28 May 2026
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
The reservation request didn’t seem out of the ordinary: Eight colleagues visiting the Bay Area for work were looking for an Airbnb with reliable Wi-Fi. But at check-in time April 12, a Ring camera captured footage of people moving large, black cases into Sean Donovan’s home in San Francisco. Later that night, the security system was shut off. Two days later, Donovan stopped by the house to take…
22 May 2026
How Stanford sold its soul to Silicon Valley
Theo Baker was still a teenager when he took down the president of Stanford University. And he hadn’t even meant to become a journalist. Baker had dreamed of going to Stanford since he was a wee nerd of 7, obsessed with coding and technology. He showed up at 17 to study computer science — the kid who’d built his first website in elementary school, now inside what he came to see as the world’s…
