BART alerted riders on the social media platform X around 4 p.m. that the Red line was cancelled due to the delay. The Green and Blue lines were diverted to MacArthur Station. The delay was caused by earlier equipment problems on a train.

According to BART’s media line, around 5:27 p.m., the disabled train was taken out of service and the transit agency was working on restoring regular service to the Red, Green and Blue lines. Around 5:30 p.m., BART posted on X that Green and Blue line service was restored.

Around the same time, BART reported that trains were not stopping at 24th St. Mission due to police activity. Minutes later, service was restored to 24th St. and Mission.

San Jose had not won since Dec. 16, but the Sharks put that to rest with a hard-fought 6-3 road win over the Vancouver Canucks, taking an early 2-0 lead and hanging on despite Vancouver cutting the deficit down to one goal three different times.

Ryan Reaves opened the scoring for San Jose (18-17-3) with a tap-in of a loose puck at the 6:13 mark of the first period. John Klingberg doubled the lead with a shot from the center of the blue line at 7:55 after a screen from Igor Chernyshov limited the visibility of Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko.

Vancouver (15-19-3) responded with a power-play goal by Linus Karlsson, who tapped in a cross-ice pass from Conor Garland for an easy score to make it 2-1 at 10:04.

The Sharks stretched the lead back to two goals when William Eklund chipped a puck toward the net just outside the crease and it flipped over Demko’s shoulders and into the back of the net.

Vancouver’s Marco Rossi may have made the final contact on the play, but the goal counted just the same.

Rossi scored on another tipped goal very early in the third period, as the puck deflected up over Yaroslav Askarov in the midst of several chips near the crease.

Igor Chernyshov doubled the deficit once more when he scored his first NHL goal five minutes into the third, depositing a power-play shot around Demko’s left pad at the 4:47 mark.

Drew O’Connor brought the Canucks closer one more time with a shorthanded score at the 10:43 mark of the third period.

Macklin Celebrini added another goal for the Sharks at the 16:20 mark of the third with a stunning one-timer from the left circle. It was Celebrini’s second point of the game, giving him 57 this season.

Collin Graf added an empty-netter at 16:55 to seal the bounce-back win for San Jose.

The loss was the first for Demko in 14 games against the Sharks.

Check back for updates to this story.

The agency posted around 1 p.m. that firefighters were setting up a rope system for a recovery mission on the beach south of Davenport in Santa Cruz County. They were able to bring the body up from the beach to the bluffs before clearing the scene.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that “due to the close proximity to the recent shark attack victim in Monterey County,” they will be working with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and the Pacific Grove Police Department on the recovery.

The action comes after a 55-year-old swimmer named Erica Fox disappeared on Sunday near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, where sharks were reportedly seen in the area. KSBW reported that the body was a woman, but officials did not release any identifying information.

Banatao is known for pioneering the technology that made personal computers possible, thus putting Silicon Valley on the map. He also co-founded three technology companies and started a nonprofit to help support Filipinos in STEM fields.

“Rising from humble beginnings in Cagayan, he went on to co-found transformative technology companies and played a pivotal role in advancing the global semiconductor and graphics industries,” said the National Federation of Filipino American Associations on LinkedIn in honor of Banatao’s passing. “Just as importantly, he invested deeply in people opening doors, mentoring founders and strengthening communities.”

According to a post on his website by his family, Banatao passed away peacefully on Christmas Day, surrounded by family and friends. His family said he “succumbed to complications from a neurological disorder that hit him late in his life.” He would have been 80 in May.

His family wrote, “We are mourning his loss, but take comfort from the time spent with him during this Christmas season, and that his fight with this disease is over.”

Banatao was born to a rice farmer and housekeeper in Iguig, Cagayan, according to ABS-CBN. According to his 2015 documentary, he didn’t have access to electricity growing up and was taught math using bamboo sticks. He said it was typical for his classmates to stop going to school after sixth grade to help their parents work in the fields, but his father told him to continue studying.

He developed a love for engineering and graduated with a degree in electric engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology, a private research university in Manila. He said in his documentary that there were no design jobs for engineers in the Philippines, so he moved to the U.S. and pursued a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He graduated in 1972.

Soon after college, Banatao worked as a design engineering at Boeing. ABS-CBN reported that he then went on to work for other technology companies, like National Semiconductor and Intersil. While at Commodore International, he designed the first single chip, 16-bit microprocessor-based calculator.

