Yes, it's one station, but also the entry point for the Transbay tunnel, effectively cutting off the East Bay from SF. In other words, unless you're on the peninsula, make other transport plans. Some unfortunate BART engineers are having a very bad Monday morning, but they do their best.

Rather disappointing that the most interesting thing about the Las Vegas GP occurred hours after the race ended. Also, one of the eventual podium placers would have been too young to drink the champagne for the ceremony.

Italian commuters are more likely to give up their seat to a pregnant passenger is there's someone dressed as Batman in the rail coach. Delightfully silly boffinry.

This appears to show a Tesla Robotaxi "safety" driver falling asleep at the wheel and getting woken up by the car. Not a way to inspire confidence.

Just past 8am and Jeff Mills is starting his set. Banging way to start the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K7X...

Scrambled eggs on Marmite toast, teatime snack of champions.

Fun fact - in SF you can adopt a drain and keep it clear in the rain. The city will give you the tools for the job if you keep drains clear and stop flooding. The best bit is you get to name it. Respect to the keeper of a Castro drain dubbed “It’s Draining Men.”

Drive safe in the Bay Area today. So much rain after a significant dry period is making the roads very slippery. Just popped to the shops and saw a nasty accident on the way.

An enormously fun episode, and and while the correct term is ferret legging the wrong trousers is always funny. It's a bonkers legendary sport. The current record holder lasted five hours and thirty minutes with some serious bites. Lots of good talk, and some marvelous folks to talk tech with.

Sadly this isn't true, the AARP's fact-checking department needs a boot up the bum. Until checking I thought I had a gold mine in the back room. There's a market for gaming cables, and specialized connectors, but no - your SCSI cables aren't worth that much.

San Francisco goes all-in on Halloween, both adults and children. This is still my favourite costume, by a British mate on the year of Brexit.

Signal boss nails the reason why, even with last week's outage, it has to use AWS - and why others do too. The whole thread is well worth a read.

In position for the @archive.org celebration of one trillion pages saved for posterity, a superb achievement. Tonight should be fun and fascinating, and if you haven't signed up for the Archive you're missing out on an amazing resource.

Superb headline from The Sun.

Out on the morning walk and spotted the first hummingbird of the season. Time to put the feeders out.

A fascinating chat with Pablos Holman about funding long-shot projects that might not get a look in from a standard VC. The underground nuclear reactors look promising, and non-toxic e-waste recycling shows great promise. As for a laser-zapping mosquito system - take my money now.

As said by the legendary Clarence Darrow: "I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

Recycling has bitten me in the arse. The phone died this morning and the only functioning handset in the house is a first-gen Pixel. Using an eight-year-old handset again makes me feel like I've gone back to XP, hopefully without the security issues.

An interesting start to the morning, with Nadella pulling an Ellison and handing off the mundane part of Microsoft to an employee so he can think big thoughts.

The Jane Goodall Institute threatened to sue Gary Larson over this cartoon. Goodall told them not to be so stupid, sold it on a tshirt, and wrote the introduction to The Far Side Gallery 5. Absolute legend.

Damn these security questions are getting tougher.

As a Brit I'm biased but half an inch of rain over three days for the Bay Area is not a drenching.

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff.

Terrible news to wake up to. If you want to see a masterclass in acting (although not safe sailing techniques) watch All is Lost.

So much wrong with this movie (although I love it,) but they were spot on with “RISC architecture is going to change everything.”

Fog Town is living up to its name. This is the top of Salesforce Tower tonight @karlthefog.bsky.social is in the city big-time.

To be fair, the bees could just have been taking back what they made.

There's a message there, if only Labour would see it.

Oracle's share price jumped over 27% today, making Larry Ellison the second richest person in the world. Here's why.

Doug Coupland for the headline but it fitted the latest return-to-work rule changes at Microsoft. Redmond have handled it better than most, but 50 miles in Seattle traffic will suck. But you can get a lot more done in five minutes of chat than in a flood of IMs and teams meetings IMO.

Time to bake my signature sausage rolls for a birthday party. These always go down well in America; sausage, sage, chives and puff pastry. Cheated on the latter, I've made proper puff but it takes hours.

No spoilers, but the pole sitter at the #ItalianGP drove the fastest lap ever seen in #F1 history. A superb drive. Seen by some at least, the cameraman missed it entirely and cut - yet again - to reaction shots from the garage from another team at the key moments.

ICE and others arrest 475 workers at the Hyundai and LG plant in Georgia. Some tried to escape via the sewage pond, leading to a literal "up shit creek" moment.

Thank goodness this happened on a Friday, the roads are pretty clear at the moment, but BART is still bereft of life. No matter how bad your day is today, spare a thought for the poor network engineer who tried to turn the system on this morning and had a serious "oh fuck' moment.

I went through a 200+ page ruling so you don't have to. It is bizarre that the judge who declared Google a monopoly gives the lightest of taps on the wrist.

The Formula One summer break is over and the Dutch Grand Prix is coming on Sunday. Time to listen to this classic again - wish they hadn't dropped it.

A brief Richmond alert siren test has blown - the neighbour's huskies should calm down in about 10 minutes. It's a good thing they're loveable.

A great pick, they will bring experience to the team. Lovely to see Botas is back, and I suspect another calendar is in the works :)

The discovery in this case between xAI, Apple, and OpenAI could be fascinating. All three could be accused of the same charges in practice.

Best review yet of Nick Clegg's new book.

This is a good deal for the US government. After Intel spent years and tens of billions buying back shares and underfunding research why should they get free money? This way their should be payback and the US gets stake in a domestic chipmaker.

Some stories are just made for puns, not to mention highlighting F-grade security. Yes, I did have fun with this.

This is an excellent idea, I'm saying that not just as a journalist.

There's always that nervous moment coming into SFO low over the water when you just have to trust the pilots.

Time to get undercover in NYC.

An acting legend. First saw him in Billy Budd, easily the best Zod, and Priscilla was glorious.

I'm going to wake up in a city that never sleeps, after five hours on the road.

The horror, the horror...

Driving in New Jersey is weird. You can't pump your own petrol and people seem to think one car length is a perfectly acceptable stopping distance at 65mph.