Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
New data compiled by a Bay Area anti-surveillance advocacy group shows that not only are American localities dropping cameras from Flock Safety, but they are doing it at an accelerating rate.…
Communities from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas, are ending…
Secure Justice, an Oakland-based advocacy group, has recorded 214 citi…
Of those, 90 ended their relationship with Flock in August 2026 alone,…
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi today lost a major ruling over whether it can evade state gambling laws, as a federal appeals court found that Nevada can stop the prediction market from allowing sports bets.…
While the Trump administration is trying to help prediction markets av…
The Nevada Gaming Control Board today said the 9th Circuit "emphatical…
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.
As Diesel Prices Surge, Trump Administration Moves to Make Fueling Large Trucks Even More Expensive
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the Trump administration finalized a rule setting up a weakening Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for heavy-duty commercial vehicles.…
Heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for a significant share of the tra…
Weakening fuel efficiency standards will make it harder for trucking f…
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Google further buries search results under AI mode
Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable.…
The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a …
It can lead to a lot of scrolling.
It's unclear exactly what Google's criteria is for the auto-expanding …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Hands
The unexpected interruption came hours before the president wrote a congratulatory post on Truth Social about the company’s most recent earnings report.
Genius Group Targets Bitcoin Treasury Rebuild 5 Months After Selling Off
Genius Group, a company that operates a bitcoin and artificial intelligence (AI) dual treasury strategy alongside its core education business, plans to acquire $827 million in bitcoin treasury and $800 million in AI treasury by its fiscal year 2031, the firm said in a Thursday (Aug.…
27) press release.
Genius Group plans to fund the acquisitions with a five-year capital p…
2 billion shelf registration that was declared effective by the Securi…
Kentucky PSC Opens Investigation into High Electricity Costs, Affordability Concerns
Yesterday, the Kentucky Public Service Commission opened a case that will allow all stakeholders, including local utilities and utility customers, to identify the causes and consequences of rising energy costs and discuss potential solutions.…
This news follows fierce advocacy by Sierra Club and partner groups in…
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El Niño Leads To More Global Heating While More Global Heating Leads To Stronger El Nino — Study
Talk about a vicious circle.A team of climate scientists lead by Judith Cole at the University of Michigan has published new research in the journal Science this week.…
Here’s what Cole told The Guardian about that research.
“We are seeing a trend of stronger El Niños and the one .
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OCC Rewrites Enforcement Playbook to Focus on Big Bank Risks
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued two revised policies and procedures manuals and proposed amendments to Violations of Laws and Regulations framework Thursday (Aug.…
27), saying in a press release that these moves will focus supervisory…
Announcing these materials in a Thursday post on X, Comptroller of the…
Gould said: “A supervisory culture based on check-the-box compliance c…