Serving San Jose, California (Santa Clara County)Vol. 1, No. 8

EditionTuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 · Vol. 1, No. 8 · Light Rain, high 66°F, low 48°F

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, a large limestone building with columns, on a street corner in Washington, D.C., under a gray sky — The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2014. File photo. — Photo: Gunnar Klack / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0

Justice Department sends about 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states; Santa Clara County not on its list

The department lists four California counties: Los Angeles, Alameda, Sacramento and San Diego. Voters can report problems by phone, email or online.

Government desk · Tue.

Apple posts record $479 billion year as iPhone and Mac sales climb and iPad slips

Refunds of tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court added about a point to Apple's profit margin. The results follow 147 Apple layoffs in Cupertino and Sunnyvale.

A dead star's double ring of planet debris hints at how our solar system could end

The white dwarf J1328−1450, about 1,600 light-years away, is hotter than the sun, and two surviving bodies appear to shape the rings around it.

Hubble and Webb photograph a cat-shaped dust cloud where new stars are forming

The Cat's Head Nebula sits inside the Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light-years away.

Rubin Observatory, built around a Menlo Park camera, finds its first possible dwarf planet

The icy object, called 2026 ED138, orbits beyond Pluto and may be 600 to 1,500 kilometers across.

Latest

Business

Two round Eggo toaster waffles on a white plate, topped with a pat of butter and syrup.

Eggo waffle plant and Jabil factory in San Jose to close temporarily in November, affecting 494 workers

Sports

The empty basketball court inside Santa Clara's Leavey Center, with maroon seats, a scoreboard reading santaclarabroncos.com, retired-number banners and "Broncos" painted on the floor.

Santa Clara women's basketball routs Wyoming 84-50 in season opener

Technology

A black, angular Nvidia Shield TV streaming box lying on a wooden table.

Google says it shut down XCPE, a botnet of 1.3 million hijacked TV streaming boxes

Life

Trellised garden plots, raised beds and bare soil under a blue sky at the Vietnamese Heritage Community Garden in San Jose

Free garden classes this month: soil in San Jose, winter vegetables in Gilroy, fruit trees in Palo Alto

Silicon Valley Turkey Trot registration costs $60.50 until Nov. 20, then rises to $66

More news

Astronomy · Tue.
Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth on Nov. 18, the first spacecraft ever that far
Voyager 1 reaches one light-day (16.09 billion miles) from Earth Nov. 18, 2026, 5:16 a.m. EST (2:16 a.m. PST); it recovered from an Oct. 18-19 communications pause and a September power-saving swap.
Astronomy · Tue.
Small galaxies have lost most of the oxygen their stars made, Hubble-based study finds
GLOW II (McQuinn et al., ApJ 1011, published Nov. 2, 2026): 37 nearby dwarf galaxies retain 4% to 25% (mean 11%) of the oxygen their stars produced; simulations predict much higher retention.
Technology · Tue.
Stanford launches five-year project to build AI models of the human brain
Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announced Nov. 2 the Stanford Digital Brain Project, a five-year effort funded by Mark and Mary Stevens and Clara Wu Tsai to train foundation models on human brain-imaging data and share them openly.
Technology · Tue.
China's Meituan releases LongCat-2.5, a giant AI model trained on Chinese-made chips
Meituan on Nov. 2 released LongCat-2.5, a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and about 48 billion active per token, aimed at long-horizon agent tasks, according to its technical blog.
Technology · Tue.
Mountain View's Camect links its AI security-camera alerts to police dispatch centers
Camect and Malvern, Pa.-based 3Si announced a partnership Oct. 29, publicized on PR Newswire Nov. 2, connecting Camect's edge-AI camera hub to 3Si's DirectToDispatch service.

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