DoorDash coughs up a few bucks after California accuses it of spreading around customer info Food delivery giant promises to drop off $375,000, no tip Personal Tech22 Feb 2024 | 3
California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models Big Tech's home turf set for law to ward against 'unsafe behavior' Legal09 Feb 2024 | 1
Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals ... Offbeat18 Jan 2024 | 46
Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights Elon's biz claims 1st Amendment rights Personal Tech11 Dec 2023 | 201
California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian Stalled self-driving car biz up to its axles in problems Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 49
Google ends partnership to build four San Francisco GoogleBurbs Working from home, smaller office footprints, and cost cutting made GoogleVille redundant On-Prem03 Nov 2023 | 32
Cruise blues: Robotaxi firm pauses all driverless operations Decision comes after CA revokes firm's driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation AI + ML27 Oct 2023 | 9
Red light for robotaxis as California suspends Cruise's license to self-drive Updated Indefinite ban due to 'public safety' Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 22
California's Governor Newsom signs laws on right to repair and data deletion 'Digital emancipation proclamation' praised by tech tinkerers, but info brokers aren't happy Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 11
Equal Employment Commission sues Tesla for racist discrimination, retaliation at Fremont plant Like some sort of bizarro greatest hits album, the EEOC case sounds just like multiple previous suits Legal29 Sep 2023 | 29
California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop Infosec in brief Also, LockBit gets a new second stringer, AirTag owners find yet another illicit use, and this week's critical vulns Security18 Sep 2023 | 13
Apple-backed California right-to-repair bill just a bite away from governor's signature This would make the Golden State the third to enact a similar law Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 17
Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone? Off-Prem06 Sep 2023 | 2
After years of fighting Right to Repair, Apple U-turns-ish in California 'It feels like the Berlin Wall of tech repair monopolies is starting to crumble, brick by brick' Personal Tech24 Aug 2023 | 27
Pack of GM Cruise robo-taxis freeze, snarl up Friday night traffic amid festival crowds Just a day after getting green light to expand autonomous ops AI + ML14 Aug 2023 | 48
Tesla's Autopilot boasts, safety probed by California AG This tech is certainly full of something Personal Tech28 Jul 2023 | 73
Cigna sued for using software to deny healthcare insurance claims It's just some if-then statements, no AI here, insurer sniffs Applications26 Jul 2023 | 31
Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff With now $150K to pay out, that's what we call fine dining Bootnotes21 Jun 2023 | 38
California rolls closer to requiring drivers in driverless trucks Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 22
Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55
Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco Tributes paid to former Square CTO Bob Lee, 43 Personal Tech06 Apr 2023 | 31
Uber and Lyft gig worker win overturned: You're a contractor, Harry 'Today's ruling certainly isn't going to stop us' says campaigner Offbeat14 Mar 2023 | 6
Four charged with swiping $1m+ of gear from Microsoft cargo trucks Talk about off the back of a lorry Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 11
Used EV car batteries find new life storing solar power in California Putting theory into practice, hopefully without a lithium fire Systems08 Feb 2023 | 40
Cali puts mobile app makers on notice over privacy Let customers opt out, or start adding zeros to compliance fines Software31 Jan 2023 | 7
California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain Because this is necessary, definitely can't go wrong On-Prem28 Jan 2023 | 43
How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker Miscreants could have tracked, modified, deleted digital plates Research10 Jan 2023 | 90
Tesla fails to push racial discrimination lawsuit into arbitration Plaintiff was offered direct employment with an arbitration agreement, but never signed the letter On-Prem05 Jan 2023 | 34
San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots I'll be back, or perhaps not Security07 Dec 2022 | 44
California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists Science20 Oct 2022 | 33
California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles Which is great news for the single company that makes them Offbeat11 Oct 2022 | 165
City isn't keen on 5,000 erratic, traffic-jam-causing GM robo-cars on its streets Analysis 'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads AI + ML27 Sep 2022 | 65
