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A whistleblower is raising serious alarms about a DOGE data initiative that, according to their account, would have incorrectly flagged two point seven million living Americans as deceased. The implications are significant — people marked dead in government systems can lose access to benefits, banking, and basic services overnight, and correcting those errors can take years.
On the media and antitrust front, a coalition of U.S. states is reportedly preparing to sue to block the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. California's attorney general was already investigating the deal, and now it appears multiple states are ready to mount a legal challenge that could reshape the future of legacy media consolidation.
And in the world of AI-assisted security research, frontier language models are increasingly being used to hunt for software vulnerabilities — and the latest target is Zcash, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency. As AI tools grow more capable at reading and reasoning about code, the line between security research and potential exploitation is a conversation the industry can no longer afford to delay.
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