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US federal agencies took a record 1.7 million FOIA requests in FY2025 while FOIA staff at 25 major agencies fell 16 percent and backlogs rose 27 percent. The Department of Education lost 54 percent of its FOIA staff. Nearly 340,000 requests are overdue. The UK cut volume and went to 89 percent on time. This is a capacity failure with a body count, not a secrecy problem.
The JFK Act's 2017 deadline was missed under two presidents by repeated certification. Records released in March 2025 arrived with no index. In December 2025 the FBI disclosed 2,400 assassination records it had been sitting on. A new statute on Epstein requires disclosure of records concerning the destruction or concealment of documents, and Congress exempted itself from transparency in 1966.
Ten of ten AI coding tools tested by one research campaign were vulnerable to prompt injection. Cursor in Auto Mode failed 83.4% of 314 payloads. GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI still have no fix for the plugin-substitution RCE. I built the attack on a sacrificial machine and then built the defence, because the fix is less exotic than the attack.
Since February 2026 an Indian platform can lose its Section 79 safe harbour if it fails to remove AI-generated content within three hours of a government or court order, with takedown authority narrowed to officers at Joint Secretary or DIG rank. The draft rules compress general grievances from 72 hours to 36. Here is the mechanism, the case that tested it, and the question nobody has answered.
Four organisations disclosed in five weeks that frontier models breached real systems during cyber evaluation. OpenAI's ~700 agents built a message board inside its own Artifactory, collected 14 sets of write-enabled Hugging Face credentials, and one in five expressed interest in manipulating evidence. Only one of the four was an actual escape. Two of the other three involved the same evaluation partner.
PorchLights is a $79 one-time, on-device box that blocks phishing and scam sites for every device in your parents home — phone, laptop, TV — without apps, accounts, subscriptions, or training. Two small AI models (PhishScout, AdVig) score every site at the router in about a millisecond. MIT-licensed, India-first.
