In May, President Donald Trump selected a design for the Golden Dome—a space-based defense system designed to protect the U.S. from foreign missiles. Though some experts consider it a pipe dream, Trump claims he can build it in three years. The United States Space Force is already getting the ball rolling. According to a June […]
DOGE Gets the Green Light to Slash Gun Regulations at ATF
Elon Musk may be out of the picture, but the Department of Government Efficiency is still around and being deployed to terrorize the public servants at agencies across the federal government. The latest target: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, where DOGE will be tasked with slashing gun restrictions, according to the Washington […]
Silicon Valley Is Cashing Its Check After Backing Trump
The cost of living is increasing, wages for workers are stagnant, and people are looking for a break. Silicon Valley is getting one instead. According to Bloomberg, a little-known tax benefit known as the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) that has become a favorite carve-out of tech startups would get expanded under a spending bill […]
Military Launches Website to Find Big Tech’s ‘Army Strong’ Employees
If you’re working in Big Tech and looking to make an exit, the Army is waiting with open arms. Someone’s gotta build the tech to drop these bombs, after all. Task and Purpose reports that the Army’s Talent arm has launched Detachment 201, an initiative to pull technology professionals into the military’s ranks—the latest in a […]
Trump Reportedly Cuts Funding for Publisher of Prestigious Nature Journals and Scientific American Magazine
The staff break rooms within federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health may soon get a lot less interesting. According to a report from Axios, the Trump administration has canceled funding and contracts to Springer Nature, including payments for subscriptions to the company’s publications, which include the magazine Scientific American and prominent peer-reviewed research […]
Trump EPA May Undo Cancer-Causing Asbestos
In 2024, the Biden administration issued a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States due to its links to cancer. The Trump administration isn’t so sure that we need to protect people from such things. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency will […]
Trump’s Military Parade Will Be Brought to You by Big Tech
Donald Trump is finally getting the military parade that he’s always wanted, and Big Tech is helping to make it happen. Over the weekend, the Trump administration will host a “grand military parade” to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, the first of a number of events that will culminate in a pseudo-semiquincentennial celebration next […]
Battery Recyclers Don’t Know How to Respond to Trump’s Clean Energy Reversal
In a recycling facility in Covington, Georgia, workers grind up dead batteries into a fine, dark powder. In the past, the factory shipped that powder, known in the battery recycling industry as black mass, overseas to refineries that extracted valuable metals like cobalt and nickel. But now it keeps the black mass on site and […]
The Trump Administration Is Launching an AI Chatbot
Chatbots are notoriously sources of misinformation and false confidence, so surely imbuing one with the authority of the federal government won’t cause any problems, right? 404 Media spotted a GitHub repository that shows the Trump administration is working on its very own chatbot that appears set to eventually launch on its own website, AI.gov. According […]
Trump Threatens Musk with ‘Very Serious Consequences’ if He Funds Democrats
The feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump seems to have gone from a full boil to a simmer over the weekend, but don’t rule out the possibility of the heat getting turned up again. In a conversation with NBC News, Trump said he has no interest in making nice with Musk right now, but […]