Published on: 2025-06-03 17:22:46
Government AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat 13 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save PA Media The government's plans to allow AI developers to access copyrighted material to train their systems has sparked backlash - and protests - by British creatives. The House of Lords has dealt a fourth defeat to the government over its plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their models. The Lords, who are looking for more
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 17:11:00
Billionaire Elon Musk reportedly still owes president Donald Trump an eye-watering $100 million out of the $300 million he committed to get the reality TV star elected. That's according to the Wall Street Journal, which reports that now that the bromance between the two has seemingly ground to a halt, Musk isn't keeping the cash flowing. Trump's advisors said that the latest $100 million check hasn't arrived yet, in perhaps the most concrete sign yet of a widening rift between the two larger-th
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Outrage in Kenya over detention of software developer Mass protests broke out last year after the government proposed tax hikes, forcing President William Ruto to withdraw the 2024 finance bill. Police and the government have not yet commented on the detention of the mother of two. Rose Njeri was detained on Friday after police raided her home in the capital, Nairobi, and seized electronic devises, activists said. Kenyans have expressed outrage over the detention of a software developer who
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 15:55:21
Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret clearance and worked in the Insider Threat Division. Laatsch spent his days—you'll understand the past tense in a moment—"enabling user monitoring on individuals with access to DIA systems," including employees under surreptitious internal investigation. Given that Laatsch was one of those who "watched the watchers," he appears to have had supreme con
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Shares of the Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla have rallied in May despite recent poor car sales numbers for the company in China and Europe, as the billionaire CEO promised to focus more on his businesses than politics. Tesla shares gained more than 22% for the month. The stock is still down 14% for the year. Apple is down more than 19% year-to-date, the wors
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President Donald Trump held a bizarre press conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, ostensibly to wave goodbye to the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But both Trump and Musk essentially admitted that the billionaire oligarch wasn’t really going anywhere, at least when it comes to his influence on the federal government. “This is not the end of DOGE. This is only the beginning,” Musk said, explaining that his time as a Special Governme
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Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret clearance and worked in the Insider Threat Division. Laatsch spent his days—you'll understand the past tense in a moment—"enabling user monitoring on individuals with access to DIA systems," including employees under surreptitious internal investigation. Given that Laatsch was one of those who "watched the watchers," he appears to have had supreme con
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 05:42:45
For years, a mysterious figure who goes by the handle Stern led the Trickbot ransomware gang and evaded identification—even as other members of the group were outed in leaks and unmasked. This week German authorities revealed, without much fanfare, who they believe that enigmatic hacker kingpin to be: Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, a 36-year-old Russian man who remains at large in his home country. Closer to home, WIRED revealed that Customs and Border Protection has mouth-swabbed 133,000 mig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 09:39:20
Elon Musk is interviewed on CNBC from the Tesla headquarters in Texas. Shares of the Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla have rallied in May despite recent poor car sales numbers for the company in China and Europe, as the billionaire CEO promised to focus more on his businesses than politics. Tesla shares are on track for an increase of more than 20% for the month. The stock is still down about 12% for the year. Apple is down about 21% year-to-date, the worst of all the megacaps. The bounceback i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 01:28:14
Elon Musk’s four-month blitz through the US government briefly made him Washington’s most powerful businessman since the Gilded Age. But it has done little for his reputation or that of his companies. Musk this week formally abandoned his role as the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which has failed to find even a fraction of the $2 trillion in savings he originally pledged. On Thursday, Donald Trump lamented his departure but said Musk “will always be with us,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 15:15:46
Five ways the world's richest man changed the White House 2 hours ago Share Save Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Share Save A chainsaw, two hats and Lil X: Musk's eventful time at Doge Elon Musk's time in the Trump administration is coming to an end after a tempestuous 129 days in which the world's richest man took an axe to government spending - stirring ample controversy along the way. Earlier this week, the South African-born billionaire, on his social media platform, X, thanked P
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 01:25:04
One of Elon Musk’s top allies at the General Services Administration (GSA), Nicole Hollander, appears to be scaling back her work for the agency, according to sources and documents obtained by WIRED. Since January, Hollander, who is affiliated with Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been working on real estate projects related to federal leases and office buildings for GSA. The move is part of a purported wind-down for Musk and his leadership team at the so-called
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 12:13:32
Elon Musk wrote a tweet Wednesday night explaining that his “scheduled time” as a Special Government Employee was coming to an end, leading many news outlets to conclude he was done with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And while it seems clear Musk has worn out his welcome with President Donald Trump, it’s naive to portray the billionaire oligarch’s announcement as a sign he’s truly “leaving” the U.S. government. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 01:38:59
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 02:59:03
With his official stint in government coming to an end, Elon Musk thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for "the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending." Since joining the second Trump administration at the beginning of the term in January, Musk has led the Department of Government Efficiency, tasked with slashing the size of the federal government. As a so-called special government employee, Musk can work for the administration for 130 days in a calendar year. The end of May marks 130
