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Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-flags-employees-rto-office-2026-1

Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office
Amazon rolls out an updated dashboard for managers to track office attendance and hours, expanding strict RTO policies.

“The DOJ is giving Congress just four computers in a satellite office to read the unredacted Epstein File of more than 3 million documents. Working 40 hours a week on nothing else but this, it would take more than seven years for the 217 Members who signed the House discharge petition to read just the documents they’ve decided to release (and there are 3 million still being withheld)."
‘A Bunch Of Sick Fucks’: Lawmakers Review Unredacted Epstein Files
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/a-bunch-of-sick-fucks-lawmakers-review

Boy this sentiment is really starting to pick up speed, lol. This random dude's vid has nearly 10k more views than he has subs already after just 13 hours. M$ doing the best Linux PR.
"Microsoft have lost their minds
A rant about Microsoft's product naming and does anyone know what their products are called at this point? From the company that killed Windows, now you can have Microsoft 365 Copilot app instead of Office... cause who doesn't want that?"
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'Terrifying abuses of power': Judge hears arguments over leadership arrangement at New Jersey prosecutor's office (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/abuse-of-power-new-jersey-prosecutors-office-00745493
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p121#a260123p121

A the press conference #ArtemisII launch after the WDR went so well - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/nasa-begins-artemis-ii-launch-pad-ops-after-successful-fuel-test/ issued just after it had ended - but this will not be confirmed before the Flight Readiness Review late next week.

"AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html

Projected NFL Dream Trade Could Fix Cowboys' Biggest Issue https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-receive-harsh-grade-for-2025-nfl-trade-deadline-moves

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)
https://x.com/metr_evals/status/2002203627377574113

METR (@METR_Evals) on X
We estimate that, on our tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50%-time horizon of around 4 hrs 49 mins (95% confidence interval of 1 hr 49 mins to 20 hrs 25 mins). While we're still working through evaluations for other recent models, this is our highest published time horizon to date.

Efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…

Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

If you're using an LLM to generate passwords, STOP. For one, your chat logs are a matter of record and are open to people within the company! For another, LLMs aren't smart and don't know what they're doing, so that password isn't guaranteed to be any good. Just use apg or something