Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testified Wednesday at a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, that Instagram took a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach to children under 13, prior…
Lewis Liu, a journalist, drove 3,000 miles from Short Hills, New Jersey, to Palo Alto, California, and observed that much of America is being left behind by the AI-driven economy. He saw boarded-up do…
California accused Meta on Tuesday of studying 'vulnerabilities in teens' brains' to hook children on Facebook and Instagram, then concealing the harm, in opening statements of a federal trial in Oakl…
Meta Platforms Inc. goes on trial this week in Oakland, California, over allegations that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, concealed the resulting harm, and illegally collected youn…
State legislators across the U.S. are enacting or considering laws to force data center operators to share the financial burden of their energy consumption, with Virginia's Data Center Electricity Con…
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores from using personal data to set individual prices, with fines up to $10,000 for first offenses and $20,0…
A nationwide protest against AI data centers, organized by the right-wing nonprofit Humans First, drew demonstrators in Kenilworth, New Jersey, on Saturday as part of a National Day of Action targetin…
Protesters across the US rallied Saturday against AI data centers in a nationwide demonstration organized by Humans First, a conservative nonprofit founded by Amy Kremer. The group planned over 100 de…
New Jersey has proposed bill A4115, which would require impact assessments for automated decision systems affecting employment and housing, according to the AI Law Tracker.…
Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing platform founded in 2012 by University of Washington computer science professor Jon Froehlich, uses AI and volunteer labelers to catalog sidewalk issues like …
New Jersey is considering a bill that would require fully autonomous vehicles to use cameras plus at least two other sensing technologies like lidar and radar, effectively banning Tesla's camera-only …
A federal special agent, Christopher Iatauro, 52, fatally shot his wife Kelly Iatauro, 46, before killing himself in their Sayreville, New Jersey home on Friday night. The Middlesex County Prosecutor'…
Meta disclosed in a federal court filing that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims its platforms Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict young users. The trial, set…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the most surveilled in history, with the U.S. government investing over $1 billion in AI-driven surveillance including facial recognition cameras, drones, and robot dog…
California bosses earn a median wage of $143,200, 146% more than the typical worker's $58,200, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report. The state has 1.3 million managers, the most of any sta…
Cargo thieves are increasingly targeting copper, processors, networking equipment and memory modules used in AI infrastructure, as technology companies invest billions in data centers. Industry report…
An ICE agent in Stafford Township, New Jersey, was struck by a van driven by a fleeing suspect and opened fire on the vehicle, striking it several times. The agent is expected to recover, and Route 72…
Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of …
New Jersey police are increasing security measures as the state prepares to host the FIFA World Cup final, with law enforcement monitoring stadiums, hotels, and training centers from a centralized com…
Millville, New Jersey city commissioners voted to ban data centers within city limits, blocking a proposed 2.6-million-square-foot facility. The decision, hailed by opponents as the largest data cente…