- A font and typeface maker has created a font in homage to the late Gilbert Baker, creator of gay pride symbol the rainbow flag. [KQED]
- Researchers in the Netherlands are obsessed with solving the Escape From Alcatraz mystery, launching GPS-located coconuts to test theories about currents. [CNet]
- Opponents of a Mission Street development say its design is too upscale, with too many glass windows. [Socketsite]
- A Sacramento man who was tackled and punched by a cop on video allegedly for jaywalking has filed a civil rights lawsuit. [CBS5]
- Google is now offering rides in its self-driving Waymo cars. [CNet]
- An SFPD Captain is outraged after suspect in a robbery of computers from the Bayview Opera House's offices was released.
- Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg are in talks to open a school in SF along the lines of one they've already opened on the peninsula. [Ex]
- Supervisor Cohen wants to relax regulations for those ugly AT&T boxes. [Ex]
- The city wants to buy the New Asia Restaurant site for a future affordable housing project. [Ex]
- It's all good for Marissa Mayer, who will score $186 million on Yahoo’s sale to Verizon. [NYT]
- Take a deep dive into Facebook’s major problems. [NYT]
- Could the Bay Area have seen the last of rain until... the fall? [Chron]
- A Hunters Point abandoned cement plant catches fire. [Ex]
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