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After Marks and Spencer refused to say whether it paid a ransom, the UK's Home Office proposes that businesses will have to notify the government if they plan on paying a ransom to cyber criminals under new proposals.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-l

UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures
Measures to tackle the threat of ransomware and protect businesses and critical services will be taken forward with industry following public consultation.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to a center in the Florida Everglades,
and that much of the facility be dismantled.
The ruling rebuked the state and federal governments for failing to consider potential environmental harms before building the facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz.
The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees
and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and…

Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center in Florida to Shut Down for Now
A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.

Super-Eliza oder Soziopath? Über die Gefahren der KI-Anthropomorphisierung
Der Psychologe John G. Haas erklärt im Gespräch mit heise online, warum KI-Companions helfen können, aber nie die Therapie ersetzen werden.

Trump's presidential philosophy is government by shakedown (Steven Greenhouse/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/22/trump-philosophy-authoritarian-government
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p130#a250822p130

Dutch foreign minister quits caretaker government over Gaza (Stephanie van den Berg/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/dutch-foreign-minister-quits-caretaker-government-over-gaza-2025-08-22/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p131#a250822p131

A crowded race for governor has turned into an all-out fight over Trump's endorsement (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/crowded-race-governor-turned-fight-trumps-endorsement-rcna226030
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p58#a250822p58

'Flying Blind': Trump Strips Government of Expertise at a High-Stakes Moment (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-government-expertise.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p1#a250822p1

Intel will give the U.S. government a 10% stake, Trump says (John Ruwitch/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509673/trump-says-us-government-will-take-stake-intel
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p121#a250822p121

Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing for Chinese Government's Benefit Trade Secret Technology Designed for Missile Launch and Detection (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/engineer-pleads-guilty-stealing-chinese-governments-benefit-trade-secret-technology-designed
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p130#a250721p130