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The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order
-- then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents were indeed deployed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/po…

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

I've added an installer for Arcaneum
- https://github.com/cwensel/arcaneum

GitHub - cwensel/arcaneum
Contribute to cwensel/arcaneum development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mamdani proposes cutting NYPD budget, canceling 5K new officer hires (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-proposes-cutting-nypd-budget-canceling-5k-new-officer-hires
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p94#a260218p94

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixes: Page infinitely refreshes if class does not extend `kitten.Page`
Kitten now shows a helpful error message for this authoring error.
(The issue was due to the page getting rendered without the necessary scaffolding provided by the base class for maintaining the web socket connection,. leading to Kitten thinking the socket connection had failed and triggering a reload to reestablish it.)
Full changelog of today’s updates:

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/noem-chemical-agents-minnesota.html

UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bari-weiss-ucla-lecture-canc…

Bari Weiss' UCLA Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Has Been Rescheduled
The CBS News editor-in-chief was set to appear at the university for a discussion centered on the "future of journalism."

The University of Mississippi Medical Center is closing all its statewide clinics and canceling many appointments Thursday after a cybersecurity attack shut down all its computer systems. h/t @…
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Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees (Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-allege-dept-homeland-security-denying-legal-counsel/story?id=129335914
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p92#a260118p92

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Adobe, saying early membership cancellation fees for certain products might be in breach of consumer protection laws (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ado…