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Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.

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Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts
A recent memo detailed a future where soldiers can repair their own equipment.

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Polygon Acquired by Porn Mogul Who Co-Founded Brazzers
Before he founded Valnet, Hassan Youssef started one of the biggest porn sites on the internet.

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Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly Favors Meta, Google, OpenAI
Chatbot Arena is the most popular AI benchmarking tool, but new research says its scores are misleading and benefit a handful of the biggest companies.

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‘TheTrillionDollarDinner.Gov’ Registered Around Time of Trump’s Pay-to-Play Memecoin Dinner Announcement
Other official government domains included DinnerForAmerica.gov and TheTrillion.Gov, and signal that there may have been plans to incorporate official government internet infrastructure with the meme coin investment dinner.

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Trump Demands Amazon Deny the Reality of What His Tariffs Are Doing to Prices
This morning the White House Press Secretary accused Amazon of conducting a 'hostile political action.'

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This Is Palantir’s Justification for Building ICE’s Master Database
404 Media is now publishing the full internal wiki page in which Palantir explains its work with ICE building a system for finding the location of people to deport.

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NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
For a few hours, 19,000 NFTS that Nike helped mint returned a Cloudflare error instead of the picture people promised would live forever online.

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Kickstarter Introduces ‘Tariff Manager Tool’ to Add Charges to Already Fully Funded Projects
Kickstarter projects have the option of asking backers for more money in order to manage the costs of Trump’s tariffs.

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Payment Processors Force AI Site Civitai to Remove Incest and Diapers
Civitai is also demonetizing content featuring the likeness of real people and making it harder to find.

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Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water
A new government illuminates the environmental impact of generative AI.

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The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’
Roy Lee used AI to beat challenging technical interviews, now he wants people to do the same thing with every human interaction. We tested the tool and it kinda sucks.