www.theregister.com

... Berulis's document points out that not even his CIO enjoyed the level of access given to DOGE unit operatives, and that the NLRB already had auditor accounts set up that provided enough privileges to check data without being able to edit, copy, or remove it. The "suggestion that they use these accounts instead was not open to discussion," he wrote.

"In the same conversation it was conveyed that we were to hand over any requested accounts, stay out of DOGE's way entirely, and assist them when they asked," he recounted.

Within days, Berulis says, he began to notice worrying signs, such as alerting and monitoring tools being switched off and changes to multi-factor authentication.

He also observed "gigabytes" of data "exiting" a case management application called NxGen over the network, and claimed he later saw 10 GB of data exfiltrated from the agency. ...

US agency eases some self-driving safety rules, sending Tesla stock soaring
finance.yahoo.com

Ya had to know that would happen.

But then there is this one ...

Elon Musk sat in on job interview for Air Force's top civilian
breakingdefense.com

... SpaceX founder Elon Musk was present at President Donald Trump's interview of his Air Force Secretary nominee Troy Meink, confirmed Meink in written responses to Sen. Elizabeth Warren obtained by Breaking Defense.

Musk was "one of many" people present at the meeting and only Trump directed questions toward the nominee, Meink stated.

However, the disclosure could raise further concerns about Meink's ties to SpaceX and Musk after Reuters reported in February -- citing seven people familiar with the matter -- that Musk had recommended Meink for the job after Meink helped push a multi-billion dollar satellite contract toward SpaceX. ...