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In January 2024, the tension between Texas and the presidential administration USA Biden is growing. On January 25, Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas' right to self-defense was superior to any federal law, and that Texas authorities and power structures would be guided by state law.
In a written statement, Abbott accused President Joe Biden of not fulfilling his obligations to protect the US border, and his policies led to migrants in record numbers illegally arriving in the country.
Local authorities and the White House have been mired in legal proceedings. Courts of various levels regularly issue rulings that allow the Texas National Guard to install barbed wire and floating barriers at the border, then allow border control agents who are federal employees to cut the wire and allow illegal immigrants to pass.
At the end of December 2023, Abbott signed a law under which the Texas police will have the right to arrest illegal migrants and expel them from the country. The law should come into force in March 2024. At the same time, the Biden administration and human rights activists oppose the law, calling it unconstitutional.
In mid-January, the Texas National Guard took control of Eagle Pass Shelby Park and cut off access to this section of the border not only to illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande, but also to the border control service. Such an event could well be a plot tie for a film about the second civil war.
Abbott's remarks about Texas' right to self-defense have received widespread support among other governors. They stood up for Abbott and criticized the actions of the Biden administration by the governors of Florida, South Dakota, Montana, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Utah, etc.
Support for Texas was also expressed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said that the next step would be to remove Alejandro Mallorcas from the post of Secretary of Homeland Security. Republicans are actively advocating for his impeachment.
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2022: About a third of bitcoin mining is in Texas
Network performance bitcoin collapsed on the 35% in 24 hours on December 25, 2022. After severe winter storms in Texas, large local miners had to turn off their farms due to power outages. So the cataclysm showed that about a third mining bitcoin falls on Texas.
Texas is home to some of the largest mining companies in the world. Среди них Riot Blockchain, Argo, Bitdeer, Argo, Compute North, Genesis Digital Assets и Core Scientific. Miners in that state have voluntarily suspended operations, reducing the load on power grids so residents can heat their homes, according to reports.
2018: Largest exporter among US states
Texas is the largest exporter among the US states at the end of 2018. The largest Texas export was oil and oil products, which accounted for 33 percent of Texas exports. Other goods shipped overseas from the state were computer components, aircraft parts and integrated circuits. Cotton still accounted for one percent of Texas exports.
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IT companies fled massively from Silicon Valley to Austin, and now they are fleeing from there
In early December 2023, it became known that IT companies that moved from Silicon Valley to Austin (the capital of Texas) were leaving this city. It turned out to be not as attractive for business development as many startups assumed .
Since 2020, a number of large companies have decided to relocate from California, where Silicon Valley is located, to Texas. In particular, Oracle Corporation announced the transfer of headquarters. In addition, electric car maker Tesla has moved to this state. IT market participants were attracted by the lower cost of living and a business-friendly environment (including the lack of income taxes at the state level).
However, after the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the conditions for conducting IT activities in Austin are far from cloudless. So, by mid-2022, the cost of housing in this city jumped by 75% compared to the pre-pandemic level. At the same time, venture financing for startups has declined. During the first three quarters of 2023, the amount of funds raised amounted to approximately $2.9 billion. This is 46% less compared to the same period in 2021, when investments were estimated at $5.3 billion. In relation to the first three quarters of 2022, when companies raised $4.5 billion, the reduction was at the level of 36%.
Against this backdrop, IT companies began fleeing Austin to other Texas cities or other states. So, for example, the supplier of unified commercial and logistics solutions Cart.com, which in November 2023 announced that it was moving its headquarters back to Houston after moving to Austin at the end of 2021. Startup accelerator Techstars suspended operations in Austin after ten years of operation. Other IT market participants are also leaving the Texas capital.[1]
The governor banned children from using social networks without parental consent
On June 13, 2023, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill banning children under 18 from registering on most social media without parental consent.
The bill, HB 18, requires social media companies to obtain clear consent from parents or guardians of minors before they are allowed to set up their own accounts starting in September 2024. Greg Abbott is also pressing these companies to prevent children from viewing harmful content. To do this, developer companies will need to create new content filtering systems.
