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04 Oct

Texas is suing TikTok for allegedly violating its new child privacy law

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against TikTok claiming the company violated a new child privacy law in the state. It's set to be the first test of Texas’ Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act since it went into effect just over a month ago.Under the law, parts of which were struck down by a federal judge, social media platforms are required to verify the ages of younger users and offer parental control features, including the ability for parents to opt their children out of data collection.Paxton alleges that TikTok’s existing parental control features are…

11 Sep

The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town

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The previous October, Sawicky organized a weeklong protest alongside environmental activist group Greenpeace and brandished various anti-bitcoin signs at anyone who entered the Riot facility. Only a few other people turned out in support, leaving Sawicky dejected: “I could not have been more disappointed and disgusted by my fellow humans,” she said, when we first spoke earlier in the year.Sawicky is unapologetically brash; she has given up on artfulness and guile, she claims, in favor of brute force. “I am obnoxious. I am in your face,” she says. Her methods have led even close allies to question her. “I love…

02 Sep

Social media companies can’t be forced to block teens from seeing ‘harmful’ content, judge rules

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A federal judge has ruled that social media companies can’t be required to block certain types of content from teens. The ruling will prevent some aspects of a controversial social media law in Texas from going into effect.The ruling came as the result of tech industry groups’ challenge to the Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act, a Texas law that imposes age verification requirements and other policies for how social media companies treat teenage users. But, as The Verge , the measure also requires companies to “prevent the known minor’s exposure to harmful material,” including content that “glorifies”…

30 Aug

Judge denies Media Matters’ motion to dismiss X’s not-libel lawsuit

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A Texas judge denied Media Matters for America’s request for a dismissal on Thursday allowing X’s lawsuit over alleged anti-semitic and racist content. The Verge reported that Northern District of Texas Judge Reed O’Connor dismissed the request for a dismissal paving the way for X’s lawsuit against Media Matters to continue.Media Matters submitted its dismissal request in early March on the grounds that X’s case lacked “personal jurisdiction,” an “improper venue” and the “failure to state a claim.” O’Connor dismissed all of those claims, according to court records.The lawsuit filed last year in federal court seeks damages from the media…

16 Aug

Texas Instruments Wins $4.6 Billion in Chips Act Grants, Loans

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Texas Instruments Inc. is set to receive $1.6 billion in Chips Act grants and $3 billion in loans, the Biden administration announced Friday, marking the latest major award from a program designed to boost American semiconductor manufacturing. The funding will help pay for one factory in Utah and two in Texas — projects that will cost about $18 billion through 2029 — the Commerce Department said in a statement. The effort is expected to generate around 2,000 manufacturing jobs and thousands more in construction. Source link lol

14 Aug

Startup Founder Pleads Guilty to Indecent Assault of Young Woman

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One-time startup leader Brian Wong pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he assaulted a young woman woman during the 2016 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.With a jury trial looming in September, state prosecutors reduced the offense to indecent assault from attempted sexual assault, making it a misdemeanor instead of a felony charge, and Wong changed his plea from guilty to not guilty, according to records in Austin district court. His lawyer, Sam Bassett, didn’t respond to requests for comment. Source link lol

08 Aug

A robotics company has 3D printed nearly a hundred homes in Texas

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It’s taken almost two years but a planned community of homes made with a gigantic 3D printer in Georgetown, Texas is almost complete.Reuters reports that the homes, which are part of a community called Wolf Ranch, are being built with a large 3D printer called the Vulcan that’s 45 feet wide and weighs more than 4.75 tons. The project is part of a joint venture with the 3D printing construction developer ICON and the home construction company Lennar. It started in November of 2022 and crews are close to completing its goal of building 100 homes with the Vulcan by…

08 Aug

Pitney Bowes to Liquidate Ecommerce Unit in Bankruptcy

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Shipping firm Pitney Bowes Inc. agreed to liquidate much of its ecommerce business in bankruptcy as part of a deal with Hilco Global.Under the agreement, affiliates of Hilco agreed to buy a controlling stake in the ecommerce business and then sell it off piecemeal, according to a statementBloomberg Terminal from Pitney Bowes. The ecommerce entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday, listing debts and assets of as much as $500 million each. Source link lol