates the detection and measurement of methane plumes in hyperspectral observations from NASA’s EMIT instrument. The researchers are releasing the model, synthetic training data, inference code and a plume database.

For an applied-ML developer, the interesting part is the complete pipeline: finding a plume, separating its signal from the background, estimating its emissions and locating a likely source. This is a research system built around a specific measurement problem, not a general chatbot.

California’s legislature has passed AB 1795, the Smoke Damage Recovery Act, according to the state Department of Insurance. The measure would establish standards for testing and restoring smoke-damaged homes and new requirements for handling insurance claims. It has been sent to the governor: legislative passage is not the same as a signed law. The bill also calls for reports on the Lineage Logistics warehouse fire in Boyle Heights.