News
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”
News
Sellers of Anom, the FBI's Secret Backdoored Phone, Plead Guilty
The pleas mean that “Afgoo,” the person who provided the FBI with the backdoored encrypted phone company in the first place, likely won’t have to testify and have their identity revealed in court.
FOIA
Here's the Video for Our Fifth FOIA Forum: Federal Records
Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we went deep on getting federal government records.
Meta
'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
Data.gov
Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.
archiving
Trump Admin Deletes Video Explaining Grammatical Concept of Pronouns in War Against DEI
Github is also revealing a widespread, scattershot effort to nuke not only "DEI" but things that have nothing to do with it.
open source
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
News
Anthropic CEO Says Limiting China’s Access to AI Chips Is 'Existentially Important'
Dario Amodei argues we must limit China’s access to AI chips so we can live under all powerful American-owned AI as opposed to all powerful Chinese-owned AI.
OpenAI
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
Podcast
Podcast: The Truth Behind DeepSeek
We talk all about DeepSeek, the U.S. government memo metadata, and how GitHub is showing the U.S. government's transformation in real time.
LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
An AI LinkedIn profile was "open to work," boasting it’s a better worker than a human.
Donald Trump
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025, Metadata Shows
James Sherk and Noah Peters appear as the authors of memos sent by the Office of Personnel Management.
News
Hackers Mined AT&T Breach for Data on Trump's Family, Kamala Harris
Hackers behind the breach of “nearly all” of AT&T customers’ metadata searched for records associated with members of the Trump family, Kamala Harris, and Marco Rubio’s wife.