California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030 It'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more Science26 Sep 2022 | 124
Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months It's better to burn out than to fade away Personal Tech21 Sep 2022 | 219
California Governor signs child privacy law requiring online age checks Get ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 63
California asks people not to charge EVs during heatwave Not a great look for the state that just vowed to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of battery-powered ones Personal Tech01 Sep 2022 | 169
California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels Watt an interesting idea Science31 Aug 2022 | 91
California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035 Air board votes unanimously to approve wind down of gas guzzlers Science25 Aug 2022 | 218
Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate Now will you all please return to our $5b headquarters? On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 35
California state's gun control websites expose personal data And some of it may have been leaked on social media Security30 Jun 2022 | 66
California's attempt to protect kids online could end adults' internet anonymity Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 50
Comcast fixes broadband cables 'peppered' with holes after Oakland drive-by shooting Bullet-proof hosting? Can't help you there. Will you settle for rapid repairs? Networks01 Feb 2022 | 52
Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash Prosecution seems to be first of its kind in America AI + ML19 Jan 2022 | 233
California files appeal in latest bid to intervene in Activision Blizzard's $18m discrimination lawsuit settlement Super Cali goes ballistic, this deal is atrocious Personal Tech11 Jan 2022 | 10
Amazon cuts a relatively tiny check to disappear claims it broke the law by withholding COVID-19 data from staff Settlement is little more than a minor cost-of-business expense Personal Tech16 Nov 2021 | 4
Three thousand sea birds abandon nests amid nature reserve drone crash hullabaloo Breeding season takes a tern for the worse Offbeat07 Jun 2021 | 28
California’s net neutrality rules good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal Networks24 Feb 2021 | 14
Let's check in now with the new California monolith... And it's gone, torn down by a bunch of MAGA muppets Good to see the youth being productive Bootnotes04 Dec 2020 | 123
Alleged Ponzi mastermind on the run from FBI hid in lake with sea-scooter, collared after he surfaced half-hour later Suspect left a trail of bubbles for agents to follow Bootnotes18 Nov 2020 | 41
California backs Proposition 22: Great news for Uber, Lyft as their drivers can work as indie contractors And bad news for Facebook, Google after Golden State favors online privacy measures Science04 Nov 2020 | 32
California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data Sorry not sorry, Facebook Personal Tech13 Oct 2020 | 21
Ex-Uber chief security officer charged, accused of covering up theft of personal info from databases by hackers Say it ain't Joe? Security20 Aug 2020 | 10
Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row Final update CEO says making cyber-cabbies employees would be a bridge too far Science12 Aug 2020 | 116
Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State Systems10 Aug 2020 | 28
The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest What a shame Bootnotes15 Jul 2020 | 57
Happy privacy action day in California: If you don't have 'Do not sell my information' in your website footer, you need to read this story right now Golden State AG prepares crackdown Legal01 Jul 2020 | 22
Nothing fills you with confidence in an IT contractor more than hearing its staff personal records were stolen by ransomware hackers. Right, Cognizant? Employees bag commiseration prize of free ID protection Security18 Jun 2020 | 12
California bigwigs rule Uber, Lyft dial-a-ride drivers are employees, not contractors Good news: You may get basic rights. Bad news: No one is hailing cabs Science10 Jun 2020 | 49
Remind us again, why work for AWS? Petty Amazon sues marketing veep after he defects to Google Cloud Hyperscalers spar in non-compete, NDA spat SaaS10 Jun 2020 | 15
California emits fine-print of its GDPR-ish digital privacy law, complete with Google and Facebook-sized holes Sure, companies will probably just ignore its most important component, but what you gonna do? Personal Tech03 Jun 2020 | 19
Apple owes us big time for bungled display-killing cable design in MacBook Pro kit, lawsuit claims iGiant not only screwed up the wiring, it knew it was shipping dodgy gear, it is claimed Personal Tech08 May 2020 | 58
California’s privacy warriors are back – and this time they want to take their fight all the way to the ballot box Politicos watered down earlier efforts, so data defenders will fight to the end Security06 May 2020 | 9