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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.

‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’

Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going

January 14, 2026

Move fast and sell books

Former tech reporters Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr are running The Best Bookstore in Union Square like a startup

January 7, 2026

Server farm to table

AI-generated images are rising in popularity on delivery apps and menus across SF. How far will we take this race to the bottom in food photography? 

December 23, 2025

Print is forever

As AI rises, the Bay Area is awash in a full-on print revival, from magazines to books to this website’s own quarterly paper

December 22, 2025

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