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Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

Hand in hand

In the Panhandle, an 18-year-old is building muscles and community through arm wrestling

December 18, 2025

Tech holiday parties are getting smaller

Holiday parties used to feature Greek gods and Gatsby themes. Now they’re lucky to have a magician or inflatable shark

December 16, 2025

All the edgelords pray at Star of the Sea

Among the tech bros who funded a shrine to the first millennial saint at a church on Geary Boulevard

December 12, 2025

Cloudflare CEO: Resistance to Gemini is coming from inside Google

It’s the latest shot fired by Cloudflare amid concerns over the search giant’s use of its monopoly to hoover up AI control

December 4, 2025

Wrapped is washed

I know too much, I can’t even enjoy this

December 3, 2025

Dear Abby: Enough is enough

Abby Connect is the latest AI company to resort to ragebait for a billboard campaign. It may also be the most ridiculous

December 3, 2025

Charlie Day’s team didn’t know about those tech billboards

San Francisco-based AI company Kilo Code plastered the city with ads riffing on a popular meme from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’ That was news to the actor’s Los Angeles-based gang

November 19, 2025

Exit, pursued by ChatGPT

Adam Strauss’s ‘Before I Forget’ puts AI centerstage whether audiences want it there or not

November 18, 2025

Department of Public Health reached out to local tattoo artist about permitting after TechCrunch Disrupt

Tattd, a tattoo app, put a Hayes Valley artist and her clients at risk for an off-the-books pop-up last month

November 13, 2025

Mending the fabric of time

Inside the tiny, precise world of a watch repair hobbyist

November 6, 2025