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UT News Search Button 2 UT Austin Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences Jonathan Sessler and Anthony Di Fiore have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. AUSTIN, Texas — Chemist Jonathan L. Sessler and anthropologist Anthony Di Fiore of The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy is the country’s most prestigious scientific organization, and election to it is one of the highest honors for American researchers. The two are among 120 new national inductees announced this week in recognition...

In March, Virginia swiftly passed the Consumer Data Protection Act. According to an investigation by  An investigation conducted by nonprofit news organization  The Markup found that Virginia’s case is not unique. Of the 20 proposed state privacy bills currently being considered across the country, at least 14 of them were built upon the same industry-backed framework established in Virginia. The website further believes that some of these laws might actually be weaker. In Washington, Oklahoma, Florida and Connecticut, the appearance of tech-friendly provisions in proposed privacy legisla...

 E-Mail IMAGE: TACC's Ranch supercomputer, a long-term data mass storage system, is safely preserving over three petabytes of data from the Arecibo radio telescope. Ranch is an allocated resource of the Extreme... view more  Credit: TACC Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope's collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo's data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the 'golden copy' of the telescope's data -- the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s. Now, ...

Big Tech is pushing states to pass privacy laws, and yes, you should be suspicious Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down “privacy” legislation in states with the goal of preempting greater protections, experts say. The swift passage in March of a consumer data privacy law in Virginia, which Protocol reported was originally authored by Amazon with input from Microsoft, is emblematic of an industry-driven, lobbying-fueled approach taking hold across the country. The Markup reviewed exist...

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