Hacker News with Generative AI: Government

Why India fell behind China in tech innovation (restofworld.org)
China’s DeepSeek moment has triggered unease for the Indian government and tech industry.

India, China, Technology, Innovation, Government

10 points by jethronethro 4 hours ago | 1 comments

Musk Allies Made FAA Staff Sign NDAs to Keep New Project Secret (rollingstone.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been spearheading a multi-million dollar communications project at the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that regulates the nation’s air travel, and employees roped into it have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements, sources with knowledge of the situation say.

Elon Musk, FAA, Government, Secrecy, Non-Disclosure Agreements

18 points by cmurf 10 hours ago | 11 comments

You can't just replace science with Silicon Valley (theintrinsicperspective.com)
New directives from on high, shouted from a governmental megaphone at scientists, might not be so bad if they were clear. But since they are very much unclear, there is a new mood among my fellow scientists: paranoia. I don’t remember this ever happening before.

Science, Government, Silicon Valley

19 points by domofutu 11 hours ago | 2 comments

DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say (lite.cnn.com)
Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government, multiple sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.

Immigration, Government, Data, Privacy, Technology

25 points by f38zf5vdt 14 hours ago | 8 comments

FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities (apnews.com)
ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says

Law, Immigration, Government, Justice

951 points by eterps 18 hours ago | 879 comments

What Elon Musk Didn't Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too (nytimes.com)
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

Elon Musk, Cost Analysis, Government, Federal Workforce, Economy

15 points by ceejayoz 18 hours ago | 1 comments

Feds accidentally publish secret plan to kill NYC congestion pricing (gothamist.com)

Transportation, Government, Politics

5 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 0 comments

Chaos at The Pentagon Threatens Hegseth's Tenure (foreignpolicy.com)
Chaos has been swirling around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. He’s at the center of the escalating Signalgate scandal, his inner circle at the Pentagon recently imploded, and there’s growing speculation that he could soon be out of a job.

Politics, Government, Military, Security, Scandal

13 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 1 comments

SignalGate: A Surveillance Arms Race Has Poked Gaping Hole in National Security (foreignaffairs.com)
In the weeks since the explosive revelation that top U.S. officials inadvertently shared attack plans in Yemen with a journalist on a Signal group chat, fresh questions about the Trump administration’s lax approach to digital security have continued to emerge.

National Security, Surveillance, Politics, Government

27 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 3 comments

National Airspace System Status (nasstatus.faa.gov)

Aviation, Government, Transportation

177 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 24 comments

No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim (statnews.com)
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a written statement Thursday.

Health, Autism, Government, Science

9 points by zzzeek 2 days ago | 2 comments

Analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition (nature.com)
Pursuit of honest and truthful decision-making is crucial for governance and accountability in democracies.

Politics, Government, Language Models, Science

36 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 11 comments

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia doxxed by government (independent.co.uk)
The wife of a wrongly deported Salvadoran father living in Maryland was moved to a safe house after Donald Trump’s administration posted a court document that included her address on social media.

Immigration, Government, Privacy, Social Media

24 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 2 comments

$6.7M stolen from city of Portland in phishing scheme (oregonlive.com)
A person posing as a city of Portland vendor persuaded a city employee to send them a link allowing them to redirect $6.7 million meant for a legitimate vendor to them, a lawsuit filed in New York this month says.

Cybersecurity, Phishing, Government, Lawsuit, Portland

14 points by rwc9 2 days ago | 1 comments

Issue Spotlight: The rise of surveillance pricing [pdf] (ftc.gov)

Surveillance, Pricing, Privacy, Government, Consumer Protection

6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 days ago | 0 comments

Judge blocks Trump administration plans to dismantle Voice of America (npr.org)
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America, the government funded broadcaster, at least temporarily.

Politics, Journalism, Law, Government, Media

11 points by austinallegro 3 days ago | 0 comments

The desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion (bbc.com)
Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of health, climate change and extreme weather research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

Science, Government, Data Loss, Climate Change

13 points by wood_spirit 3 days ago | 1 comments

FBI Claims It Lost Records About Its Mysterious Hacking Abilities (gizmodo.com)
The FBI recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying powerful hacking tools but now the agency claims that it can’t find the documentation associated with those procurements.

Government, Security, Hacking, Law Enforcement

12 points by fortran77 3 days ago | 0 comments

US Delay in Banning Food Dyes Is a Symptom of a Larger Problem (malone.news)
Today, Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Makary announced another step forward in the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative.

Food Safety, Government, Health, Policy

4 points by abctx 3 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk says he'll step back from DOGE starting in May (theverge.com)
Elon Musk says he plans to step back from his work at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, starting in May.

Elon Musk, Cryptocurrency, DOGE, Government

12 points by ceejayoz 3 days ago | 0 comments

CISA officials jump ship, both proud of pushing for Secure by Design software (theregister.com)
Two top officials have resigned from Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, furthering fears of a brain drain amid White House cuts to the federal workforce.

Cybersecurity, Government, Resignation, Software Development

8 points by rntn 4 days ago | 0 comments

CISA's Secure by Design initiative in limbo after key leaders resign (cybersecuritydive.com)
The future of the federal government’s software-security advocacy campaign is in doubt following the departure of the two Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials who oversaw the program.

Cybersecurity, Government, Software Security, Leadership

6 points by johnshades 4 days ago | 0 comments

A way forward (geohot.github.io)
To date, the Trump administration has been an absolute tragedy. It has been the acting out of emotions. There are no adults in the room. I’m not saying there would have been adults in the room with the Kamala regime either, but I had some hopes for positive change with the Trump tech-bro alliance and now they are gone.

Politics, United States, Government

7 points by swah 4 days ago | 1 comments

Deepseek Unmasked [pdf] (house.gov)

Politics, Government, Investigations

55 points by ironyman 4 days ago | 46 comments

The Government's Chemical Disaster Tracking Tool Just Went Dark (levernews.com)
The chemical lobby demanded Trump make the locations of high-risk chemical plants secret. The EPA did just that.

Government, Chemical Industry, Public Safety, Transparency

11 points by moonka 4 days ago | 2 comments

NASA's Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It (scientificamerican.com)
Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Space Exploration, Politics, Astronomy, Science, Government

16 points by croes 4 days ago | 5 comments

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Dept of Ed says (apnews.com)
Pope Francis' funeral to be held Saturday, with public viewing starting Wednesday

Student loans, Education, Government, Debt

48 points by mystraline 4 days ago | 91 comments

Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it (theregister.com)
CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's public cloud infrastructure.

Cybersecurity, Data Security, Oracle, Cloud Computing, Government

8 points by LinuxBender 4 days ago | 0 comments

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' to speed deportations (theregister.com)
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has an urgent need for a new software system to help implement the Trump administration's deportation plans, and it's turning to longtime ICE supplier Palantir for a rush build job.

Immigration, Government, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Politics

20 points by LinuxBender 4 days ago | 2 comments

The ACLU Is Suing the Government to Get Access to Doge Records (wired.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the US Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Lawsuits, Government, Privacy, ACLU

19 points by jmsflknr 5 days ago | 0 comments