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• PVUSD Superintendent Heather Contreras leaving for another role
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• 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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• Indigenous Californians Win some Big Battles
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• The News: October 5, 2026
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• 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
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• Bad News for the News Industry
  McClatchy slashes newsrooms nationwide, including at its once-great flagship, th…

• Cruzio at the CPUC: What We Shared About Connecting San Jerardo
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• Cruzio celebrates completion of Equal Access Summits to the Sea project
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• The Critters We See When We Build Infrastructure
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• An Otterly Excellent Story
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• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
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• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
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• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
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• 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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• Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss
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• Warsh Vows to Tame Inflation as A.I. Delivers ‘Shock’ to Economy
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• What Life Is Like in Kyiv as Russia Tries to Make It Unlivable
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• After Welcoming China’s Electric Vehicles, This Country Is Paying the Price
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• Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes
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• Handcuffs in Schools
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• A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms, and Teenager Kills 4 at Oregon Elementary School
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• What We Know About the School Shooting in Bend, Oregon
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• Watch: Did Tesla really just unveil a flying car?
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• Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest
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• Zelensky rallies EU support as Trump says Ukraine leader 'more difficult to deal with than Putin'
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• China tells Israel to stop 'forced establishment' of West Bank settlements
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• 'It's really hard to believe' – How Oregon primary school shooting unfolded
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• Ship attack reports near Hormuz reach record high as oil exports slow
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• They fled Russia, but the West sent them back
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• Hackers Hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti Devices To Resell Your Stolen Bandwidth
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A proxyjacking campai…
• World's Timekeepers Vote to Eliminate the Leap Second
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• Tesla Reveals SpaceX-Powered 'Flying' Roadster
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• Police Seize Robot that Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl
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• IMF Warns of the Real AI Threat: Debt
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• Flock CEO Defends Surveillance Tech Amid National Backlash
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• First-Ever Public Confirmation of 'Zero-Click' Spyware Delivered Via Targeted Ads
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• Meta and Apple Bring Muse Spark Open AI Model to Mac Studio
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• Microsoft Says Windows 11 Is Now 'More Responsive', Runs Better On 8GB of RAM
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