He is credited with developing the first 10-Mbit ethernet CMOS chip in 1981 while working at Seeq Technology. He also developed the first system logic chipset for IBM’s PC-XT and PC-AT and one of the first graphics accelerators for personal computers. These inventions allowed for faster computer performance, according to Inquirer.net. The Harvard Club of Southern California credited Banatao for bringing GPS technology to consumers.

“Dado is the man who invented a graphical chipset that took us from black screens with green writing to the dynamic displays we have today,” the club wrote for a description of a lecture he gave in 2017 for the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County.

Banatao founded the chipset company Mostron with a business partner in 1984. One year later, he also co-founded Chips and Technologies, a graphics adapter company that Intel later acquired for around $430 million.

The CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, expressed his grief at Banatao’s passing on LinkedIn, crediting his friend for challenging him when he became CEO of Cadence Design in 2009.

“I am forever grateful for your challenge and encouragement as I continue my life journey following your footstep as CEO of Cadence Design for 12 years and continuing as CEO intel,” Tan said in his post. “Dado, you are the best technology entrepreneur and legend from (the) Philippines.”

He then founded S3 Graphics in 1989, which led the local bus concept and developed Windows accelerator chips, becoming the third-most profitable technology company in 1993. In 2000, Banatao entered the world of venture capital by founding Tallwood Venture, a firm focused on investing in semiconductor technology, and served as managing partner.

While working at Tallwood in 2011, Banatao told Bloomberg News that he encouraged his companies to expand internationally, focusing particularly in China, due to greater government support and lower production costs.

“It used to be that we started companies here and we didn’t think about going offshore until we were substantially big,” Banatao said when he was 64 at his office in Palo Alto. “At the outset now, as we fund the company, we think about going outside right away.”

Dinakar Munagala, co-founder and CEO at Blaize, Inc., a computer hardware manufacturer in El Dorado Hills, wrote on LinkedIn that he was “deeply saddened” by Banatao’s death.

“Dado was instrumental in shaping Blaize during its formative years,” Munagala said. “His belief in our mission, steady counsel, and generous spirit left a lasting mark on all of us who had the privilege of learning from him.”

Banatao has received several awards and recognitions for his contributions, including the Pamana ng Filipino Award in 1997, Asian Leadership Award in 1993, and the Ramon V. Del Rosario Award in 2018, according to ABS-CBN. In 2003, the Asian American Activities Center at Stanford recognized Banatao in the university’s Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame.

Inquirer.net also reported that an institute at the University of California bears his name: the Banatao Institute at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.

Banatao founded the Philippine Development Science and Technology Foundation, a nonprofit also known as PhilDev that provides scholarships, mentorship and training programs to young Filipinos in STEM fields. His family urged people to donate to PhilDev in Banatao’s memory.

“We (Filipinos) know hardship,” Banatao said in his documentary. “It’s time we learn success.”

Staff writer Kyle Martin contributed to this report. 

San Jose was off for three days with the NHL on its holiday break, but given how their last game went, the Sharks are undoubtedly eager to get back onto the ice. 

The Sharks are sniffing the playoffs, chasing two points behind Los Angeles and Utah as they look to secure their first playoff spot since 2019. 

If Tuesday night’s performance against the Golden Knights was any indication, the Sharks are not ready to make the leap to playoff-caliber team this season after finishing last in the NHL the past two seasons. But they’ll have a good chance to right the ship against Vancouver, which is the worst team in the Pacific Division and one of the worst teams in the league.

Despite trading away their best player in defenseman Quinn Hughes, the Canucks have won four of their last five games. 

But make no mistake. Despite coming back cold after a few days off and coming off a pitiful performance against Vegas, this is the kind of game a playoff team should win. 

It would behoove the Sharks to take care of business Saturday night given what’s ahead on their upcoming schedule. San Jose will travel to Pacific Division co-leader Anaheim after Saturday’s game and then face Minnesota, Hughes’ new team, and Tampa Bay. 

Yaroslav Askarov will be in goal again for the Sharks despite being pulled in the first period Tuesday after giving up four goals on 16 shots against the Golden Knights. Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky offered a passionate defense of Askarov Tuesday night, essentially saying that San Jose’s defensive structure – or lack thereof – set him up to fail.

“Those goals aren’t Asky,” Warsofsky said. “We have to pull Asky, I mean, this kid needs to play. We got to get him going. We got to see him. He’s the future of this franchise as a goaltender. It’s unfair to him to have to pull him and take momentum, and it’s disappointing.”

The Sharks have a long travel day Saturday. Analyst Drew Remenda said Saturday that they were up at 6 a.m. to fly to Vancouver. 

