Catch Me Up: Daily news roundup for June 7, 2025, San francisco

SF city government leads private companies in new office leases despite RTO “continuing to lag”

As some private companies grow their footprints in San Francisco, the city and county government itself has outpaced them.

Electronic Frontier Foundation head right at home in SF

Almost all the fights about rights and freedoms and democracy have a technical, have a digital element right now,” Cohn said.

Manhattan turned offices into housing. Can San Francisco do the same?

San Francisco housing developer Oz Erickson has been casing what Manhattan is doing to rebound from the pandemic. What he saw ...

‘Midnight at the Cinema Palace’ celebrates 1990s San Francisco in all its glory

Christopher Tradowsky’s debut novel is a story of friendship, cinephilia and norm-defying ways of loving set in the ...

“There’s a freedom of thought that doesn’t exist elsewhere”: How and why California became the heart of the synthesizer world

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Dave caught the synthesizer bug ... Better known as SSM, the company emerged out of Silicon Valley’s Homebrew Computer Club, which also counted Steve Jobs and ...

Catch Me Up: Daily news roundup for June 7, 2025

News Roundup is created once every day, based on news articles created by human reporters and editors at Bay City News. For this project, we prompted ChatGPT to analyze the articles produced by our ...

San Francisco Bay Area comes to a standstill as computer error shuts down entire BART train system

Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, the region’s main commuter rail system, which connects San Francisco’s peninsula with the East and South Bay, systematically shut down due to a “computer ...

San Francisco's BART Grinds to a Halt Due to 'Computer Networking Problem' - Gizmodo

San Francisco’s widely relied upon public transportation system, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), went down early Friday morning due to a “computer networking problem,” according to city ...

San Francisco's commuter trains stopped for four hours by computer outage

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - A computer outage knocked out train service in the San Francisco Bay area for about four hours on Friday morning, causing headaches for some commuters in the high-tech capital.

Club Fugazi creates an aerial storybook with ‘Dear San Francisco’

I’d never been able to hold my breath for more than 45 seconds. But, this weekend I hit a new personal record. It’s a Friday night showing of “Dear San Francisco” at Club Fugazi in North ...

Qualys goes to bat for US cricket side San Francisco Unicorns

Cloud security specialist Qualys partners with US T20 cricket squad San Francisco Unicorns and its Sparkle Army fanclub as the team prepares for its summer 2025 campaign.

Gold Club buffet: Lunch at SF strip club returns after hiatus - KRON4

However, a buffet in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood fits that bill — and then some. The iconic $5 lunch buffet at Gold Club is back after a years-long hiatus, […] ...

All Issues of the San Francisco Bay Times to Be Available Online by the End of 2025

The San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), which is facilitating digitization of past issues of the San Francisco Bay Times, ...

The Tiny Town in California Where You Can Live On Nothing But Social Security

Nestled on the western shore of Clear Lake, Lakeport offers that rare combination of small-town charm, natural beauty, and—wait for it—actual affordability in the Golden State. When most people think ...

What’s on now at San Francisco museums, July 2025

What's showing at San Francisco's museums in June. Galleries too. Plus loads of free public events to attend. Updated every ...

SF city government leads private companies in new office leases despite RTO “continuing to lag”

As some private companies grow their footprints in San Francisco, the city and county government itself has outpaced them.

San Francisco Judge Rules in Favor of Meta in AI Copyright Infringement Case

Meta successfully defended against a copyright infringement lawsuit, as a judge ruled authors didn't prove Meta's AI training ...

San Francisco Opera Workshop Series Continues This Summer and Fall, in Partnership with San Francisco Public Library

San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) continue their collaborative workshop series The Opera in You, ...

33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers

This Dallas-based press has been publishing international books for 12 years. Among its latest releases is this novel from ...

SF AI Firm Claims Fair Use Victory, But Piracy Trial Still Looms

U.S. Judge Alsup ruled that Anthropic's AI use of copyrighted books was transformative but is still assessing damages for ...

Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in a ruling filed late Monday that the AI system’s distilling from ...

San Francisco Public Library highlights LGBTQ+ stories for Pride Month

This June, the San Francisco Public Library is turning the page on Pride with colorful displays, inclusive stories, and a ...

San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF25 spans two city blocks and welcomes more than 150 exhibitors from around the world this July.

Local feminist art coalition tackles censorship in current exhibition at San Diego Central Library

The Feminist Image Group has a new exhibition opening June 22 at the San Diego Central Library addressing resistance to ...