The saboteur has shut off the funds appropriated by Congress for the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, and shut them down.

Several decades ago, presidents used to decline to spend funds appropriated by Congress. This was normal. Then a law was passed (accepted by both Congress and the president of the day) saying that the president cannot do this.

What I wonder is, why did it take months for this to become news?

US citizens: oppose Stephen Moore's nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

More information about Moore.

India is proposing laws to require automatic censorship filters based on various kinds of prohibitions.

The article does not mention copyright as one of the bases that would require automatic censorship, but I doubt it would be omitted. Some of the other grounds for censorship could be even more dangerous.

AI systems to choose prices for sellers tend to evolve strategies equivalent to price-fixing, even without any artificial encouragement.

More information.

A survey of 500 important web sites found that most of them have terms and conditions that only a minority of Americans have the competence to read and understand.

We should not allow web sites to set their own terms and conditions however they wish. That gives them too much power over the public. I don't agree to the terms of a web site without checking it; and most of the terms I check, I find intolerable so I don't accept them.

The article uses the bogus concept "intellectual property", which spreads confusion because people think it refers to some coherent thing. No such thing exists.