Government Stories for 2023

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
Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of UFO Records 67
Should Public Buses Be Free? 362
Bangladesh Government Website Leaks Citizens' Personal Data 3
Spanish Minister Proposes $21,000 'Universal Inheritance' From Age of 18 276
Macron Accused of Authoritarianism After Threat To Cut Off Social Media During Riots 76
Judge Rules White House Pressured Social Networks To 'Suppress Free Speech' 246
Why Major Newspapers Didn't Publish 'UFO Retrieval' Story 170
US Supreme Court Rejects US Student Loan Relief. President Biden Responds 365
Social Media Apps Will Have To Shield Children From Dangerous Stunts 62
Congress Doubles Down On Explosive Claims of Illegal UFO Retrieval Programs 223
Declassified US Intelligence: Still No Evidence for Covid 'Lab Leak' Theory 167
Ford Gets $9.2 Billion To Help US Catch Up With China's EV Dominance 82
US Might Finally Force Cable-TV Firms To Advertise Their Actual Prices 67
Amazon Faces Senate Probe Over Warehouse Safety 34
'Plan To Save Downtown San Francisco From Doom Loop Approved by Lawmakers' 233
Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead At 92 23
EU Votes To Ban AI In Biometric Surveillance, Require Disclosure From AI Systems 34
US Government Agencies Hit In Global Cyberattack 19
Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Parental Consent 254
NYC Establishes First Minimum Wage For Food Delivery Workers 128
Microsoft Is Bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI Model To US Government Agencies 8
Does the US Government Want You to Believe in UFOs? 293
Ohio Senate Moves to Criminalize Secretly Tracking People with Apple's AirTags and Similar Devices 38
Marc Andreessen Criticizes 'AI Doomers', Warns the Bigger Danger is China Gaining AI Dominance 102
TikTok May Have Misled Congress on Handling of US User Data, Say Two Senators 36
US Surgeon General Warns on Possible Social Media Harms for Teens 66
Congress To Consider Two New Bills On AI 13
House of Representatives To Hold Hearing On Whistleblower's UFO Claims 143
Louisiana Passes Bill Banning Kids From the Internet Without Parental Consent 108
10 Years After Snowden's First Leak, What Have We Learned? 139
White House Quiet on National Cyber Director Choice, Senator Says 9
Judge Clears Massachusetts to Finally Enforce Its Right-to-Repair Law 67
US Financial Watchdog: Money Stored in Venmo/PayPal/CashApp Isn't Federally Insured 62
Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles 153
US Announces $46 Million In Funds To Eight Nuclear Fusion Companies 111
New Report Says American Government Agencies Are Using Malware Similar To Banned Pegasus Spyware 77
Meta Threatens To Yank News Content From California Over Payments Bill 68
Student Loan Payment Pause 'Gone' Under Debt Ceiling Deal 399
Automakers Ask Judge to Block Pending Enforcement of Massachusetts' Right-to-Repair Law 64
50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones 115
Supreme Court Limits EPA's Authority Under the Clean Water Act 246
Right-To-Repair Rules Are Now the Law In Minnesota 31
Surgeon General: There Isn't Enough Evidence That Social Media Is Safe For Kids 137
White House Takes New Steps To Study AI Risks, Determine Impact on Workers 27
FBI Abused Spy Law 280,000 Times In a Year 151
France Unveils Plan To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50 Percent By 2030 107
Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants To Ban End-to-End Encryption 76
UC Berkeley Neglected To Disclose $220 Million Deal With China To the US Government 63
Texas Joins States Charging High Fees to Register an EV 357
Montana Becomes First US State To Ban TikTok 135
OpenAI CEO In 'Historic' Move Calls For Regulation Before Congress 35
As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays? 82
Three Companies Faked Millions of Comments Supporting 2017 Repeal of 'Net Neutrality' Rules 77
US Aims To Turn Middle-American Cities Into New Tech Hubs With $500 Million Investment 56
EPA Proposes Crackdown On Power Plant Carbon Emissions 138
Feds Seize 13 More DDoS-For-Hire Platforms In Ongoing International Crackdown 17
