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UK Scraps Mandatory Digital ID Enrollment for Workers After Public Backlash (slashdot.org)

2026-01-14 | by Posted | get Smart Card → | tags: checks, digital, government

602.

US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-14 | get Smartphones → | tags: cell, cell phones, government

603.

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | get Smart Card → | tags: digital, digital id, government

604.

In Photos: One Week Since the Shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis (wired.com)

2026-01-14 | by Leah Feiger | get Smartphone → | tags: agents, good, government

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FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | by Richard Luscombe | get Newspaper → | tags: administration, government, home

606.

FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home in 'highly unusual and aggressive' act (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | by Richard Luscombe | get Journalist → | tags: administration, federal, government

607.

Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes. (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-14 | get Button → | tags: black, infotainment, new car

608.

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things” (futurism.com)

2026-01-14 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: entertainment, hollywood, making

609.

UK Officials could face US entry ban over Twitter policy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | by .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow | get Twitter policy → | tags: government, grok, images

610.

UK secures record supply of offshore wind projects (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | get Offshore Wind Turbines → | tags: clean, electricity, government

611.

UK scraps digital ID requirement for workers (engadget.com)

2026-01-14 | get ID card → | tags: digital, digital id, government

612.

An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Wendt | get Phonon Laser → | tags: department, department energy, energy

613.

Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Betley | get Language Model → | tags: emergent, emergent misalignment, finetuning

614.

Opinion | They’re Coming for Our Data Centers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-13 | get Cloud → | tags: energy, energy supply, environmentalists

615.

An archaeology of tracking on government websites (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-13 | get Tracking System → | tags: archaeology, archaeology tracking, government

616.

An Archaeology of Tracking on Government Websites (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-13 | get GeoGebra → | tags: archaeology, archaeology tracking, government

617.

Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-13 | get Mailbox → | tags: agents, alleged, critics

618.

Instagram user fights DHS for the right to post ICE sightings anonymously (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-13 | get Dark Web → | tags: agents, alleged, critics

619.

Is Trump’s obsession with Greenland an ‘excuse’? What’s really behind the bizarre land grab? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Iceberg → | tags: denmark, denmark semiautonomous, long

620.

Is Trump’s obsession with Greenland an ‘excuse’? What’s really behind the bizarre land grab (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Iceberg → | tags: autonomous, autonomous territory, denmark

621.

Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-13 | get Starlink satellite → | tags: elon, government, internet

622.

Taiwan issues arrest warrant for Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus (engadget.com)

2026-01-13 | get Huawei → | tags: branch, china, claim

623.

Elon Musk's Grok Is Under Fire Worldwide Over Illegal Images— But Musk Is Defiant (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: creating, elon musk, government

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Nvidia fires back at rumors it will require upfront payment from clients for H200 orders — company says that it ‘would never require customers to pay for products that they do not receive’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-13 | by Jowi Morales | get GPU → | tags: chinese, chips, government

625.

Fanatics goes all-in on entertainment (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Streaming service → | tags: entertainment, fanatics, fanatics studios

626.

Why X changed its Iranian flag emoji (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-12 | get Flag Emoji → | tags: anti government, changed, changed flag

627.

What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-12 | get Deepfake → | tags: government, grok, images

628.

Iran government takes down Starlink amidst civil unrest with 'military-grade jamming signals', report claims — President Trump vows to speak to Elon Musk to restore internet in crisis-hit country (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-12 | by Mark Tyson | get Starlink → | tags: government, internet, iran

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India is proposing another far-reaching security rule for smartphones (engadget.com)

2026-01-12 | get Smartphone Security Rule → | tags: advertisement, code, government

630.

Trump signals plans for ExxonMobil in Venezuela after White House meeting (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-12 | get Oil → | tags: efforts, executive, exxonmobil