California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
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Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
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AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws
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Protect your privacy with California's DROP tool (Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, for California residents)
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Public backlash after Utah county approves 62 sq miles of development sites for data center
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Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives.
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Judge to Texas: You can’t age-gate the entire internet without evidence
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California lets residents opt-out of a ton of data collection on the web
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Bluesky will comply with age verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi
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Bluesky will block Mississippi IP addresses in response to its age assurance law
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US Supreme Court allows Mississippi social media age verification law to go into effect
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Lyon, France joins European exodus from Windows to Linux
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Right to repair is now law in Washington state
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Hawaiʻi's needy wait as benefits system tech overhaul runs late, busts budget
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Utah becomes first US state to pass bill making app stores verify ages - Governor has not yet signed the bill
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Supreme Court seems ready to back Texas law limiting access to pornography
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New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny insurance claims
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Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South
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Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
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Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas, blames new trans privacy law
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New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
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Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalates
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Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
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America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
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Maryland is making a $27.2 million investment in devices as part of an effort to ensure residents have the technology to access reliable, high-speed internet.
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Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids
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California passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring seven years of parts
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Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?
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Elon Musk’s X sues California over content moderation law, claiming it violates free speech
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As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states in the USA have rules
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The US tech industry has largely co-opted the once-dreaded “patchwork” of state rules through effective lobbying— and its success is sapping momentum for federal legislation
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Illinois just passed the first law in the US protecting financial rights of children of influencers
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How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law
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Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices. CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data.
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Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
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California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature
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Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
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King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
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EU set to unveil digital wallet fit for post-Covid life
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Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians
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Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
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Foxconn and Wisconsin have amended their contract to reflect a $672 million investment, instead of the $10 billion promised in 2017
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Arizona advances bill forcing Apple and Google to allow Fortnite-style alternative payment options
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Texas Department of Public Safety issues amber alert for victim of horror doll Chucky
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Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
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New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback,...
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
This is a follow-up to these articles posted yesterday:
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Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source
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