Probationary Employee Firings At NASA Ames All probationary employees at NASA Ames will be sent email termination notices next Tuesday

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Now EFF has resources you can share! Send your family and friends to Digital Rights Bytes to get their tech questions answered.

What DeepSeek knows about you — and why it matters Do DeepSeek’s privacy issues worry you? They should.

Whatever you type into a chatbot or search engine should be protected from unnecessary use or sharing, EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @mashableofficial.bsky.social. We need “strong data privacy laws that apply to all companies, whether it be Google, OpenAI, TikTok, or DeepSeek."

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Huh, a new declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism has suddenly gone viral www.404media.co/declassified...

Trump Tries Another Grab at California’s Water. What Comes Next? | KQED A sweeping executive order, citing the fires around L.A., tees up a legal fight with the state over whether the federal government can use an emergency to sidestep local environmental law.

A sweeping executive order, citing the fires around L.A., tees up a legal fight with the state over whether the federal government can use an emergency to sidestep local environmental law.

FBI’s Warrantless Search Ruled Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government Spying The FBI trawled NSA records without a warrant to investigate a man suspected of trying to join a terror group, prosecutors admit.

The court’s decision “would be front-and-center in any argument that Congress needs to impose a warrant requirement for these backdoor searches,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept.com. “That tends to be the kind of thing that Congress takes note of.”

Chinese artificial sun shatters world record with 1,066-second plasma confinement The breakthrough by the Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) at the Hefei Institute of Physical Science represents a significant step forward in the quest for fusion power...

"China's EAST, nicknamed the artificial sun, shattered its own world record for plasma confinement… sustain plasma for over 1,000 seconds is considered a crucial milestone in fusion research (of) replicating the sun's nuclear fusion processes for clean, limitless energy…"

Outbreak Outlook - National - Jan 27 Flu defies my expectations by making a comeback

Another result of this silence is that federal influenza updates are lagging. Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers dug up data for all 50 states. And look at that: what seemed like a fall from a January peak turns out to be a rebound. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o... 6/12

NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump's broad freeze sparked chaos Ongoing clinical trials can continue, and scientists can keep publishing their findings, a memo shows.

Health and Human Services has shut down most of its communications. No new studies at the National Institutes of Health can be launched. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... 5/12

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

Now that the US is leaving the World Health Organization, CDC workers have been ordered to stop working with the agency. This will interrupt work on outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox, among many other diseases. apnews.com/article/cdc-... 3/12

Hello 👋 hope all is well north of the boarder.

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members…

Under Paul Dans, Project 2025 assembled a database of more than 10,000 Trump loyalist job candidates ready to place into federal agencies. It's a ready-use toolkit to create a second Trump administration that would be more MAGA than his first.

(Published Aug. 2024)

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is currently stacked with academic experts well versed in the science of vaccines. A new secretary of Health and Human Services could rapidly change that, Katherine J. Wu writes. theatln.tc/BQ7rbFmn

The text "END 702" with an eyeball in the middle of the 0

For over a decade EFF has argued that warrantless backdoor searches of 702 data are unconstitutional—now a federal court agrees with us.

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VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant....

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

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Advice on Recovering from a Wildfire, From Californians Who’ve Been There KQED's Forum · Episode

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@afterthefireusa.bsky.social CEO @jgt-707.bsky.social and business owners Melissa Schuster and @lizzporter.bsky.social spoke with Mina Kim on managing the practicalities of losing your home to a wildfire.

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🤔 You didn’t mention black powder extracted from fire crackers, or so I’ve been told.

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