Business & Tech Some Optical Gaming Mice Can Be Manipulated to Spy on Users Through AI, Researchers Warn Researchers at UC Irvine uncovered a vulnerability that enables some gaming mice with polling rates of 4,000 Hz or higher — many of which are developed in the Bay Area — to be turned into spyware, capturing conversations through desk vibrations using AI.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Is Looking Forward to When AI Takes His CEO Job So He Can Be a Full-Time Farmer Aspiring farmer Sam Altman is excited to take on the role full-time once his side hustle as OpenAI CEO is made obsolete by artificial intelligence. Altman anticipates machines will have the capability to fully outsmart humans by 2030.
Business & Tech Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to social media without the women's consent.
Business & Tech Waymo in Hot Water After Robotaxi Illegally Blows Past School Bus With Stop Lights On in Georgia The latest safety scare for Waymo robotaxis comes from all the way in suburban Atlanta, where a Waymo vehicle illegally drove around a school bus that was dropping off kids and flashing its stoplights, and Georgia lawmakers are furious.
Arts & Entertainment Levi’s Reopening Its Battery Street Museum, Redesigned and Triple Its Original Size The Levi Strauss & Co museum at Battery Street’s Levi’s Plaza has been closed since the pandemic, but they’ve been quietly redesigning it and overhauling it, and the museum reopens to the public in November, now three times its former size.
Business & Tech Apple Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Brought By Musk Over OpenAI Partnership Apple has formally replied in court to a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk and his company xAI alleging anticompetitive behavior in Apple's decision to partner with xAI competitor OpenAI.
Business & Tech That 'Farm' In Those Jennifer Garner Capital One Commercials Is a Real Berkeley-Based Company, and It’s Filing for an IPO Turns out that the business that Jennifer Garner hypes in one of her Capital One commercials is a real Berkeley-based company, though it's not really a farm, and they just filed to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heads Up, Tipped Employees: ‘No Taxes on Tips’ Still Means Some Taxes on Your Tips The devil is coming out of the details of Trump’s “no taxes on tips” policy, and it turns out tipped employees still have to pay taxes on those tips but then deduct them afterwards, and automatic service charges are still fully taxed.
Business & Tech Jared Kushner Partners With Saudis to Buy Bay Area-Based Game-Maker Electronic Arts Redwood City-based Electronic Arts could be taken private in a $55 billion deal announced Monday that's backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and private equity firm Silver Lake.
SF News YouTube Accounts Previously Banned for Misinformation Could Soon Be Reinstated YouTube’s parent company Alphabet announced Tuesday it’s allowing creators who received permanent bans over misinformation relating to COVID-19 and the 2020 election to apply to be reinstated. This likely includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Steve Bannon.
SF News Uniqlo Reportedly In Talks to Open a Downtown SF Store Again, Maybe in the Vacant Old Navy Space After the flagship, three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021 as that shopping district dove down the abyss, we’re now getting word that Uniqlo may want back into the downtown SF game, and might even be eyeing the vacant Old Navy.
SF News SF’s Once-Biggest Landlord Veritas Defaulting on Another $652 Million in Loans, 66 Buildings May Be Up for Grabs A total of 66 apartment buildings with nearly 1,600 units belonging to the mega-landlord Veritas could be on the selling block come December, as Veritas is defaulting on yet another giant loan to the tune of $652 million.
Business & Tech Vehicle Fleet Management Company to Take Part of Twitter's Former Space on Mid-Market Elon Musk has found a taker for at least part of the former Twitter headquarters in the former Twitter Building on mid-Market, aka the former San Francisco Mart, aka Market Square.
Business & Tech Waymo Gets Its First Baby-Step Approval to Give Rides to SFO, Cars Will Have Human Drivers at First Waymo’s race to provide airport rides to SF International Airport now has a very well-defined set of approved steps, as the company just got the green light to start testing rides to SFO with human drivers behind the wheel.
Arts & Entertainment Mario Coming to SF Nintendo Store This Weekend, Should You Think That Merits Rearranging Your Social Calendar To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the “Super Mario Bros” video game, SF’s Union Square Nintendo Store is bringing in Mario this weekend, or rather, someone in a Mario mascot suit that you can take pictures with.
SF News Oakland-Based Platform Accused of Stiffing Nonprofits Thousands of Dollars, Has F Rating Numerous nonprofits are saying Oakland-based donation processing platform, Flipcause, mishandled their funds, costing them thousands of dollars. The company currently has 81 unresolved Better Business Bureau complaints.
Business & Tech OpenAI Rumored to Be Considering Move Out of California Due to Pushback Over Restructuring Executives at one of the leading names in the local AI boom, OpenAI, are reportedly "rattled" by ongoing pushback and regulatory setbacks in California regarding its move to restructure itself as a for-profit entity.
Business & Tech Site of Long-Dead Oceanwide Tower Project In Downtown SF Back In Play With New Development Team Remember that planned 61-story tower at First and Mission streets that a Chinese developer broke ground on in 2016, only to run into pre-pandemic financial trouble and then fully halt construction in mid-2020? Well it may not be a semi-filled hole in the ground much longer.
SF News Spirit Airlines Is Pulling Out of the Bay Area Completely, After Having Filed for Bankruptcy The biggest budget airline in the US, Spirit Airlines, filed for bankruptcy last year, and as part of their restructuring, they’re pulling all service out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
Business & Tech Tesla Opens Up Robotoaxi App to All In SF, But Can They Even Do That? Tesla is pushing ahead with its Robotaxi service in SF, despite what we thought were a lot more regulatory hurdles that, as far as we know, Tesla's autonomous taxis have not actually gone through.
SF News SF Rents Rising Rents Faster Than Anywhere In the Country, So Thanks a Lot, AI Industry There should be no more talk of a “San Francisco exodus,” as rents are spiking here more than anywhere in the nation, and apartments are leasing faster in SF than in any other city in the US.
Business & Tech Parc 55 and Hilton Union Square Hotels Finally Have a Buyer, After Two Long Years Languishing in Receivership SFs largest hotel, the Hilton Union Square, and the also very large Parc 55 have finally found an interested buyer, ending two years of limbo for a pair of SF’s most prominent downtown hotels.
Business & Tech Report: Grok's Responses Have Indeed Been Getting More Right-Wing, Just Like Elon Musk If anyone doubted Elon Musk's integrity or his capacity to fulfill the promise of an unbiased, wholly fact-based AI chatbot that wasn't "woke," look no further than the latest version of Grok to have those doubts validated.
Business & Tech Some Joker Does Flips Off a Waymo, Sets Off Chain of Events That Confuses and Stalls Three Waymos We’ve heard of orange cones stopping a Waymo, but one fellow found that climbing onto the hood of a Waymo and doing a backflip will stop it too, but the halting of three Waymos in the Marina was likely just due to hooliganism.
Business & Tech Judge Stops Short of Making Google Sell Chrome, Forces It to Share Search Data With Competitors In a landmark decision in a landmark antitrust case, a federal judge in DC has ruled that in order to make restitution for its longstanding monopoly over internet search, Google will have to share some of its data and its search results to several qualified competitors.
