In what sounds like both a word of warning and weirdly a little bit of bragging, SF-based Anthropic says that its AI chatbot Claude was used by state-sponsored hackers in China to commit a large-scale cyberattack on American companies.
Dust that collects on and near insulator caps along BART's electrified third rail was potentially to blame for a scary August 29 incident in which a fire in the Transbay Tube led to smoke entering a moving train.
Trump’s Department of Justice has opened a probe into East Bay Congressman and Trump enemy Eric Swalwell for mortgage fraud, though several members of Trump’s cabinet have engaged in the same mortgage practices as Swalwell.
After reports broke late Thursday that new SF District 4 Supervisor Beya Alcaraz had paid employees under the table and misrepresented expenses on her taxes, Alcaraz resigned from her supervisor seat about four hours later.
Oakland police have announced that an arrest has been made in connection with Thursday's shocking shooting at Laney College, which left a beloved football coach critically wounded, and more details about the crime have emerged.
Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon arrived at UC Berkeley to make a show about investigating a protest; a federal appeals court has blocked a new rule about immigrants' commercial driver's licenses; and Trump angers his base by softening on H1-B visas.
Trump’s Justice Department is suing California to block Prop 50; Whoopi Goldberg brought Berkeley’s famed Top Dog hot dogs onto ‘The View,’ and Valencia Street’s ATA is in dire straits with a $45,000 back rent bill.
More than 17,000 California commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants have been revoked, as the state speeds up to comply with new federal rules that driver’s licenses can’t be valid for those no longer legally allowed to be in the US.
It’s Oakland’s second school shooting in two days, with Laney College on lockdown Thursday over an active shooter, and the man who was shot was the school's famed former football coach who was featured in a 2020 Netflix series.
Just outside the doors of PABU, the 11-year-old izakaya that Michael Mina opened in the base of 101 California, there is a new separate sake bar and private event space, and it's called Pabu-Chan.
A new documentary details how Santacon evolved from a clever SF culture prank to a widely despised black-out-and-vomit nuisance event, and that feature documentary is streaming this weekend for $15.
A small but noticeable 3.6-magnitude earthquake happened Thursday at 12:41 pm, with an epicenter two miles southeast of Vallejo.
A legal battle that's been ongoing for about 18 months between upscale membership club CORE and SHVO, the developer behind the revamp of the Transamerica Building, appeared to escalate this week.
The new “woke pope” seems to be trickling his wokeness down to even the ultraconservative Archbishop of San Francisco, who just joined more than 200 other US bishops in condemning Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Almost 400 flights departing from or arriving at SFO have been delayed so far on Thursday, with 55 flights canceled outright — though the majority of the cancelations may be due to the FAA-mandated decrease in air traffic related to the government shutdown.
BART officials say that an “unstable individual” with a knife barricaded themselves in the Hayward BART maintenance complex for about four hours Thursday morning, though that person has been taken into custody and trains are largely back on schedule.
There were some car crashes during this morning's very rainy commute; Live 105 has cancelled their rebooted Not So Silent Night concert; and the government shutdown is officially over.
Transit fans toast to the final rides of the last 90s-era Breda light-rail train on the J-Church line; a former Newsom aide is indicted for stealing funds from Becerra; and there was a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.
A big fish in the Sheng Thao scandal may be ready to turn evidence against Thao and the people accused of bribing her, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo might sing like a bird to avoid his own bribery charges.
A conglomerate of big-name banks just finally bought the San Francisco Centre mall for a fraction of its previous value, though this tells us nothing about what will happen to the mall, as those banks are just going to sell the place again.
In what will be the 19th annual iteration of the festival, Bay Area chef Charlie Palmer's renowned Pigs & Pinot returns to Healdsburg in a new location in March, with a unique, all-star roster of father-son chef teams.
San Mateo County begins a new law enforcement era today with the naming of new Sheriff Kenneth Binder. Binder replaces Sheriff Christina Corpus, whose two-year tenure was rife with controversy, and who retired last month after county supervisors voted to remove her.
We now have the most in-depth peek to date inside the still under-construction Castro Theatre, as crews complete what's been a nearly two-year-long, $41 million renovation project.
A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the “drunk tank” for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie’s latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets.
The spring and summer schedule at the revamped and renovated Castro Theatre is getting filled in further today with the announcement of several film screenings, and confirmation that the SF Silent Film Festival will be returning there.
