Published on: 2025-06-14 01:47:00
WASHINGTON (AP) — A month into President Donald Trump ‘s second term, lawyers for the Republican administration seem intent on provoking a legal fight to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor that has been critical to the development of the modern U.S. government. Humphrey’s Executor ushered in an era of powerful independent federal agencies charged with regulating labor relations, employment discrimination, the airwaves and much else. The unanimous 1935 Su
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Elon Musk has left his role as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Musk wrote on X. “The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.” DOGE is a Trump administration initiative with the stated goals of cutting wasteful government spending,
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As the Trump administration continues its attack on higher education, Education Secretary Linda McMahon has laid out some guidance for how universities can keep the attack dogs at bay: just share the values of the administration and do exactly as it asks. “Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish,” McMahon said in an interview with CNBC on Wednes
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Elon Musk listens as reporters ask U.S. President Donald Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa questions during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. In its bid to have a lawsuit against Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency and President Donald Trump dismissed, the White House had "unsuccessfully" tried to define Musk's role in the federal government as temporary, a district court judge in Washington, D.C., said in
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is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the Department of Homeland Security, and the tech-right. NPR sued President Donald Trump over his executive order cutting federal funding for NPR and PBS. The suit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court by NPR and public radio stations in Colorado, claims that Trump’s effort to slash the broadcasters’ congressionally granted funding is unconstitutional. It also alleges that Trump violated the First Amendment by characterizing NPR and P
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 01:27:59
Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap. The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 05:52:12
The Federal Trade Commission has finally given up the ghost on challenging Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. "The Commission has determined that the public interest is best served by dismissing the administrative litigation in this case," the agency said in an order issued today. The federal regulator had attempted to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard both before and after the deal closed back in October 2023. The FTC just lost out on its latest appea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 06:57:59
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model to comb through and analyze emails from federal workers. Materials viewed by WIRED show that DOGE affiliates within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous “Fork in the Road” email that was sent across the government in late January. The email offered deferred resignation
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May 21, 2025 Alexia Stein, Community Lead 🏗️ Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V! We're excited to announce that Rocky Linux 10 will officially support RISC-V! Thanks to the incredible work of the Fedora RISC-V Community and Rocky's AltArch SIG, this release will include a riscv64gc build, targeting the same platforms supported by Fedora—such as the StarFive VisionFive 2 (VF2), QEMU, and the SiFive HiFive Premier P550. Learn more about Fedora’s RISC-V journey: fedoramagazine.org/risc-v-and-
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 16:51:14
In the latest episode of How to Dismantle Public Services in 12 Easy Steps, a Trump executive order targeting libraries has real-world consequences. The AP reported over the weekend that libraries across the country are cutting programs that offer ebooks, audiobooks and other loan programs. These initiatives exploded in popularity following the pandemic, with over 660 million people globally borrowing them in 2023 — a 19 percent annual increase. The cuts and slashing of grants followed a Trump
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While Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has taken an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. The US DOGE Service, formerly the US Digital Service (USDS), has been interviewing potential candidates in recent weeks and months, even offering salaries on the highest end of the government pay scale. WIRED spoke with one person who made it through part of the DOGE interview process about what it was like. According to the interviewee, there appear to
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Mortgage rates can change daily and even hourly. Tharon Green/CNET Mortgage rates are being influenced by headlines about ongoing trade negotiations, the path of inflation and shifting expectations for the timing of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Between Monday and Friday, the average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage jumped from 6.85% to 6.89%, according to Bankrate data. The April Consumer Price Index report shows price growth at 2.3%, the slowest annual pace in years, an
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In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. “Pompompurin,” is slated for resentencing next month after pleading guilty to access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). On January 18, 2023, denizens of Brea
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Over the weekend, Republicans in the House unveiled a sweeping budget proposal that includes massive cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, climate programs, and more. But buried amongst those cuts, legislators also proposed a decade-long ban on AI regulations at the state level. Although framed as upholding innovation, the attempted moratorium is yet another clear display of the federal government pandering to the desires of Big Tech. Within the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s bill, lawmaker
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In the early days of President Donald Trump's second administration, federal agencies including the US Department of Agriculture were ordered to remove information about climate change from their websites. Now, the USDA has committed to reinstating the deleted content following a lawsuit on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the National Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group. According to a letter sent yesterday to a district court judge, the
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In Brief Federal railroad regulators are in talks with Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company (TBC), over a multi-billion Amtrak project, according to The New York Times. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the NYT reports that Federal Railroad Administration officials have spoken with TBC to learn whether the Musk-owned company could save the agency money on the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program. The project, which is being built to connect Baltimore to Washington and Virginia,
