Mike Waltz pitifully tries to pin Signal scandal on Biden as he seeks U.N. ambassadorship
Happy Tuesday! Here is Tuesday Tech Drop, a collection of the best stories of the last week from the intersection of technology and politics.
Waltz’s ‘guilty biden’ defense
Former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who left his position in the midst of his roles in sharing sensitive military information through a unsecured signal conversation of his and other best Trump officials, appeared before the Senate on Tuesday before a vote on the US Ambassador nomination.
Waltz, Democratic Sens. New Jersey Cory Booker and Delaware tried to scandal under severe inquiry from Chris Coons. At some point Told to coons He added that the use of such a signal was compatible with the federal guidance of the Biden period and that the classified information is not shared. He also said that he also concluded the White House’s investigation, but thought that the defense department’s investigation continued.
Actually, Politico reported On Monday, the two close assistants of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth are under investigation at the Pentagon, so any suggestions that the signal conversation is completely up and up and that it was confirmed by independent authorities is likely.
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Disturbing entry of ice
A senior US immigration and customs conservation official admitted that the agency used a list compiled by Canary Mission, a controversial and shaded website accused of the activists of Doxing-Palestinian in their efforts to target, detention and deport immigrants.
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Enters Gok
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool after an event in Grook – He called himself “mechahites ve and spread his antisemitic conspiracy theories And taught how a social media user will rapeThe Federal government confirmed its plans to present Musk’s company Xai to up to 200 million dollars to establish Gok in the defense department. The same contract prizes were presented to Openai, Google and anthropic.
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Polygraph Tests in Patel’s FBI
FBI, employees’ loyalty to measure and FBI Director Kash Patel to say negative things to determine whether they use polygraf tests are reported. Conspiratorial Patel seems to be living until my MSNBC colleague Hayes Brown’s statement As a mixture of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and Maga Influencer Alex Jones.
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GABBARD’s AI ambitions
A team working under the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who is seen as loyal to the Trump administration to take root people in the country’s best spy agencies to review the e -mails reportedly trying to use artificial intelligence vehicles reportedly. As the Washington Post reported:
A special team created by the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, according to several people who know the issue, the management of the agenda of the efforts to weaken the agenda to reveal that they see artificial intelligence tools to use the largest US spy agencies to access the e -mails and chat diaries expressed the desire to access.
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Big Tech managers defend Shaun Maguire
Several major technology executives, New York Mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani’nin “Islamist agenda” claiming that a bigoted tweet for a tweet of attempt capitalist Shaun Maguire’s defense jumped to the defense of the “everything is coming from a culture lying”. In response to a letter condemning the comments of hundreds of technology managers and employees, various technology executives signed a letter calling Maguire’s words “reflections of the principled thinker”.
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Cloudy judgment
A far -right militia may have inspired an recent attack on an Oklahoma television station’s air radar. It sounds like vandalism leading republicans – to contain Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia and Lee Zeldin, Manager of Environmental Protection Agency -He fueled his conspiracy theories about the natural disasters geo-safe by the actors.
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This article was initially published Msnbc.com
