On Tuesday, the General Services Administration (GSA) published a list of more than 400 federal buildings and properties to be sold, including the FBI headquarters, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice, and other key federal facilities. Hours later, 123 buildings, including high-profile sites like the J. Edgar Hoover Building and […]
Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff. Scales previously worked on talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, and as part of Uber’s talent acquisition team, per LinkedIn. Employees at GSA tell WIRED that Coristine […]
Under the executive order, DOGE teams, which “will typically include one DOGE Team Lead, one engineer, one human resources specialist, and one attorney” will be dispatched to various agencies. They will be granted “access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems,” ostensibly with the goal of streamlining data sharing across federal agencies. […]
Mini-budget with many tech commitments comes during a day of chaos on the Hill. The Government of Canada barely tabled its Fall Economic Statement (FES) after a day of political chaos and uncertainty. The Liberal government was thrown into turmoil following the surprise resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland hours […]
Startups face layoffs and cancelled contracts to cover SDTC financing shortfalls, BetaKit has learned. The sluggish restart of embattled federal cleantech investment agency Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) has left some of the early-stage cleantech startups the organization was designed to support still waiting for promised funding. With those startups cutting staff and projects […]
File photo: A therapy dog visiting an elderly man in a nursing home. — © Karen Graham A researcher is pushing ahead for a new policy framework to help the aging population in the U.S. This includes providing additional state support and preventing societal abuse of older people. The director of the Center for Gerontology and professor […]
Look, what I’ve seen since coming back to the State Department three and a half years ago is that everything happening in the technological world and in cyberspace is increasingly central to our foreign policy. There’s almost a perfect storm that’s come together over the last few years, several major developments that have really brought […]
