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The Derrick · Santa Clara, CA
Nearby: Santa Clara, CAIn March, Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia’s influence on the Bay Area could be seen in the occupied restaurant tables and crowded sidewalks of downtown San Jose. Technology workers wearing green conference badges filled coffee shops and hotels as the chipmaker’s…
The Stanford Daily · Santa Clara, CA
Nearby: Santa Clara, CAContent warning: This article contains references to sexual violence. Leo Rossitter, a Stanford undergraduate, will face a criminal trial in Santa Clara County for allegedly raping a fellow student, according to public court filings. A hearing to schedule a trial is set to proceed in December. The University’s media relations office confirmed to The Daily that Rossitter, an economics and data science student, is enrolled at Stanford and living off campus. The Daily independently confirmed that he is currently taking classes on campus. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office specifically charged him in October 2024 with rape of an intoxicated person, oral copulation of an intoxicated person and penetration by force. The University said it was aware of the charges. Rossitter’s attorney, Daniel Barton, told The Daily in a statement that his client “is not guilty of the horrible things that he is accused of.
San José Spotlight · Santa Clara, CA
Nearby: Santa Clara, CASanta Clara is recognizing a piece of its history often overlooked in the city’s historic preservation efforts — the grave site of Tiburcio Vásquez, a notorious 19th-century outlaw whose legacy is intertwined with the experiences of California’s Mexican-era residents. The City Council unanimously approved the grave site’s historic designation on Oct. 20, giving new recognition to Vásquez’s connection to the region and adding to local efforts to preserve the history of Californios — people of Spanish and Mexican descent who lived in California before it became part of the U.S in 1850. For community advocates and descendants, the designation is an opportunity to bring greater attention to stories of displacement, resistance and cultural identity, which they said have long been overlooked. “It is really important for these cities to recognize their history, that it did not start with the Americans,” Lorie Garcia, a Santa Clara historian, told San José Spotlight.
San José Spotlight · Santa Clara, CA
Nearby: Santa Clara, CAOut of more than 100 races and measures on ballots across Santa Clara County this November, the single least controversial item flew largely under the radar, garnering little attention and no campaign fundraising. Measure S, which establishes term limits for the El Camino Healthcare District’s board, passed in a landslide, receiving 92% support as of Sunday. That’s the largest vote share of any ballot item, except for a handful of uncontested races with only a single candidate. The measure will limit board members to serving no more than four full four-year terms, or 16 years in total. The El Camino Healthcare District is a little-known public agency that oversees El Camino Hospital. The district’s board manages the tax-funded district and serves on the nonprofit hospital’s board of directors.
Cortez Journal · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CANvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday, capping a spectacular downfall for a poster boy of the artificial intelligence boom whose exit following reports of extramarital affairs now thrusts the chipmaker into an uncertain future. After a dizzying series of headlines about Huang’s infidelity and ties to an alleged Chinese spy, his departure sets off a scramble to find a permanent replacement to lead the multitrillion-dollar colossus that grew from obscurity to a perch between Apple and Microsoft at the top of the S&P index. The resignation sent shares of Nvidia plummeting 14% at the opening bell, before stabilizing. The stock closed down about 4% Thursday as investors pondered the lawsuits, investigations, likely corporate jockeying and the resilience of a market driven by the gains of a few tech giants.
AIStockWire · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CAKey points US probes whether Alice Huang-linked entities helped smuggle Super Micro products The Manhattan US Attorney's Office is leading the Alice Huang inquiry Nvidia hired a former head of the office to investigate reporting about Jensen Huang The Justice Department is investigating whether entities linked to Alice Huang were involved in efforts to smuggle products made by Super Micro Computer (SMCI) to China, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 12. US officials suspect Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive, of spying for China, according to the report. Jensen Huang, who acknowledged an affair on Nov. 8, resigned as Nvidia's CEO the same day as the report. Super Micro shares were at $27.48 at 3:06 p.m. ET, down 9.7% from Wednesday's close of $30.43. The stock had opened about 11% lower, before the report was published.
San José Spotlight · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CATransportation officials overseeing the multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley BART extension are celebrating an early construction milestone in bringing the rapid transit service to downtown San Jose and Santa Clara. Workers in recent weeks completed excavating and reinforcing an 83-foot-deep hole on a former rail yard property nearby PayPal Park. The shaft will serve as the launch point for the massive boring machine that will drill out the 5-mile tunnel made to house the new BART tracks. The $12.7 billion public works project overseen by VTA will eventually add four new BART stations: three in San Jose and one in Santa Clara. In the works for more than a decade, the effort has faced delays, ballooning costs and a series of controversies, including pushback against its single tunnel design.
Metro Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CAThe shock-rock pioneer brings his Alice’s Attic Tour to San Jose Civic, continuing a career built on hard-rock hooks and theatrics.
Metro Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CAA lost Tommy Walker finds himself lost in the universe. He struggles with being bullied, witnessing a murder, and dealing with abuse.
Metro Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CAHeartbreak rarely does much for the person experiencing it, but it has been remarkably good for soul music.
San José Spotlight · San Jose, CA
Nearby: San Jose, CAFor a family in San Jose struggling to pay $3,000 a month in rent, the results of the Nov. 3 election probably won’t change much about next month’s bills. Neither will they shorten the commute of a worker traveling two hours each day because living near their job is simply too expensive. And for someone facing eviction, the promise of future housing construction offers little comfort when the rent is due tomorrow. Yet California voters delivered an important message last week. They are willing to invest in making their communities more affordable. The challenge now is turning that political support into something residents can actually experience. Consider the results. Proposition 1, authorizing more than $11 billion in housing bonds, passed with approximately 61% support. Voters also rejected Proposition 43, preserving the ability of citizen-led local tax measures to pass without a two-thirds supermajority.
