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Google is joining Meta, Amazon, and other big tech companies in winding down its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a Wednesday memo to employees that I obtained (and you can read below), Googleâs head of HR, Fiona Cicconi, said there will no longer be DEI hiring targets due the companyâs status as a […]
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The Verge
Elon Musk has no access to the Treasury's tax and Social Security data, a government lawyer said. A DC judge is mulling keeping it that way for now. Read more ›
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The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault. Read more ›
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Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday. Read more ›
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US-China trade war intensifies as Beijing unveils targeted countermeasures worth $20 billion. Includes rare metal restrictions and Western tech company probes. Global markets brace for impact of new rounds of tariffs and economic sanctions. The latest escalation in the US-China trade war has sent shockwaves through global markets as Beijing unveiled a calculated series of... Read more » Read more ›
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An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.” Read more ›
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Musk's DOGE has been on a tear across the federal government in recent days. On Wednesday, he announced that the FAA was next. Read more ›
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Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers worldwide in recent months, according to Disney's earnings results for the first quarter of 2025. Disney said it now has 124.6 million Disney+ subscribers, a decrease of 0.7 million compared to its subscriber numbers in the fourth quarter of 2024. The drop in subscribers comes after Disney+ prices increased in the fall. Disney+ with Ads went from $7.99 to $9.99, while Disney+ Ad-Free went from $13.99... Read more ›
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The national treasure and star of Captain America: Brave New World dismisses the use of lifeless tech. Read more ›
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The GOP House Speaker said he believes the executive branch's government efficiency efforts are "within the scope of their authority." Read more ›
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The bizarre gift was offered amidst the Israeli leader's visit to Washington. Read more ›
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As head of DOGE, Elon Musk is making moves to scrap federal agencies like USAID. Legal experts say that power belongs with Congress. Read more ›
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After months of apparent listlessness, Democrats are once again beginning to engage in the type of resistance that defined the Trump's first term. Read more ›
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The House DOGE subcommittee, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene, is set to hold a hearing on "improper payments and fraud." Read more ›
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Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared […] Read more ›
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As companies including Walmart walk back or soften their DEI policies, Sam's Club's CEO says "openness" and "connection" remain important. Read more ›
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A federation of unions has launched a campaign against Elon Musk's DOGE called the "Department of People Who Work for a Living." Read more ›
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The Verge
The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, who’s company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly […] Read more ›
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Tensions were high inside Meta ahead of Mark Zuckerbergâs first all-hands meeting of the year. Employee-submitted questions for the CEO touched on a couple of big themes: concerns about his announcement that âlow-performersâ would be let go on February 10th, his MAGA-fueled changes to Metaâs content moderation policies and DEI programs, and his comment to […] Read more ›
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Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. Warnings floated on social media today about an impending purge at the Centers for […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk has an uncanny ability to sort out which of America’s rules are real. It turns out punishment from the National Labor Relations Board isnât real, punishment from NASA isnât real, and punishment from the FAA isnât real. The Delaware Chancery Court is extremely real. Based on the past two weeks, the Delaware Chancery […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trumpâs administration is being sued over Elon Muskâs alleged âmassive and unprecedentedâ intrusion into the American governmentâs payment systems. The suit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court Monday evening by the advocacy group Public Citizen, calls for the court to stop the âunlawful, ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial […] Read more ›
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The National Transportation and Safety Board will only update the press about the plane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X — not over email, as reported earlier by The Desk. The agency announced on Saturday that it will use its @NTSB_Newsroom account to share ”news conferences or other investigative information.“ The NTSB later […] Read more ›
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Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has been named the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bureau announced today. Bessent quickly instructed the agency to “to stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities,” reports Bloomberg Law. A source inside the CFPB told Bloomberg Law that his order “appeared to shut down the […] Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg is planning some big changes for Facebook in a bid to make using the platform feel like it did “back in the day.” During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Zuck said that Facebook is an important part of its more than three billion monthly users’ lives and that he’s working on […] Read more ›
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On January 9th, 56-year-old Peter Akemann flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone far beyond the legal limit of his ability to see — and into a Super Scooper water dumping plane fighting the Los Angeles Palisades wildfires, grounding it for repairs after punching a hole in its left wing. Now that authorities have traced […] Read more ›
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Though Netflix is planning to bring back a number of its ongoing series in the coming months, the streamer has decided to cancel its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Netflix announced today that The Sandman will conclude with its upcoming second season. In a statement about the show coming to an end, Sandman showrunner […] Read more ›
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