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Google Is Telling People DOGE Never Existed

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-02 21:50:10

Here’s a Mandela effect event that you probably thought was real: The Department of Government Efficiency, the pseudo-agency run by Elon Musk to cut “fraud, waste, and abuse” from federal operations, didn’t actually exist. At least, that is what Google’s AI Overview response will tell you if you search certain content related to DOGE’s operations. A Bluesky user who goes by iucounu first pointed out this mistake in Google’s comprehension skills, finding that querying the search engine for infor

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 18:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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DOGE Operatives Are Joining Donald Trump’s New National Design Studio

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-22 03:30:00

Some operatives from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are joining Airbnb cofounder and DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio, sources tell WIRED. Gebbia’s NDS is a federal project tasked with redesigning government web pages and digital services. Like DOGE and the US DOGE Service (formerly US Digital Service), it’s also an office located within the executive office of the president. “My directive is to update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as

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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

news.ycombinator.com Geoff Brumfiel 2025-10-27 11:50:24

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers toggle caption Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post/Getty Images A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whi

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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 06:42:51

(Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to an unsecured cloud environment in June, the New York Times reported. This may have exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The complaint alleges that under the authority

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Elon Musk's DOGE Was Far More of a Dismal Failure Than We Thought

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 14:50:33

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency originally promised to save the government $2 trillion in waste. That target quickly dropped to $1 trillion. Then in April, Musk started intimating that the savings would only be in the region of $150 billion, making it clear to all but his most diehard supporters that DOGE was failing on its own terms — even going by its own dubious estimates of its progress. Now, it's looking like those purported "savings" are somehow even more pitiful than onc

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DOGE Has Wasted Billions While Saving Only a Fraction of What It Claims: Reports

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-20 05:15:21

The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has been a project largely defined by ever-diminishing expectations. At the outset of DOGE’s journey, its chief operator, Elon Musk, famously claimed, in a bout of wild optimism, that he hoped to cut “at least” $2 trillion out of the federal budget. Not long after the election, Musk reduced his ambitions to $1 trillion. Throughout the first few months of Trump’s second term, DOGE claimed to be saving Americans billions, but analyses

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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-29 08:45:20

In Brief Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website

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DOGE is reportedly pushing an AI tool that would put half of all federal regulations on a 'delete list'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 23:20:54

According to a report from The Washington Post, DOGE is using an AI tool to analyze federal regulations and determine which to get rid of. A DOGE PowerPoint presentation obtained by the publication notes that its "AI Solution" — reportedly called the DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool — found that 100,000 out of over 200,000 regulations "can be deleted." The document sets a September 1 goal deadline for agencies to complete their own deregulation lists using the tool, which it says can be done i

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Photos: Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children’s Play Sets Left Near DOGE’s Old Offices

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-12-28 10:17:50

Elon Musk’s associates at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have begun vacating their headquarters at the General Services Administration (GSA) in Washington, DC. An apocalyptic scene of toddler play sets, mattresses, and pillows remains. Near rooms where DOGE once operated, a seemingly abandoned children’s wooden kitchen set sits next to a rainbow climbing arch and an easel covered in crumpled paper, according to photos obtained by WIRED. Other children’s toys are within

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Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-01-09 20:07:50

Elon Musk's health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) system, with an initial aim to help people with severe paralysis regain some independence. BCI technology broadly can translate a person's brain signals into commands that allow them to manipulate external technologies j

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Here’s What We Know About DOGE 2.0

wired.com Leah Feiger 2026-01-21 12:22:11

After Elon Musk’s departure from DC, the future of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seemed uncertain. But DOGE’s work continues unabated—its influence spreading farther and deeper into federal government agencies. WIRED’s Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott share with Leah Feiger what they found through their reporting. Mentioned in this episode: This Is DOGE 2.0, by Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge, by Vittor

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Here's What We Know About DOGE 2.0

wired.com Leah Feiger 2026-01-22 00:22:11

After Elon Musk’s departure from D.C, the future of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seemed uncertain. But DOGE’s work continues unabated—its influence spreading farther and deeper into federal government agencies. WIRED’s Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott share with Leah Feiger what they found through their reporting. Mentioned in this episode: This Is DOGE 2.0 by Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge by Vittori

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The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-22 15:10:00

2 Musk loyalists are fighting to keep DOGE running As officials seek to diminish the department’s role. (WSJ $) + DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data. (MIT Technology Review) 3 An imposter used AI to successfully impersonate Marco Rubio They were able to send voice and text messages to fellow politicians. (WP $) + It’s not the first time Rubio has been targeted like this. (FT $) 4 Terrorist groups are using AI to recruit and plan Counter-terror age

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This Is DOGE 2.0

wired.com Makena Kelly 2026-01-26 05:30:00

On Monday, June 23, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young, inexperienced technologists to join Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), disappeared from the internal directory of the General Services Administration (GSA). Less than a month before, centibillionaire Elon Musk and other DOGE leaders had announced their departure from government. After months of slashing through the federal government, it seemed like the end for DOGE was in sight. But later t

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Unpacking Our Conversation With a Former DOGE Staffer

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2026-02-15 10:08:11

Vittoria Elliott: Can you tell me about your interactions with the other DOGE people? Did you make friends? Did you make colleagues- Sahil Lavingia: Yeah. Vittoria Elliott: ... at least? Do you know... What was your relationship with the other DOGE people, and what were your impressions of them? Sahil Lavingia: It was pretty friendly. I mean, it was kind of joining a little troop. We were working together 12 hours a day, and we laugh and joke and you had to because a lot of the work itself wa

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DOGE Gets the Green Light to Slash Gun Regulations at ATF

