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Arkansas just passed an age-verification social media law with some confusing exemptions

TechSpot

This is done using "any commercially reasonable age verification method" or government-issued IDs such as photo IDs or driver's licenses. The law requires social media companies that earn more than $100 million in annual revenue to work with third-party services to verify new account holders' personal information. Current account holders.

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News publisher files class action antitrust suit against Google, citing AI’s harms to their bottom line

TechCrunch

The case, filed by Arkansas-based publisher Helena World Chronicle, argues that Google “siphons off” news […] © 2023 TechCrunch. District Court in D.C. accuses Google and parent company Alphabet of anticompetitive behavior in violation of U.S. antitrust law, the Sherman Act, and others, on behalf of news publishers.

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Canoo ends partnership with VDL Nedcar to manufacture EVs in Europe, partners with VDL Groep

TechCrunch

“The support from Oklahoma and Arkansas will allow us to achieve SOP earlier and with less risk on many fronts.”. The news comes about a month after Canoo shared plans to move its headquarters and an advanced manufacturing industrialized facility to Bentonville, Arkansas , where Walmart is also headquartered.

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Walmart helps push Cruise’s latest investment round to $2.75B

TechCrunch

And when the COVID-19 pandemic swept into North America, prompting government lockdowns, Cruise paused its testing in San Francisco and started delivering prepared meals for two food banks. .” Cruise has experimented with delivery over the past several years even as its efforts around robotaxis took most of its attention and resources.

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Forum One Wins 12 Davey Awards!

Forum One

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) NTI Nuclear Security Index (NTI Index) is the preeminent global data resource on nuclear security, assessing countries’ progress, highlighting security gaps, and recommending actions for governments to better protect nuclear materials and build an effective global security architecture.

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Boosting Arizona's Philanthropic Resources

ASU Lodestar Center

Given the recent substantial cutbacks in state government support for many nonprofits, I believe the sector needs to get very creative about expanding revenue sources. Only two of the ten most generous states (Utah and Arkansas) had higher state and local tax burdens than Arizona.

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Balance the Spontaneous and Strategic of Social Media: Newsjacking and Obamacare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last Thursday, reported widely in the news, the Supreme Court left standing the basic provisions of the health care overhaul, ruling that the government may use its taxation powers to push people to buy health insurance. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).