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LOVELY DAY FOR A PICNIC
What a lovely day
Lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of an armadillo
Yes, it’s a lovely day
A lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of an armadillo

And they’re taking turns
Polite to one another
They’re ‘a taking turns
Flipping that carcass over
Now big ol’dog comes along
Vultures gettin’ nervous
But they’re standing  their ground
Scavenging is their purpose, yeah

What a lovely day
Lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of an armadillo
Yes, it’s a lovely day
A lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of an armadillo

Now, three hours later
In the stickiest of sun
Them vultures still goin’ at it
Gettin’ the job done
Reminds of the government
Swoopin’ in for the kill
Everything the government does
Against the people’s will

What a lovely day
Lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of America
Yes, it’s a lovely day
A lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of America

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What a lovely day
Lovely day for a picnic
We got vultures dining on what’s left of an armadillo
Yes, it’s a lovely day
A lovely day for a picnic
Oh, we got vultures dining on what’s left of America, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh

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LOVELY DAY FOR A PICNIC

Podcast Thursday - Crypto - Trump and Warren Agree on Something 060525

The Supreme Court handed a win to President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency on Friday, granting the efficiency unit access to records at the Social Security Administration. The unsigned opinion provides the Elon Musk-associated DOGE with even more access to sensitive government information to fulfill its mission of making government more efficient. Just last month, the team also gained access to payment systems at the Department of Treasury. The ruling also comes at an awkward time for the DOGE, as Musk — its creator — and Trump are in the midst of an apparent falling out on social media. Per the decision, a majority of the justices voted to grant the administration’s request to stay a lower court decision and concluded that “SSA may proceed to afford members of the SSA DOGE Team access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work.” Justices voted on political lines, with liberals Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor saying they would have denied the government’s application for a stay. Simultaneously on Friday, the Supreme Court handed a second win to the DOGE, shielding it from producing documents as part of a discovery process in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. 

More federal workers would have access to artificial intelligence training under a bill reintroduced in the House on Thursday by Rep. Nancy Mace. The AI Training Extension Act of 2025 aims to expand the Artificial Intelligence Training for the Acquisition Workforce Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022, by offering available AI training to more pools of federal employees beyond the acquisition workforce, including “supervisors, managers, and frontline staff in data and technology roles,” according to a release from the South Carolina Republican’s office. Chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, Mace previously introduced the bill in 2023 during the 118th Congress with Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who passed away last month. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, is a co-sponsor of the reintroduced bill.

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Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security records; Nancy Mace reintroduces federal AI training bill

Overview of Qualification Requirements for Providing Manufactured Products or Supply Items Under Small Business Set-Aside Contracts

Watching the chaos unfold in Los Angeles over the past two days, writes Dana Kim, a Senior Reporter with Youth Journalism International, I’ve found myself asking one question: How do we get out of our slide into darkness?

In LA, violence isn't the only option, by Dana Kim

After an informative 45-day trial run, the Department of the Navy is getting set to expand its rollout of emerging AI capabilities for sailors, Marines and civilians to speedily adopt in support of their daily operations — via its new DoN GPT tool. Jacob Glassman, who serves as senior technical advisor to the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, told DefenseScoop Thursday that this is a new way for the Navy to rapidly innovate and rapidly prototype. GenAI encompasses the field of still-maturing technologies that can process huge volumes of data and perform increasingly “intelligent” tasks — like recognizing speech or producing human-like media and code based on human prompts. These capabilities are pushing the boundaries of what existing tech can achieve. Still, according to Glassman, the Navy has historically “struggled with AI adoption.”

Amazon has received federal authorizations that allow Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama AI models to be used within high-sensitivity government computing environments, the company’s cloud computing division announced Wednesday. The company has achieved FedRAMP “High” authorization as well as at the Defense Department’s Impact Levels 4 and 5 for use of the two foundation models in AWS GovCloud, its government cloud environment, according to a blog post by Liz Martin, Department of Defense director at Amazon Web Services. That means it’s met the security requirements needed for the AI models to be used with some of the government’s most sensitive civilian and military information, and per Martin, it’s the first cloud provider to receive that level of authorization for Claude and Llama.

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Inside the Navy’s DoN GPT tool; Claude, Llama AI tools can now be used with sensitive data in Amazon’s government cloud

Greg Otto talks with RSA CEO Rohit Ghai on the global shift toward passkeys and passwordless authentication. Together, they explore pressing issues including the differences between consumer and enterprise solutions, infrastructure vulnerabilities, regulatory challenges, and how emerging threats are evolving as passwordless adoption accelerates. The discussion also covers the complexities practitioners face as they navigate credential transitions in a rapidly changing security landscape.

In the reporter chat, Greg talks with Matt Kapko about the attack on a top grocery distributor in the United States. 

RSA CEO Rohit Ghai on the promise and peril of passkeys

Democracy, as defined by American President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but is Nigerian democracy living up to that standard? By Chibuike Chukwuka and Dominic Crown, two Junior Reporters with Youth Journalism International. Read by Dominic Crown.

Nigeria celebrates its faltering democracy, by Chibuike Chukwuka and Dominic Crown

Asking the wrong questions in America eventually ends up with you face down, hands behind your back, in handcuffs, writes Rithika Saravanan. a Junior Reporter with Youth Journalism International, who weighed in on the handcuffing of U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California.

The handcuffing of a U.S. senator shows all are at risk, by Rithika Saravanan

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doubling down on its investment in blockchain intelligence technology, along with other investigative platforms. According to a notice of intent on a government procurement website, the Department of Homeland Security component aims to buy more technology from TRM Labs, which focuses on crypto risk management but also offers a bevy of forensics services for government clients. ICE this week also posted an intent to sole source similar technology from Chainalysis, which comes amid a series of planned purchases for other digital forensics tools.  Both Chainalysis and TRM Labs have myriad contracts with federal agencies, including the FBI, the State Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. In posting its intent to single source both TRM and Chainalysis technology, ICE is indicating there is no other provider that could reasonably provide the same services. 

Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive Innovation Corps,” the service announced Friday. The move is the latest push by the department to tap into capabilities and know-how from Silicon Valley and the commercial sector. The new corps “brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and is “designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation,” the Army stated in a press release. On Friday, the service is set to swear-in Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil, Palantir’s CTO Shyam Sankar and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab who was previously OpenAI’s chief research officer.

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ICE wants more blockchain analytics tech; Army recruits officers from Meta, OpenAI and Palantir for new detachment

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