SEC Issues Largest Ever Whistleblower Award of $279 Million 47
Binance Temporarily Paused Bitcoin Transactions Over Network Congestion, Also Faces Government Scrutiny 37
America's FTC Warns Businesses Not to Use AI to Harm Consumers 26
TurboTax to Pay $141M Settlement Over 'Deceiving' Millions of Low-Income Americans 28
White House Proposes 30% Tax On Electricity Used For Crypto Mining 130
El Salvador President Signs Law Eliminating Taxes On Tech Innovations 19
Montana's Governor's Changes To TikTok Ban Bill Would Ban All Social Media Entirely 137
Colorado Kills Law That Made It Harder For Cities To Offer Internet Service 63
White House To Study Employer Tools That Monitor Workers 24
Microsoft is Now Supporting Right-to-Repair Legislation 44
California Passes 1st-In-Nation Emission Rules For Trains 136
Nuke-Launching AI Would Be Illegal Under Proposed US Law 77
Washington Passes Law Requiring Consent Before Companies Collect Health Data 13
New Senate Bill Could Force Ticket Sellers To Disclose Their Fees Upfront 115
FSF Calls On the IRS To Provide Libre Tax-Filing Software 111
EU Names 19 Large Tech Platforms That Must Follow Europe's New Internet Rules 75
Las Vegas-To-California Bullet Train Gets Bipartisan Backing 191
'Delete Act' Seeks To Give Californians More Power To Block Data Tracking 62
Amazon's Vow to Stop Squeezing Its Sellers Was Fake, Says California's Lawsuit 50
Nuclear Fusion Won't Be Regulated in the US the Same Way as Nuclear Fission 130
US Department of Homeland Security is Now Studying How to Make Use of AI 59
US Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications 76
The EARN IT Act Will Be Introduced To Congress For the Third Time 107
Biden To Pledge $500 Million To Stop Deforestation In Brazil 73
US FTC Leaders Will Target AI That Violates Civil Rights Or Is Deceptive 30
EU Takes On United States, Asia With Chip Subsidy Plan 25
China Security Unit Targeted US With Fake Social-Media Scheme, Prosecutors Allege 37
Leaked Documents Show Russians Boasted Just 1% of Fake Social Profiles are Detected 69
EFF Warns US 'Deserves Stronger Spyware Protections Than Biden's Executive Order' 31
Government Cybersecurity Agencies Unite to Urge Secure Software Design Practices 38
Python Foundation Raises Concerns Over EU's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules 40
New Leaked Documents on Discord Reveal More Chinese Spy Balloons 43
Pentagon Official Floats a Theory For Unexplained Sightings: Alien Motherships 118
South Korea To Give $490 Allowance To Reclusive Youths To Help Them Leave the House 133
White House Rejects Fed Staff Outlook, Says No Sign of Recession 124
Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill 23
UK Government To Offer One Million People Vapes To Cut Smoking Rates 144
Classified US Documents Leaked on 4chan, Telegram, Discord, and Twitter 133
Arkansas House Wants You To Show ID To Use Social Media 42
'The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute For Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation' 76
Amazon, Despite Climate Pledge, Fought To Kill Emissions Bill In Oregon 23
US State Governments Try Lavishing Subsidies to Attract Chip and EV Factories 8
San Francisco Faces 'Doom Loop' from Office Workers Staying Home, Gutting Tax Base 218
Tax Preparation Industry Alarmed Over Plan For IRS Free Tax-Filing System 235
Missouri Reps Vote To Completely Defund State's Public Libraries 337
Lebanon Reverses Decision To Delay Daylight Savings Time Change 27
US Military Needs 7th Branch Just For Cyber, Leaders Say 120
Plans For Royal Mint NFT Dropped By UK Government 12
How Greenland Solved the Daylight Saving Time Debate 104
Instead of Banning TikTok, Should We Regulate It Aggressively? 88
TikTok Trackers Embedded in U.S. State-Government Websites, Review Finds 46
France Bans 'Recreational Apps' From Government Staff Phones 42
El Salvador President Readies Bill To Eliminate Taxes On Tech 24
Utah Passes Laws Requiring Parental Permission For Teens To Use Social Media 143
The Fed Had Already Spotted Big Problems at SVB Before Its Collapse 150
Brazil Looks To Regulate Monetized Content On Internet 9

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