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- 1Report alleges rape and harassment at Bay Area AI party houses●Allegations of sexual harassment and rape at Bay Area AI party houses
A new report details allegations of wild parties, sexual harassment and rape at so-called AI party houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, shared housing arrangements where young tech workers in the artificial intelligence industry live and socialise. The allegations have drawn widespread attention online, with readers discussing the culture of the AI startup scene and how such behaviour went unchecked.
- 2Cold War bioweapons test exposed millions in San Francisco Bay Area●The secret Cold War bioweapons test that exposed millions in the Bay Area
A declassified Cold War experiment known as Operation Sea-Spray is drawing renewed attention: in 1950 the US Navy sprayed bacterial aerosols, including Serratia marcescens, over San Francisco from ships offshore to study how a biological attack might spread. The tests exposed roughly 800,000 residents without their knowledge and are linked to rare infections afterward. Readers are debating government secrecy, consent and the ethics of testing on civilians.