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Elon Musk leaves White House but says Doge will continue 11 hours ago Share Save Christal Hayes and Brandon Drenon BBC News Share Save Watch: Elon Musk says he is "disappointed" with Trump's "big, beautiful bill", in interview with CBS Sunday Morning Elon Musk has said he is leaving the Trump administration after helping lead a tumultuous drive to shrink the size of US government that saw thousands of federal jobs axed. In a post on his social media platform X, the world's richest man thanked
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 19:04:00
What just happened? Elon Musk has announced that he is leaving the White House. His 130 days of service as a special government employee are about to end, but the departure comes just as the Tesla CEO said he was "disappointed" with Trump's budget and claimed DOGE had become the "whipping boy for everything." He also lamented the backlash against Tesla since his move into politics. In a post on his X platform, Musk thanked Trump for "the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending." He added that D
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 17:07:21
In yet another sign that their bromance is coming to an end — or perhaps that it's already splintered behind the scenes — billionaire Elon Musk is now heavily criticizing president Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill." In an interview with CBS News over the weekend, Musk said that he's "disappointed" by the price tag of the tax and spending bill, arguing that it "increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing." It's only the l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 05:16:20
Sahil Lavingia has published a diary recounting his time as a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE workforce. It’s a short read — Lavingia’s DOGE stint lasted just 55 days — but it is does provide new details on the temporary government organization formed by President Trump’s executive order. Lavingia is a well-known name in Silicon Valley from his days as an early employee of Pinterest, to his current gig as founder of Gumroad, a platform where creators can sell their goods. He’s also a well-known seed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 01:56:25
In March 2011, an earthquake triggered a massive tsunami along Japan’s coast. The surging waters caused the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to lose power. As a result, the cooling systems of three reactors failed, and their cores experienced a partial meltdown, releasing radiation into the environment in the second worst nuclear accident in history. While the earthquake and tsunami claimed over 18,000 lives, the nuclear accident itself didn’t cause any direct radiation deaths. However, 14 years la
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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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Apple has offered satellite connectivity on the iPhone since 2022 and expanded the service since then. But per a new report from The Information, Apple’s ambitions were once much bigger and have been stunted by fears related to carrier partnerships, the federal government, and even Elon Musk. Origins of Apple’s huge satellite ambitions Aaron Tilley and Wayne Ma write at The Information: Starting in 2015, Apple and Boeing held early discussions about a satellite internet project that would inv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 12:30:04
The United States was born of a desire to leave behind monarchial government and instead live under a republic. Although the structure of the United States was explicitly crafted to have both democratic and anti-democratic elements, the perils of democracy have been part of the American discussion from the beginning (“When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest, both the public good and the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 06:09:51
What to make of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency at this stage of the Trump administration? Elon Musk has purportedly stepped away from his government duties. Courts are trying to strike down some of DOGE’s most egregious efforts. It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed, replaced by something closer to a stasis. This isn’t true. Not even close. While the image of DOGE most likely burned into your retina is that of Elon Musk wielding a literal chain saw, th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 17:13:37
It's becoming increasingly apparent that billionaire Elon Musk wasn't some great mastermind, puppeting president Donald Trump from the shadows. In reality, the mercurial CEO has become a surprisingly reviled fixture on Capitol Hill, getting into screaming matches and frequently losing his composure, while also making "annoying" jokes and being ridiculed by the public. The walls started coming down earlier this year, when Musk lost his temper with Trump's treasury secretary Scott Bessent, shout
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 06:00:00
More than a decade ago, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky identified suspicious internet traffic of what they thought was a known government-backed group, based on similar targeting and its phishing techniques. Soon, the researchers realized they had found a much more advanced hacking operation that was targeting the Cuban government, among others. Eventually the researchers were able to attribute the network activity to a mysterious — and at the time completely unknown — Spanish-speak
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:53:21
The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life identities after accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware. Initially spotted in May 2018 by researchers at the email security firm Proo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:12:22
An outdated Meta AI model was apparently at the center of the Department of Government Efficiency's initial ploy to purge parts of the federal government. Wired reviewed materials showing that affiliates of Elon Musk's DOGE working in the Office of Personnel Management "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 "Fork in the Road" memo seemed to cop
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 19:57:59
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 19:09:03
Even a centibillionaire's pockets only run so deep. With moths fluttering from his wallet, Elon Musk says he's going to do "a lot less" political spending from now on, as he steps back from his active involvement in the Trump administration. "I think I've done enough," Musk said Tuesday during an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum, as quoted by the Washington Post. Musk didn't completely shut the door, though, giving a non-answer when asked if his decision was due to the insane amount of "
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