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- After she was evicted from her art studio, someone made a portable "art studio" out of a box, and now is trying to pass off that box, with people encouraged to enter it and interact but not speak or touch, as her "art." [Chron]
- A group of three Chinese stock traders facing federal insider-trading charges for allegedly hacking into the computer networks of two prominent law firms to steal confidential emails involves, apparently, Bay Area transactions. [WSJ]
- A county ‘assessment center’ for vulnerable kids in Hayward has allegedly spawned a hub of sex trafficking around it. [EBX]
- San Jose cops live in RVs because they’re commuting from Tracy or Stockton. [CBS5]
- Pot kills? A marijuana grower in San Leandro has been implicated in a possible murder-for-hire. [CBS5]
- The red transit lanes that have roiled Mission District merchants are still not permanent, but a review in Sacramento says they can continue with a final report due to the federal government in March. [Chron]
- A longish piece called the “The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley" wonders if exaggeration deceit in tech are endemic, asking if Theranos is more the norm than an outlier. [Fortune]
