There’s precedent for companies not only receiving information from law enforcement during domestic terrorism investigations, but also working directly with the FBI. German says this was particularly evident during the response to a wave of oil pipeline protests in the early 2010s. Records published by the news site Grist andContinue Reading
Two months into the second Trump administration, the United States is in pure chaos mode. Tens of thousands of workers are fired one week and forcibly rehired the next. Tariffs rise and fall based not on strategy but on one man’s ire. Deportations fly in the face of judicial orders,Continue Reading
Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rightsContinue Reading
If you think this sounds familiar, you’re not wrong. When Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, scientists, archivists, and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania raced to save data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NOAA. Another group in Michigan, also fearing the EPA and NOAA websites wouldContinue Reading
DROP IN TESLA CAR SALES In the lead up to Germany’s election last month, Musk – who is the world’s richest man – made an unprecedented entry into the country’s political scene by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and shocking the establishment. Observers noted that this mightContinue Reading
“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added. “Did you use this AI to organize the [reduction in force]?” asked another federal worker. “When will the Adobe Pro be given back to us?” said another. “This is aContinue Reading
The transatlantic alliance has sneezed, and the Indo-Pacific could soon catch a cold. As U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration dashes Ukraine’s hope for an immediate security guarantee and dismisses the U.K.-led “Coalition of the Willing,” his Indo-Pacific allies are watching closely. Indeed, many are curious on what Trump might doContinue Reading
According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as US International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA), and to bring it directly under the secretary of state. The document, on which Politico first reported,Continue Reading
IS RUSSIA SINCERE ON PEACE? Meanwhile, the analysts said Russia believes it has an edge on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. “Putin seems to want to delay any real ceasefire, any real peace talks because at the moment, the Russians, militarily, have the upper hand, but not byContinue Reading
Of late, whether in the days following the Trump administration’s shutdown of USAID, or in the ongoing conflict in Palestine, there has been much said about where the United States stands and how it will continue to interact with the rest of the world. Writing in The Guardian, former BritishContinue Reading
