Rise in cybercriminals using AI, FBI warns
The FBI's San Francisco division is sounding the alarm, calling out a surge in cybercriminals using AI in their scams. From phishing emails, to eerily convincing cloned voices and videos: the agency says the tools are getting sharper.
Man found fatally shot in car in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, police say
Officers responded at 6:12 a.m. to a shooting reported in the 100 block of Turk Street and arrived to find the victim sitting in a vehicle and suffering from a gunshot wound, San Francisco police said.
Cops still searching for ‘volatile’ activist whose death threats shut down OpenAI office
San Francisco police are still searching for the 27-year-old anti-AI activist whose alleged threats led to the lockdown of OpenAI’s offices late last month, warning that he could be armed and dangerous. Sam Kirchner, whose whereabouts have been unknown since Nov. 21, was in the midst of a mental...
Mayor Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ housing plan is one step closer to being approved
The sweeping plan to allow taller and denser buildings across much of San Francisco’s western and northern neighborhoods is headed to a final vote with the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
SFMTA Preps to Remove Kirkham Neck Down
SFMTA is quietly preparing to remove the "neck down" safety treatment at Kirkham and 9th in the Inner Sunset. A tipster pointed out the following item on Friday's agenda for SFMTA's regularly scheduled engineering committee hearing: "Proposal to install the above traffic calming devices to replace [emphasis added]...
S.F. officials flag ‘severe’ fiscal concerns at Mission youth nonprofit
The findings were part of a new report detailing how San Francisco held nonprofits accountable for the $1.63 billion it paid them last fiscal year to fight its biggest challenges.
SF woman faces pimping charges after missing teen found at hotel
(KRON) — A 23-year-old San Francisco woman faces multiple charges, including human trafficking of a minor, after police found her along with a missing at-risk 17-year-old East Coast girl at a hotel in South San Francisco, police said. “Detectives went undercover and responded to an online posting which depicted the...
Oakland needs 200-plus police officers it can’t afford but pays millions to officers on...
Roughly 100 Oakland police officers off the job on extended leave are costing the city millions of dollars a year at a time when it faces both a budget deficit and an officer shortage.
Days after visiting Bay Area, Iranian filmmaker sentenced to prison in absentia
“It Was Just an Accident” director Jafar Panahi has been accused of engaging in “propaganda activities” by Iran’s totalitarian government.
Indicted Bay Area real estate mogul is living in a $6 million house. His...
As the hundreds of people who powered Ken Mattson’s real estate acquisitions struggle with lost monthly income and the possible erasure of their retirement funds, the indicted investment adviser and his wife continue to live in a 6,000-square-foot home behind a locked gate on Castle Road, overlooking the city of...
