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Four young coders sat in Treasury’s basement. Their screens cast blue light across government desks. Their mission? Crack the deep state. “We’re in,” Akash typed. “All of it.” Within hours: $17 billion in waste exposed. No committees. No approvals. No red tape. Just four coders with a bunch of laptops. Moving faster than bureaucracy could react. By the time resistance drafted its first memo… Three more systems were already mapped.

The clock struck 2 AM on Jan 21, 2025. In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting. "We're in," Akash Bobba messaged the team. "All of it." Edward Coristine's code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor's algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran's analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn't even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about...

READ MORE: Walmart to cut hundreds of jobs and close North Carolina office Walmart has long been the biggest retailer in the US, since it overtook Sears in 1993. For the past 12 years, there has also been no other company - retail or otherwise - that pulled in more revenue. But it is looking like it is set to be dethroned by Amazon on both counts, according to estimates by market analysts. With America's, and the world's, obsession with shopping, it is perhaps no surprise that it is another retailer - rather than a technology giant - that has...

Long Version -Foreigner Powers first "Smurf/Smurfing" (replace names and data on financial tools like cards illegally) into Act Blue to launder the money (likely with a bribe imo) -To fund political power consolidation -To Rig Elections and Trash Cities -To Replace good citizens with willing voter cattle -To Elect the Corrupt Congressmen and local officials, ALL CONGRESS IS AWARE -To facilitate Corruption and Fund NGO'S worldwide AND PRINT INFINITE MONEY GLITCH -NGO'S Launder money a gorillion times to other NGO's and also Facilitate Child Trafficking -Other NGO'S Spread The WOKE MIND VIRUS EVERYWHERE (See GamerGate, ComicsGate, Crap Films, Metal, Any...

A conservative group has published a list of government workers who they say are earning huge sums for 'abusing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' roles. The American Accountability Foundation works to 'expose the left's efforts to obstruct, subvert and sabotage the America First conservative agenda'. They launched a website - 'DEI watchlist' - where they shared the profiles and tax-funded pay of federal staffers who they say exploit their DEI jobs. It includes donating to Democratic candidates and causes and working in DEI and other health equity operations. One of the federal workers named on the site told NBC News they...

The stock market's response to emerging technologies can sometimes be as volatile as the innovations themselves. A recent example of this occurred on January 27, 2025, when a sharp sell-off hit the nuclear energy sector. This sudden downturn was triggered by news surrounding DeepSeek, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model touted for its potentially lower energy consumption compared to existing AI technologies. The market, seemingly fearing that a less power-hungry AI could diminish the need for energy production, reacted negatively, impacting companies across the energy sector. However, a closer examination suggests that this market dip represents a significant overreaction, obscuring...

Reddit has temporarily banned one of its communities - and removed another - after X owner Elon Musk claimed comments made by the site's users about his employees were breaking the law. The r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit, which typically invites people to share funny posts from X, has been banned for 72 hours after some users posted comments calling for violence against members of the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). They were responding to reports which suggested some Doge staff have been granted access to sensitive personal information of millions of Americans. Musk - who frequently champions his commitment to free...

Microsoft aims to smoothly transition from one presidential administration to the next. The company recently secured a major win in DC, receiving the official blessing of the President in a $500 billion AI investment partnership between SoftBank, Oracle, and Microsoft’s OpenAI. But as official policy turns against online censorship, the tech giant may have to confront its track record of deep involvement in the suppression of Americans’ online speech. Newly uncovered evidence now shows that Microsoft served as the tip of the spear in the private sector in censorship-industrial complex – the coordinated effort between corporations, government agencies, NGOs and...

The US Postal Service (USPS) said it has stopped accepting parcels from mainland China and Hong Kong until further notice. Letters will not be affected by the suspension, said the company, which declined to offer a reason for the decision, external. However, on Tuesday new rules came into force which closed a loophole that allowed small packages worth $800 (£641) or less to be sent to the US without paying tax or fees. It was one of the measures announced by US President Donald Trump who imposed an additional 10% tariff on all goods imported to the US from China....

I am a fan of these type of safety campaigns. I personally cannot get enough of them.

Another day, another backdoor. In this video, we're talking about the CMS8000, a medical device that contains some interesting features.

