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Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk 115
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 108
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 88
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 15
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office 307
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones 15
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government 507
The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout 90
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC 41
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 282
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
US Lawmaker Proposes a Public Database of All AI Training Material 30
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 108
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support 22
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
In America, A Complex Patchwork of State AI Regulations Has Already Arrived 13
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill? 35
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed Homes To Solve Canada Housing Crisis 174
UK and US Sign Landmark Agreement On AI Safety 6
'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome' 188
FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 60
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
America's FDA Forced to Settle 'Groundless' Lawsuit Over Its Ivermectin Warnings 350
Do Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet? 159
Can Apps Turn Us Into Unpaid Lobbyists? 73
More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports 23
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
Congress Bans Staff Use of Microsoft's AI Copilot 32
NYC's Government Chatbot Is Lying About City Laws and Regulations 57
Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer 48
Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing 139
TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices 11
US, UK Announce Sanctions Over China-Linked Election Hacks 29
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
UN Adopts First Global Artificial Intelligence Resolution 12
EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector 282
India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters 32
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
EPA Bans Chrysotile Asbestos 98
32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders 390
Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed 194
TikTok is Banned in China, Notes X User Community - Along With Most US Social Media 148
Amazon Violated Rights of Workers Trying to Unionize, Labor Regulators Find 24
What Happened to Other China-Owned Social Media Apps? 73
India Drops Plan To Require Approval For AI Model Launches 2
CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government 114
FTC and DOJ Think McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Should Be Legal To Fix 66
US House Passes Bill To Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok or Face Ban 233
US Must Move 'Decisively' To Avert 'Extinction-Level' Threat From AI, Gov't-Commissioned Report Says 139
US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings 43
Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say 200
California State Legislator Proposes Ending Daylight Saving Time 186
New US Defense Department Report Found 'No Evidence' of Alien Technology 66
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise 4
How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount 162
Bipartisan Bill Could Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok 49
Oregon OKs Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans the Blocking of Aftermarket Parts 75
Boeing Now Also Ordered to Fix Anti-Ice System on 737 Max, 787 Jets 47
TurboTax and H&R Block Want 'Permission to Blab Your Money Secrets' 29
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security 21
The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators 34
White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order 117
US Leading Global Alliance To Counter Foreign Government Disinformation 122
Are Corporate Interests Holding Back US Electrical Grid Expansion? 133
The Companies Helping Governments Hack Citizens' Phones: a 'Thriving' Industry 8
Florida Lawmakers Pass Ban On Social Media For Kids 114
US Cities Try Changing Their Zoning Rules to Allow More Housing 191
California Bill Wants To Scrap Environmental Reviews To Save Downtown San Francisco 177
Scientists Propose AI Apocalypse Kill Switches 104
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
Oversight of Boeing 'is Not Delivering Safe Aircraft', Says America's Top Aviation Regulator 99
In Big Tech's Backyard, a California State Lawmaker Unveils a Landmark AI Bill 50
California Bill Would Ban All Plastic Shopping Bags At Grocery Stores 276
Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day 36
EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade 59
EU Proposes Criminalizing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse and Deepfakes 101
Will Silicon Valley's Next House Member Rewrite a Key Internet Law? 133
Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built 200
'Linux Foundation Energy' Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America's EV Charging 21
FBI Director Warns Chinese Hackers Aim To 'Wreak Havoc' On US Critical Infrastructure 98
German Police Secure $2 Billion In Bitcoin From Pirate Site Operators 42
UK To Ban Disposable Vapes 131
