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In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge "inconsistent" state AI laws (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/trump-orders-c

Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws
On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence in the US...

Russia fires Oreshnik missile near NATO border | Ukraine This Week: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/russia-fires-oreshnik-missile-near.html

In case you missed it: SF is planning to axe its Bike Advisory Committee.
The task force also proposes removing confirmation for mayoral appointments (which is all appointments) to the transportation board. This would remove one of the few checks on a bike-hostile mayor, which... we currently have!

Streamlining Task Force Wants to Kill S.F.'s Bike Advisory Committee - Streetsblog San Francisco
It also recommends increasing the mayor's influence over the SFMTA Board by allowing him to fire directors

Lawmakers launch bipartisan, last-minute bids to force vote on ACA subsidies
Two bipartisan groups of House lawmakers launched last-minute bids Wednesday
to force votes on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

The efforts, both using a legislative tool known as a
"discharge petition",
face long-shot odds:
At least 218 members of the House would first have to agree to consider the bills,

Bipartisan lawmakers launch last-minute bid to force vote on extending ACA subsidies
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has launched a last-minute bid to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

Don't fall behind as the infosec world moves at an accelerated pace. Check out today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you should know, including
--OpenAI warns that upcoming models pose greater brute force attack capabilities,
--Stanford-developed AI system can beat human pen testers dirt cheap,
--US charges former Accenture manager with false security statements,
--Malaysian man sentenced for teaching how to use malware,
--10k Docker Hub image…

OpenAI warns that upcoming models pose greater brute force attack capabilities
Stanford-developed AI system can beat human pentesters dirt cheap, US charges former Accenture manager with false security statements, Malaysian man sentenced for teaching how to use malware, 10k+ Docker Hub images expose credentials and secrets, Storm-0249 abuses EDR for attacks, much more

Israel's Smotrich: Not All IDF Deployed to Gaza Border on October 7 Over 'Deception' Fears - #Haaretz
#Gaza

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 117 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatime…

Uber enters B2B logistics with Uber Direct on ONDC, onboards Zepto, KPN Farm fresh
Uber is broadening its B2B logistics portfolio in India with the introduction of Uber Direct, in partnership with ONDC. Kicking off with grocery deliveries for allies like Zepto, the service plans to branch out to popular food chains, including KFC and Burger King.

Explosions, fires reported in Kyiv as thousands remain without heat: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/explosions-fires-reported-in-kyiv.html

The abandoned English clay pit
at Barnham is
the oldest evidence in the world
that people (Neanderthal people, in this case)
had learned to not only use fire,
but also create it and control it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/1

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)…