Jeff Elder
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- Senior Manager, Social Media Lead, Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco
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I do NOT cover NFTs, crypto, cyber, or anything else anymore.
Screenwriter, #SFGiants fan, cat lover. Former Knight fellow at Stanford, investigative reporter at WSJ. Briefly the world’s worst bouncer.
Articles by Jeff Elder
Drop those bad remote work habits now
Workers seem to love remote work. Too bad it may be killing them. On the one hand, it rescued many from pointless commutes, helped them to crank up productivity, and gave them a new form of work-life balance. On the other hand, it led to some hunching over laptops on the couch for long stretches, damaging their physical health, mental health, and sometimes even relationships. Welcome to the “It’s complicated” love affair between employees and remote work.
Dreamforce returns, bringing business travelers and their credit cards
Dreamforce, San Francisco’s biggest conference, has returned in full force to the SoMa neighborhood for the first time in two years, filling sidewalks and restaurants and hotels with 40,000 Salesforce users who bring business tourism that The City desperately needs. The conference, which began Monday with badge pickup and ends Friday morning with a presentation summing up the week's events, will bring $40 million in revenue to The City, the company says.
The Golden Hoodie and laptop sticker swaps - inside the world of Dreamforce
There’s a boulder in the middle of Howard Street that you can pick up with one hand. Birdsong is being piped in through speakers, and a 30-foot artificial waterfall splashes down, a perfect backdrop for business travelers’ photo opportunities. After two years of absence, Salesforce has once again erected the fantasy forest world of Dreamforce, The City’s biggest conference, in downtown San Francisco.
Dreamforce returns, bringing business travelers and their credit cards
Dreamforce, San Francisco’s biggest conference, has returned in full force to the SoMa neighborhood for the first time in two years, filling sidewalks and restaurants and hotels with 40,000 Salesforce users who bring business tourism that The City desperately needs. The conference, which began Monday with badge pickup and ends Friday morning with a presentation summing up the week's events, will bring $40 million in revenue to The City, the company says.
Herrera fires back at Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
Continuing a tense public back-and-forth over transparency rules at City Hall, Public Utilities Commission General Manager Dennis Herrera has fired back at the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force in a letter, saying minor infractions are dominating and distorting public records debates. “The Sunshine Ordinance was never intended to be a brute cudgel to redefine every oversight or omission, regardless of how minor, into an intentional obstruction,” Herrera wrote.
Sunshine Task Force blasts Herrera for violating meeting-disclosure law again
The Sunshine Ordinance Task Force blasted Public Utilities Commission chief Dennis Herrera at its meeting on Sept. 7 for failing to disclose what he has discussed in meetings, which is required by city law, noting that his office promised to do so when he violated the same law in 2020. Members of the task force, which oversees open-records issues for The City, expressed dismay at Herrera, who was city attorney for two decades, for failing to obey part of the city administrative code he shaped.
Sunshine Task Force blasts Herrera for breaking calendar law again Original
The Sunshine Ordinance Task Force blasted Public Utilities Commission chief Dennis Herrera at its meeting on Sept. 7 for failing to disclose what he has discussed in meetings, which is required by city law, noting that his office promised to do so when he broke the same law in 2020. Members of the task force, which oversees open-records issues for The City, expressed dismay at Herrera, who was city attorney for two decades, failing to obey part of the city administrative code he shaped.
The heat is off, but so was a key weather index, and that was deadly
Around the world, people are increasingly staggering through crazy-making heat waves asking themselves, “Why does it feel so much hotter than the temperature?” And the answer is, the “feels like” heat index is broken, according to new research from UC Berkeley that shows climate change has melted that metric from the National Weather Service, and warped what we used to think we knew about heat waves.
San Francisco crypto case gets another jolt of international intrigue
Alexander Vinnik sits in an East Bay jail, awaiting a San Francisco court date later this month in what may be the most famous cryptocurrency criminal case in history. Vinnik, who is Russian, is accused of laundering billions of dollars in cryptocurrency and faces decades in prison and more than $100 million in fines. He was extradited to the United States from Greece last month.
Bay Area cops' secret phone-tracking surveillance of citizens revealed in documents
The California Highway Patrol secretly used surveillance software to gather cellphone data on ordinary citizens as well as criminal suspects, according to documents unearthed in a national investigation.
