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Welcome to The Logoff. Today, I’m focusing on a fight over control of the Treasury Department’s payment system, a legal battle with big implications for our democracy. At stake is Congress’s ability to keep control over government spending, a critical (and constitutional) check on Donald Trump’s power. What’s the latest? A federal judge on Thursday signed off […]
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Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on. Read more ›
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An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” Read more ›
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Over 385,000 people voted in Elon Musk's poll, with 78% supporting rehiring the former DOGE staffer. Read more ›
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Judge Carl Nichols blocked Donald Trump and Elon Musk's attempted USAID shutdown days after the American Foreign Service Association filed a lawsuit. Read more ›
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Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services. Read more ›
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A crew took letters off the USAID headquarters hours after President Trump called to "CLOSE IT DOWN." Read more ›
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PlayStation Network (PSN) is experiencing some major problems as of Friday evening. According to Sony’s PSN status page, account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store, and the PlayStation Direct website are all dealing with issues. For gaming specifically, Sony says that “you might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features.” A colleague […] Read more ›
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Ben Solo's new Marvel series, Legacy of Vader, highlights what divides the man that became Kylo Ren from the man that became Darth Vader—and what will ultimately unite them. Read more ›
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Marko Elez has been linked to an account that tweeted things like "normalize Indian hate." Read more ›
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As Musk's group heads to more agencies, more legal challenges are cropping up. Read more ›
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China’s YTMC showcases a 294-gate chip design with Xtacking4.0 technology. Marks advancement US trade restrictions. Positions YMTC as a pioneer in hybrid bonding technology, challenging Samsung and SK Hynix. For the second time in two years, YMTC, China’s leading memory chip maker, has proven that US trade restrictions have done little to slow its technological... Read more » Read more ›
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Elon Musk and DOGE are moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken. Read more ›
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People have gone wild for NetEase's design spin on the heroes and villains of Marvel's comics multiverse, but you may not be getting what you wished for in the game's first merch. Read more ›
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Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according to a Google product expert. One user called the move “shameful” and said that the […] Read more ›
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There's no way you can turn back time, but at least you can delete a bad word before someone sees it. Read more ›
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It turns out Gemini didn't hallucinate a fake stat, Google just copied a website's existing text instead. Read more ›
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A lawsuit filed against the Education Department accused it of giving DOGE access to student-loan borrowers' personal information. Read more ›
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DOGE head Elon Musk changed his X bio to "White House Tech Support" amid concerns that he can access systems containing sensitive information. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws. The scope of Trump and Musk’s sweeping effort to purge the federal workforce and slash government spending has shocked the political world — in part for its ambition, but also in part because of its disregard for the […] Read more ›
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A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance. Almost immediately upon taking office, the leader launches a blitzkrieg designed to strengthen his personal grip on power. He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places […] Read more ›
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Things that, just a few years ago, would have been thought impossible in the American system of government are now happening. Trump is asserting the president’s power to remake the executive branch as he sees fit — empowering Elon Musk to push aside civil servants, wind down entire agencies, and generally strike terror into the […] Read more ›
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In his frenetic efforts to increase government “efficiency,” Elon Musk has usurped Congress’s rightful authority over spending while almost certainly breaking a wide variety of federal laws. Donald Trump’s top donor — who has not been elected to any office, or confirmed to any Cabinet position — has shuttered the US Agency for International Development […] Read more ›
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If there is ever going to be a Resistance movement 2.0, it might have gotten a much-needed jolt of energy this week. Gathered on the eastern steps of the US Treasury Department’s DC headquarters Tuesday evening, some two dozen Democratic members of Congress rallied a few hundred protesters against Elon Musk. Specifically, they were protesting […] Read more ›
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Billionaire Elon Musk and his band of young Silicon Valley engineers have gained access to IT systems controlling critical functions of the federal government, from the Treasury Department to the Small Business Administration. The problem is no one outside of the Trump administration really knows what Musk and his team at the newly created Department […] Read more ›
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A brief spat between Elon Musk and the news organization Politico is making something quite obvious: The nation’s governance is increasingly at the whim of online conspiracy theorists. This incident began with two unrelated events: On Tuesday, staffers at Politico reported that the company had missed payroll. Those issues were resolved later that day. Separately, […] Read more ›
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Just over two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already thrown American democracy into crisis. On his first day in office, the president pardoned those who had violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to obstruct his removal from power. He then fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors […] Read more ›
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This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Three weeks in, the second Trump administration has already flooded the zone with an absolutely overwhelming volume of executive orders, tariff threats, and whatever Elon Musk is doing. So I’m going to focus this week on two actions […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump recently attempted to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its former chair. This attempted termination is just one of many similar actions Trump has taken, but it is also a singularly important move by Trump because it could trigger a legal fight that could significantly […] Read more ›
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