Published on: 2025-06-18 00:39:35
California is preparing to sue the federal government to recover its right to set vehicle emissions standards, Rob Bonta, the state’s attorney general, told TechCrunch in a statement. Senate Republicans voted on Thursday 51 to 44 to overturn a waiver that allowed California to set stricter air pollution standards for vehicles. The state has received waivers more than 100 times since federal laws granted the right some 50 years ago. “The weaponization of the Congressional Review Act to attack C
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is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. The US Senate voted today to strip California of its authority to enact state limits on tailpipe pollution that are tougher than national standards. Senate Republicans went forward with the vote today anyway, revoking waivers that allow California to pursue its climate goals
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Senate Republicans have voted 51 to 44 to overturn a waiver that allowed California to set stricter air pollution standards for vehicles. The state has received waivers more than 100 times since federal laws granted the right some 50 years ago. Sixteen other states and the District of Columbia follow California’s emissions standards, and most of them have implemented fossil fuel vehicle phase outs. Other Senate votes today repealed waivers that allowed California to set stricter emissions stand
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Welcome! Congrats, you have been selected to work at the California DMV in charge of approving and rejecting license plates! We've prepared for you a test before you start your real job. Get three wrong and the game ends. These are all actually approved and rejected plates in the DMV system. Content warning for very adult and other sussy things from submitted californians Good Luck!
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Greetings all, Today, we dive deep into the GOP’s radical campaign to ban US states from passing any laws that govern AI. Even in a political moment as fraught as ours, this one stands out. We’ll get into: How a proposal to ban AI lawmaking wound up in the budget reconciliation bill the same week that AI execs took a trip with Trump to Saudi Arabia How the GOP plans to try to sell its state AI ban, according to the GOP A look at what the implications are for AI in general An interview at th
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Greetings all, Today, we dive deep into the GOP’s radical campaign to ban US states from passing any laws that govern AI. Even in a political moment as fraught as ours, this one stands out. We’ll get into: How a proposal to ban AI lawmaking wound up in the budget reconciliation bill the same week that AI execs took a trip with Trump to Saudi Arabia How the GOP plans to try to sell its state AI ban, according to the GOP A look at what the implications are for AI in general An interview at th
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Twelve more suspects were charged in a RICO conspiracy for their alleged involvement in the theft of over $230 million in cryptocurrency and laundering the funds using crypto exchanges and mixing services. Two other suspects linked to this conspiracy, 20-year-old Malone Lam (aka "Greavys," "Anne Hathaway," and "$$$") and 21-year-old Jeandiel Serrano (aka "Box," "VersaceGod," and "@SkidStar"), were arrested and charged in September 2024. According to court documents, Lam, Serrano, and others in
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is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. The US House of Representatives voted to revoke California’s ability to enact its own, tougher pollution regulations for cars and heavy-duty trucks. It’s an attempt to kill one of the nation’s most ambitious climate plans and strip California of its ability to set stricter ta
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Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the Enhance Button and Omniscient Database TV Tropes. The process is simple. Snap a photograph of somewhere, ideally without putting any obvious landmarks in there. Feed it to ChatGPT o3 (or o4-mini) and prompt “Guess where this photo was taken”. Let it
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This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Ken Layne | Desert Oracle | Winter 2015 | 11 minutes (2,903 words) The story you’ll hear most often goes like this: There’s a young Marine on guard duty in some far-off corner of the massive Twentynine Palms desert training base. He hears an awful sound in the dark, something like a growl. Then, the breathing, coming from one side of his lonesome little guard booth and now from the other. It’s circling h
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Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. New rules for testing and deployment of self-driving vehicles are on the way in the state of California. The California DMV announced on Friday that it is now seeking public comment on proposed regulations that would apply to self-driving vehicles from light-duty robotaxis like Waymo's to heavy-duty driverless trucks like th
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Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. New rules for testing and deployment of self-driving vehicles are on the way in the state of California. The California DMV announced on Friday that it is now seeking public comment on proposed regulations that would apply to self-driving vehicles from light-duty robotaxis like Waymo's to heavy-duty driverless trucks like th
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David Lumb David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics, NBC Asian America, Increment, Fast Company and others. As a true Californian, he lives for coffee, beaches and burritos.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 09:09:02
Let’s start with a tiny piece of good news. The majority says: “The parties agree among themselves that we need not develop an internet-specific standard for personal jurisdiction. We also agree.” No need for Internet exceptionalist rules. Yay! With that out of the way, bring on the tissues. Briskin made a purchase at an online retailer, IABMFG. Shopify processed the order fo0r IABMFG. Along the way, Shopify downloaded javascript to Briskin’s computer to enable the purchase and placed a cookie
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TL;DR: California is on pace to run out of license plate character combinations by the end of the year. Since 1980, the state has used a sequence consisting of one number, followed by three letters, followed by three more numbers. Fortunately, the state already has a solution and it's relatively simple: they're just going to reverse the current order. The current sequence for non-commercial vehicles started with 1AAA000 and will end with 9ZZZ999. Try as I might, I was unable to determine exactl
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Neuroscientists are striving to give a voice to people unable to speak in a fast-advancing quest to harness brainwaves to restore or enhance physical abilities. Researchers at universities across California and companies, such as New York-based Precision Neuroscience, are among those making headway toward generating naturalistic speech through a combination of brain implants and artificial intelligence. Investment and attention have long been focused on implants that enable severely disabled p
