HHS Beefs up Privacy Protection for Reproductive Healthcare Info In a final rule released this week, doctors, clinics and other providers are prohibited from disclosing protected health information related to lawful reproductive healthcare. The rule is designed to protect women who cross state lines seeking an abortion and their providers. The 291 page regulation will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Administration Announces Preliminary Agreement for New High Tech Chip Factories in Arizona As you may remember, during the pandemic the shortage of chips caused widespread product shortages for everything from phones to cars. Congress passed the CHIPS act to subsidize companies who manufactured chips in the U.S. at a higher cost rather than in less […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks Either Mozilla didn’t run much of a background check or Onerep’s CEO is great at hiding his other businesses. Mozilla hired him to provide identity protection services, but it turns out that he runs dozens of sites that provide dirt on people. Not exactly compatible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]
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