Technology

California’s ban on addictive social media features for kids takes effect in January. Now Big Tech is trying to stop it in federal court.

California accepted $1.4 billion in federal broadband funding while saying it will stand behind state net neutrality laws the program forbids.

Prop. 45, billed as a pro-housing development measure, may have the unintended consequence of making it easier to build data centers, opponents say.

Tech interests have spent tens of millions of dollars this year on state legislative races alone. Industry advocates say they want to protect innovation from overregulation.

Across California, police departments are rapidly expanding "Drone as First Responder" programs, triggering intense public backlash over warrantless surveillance and corporate overreach.

Despite seven new statewide laws regulating data centers, at least 26 resolutions, moratoriums, or bans on data centers have been passed or proposed in California since June.

My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

Even when patients are told they can opt out, medical providers often don’t give patients instructions on how. For patients who are interested in opting out, here are my best tips on how to start.

California and dozens of countries want mandatory AI audits, conducted by AI evaluators. Lawmakers are still learning about the job — and its pitfalls.

The governor signed legislation to limit how workers can be terminated, overridden, or surveilled by artificial intelligence.