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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC demo days, pitching warm up drills, Kentucky’s Bitcoin miners

TechCrunch

Bitcoin miners are dusting off Kentucky coal towns, spurred by state crypto tax incentives. To extract fuel buried hundreds of feet below, the coal industry reshaped Kentucky’s landscape, flattening entire mountaintops and using the waste material to fill in creeks and valleys. In 2022, Kentucky represents “18.7%

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

The Verge

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. The counsel said MDS could violate the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which was signed into law in 2015. It’s growing into a bigger problem beyond LA.

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Several states are investigating how Instagram keeps kids on the platform

The Verge

The group, which includes officials from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Vermont, accuses the company of doing this despite reports that its own research showed its platform could have a negative effect on young people.

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Should abuse survivors have to disappear from the internet?

The Verge

Some survivors also worry that disappearing entirely will escalate the situation, according to University of Kentucky professor TK Logan , who researches cyberstalking. I’ve had victims say, he was threatening me and doing all this stuff through social media so I got off social media,” she explained.

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The Value of Diverse Perspective: Reimagine Opportunity Challenge Wrap-Up

Tech Soup

The innovation workshop brought together all twelve finalist teams, along with human trafficking survivors, experts from the anti-trafficking field, employees from a variety of federal agencies, and coaches from all walks of life – law enforcement, architecture, venture capital, public relations, big data, digital media, and networking.

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Going behind the data: The impact of student involvement with law enforcement

Tableau

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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AT&T recovers from multi-state outage after Nashville bombing

The Verge

This brought down wireless and wired networks across parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama — disrupting cell service, some 911 networks, and communications at the Nashville International Airport, which briefly grounded flights as a result. The result was days of partial service outages, mitigated partly by emergency cell sites.

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