Hackers reportedly releasing Oakland city employees' personal data in ongoing ransomware attack
The City of Oakland's silence about ransomware extortion, for the past three days, underscores how much trouble the city's crippled information technology systems are compromised.
Apple iPhone thieves using simple trick to take everything, report finds
Bad actors who spied on a victim's passcode before stealing the Apple device can easily reset settings preventing its owner from accessing it.
Supreme Court seems to favor social media companies in terror case
During arguments, several justices underscored that there was no evidence linking Twitter, Facebook and Google directly to the 2017 attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul.
Tesla moves global engineering headquarters to Palo Alto
Tesla founder Elon Musk announced Wednesday that the automaker is moving its global engineering headquarters to the Bay Area, already home to the company's largest manufacturing plant.
Walmart will close three tech hubs, relocate some employees to San Bruno
Hundreds of tech workers will move to San Bruno or Walmart’s headquarters in Arkansas. Those who choose not to relocate will be offered severance pay.
Silicon Valley leaders learn about poverty through immersive experience
A group of Silicon Valley leaders learned some hard lessons Friday about living in poverty in one of the wealthiest areas of the country.
Apple crash detection software triggers fake 911 calls
Apple says updates have been made to the software, but some ski resort first responders say more needs to be done
eBay, Zoom to cut more jobs
EBay and Zoom are announcing layoffs, continuing a trend seen at other tech companies.
Heard of ChatGPT? Google just unveiled Bard, a rival to the popular AI chatbot
Google’s chatbot is supposed to be able to explain complex subjects such as outer space discoveries in terms simple enough for a child to understand.
Bay Area's Splunk and Workday join list of tech company layoffs
Two more Bay Area software companies announced job cuts Wednesday, joining a long string of tech businesses that are laying off workers in reaction to shifts in the economy.
TikTok CEO to testify before Congress on app's privacy, data security
The head of TikTok was called to testify on Capitol Hill in a surprise announcement on Monday amid serious allegations about data mining by the Chinese social media app.
Spotify axes jobs in latest round of tech industry layoffs
CEO Daniel Ek announced the restructuring in a message to employees that was also posted online.
Bankman-Fried’s lawyers say car hit barricade outside home
A car with three occupants recently drove into a barricade outside the California home owned by Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, an apparent attempt to gain access to the property where the founder of crypto exchange FTX is under house arrest.
Tech expert says layoffs at Microsoft and Amazon not surprising
The string of tech industry layoffs continued Wednesday as Microsoft announced plans to cut 5% of its workforce, laying off about 10,000 workers.
Microsoft cuts 10,000 jobs, about 5% of global workforce
Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back their pandemic-era expansions.
How Dr. King's work still influences fight against poverty in California today
United Way Bay Area released a report last week showing 49% of the calls received on their 2-1-1 helpline in a 3-month period, were about housing insecurity and a lack of basic needs like groceries. The Bay Area group serves about 600,000 households, 80% of them people of color.
Alabama university blocks TikTok from campus servers, WiFi. Will others follow suit?
FBI Director Chris Wray said earlier this month that China could use TikTok to collect data on its users that could be used for spying operations.
Silicon Valley has highest number of bicycle crashes in the last decade
A new report says Palo Alto and San Jose have had the most bicycle crashes in Silicon Valley over the last 10 years, leaving dozens of bikers injured. This comes just after San Jose hit a gruesome milestone of 64 pedestrian deaths due to a traffic crash this year.
Musk asks Twitter users to decide if he should remain head of Twitter
Elon Musk tweeted a poll on Sunday asking users whether he should step down as the head of Twitter. Musk said he will abide by the results of the poll.
SJ commission to divvy up millions from Google
A select group of San Jose residents have the job of spending about $155 million from Google--and they're ready to get to work.