Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
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Arkansas sues YouTube over claims it's fueling mental health crisis
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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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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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A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic
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Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
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Surveillance on UK council websites - A study of private companies’ data collection on council websites across the United Kingdom
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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
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World first as local council uses robots to perform 'unbiased' job interviews
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Ottawa city hall has been targeted by cyber attacks more than 8,000 times in the past year
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Florida city to pay $600K ransom to hacker who seized computer systems weeks ago
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
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Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
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Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle
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Thirty-five US states tell the FCC to get off its ass and do something about spoofed robocalls
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Justice Department sues to stop California net neutrality law
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