@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-30 09:51:20
Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday
for the unauthorized leak of his tax returns during his first term,
♦️demanding that the government agency pay him at least $10 billion.
Trump, as well as his two eldest sons and his family business, charged in the lawsuit that the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department had failed to prevent a former I.R.S. contractor, #Charles
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-30 08:44:43
Fat Putin charged that the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department had failed to prevent a former I.R.S. contractor from gaining access to documents shared with news outlets.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/…
@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-11-27 16:49:44
Stell dir vor, deine Armee macht ein paar Tage Pause weil du das Service-Abo nicht rechtzeitig bezahlt hast 🤦♂️
Defense Contractors Lobby To Kill Military Right-to-Repair, Push Pay-Per-Use Data Model - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.or…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-29 23:30:51
Sources: special agents with the US Commerce Department investigated claims by ex-Meta contractors that Meta staff had "unfettered" access to WhatsApp messages (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-29 21:32:04
"US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted"
https://www.bloomberg…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-01-30 01:59:03
Uh, El Cheato is suing the Federal government - over which he is in charge of the defense.
To which you should be thinking: "What defense?"
In other words, he is using the court system to give himself $10,000,000,000 dollars.
"Trump sues the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over leaked tax records"
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-01-27 17:58:38
One of my contractors used an #LLM for a first draft of a client deliverable today.
I don’t allow #AI use for any client-facing work (and try to prohibit it for internal work too, but it’s been… tricky). This person knows it - I’ve worked with them for years, and they are usually very thoughtful and wouldn’t take a shortcut like this. So seeing the obvious AI copy was very confusing.
Thankfully we had a call scheduled this morning, so I decided to handle it there.
The contractor showed up very obviously sick, they told me they took most of past week off but had to force themselves to finish this draft because the deadline is EOD. I asked if they used #AI to draft the document, they immediately confessed and apologized.
Since the deliverable is client-facing, I asked them to explain their ideas to me in conversational language and then used my notes of what they said to help them rewrite the document. We worked through the whole thing in an hour, and I’ve asked them to go rest and recover.
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-11-25 20:23:37
Contractor who drove plow through Palestinian protesters in #Toronto posted Islamophobic, anti-protest content on social media
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-29 05:05:26
Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investig…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 08:04:52
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and his immediate family dumped seven-figures’ worth of stock in August — including shares of several defense contractors — to comply with federal conflicts of interest rules and laws, according to a new government ethics document.
Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, who served as an adviser for DOGE before leaving the White House in May, jettisoned shares of Amazon (up to $515,000), Palantir Technologies Inc. (up to $250,000), GE Aerospa…