Hoping to avoid misinformation about President Donald Trump’s nominees and appointments on Wikipedia? Good luck. Wikipedia has designed a protocol that directly and unerringly produces the worst descriptions about conservatives and Republicans by virtually guaranteeing that right-leaning media sources cannot be cited. The once reliable online encyclopedia ran off the rails under the leadership of its previous CEO Katherine Maher, who made sure that not a single right-leaning outlet was deemed “reliable”—a stark contrast to the 84 percent of leftist media Wikipedia deems reliable. A new study by Media Research Center Free Speech America found that Wikipedia, the encyclopedia behemoth,...

UVeye, the Israeli startup redefining vehicle inspections with AI-powered scanning, raised $191M in a funding round led by Toyota and Amazon; The company, scanning nearly 1M vehicles monthly, plans to expand globally, targeting car dealerships, fleets and insurance markets How can a car be inspected in seconds, generating a comprehensive report on engine condition, chassis, bodywork, and tires? This is precisely the solution offered by UVeye, an Israeli startup that has developed an AI-based automatic vehicle scanning technology with no human contact required. The technology has proven to be a massive success, currently scanning nearly one million vehicles per month....

Today's 52nd issue of the Bee Forum News marks one year of weekly showcasing the funniest headlines on the Babylon Bee subscriber forum. Click here to read our first issue. Congrats to every Bee subscriber who had a headline published in the Bee Forum News this year - it's harder than it looks! There's so much more than bold reporting that happens on the forum, but if I told you, well...you know the thing. Join us to find out for yourself! But that's not all that happened this week.... Read on for exclusive headlines you will only see here on...

BEIJING, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition. "Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,"...

01-29-25 This happened over Alaska. Pilot ejected and is OK https://www.eielson.af.mil/News/Display/Article/4047595/press-release-f-35-aircraft-crash-update/ Press Release: F-35 aircraft crash update Published Jan. 29, 2025 By 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- An F-35A Lightning II aircraft crash occurred on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, at 12:49 p.m. Jan. 28, 2025. The aircraft was preparing to land during a training flight when an in-flight emergency occurred. The pilot successfully ejected prior to the crash in accordance with emergency procedures. The pilot was transported to Bassett Army Hospital in Fairbanks for further evaluation and has...

Ever wonder who the sociopaths are you see in Netflix documentaries, catfishing people from the internet using dating apps? Well, look no further. Australia’s News.com.au profiled one such person this week, a young worker inside of a “mass scamming call center”. The person, named “Beard”, said that he “fled war-torn Syria for Dubai” and was desperately looking for work. Thinking he landed an advertising role, he told news.com.au he found himself at a “bizarre office location in the middle of the Dubai desert where those inside tried to confiscate his passport”. He was eventually held captive and forced to scam...

The website for the US Agency for International Development, or USAid, appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the free-standing agency, and its current $42.8bn budget for global humanitarian operations, under state department control. A message stating that the “server IP address could not be found” appeared when attempts were made to access the website on Saturday. Two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Friday that the Trump administration was moving to strip USAid of its independence as a government agency and put it under state department control. The apparent failure of...

Is DeepSeek inaccurate? … claims of plagiarism … how DeepSeek’s technology works … the risks it represents … a roundtable discussion with our expertsThe DeepSeek story continues to evolve as new information comes to light.Let’s begin with Reuters:Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s chatbot achieved only 17% accuracy in delivering news and information in a NewsGuard audit that ranked it tenth out of eleven in a comparison with its Western competitors including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini.The chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and gave vague or not useful answers 53% of the time in response to news-related prompts, resulting...

This brief post is for recommended extensions and themes for Gecko-based browsers (such as Floorp, Firefox, Waterfox Classic) browsers. First, as one who "needs" multiple tab rows, then unlike with minimalist Chrome, these are possible to obtain in Firefox via The Patcher (as well as Vivaldi - the best Chromium-based browser IMO), but since this takes some time, then I recommend trying Floorp, a Gecko/Firefox-based browser, originally built by two Japanese students, that has no Firefox telemetry options, and comes with the powerful tracking blocker/ad blocker uBlock Origin. And within the Settings section are a multitude of GUI customization...