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• Your Nov. 3 Santa Cruz County election guide is here
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• PVUSD Superintendent Heather Contreras leaving for another role
  Superintendent of Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Heather Contreras, will leave her position once her c…
• Watsonville Hospital leaders say they must shutter their maternity ward or face imminent closure
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• Greensite endorses Coonerty as he shifts his tone on ‘oversized’ housing
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• A candidate running for a PVUSD seat arrested for alleged fraud, but still on the ballot
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• Monitoring invasive beetles in Santa Cruz County
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• Watsonville City Council approves new restrictions on Flock cameras
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• Indigenous Californians Win some Big Battles
  Tribes throughout the state have reason to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on…
• The News: October 5, 2026
  Voter guides and ballots are in the mail; The November 3 2026 California General…
• A Leak in the Midst of the AI Firehose
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• The News: September 28, 2026
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• Working With Robots
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• Why and How We Are Using A.I. to Do Journalism
  As we ramp up to launch our white-hat AI product, we review what Open AI knew ab…
• The News: September 21, 2026
  Local voters are unhappy about Flock automatic license plate cameras, data cente…
• Bad News for the News Industry
  McClatchy slashes newsrooms nationwide, including at its once-great flagship, th…
• The News: September 14, 2026
  The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is observed across the state; Local news is reporti…
• California Forever. Religious freedom now.
  Local opposition stalls the planned Delta city, while a former president speaks…

• Cruzio at the CPUC: What We Shared About Connecting San Jerardo
  On April 22, 2026, Cruzio had the opportunity to speak on a panel at a Californi…
• Cruzio celebrates completion of Equal Access Summits to the Sea project
  SANTA CRUZ- Cruzio Internet is celebrating the completion of their ambitious Equ…
• The Critters We See When We Build Infrastructure
  Out on the job, Cruzio’s top-notch tech crews encounter all sorts of animals. We…
• An Otterly Excellent Story
  As if you needed it, there’s another reason to love our local sea otters: they’r…
• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
  We edited this photo to look like a 1950s horror movie. But the tentacles were r…
• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
  In the Santa Cruz Mountains we’re used to getting slimed by banana slugs, which,…
• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
  Liminal Space Art Collective is a group of Santa Cruz artists building bridges a…
• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
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• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
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• Black-footed Cats
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• Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
  Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into w…
• Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Airport Attacked Again, After Days of Houthi Strikes
  The strike on Saturday was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the…
• Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War
  In an unannounced change, the Defense Department is now acknowledging troops who…
• Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia
  High diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but Pres…
• Why Ketamine Immobilizes Some Users
  Potent powders can produce a nearly catatonic state, particularly in those who h…
• 4 Killed as a Weakened Isaias Pushes Through the Southeast
  Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, but towns near the landfall site in…
• Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel Target Mexico as Isaias Hits Gulf
  Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel are both expected to make landfall in…
• How Cornell University Chi Phi Fraternity Members Responded After Rape Accusation
  Records reveal how fraternity members responded when a fellow student accused th…
• Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’
  Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the…
• Christa Pike Discharged From Hospital After Surviving Execution Attempt
  Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses…

• Twelve killed in attack on airport in Saudi capital Riyadh
  Another 309 people are injured in the attack on the airport, which come days aft…
• Four dead and thousands without power after Hurricane Isaias lashes US
  Roofs were ripped off buildings after Isaias barrelled into the US on Friday eve…
• Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 20 people
  Volodymyr Zelensky says the attack, which left children dead, was Russia express…
• 'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
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• Watch: 'Time for Ukraine to get a new president', says Trump
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• Expedition hopes to find aviator Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island
  The team en route to the suspected crash site aim finally to solve the mystery o…
• US murderer Christa Pike discharged from hospital 10 days after failed execution
  Pike’s lawyers say she is “grateful” to the medical team who cared for her after…
• Nobel peace laureate says US sanctions on ICC 'unacceptable'
  Navi Pillay says the Trump administrations’ sweeping penalties on the internatio…
• Woman injures three people in third Poland school knife attack in a week
  Polish police had already deployed to schools after a female caretaker was kille…
• Drone strike by Sudan paramilitary kills 41 near Ethiopian border, rights group says
  Eight children are said to be among those killed by the strike, which hit a gath…

• Nicolas Cage Didn't Sign Amazon's AI Waiver For 'Spider-Noir'. Series Cancelled.
  “Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon,” reports Variety. Amazon developed…
• Ubuntu 26.10 Will Offer a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement Option
  The blog It’s FOSS reports: You already know that Canonical has been selectively…
• Claude Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. White House Mandates AI Companies Report Security Incidents
  AFP reports that an AI model from Anthropic “submitted a fabricated tip about an…
• OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled 'False Front' Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists
  OpenAI announced it’s recently banned two “influence operations” — one from Russ…
• Another Woman Sues Flock For Mistaken Crime Accusation By Police – and for Surveillance
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• Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
  Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at t…
• First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
  Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clo…
• AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say
  Reuters reports: Flock plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people wit…
• Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn’t block…
• A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month
  sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a defini…

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