Local:

  • A Berkeley High School student was robbed by three other teenagers near campus, including one on a scooter, as he was leaving school. [Berkeley Scanner]
  • Juan Luis Gutierrez Marfil, 45, of Napa, was charged with a felony for recklessly starting the Pickett Fire in Calistoga last August, which burned 6,820 acres and caused more than $6 million in property damage as well as over $56 million in agricultural losses to winegrape vineyards and other crops. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Beginning next month, residents can speak to local journalists as part of SFGate’s new pop-up newsroom series in partnership with SF Rec and Park. [SFGate]

National:

  • A new tropical storm formed Thursday, and as fate would have it, it’s named Dolly — a mere coincidence apparently. Tropical Storm Dolly began far from land in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to fade quickly. [Associated Press]
  • The TSA is ditching its new Gold+ private airport screening program after launching it three months ago, which failed to catch on. The agency is instead expanding its existing public-private Screening Partnership Program. [Forbes]
  • Meta is fixing a loophole that previously allowed users to cover the front-facing LED on the company’s AI-powered smart glasses while still recording. [The Verge]

Video:

  • As Burning Man participants prepare to head to the playa Sunday, here’s a trailer for the 2020 documentary, Blurring Man, in which filmmaker Matthew Boman pays a Salvadoran day laborer named Elmer to attend the festival and films his experience. Boman was later met with a cease and desist letter from Burning Man’s organizers.