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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind

Fast Company Tech

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. In the Los Angeles area, those risks are now impossible to ignore. Many working-class families lost their homes , businesses, and jobs.

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‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters say they’re just getting started denouncing DOGE at dealerships

Fast Company Tech

More protests at Tesla will follow this weekend, all aimed at Musks work to control swaths of the government with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The layoffs also included workers responsible for the country’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, though the government then scrambled to attempt to rehire them.)

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The ACLU is suing Los Angeles over its controversial scooter tracking system

The Verge

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Los Angeles Monday over the city’s requirement that electric scooter rental companies provide anonymized real-time location data. The group’s California chapter is joined on the suit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP.

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Inside the booming edibles economy

Fast Company Tech

In 2017, Nathan Cozzolino started Rose, a farm to edibles brand based in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, cannabis interest groups are lobbying the government to regulate hemp-based products and close the loophole in the Farm Bill, as U.S. This structure required overhead that cost upwards of $80,000 a month.

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US government seizes $56 million in crypto from BitConnect’s ‘number one promoter’

The Verge

The US government has seized $56 million worth of cryptocurrency from an admitted participant in the BitConnect scam and intends to sell the coins and use the proceeds to reimburse victims. The DOJ’s press release says that the law enforcement arm of the US Postal Service will be helping convert the crypto to fiat currency.

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Rite Aid used facial recognition in secret across hundreds of its stores

The Verge

Concerns over the unregulated use of facial recognition in the US, both by law enforcement and private companies, has been steadily growing over the last few years, fueled by studies that show the tech in its current form to be inherently flawed and more likely to misclassify the gender and identity of Black individuals.

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Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees

The Verge

In May, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, sued the companies , arguing that their drivers were misclassified as independent contractors when they should be employees under the state’s AB5 law that went into effect on January 1st.