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If it goes into effect next year, this California law would restrict social media access for children under 16.

Separate lawsuits were filed by Google, Meta and TikTok, which have been battling a flood of claims that their services are addictive.

Assembly Bill 1709 demands that platforms remove "psychologically exploitative features."

State tries to obtain broadband funds despite rejecting Trump admin condition.

World’s largest crypto exchange faces fallout from angry customers, and Lula wins with WhatsApp This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here This week in tech, we’re discussing the fallout from the multibillion-dollar hack of Binance and the significance of Lula’s political mobilization on WhatsApp . And if you’ll be at Web Summit in Lisbon next week, drop me a line! I’ll be there moderating panels on open-source AI and human agency in the age of AI agents. Tell us: have you been affected by the Binance hack? Polymarket temporarily suspends trading on international platform due to security incident How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms How tech became the villain of the US midterms The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax Continue reading...

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.

A high-stakes California ballot measure pitched as a fast track for "essential" infrastructure could wind up giving data center developers a loophole to evade public scrutiny, environmental advocates warn. Proposition 45 would shorten timelines for state-mandated environmental assessments for eligible projects and make it more difficult for residents to challenge those projects in court. Proponents […]

It was an ambitious notion – now Californians will vote on a one-time 5% billionaire tax, and state’s super rich have pulled out all the stops in opposition One year ago, the idea of a billionaire tax in California was still in its infancy. It wasn’t yet one of the most contentious ballot measure fights in state history – pitting Democrats against Democrats, drawing national attention from political heavyweights, and netting hundreds of millions of Silicon Valley dollars to fight it. Back then, it was a bold and desperate answer to Donald Trump’s healthcare cuts. Continue reading...

Surveillance video captures a portable phone charger bursting into flames inside a California home, as a deadly New York City battery fire and a new recall raise safety concerns. NBC News' Andres Gutierrez reports.

Educational Testing Service hackers stole millions of California student records, but families who moved out of state years ago may also be affected.

Several Mississippi homes have been purchased near datacenters and one resident said realtor outlined target to buy more than 400 People in a Mississippi neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer – to sell their houses to his company and make way. Real estate agents have been going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, on behalf of xAI, touting a deal to purchase houses as long as the owners agree to not join a lawsuit against the company over the power plant’s noise. (Musk’s AI company officially became SpaceXAI in July and has lately been rebranded as SpaceXSI but to neighbors of the datacenter in Mississippi, it remains xAI.) Continue reading...

New bombshell A24 documentary “You Can See Everything” draws backlash from a supporter of Elizabeth Holmes’ technology after clips of him were in the film, he says, without his permission. Now, he’s threatening to sue the filmmakers if they don't apologize. NBC News’ Chloe Melas reports.

The latest Silicon Valley billionaire club is a $333 million political ad machine that is heavily engaged in next week’s elections.

Mark Zuckerberg has made a deal with Meta to help him pay a proposed billionaire tax that is on the ballot in California