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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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Netflix faces trademark suit over basketball team name and branding in ‘Running Point’

Fast Company Tech

The new Netflix series Running Point stars Kate Hudson as president of a fictional pro basketball team, the Los Angeles Waves. And the Pepperdine Waves have a problem with it. Attorneys for Pepperdine University in Malibu have filed a lawsuit against the streaming service and Warner Bros.

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Labor and nonprofit coalition calls on California AG to stop OpenAI from going for-profit

Engadget

A group of organizations, including nonprofits like LatinoProsperity and labor groups like the California Teamsters, are petitioning California Attorney General Rob Bonta to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit entity, The Los Angeles Times reports. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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

Fast Company Tech

All this work likely breaks multiple laws , and lawsuits are underway. Photo: Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images] On the website TeslaTakedown , citizens keep planning new demonstrations. The list goes on. But protestors say that citizens need to do more now.

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Meet the creators who bait scammers for fun and profit

Mashable Tech

Now Bingham and Art Kulik, a Russian immigrant and former Olympian who met Bingham prior to a Law and Order audition, have turned baiting scammers into their full-time job via Trilogy Media, a YouTube channel with more than 1.6 Long story short, it went viral" when the scammer ended up blocking Bingham's number — and changed his life.

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Los Angeles Police Department bans the use of third-party facial recognition technology

TechSpot

The law enforcement organization has allegedly been taking advantage of software provided by highly-controversial facial recognition tech company Clearview to track down criminals.

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Los Angeles police used Amazon Ring footage to investigate police brutality protests

The Verge

The Los Angeles Police Department requested access to Amazon Ring footage while investigating vandalism during last summer’s anti-racism and police brutality protests, according to newly released emails. Image: Ring. The EFF published a string of redacted emails between the LAPD and an Amazon representative.