Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists

A week after the inauguration, US senator Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a flurry of congressional subpoenas to 14 agencies, ...
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An Advisor to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences ...
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Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, owns stocks valued between ...
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From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

It’s incredibly hard to protect a system from someone—the evil housekeeper from DOGE—who has made their way inside and wants ...
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The US Government Is Not a Startup

And savings. They want savings. Specifically they want to subject the federal government to zero-based budgeting, a popular financial planning ...
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The Untold Winners of the Trump Memecoin Frenzy

“If you break it down, there are a lot of moving components in the backend that people are not necessarily ...
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USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), taking a team ...
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