The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain

According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the ...
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‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands

“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added. ...
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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including ...
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning ...
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Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar ‘Candlelight’ Dinner—With Elon Musk in Tow

An invitation to a “candlelight” dinner held this past Saturday at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club asked prospective guests to ...
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Canadian Devs Are Backing Out of Attending GDC

Amid deteriorating relations between the US and Canada, many Canadian video game developers are opting not to travel to San ...
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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’

Musk and Trump’s relationship was cemented on July 13, 2024, when a would-be assassin came within inches of killing the ...
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Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE

Before Trump was inaugurated, the USDS administrator was Mina Hsiang. After she left, Ted Carstensen was the highest-ranking legacy USDS ...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know

After months of congressional wrangling that saw the elimination of Ervin’s proposed independent privacy oversight board, President Gerald Ford signed ...
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning as part of the Trump ...
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