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A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker…
A German researcher captured the contents of the White House’s “DEI.gov” during a brief period when it was not password protected. The capture shows that the site contains a list of vague, alleged government-funded tasks and their costs, without sources or context, like “$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers,” “$1.5 million for ‘art for…
After being forced by a court order to restore certain pages about gender and diversity to government websites, the Trump administration has added a note to the top of those pages saying “Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate, and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes,…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Apple’s iCloud, Wikipedia is a miracle of humankind, and good soup. JASON: After our relatively unhinged BTBs last week, many of you left extremely nice comments, reached out…
A government website created by the Trump administration to “track government waste” has been left unupdated with a default WordPress sample page that includes language about an imaginary architecture firm. “Waste.gov: Tracking government waste,” the tagline for the website, archived here, says. The rest of the webpage, however, is about an imaginary architecture firm called…
This week we discuss a new Microsoft study that finds using generative AI is “atrophying” people’s cognition and critical thinking skills, the right’s war on Wikipedia, and, in the subscriber’s section, the idea of posting against fascism. Articles discussed: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”Wikipedia Prepares for ‘Increase in Threats’ to…
Videos that use AI generated voices of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are gaining a massive number of views on TikTok, showing that the platform is also suffering from the onslaught of AI-generated slop that has flooded every corner of the internet. According to Alexios Mantzarlis in his Faked Up newsletter, 400 videos from…
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This article was produced with support from WIRED. Last year, a joint investigation revealed that a Florida-based data broker, Datastream Group, was selling highly sensitive location data that tracked United States military and intelligence personnel overseas. However, at the time, the origin of that data remained unknown. Now, a letter sent to US senator Ron Wyden’s office…
After January’s deluge, a calmer update volume returns
