Technology

A new Utah law requires platforms to let users report AI-generated intimate images made without consent. It also cracks down on metadata storage to improve transparency around AI-altered content.

Last week, Gov. Spencer Cox and bill sponsor Sen. Lincoln Fillmore announced plans to pursue a bell-to-bell cell phone ban in all Utah schools.

Cache, Box Elder, Morgan, Weber, Davis, and Rich Counties are switching from the CodeRed emergency alert system to Everbridge, this week, due to added features and new technologies offered by the latter.

Drivers of snow plows, public transportation buses, and other government-operated vehicles are using technology that can direct traffic lights to change in order to improve safety and travel time.

In other news: A Forbes Advisor article finds that Utah ranks high in technological jobs.

As Utah leaders look to avoid a repeat of the severe flooding impacts of 1983, the state is turning to a tool it didn’t have back then.

The U.S. Department of Energy has opened a short public comment window on an experimental nuclear technology in Idaho.

Controversially, the legislation treated secure areas of mental health facilities the same as correctional facilities.

Two Cache Valley natives and USU alumni created the app Whatado to help people find activities and make friends.