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Insolvenz bei Cleverbuy: Betrugsvorwürfe und Strafanzeigen
Bei der Ankaufsplattform Cleverbuy wurde aufgrund von Zahlungsproblemen Insolvenz angemeldet und der Geschäftsbetrieb eingestellt. Der Chef steht vor Gericht.

Insolvenz bei Cleverbuy: Betrugsvorwürfe und Strafanzeigen
Bei der Ankaufsplattform Cleverbuy wurde aufgrund von Zahlungsproblemen Insolvenz angemeldet und der Geschäftsbetrieb eingestellt. Der Chef steht vor Gericht.

Just as they did across the country, Latino voters in the agricultural heart of California shifted toward Republicans in 2024.
GOP leaders celebrated the multiracial coalition they called the beginning of a political revolution.
Now, there are signs that support could be swinging away from the Republicans once again.
This year’s midterm election — in California and beyond — may show that the Latino rebuke of political parties can cut both ways.

In California’s Central Valley, Latino Voters Are Up for Grabs in 2026’s Elections
As in other Hispanic areas of the country, voters shifted toward Republicans in 2024. But now the question is whether this was a blip more than a durable trend.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Goed dat we in Nederland zelf aan de slag zijn met GenAI. Ik ben benieuwd hoe GPT-NL, ondanks het minieme budget, beperkte mogelijkheden, maar met kwalitatief hoogwaardige data, gaat presteren in vergelijking met andere beschikbare open weight / opensource modellen.

Nederlands AI-project GPT-NL gaat met vijf klanten proefdraaien
Kunstmatige intelligentie: GPT-NL, dat het Nederlandse antwoord moet zijn op de AI-modellen uit Silicon Valley, zet na twee jaar ontwikkeling zijn eerste stappen in de praktijk. Vijf klanten gaan ermee aan de slag om te kijken wat GPT-NL waard is.

California AG Rob Bonta says Paramount-WBD "is not a done deal" as CA DOJ "has an open investigation" and the companies haven't "cleared regulatory scrutiny" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.holl…

California Attorney General Plants Flag on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: “Not a Done Deal”
If the Justice Department and foreign regulators approves the deal, it'll be up to state attorneys general to challenge the merger.

Wildfire-driven deforestation rates in California among highest in world #California

Wildfire-driven deforestation rates in California among highest in world
California has one of the highest rates of wildfire-driven deforestation in the world, and the trend has accelerated over the past three decades, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, assessed the state's wildfire-driven deforestation rates and reforestation needs between 1991 and 2023. It found that deforestation in California's conifer-dominated forests increased exponentially over the study p…

Southern California Air Board Rejects Pollution Rules After AI-Generated Flood of Comments - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/2348254/southern-california-air-board-rejects-pollution-rules-after-ai-generated-flood-of-comments

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal).
The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessib…

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

California Is About to Set a Dangerous Precedent for Online Censorship
California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709
—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user,
regardless of age,
to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.
That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit highly sensitive government-issued ID or biometric information to private companies
simply…

Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban
California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit...

California voters will decide in November whether to require photo identification to cast a ballot,
making California the latest battleground in a long-running effort by conservatives to push voter ID laws
that have been bolstered in recent years by Donald Trump’s repeated and unfoundedaccusations of widespread voter fraud.
Nearly 1 million Californians signedon to support the ballot measure championed by Carl DeMaio,
a Republican state representative from San Diego.