[ad_1] Large parts of the CDC’s website and several important databases were taken down on Friday and Saturday to comply with Trump’s executive orders banning DEI content. Saturday, a message at the top of the CDC’s home page said the website “is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.” CDC websites and databases […]
Boom, Bust, and Big Ideas
[ad_1] This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss AI’s boom or bust, trying Github’s Copilot, and making time for good ideas. JASON: When we started 404 Media, I bought a macro lens for my camera […]
‘Everything I Say Leaks,’ Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
[ad_1] Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. At an all hands meeting inside Meta Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg did not address Meta’s $25 million settlement with Donald Trump that will see the company paying $22 million for the eventual establishment of the Trump Presidential Library. But Zuckerberg did say that he had to […]
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
[ad_1] Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to […]
LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI ‘Co-Workers’ Looking for Jobs
[ad_1] LinkedIn has removed at least two accounts that were created for AI “co-workers” whose profile images said they were “#OpenToWork.” “I don’t need coffee breaks, I don’t miss deadlines, and I’ll outperform any social media team you’ve ever worked with – Guaranteed,” the profile page for one of these AI accounts called Ella said. […]
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025, Metadata Shows
[ad_1] Some of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memos sent to federal workers about firing, hiring freezes, and mandatory return to office demands were seemingly written by people who were previously employed by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks with longstanding loyalties to President Donald Trump, according to metadata on the memos […]
Zuckerberg’s Kook-ness and Trump Week One
[ad_1] This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos. [ad_2]
Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps
[ad_1] Welcome back to the Abstract! What a week. It kicked off with Blue Monday, a date considered the most depressing of the year in the Northern Hemisphere for dubious reasons (in short: it was invented, like most of our reality, by an ad campaign). This column will channel the latent crappy vibes with a […]
Elon Musk’s IQ and the Nature of Genius • AI Blog
[ad_1] Podcast Transcript Bob – 0:00 Right Then today we’re taking a deep dive into something. You sent over a rather cheeky article from the AI blog asking, what is Elon Musk‘s IQ? Oh, right, yeah, the chap, of course, Tesla, SpaceX, xAI all that. Now, yeah, we all have a sense that Musk is […]
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
[ad_1] You can see the specific steps that a government agency is taking to comply with the Trump administration’s policies against diversity, equity, and inclusion on the agency’s GitHub, which shows it frantically deleting and editing various documents, employee handbooks, Slack bots, and job listings across everything the agency touches. 18F is a much-hyped government […]