22 Feb DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role.
22 Feb This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout Lenacapavir, a twice yearly injection that prevents HIV transmission, was named the breakthrough medicine of 2024. But without US foreign aid dollars, its delivery to millions worldwide is under threat.
21 Feb The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
21 Feb Netflix Plans to Spend $1 Billion Making Content in Mexico Over the Next 4 Years Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says the money will go toward projects like Alfonso Cuarón’s film Roma, which was made in Mexico and went on to international acclaim.
21 Feb The 31 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (February 2025) We Live in Time, Blue Velvet, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Max this month.
20 Feb DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
20 Feb USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’ “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” wrote Anne Marshall in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.
20 Feb There’s No Longer a Sub-$500 iPhone. Does It Matter? The iPhone 16e starts at $599, which is nearly $200 more than the iPhone SE it just replaced.
19 Feb Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
19 Feb Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE Despite all appearances, the White House insists that Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE. US Doge Service employees can’t get a straight answer about who is.
