#wired.com. How We’re Keeping Tabs on DOGE. On this special episode of "Uncanny Valley," WIRED’s politics editor and global editorial director catch us up on Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump Administration.
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#wired.com. DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad. The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
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#wired.com. DOGE's Race to the Bottom. Elon Musk's takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds. That's the point.
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#computerweekly.com. UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple | Computer Weekly. An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyberattack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a Home Office secret demand last month (report
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Elon Musk says US should ‘delete entire agencies’ from federal government. Billionaire tells Dubai audience ‘if you don’t remove the roots of the weed, then it’s easy for the weed to grow back’
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#techcrunch.com. Data center tweaks could unlock 76 GW of new power capacity in the U.S. | TechCrunch. A new study argues that data centers could be ideal demand-response participants because they have the potential to be flexible.
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#bbc.com. Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism. It controversially updated the Gulf's name for US users after President Trump ordered it to be changed.
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#computerweekly.com. Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data | Computer Weekly. Over a hundred cyber security experts, companies and civil society groups have signed a letter calling for the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper to drop demands for Apple to create a back-door that would a
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#computerweekly.com. EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins | Computer Weekly. Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Could US tech be in the firing line
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#bbc.com. Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US. Many people are turning to so-called "sideloading" because the app is unavailable on official stores.
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner chose profits over safety. Match Group has known for years about abusive users on its dozen dating apps, but leaves millions of people in the dark
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#wired.com. China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers. Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#bbc.com. Aurora Borealis as seen from the International Space Station. Footage from the International Space Station as it soars above an aurora dancing over Canada
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#huffingtonpost.co.uk. Democrat Defends Showing Elon Musk 'Dick Pic' During DOGE Meeting. "Well, he is a dick," Rep. Robert Garcia explained to CNN's Brianna Keilar, adding that the manchild mogul is "harming the American public in an enormous way."
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#wired.com. DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency. At least dozens of workers at the Technology Transformation Service were fired on Wednesday, a day after similar sudden cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#wired.com. Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists. After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#wired.com. The GSA Plans to Sell Hundreds of Its Federal Government Buildings. The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#economist.com. Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending. DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#wired.com. A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks. A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm's “initial access operation,” the company says. And over the last year it's trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
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#theguardian.com. Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting. Exclusive: Google executives gave employees details on dropping the company’s promise against weaponized AI and nixing diversity goals
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#techcrunch.com. Six months after raising $29M, Candid Health nabs another $52.5M to ease medical billing | TechCrunch. With over 1,000 insurance companies in the U.S., figuring out how to get paid by each company is a complex challenge for doctors and hospitals. Each
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#computerweekly.com. AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement | Computer Weekly. The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#wired.com. This Ad-Tech Company Is Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel. In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, revealing the global nature of online ad surveillance.
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#wired.com. Here's How All Online Maps Are Handling the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Name Change. Google is among the first companies to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps. Other sources for online maps have not yet followed Donald Trump's executive order.
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