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Lawmakers look to regulate A.I. infrastructure

1 week 5 days ago
Republican lawmakers from St. Charles County have introduced two separate bills they hope will provide a regulatory framework that keeps energy prices stable while also requiring heavy-water-consuming industries to pay more to use Missouri resources.
Mark Zinn

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

1 week 5 days ago
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached. Every single time. And every single time it happens, the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that […]
Mike Masnick

Missouri may allow 5-year car registration soon

1 week 5 days ago
Missouri drivers with newer vehicles could soon have the option to register their cars for five years at a time instead of just one or two years, under legislation unanimously backed Monday by the Missouri House.
Alex Barton

USDA to give up massive DC office building as shift of staff to states begins

1 week 5 days ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building to the General Services Administration in a step toward shrinking the department’s footprint in and around Washington, D.C., Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday. More than 70% of offices at the USDA’s South Building, in Washington, sit empty on any given day, while deferred maintenance costs […]
Jacob Fischler

East Alton Fire Chief Emphasizes Crucial Mutual Aid System

1 week 5 days ago
EAST ALTON - East Alton Fire Chief Jeremy Diveley reflected on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, about the massive fire in the Wilshire Strip Mall early Tuesday morning, Feb. 24, 2026. One point he wanted to emphasize was how important all the fire agencies were when the box alarms went out for the fire. He also stressed the importance of the system for East Alton and other departments in the region. “The mutual aid system we utilize is vital to small departments like ours,” Diveley said