Why did Garry Tan, the new CEO of Y Combinator, block you on Twitter?
It’s not every day you discover someone in the headlines has blocked you on Twitter, even though you’ve had no interaction with them. That happened to lots of people this week. On Monday and Tuesday, Twitter users posted dozens of screenshots showing Garry Tan, the new CEO of powerful startup accelerator Y Combinator, had blocked their accounts, with many expressing surprise and confusion. “Never heard of him, and apparently he’d prefer it to stay that way,” one user tweeted.
Al Saracevic, longtime Examiner and Chronicle columnist and editor, dies at 52
Al Saracevic, a columnist and editor at The Examiner and The Chronicle who covered San Francisco from the dot-com bust of the 1990s to the Covid-19 pandemic, capturing The City’s biggest sports, politics and business personalities along the way, died Saturday at 52. Saracevic collapsed early Saturday morning after listening to an old friend, Jeff Yasuda, play music in The Mission.
Meet the man at the center of the most notorious crypto criminal case in history
Slender, with a mild expression and sensitive green eyes, Alexander Vinnik doesn’t look like a criminal mastermind fought over by nations, or someone who laundered billions of dollars for criminals, or someone whose enemies would try to poison him. He says he’s not those things. “I am innocent,” the 42-year-old Russian citizen told The Examiner in a Zoom interview from Santa Rita Jail in Fremont.
Twitter declined to remove sex video exploiting minors, according to lawsuit supported by powerful watchdog groups
Child-safety advocates are blasting Twitter and lining up to support a lawsuit that alleges the social network declined to remove videos depicting the sexual exploitation of minors despite pleas from a victim and his family. “It’s child sexual abuse material. He was 13 years old and being extorted. What the hell is Twitter doing?” asked Hany Farid, a professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
That text from your CEO is actually from a criminal. What should you do?
You get a text on your phone that claims to be from your company’s CEO. “This is urgent,” the text says. The message asks you to do something. Can you buy some gift cards for employees? Can you open an email sent to your work account and click on a link? Can you click on a link in the text and enter your work email and password? Sound familiar? The Bay Area is getting pelted by a hailstorm of texting scams, according to the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and cybersecurity companies.
That text from your CEO is actually from a criminal - do you know what to do?
You get a text on your phone that claims to be from your company’s CEO. “This is urgent,” the text says. The message asks you to do something. Can you buy some gift cards for employees? Can you open an email sent to your work account and click on a link? Can you click on a link in the text and enter your work email and password? Sound familiar? The Bay Area is getting pelted by a hailstorm of texting scams, according to the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and cybersecurity companies.
Can Dreamforce rescue San Francisco from a ‘uniquely awful place’?
Dreamforce, Salesforce’s sprawling annual conference, will bring 150,000 business travelers and some big-name celebrities to San Francisco next month for the first time in three years. Can that help to rescue the brand of The City, which has at times been depicted nationally as being “in a uniquely awful place”? The conference certainly creates a unique place right smack in the middle of downtown, which needs help.
To speak out or remain silent? Tech ethics still roils industry
“That feels unethical somehow, but I’m having difficulty explaining how. It just makes me feel like a bad person,” a Facebook software developer told their boss, according to court records. The developer was being asked to make it harder for rivals to connect to Facebook by putting “restrictions on firms that might pose competitive threats” in 2013, the Federal Trade Commission says in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. “I’m just dumbfounded,” a colleague replied in an email.
To speak out or remain silent? Tech ethics still roils industry
"That feels unethical somehow, but I'm having difficulty explaining how. It just makes me feel like a bad person," a Facebook software developer told their boss, according to court records. The developer was being asked to make it harder for rivals to connect to Facebook by putting "restrictions on firms that might pose competitive threats" in 2013, the Federal Trade Commission says in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. "I'm just dumbfounded," a colleague replied in an email.
To speak out or remain silent? Tech ethics still roils industry
“That feels unethical somehow, but I’m having difficulty explaining how. It just makes me feel like a bad person,” a Facebook software developer told their boss, according to court records. The developer was being asked to make it harder for rivals to connect to Facebook by putting “restrictions on firms that might pose competitive threats” in 2013, the Federal Trade Commission says in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. “I’m just dumbfounded,” a colleague replied in an email.
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