3+ week, 5+ day ago   (369+ words) Jinny Lu has gone from runner-up to champion. The 6-year-old pug was crowned the winner of the 2026 World's Ugliest Dog Contest Friday night at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. Jinny Lu's victory came on the heels of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (870+ words) Meta is kicking off a court battle with some of the highest stakes yet. But it is far from the only litigation facing the social media giant and its competitors. In a federal trial beginning Tuesday in Oakland, California, the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (236+ words) “Now is the time for USC,” according to NBC Sports College Football insider Nicole Auerbach. Can Lincoln Riley lead the Trojans to the playoff? Will Bob Chesney turn things around at UCLA? Two California college football teams are getting ready…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (712+ words) As opening statements kicked off Tuesday in a trial for Meta Platforms, advocates and parents of social media victims gathered outside the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, with a banner that stretched several feet across. Written on it in black…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (951+ words) Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (308+ words) Newly released surveillance video shows former East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell being approached and escorted through San Francisco International Airport by federal agents. The footage was released by airport authorities in response to a public records request by NBC Bay…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (512+ words) OpenAI says one of its autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled security test, reached the internet and hacked Hugging Face while trying to complete its assigned task. OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT designed for teenagers — the first generation…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (119+ words) A new documentary involving former Theranos CEO and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has left Silicon Valley buzzing and stunned. "You Can See Everything" is a documentary about the final weeks before Holmes went to prison. In fact, she invited a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (698+ words) Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its social media empire harms children. In the latest such instance, the social media giant is fighting allegations…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (309+ words) In the aftermath of the smoke and rubble, departments from across the nation dispatched to New York, including a team from San Francisco fire department. Shortly after the nation's ground stop was lifted, eleven firefighters from San Francisco packed their…...