Humpday Headlines: Uber Announces 3,300 Layoffs

Uber just announced its biggest round of layoffs since the pandemic, cutting 3,300 jobs in a major restructuring. The cuts, which represent about 10% of the workforce, are meant to "reduce management layers" and concentrate most teams into the company's hubs in San Francisco and New York. [Chronicle]
A Tuesday evening grass fire temporarily blocked all lanes of I-580 in Castro Valley, leading to a bad traffic situation. [KRON4]
The Richmond Police Department is crediting DNA analysis, with a sample taken from an abandoned bicycle, with finding the suspect in a violent armed robbery and assault outside a bank in May. [KRON4]
The San Francisco Opera has postponed its annual opening night Opera Ball, which was scheduled for September 12, due to a threatened strike by its orchestra musicians. [Chronicle]
Ivan "Sergio" Chapparo, a manager at Berkeley's Oceanview Diner, on Fourth Street, is reportedly in ICE detention after trying to board a plane to Las Vegas last Friday. [KTVU]
A swimming teacher was viciously attacked by a river otter in Lake Tahoe earlier this week, near Incline Village, leaving her with many bite wounds and needing 38 stitches. [Bay Area News Group]
Tiger Woods has pleaded no contest in his latest DUI case in Florida, following his March rollover crash on Jupiter Island, and he's agreed to a five-year suspension of his driver's license. [CBS News]

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