On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he had been forcibly removed from his position after filing a whistleblower complaint this week accusing the agency of mishandling sensitive… Read More "SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes"
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As students returned to school this week, WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of a violent online group known as “Purgatory” about a rash of swattings at universities across the US in recent days. The group claims to have ties… Read More "DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower Claims"
The manhunt for the shooter who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk ended Friday with a suspect taken into custody, authorities said. Utah’s Department of Public Safety and the FBI confirmed the arrest during a morning briefing, capping a two-day search… Read More "Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Identified as 22-Year-Old Utah Man"
Since early this year, RIA-Novosti has published roughly one story per week on UVB-76, suggesting its coded messages are related to missile strikes on Iran, the war in Ukraine, and negotiations with Trump. RT, which had once pooh-poohed the idea… Read More "The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears"
The Biden administration considered spyware used to hack phones controversial enough that it was tightly restricted for US government use in an executive order signed in March 2024. In Trump’s no-holds-barred effort to empower his deportation force—already by far the… Read More "ICE Has Spyware Now | WIRED"
The Pentagon’s website and social media channels were overhauled Friday at President Donald Trump’s behest to reflect the United States Defense Department’s new “Department of War” persona, shifting from Defense.gov to War.gov—a symbolic rebranding that highlights the administration’s preference for… Read More "Defense Department Scrambles to Pretend It’s Called the War Department"
United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and… Read More "Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High"
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this month quietly awarded a $30,000 no-bid contract for sniper and combat training to a Virginia firm run by Dan LaLota, the brother of US representative Nick LaLota, a second-term Republican from New… Read More "US Congressman’s Brother Lands No-Bid Contract to Train DHS Snipers"
With the Trump administration assaulting both the spirit and the letter of the United States Constitution on multiple fronts, President Donald Trump has also become increasingly vocal—and combative—in his plans for US election administration. After nearly a decade of federal… Read More "No, Trump Can’t Legally Federalize US Elections"
