Oroville Police Chief Bill LaGrone said the 25 police car cameras the City Council recently approved, a complement to existing body-worn cameras, will serve as proof of what officers encounter inside and outside their vehicles.
The numbers of people being laid off are nearly evenly divided between the financial and technology sectors, but in the latter case, reflect layoffs slowing regionally.
Two agencies are in charge of the robotaxi business: the California Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles. The industry is seeking permits to operate driverless fleets in Los Angeles.
The City Council agreed this week to pay 35 percent more per year for citywide usage of Dell computers as well as Microsoft programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams and OneDrive.
“These companies know more about us than we know about ourselves, and they’re the ones in control of our personal information, not us,” said Justin Kloczko of the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog.
While community groups that monitor airplane noise welcome the new technology, called a Ground-Based Augmentation System, they say it has many shortcomings.
The city of Long Beach has released a new tool for the police department to help connect at-risk individuals with resources to keep them from becoming unnecessarily involved within the criminal justice system.
“School districts are dealing with enough in their budgets. They shouldn’t have to throw away laptops that are in perfectly good condition. We expect expiration dates for milk, but not for laptops.”
The automated BurnBot RX1 tool is being watched by state and federal agencies for potential use in prescribed burns, a pre-emptive practice designed to hamper the spread of wildfires by pre-burning swaths of combustible land.
The draft language was presented this month by the California Privacy Protection Agency, but tech industry lobbyists are protesting, saying the proposed regulations could end up limiting technology as ordinary as Excel spreadsheets.
With a politically divided Congress, passing any legislation is a challenge, and regulating an industry as new and complex as AI would be monumentally difficult.
For the first time since early 2022, the number of tech company layoffs in the Bay Area during the most recent three months is less than the number of such cuts announced in the prior three months, according to the Employment Development Department.
So far, about 122,000 CalPERS retirees have signed up for two years of free credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian — a higher-than-expected response.
The Clerk-Recorder’s office is the first in California to issue electronic marriage certificates and the first in the nation to issue electronic birth and death certificates via blockchain technology, officials said.
Information from roughly 16 million users has been stolen by the CL0P Ransomware Gang, according to technology experts tracking the cyber attack. The group has exploited a vulnerability with the MOVEit Transfer tool.
CalPERS said it had mailed letters Thursday to 769,000 members explaining that they would be offered two years membership in a credit monitoring and identity restoration service. CalSTRS said it was sending out letters this week to roughly 415,000 people who were affected.
The legislative director of the Retired Public Employees Association of California said he was livid that he and other affected members were not informed of this breach immediately.
AI tools could potentially be used to analyze complex legal briefs, create lengthy requests for proposals in a short period of time or allow public works crews to view AI-generated photos to determine storm damage remotely.
“Unforeseeable business circumstances and other reasons” were cited in layoff notices sent to employees last week. The notices leave unanswered questions about next steps for a business accelerator that has raised more than $150 million in outside capital since its founding about 10 years ago.
The contract with Motorola calls for an overhaul of the county’s public safety radio network. It’s the second-largest contract in county history, with completion expected in 2031.
The legislation, a response to one county’s decision to end its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, would bar county supervisors from such actions without transition plans and replacement contracts already enacted.
The state’s second most populous city gave itself 12 months to evaluate the use of its many surveillance technologies or put them on pause — and with about nine months gone, not a single tool has been fully evaluated.
With the latest cutbacks, tech companies have disclosed plans to eliminate more than 25,200 jobs in the Bay Area over a 17-month stretch that includes all of 2022 and so far in 2023.
The communications tower comes equipped with fire cameras, radio service and a fail-safe digital communications network. The solar-powered tower will also include a weather station.
A bill to make big tech compensate publishers for using news that drives profits cleared the state Assembly, despite a threat from Facebook parent Meta to remove news from its platforms.
Civil rights advocates have warned that law enforcement could share the locations of drivers from other states who have come to California to seek abortions, which could lead to prosecution.
The filing describes how staffers “suffered and will continue to suffer ongoing, imminent and impending threat of identity theft crimes, fraud and abuse, resulting in monetary loss and economic harm.”
