"The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears…
us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generate…
Studie: Ein Drittel neuer Websites ist KI-generiert
Rund 35 Prozent neuer Websites sind laut einer Studie KI-generiert. Während die inhaltliche Vielfalt abnimmt, bewahrheiten sich andere Befürchtungen nicht.
https://www.…
Donald Trump created the National Design Studio (NDS) by executive order on 21 August 2025,
ostensibly to overhaul federal websites and digital services.
The office sits within the executive office of the president as a “temporary organization”,
a designation that places it outside the Senate confirmation process,
outside the financial disclosure system applied to most federal appointees
and outside the inspector general’s jurisdiction, which covers cabinet dep…
Webster Announces Retirement (United States Congressman Daniel Webster)
https://webster.house.gov/press-releases?id=E1866E6D-882A-4442-85F7-176E0B1EB438
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p120#a260428p120
This is scary ... no matter whether I look this as a networking, web person, or a privacy/computer security person this is scary.
The damage to citizens and companies from this kind of exposure is beyond measure.
Trust in government is hard to establish. This will erase it. This turns maga fantasies about dark government into real concerns.
"‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears"
An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-gene…
DC Housing Authority hit by cyberattack, website down
https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-housing-authority-systems-compromised-website-down-robert-white-washington-dcha
Eloshapes: Maus-Vergleich bekommt 3D-Modelle
Eine kostenlose Webseite ermöglicht den Vergleich zwischen Hunderten Mausformen. Neu dabei: 3D-Scans mit Rundumansichten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Elos…