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Federal employees must answer email on what they did last week — or lose jobs, Musk says (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Sun, 02/23/2025 - 23:27Judge temporarily blocks key parts of President Trump’s executive orders targeting DEI (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Sun, 02/23/2025 - 23:07California’s radical idea for data privacy: Enforce the law (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 16:17In-office work at highest level since 2020, as companies pull back on remote (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:30These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired — creating a government ‘mess.’ (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:30Opinion | DOGE isn’t the powerhouse Elon Musk thinks it is (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:29Led by Trump-picked Chairman Carr, the FCC takes aim at media companies
NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR and KCBS radio all have one thing in common: They’re under scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission, which is now being led by Brendan Carr, a Republican who has praised President Donald Trump as a leader in combating bias in the media. NBCUniversal and its parent company, Comcast, were the latest media companies to receive word of an investigation by the FCC.
JD Vance storms AI summit in France, criticizing Europe’s tech regulations (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 02/11/2025 - 06:10Starlink, T-Mobile open their satellite texting test to all. Here’s how it works.
T-Mobile announced it was throwing open the doors to its satellite messaging beta test — powered by Elon Musk’s Starlink — for free until July 2025. The twist? You don’t even need to be an existing T-Mobile customer to try it. “If you see the sky, you can connect,” said Mike Katz, T-Mobile’s president of marketing, strategy and products, in an interview.