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Mortgage rates can change daily and even hourly. Tharon Green/CNET This week, mortgage rates are being influenced by headlines about ongoing trade negotiations and the bond market’s reaction to today's inflation report. The April Consumer Price Index report shows price growth at 2.3%, the slowest annual pace in years, and down slightly from the previous month. Though the report was mild, economists don't expect price growth to continue in this direction. Forecasts show prices will soon acceler
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FedRAMP 20x - One Month In and Moving Fast Exactly one month ago today GSA announced FedRAMP 20x, an initiative to rapidly modernize FedRAMP in continuous collaboration with industry stakeholders and federal agency experts. The concept emphasizes security over compliance and encourages private innovation to provide the solution. There is a mountain of effort behind the scenes to keep a program like FedRAMP moving forward. We can’t share pre-decisional information or too much detail about admin
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Mortgage rates can change daily and even hourly. Tharon Green/CNET This week, mortgage rates are mainly driven by headlines about ongoing trade negotiations and the bond market’s reaction to tomorrow’s inflation data. On Monday, the White House announced a 90-day “reset” on steep tariffs with China, assuaging market fears of immediate supply shocks and reducing the recession risk forecast. Stocks and bonds surged in the aftermath. Mortgage rates, which are pegged to the bond market, specifical
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 16:00:00
Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia. Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone. “There was this cascade that started happening,” recalled Max Liboiron, a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland who hosts the virtual calls. “Everyone in the US was like, ‘Holy shit. My career is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 20:03:10
The United States Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that it uses at least one communication app made by the service TeleMessage, which creates clones of popular apps like Signal and WhatsApp with the addition of an archiving mechanism for compliance of records-retention rules. “Following the detection of a cyber incident, CBP immediately disabled TeleMessage as a precautionary measure,” CBP spokesperson Rhonda Lawson tells WIRED. “The investigation into the scope of th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 23:51:00
The Fed's interest rate adjustments matter for the housing market, just not in the way you think. Saifulasmee Chede/Getty Images/CNET The Federal Reserve voted to extend a pause on interest rate cuts for a third consecutive time this year. As markets face lingering inflation, heightened recession risks and overall uncertainty, holding rates steady gives the central bank time to assess the impact of President Donald Trump's erratic tariff campaign, immigration policies and federal cutbacks. Int
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 03:00:00
Mortgage rates can change daily and even hourly. Tharon Green/CNET The Federal Reserve may be standing its ground on interest rates, but the outlook for mortgage rates is still on shaky footing. Since early spring, average 30-year fixed rates have been moving between 6.5% and 7%, with no clear direction forward. Despite concerns over a potential recession and pressure from the White House to reduce interest rates, the central bank voted to leave its benchmark federal funds rate unchanged on M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 03:30:00
The central bank kept its benchmark interest rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Wong Yu Liang/Getty Images As expected, interest rates didn't budge today. You can blame tariffs. At the conclusion of its May 6-7 meeting today, the Fed voted to hold rates steady for the third consecutive time. Fed Chair Jerome Powell remains steadfast in monitoring labor market conditions and inflation pressures before making any cuts. Despite pressure from the White House to lower borrowing rates, there's too m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 19:40:37
Generally speaking, the United States has a piss poor track record when it comes to data privacy. One of the few protections that the federal government offers people is siloing data. Information the U.S. Census Bureau collects about you isn’t handed over to the Internal Revenue Service and so on and so forth. But as President Donald Trump mounts attacks on one of the federal government’s few safeguards, the U.S. must also confront its overall messy surveillance history. A quick Google search o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 03:00:00
The central bank is widely expected to keep its benchmark interest rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Wong Yu Liang/Getty Images Interest rates aren't likely to budge today. You can blame tariffs. The Fed is expected to keep rates steady for the third consecutive time at the conclusion of its May 6-7 meeting. Fed Chair Jerome Powell remains steadfast in monitoring labor market conditions and inflation pressures before making any cuts. Despite pressure from the White House to lower borrowing ra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 16:00:04
The Fed's interest rate adjustments matter for the housing market, just not in the way you think. Saifulasmee Chede/Getty Images/CNET The Federal Reserve is almost certain to hold interest rates steady at the conclusion of its meeting today, despite President Trump's demand that they be slashed immediately. If you're in the market for a home, you might be wondering what that means for mortgage rates. When the Fed adjusts its benchmark interest rate, interest rates on savings accounts and shor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 03:14:47
Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” Kirshna said in an interview with TechCrunch. “That’s the position, which is unequivocal, and we strongly believe in that.” President Donald Trump and his cabinet have sought to make deep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 07:04:00
The Fed's interest rate adjustments matter for the housing market, just not in the way you think. Saifulasmee Chede/Getty Images/CNET The Federal Reserve is almost certain to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday, despite President Trump's demand that they be slashed immediately. If you're in the market for a home, you might be wondering what that means for mortgage rates. When the Fed adjusts its benchmark interest rate, interest rates on savings accounts and short-term loan vehicles follo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 08:14:47
Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” Kirshna said in an interview with TechCrunch. “That’s the position, which is unequivocal, and we strongly believe in that.” President Donald Trump and his cabinet have sought to make deep
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