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California residents have access to insanely fast internet from top providers. The state has been instrumental in the evolution of technology, and the internet holds a special place in its history. The Golden State is the birthplace of innovation -- from Apple to Intel to Silicon Valley. And it's been the center of cultural changes in tech. It's no surprise that you can find fast, reliable home internet connections in California, especially in its biggest metro areas. With remote workers, gamers
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Each year, between one and two million vehicle collisions with large animals occur in the U.S., resulting in hundreds of human fatalities and even more animal deaths. Wildlife crossings—human-made structures that help animals safely cross roads—have the potential to significantly reduce these deadly collisions. An ambitious project in California is developing the world’s largest wildlife crossing, and they’ve just achieved a crucial step. Crews working on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
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The privacy risks posed by the artificial intelligence industry are slowly coming into view. Alphabet’s robotaxi business, Waymo, says it may use videos of passengers captured by in-vehicle cameras to sell ads and train its AI models. TechCrunch reports that the unreleased policy was originally spotted by reliable software researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who posted about it on X on Saturday. A screenshot provided by Wong shows the terms of use that the robotaxi company plans to ask riders to comp
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In brief: California is leading the nation's shift to zero-emission vehicles (ZEV), establishing key benchmarks in its efforts to advance clean transportation and infrastructure. With just 11.3 percent of the U.S. population, the state accounts for 30 percent of all new ZEV sales nationwide, according to the California Air Resources Board. It also notes that for two consecutive years, one in four Californians has opted for a zero-emission vehicle over traditional gas-powered models. The state h
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In brief: California is leading the nation's shift to zero-emission vehicles (ZEV), establishing key benchmarks in its efforts to advance clean transportation and infrastructure. With just 11.3 percent of the U.S. population, the state accounts for 30 percent of all new ZEV sales nationwide, according to the California Air Resources Board. It also notes that for two consecutive years, one in four Californians has opted for a zero-emission vehicle over traditional gas-powered models. The state h
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Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing and information company. The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Due to the trove of sensitive consumer data 23andMe has amassed, Attorney G
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A proposed state law in California would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly plans to people with low incomes. The bill is similar to a New York law that took effect in January but has a higher minimum speed requirement: The proposed $15 plans for low-income California residents would have to come with download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps. Broadband lobby groups fear that many states will enact such requirements after New York won a multiyear court battle to
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Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favoured white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers. The accord with Google, a unit of Alphabet, won preliminary approval last week from Judge Charles Adams of the Santa Clara county superior court in California. He called the settlement fair, reasonable and “a good result for the class” of at least 6,632 Google employees in California between 15
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US sperm donor giant California Cryobank is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers' personal information. California Cryobank is a full-service sperm bank providing frozen donor sperm and specialized reproductive services, such as egg and embryo storage. The company is the largest sperm bank in the US and services all 50 states and more than 30 countries worldwide. California Cryobank detected suspicious activity on its network on April 21, 2024, and isolated the co
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Tesla has been granted a permit to operate a taxi service in California, a spokesperson for the California Public Utilities Commission, a state regulator, said Tuesday. It marks the first step towards Tesla’s and CEO Elon Musk’s vision of operating a driverless taxi service in the state. One day, Musk has said, Tesla owners should be able to rent out their cars as sort of self-driving Ubers while they’re not using them. He has said current owners should be able to operate their Models 3 and Y a
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Tesla has been granted a permit to operate a taxi service in California, a spokesperson for the California Public Utilities Commission, a state regulator, said Tuesday. It marks the first step towards Tesla’s and CEO Elon Musk’s vision of operating a driverless taxi service in the state. One day, Musk has said, Tesla owners should be able to rent out their cars as sort-of self-driving Ubers while they’re not using them. He has said current owners should be able to operate their Models 3 and Y a
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The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think their company’s AI systems could be a “critical risk” to society. The new bill, SB 53, would also create a public cloud computing cluster, called CalCompute, to give researchers and st
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Forward-looking: In a move that could usher in major competition for ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft, Tesla is reportedly planning to launch its own ride-sharing service in California. However, unlike the established companies, Tesla apparently intends to own and operate the entire fleet. While Tesla has grand plans to launch autonomous cab services across the US at some stage, it is set to use human-driven vehicles for its upcoming venture, at least initially. Documents submitted by Tesla
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Forward-looking: In a move that could usher in major competition for ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft, Tesla is reportedly planning to launch its own ride-hailing service in California. However, unlike the established companies, Tesla apparently intends to own and operate its entire fleet. According to Bloomberg, the EV giant applied for a "transportation charter-party carrier permit" from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last year. If granted, the permit would allow the com
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