DOJ Sends Four Monitor Teams to Alameda County on Election Day
Alameda County Registrar of Voters Cynthia Cornejo confirmed that 4 U.S.
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Concord Council Weighs $75,000 Aid Fund as Brentwood Drive Begins
Concord Mayor Laura Nakamura confirmed that 3 councilmembers support returning Vice Mayor Dominic Aliano’s proposal for $75,000 in…
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CrowdStrike, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google Expand AI Cyber Defense
CrowdStrike signed agreements at Fal.Con Europe to acquire Fiddler AI (reported at $400 million) and Dreadnode (reported at $95…
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U.S. Voters Decide Control of Congress as Polls Open Nationwide
Americans across all 50 states are deciding control of the 120th Congress on Tuesday across all 435 U.S.
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Danville Voters Decide Town Council, SRVUSD, and Assembly Races
Danville voters are casting ballots until 8 p.m.
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Voters Decide Prop. 40 Billionaire Tax After $316.7M Campaign War
California voters are deciding Proposition 40—a labor-backed one-time 5% tax on assets above $1 billion held by roughly 200 California…
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California U.S. House Battles Test Prop. 50 Maps on Election Day
Voters across California’s 52 congressional districts are deciding pivotal U.S.
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Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton Square Off to Succeed Gavin Newsom
California voters are choosing a successor to termed-out Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday in a contest between Democrat Xavier…
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Alena Maunder Vies for Marin School Board as Prop. 2 Goes to Voters
Third-generation Marin City resident and registered nurse Alena Maunder, who served as a Sausalito Marin City School District trustee…
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Californians Weigh Prop. 39 Voter ID and Prop. 5 Recall Reform
California voters are deciding two constitutional amendments reshaping state elections on Tuesday: Proposition 39, a voter ID measure…
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Google Cloud Sets $250K Root Bounty as Barracuda Patches Flaws
Google Cloud CISO Chris Betz and Cloud VRP Lead Michael Cote introduced a $250,000 top-tier reward for Root-in-Cloud architectural…
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Fremont Advances 918 Affordable Homes as Union City Upgrades Roads
Fremont approved 918 affordable apartments across 6 developments opening between fall 2027 and spring 2028 under a 35-day permit…
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San Francisco Voters Elect Pelosi Successor as Bay Area Polls Open
San Francisco voters are electing a successor to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time in nearly 4 decades—choosing…
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Polls Show Democrats Ahead in 6 Senate Races as 57M Vote Early
Final New York Times/Siena College polls across seven U.S.
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Commonwealth Meets in Antigua as U.S. Cuts 2 Nations From AGOA
King Charles III and Queen Camilla joined leaders of the 56-nation Commonwealth representing 2.7 billion people in Antigua and Barbuda…
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UK Cyber Chief Warns of AI Attack Surge as Groups Seek CISA Renewal
UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne warned that AI-assisted vulnerability discovery will drive an unprecedented surge…
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Los Altos School Candidates Top $30K as East San Jose Rallies Voters
Four candidates competing for three seats on the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees raised more than $30,000 combined through…
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Tech Billionaires Spend $140M Against Prop. 40 as Squarespace Cuts 19%
Silicon Valley billionaires led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s $103 million contribution poured $140 million into Building a…
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Ex-San Quentin Worker From Vallejo Gets 37 Months for Smuggling
Former San Quentin Rehabilitation Center janitor Keith Randle, a 36-year-old Vallejo resident, was sentenced in Oakland federal court…
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Contra Costa Hires Security for 150 Polls as LMC Wins State Honor
Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder Kristin Connelly hired private security guards for all 150 county polling places and Martinez…
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State Agency Rates Oakland Unified at High Insolvency Risk
California’s Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team rated the Oakland Unified School District at high risk of financial…
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Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal by Solicitor General D.
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Trump Touts Reflecting Pool Makeover on Eve of Midterm Elections
On the eve of the Nov. 3, 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump spoke at the reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in…
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Rep. Levin Pushes Bipartisan Bill as 5 States Eye San Onofre Waste
U.S. Rep. Mike Levin—joined by Republican Reps.
