The article demonstrates how modern CSS functions such as sibling-index(), style queries, if(), and mod() can reproduce :nth-child() patterns dynamically by setting variables. It walks through selectors like nth-child(n+B), An, and An+B, including a workaround for a zero divisor and notes on negative A.
A critique argues that a post claiming Astra can read and write weights conflates distinct experiments. Only networks of 17K–172K weights were handled from raw weights alone, while the Qwen math result, which raised MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%, also used Python and up to 50 batches of practice problems.
Anthropic released message threads in public beta for its Messages API; it can cut median time to first token by roughly 35% on Claude Code requests of 500,000 to 1 million tokens by resending only new messages. Token usage remains unchanged and API costs do not inherently fall; threads expire after five minutes idle.
COSI, UC Berkeley's newest space telescope, was built at the campus's Space Sciences Laboratory with NASA funding and is slated to launch into Earth orbit next year. Led by John Tomsick, the mission is designed to map gamma rays in the Milky Way Galaxy to study supernova debris and the origin of chemical elements.
Contra Costa County's top elections official says fewer voters are mailing ballots early and more are expected to vote in person, which could delay tallying after the Nov. 3 midterm election. Kristin Connelly projected in-person voting may rise 50% and county turnout could reach 75% of registered voters.
Santa Clara's City Council voted 6-1 to fold two parking requests into a study session on state laws, set for the first quarter of 2027, after dropping a proposal to reimburse residents who had been ticketed or towed. Council Member Kevin Park, the lone dissenter, had sought options to keep below-market-rate housing residents from being towed or ticketed.
7 Brew has filed plans for a 1,500-square-foot drive-thru coffee shop with three lanes and queue space for 18 cars at 375 Capitol Square in San Jose. The proposal seeks a conditional-use permit, lists initial hours of 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., and projects about 400 customers daily with 10 to 15 workers per shift.
SV@Home and MidPen Housing marked the October 13 opening of Ira D. Hall Square in Sunnyvale: 176 affordable apartments for households at 30% to 70% of Area Median Income, with 45 homes for people who have experienced homelessness. It is Sunnyvale's first completed project under the Lawrence Station Area Plan.
MidPen Housing is behind a preliminary application to build affordable housing on 1580 Maple Street in Redwood City. The roughly 42-foot-tall building would hold 46 one-bedroom and 36 two-bedroom apartments, with 89 car spaces and room to store 42 bicycles.
On Nov. 2, 2026, Amigos de Guadalupe held a get-out-the-vote rally outside Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose, urging Latino and immigrant residents to vote amid immigration enforcement concerns. Speakers included Councilmember Peter Ortiz and Congressman Sam Liccardo, who urged reporting voter intimidation.
Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party's revolutionary artist and Minister of Culture, explains in an interview how the Party's newspaper told its story from the Panthers' own perspective without advertising constraints. He recalls helping Bobby Seale on the paper's first issue after meeting him at San Francisco's Black House in the Fillmore.
Alix Blüh's Modern Relics shop on San Francisco's Cabrillo Street was burglarized overnight on Aug. 13, with estimated losses and damage of $200,000 to $300,000. Police said no arrests have been made and the probe is active; a GoFundMe page says the losses were uninsured, and Blüh will not reopen as a high-end jeweler.
AG Bonta announced action on cryptocurrency and sextortion fraud increasingly targeting Gen-Z, while an Oakland woman struggled to secure Medicare-covered inpatient stroke rehabilitation after Bay Area hospitals declined or discharged her.
Alameda Health System officials told county supervisors that ICE officers entered a patient's room at Highland Hospital without showing a warrant. Supervisors sought a critical incident review, and the AHS chief executive said afterward that he had been misinformed about the warrant.
Three candidates — Linda Tams, Paul Carey and Michael DeSimone — are competing for Rohnert Park's District 2 council seat, with interviews covering communication and city finances. Rohnert Park faces a projected budget shortfall of about $10 million, and Measure K would raise roughly $5 million.
New Dimensions Radio, started by Justine Toms in 1973, is working to digitize hundreds of thousands of longform interviews, including talks with Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Ram Dass. Toms says Stanford University holds over 8,000 analog tapes, and her team uses AI to help draft descriptions that she reviews.
Five labs at UC Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford ran identical psilocybin trials in mice and found no lasting behavioral changes 24 hours after a single dose. Acute effects such as heightened anxiety and reduced fear expression did replicate across labs, while reported social-learning and antidepressant-like effects did not.
Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek is presenting “High Pile: Concepts in Tufting,” an exhibition of work by 20 artists from across the country who use the textile technique. Curator Emilee Enders says the show explores merging fine art and craft, and it runs through Dec. 13.
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. ET Thursday in Atlanta, which is morning in the Bay Area. The start time changed because the Atlanta Hawks play an NBA regular-season game in the same arena that night.
Prosecutors charged a 17-year-old with two counts of murder and are asking a juvenile court judge to move his case to adult court after an Oct. 30 shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield that killed a pregnant 31-year-old woman and wounded six others.
Community members gathered outside Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas over what they described as increased federal immigration enforcement at the jail. Santa Clara County Executive James Williams confirmed a rise in ICE activity at the county's two jails and said officials were not notified in advance.
Santa Clara County is not intervening as federal immigration agents increasingly stage around its jails, despite county-declared ICE-free zones. Advocates report roughly 10 to 12 agents seen daily at Elmwood and the Main Jail, and the sheriff's office says about 70 people have been detained near county jails since June 2025.
Filings show 14 PACs donating directly to candidates in Santa Clara's election, while the Santa Clara Police Association PAC reported $25,000 in independent expenditures for mailers and digital ads backing four candidates. The 49ers' two Affordable Santa Clara PACs spent $1.7 million, mostly on TV and internet ads.
Foundation work has begun on a 10-story affordable building at 825 Berryessa Station Way beside the Berryessa BART station in Northeast San Jose, with roughly 195 income-restricted units. Affirmed Housing is developing the project, which received $38.5 million from a state program and targets completion as early as spring 2028.
Alum Rock Union School District and CORE Builders celebrated groundbreaking for the Mayfair Workforce Housing Project in East San José, planned to provide 78 below-market apartments for teachers and staff. The project required three state laws and is intended to help the district recruit educators and support its finances.
