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- The Oakland city website was down on Thursday because their IT department forgot to renew the domain. [East Bay Times]
- A showdown in federal court appears to be mounting between Santa Clara County, the City of San Francisco and the Trump administration over the sanctuary city thing, and they were in court in SF today. [KRON 4][ABC 7]
- California’s school vaccination rate rose in the first year that the state required almost all public schoolchildren to get immunizations, and Marin County's rates are the highest in years, though more parents are seeking medical exemptions. [Slate] [CBS 5]
- The iPhone 8 may move the fingerprint reader to the back of the phone, basically copying the Galaxy S8. [CNet]
- In related news, fingerprint readers aren't all that secure, as it turns out. [New York Times]
- UC Berkeley jazz trumpet instructor Ellen Seeling engaged in a Facebook battle with a conservative rape denier, and used some colorful language. [Daily Cal]
- BART's new Warm Springs/South Fremont station already had a broken escalator this morning. [Chronicle]
- The 9th Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that declared that an FBI sting against a 70-year-old woman who was trying to sell a piece of moon rock that should legally belong to NASA was "unreasonably prolonged and unnecessarily degrading." [CBS 5]
- Video now shows how a BART operator was at fault in a fatal 2013 collision that killed two track workers. [NBC Bay Area]
- Susan Fowler, the woman who called out sexism and harassment at Uber, has been tapped to lead Stripe’s new engineering publication dubbed the “New Yorker for geeks.” [Recode]
- San Francisco is considering reducing parking tickets and other fines for poorer residents. [NPR]
- Longtime SFO director pens op-ed telling United what they need to do. [Chronicle]
- A San Francisco man was arraigned this week on federal charges in connection with the Anonymous-themed 2015 hacking of a Bay Area newspaper’s web sites. [CBS 5]
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