🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs with examples of posts now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/fac…

To put a (for now) stamp on this hellish week, here's my team SFGATE interviewing 7 mostly heartbroken Angelenos about the things they thought to carry away in the frightening dark before the fires came — and the wonder about objects left behind. sfgate.com/la/article/los…

Apple $$$ was all over the Bay Area high-end real estate market this year. Not only did Laurene Powell Jobs buy the most expensive home in the Bay at $70M — 2/10 of the most expensive homes of 2024 were bought by LLCs connected to Chinese📱 suppliers mercurynews.com/2025/01/13/bay…

🚨 WE. ARE. HIRING. 🚨 📰 Breaking News Editor 💻 Part-time Homepage Editor 🗳️ Senior Calif. Politics Reporter 🌲 Contributing Parks Editor, PNW 🌵 Contrib. Parks Editor, Southwest 🗻 Contrib. Parks Editor, Big Sky Country 🟥 Stanford Summer Intern 🟨 Cal Summer Intern 🧵👇

“When I woke up Wednesday, I had no idea if people would show up to work,” the LA pizza place's co-owner said. “But the firemen, the EMTs, the police, they’re doing their job, so we have to do ours.” read Karen Palmer: sfgate.com/la/article/los…

Meta has packed months of news into the last week: - zuckerberg's policy changes and public comments - internal strife - mass job cuts - some tiktok users blaming them for the ban i wrote about the lawyer who quit a major case to cut ties with Meta: sfgate.com/tech/article/b…

"As of last week, Meta specifically allows 'allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation' in posts. Stephen Council on how one of Zuck's lawyers thinks he's gone too far. sfgate.com/tech/article/b…

His wife, a lawyer, was also allegedly in on it, fabricating bank accounts and audit statements, including one that showed a $13m cash balance when the real balance was $25.93(!!!!!!!). When investors demanded to see the bank account directly from the bank, the pair pulled this

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Incredible scoop from my colleague Tori Elliot, who found out that Musk is installing his lackeys in the highest positions at the Office of Public Management — including a former Neuralink intern who graduated from high school in 2024 wired.com/story/elon-mus…

“If I was working on an AI-driven SaaS product for Fortune 500 companies to like, automate accounting processes . . . Imagine how much I’d have to pay people who are this smart to come in and pretend they give a f—k about that." new profile: sfgate.com/tech/article/l…

🕵️YARN🕵️ I didn’t know Keith O’Brien-but he knew me. In February, he searched my name in Rippling’s Slack 15 times. Weeks later, he tried to flush his phone down a toilet, accused of spying for Deel. Here's some extra intrigue + clandestine activity 👇 theinformation.com/articles/insid…

In 1959 a bloodied and beaten woman approached the front steps of one of the most famous homes in San Francisco. The person who saved her vanished a few years later. The identification of the ‘Marin County Jane Doe’ has unraveled a decades long mystery sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

Here I explain why the idea that we are going to suddenly make iPhones in the U.S. is pure fantasy and if Apple WERE to do that it would come after several years of deep pain. The iPhone is perhaps the most global product that has ever existed 🧵:

reviewed Lady Gaga's Coachella set. a triumph in every way, but especially for choreographer Parris Goebel. will remember this one forever: sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…

In 2019, Meta made a $1 billion commitment to affordable housing. But sources tell me that in 2022, just 3 years in, the company pulled back from the initiative, telling staff not to move forward with plans to launch its next big $250M tranche of funding mercurynews.com/2025/05/20/met…

the GOP's massive bill has a tax cut that Bay Area tech has been desperately hoping for since Trump raised their tax bills with a "budgetary gimmick" sfgate.com/tech/article/t…

"If politicians claim that they want peace, then they need to really confront the Trump administration and the federal government." an organizer said. "[They] have to draw a line in saying we cannot witness the separation of families. It’s inhumane." sfgate.com/politics/artic…

Today’s anti-Palantir protest in Palo Alto: sfgate.com/tech/article/i…