Sunnyvale’s Planning Commission unanimously backed changes to the city’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance on Oct. 12, recommending higher in-lieu fees while retaining the 15% affordable-unit requirement. The proposal, shaped by a city-commissioned feasibility study, goes to the City Council on Nov. 10.
American Housing Co., a subsidiary of Oakland-based oWow, is pursuing a roughly 25-story, 261-foot residential tower at 439-451 South Fourth Street in San Jose with 368 affordable units plus four manager residences. Project costs are estimated near $159.6 million, and earlier 2024 plans for the site never reached construction.
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.
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.
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.
A Swift proposal would extend @backDeployed(before:) to @frozen struct and enum types with fixed layout, enabling back-deployment for selected standard-library types. It lists spans, references, integers, synchronization and concurrency types for adoption, with a limitation on retroactive conformances to resilient protocols.
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 new study by Yosef Garfinkel and Roy Marom links the 1938 killing of British archaeologist James Starkey to a land dispute between his Lachish expedition and villagers of al-Qubayba. The authors name rebel commander Issa al-Battat as the assassin, describing the conclusion as a historical reconstruction.
Australia's environment minister listed redfish as "conservation dependent" even though the Threatened Species Scientific Committee advised critically endangered status, after a reported decline exceeding 96% over three generations. The Australian Marine Conservation Society says this category lets qualifying fish keep being caught and sold, and that six other species share it.
The KM3NeT collaboration examined 5,828 atmospheric neutrino candidate events recorded by its ORCA telescope beneath the Mediterranean Sea and found no sign of Lorentz invariance violation, while deriving tighter experimental limits, including the first direct bounds on muon-tau flavor effects.
Researchers led by Katsunori Tanaka at RIKEN in Japan reported in Nature Communications that an albumin-protected palladacycle used carbon monoxide from cancer cells to make a toxic phenanthridinone derivative in cultured cancer cells, not normal cells or blood. Animal tests are planned.
In a JAMA Internal Medicine perspective, cardiologists Eric D. Smith and Venkatesh L. Murthy outline factors for weighing gene therapies for common diseases, including safety, durability and long-term monitoring. They note some existing gene therapies cost over $1 million and say affordability must be considered early.
A study computes how magnetically levitated superconductors respond to a spin-2 dark matter field, the dark graviton, from dHz to kHz frequencies. It finds that, with major experimental improvements, matter-coupling sensitivity could surpass existing fifth-force experiments at audio frequencies.
A finite element formulation computes Newtonian noise, including bulk and surface contributions, from seismic wave fields using tetrahedral and brick elements. It agreed closely with analytical solutions for plane P- and S-waves and for Rayleigh waves, and is implemented in the ANNA toolbox with MATLAB, GNU Octave and Python versions.
The authors model conversions between dark-sector and Standard Model photons during the primordial epoch of CMB spectral distortions, solving the Boltzmann equation to obtain dark photon abundances. They report that COBE/FIRAS spectral distortion data exclude new parameter space near the positronium limit and forecast bounds attainable with the proposed FOSSIL satellite.
The paper presents a design and beam-dynamics analysis for an S-band radio-frequency photoinjector built to generate relativistic vortex electron beams carrying quantized orbital angular momentum. Field-map tracking at 0.63 pC bunch charge produced an emittance-compensated beam with 4.9 MeV final kinetic energy and normalized transverse emittance of 56 π μm·mrad.
A model-independent Cosmological Form Factor describes how long-wavelength perturbations modulate short-scale stochastic gravitational-wave background statistics. The authors argue statistical isotropy, locality and basic perturbation properties universally constrain angular and polarization structures; amplitudes and frequency dependence stay model dependent.
Researchers derived a closed-form analytical model describing how a cylindrical PET scanner's geometric sensitivity varies with trans-axial distance from the center of the field of view. Monte Carlo simulations and physical experiments on a representative system largely agreed with the model, which indicates sensitivity rises with trans-axial offset and peaks at the field-of-view edge rather than at the center.
Simulations of Milky Way-like disk-halo systems find that higher numerical resolution delays the epochs of spiral and bar formation, with the delay larger in more stable models. In sufficiently resolved models with a responsive live halo, spirals appear in a cascading sequence in which higher-m modes grow and decay first, followed by lower-m modes.
A study posted to arXiv reports that optimal transport networks minimizing dissipation break symmetry in two ways: weakly, where topology stays symmetric but edge capacities differ, and strongly, which alters the topology itself. The authors argue that network meshing, resource limits and fluctuations make symmetry breaking a general organizing principle, with symmetric structures favored at intermediate noise levels.
A three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulation models a circumbinary disk around a 10:1 massive black hole binary totaling 2×10^7 solar masses. Radiation yields a thinner, denser, less eccentric inner disk and far-UV/soft X-ray emission several orders of magnitude brighter and more variable than an equal-mass binary.
A newly posted arXiv paper studies post-hoc attribution as a diagnostic for single-cell RNA foundation models, covering cell-type annotation with Cell2Sentence and scGPT and perturbation prediction with scGPT+STATE in a controlled setting. The authors report that findings hinge heavily on which biological reference, baseline and null model is chosen.
Particle simulations compare K-V, waterbag, parabolic, conical and Gaussian beams in periodic quadrupole channels. A Gaussian beam's emittance growth under the third-order instability stays far below an equivalent K-V beam's after many periods, while other distributions grow quickly early on.
A Bayesian analysis combining a self-consistent Skyrme RPA model with Gamow-Teller resonance measurements on lead-208, tin-132 and zirconium-90 yielded the Landau-Migdal parameter G'_0 at saturation density of 0.48±0.034, below traditional pion-exchange estimates.
A theoretical paper proposes that three phases of a selectionist sleep account correspond to operations in digital memory for persistent LLM agents. It predicts selectionist consolidation outperforming instructionist approaches as memory stores become large, treating sleep as necessary for continual learning under finite capacity.
