Published on: 2025-04-24 03:45:00
Google's advertising business, a key piece of revenue for the tech giant, is an illegal monopoly, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on Thursday. In the memorandum opinion, the court writes that Google has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a landmark antitrust law from 1890. The ruling says Google broke the law "by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open-web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market." When asked for comment,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 00:27:03
The US government has continued to make drastic cuts to budgets and personnel, but one cybersecurity service has at least temporarily avoided the chop. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database operated by nonprofit MITRE Corp will receive 11 months of federal support. A representative from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whose parent agency funds the MITRE database, told Reuters that the department exercised an "option period on the contract to ensure there will be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 00:24:27
The Trump administration has made no secret that it dislikes disbursing money authorized by Congress under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But on Tuesday, a federal judge issued an order “requiring the agencies to turn the funding spigots back on.” Under President Donald Trump, federal agencies have used his executive orders to justify withholding congressionally authorized grants and contracts, many of which had already been awarded. But U.S. District Judge M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 00:20:51
The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual academic departments. On Friday, the government sent a list of demands that it presented as necessary to "maintain Harvard’s financial relations
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 22:39:51
The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual academic departments. On Friday, the government sent a list of demands that it presented as necessary to "maintain Harvard’s financial relations
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 08:18:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? Google is making a bold move to challenge Microsoft's dominance in federal government software contracts by significantly slashing prices on its Workspace suite. Under a new government-wide agreement, the company is offering its productivity tools to US agencies at a steep 71 percent discount. Tony Orlando, GM of specialty sales for Google Public Sector, positioned Workspace as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 03:49:10
Google has long been on the lookout for ways to break Microsoft's stranglehold on US government office software, and the current drive to cut costs may be it. Google and the federal government have announced an agreement that makes Google Workspace available to all agencies at a significant discount, trimming 71 percent from the service's subscription price tag. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the government has engaged in a campaign of unbridled staffing reductions and program
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 08:49:10
Google has long been on the lookout for ways to break Microsoft's stranglehold on US government office software, and the current drive to cut costs may be it. Google and the federal government have announced an agreement that makes Google Workspace available to all agencies at a significant discount, trimming 71 percent from the service's subscription price tag. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the government has engaged in a campaign of unbridled staffing reductions and program
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 23:46:21
Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla. Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” people familiar wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 12:16:07
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: 2025-05-10 00:39:56
A US appeals court ruled yesterday that DOGE can access personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), overturning an order issued by a lower-court judge. The US government has "met its burden of a strong showing that it is likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal," said yesterday's ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of judges granted the Trump administration's motion to stay the lower-court ru
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 16:01:00
Although the Trump administration has reopened income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowers, the future of federal financial aid remains very much uncertain. In lieu of President Donald Trump's executive order to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education, you may be unsure about filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. On March 20, the White House announced that the Small Business Administration would "immediately" begin handling the entire f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 11:00:40
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A few weeks ago, my colleague Doris Burke sent me a story from The New York Times that gave us both deja vu. The piece reported that Starlink, the satellite internet provider operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, had, in the words of Trump administration officials, “donated” internet service to improve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 00:05:13
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: 2025-05-16 15:40:14
Got any suggestions for improving the federal student loan program and its forgiveness options? The Department of Education wants to hear them. The department announced in a press release today that it will invite public feedback on ways to streamline higher education regulations and federal aid programs. It specifically asked for ideas for improving the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment plan and the Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) plan. "Th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 03:58:02
Top career officials at the Department of the Interior (DOI) were placed on administrative leave late last week after declining to immediately give affiliates of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) levels of access to a payroll system that would in theory allow them to, among other things, stop individual Supreme Court justices’ paychecks. The New York Times has reported that these officials include DOI’s chief information and information security officers; sources tell WIR
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 20:22:51
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -U.S. Constitution, First Amendment. In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had “brought free speech back to America.” But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unpreced
