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A Wall Street Journal investigation is raising uncomfortable questions about Silicon Valley's origins, arguing that Apple owes a significant but largely unacknowledged debt to the CIA. The piece traces how intelligence community funding and connections during the NeXT years quietly shaped the company that would eventually become the most valuable in history.
Shifting to a story with serious implications for public accountability, a former adviser to Anthony Fauci, Doctor David Morens, has pleaded guilty to concealing Covid-related records from federal investigators. The case centers on efforts to shield documents from Freedom of Information Act requests, and it lands at a moment when public trust in pandemic-era institutions is already fragile.
And in orbit, the United States Space Force and Japan have jointly launched a new surveillance satellite designed to extend near-real-time monitoring across the Pacific and beyond. Japan provided the launch vehicle while American forces will operate the payload through Mission Delta Two, a partnership that signals just how much space has become a theater of strategic competition.
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