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Senate candidates in Alaska and Michigan are pitching diesel export curbs and gas tax holidays to an electorate where 47% rank cost of living first. The oil and electricity costs behind those pledges look set to outlast November, whoever wins.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required recording lights on smart glasses and other wearables from 2028. His letter said the bill's definition of a wearable was too broad, so any second attempt would have to say which devices count.
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Waymo staff watching two teens through a cabin camera called 911 over a gun that fired water-filled Orbeez. Robotaxi cameras now feed both human reviewers and automated violation checks, so telling riders who is watching has become a design choice AV teams have to make on purpose.
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Consumer Reports and Northeastern studied 15 automakers and found drivers can unknowingly agree to driving-data collection at a new car's first start-up. The exposure is consent given on a touchscreen, and tracking where the data goes falls to whoever owns the car or the fleet.
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Consumer Reports polled nearly 5,000 US adults and found 90% had been targeted by a scam or cyberattack and 17% had lost money. At those rates scam exposure is a routine risk for any workforce or customer base, and one scam in five already arrives personalized.
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Northeastern and Consumer Reports found all 21 cars they tested sent data to third-party domains, with more than half reaching ad or analytics firms. For fleet buyers and carmakers' product teams, the brand's phone app is the first place to check.
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Weber has switched off the app and cloud behind the June Oven, removing the smart features from an oven that launched at $1,495. Weber kept the code because June's IP sits inside its Weber Connect platform, so owners have no official way to get those features back.
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Costco same-day delivery is now live on three national apps in the US. What separates them is whether the shopper has to link a paid membership before the order will go through.
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The camera toothbrush went on sale in US stores on September 8 and was gone from shops in France, the US, UK and Singapore by September 15. Dyson blames one unnamed component in early batches.
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Automatic content recognition is built into just about every modern TV, according to The Verge, and the only place a buyer can refuse it is the agreement stack at setup and the ad-tracking toggles in the menus.
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Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act in July, halting new electronic shelf labels for a year while the state studies them. Walmart, which promised digital tags in all 2,300 of its US stores by the end of the year, calls the law an overreaction.
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The order also requires GM to make location tracking easy to switch off and to let drivers see and delete what its Smart Driver feature collected. It binds GM alone, and only for five years.
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Gamers Nexus and Level1 Techs say packet capture and firmware analysis show LG OLED sets inventorying nearby phones, watches and Wi-Fi networks for LG Ad Solutions. LG's published reply is about the microphone.
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The agency says it cannot ban the practice, only the undisclosed version of it. That leaves pricing and data teams owing an answer on which customer data moved a price.
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