Tech
Founders from Down Under
Hyped up by AI and their own big ambitions, waves of charmingly-accented Australians are making a splash in San Francisco
Into the Garryverse
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan has spent years (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) spinning a web connecting tech, politics, and money, placing himself at the center
Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025
With fines of nearly $1 million for various violations, the robotaxi company says it’s cooperating with the city and learning from its cars’ mistakes
How will we spend all that AI money?
Plus, Horsies — the ultimate arbiter of SF cool — declares AI lame
Meta’s $17 billion settlement doesn’t resolve the issue of social media addiction
The deal’s shortcomings are many, but more lawsuits may be the only answer
Anti-surveillance protestors flock to Chris Larsen’s house
Plus, TikTok’s newest aesthetic is the anti-AI girlie
The internet hates the new Instagram logo. What do professional designers think?
Four graphics experts critique the mega-platform’s ‘cleaner and more modern’ wordmark
A new dating site wants to match (only) ‘Western’ men to Asian women
Mysterious platform ‘WMAF Meet’ uses AI to facilitate SF’s ‘most in-demand pairing’
Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees
The ‘demeaning’ website was spun up by a local founder with no relationship to the company
‘Members of the LGBTQ+ community have legitimate reasons to be sensitive about privacy’
After backlash, Badlands and Toad Hall management is ‘pausing’ surveillance of patrons in San Francisco but continues to employ it in Portland and Sacramento
