These are the 10 operatives inside the Social Security Administration
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hacker group Doge has gained access to the US government’s Human Resource Department, the WIRED reported. As per reports, some of Musk’s operatives showed up at agencies like Palantir, Palantir’s Co-founder Peter Thiel’s firm Palantir Defence and the Social Security Administration. Doge was founded by Musk in June 2018 to hack US government systems.
A number of former government IT roles are being taken over by Musk and his associates
A US-based tech firm, DOGE, has been sued by ex-Trump administration officials for unlawful access to employees’ records. The lawsuit claimed that DOGE has used the information to discriminate against employees based on their gender identity and to illegally offer buyouts to them. DOGE’s access could also be used to identify employees to “essentially terminate based on improper considerations”, WIRED reported.
HIV/AIDS relief is exempt from foreign aid cuts
The US State Department has started to withdraw all USAID personnel stationed overseas by this weekend, WIRED reported citing sources. Many of the employees of the US Agency for International Development have been put on leave, restricted access to their workspace and ordered to stop all work, the report added. President Donald Trump announced that he was shutting down USAID.
The garage door is not simple to open
WIRED’s Bay Area journalists, Michael Calore, Zo Schiffer, and Lauren Goode, are the hosts of a new podcasts, ‘Uncanny Valley’. In the podcast, the hosts will untangle and explain the latest and greatest trends from within the tech industry and how they’re poised to shape society at large. With this, they’ll counterbalance that smart talk with a healthy dose of the weird stuff.
The popularity of Social Media may be coming to an end
US-based digital news aggregator Perplexity was sued by Dow Jones and New York Post for copyright infringement over alleged plagiarism of their news stories. The lawsuit said that Perplexity used copyrighted articles on WIRED, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and New York Post’s websites. It alleged that Perplexity falsely claimed WIRED had reported on a police officer committing a crime he didn’t commit.
The Scale only gets you so far according to the boss of the Artificial Intelligence company
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has said the company’s AI model ‘Gemini’ can analyse vast amounts of text, video and audio at a time. The Gemini Pro 1.5 is more powerful for its size and can analyze vast amounts of text, video, and audio at a time. Hassabis had recently given American investor Sam Altman some “healthy competition”, Wired reported.
Q Acoustics 5020 has a clear, stylish and limited bass
Gizmodo said the audio quality of the 5.1-channel speakers in the Q Acoustics M20 Bluetooth speaker range is the highest it has ever experienced. “The M20 Bluetooth speakers are rated 8 out of 10 on WIRED,” the report added. It further said that the speakers are also capable of playing music from a portable device without the need for cables.