NYC Wants To Create a First-of-Its Kind Department To Regulate App Based Delivery 38
Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents 45
California Bill Wants To Mandate Electronic 'Speed Limiters' in Cars 362
America's Car Industry Seeks to Crush AM Radio. Will Congress Rescue It? 262
London Accused of Wrongly Fining Hundreds of Thousands of EU Drivers 91
US Government Opens 22 Million Acres of Federal Lands To Solar 106
US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA 114
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18
What Laws Will We Need to Regulate AI? 86
America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities 36
White House Unveils $623 Million In Funding To Boost EV Charging Points 101
SEC Claims Account Was 'Compromised' After Announcing False Bitcoin ETF Approval 48
Biden Administration To Unveil Contractor Rule Set To Upend Gig Economy 213
America's FAA Temporarily Grounds All Boeing 737 Max 9s - After a Window Blows Off In-Flight 148
US Moves Closer To Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple 119
Firmware Prank Causes LED Curtain In Russia To Display 'Slava Ukraini' 109
New Jersey Used COVID Relief Funds To Buy Banned Chinese Surveillance Cameras 25
Will 2024 Bring a 'Major Turning Point' in US Health Care? 154
20% of America's Plants and Animals are At Risk of Extinction 56
New US Immigration Rules Spur More Visa Approvals For STEM Workers 102
India Targets Apple Over Its Phone Hacking Notifications 100
US Engine Maker Will Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Claims of Emissions Cheating 100
US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say 84
AI Companies Would Be Required To Disclose Copyrighted Training Data Under New Bill 42
Biden Administration Unveils Hydrogen Tax Credit Plan To Jump-Start Industry 104
Massachusetts Lawmakers Mull 'Killer Robot' Bill 14
Meta's News Ban In Canada Remains As Online News Act Goes Into Effect 147
Lawmakers Push DOJ To Investigate Apple Following Beeper Shutdowns 55
ProPublica Argues US Police 'Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras' 96
US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds 23
Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 138
European Union Lawmakers Agree To New Rules That Bolster Gig Worker Rights 43
US Climate Bill 'Ignites New Zeal' Around the World for Government Climate Efforts 47
US Expects To Make Multi-Billion Chips Awards Within the Next Year 13
MIT Group Releases White Papers On Governance of AI 46
US Diet Committee Debates Whether Potatoes are Vegetables or 'Starchy Grain' 129
US Postal Service Warns Rural Mail Carriers: Don't Publicly Blame Delays on Amazon 119
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
Europe Reaches a Deal On the World's First Comprehensive AI Rules 36
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications 33
US Issues Warning To Nvidia, Urging To Stop Redesigning Chips For China 86
Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator 18
Are Amazon Packages Disrupting Mail Services in Some Small Towns? 164
US Announces AI Hackathons to Strengthen Critical Mineral Supply Chains 16
Brazilian City Enacts an Ordinance That Was Secretly Written By ChatGPT 41
Canadian Government Reaches Deal With Google On Online News Act 50
Microsoft, Uber, Dell CEOs Consider Government-Funded Stock Funds for Children 149
US Energy Department Funds Next-Gen Semiconductor Projects to Improve Power Grids 20
What Happened When California's State Government Examined the Risks and Benefits of AI? 80
Meta Knowingly Collected Data on Pre-Teens, Unredacted Evidence From Lawsuit Shows 56
Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Canadian Government Could Involve Data From 1999 4
Canada Court Overturns Government Ruling That Some Plastics Are Toxic 35
FCC Can Now Punish Telecom Providers For Charging Customers More For Less 75
Lawmakers Question Apple Over Cancellation of Jon Stewart's Show 98
'Provisional Agreement' Reached on eID, a 'Digital Identity for All Europeans' 194
Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media? 63
Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine 37
Intel To Build 'Secure Enclave' Chip Facilities For Defense Applications 21
Maine Considers Giving the Boot To Corporate Electric Utilities 176
'Stupid' Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Why? 241
US House Panel Seeks Ban On Federal Purchases of China Drones 33
Canada Bans WeChat, Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices 33
Biden Signs Executive Order To Oversee and Invest in AI 36
$127 Billion in US Student Loans Now Flagged for Cancellation - About 30% of Planned Amount 234
G7 Nations Will Announce an 'AI Code of Conduct' for Companies Building AI 42
America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'? 132
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough 148
Apple Backs US Government's Push for a National Right-to-Repair Bill . (But What About Parts Pairing?) 30
Network State Conference Announced in Amsterdam for October 30 4
Biden Administration Moves To Ban Solvent Trichloroethylene, Linked To Cancer 85
ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online 63
California Law Limits Bitcoin ATM Transactions to $1,000 to Thwart Scammers 37
Online 'Information War' in Africa Rages on Social Media 46
CFPB Moves To Bar Financial Firms From 'Hoarding' a Consumer's Data 9
IRS Will Pilot Free, Direct Tax Filing In 2024 88
Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media 118
Have Economists Contributed to Inequality? 299
