Cyber Security

‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases

Code updates to a government database that helps track whether a federal program to get children ready for school at…

5 months ago

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications

Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to…

5 months ago

Air Force Documents on Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions

📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a…

5 months ago

The CDC’s Website Is Being Actively Purged to Comply With Trump DEI Order

Large parts of the CDC’s website and several important databases were taken down on Friday and Saturday to comply with…

5 months ago

Musk’s DOGE Brings in HR Consultant Focused on ‘Non-Woke’ DEI ‘Aligned With Our Faith’

Elon Musk’s DOGE, the newly formed government agency aiming for drastic cuts across the U.S. government, has brought in an…

5 months ago

Who Made this Radioactive Saharan Dust Cloud?

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, we’re serving up some much-needed good news about global biodiversity! Well, it’s more…

5 months ago

Behind the Blog: Boom, Bust, and Big Ideas

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

5 months ago

Sellers of Anom, the FBI’s Secret Backdoored Phone, Plead Guilty

A group of men who sold Anom devices, the encrypted phone secretly backdoored by the FBI which led to the…

5 months ago

Here’s the Video for Our Fifth FOIA Forum: Federal Records

The FOIA Forum is a livestreamed event for paying subscribers where we talk about how to file public records requests…

5 months ago

‘Everything I Say Leaks,’ Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

At an all hands meeting inside Meta Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg did not address Meta’s $25 million settlement with Donald Trump…

5 months ago