Published on: 2025-04-19 19:20:24
Elon Musk and company’s apparent desire to suck up as much personal information as they can about Americans has hit another snag. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction that will at least temporarily prevent staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on millions of Americans while working within the Social Security Administration. The ruling, which comes in response to a lawsuit filed by several unions and groups of retirees
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 23:28:43
It’s April, and the US is experiencing a self-inflicted trade war and a constitutional crisis over immigration. It’s a lot. It’s even enough to make you forget about Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency for a while. You shouldn’t. To state the obvious: DOGE is still out there, chipping away at the foundations of government infrastructure. Slightly less obvious, maybe, is that the DOGE project has recently entered a new phase. The culling of federal workers and contracts wil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 07:04:46
NLRB denies breach Berulis' disclosure said that several days before receiving this threat, he had been instructed to drop his investigation and not report his concerns to US security officials. Bakaj's letter to senators and the Office of Special Counsel requested "that both law enforcement agencies and Congress initiate an immediate investigation into the cybersecurity breach and data exfiltration at NLRB and any other agencies where DOGE has accessed internal systems." An NLRB spokesperson
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 10:33:10
Hacking the Postgres wire protocol Apr 14th, 2025 Lev Kokotov PgDog is a network proxy and it can see every byte sent between Postgres and the clients. It understands SQL and can infer where queries should go, without requiring changes to application code. In this article, we discuss how we handle the Postgres wire protocol and manipulate it to serve queries to multiple databases at the same time. Protocol basics Postgres has two ways to send queries over the network: Simple protocol Ext
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 03:40:43
None of this should be surprising, but to belabor the point: DOGE has everything. It is well past time to stop nickel-and-diming the story. There is a new lengthy investigation out from NPR today detailing how Elon Musk’s waste and government efficiency initiative has barreled into the National Labor Relations Department and exfiltrated mass amounts of sensitive data, taking great lengths to cover its tracks, and even threatening employees who speak out. Experts in cybersecurity likened the act
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 11:33:10
Hacking the Postgres wire protocol Apr 14th, 2025 Lev Kokotov PgDog is a network proxy and it can see every byte sent between Postgres and the clients. It understands SQL and can infer where queries should go, without requiring changes to application code. In this article, we discuss how we handle the Postgres wire protocol and manipulate it to serve queries to multiple databases at the same time. Protocol basics Postgres has two ways to send queries over the network: Simple protocol Ext
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 09:48:11
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Elon Musk’s popularity with the American public is waning, according to the latest polling average from Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin. The billionaire CEO of multiple companies wears many hats, but the most visible one of late has been as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an organization that has been tearing through the US govern
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:27:10
Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a single API layer above all IRS databases at an event previously characterized to WIRED as a “hackathon,”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 10:10:57
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is getting a taste of its own medicine. Since March, Wired reports, the Government Accountability Office, an independent investigative agency of Congress, has been auditing the Trump administration's initiative to slash federal expenditures. The probe concerns how DOGE, which GAO refers to as the US DOGE Service (USDS), handled sensitive data at multiple agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, Homeland Security, Health
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 14:08:57
Late last year, billionaire Elon Musk vowed to cut $2 trillion from the government's budget with the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. It didn't take long for that number to drop to $1 trillion, indicating little thought had gone into the original calculation. And judging by the latest news, DOGE is woefully behind even that target. As the New York Times reports, Musk told president Donald Trump this week that DOGE anticipated "savings in '26 from reduction of waste an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 23:34:00
Great Treats Icelandic+ Mini Cod Fish Chips Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Icelandic+ Mini Cod Fish Chips for $10: Open a bag of these cod fish chips, and your room will immediately be engulfed with a fishiness that will linger in your nostrils for hours. On the other hand, your pup will dart to your room and wolf these down instantly. At least mine did. These are imported from Iceland and are sustainably wild-caught. There are no other ingredients. Vital Essentials Freeze-Dried Raw Treats for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 23:03:29
Naughty Dog is back with yet another way for players to buy The Last of Us. The team announced a new bundle called The Last of Us Complete, which has the latest editions of both award-winning games for the PlayStation 5. This Complete edition runs $100 for the digital bundle, which is available now. A physical collector's edition can be pre-ordered now for $110, with availability expected on July 10. The original 2013 game was remastered for the PS4 just a year after its release, then received
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 19:00:00
One of the largest federations of unions and several former officials of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration have raised concerns about the possibility that Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency could potentially gain access to sensitive information shared with OSHA and the Department of Labor by whistleblowers at the centibillionaire’s companies. While Musk serves as a “special government employee” in the Trump administration, SpaceX, Tesla, and The B
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 11:55:59
At the last minute, the Social Security Administration has announced it won’t be cutting phone services for seniors—a policy it had previously claimed would go into effect on Monday. Now, the agency has shifted its position, claiming it will “allow all claim types to be completed over the telephone.” “Telephone remains a viable option to the public,” the agency said in an email to Gizmodo, claiming that the “anti-fraud team implemented new technological capabilities” that made phone service pos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 01:55:53