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 14:00:14
Recent waves of Tesla protests and vandalism have made clear the growing discontent among US taxpayers of all stripes. While Elon Musk and Donald Trump slash through federal government jobs and social welfare programs, voters are demanding accountability and an end to Musk's unchecked rampage. That might be a long way off, if Musk has anything to say about it. And unfortunately for us, he's one of the few who does. In an interview with Fox News, Musk railed against anyone targeting his company
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 07:35:03
Although the Trump administration has reopened income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowers, the future of federal financial aid remains very much uncertain. On March 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education and turning over management of student loans to the Small Business Administration. Trump announced that the SBA would "immediately" begin handling the entire federal student loan portfolio, one day after p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 22:45:00
Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now, the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of government. And that’s thanks, in large part, to the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. Much reporting on DOGE has focused on its staffers’ ties to Musk, the billionaire bestie of President Donald Trump. However, there’s another major nexus: the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors who have joined its clarion call of s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 08:25:54
Everyone's talking about recession indicators right now, which itself may be an augury of some kind. But if doom prophesying about the economy is your thing, why not hear what one of the guys who predicted the last major recession has to say? Danny Moses, who was made famous by Michael Lewis' 2010 book "The Big Short" — and its star-studded 2015 movie adaptation — for betting against mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crash, is now warning about the economic the fallout of Elo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 19:00:00
It looks like federal student loans, including the FAFSA, could end up being managed by the Small Business Administration after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education. Trump announced that the SBA would "immediately" begin handling the entire federal student loan portfolio, one day after press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that student loans and Pell Grants would still be run out of the Department of E
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 01:30:42
Less than a month into the second term of Donald Trump, the president signed an executive order that gave the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency broad powers to gut the federal workforce, in the name of cost-cutting. DOGE—led by the multibillionaire “special government employee” Elon Musk—has proceeded with zeal, working to scrap funding for veterans’ cancer treatments, reportedly cutting FDA employees directly working on Musk’s company Neuralink, slashing (and then walking ba
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 02:50:57
Almost four years ago to the day, the FBI entered U.S. Private Vaults (USPV), a storage business in Beverly Hills, and raided the safe-deposit boxes there, pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash, valuables, and personal items. Among those owners was Linda Martin, from whom agents took $40,200—her life savings—despite that she had not been charged with a crime. Those charges would never come. Although USPV itself was ultimately indicted in federal court, the government had no case against
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 15:25:49
The White House has announced plans to “use” federal lands to create more “affordable housing.” While the effort would presumably destroy areas of wildlife that have been deliberately protected for generations, it will face some daunting headwinds. The initiative is to be carried out by the Department of Housing Development (HUD) and the Department of the Interior. In a joint announcement from HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the government said Monday that it was
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 11:49:19
As America’s most decorated civil servants sipped cocktails in the presidential ballroom of the Capital Hilton, worrying about their table assignments and wondering where they fell in the pecking order between US senator and UAE ambassador, Elon Musk sat staring at his phone, laughing. Few of the guests at the Alfalfa Club banquet in Washington, DC, on January 25 knew what he knew: that a crew of senior executives and young Musk loyalists was preparing to occupy the top offices of a nearby fede
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 07:18:00
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fired off two dozen requests Wednesday morning pressing federal agency leaders for information about plans to install AI software throughout federal agencies amid the ongoing cuts to the government's workforce. The barrage of inquiries follow recent reporting by WIRED and The Washington Post concerning efforts by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to automate tasks with a variety of proprietary AI tools and access sensitiv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 07:21:42
As President Donald Trump has been trying to keep House Republicans in line over a continuing resolution to keep the government open through the fall, Elon Musk has expressed a desire for a government shutdown, four sources familiar with his position tell WIRED. Sources also tell WIRED that Musk has wanted a government shutdown—an aim that runs contrary to the White House’s stated desire to avoid one—in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 08:00:59
Almost every episode of the original Mobile Suit Gundam opens with a reminder, and a warning. A stoic narrator informs us that it is the year 0079 of the Universal Century, and that humanity has spent the last nine months locked in an interstellar war between the forces of the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, a group of space colonies that has declared independence to rebel against governance from their home planet. Or really, they’ve spent much of that period in a stalemate that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 07:59:18
Just over two months into 2025, the number of pending AI bills in the U.S. has grown to 781, according to an online tracking tool. The tool, maintained by consulting firm MultiState, shows that the number of pending U.S. bills pertaining to AI now exceeds the total number of AI bills proposed in all of 2024 (743). In 2023, state and federal lawmakers proposed fewer than 200 AI-related bills. A few recently proposed laws include Maryland’s H.B. 1331, a bill regulating the development and use of
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