San Jose had a morning skate in Vancouver at 11:30 ahead of a 7 p.m. game. They will travel to Anaheim immediately afterward, having to clear customs twice in one day.

Plenty of challenges on and off the ice, to be sure, especially without having practiced as a group since Tuesday. But the Sharks are going to return to the playoffs this year, wins against bottom feeders are a crucial part of that equation.

Naheed Mangi, 70, was convicted earlier this year of intentional damage to a protected computer. Prosecutors say that after being fired, she changed the database by replacing patient information with gibberish and childish insults like, “doctor too stupid.”

While the incident happened in 2013, Mangi wasn’t indicted until 2018, and wasn’t convicted until a jury trial last February, records show. Prosecutors asked for a 10-month sentence to be split between jail and house arrest, but instead Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila sentenced Mangi to probation.

Her attorney argued in court that no time in custody was a just outcome.

“Notably, for the seven years since her arrest, Ms. Mangi has complied with her conditions of release. She is 70 years old and has lived at the same address for the past 28 years,” a defense sentencing memo says. “Ms. Mangi is currently unemployed, living a solitary life on her social security and savings.”

Mangi must pay $10,520.69 in restitution, court records show.

Mangi was working on a Stanford University study, sponsored by Genentech, testing a new, experimental pharmaceutical treatment for breast cancer. Prosecutors argued her actions betrayed the trust of patients who agreed to participate in the study, and that it was motivated by Mangi’s hurt feelings from being fired.

For the last month, the 49ers have been feasting on the NFL’s middle class (at best), stacking five straight wins like poker chips. But beating the Titans or the Colts is like winning a sparring match. Nice for the record, sure, but it doesn’t tell you if you can take a punch.

Sunday night against the also 11-4 Chicago Bears? Now that’s a worthy adversary — the first of two playoff games the 49ers will play before the playoffs officially start.

A win here does more than secure a sixth-straight victory; it sets the table for a blockbuster Week 18 showdown against the Seattle Seahawks for the NFC West crown and the conference’s No. 1 seed.

But to get to that winner-take-all finale, they first have to survive a Chicago team that has found its swagger.

So much swagger. Like, a curious amount of swagger for a team whose marquee win required an onside kick recovery to beat a backup quarterback.

Alas, they have every opportunity to back it up on Sunday.

Can the Niners’ beleaguered defense hold against one of the league’s best tacticians with a headset and talents at quarterback?

Can Brock Purdy and Kyle Shanahan keep the Niners’ offense humming if the irreplaceable George Kittle (didn’t practice all week, officially designated as questionable with an ankle injury) cannot play?

This game has all the makings of a shootout that should make Purdy and Williams (Iowa State and Oklahoma) feel like they’re back in college.

That’s precisely the kind of test this 49ers team needs right now.

Here are three predictions for Sunday night:

The 49ers Don’t Just Win, They Blow the Doors Off: I started the week thinking this might be a high-scoring, back-and-forth type of game, but I’m changing my tune.

I’m done predicting close games for the 49ers. They will play nothing but blowouts — one way or another, the rest of the year.

I think this way is a win.

The 49ers have flaws on top of flaws, but they are a more buttoned-up, lethal offense right now, while the Bears are high on their own supply after stealing a miracle win last week.

I trust Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy infinitely more than I trust the erratic brilliance of Caleb Williams or the too-cute-by-half Ben Johnson.

The 49ers are going to turn this into a track meet, and the Bears, a markedly worse third-down team than the Niners, won’t be able to keep pace.

Upton Stout Is the Key: The rookie nickelback is the X-factor in this game. The Bears’ offense lives and dies by tight splits, bunch formations, and confusion — specifically targeting the slot. They’ll destroy you in the run game if you go with base, three-linebacker formations.

If Stout can handle the communication and be a positive factor in the run game (as he was against the Colts), the Bears’ offense can stall. If Stout struggles, the 49ers get gashed.

I’m betting the ascending rookie holds his own.

Caleb Williams Gets Tricked into Mistakes: Williams is undeniably talented, but he plays with questionable feel for the rhythm of the NFL game.

He extends plays unnecessarily and is prone to being baited. The 49ers don’t need to do anything exotic on defense; they just need to be disciplined.

My prediction is that Williams gets bored taking what’s there, tries to play hero ball against a zone coverage he misreads, and gifts the 49ers the turnovers that turn this game into the blowout I’m expecting.

Final Score: 44 – 29 49ers.

Specifically, we mulled the events within the context of the movie Sliding Doors, in which two futures unfold for the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow based on something as seemingly innocuous as whether she makes her scheduled subway or misses it by fractions of a second and is forced to take the next train.