While it often seems that no one is watching the watchmen under the Trump administration, a new report from Wired suggests there is at least one agency still keeping tabs on the Department of Government Efficiency and its seemingly unfettered reach into the guts of government. The publication, citing government records and sources, revealed that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched an investigation back in March into how Elon Musk’s pseudo-agency has been handling data in the offi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 15:16:07
An unsigned agreement between the US DOGE Service (USDS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) provides significant insight into the evolving working protocols between DOGE and federal agencies. Notably, the agreement, obtained by WIRED, calls for the DOL to reimburse the USDS up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates, or “a slightly different number,” over an 18-month period. The agreement also includes a section titled “scope of work” that details how DOGE will operate with the DOL
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 18:20:56
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The probe, which has been ongoing since March, covers DOGE’s handling of data at several cabinet-level agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, the Treasury, and the Social Security Administration, as well as the US DOGE Service (USDS) itself, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED. Records show that t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 23:20:56
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The probe, which has been ongoing since March, covers DOGE’s handling of data at several cabinet-level agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, the Treasury, and the Social Security Administration, as well as the US DOGE Service (USDS) itself, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED. Records show that t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 17:48:32
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a “hackathon” next week in order to create a “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform — potentially a third-party one — to serve as the “read center” of the agency’s systems.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:14:37
In Brief Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide access to taxpayer data, according to Wired. Wired says the hackathon is being organized by two DOGE staffers at the Internal Revenue Service — Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, who’s also CEO at healthtech startup Levels. Corcos has reportedly been telling others at DOGE that his goal is to build “one new API to rule them all.” This would ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:42:53
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has infiltrated the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an agency that has a say over resources Musk needs or could benefit from for some of his private sector business, The Verge has learned. Three people who have been i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 03:25:55
Despite Trump’s promises not to touch Social Security, Elon Musk’s DOGE has asked for serious cuts to the agency. Critics have accused the billionaire and his team of attempting to cripple America’s retirement system. Now, a new report states that, per DOGE’s orders, the Social Security Administration has plans to fire “potentially thousands” of staffers as soon as next week, in an effort to further downsize the agency and align it with Trump’s “efficiency” mandate. The Washington Post reports
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 02:54:17
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been clear about its plans to fire tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. New WIRED reporting sheds light on the specific DOGE operatives at the VA and the ways they’re trying to infiltrate and drastically change the agency. On March 25, tech staffers and contractors at the VA noticed an unfamiliar name trying to push changes that could impact VA.gov code. It was Sahil Lavingia, a newcomer to the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 07:54:17
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been clear about its plans to fire tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. New WIRED reporting sheds light on the specific DOGE operatives at the VA and the ways they’re trying to infiltrate and drastically change the agency. On March 25, tech staffers and contractors at the VA noticed an unfamiliar name trying to push changes that could impact VA.gov code. It was Sahil Lavingia, a newcomer to the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 15:18:21
Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were spotted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, sources tell The Verge. Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant were seen in the building and are now listed in the FTC’s internal directory under the Office of the Chairman with their own agency emails, according to the sources. FTC spokesperson Joe Simonson told Axios, which first reported the news, that DOGE is there “to root out waste, fraud and abuse.” It’s unclear wha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 03:05:13
In Brief A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit attempting to stop the Department of Government Efficiency from obtaining records on millions of Americans may proceed. In conjunction with privacy watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation and two labor unions, more than 100 current and former federal employees sued DOGE, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and Elon Musk in February. The government filed a motion to dismiss, but on Thursday the judge denied that motion.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 03:00:00
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Democrats are calling on Treasury Department and General Services Administration watchdogs to investigate a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee’s access to sensitive data. In a letter to Deputy Inspectors General Loren Sciurba and Robert Erickson, Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Shontel Brown (D-OH) say the probe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 19:05:43
Doggy park lovers, beware: Researchers in Ireland say they’ve pinpointed the park hot spots where roundworms are most likely to infect our precious pups. Scientists at Trinity College in Ireland led the research, published late last month in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. They tested soil samples from parks across Dublin and found that entrances were the most heavily contaminated part of the park, teeming with dog roundworm (Toxocara canis) eggs. The findings could help prevent these irritat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 01:41:54
The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration free of charge, according to court documents revealed in a recently filed lawsuit. Tensions at USIP have been escalating for weeks, starting when the Trump administration fired the agency’s 10 voting board members on March 14 and USIP staffers denied DOGE repres
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 19:06:27
The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration free of charge, according to court documents revealed in a recently filed lawsuit. Tensions at USIP have been escalating for weeks, starting when the Trump administration fired the agency’s 10 voting board members on March 14 and USIP staffers denied DOGE repres
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