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The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-inform…

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

Veeam snaps up Securiti in $1.7B deal to bolster cyber-resilience portfolio
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/21/veeam-buying-securiti/

Veeam snaps up Securiti in $1.7B deal to bolster cyber-resilience portfolio – Blocks and Files
Veeam confirms it is buying Securiti, the cybersecurity startup founded by serial entrepreneur Rehan Jalil, with a $1.725 billion price tag.

Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have⚠️ accessed and shared Social Security numbers
-- in an effort to help an advocacy group🔥 “overturn election results in certain States” last year,
according to court documents. 
The revelation, which was first reported by Politico, comes as part of a series of corrections to previous testimony by top Social Security Administration officials
related to legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Secu…

Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans' Social Security data | TechCrunch
The revelation comes as part of a series of corrections in a legal case over DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration data.

Jugendschutz: OpenAI und Anthropic erweitern Sicherheit
Anthropic schätzt künftig das Alter der Claude-Nutzer. Bei OpenAI ist Sicherheit neuerdings die oberste Priorität.
https://www.hei…

»Politische Zensur führt bei Deepseek zu Sicherheitslücken:
Die #Zensur'vorgaben der #China Regierung beeinträchtigen laut einer Analyse von Crowdstrike die #Code'qualität der KI

Secrets of 800-year-old Chinese Mummy’s Excellent Preservation Revealed https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/secrets-of-800-year-old-chinese-mummys-excellent-preservation-revealed/

Secrets of 800-year-old Chinese Mummy’s Excellent Preservation Revealed
The quality of the preservation was such that his mortal remains emitted a pleasant fragrance 800 years after his entombment. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/
He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.

He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.
Charles Borges says Musk’s cost-cutting team uploaded a copy of a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans.

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/1…

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…