SF News Fremont Battery Company Allegedly Brought in Unlicensed Chinese Lawyer, Called US Workers ‘Foreigners’ A Fremont battery company with ties to China is accused of calling non-Chinese staff “foreigners,” using unauthorized Chinese workers on B-1 visas, and flying in a Chinese lawyer who's unlicensed in the US to advise on bringing in more illegal hires.
Arts & Entertainment 'No Tariffs on Endangered Species': The SF Zoo Panda Plan Is Apparently Still On The San Francisco Zoo is moving forward, undeterred, with their plan for panda diplomacy, and they say things are on track to bring a pair of giant pandas to SF in the next year.
Business & Tech DeepSeek R1 Model Shows China Flexing Its Muscles In AI Race, Causing Silicon Valley Stocks to Slide A new AI model released by Chinese startup DeepSeek has caused a great flurry of buzz and consternation in the American tech world, and that was reflected in a bunch of Silicon Valley companies' stock prices Monday morning.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo to Receive Panda Loan From China A giant panda, or a pair of pandas, will be coming to the San Francisco Zoo sometime in the future, as Mayor London Breed has succeeded in her mission to coax some Panda Diplomacy out of China.
SF Politics London Breed Would Like a Chinese University to Open a Satellite Campus In SF's Downtown Another of Mayor London Breed's goals in her upcoming trip to China, besides getting a panda for the San Francisco Zoo, is apparently to chat up a university there about opening a satellite campus in SF's struggling downtown.
Business & Tech One SF Engineer Might Have Just Saved the World From a Massive Cyberattack A 38-year-old software engineer for Microsoft was apparently curious, eagle-eyed, and lucky enough to have discovered a pernicious bit of code in the widely used Linux operating system, that someone, somewhere, had gone to some lengths to hide.
SF News The San Francisco Zoo Might be Getting a Giant Panda, Everybody! Chinese diplomats crowing about the success of the APEC summit say they’re ready to send some more pandas to U.S. zoos, and San Francisco is reportedly on the short list for getting one.
SF Politics In Surprise Meeting With Xi Jinping, Newsom Talks Fentanyl, Encourages Xi to Attend APEC Summit California Governor Gavin Newsom had a surprise meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, and was reportedly greeted warmly after meeting with several other senior Chinese officials.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Kicks Off Weeklong Trip In China, Where He's Discussing Climate Change Continuing to act presidential without actually running for the job, Governor Gavin Newsom is in China this week, discussing the state's partnership with the country on climate initiatives.
Business & Tech Jon Stewart Is Leaving His AppleTV+ Show, May Be Butting Heads With Apple Over China Coverage There’s a problem with ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart,’ which won’t be returning for a third season because of its handling of controversial topics, and there's industry speculation that Apple doesn’t want Stewart angering the Chinese market.
SF News Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
SF News President Joe Biden Suggests He Might Meet With Xi Jinping In San Francisco During APEC President Joe Biden left open the possibility Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have a sideline meeting of some sort in November while both are in San Francisco for APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders's Summit.
Business & Tech After Layoffs and Resignations on Trust & Safety Team, Twitter Faces Challenge With Chinese Propaganda, Protests China's state-run propaganda machine appears to be working overtime to flood Twitter searches with porn and escort ads, whenever anyone searches for the name of a Chinese city where protests might be occurring.
Business & Tech Facebook Takes Down Influence Campaigns Originating In Russia and China Regarding Ukraine War Meta/Facebook says that it has discovered and removed "the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation" to influence social media users since the war in Ukraine began, as well as a separate, smaller, more inept campaign out of China.
SF News Wow, This Sucks: Bay Area Woman Has Been Stuck on Cargo Ship in China for Four Months Vallejo Maritime Academy grad Madeleine Wolczko has been unable to leave a ship stuck near Shanghai for more than four months, as China’s COVID lockdowns have restricted the whole crew to being stuck on board.
SF News As FBI Cracks Down On Chinese Spies In Academia, One Researcher Is Reportedly Hiding Out at Consulate In SF The case appears to be part of a broad program in which visiting Chinese scientists are being recalled by the Chinese military, several of whom have been detained at U.S. airports in recent weeks.
SF Politics Eager to Point Fingers, Trump Orders Spies to Push China Lab COVID-19 Theory U.S. intelligence officials have been directed to “hunt for evidence” that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, though spies and scientists cite zero evidence for this claim.
SF News Accused Chinese Spy In Bay Area Linked To Possible Hotel Scheme Involving Chinese Investors In newly released, partially redacted search warrants in the federal prosecution of a Hayward man for Chinese-backed espionage, there's a new wrinkle being revealed involving the purchases of $20 million worth of hotel properties in and around the Bay Area.
SF News Bay Area Man Charged With Acting As Spy For China According to a criminal complaint made public Monday, a Hayward man has been arrested and charged with espionage after allegedly working over multiple years as an agent for Chinese intelligence.
SF News California Cuts Its Own Climate Deals With China We mentioned this in brief yesterday, but in some pretty big news, California Governor Jerry Brown has just signed a pact with China's Ministry of Science and Technology to cooperate on climate research
SF News Apple Bows To Chinese Pressure And Pulls NYTimes From App Store Chinese Apple customers looking to download the New York Times app through the tech giant's App Store are out of luck, as the company has pulled the news app at the request of
Arts & Entertainment Apple's 'This Is 7' Ad Campaign Translates As 'This Is Penis' In Cantonese, Causing Much Laughter In China After this week's unveiling of the new water-resistant, headphone jack-free iPhone 7, Apple kicked off an ad campaign with the phrase "This is 7," apparently not knowing that directly translating that to Cantonese
SF News Bright Light Seen Across Western US Skies Is Just Garbage We Left In Space Green & gold multi-piece meteor just flew south of Bridgeport and the Bodie Hills, California #easternsierra pic.twitter.com/r2mMqNOPLW— Jeff Sullivan Photo (@JeffSullPhoto) July 28, 2016 A bright light seen streaking across
SF News Zuck's Jog Through Smog-Filled Beijing Mocked By Chinese In addition to running one of the largest advertising companies on the planet, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg does a lot of goofy stuff — remember the only eating what he kills thing?
Arts & Entertainment Thumb-Sized Monkeys New Status Symbol Pets For Year Of The Monkey? Our colleagues at Shanghaiist just posted about this adorable but slightly alarming trend among elites in China of buying tiny pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest monkeys, to keep as pets in honor of