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Nearly $200B in Data Centers Stalled as AI Shapes Midterm Debate
Almost $200 billion in U.S. data center projects were delayed, stalled, or blocked in the first half of 2026 amid local political…
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Avenida de Altares Honors Dolores Huerta as South Bay Polls Open
Families gathered at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose for the 2026 Avenida de Altares Día de los Muertos celebration—honoring…
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Google Disrupts 1.3M-Device XCPE Android TV Botnet and Bans Maker
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, Japan’s National Police Agency, and five cybersecurity partners dismantled the XCPE malware…
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USC Report Finds 50% of CA School Board Candidates Run Unopposed
A University of Southern California report co-authored by education professor Julie Marsh found that roughly 50% of California school…
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Vallejo’s Louise Lawrence Archive Preserves 100 Years of History
Nestled in a Vallejo neighborhood, the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive—founded by Ms.
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Saint Mary’s Alumna Sahiba Dogra Kaur Enters UW Pharmacology PhD
Saint Mary’s College of California alumna Sahiba Dogra Kaur (Class of 2024)—who won 3 senior academic honors in Moraga including the…
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Emery Unified Voters Weigh 5 Candidates for 3 School Board Seats
Emeryville voters will fill 3 seats on the Emery Unified School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Nov. 3, choosing among 5…
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Bay Area Beaches Face 17-Foot Surf as SF Rescuers Catch Anchovy Jack
The National Weather Service warned Bay Area beachgoers to avoid Pacific Coast waters through Tuesday evening and again from Thursday…
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Hackers Hit Freezers at 115 European Stores; Apple Warns 99 Nations
Cyberextortionists remotely set commercial refrigeration controllers to +50°C (122°F) or defrost mode across more than 115…
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Over 1,000 GitLab Servers Exposed to RCE Flaw as BTCPay Issues Alert
Threat monitors at Shadowserver found more than 1,000 internet-exposed GitLab servers still unpatched against actively exploited…
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Valley Water Execs Donate to Board Candidates Ahead of Nov. 3 Vote
Incoming Valley Water CEO Aaron Baker donated $499 each to District 1 incumbent John Varela and District 6 candidate Milan Balinton…
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Tech Giants Fuel Record $128M Outside Spending in CA Legislative Races
Technology companies and executives including Google, Meta, Uber, Sergey Brin, Chris Larsen, and Tim Draper have contributed at least…
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CA Unsheltered Homelessness Drops 6.5% as AB 2251 Sets College Rules
Preliminary federal point-in-time count data show California’s unsheltered homeless population fell 6.5% between January 2025 and…
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Contra Costa Elections Deploys 1,200 Workers Across 150 Poll Sites
Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder-Registrar Kristin Connelly and roughly 1,100 staff and volunteers plus 100 temporary workers are…
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Contra Costa Weighs $3M Voter Guide Increase and $60K Health Cards
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday, Nov. 3, to consider a $3 million General Fund increase raising its…
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San Leandro Marina Inn Faces Lease Crisis as Voters Weigh Transit Tax
San Leandro Marina Inn owner Dennis Miller warned that stalled negotiations for a 9-year city lease extension could force the…
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Napa Advisor Jared Worthington Guides Tech Workers on Equity & Taxes
After 10 years as a robotics engineer at startups and global companies, Napa financial advisor Jared Worthington of 30-year-old…
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Things to do
OpenAI Scales Hardware AI as DeepMind and Palantir Post Gains
OpenAI reported a 23-fold increase in hardware team token usage since February alongside GPT-6 Astra collaborations with Chip Ganassi…
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Heimstaden Scales OpenAI Codex as NVIDIA Expands Smart City AI
Residential real estate operator Heimstaden reached 50% employee adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise within 3 months and used OpenAI Codex…
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Anthropic Posts $17B Quarterly Revenue as OpenAI Debuts Pando
Anthropic reported $17 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, a $23.3 billion net loss, and $895.4 billion in compute commitments through 2032…
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OpenAI Debuts LifeVal and Qodo Plugin as Publishers Sue Brave
OpenAI introduced its LifeVal benchmark—built from a survey of 3,995 respondents—to measure ChatGPT’s performance on everyday tasks…
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OpenAI Debuts Grid Program as Omen AI Buys Aquatic Labs for $16M
OpenAI launched its Grid Protectors Program in Georgia with up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response projected to save…
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