A woman identified as Jane Doe filed a class-action lawsuit in San Jose U.S. District Court alleging that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI allowed imagery of her childhood sexual abuse …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Family Friendly City Councils Act (AB 2134), authored by Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo), to ensure local elected officials can take up to 12 week…
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Linwei “Leon” Ding, a former Google engineer convicted by a jury in January of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets, to five years in priso…
UC San Diego researchers, led by doctoral student Sam Crow and cybersecurity expert Aaron Schulman, demonstrated a hack into a Boeing 737's flight management computer in under 60 seconds using a quart…
Palo Alto Unified School District is resisting a district-wide smartphone ban, instead allowing high school students to use phones between classes while implementing bell-to-bell bans in elementary an…
Prologis, a San Francisco-based real estate firm, has filed a special use permit with San Jose to build a 514,000-square-foot, three-story data center at 326 Charcot Ave., replacing five older industr…
Howard High, a veteran and former president of the Japanese American Citizens League, argues that President Trump's executive order barring birthright citizenship for children of 'alien enemies' is un…
A study by a dozen economists published in the journal Science found that the Trump administration's cost-benefit analysis justifying the repeal of vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards contained …
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's X Corp. lawsuit challenging New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act,' ruling that the First Amendment poses no obstacle to the law, which requires social media companies…
The U.S. Army announced Wednesday it will spend up to $2.2 billion over five years to build and operate nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas, with more than 20 reactors …
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement new kid-safety guardrails in a settlement with dozens of states, cutting short a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, over claims that Inst…
Apple Inc. will hold its biggest product introduction of the year on Sept. 9 at its Cupertino headquarters, where it will unveil its first foldable iPhone, a passport-sized device that opens to a scre…
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday the seizure of three domains linked to QTFY, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, in an investigation led by the FBI's San Diego fiel…
San Jose is allowing delivery robots to operate downtown under provisional guidelines while it drafts permanent safety and enforcement rules, with machines weighing up to 350 pounds potentially enteri…
Data centers consumed 176 billion kilowatts in 2023, about 4% of U.S. electricity, and are projected to use up to 580 billion kilowatts by 2028, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The nation'…
A federal judge approved a landmark settlement requiring Meta to impose daily time limits, overnight lockouts, and stronger parental controls on Facebook and Instagram for users under 18, with Meta pa…
Meta Platforms reached a proposed settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories, agreeing to pay $17.1 billion in penalties and implement new safety measures for teen…
California's state Assembly unanimously approved a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that would legalize plug-in solar systems for residents, sending it to the state Senate for a final vote before it reaches…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Elon Musk the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine's highest state honors, for his 'outstanding personal merits' in protecting human life and freedom and st…
California state senators, led by Democrats, have proposed a plan that rejects Governor Gavin Newsom's push to limit insurer lawsuits against utility companies for wildfire-related subrogation claims,…