For Utah and Whittingham, the Sliding Doors moment occurred Sept. 7, 2024, when quarterback Cam Rising slammed into a bank of water coolers on the Baylor bench placed unusually close to the playing field.

What if the coolers had been a few feet back, in their standard position?

What if Rising’s body position had been altered slightly, so the collision occurred with his shoulder or forearm?

What if he hadn’t sustained a severe hand injury that would kneecap the Utes and lead to Whittingham’s worst season in more than a decade?

If Rising remains healthy and the Utes are as good as projected in their inaugural season in the Big 12, then Whittingham likely does exactly what the university expected months earlier when it named defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley the coach-in-waiting: He retires.

In that scenario, Whittingham isn’t available for Michigan — or isn’t as viable a candidate after being out of the game for a year — and the Wolverines are forced to turn elsewhere for a savior.

Instead, Rising’s hand slammed into the misplaced water cooler, Utah crashed and burned, Whittingham took nine days to ponder retirement, determined he could not leave on the lowest of notes, orchestrated a 10-win season and stepped down with energy left just two days after the Michigan job unexpectedly opened.

“It just didn’t sit right with anybody (in 2024), particularly me, and so I came back,” he explained earlier this month. “Fortunately, we were able to get the ship righted and everything’s on track. The program, like I said, is in a good spot … So now is the time.”

But the elapsed time carried consequences for Scalley and Utah’s administration. At risk of losing their chosen successor if Whittingham returned (again), the Utes, with president Taylor Randall heavily involved, ever-so-slightly nudged Whittingham toward the door.

Being a company man — a Utah Man — Whittingham recognized the moment.

“I didn’t want to be that hanger-on that just kept — people just got sick of,” he said.

Other thoughts on the thunderous news from Ann Arbor:

— Whittingham’s five-year deal with the Wolverines wasn’t yet official Friday when the critics emerged on social media and roasted Utah for not doing everything possible to retain Whittingham for as long as possible, even if it meant losing Scalley to another school.

Whittingham is good enough for one of the most storied programs in college football but not good enough for the Utes?

The optics are awful, but the logic is sound.

The Utes didn’t blow it. Quite the opposite, in fact.

This is a win-win-win situation: The right time for a change in Salt Lake City; a great opportunity for Whittingham; and a masterstroke for Michigan.

Had the 66-year-old Whittingham stuck around, the Utes would have risked more than Scalley’s allegiance. They could have descended into an untenable, inescapable situation for years to come.

Imagine Whittingham being either energized by good seasons or motivated by bad ones, year after year after year, until the school and its coach become locked in a state of codependency into the 2030s.

That would have been far worse than an amicable separation unfolding with the program on solid ground, with Scalley ready to take charge and with Whittingham off to a terrific opportunity in Ann Arbor.

— In his 2024 decision to return and his 2025 decision to step down, Whittingham said he was prioritizing what was best for the football program, not for him personally. But what happens next will shape his legacy.

Will Whittingham don the cape of a hypocrite and use Michigan’s immense wealth to raid Utah’s coaching staff and roster?

At this moment, he’s a Utah legend, squarely on the right side of history with the respect of the entire university community.

But if he plunders the program and leaves Scalley with a barren roster, that changes: Whittingham would instantly become persona non grata in Salt Lake City, his legacy tarnished forever.

Nothing would turn Utah fans against their icon like roster poaching.

Does leaving the program “in a good spot” matter to Whittingham? Or was it the cheapest of talk?

— In all regards except for his close ties with former Ohio State coach (and lifelong Michigan antagonist) Urban Meyer, Whittingham is the ideal choice for the job in Ann Arbor.

His age isn’t an issue. He has more than enough energy and passion to last four or five years, which is more than enough time to leave his mark.

This isn’t intended to be a forever hire for the Wolverines. After five years of scandals and embarrassment, Michigan needs a proven winner whose character is above reproach.

No personal transgressions.

No NCAA compliance issues.

Just an old-fashioned philosophy tweaked to fit the sport’s post-modern landscape.

Whittingham’s coaching style, rooted in punishing play at the line of scrimmage, suits the Michigan approach dating back to the Bo Schembechler era.

He is more of a Michigan Man than many of the men employed by Michigan in recent years.

The Wolverines have been an embarrassment for years, from Jim Harbaugh’s excesses to the Connor Stalions sign-stealing scandal to Sherrone Moore’s tragic missteps.

They emerged with a better outcome than they had any right to imagine.

The same is true, in many regards, for Whittingham. And it might have all been different had those water coolers been placed a few feet farther back.

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