Biden Awards $7 Billion For 7 Hydrogen Hubs In Climate Fight Plan 96
'No Fakes Act' Wants To Protect Actors and Singers From Unauthorized AI Replicas 60
Right-To-Repair Is Now the Law In California 45
California Governor Signs Ban On Social Media 'Aiding or Abetting' Child Abuse 70
California Becomes First US State to Ban Four 'Toxic' Food Additives 200
For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips 34
Some US Lawmakers Want to Restrict American Companies From Working on RISC-V Chip Technology 162
US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report 41
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations 77
San Francisco's Empty Offices Might Start Converting Into Housing 147
NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center 13
Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change 219
Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution 42
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
Freelancers Aren't Happy With Japan's New Invoice System 33
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training 32
White House Could Force Cloud Companies To Disclose AI Customers 44
New Revelations From the Snowden Archive Surface 151
FCC Plays Whack-a-Mole With Telcos Accused of Profiting From Robocalls 58
UK Parliament Passes Online Safety Bill 75
One of the FBI's Most Wanted Hackers Is Trolling the US Government 52
Court Blocks California's Online Child Safety Law 23
Was China's 'Spy Balloon' Just Blown Off Course? 112
US Energy Department Unveils Interactive Map Showing New Clean Energy Investments 18
California Legislature Passes Delete Act Regulating Data Brokers 18
How a Breached Microsoft Engineer Account Compromised the Email Accounts of US Officials 38
Whatever Happened to El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment? Two Years Later... 62
Startup Building Zinc-Based Alternatives to Lithium Batteries Granted $400M Loan from the US 97
US Broadband Buildout Finds Cost to Connect Some Households as High as $53,000 119
Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips 67
UK Government Lifts Ban On Onshore Wind Farms 118
Experts Favor New US Agency To Govern AI 56
Pentagon Has the Worst IT Helpdesk in the US Govt 54
America's IRS Can't Find Millions of Sensitive Tax Records: Watchdog 69
Pentagon's New UFO Website Lets You Explore Declassified Sightings Info 54
Robinhood Bought Back Sam Bankman-Fried's Stake From US Government For $606 Million 17
Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Parental OK For Minors To Create Social Media Accounts 64
IBM Returns To the Facial Recognition Market 17
US Officials Look To Move Marijuana To Lower-Risk Drug Category 220
EPA Removes Federal Protections For Most of the Country's Wetlands 122
Pentagon Bets On Quick Production of Autonomous Systems To Counter China 114
DHS Has Spent Millions On an AI Surveillance Tool That Scans For 'Sentiment and Emotion' 50
A Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Can't Hide How It Monitors Social Media 32
US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites 57
Why US Tech Giants Are Threatening to Leave the UK 181
US Spy Agencies Will Start Sharing More Cyber-Threat Intelligence with Private Companies 17
Homeland Security Report Details How Teen Hackers Exploited Security Weaknesses In Some of the World's Biggest Companies 31
Biden Issues an Executive Order Restricting US Investments In Chinese Technology 59
Pentagon Launches AI Competition To Solicit Help Securing Computer Systems 7
US Supreme Court Allows Biden To Regulate 3D-Printed Firearms 228
White House Holds First-Ever Summit On the Ransomware Crisis Plaguing the Nation's Public Schools 76
Germany Spends Big To Win $11 Billion TSMC Chip Plant 35
EPA Approved a Chevron Fuel Ingredient That Has a Lifetime Cancer Risk 121
Canadian Government Services To Become 'Digital First' 55
Biden Puts Final Nail In the Coffin For Incandescent Light Bulbs 267
IRS Vows To Digitize All Taxpayer Documents By 2025 59
Biden Reverses Trump Decision, Keeps Space Command In Colorado 199
The US and Europe Are Growing Alarmed By China's Rush Into Legacy Chips 159
Massachusetts Lawmakers Eye a 'Netflix Tax' To Fund Community TV Channels 103
US Energy Dept Pledges $100M to Buy Products Derived from Converted Carbon Emissions 27
America Will Convert Land from Its Nuclear Weapons Program into Clean Energy Projects 77
MOVEit Hackers Accessed Health Data of 'At Least' 8 Million Individuals 12
US Senate Panel Passes AM Radio, Ticket Fee Pricing Bills 264
Senate Panel Advances Bill To Childproof the Internet 80
UFO Reports Demand Greater Transparency, Lawmakers Say 79
Russia Bans Thousands of Officials From Using iPhones Over Spying Fears 109
Hacking of Government Email Was Traditional Espionage, NSA Official Says 20
OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon Pledge To Watermark AI Content For Safety, White House Says 47
IRS Moves Forward With a New Free-File Tax Return System 122
Senators Unveil Measure To Ban Stock Ownership By Lawmakers, Administration Officials 100
US Government Launches Its Long-Awaited IoT Security Labeling Program 22
Bank of America Fined $250M for 'Systematic' Overcharging, Opening Unwanted Credit Cards 80
US Announces $39 Billion in New Student Debt Relief 194
Congress Prepares To Continue Throwing Money At NASA's Space Launch System 59
Federal HQ Buildings Only Used At 25% of Capacity 52
Ancient Lead-Covered Telephone Cables Have US Lawmakers Demanding Action 65

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