UNBELIEVABLE: 6 | History Defined

TikTok to pay $400 mn settlement in US children's privacy case

SAN FRANCISCO (UNITED STATES) - TikTok and parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice over claims that the video-sharing platform violated federal children's privacy laws, the department announced on Friday.

Bangkok Post · Aug 21

New York Just Beat San Francisco in Tech Talent Attraction. Wall Street and AI Are Fueling the Rise.

New York now has 394,300 tech talent jobs, surpassing the San Francisco Bay Area's 375,730, according to a new report.

International Business Times · Aug 21

Ex-Google engineer's conviction for stealing AI secrets partially overturned

U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled there was insufficient evidence Ding intended or knew his ‌conduct would benefit ⁠the government ⁠of China, a requirement to convict him on seven counts of economic espionage. Chhabria said evidence supported ​the guilty verdict on the theft of trade secrets.

The Economic Times · Aug 21

New details emerge a month after San Francisco hotel worker Chantel Brooks went missing

Chantel Brooks, 36, was last seen leaving a CVS in Fairfield, California, in the early hours of July 17

The Independent UK · Aug 19

The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor

Compton’s Cafeteria is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site

The Guardian - US · Aug 19

San Francisco's 'Historic Laundromat' Project Finally Begins Construction

Activists were able to block an apartment project in the city's Mission District by raising an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.

Reason · Aug 18

A San Francisco man was digging in his backyard when his shovel hit something hard; he unearthed a 150-pound limestone sculpture and nobody knows who made it

While digging in his San Francisco garden, a gardener stumbled upon an intriguing limestone sculpture. Despite consultations with around fifty experts, its origins remain shrouded in mystery. Given its location near an art school, there may be historical ties to the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. The enigmatic bust is…

The Times of India · Aug 18

AI Boss Fires Employee for Being Late 17 Out of 23 Shifts in Bizarre but Sensible Role Reversal Incident

An AI manager named Luna at Andon Market in San Francisco has made its first firing decision, dismissing a human employee for repeated lateness, highlighting AI's growing role in workplace management.

International Business Times UK · Aug 18

19th-century ships accidentally brought mice to islands 30 miles off San Francisco; they later reached densities of 1,270 per hectare and began reshaping the seabird ecosystem

The Farallon Islands are grappling with an overwhelming invasion of house mice, significantly disturbing the delicate ecological system. These rodents threaten the survival of native wildlife, with burrowing owls preying on them and subsequently impacting the vulnerable Ashy storm-petrels. A new eradication initiative involves dropping rodenticide bait from helicopters, driving…

The Times of India · Aug 15

'Suryapath Tiranga': Global relay of tricolour spirit to mark 80th Independance Day

India's High Commission in Fiji initiated a global Tiranga relay on Independence Day. This unique campaign digitally relayed the tricolour across multiple time zones. Twenty-one Indian missions participated in this symbolic journey of the rising sun. The initiative reinforced the message that the Tiranga transcends geographical boundaries worldwide. The campaign…

The Economic Times · Aug 15