A DOGE recruiter is staffing a project to deploy AI agents across the US government
Anthony Jancso, cofounder of AcclerateX, a government tech startup, is looking for technologists to work on a project that aims to have artificial intelligence perform tasks that are currently the responsibility of tens of thousands of federal workers.
The company posted: “Outdated tech is dragging down the US Government. Legacy vendors sell broken systems at increasingly steep prices. This hurts every American citizen.”
A critic said: “We want our government to be something that we can rely on, as opposed to something that is on the absolute bleeding edge. We don't need it to be bureaucratic and slow, but if corporations haven't adopted this yet, is the government really where we want to be experimenting with the cutting edge AI?”
Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison
Leading Democrats said the proposal was "not a serious one". The maximum security facility, also known as The Rock, was closed in 1963 and it is currently operating as a successful tourist site.
Trump’s 2026 budget proposal: Crippling cuts for science across the board
Research funding will be taking an enormous hit, with the National Institutes of Health taking a 40 percent cut and the National Science Foundation losing 55 percent of its 2025 budget.
NSF Director Resigns Amid Mass Grant Cuts, Looming Layoffs
The agency is terminating hundreds of grants that run afoul of Trump priorities. DOGE stated that NSF canceled 402 “wasteful DEI grants.” Terminations include DEI, misinformation and climate research grants.
Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride
A study that failed scientific reviews claimed a link between high levels of fluoride exposure and slightly lower IQs in children. Texas AG Paxton referenced the study in his announcement of the investigation into toothpaste makers.
In March, Utah became the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water. Florida is poised to become the second.
How China is quietly diversifying from US Treasuries
As Trump unravels the global trade system and publicly criticises the Federal Reserve, investors more widely are starting to question the haven status of the dollar and Treasuries. Now many fear China could attack the US by revenge-selling its Treasuries.
State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, is the foreign exchange management administrative body of the People's Bank of China. Officials with knowledge of SAFE’s workings say the agency does not regard massive dumping as a sensible option, preferring a gradual transition from Treasuries to other short-term assets and gold over a period of years.
A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos
A major shipping loophole expired at one minute past midnight on Friday, May 2. The de minimis exemption, as it’s known, allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to come into the United States duty-free.
ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
In Oklahoma City Thursday, about 20 federal immigration agents raided the wrong home, forcing a woman out of the house with her three daughters, not even leaving them enough time to get dressed, and then seized their phones, laptops, and life savings. The agents identified themselves as U.S. marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FBI agents. The agents told her that it could take days or months for the family’s stuff to be returned, and wouldn’t even give her a business card.
Messaging app seen in use by Mike Waltz suspends service after hackers claim breach
It was hacked twice, by different actors. It was apparently sending messages unencrypted to some insecure storage service.
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
Micah Lee analyzes the app, finding its source (Israel) and how it works.
GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked
Hackers say they have obtained what they say are passenger lists for GlobalX flights from January to this month. The data appears to include people who have been deported.
New "Bring Your Own Installer" EDR bypass used in ransomware attack
A new "Bring Your Own Installer" EDR bypass technique is exploited in attacks to bypass SentinelOne's tamper protection feature, allowing threat actors to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) agents to install the Babuk ransomware. Like many other software installers, when installing a different version of the agent, the SentinelOne installer terminates any associated Windows processes just before existing files are overwritten with the new version. Threat actors discovered they could exploit this small window of opportunity by running a legitimate SentinelOne installer and then forcefully terminating the install process after it shuts down the running agent's services, leaving devices unprotected.
Big Game Ransomware: the myths experts tell board members
There are many, many examples of organisations paying ransomwares and then taking months to fully restore operations. In fact, in my experience it’s the norm. This is a mistake. Companies do it so they can cover up the breach, which just makes years of problems with regulators.
It’s time to get serious about building resilient IT systems, locking all the doors, having robust and working containment steps, and to halt the ransomware economic cycle driving these attacks.
Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings
A new method, called Test-Time Augmentation (TTA), helps convey uncertainty more precisely, which could give researchers and medical clinicians better information to make decisions. Predictions are re-calculated many times, with different ports of the input data excluded. This produces a more accurate estimate of the accuracy of predictions.
The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack
We use a stack consisting of Apache2, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB. The service went down from a DDoS attack with many GET requests requiring database lookups. He stopped the attack with Anubis, a proxy service that scrubs requests, only forwarding legitimate ones to the Web server. Anubis also presents a proof-of-work challenge that the browser needs to solve.
Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports
The upgraded mode enables Claude to conduct "deeper" investigations across "hundreds of internal and external sources," Anthropic says. When users toggle the Research button, Claude breaks down complex requests into smaller components, examines each one, and compiles a report with citations linking to original sources.
While most reports complete within 5 to 15 minutes, Anthropic says, the new research system can now take up to 45 minutes for particularly complex investigations—tasks that would typically require hours of manual research effort.
But the results still contain false sources, inaccurate quotations, and other errors.
Magento supply chain attack compromises hundreds of e-stores
A supply chain attack involving 21 backdoored Magento extensions has compromised between 500 and 1,000 e-commerce stores, including one belonging to a $40 billion multinational.
Sansec researchers who discovered the attack report that some extensions were backdoored as far back as 2019, but the malicious code was only activated in April 2025. The code allows attackers to upload a PHP backdoor, gaining remote code execution.