The deadline has passed for federal workers to reply to DOGE’s productivity email — but conflicting guidance persists
“Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance,” Elon Musk said of federal workers who did not email a list of their accomplishments from the past week. The deadline for federal employees to email their lists of what they’d achieved at work — or lose their jobs — has passed.…
Satellite images show ‘hidden marina’ being built for futuristic Saudi Arabian megacity
Satellite imagery of the Hidden Marina section of Saudi Arabian megacity project Neom in December 2024. Satellite images obtained by B-17 show the ‘Hidden Marina’ being billed as the first residential phase in scaled-back plans for Saudi Arabia’s futuristic Neom megacity. The marina, set to cost $140 billion, is part of The Line, a 110-mile-long…
Musk’s ‘What did you do last week?’ inquiry gets an early answer: a lawsuit
Federal employees are now suing to stop Musk’s midnight “What did you do last week” firing threat. Federal employees have answered the DOGE inquiry — “What did you do last week?” — with a new, amended lawsuit. As a midnight ET deadline to respond looms, unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers on Monday…
Europe is set to spend more on security — and that’s good news for defense stocks
US support for Ukraine is no longer guaranteed under the Trump administration. European defense stocks keep strengthening as investors bet that government spending will rise amid doubts over the US commitment to the continent’s security. Ahead of his meeting this week with President Donald Trump in the White House, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain…
Veterans Affairs staffers denounce OPM email amid Elon Musk’s DOGE push: ‘People have no clue how this is impacting us’
Elon Musk’s DOGE-driven directives have upended the federal bureaucracy. When Elon Musk announced last Saturday that federal workers would have to respond to an email detailing their work accomplishments from the past week or risk termination, it was the latest move in the White House DOGE Office’s push to upend US government. Veterans Affairs secretary…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s long-dormant X account is alive again — and posting about DOGE and leadership advice
The former FTX chief’s account posted a thread of 10 posts, weighing in on DOGE and giving tips on how to fire people. Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former FTX chief sentenced to 25 years in prison in March, disappeared from X for two years. A series of 10 posts on Monday night from his account…
A top nutrition scientist shares the foods he always has in his fridge, freezer, and pantry that make gut-healthy eating easy
Tim Spector eats lots of vegetables for his gut health — and they’re not all fresh. Tim Spector, a top nutrition scientist, tries to eat 30 different plants a week for his gut health — but they’re not all fresh, as you might expect. In his cookbook, “Food For Life,” which is due to be…
Russia is relying so heavily on North Korea that it’s getting 50% of its ammo from Pyongyang, Ukraine’s spy chief says
The Korean People’s Army conducts an artillery firing drill in North Korea. North Korea is providing Russia with half of the ammunition used by Moscow against Ukraine, the head of Kyiv’s military intelligence agency said on Sunday. “They heavily rely on — well, we can now say it — their strategic ally, North Korea, that…
The AI coding apocalypse. In the age of artificial intelligence, entry-level coders may be doomed. But some engineers are thriving.
In 2023, not long after ChatGPT made generative AI mainstream, a poll on the anonymous workplace forum Blind asked, bluntly, whether young software engineers were “fucked.” Some 42% of the more than 13,000 respondents picked the response “Yes? U guys are pretty much fucked.” This past October, Sundar Pichai proudly announced on an earnings call…
