38 m. ago Where in the world was Daniel San Diego? FBI’s most wanted ‘animal rights terrorist’ fights extradition after decades on the run

The 47-year-old I.T. worker allegedly bombed two offices in California in 2003, then disappeared into the San Francisco fog — only to resurface 21 years later

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3 h. ago Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training

A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising the specter that the case could still end up going to trial

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11 h. ago Bruce Loose brought his own unique blend of complexity and a menacing darkness to San Francisco punks Flipper | Stevie Chick

The singer, who died from a heart attack on 5 September, ripped up the two-minute hardcore song blueprint and won over a legion of fans including Kurt Cobain and Jane’s AddictionAs the blitzing tempo and mosh pit violence of hardcore swept the US in the early-80s, San Francisco punks Flipper – whose frontman, Bruce Loose, died this weekend of a heart attack – assumed a provocative stance, choosing sarcastic nihilism over dumb machismo and swapping high-velocity thrash for menacing, slow-as-sludge post-punk jams. In an era of 7in singles packed with 30-second screeds, Flipper would draw their tunes out to 20-or-more minutes of grind, fielding spiteful comparisons to hated hippies the Grateful Dead as bassist and founder Will Shatter warned audiences, “the more you heckle us, the longer this song gets”.But the true “culprit for any pissing off of audiences”, as drummer Steve DePace told Scene Point Blank in 2022, was Loose. Born Bruce Calderwood, in the late 70s Loose cashed in a life...

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11 h. ago Fugitive FBI most wanted 'terrorist' who was found in a Welsh village appears in court fighting extradition to the US over San Francisco bombings

San Diego, 47, had ties to an animal rights group which the FBI said was the motivation behind the blasts and has now appeared in the dock in London.

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2 d. ago Mahjong nights draw young crowds to San Francisco bars and restaurants

Ryan Lee has turned his love of mahjong into a thriving social scene in San Francisco

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3 d. ago Pilot admits trying to turn off plane during flight 'while high on mushrooms'

Joseph Emerson, 46, attempted to cut the engine fuel supply of a Horizon Air passenger flight to San Francisco with than 80 people onboard while 'high on magic mushrooms'

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3 d. ago Judge blocks administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States

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4 d. ago Transgender federal employees say they face fear and discrimination under Trump

The Trump administration since January has moved to reverse years of legal and policy gains for transgender Americans, from stripping government websites of “gender ideology” to reinstituting a ban on transgender service members in the military

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5 d. ago Terrified flight passengers 'shaken up' as plane collides with another aircraft

A United Airlines flight was involved in a collision on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport on Monday, with passengers on board both planes left terrified

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5 d. ago One of America's 'most wanted' to face full extradition after capture in Wales

Daniel Andreas San Diego was on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list after 2003 bombings in San Francisco, California

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5 d. ago Two planes collide as horrified passengers hear on intercom 'we've been hit'

Passengers were jolted in their sets as two United Airline planes clashed at San Francisco Airport on Monday, with travellers sharing the moment they felt a 'big shudder'

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6 d. ago Google avoids breakup in search monopoly case, but judge orders other changes in landmark ruling

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google’s search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the U.S. government’s request to break up the company

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6 d. ago OpenAI and Meta say they're fixing AI chatbots to better respond to teens in distress

OpenAI and Meta are adjusting how their chatbots respond to teenagers and users showing signs of distress

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1 week ago Leaders of S.F. nonprofit with ties to former Mayor London Breed resign amid audit

Leaders of S.F. nonprofit with ties to former Mayor London Breed resign amid audit  San Francisco Chronicle

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1 week ago Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States

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1 week ago Fire departments concerned about cancer risks are buying gear that is free of forever chemicals

Fire departments are increasingly switching to gear that doesn’t contain potentially cancer-causing chemicals

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1 week ago Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities as a way to fight crime

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1 week ago Teen tragically kills himself after 'months of encouragement from ChatGPT'

The heartbroken family of teenager Adam Raine has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco against OpenAI after he died on April 11, alleging the bot "encouraged" his suicide

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1 week ago Nvidia's quarterly report will gauge the temperature of the AI craze

Artificial intelligence bellwether Nvidia is poised to release a quarterly report that’s expected provide a better sense about whether the stock market has been riding on an overhyped bubble or whether it’s being propelled by a technological boom that’s still gathering momentum

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1 week ago Firefighters try to corral California forest blaze as lightning strikes bring risk of new ignitions

Firefighting crews are trying to corral a fast-growing blaze churning through central California’s Sierra National Forest, as forecasters warn that lightning strikes from thunderstorms could spark new ignitions

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