This is an auspicious development - mandating ODF formats for all government generated documents: https://linuxiac.com/germany-mandates-odf-for-public-administration/ - the UK did this, too, quite a long time ago -
Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…
DOJ lawsuit seeking records of
23 million California voters
is dismissed by judge
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/01/16/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-seeking-detailed-voter-informa…
Navigating Autonomy and Privacy in Emerging AgeTech: Insights from the FPF Roundtable
https://fpf.org/blog/navigating-autonomy-and-privacy-in-emerging-agetech-insights-from-the-fpf-roundtable/
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Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy & Federal Aviation Administration Announce New Measure to Enhance Safety between Airplanes & Helicopters (Federal Aviation Administration)
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-federal-aviation-administration-announce-new
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p89#a260318p89
Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-new-bop-anti-trans-prison-policy
The Trump administration purged the State Department of its oil and gas experts last year,
-- prior to launching its war on Iran,
--including people who would be responsible for examining scenarios related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By the time the layoffs were over,
the only people left in the energy bureau were people specializing in critical minerals and clean energy,
the administration said in a notification to Congress at the time.
The pe…