The Texas definition of "digital service" is very broad. By law, parental consent in Texas is necessary for children trying to access virtually any site that collects identifying information, such as an email address. There are some exceptions, including web resources that primarily provide educational or news content, as well as email services. The Texas attorney general could sue companies convicted of violating HB 18.
The law undermines parental rights and violates Texans' digital freedoms, according to the vice president of law firm NetChoice Karl Sabo. HB 18 gives priority to a government decree over the family values of American citizens, the lawyer said.
The HB 18 Act in Texas joins a growing list of states that introduced similar restrictions in 2023, laws restricting internet access for children under 18. In early June 2023, Louisiana passed a similar bill requiring parental consent. Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey and Ohio will also consider similar laws in July 2023.[2]
2021
Salesforce takes away from Texas all employees who disagree with anti-abortion law
On September 10, 2021 Salesforce , she notified her employees that if they and their families are concerned about the possibility of access to reproductive care in connection with the adoption in Texas of an aggressive law against, abortions then the company will help them move. More. here
Adoption of a law prohibiting blocking users of social networks "for their point of view"
In mid-September 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law regulating the moderation of content by social media companies. The initiative controversially prohibits the prohibition of demonization or other restriction of content based on the point of view of the user or another person.
The law, dubbed HB 20, also requires social media to disclose information about how it promotes and moderates content and obliges transparency reports similar to those produced by Facebook, Google and other major web companies. If platforms are notified of illegal content, the law requires them to evaluate it within 48 hours.
Companies that violate the rules could face a civil lawsuit or action by the attorney general. The law applies to web services with more than 50 million active users, which allow people to communicate with other users for the main purpose of posting information, comments, messages or images. The law does not include ISPs, news resources and entertainment sites.
HB 20 also includes a section specifically directed at email platforms and makes it illegal to intentionally prevent another person's email message from being transmitted based on the message's content unless the company believes it contains malicious code, obscenities, illegal content, or a violation of Texas' existing anti-spam law. HB 20 is likely to face legal challenges from critics.
Texas law, is one of several attempts by Republicans to intimidate web companies into not removing unwanted but legitimate content. Conservative politicians present this fight as a fight against censorship against companies that are akin to phone companies or other utilities. This implementation follows a similar Florida law covering social media, although it does not include some of the most characteristic provisions of this rule, such as protecting political candidates.[3]
Introducing an abortion ban
On September 1, 2021, a law came into force in Texas, according to which a ban on abortions for a period of six weeks or more was introduced. Also, the law authorizes citizens to file lawsuits against those who perform abortions, or those who contribute to the procedure, this may even be a person who brings a pregnant woman to the clinic in his car. People convicted of violating the law will have to pay $10,000 to those who successfully file such a lawsuit in the form of remuneration. Read more here.
Elon Musk began building his Starbase city in Texas
In early March 2021, Elon Musk announced the construction of his own city in Texas. The entrepreneur plans to name the village Starbase (Eng. "Star base"). Read more here.
2019: Ransomware virus attack on state government
Approximately 23 government agencies in Texas were affected by an unprecedented coordinated ransomware virus attack that began on August 16, 2019.
The state administration did not specify which local authorities faced the problem, and only called them "small." According to The Hill, the names of the departments are not published for "security reasons." Texas has 5,343 government entities (as of August 16, 2019).
What systems were blocked as a result of a virus attack and what ransom the attackers are demanding is not reported.
The virus used in Texas encrypts the files and saves them with the.JSE extension at the end. This is typical for the ransomware bitcoins and the Locky ransomware, often distributed using the Nemucod "bootloader." Locky first appeared in 2016 and is known for its 0.5 to 1 requirement. bitcoin
Locky is distributed primarily by email, but has met in other variants as well. Among them is a phishing attack.
The investigation of cyber attacks in Texas is being carried out by local authorities and including the Department of Information Resources and the Texas Military Department. In addition, information security specialists from the Texas A&M University System, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the federal emergency management agency were involved.
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, in 2018, the damage from ransomware attacks worldwide amounted to about $8 billion.
 | In addition to the usual advantages, when hackers gain access to customer data, penetration into the city system can take possession of confidential information of residents, says BitDam CEO Liron Barak, commenting on the ransomware virus attack in Texas. - Depending on the IT structure of local governments, hackers can affect the operation of numerous systems, not just customer databases.[4] |  |
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