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From the editor’s desk
Today's edition has a federal ban, hidden orders on help pages and a security vendor that won't trust the models it funds. We suggest reading the whole page before you let anything summarise it for you.
From the Stacksessays worth rereading
A primer on documentation content strategy
Stephanie Blotner's guide to planning documentation around readers' needs reads differently after the WhatsApp story. Help pages now have two audiences, people and the models summarising for them. Her starting point, the reader's needs, is exactly what WhatsApp's hidden notes ignored.
IncrementThe U.S. Government's long road to adopting the cloud
David J. Lumb's history of federal cloud procurement explains how slowly and deliberately Washington approves new technology. That context matters for an order telling every civilian agency to remove DeepSeek, and anything built on it, from systems it may already run.
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