All posts tagged "Wired"

The sensitive health records of "hundreds of millions of Americans" are at risk, now that the Department of Government Efficiency has purged IT staffers who managed the information at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to new reporting from WIRED.

The cybersecurity infrastructure that protected the information from exposure "is in danger of possible collapse" because many of the staffers let go "were responsible for helping ensure that the mass of highly personal and sensitive information these agencies collect is kept secure," wrote reporter David Gilbert.

Employees who were subject to the reduction in force (RIF) by Elon Musk's DOGE told WIRED "that without intervention, they believe the systems they managed could go dark, potentially putting the entire health care system at risk."...

Elon Musk wants the government to shut down so it's easier for his DOGE team to get ax hundreds of thousands of federal workers, according to a new report.

WIRED cited four anonymous government sources for the story that comes as the House is set to vote on a spending bill in order to prevent a shutdown. Democrats have said they're against the stopgap measure, claiming it threatens entitlements like Social Security.

A Republican "familiar with the situation" told WIRED, “A shutdown has been his preference. I think he’s boxed in there by the president. I think it would be really hard for him to get around that.”...

It became known last December that a Virginia grand jury investigating the whistleblower site WikiLeaks had issued subpoenas for the Twitter records of three supporters of the group, including a member of the Icelandic parliament. Now the ACLU believes it has evidence that four such demands were issued in secret and has asked a federal judge to make those applications public.

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, a controversial and polarizing figure from the Bush-era, will lead the U.S. private security firm Xe Services, Inc. in determining its ethics policies going forward, according to report by Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine.

Update (12/29/2010): Wired responds to Greenwald's criticism but still refuses to release the chat logs.

A Target ad intended to show the inferiority of home-made Halloween costumes as compared to those sold at their stores may have backfired on the retail giant.