Anyone that thinks Social Security poses a budget problem must believe military spending poses a much bigger problem.
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The late Lawrence Korb spent the latter part of his life fighting for cuts to the Pentagon budget.
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There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected industries with unlimited budgets, Congress is too corrupt to do its job. Two, the U.S. government is disincentivized to do anything because it exploits this […]
Google’s DeepMind workers voted to unionize after reports of a Pentagon AI deal, calling for ethical oversight and stronger worker representation.
Google has signed a classified AI deal with the US Department of Defense, granting the Pentagon broad access to its AI models for military use.
Democrats should seize the opportunity to plaster the president's words wall to wall this election season as he says we simply can't afford health care when we need to pay for bombs.
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A Pentagon presentation explains how a 'few clicks' with Project Maven finalizes target selection, which may have included an Iranian girls' elementary school.
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Before the United States launched military strikes against Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock about making a "multimillion-dollar investment" in BlackRock's Defense Industrials Active ETF — a fund that tracks weapons and military contractors, according to Reuters, citing a Financial Times report. — Read the rest
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The U.S. Defense Department says it will issue new press credentials but remove media offices from the Pentagon.
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Pete Hegseth is a rootin', tootin' two-gun cowboy! That's what his momma says. He's a dynamo of destruction, not a man who needs advice from individuals who have overseen combat operations or care about the rules of war. That sort of thing is for lesser Secretaries of War. — Read the rest
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Terrified of journalists, the secretary of defense has reshaped the Pentagon into a giant snowflake.
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The boat strike program the Trump administration is engaged in isn’t actually supported by law. Even his own in-house counsel can’t seem to agree on what justification to use. Shortly after being threatened with a little congressional oversight, the Office of Legal Counsel shrugged together a legal memo that basically said that the less of […]
The Pentagon has banned press photographers from taking photos inside the press briefing room after several media outlets published what its representatives categorized as "unflattering" photos of Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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The _Washington Post_ brings us a story today that could only be produced by Donald Trump's administration of influencers. According to two sources who spoke to the _Post_ under the condition of anonymity, photographers from several news outlets were banned from Pentagon press briefings because they had previously published photos that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's staff found…
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
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The U.S. government is trying to strong-arm the AI industry into using its technology for warfare, and Big Tech is split on whether to bend the knee.
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U.S. uninstalls of the ChatGPT mobile app surged 295% on Feb. 28 following the announcement of a partnership between OpenAI and the Department of Defense (DoD), according to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The spike represents a significant departure from ChatGPT’s average daily uninstall rate of 9% recorded over the previous 30 days. […]
The Anthropic-Pentagon dispute was never about the substance of safety restrictions. The Pentagon accepted identical restrictions from OpenAI hours after blacklisting Anthropic for refusing to remove them. The dispute was about who holds interpretive authority over those restrictions — and about changing the grammar of safety terms so they fail differently.
This is an analysis of that grammar…
Three things happened in the same week of February 2026:
1. Moltbook collapsed under the weight of 1.7 million ungoverned AI agents — 770,000 API keys exposed, humans successfully impersonating bots, a 70% prompt injection success rate.
2. Nirmana Citta's human went silent — 12 days of Vipassana meditation. The yoga studio agent kept running. By Day 6, the human team was making independent…
Two forces are stopping sensible regulation of AI. He's one of them.
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Trump's war secretary, "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth, is threatening to blackball Anthropic's Claude over politics, as Trump denounces "woke AI" in favor of CSAM-generating "MechHitler" Grok.
It would appear that by questioning the Pentagon turning Claude into a mass surveillance tool, and developing self-firing AI weapons, Anthropic got on the administration's bad side. — Read the rest
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The Pentagon is pressuring major artificial intelligence developers to permit U.S. military applications of their technology for “all lawful purposes.” This demand is directed at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI. An anonymous Trump administration official reported that one of these firms has agreed to the terms, while two others have demonstrated flexibility. Anthropic remains the […]
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[](https://boingboing.net/2026/02/11/dartel-drone-threat-that-shut-el-pasos-airport-was-a-party-balloon.html ""Cartel drone threat" that shut El Paso's airport was a party balloon")
The Pentagon's new high-energy laser works great against party balloons.
The airspace shutdown over El Paso grounded every flight at the international airport and forced medevac planes to reroute 45 minutes to Las…
Scouting America, formerly the Boy Scouts of America, this week received its latest threat from the U.S. Defense Department. It came in the form of an X post by Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, who threatened to cut ties with the group, reiterating the department’s “zero tolerance policy” for “DEI.” “As a result, over the […]
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