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NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

When in doubt, tear it all down, see what breaks, assume you can repair it—maybe with AI? It’s the federal government; how hard can it be? This is incompetence born of self-confidence. It’s the certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

NEW: Microsoft hosted around 150 explicit non-consensual images of startup founder Breeze Liu on its Azure servers. It took Microsoft eight months to remove the images, despite pleas piling up. The company just didn't respond to one NGO working with Liu Story with @peard33.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

There's a lot going on right now, but this story from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social is horrifying. Basically, in contravention of its own policies, Google's ad technology allows clients to identify and target people identified as, say, struggling with opioid addiction or gambling debt.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

On top of everything else it's just hard to get over how dumb all this is www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

NEW: SpaceX engineers are already onboarded at the FAA. How'd they get in so quickly? By using a policy designed to fast-track federal employment opportunities for people with disabilities. from @telliotter.bsky.social and @aarianmarshall.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: Who is running DOGE? Don't ask its employees, because they haven't got a clue. Apparently, neither does the White House. More on the internal USDS/DOGE confusion over leadership here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Call me old fashioned but if I were the fiscal assistant secretary of the US Treasury Department I would simply not simultaneously be the full-time CEO of a software company www.wired.com/story/musk-k...

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Democracy doesn’t die in darkness after all; it dies in JIRA tickets filed by Palantir alums. www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE are slashing and burning their way to ... what, exactly? www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.

submitted 10 days ago • 73 comments

Government CIOs hold the keys to everything, basically. You'll never guess who the Trump administration has been putting in those roles. from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Dozens of CFPB workers were fired tonight, including a bunch from the enforcement division. Some found out when they got an email addressed to [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division]. from @makenakelly.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dozens...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

BREAKING: Federal workers filed a new lawsuit against Elon Musk, DOGE, and OPM, alleging DOGE's data access is an illegal privacy violation: www.wired.com/story/govern...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

This whole Musk takeover is the Dark Mirror version of the scene from Dave where the normal guy president brings in his personal accountant to balance the budget.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

As an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator in history. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison. Throughout, he was texting with me from a secret phone. This is his full, untold story. www.wired.com/story/untold...

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Behind the scenes of Kendrick Lamar’s incredible halftime show. From @waterslicer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/true-s...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Unwinding after a stressful week by going to an Alabama Costco on Super Bowl Sunday right when all the churches let out.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

New details from @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social on early DOGE recruitment efforts that focused on Palantir alums and SpaceX interns: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

I want to take a second to quickly highlight the tireless work of WIRED reporter @zeyiyang.bsky.social, who was among one of the only ppl who really captured the human toll of Trump’s new Chinese tariffs this week 1/4

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

As we near the end of a very long week, this is maybe a useful way to process Elon Musk’s ongoing takeover of key parts of the US government www.wired.com/story/the-us...

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members ... likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” Another exclusive from @telliotter.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

SCOOP: DOGE has built a "firewall" separating Elon Musk's team from the ~200 legacy USDS staffers. “They don’t talk to us,” one USDS worker tells me. “As far as I can tell, they’re hiding,” says another. www.wired.com/story/musk-d...

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: Yet another federal agency, this time the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is being told to hand the keys to its data over to DOGE operatives. From @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

The thing about running the federal government like a software startup is that most software startups fail www.wired.com/story/the-us...

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

One of Elon Musk's DOGE staffers is a 19-year-old who goes by "Big Balls" online and owns a company called Tesla.Sexy that sells an AI bot for Russian Discord servers. These are the kinds of people who have access to the country's most sensitive data www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: A 25-year-old with ties to Elon Musk has direct access and admin privileges to the federal payment system. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

According to the former Tesla engineer now in charge a lot of the government's tech services, the future is an "AI-first" agency that runs like a tech startup. From @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

This is a great time to follow WIRED journalists here bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

Tech press like WIRED are picking up the slack where our legacy political press have abdicated their responsibility. Now would be a good time to become a subscriber for $5 for one year: www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi... Follow their writers: go.bsky.app/Acr6kiY

submitted 20 days ago • 43 comments

If you're a current/fmer US gov't employee or contractor & want to chat securely with @wired.com reporters, here are some of our Signal #s: @telliotter.bsky.social: velliott88.18 @dell.bsky.social: dell.3030 @makenakelly.bsky.social: makenakelly.32 @davidgilbert.bsky.social: DavidGilbert.01 1/2

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

"This feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.” Another important scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It's not just USAID. We're monitoring thousands of US government websites, and are tracking the ones that have gone offline so far today www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

Elon Musk is running the Twitter playbook on the US government: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 24 days ago • 64 comments

If you Google "trump inauguration" you get whatever this is so

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

my return to the Slop Beat for 2025.... Sports Slop is here, and it's mixed with straight-up plagiarism from top sports websites www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

It's hard to play the "these complaints are from anonymous sources" card for Hegseth when one of the most damning of them comes from his literal mom.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments