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OpenAI says 40M Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an "ally" for health care (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca

Exclusive: 40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT for health care
OpenAI's new report shows how chatbots can help navigate health care.

A government lawyer told a judge during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota:
“What do you want me to do?
The system sucks.
This job sucks.
And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need”.
She has been removed from her Justice Department post, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail,
…

DHS lawyer removed after telling judge 'this job sucks'
A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The person said Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail from another government agency, but the U.S. attorney in Minnesota ended her detail after her comments in…

No shit?
'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted - Slashdot https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/04/0436234/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-en…

Awesome!!
https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/trans-rights-m8eo3sb5z/-/a-OWmNb9kWSbaAuo7PlFbFxw:a:2382343751-/0

Girlguiding leaders refuse to enforce ‘horrific’ trans ban
A Girlguiding volunteer leader has said they refuse to enforce a new policy banning trans girls from groups. An anonymous volunteer, who currently …

An anonymous WaPo Metro staffer who was just laid off says there are now just ~12 people left on the desk, down from more than 40 (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699328/washington-post-layoffs-jobs-bezos

Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04

Incognito Market founder Rui-Siang Lin sentenced to 30 years in crypto darknet drug marketplace case
U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools before investigators tied him to the platform through domain records and digital traces.

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/o…