Published on: 2025-04-19 03:37:57
is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. The government should be scrutinizing Meta’s power. Unfortunately, its legal attack isn’t cutting to the heart of what keeps Meta big. This week, I spent three days in a Washington, DC courtroom watching Mark Zuckerberg testify. He was there defending his company from being broken up by the Federal Trade Commission, which is seeking to unwind his acquisitions of Instagram and What
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Find related items on AmazonPublished 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: 2025-04-21 15:13:05
Expense management startup Ramp is being considered for a charge card pilot program by the U.S. government’s General Services Administration, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The government’s internal expense card program, dubbed SmartPay, is a $700 billion program. It is estimated that the charge card pilot program contract for which Ramp is being considered is worth up to $25 million, according to a report by Pro Publica. Pro Publica claims that fintech Ramp has been lobbying
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 15:15:00
Google and the Department of Justice faced off again in a trial regarding whether Google has a monopoly in the advertising technology market. The trial started last fall in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and on April 17th, 2025, Judge Brinkema ruled that Google did act illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in online advertising. The DOJ argued that Google unfairly locked up the market for ad tech tools that publishers and advertisers rely on to monetize their websites and m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 19:51:40
The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. “Plaintiffs have proven that Google has willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising,“ the ruling reads. Over the course of three weeks, the DOJ argued that illegally monopolized three separate markets
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 19:49:32
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2020. A week ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chief Chris Krebs, and calling on the government to suspend the security
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:38:02
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project If you didn't take advantage of the IRS' free Direct File service this year, you may have missed your chance. According to an AP News report, President Donald Trump plans to end IRS Direct File, the electronic system that lets residents in 25 states file their federal tax returns directly to the agency for free. Also: Why the CVE database for tracking security flaws nearly went dark - and what happens next The program began in 2024 i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 11:45:00
Apple has released new software updates across its product line to fix two security vulnerabilities, which the company said may have been actively used to hack customers running its mobile software, iOS. In security advisories posted on its website, Apple confirmed it fixed the two zero-day vulnerabilities, which “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.” The bugs are considered zero days because they were unknown to Apple as th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 23:12:40
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. The government will continue funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. In a statement to The Verge, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) spokesperson Jared Auchey said it “executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services” last night. On Tuesday, MITRE, the govern
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:25:26
In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center, a larger office with a similar mission that had long been criticized by conservatives who claimed that, despite its international mission, it was censoring American conservatives. In 2023, Elon Musk called the center the “wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:05:05
CISA says the U.S. government has extended funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. "The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA," the U.S. cybersecurity agency told BleepingComputer. "Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners' and stakeholders' patience." The announcement follows a warning from M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 07:27:40
Attorneys suing the United States government over its use of vanishing Signal messages to coordinate military strikes last month in Yemen allege that new court filings by the government reveal a “calculated strategy” by Trump administration officials to evade transparency laws through the illegal destruction of government records. US defense and intelligence agencies on Monday submitted supplemental declarations in court outlining their individual efforts to preserve the messages at the center
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 04:24:39
Posted on by steve blank Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happened because two very different people were the science advisors to their nation’s leaders. Each had radically different views on how to use their country’s resources to build advanced weapon systems. Post war, it meant Britain’s early lead was ephemeral while the U.S. built
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 02:07:56
Billionaire Elon Musk's popularity has fallen off a cliff — a particularly precipitous decline, because he used to be immensely popular before squandering it. According to the latest polling averages aggregated by statistician Nate Silver, the richest man in the world's favorability is in free-fall, with a mere 39.4 percent of Americans seeing Musk positively, while a majority of 52.7 percent see him negatively. In total, that's a net favorability of -11 points — a significant drop since Donal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 03:20:51
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: 2025-04-27 10:24:39
Posted on by steve blank Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happened because two very different people were the science advisors to their nation’s leaders. Each had radically different views on how to use their country’s resources to build advanced weapon systems. Post war, it meant Britain’s early lead was ephemeral while the U.S. built
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 01:39:51
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: 2025-04-28 19:50:10
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent disclosed today that client data was stolen in a January 2025 cyberattack. Conduent is a business services company that provides digital platforms and solutions for government and commercial clients in transportation, healthcare, customer experience, and human resources. The company has over 33,000 employees and provides services to half of Fortune 100 companies and over 600 government and transportation agencies. In January,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 17:28:50
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across a wide range of medical, engineering, and scientific fields. These innovations have made countless people in our country and throughout the world healthier and safer. In recent weeks, the federal government h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 11:44:07
I haven’t written much about tariffs, because so many other economists are doing such a great job. Tariffs are easy: The right answer is unilateral free trade. Tariffs are hard: The rest is explaining why 100 objections are wrong. I’ll get there. One aspect is less clear than the others: the whole business about saving, investment, “reserve currency” and so forth. Most economists reacted in horror at CEA chair Stephen Miran’s essay claiming that US reserve currency status — that we can print mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 11:32:01
The Social Security Administration is planning to stop issuing press releases and move all of its official communications to X, according to Wired. The change is happening amidst cuts at the department directed by DOGE, the organization created by Elon Musk, the CEO of X. "We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes," SSA regional manager Linda Kerr-Davis reportedly told staff in a meetin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 11:18:00
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: 2025-05-01 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: 2025-05-02 21:14:41
Senior Trump administration officials have reportedly had enough of billionaire Elon Musk's abrasive humor. With the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has plundered a growing number of government agencies, overseeing brutal budget cuts and mass layoffs, actions deemed by many to be unlawful and unconstitutional. And his grating personal behavior, frequently punctuated by memes and dad jokes, is starting to get to Trump officials, Rolling Stone reports. As a resul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 06:49:10
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: 2025-05-03 11:49:10
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 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 15:00:47
In the latest “We have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus” news, The Guardian reports that the United Kingdom government is developing a prediction algorithm that will aim to identify people who are most likely to commit murder. What could go wrong? The report, which cites documents acquired via Freedom of Information requests by transparency organization Statewatch, found that the Ministry of Justice was tasked with designing a profiling system t
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