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-18 05:30:33

Elon Musk may be out of the picture, but the Department of Government Efficiency is still around and being deployed to terrorize the public servants at agencies across the federal government. The latest target: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, where DOGE will be tasked with slashing gun restrictions, according to the Washington Post. DOGE staff (those who are left, at least, seeing as high-profile figures like Big Balls have tapped out of the operation) are reportedly be

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Is DOGE doomed to fail? Some experts are ready to call it.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-23 05:40:12

Critics are increasingly branding Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a failure, including lawmakers fiercely debating how much funding to allot next year to the controversial agency. On Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats sparred over DOGE's future at a DOGE subcommittee hearing, according to NextGov, a news site for federal IT workers. On one side, Republicans sought to "lock in" and codify the "DOGE process" for supposedly reducing waste and fraud in government, and on t

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Senators Warn DOGE’s Social Security Administration Work Could Break Benefits

wired.com Makena Kelly 2026-03-19 04:32:32

Democratic senators have concerns that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could break the Social Security Administration’s tech infrastructure. In a new letter addressed to SSA commissioner Frank Bisignano, senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden say that DOGE’s plans to “hastily upgrade” Social Security IT systems could disrupt the delivery of benefits or result in mass data losses. The warning comes after WIRED reported in March that DOGE officials were planning to rebui

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Elon Musk Is Flagrantly Gutting an Agency in Charge of Regulating Tesla

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 18:13:06

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is gutting the the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has a long history of investigating the unelected White House advisor's EV maker Tesla. As the Washington Post reports, between 70 and 80 people — or roughly ten percent of the small agency's headcount — will be cut. As its name suggests, it's tasked with ensuring drivers and passengers are safe on American roads. The even smaller team that oversees autonomous vehic

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We are the builders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 02:07:20

Blog Real stories from federal employees. Who We Are For decades, we've done our jobs in the background. We made it easier to file taxes, get veterans' benefits, and apply for financial aid. During times of crisis, we helped refugees navigate immigration processes, helped everyone find vaccines, and helped parents find baby formula. Along the way, we made government websites easier to use while protecting the integrity of your personal information. If they really wanted to know how to use t

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Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

news.ycombinator.com Jacob Bogage 2025-11-13 02:39:20

The Trump White House and Treasury Department officials have agreed to prohibit the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal taxpayer data, according to two people familiar with the arrangement, heading off a brewing privacy crisis at the tax agency. Gavin Kliger, a software engineer with Elon Musk’s DOGE effort assigned to the IRS, will have read-only access to anonymized tax data, the same access granted to academic researchers and IT professionals who work on IRS systems, said the people, wh

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DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards

news.ycombinator.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-13 00:10:08

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency put a $1 spending limit on most credit cards belonging to employees and contractors of the General Services Administration—a critical agency that manages IT and office buildings for the US government—along with at least three other federal agencies. Similar restrictions are expected to roll out to the entire government workforce soon, according to several sources familiar with the matter. “Effective immediately, all GSA SmartPay Travel a

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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-12 20:57:48

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency put a $1 spending limit on most credit cards belonging to employees and contractors of the General Services Administration—a critical agency that manages IT and office buildings for the US government—along with at least three other federal agencies. Similar restrictions are expected to roll out to the entire government workforce soon, according to several sources familiar with the matter. “Effective immediately, all GSA SmartPay Travel a

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Elon Musk Is Shamelessly Firing Government Workers Who Were Investigating His Companies

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 05:33:08

In an unnerving press conference last Tuesday, Elon Musk assured skeptical reporters that his DOGE government cost-cutting efforts had nothing to do with his private business interests. "All of our actions are fully public," Musk stammered as his four-year-old son tore up the Oval Office carpet. "So if you see anything, you say like, wait a second, hey Elon, that [seems like], there's a conflict there, it's not like people are going to be shy about saying that." "If there's a conflict, he won'

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The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug

wired.com Brian Barrett 2025-11-12 22:00:00

Within just the last week or so, Elon Musk’s DOGE hit team of mostly young, almost exclusively male engineers and executives have done the following: Pushed a website live to track “savings” that showed no savings for several days, and made it trivially easy for random people on the internet to make changes to it. Published classified information on that same website. Got called out for accidentally inflating that savings amount by $7,992,000,000, and doubled down on their inaccuracy before t

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Elon’s DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion. The Real Figure Was $8 Million.

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-13 00:55:35

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency claims to be fighting the scourge of government “waste” and fraud and, this week, DOGE claimed that it had already saved taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. However, in an ironic twist, it would appear that the claims being made by Musk and DOGE about their own activities appear to be, themselves, fraudulent. Despite recently claiming that it had already saved Americans $55 billion, the information on DOGE’s website only accounts for $16 billio

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Google Is Telling People DOGE Never Existed

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

DOGE Operatives Are Joining Donald Trump’s New National Design Studio

Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

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Elon Musk's DOGE Was Far More of a Dismal Failure Than We Thought

DOGE Has Wasted Billions While Saving Only a Fraction of What It Claims: Reports

Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

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Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion

Here’s What We Know About DOGE 2.0

Here's What We Know About DOGE 2.0

The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?

This Is DOGE 2.0

Unpacking Our Conversation With a Former DOGE Staffer

DOGE Gets the Green Light to Slash Gun Regulations at ATF

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Senators Warn DOGE’s Social Security Administration Work Could Break Benefits

Elon Musk Is Flagrantly Gutting an Agency in Charge of Regulating Tesla

We are the builders

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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

Elon Musk Is Shamelessly Firing Government Workers Who Were Investigating His Companies

The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Elon’s DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion. The Real Figure Was $8 Million.

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