In an incident last September, police officers in San Bruno – a city south of San Francisco – noticed a Waymo AV making an illegal U-turn at a light directly in front of them, the San Bruno Police Department said … Read more
California’s proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue. Advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) say that such legislation … Read more
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last … Read more
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For decades, rolling blackouts and urgent calls for energy conservation were part of life in California — a reluctant summer ritual almost as reliable as the heat waves that drove them. But the state has undergone a quiet shift in … Read more
An anonymous reader shared this excerpt from a Los Angeles Times newsletter: One of the most consequential moments in California’s drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain … Read more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data. The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the … Read more
Walk through downtown San Francisco or Los Angeles and you’ll navigate a shifting obstacle course of tents, human waste, and unstable individuals. Business districts that once thrived now see foot traffic evaporate as customers avoid entire blocks. Parents can’t take … Read more
Relatively speaking, California is not a hot spot for housing investors. That’s a conclusion from my trusty spreadsheet’s review of data on investor activity across the nation from BatchData, a small data tracker that digs deeper into property records than … Read more
A renewable energy corridor is rising in eastern Kern County, California—where the Mojave Desert meets the Sierra Nevada mountains. Among the wind turbines, solar panels and Joshua Trees are giant batteries that look like shipping containers. Tesla workers tinker with … Read more