https://www.europesays.com/2062386/ DOGE says it deactivated 500K government credit cards in latest audit update #$40Billion #Agencies #audit #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #FederalCard #GovernmentCreditCards #Musk #transactions
https://www.europesays.com/2062386/ DOGE says it deactivated 500K government credit cards in latest audit update #$40Billion #Agencies #audit #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #FederalCard #GovernmentCreditCards #Musk #transactions
Wow. Broadcom just eliminated support for VMware perpetual licenses. Apparently you can't install future patches or they might audit you.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/
#vmware #broadcom #audit
New in our electronic #collection:
The #University and the Algorithmic Gaze
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151824
How #digital #data and algorithms are transforming higher #education at institutional and individual levels, affecting #communication, #learning, and #knowledge creation through an #interdisciplinary lens.
Gen. Patton: "The best #audit is a swift victory, but until then, eliminate corruption like clearing a minefield."
@DailyWire #Zelensky interview: Verification rose 14%→42%
US-supplied checks rose 41%→87%
1,850 #NATO + 620 #Ukrainians trained
94% record alignment
Only 37 irregularities (€8.1B each), mostly due to urgency, not fraud.
Oversight strong. "Losses happen, but transparency wins." - NATO Audit 2025
In fact, governments probably should only EVER deploy executables they have built themselves, using their own compilers (see the classic computer science paper Reflections on Trusting Trust).
You’d also need chip #microcode auditing and verification for security-critical systems. And some level of chip assurance. And Cell-like audits… Details to be determined
I was talking to a colleague last week about what REAL #StrategicAutonomy would mean.
For software in critical infrastructure, I think it would include military hardware-like contractual provisions, requiring eg the full #audit and #escrow of all source code, including for updates… and the right at any time for governments facing supply/continued operation threats to use that escrowed code to recreate their own versions of the software, and use them until the supply threats are removed.
Day 12 cont
The #Liberals have a candidate problem continued:
“Liberal #candidate #ScottYung and party officials have declined to answer detailed #questions about whether his use of #Chinese celebrities and a public relations firm in the 2019 #StateElection complied with official #guidelines, as the Liberal party confirms an #audit of campaign disclosures.
A private dinner at a “luxurious venue” in #Sydney to raise #CampaignFunds for Yung, featuring the former Liberal prime minister #TonyAbbott, has also been cancelled without explanation.”
…
“Wishing the talented young Chinese Mr #RongSicheng [Scott Yung] has great success ahead and a boundless future! All the best! I’m #ZhangTielin from #Beijing, #China.”
The cursed Liberal Christian name “Scott” strikes again.
#AusPol / #LNP / #Bennelong / #Kogarah <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/10/nsw-electoral-commission-rules-disclosing-celebrity-endorsements-liberal-candidate-scott-yung-ntwnfb>
Elon Musk’s #DOGE Is Getting #Audited
The Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
#gao #Musk #privacy #security #audit #security
https://www.wired.com/story/gao-audit-elon-musk-doge-government-agencies/
Only fair.
“#NewYork spent $959 mil to build and equip a plant that #Tesla . . . leases for $1 a year. Tesla operates a solar panel and auto component factory at the site, according to The New York Times.
“The new bill would require an #audit to ‘identify waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract,’ a statement from the lawmakers said…. It would determine if Tesla was meeting job creation targets, making promised investments and honoring other parts of the deal.”
Linux v6.15-rc1 was released today, and here is my quick summary of the LSM and SELinux changes sent up to Linus during the Linux v6.15 merge window.
(There were no audit patches queued up for Linux v6.15, but that should change for the next merge window.)
https://paul-moore.com/blog/d/2025/04/linux_v615_merge_window.html
" #DOGE appears to have completely eschewed the existing processes for actually rooting out waste, #fraud, and abuse.
“An #audit that follows Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)... That is the gold standard for how you audit the #government.”
There are generally five phases of a GAGAS audit, the auditors tell WIRED: planning, evidence gathering, evaluation, reporting, & follow up."
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how #government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/
"federal #auditors with years of #experience... say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual #audit looks like...
“Honestly, comparing real #auditing to what #DOGE is doing, there’s no comparison... None of them are auditors”
I’m starting to think that anyone who designs or builds systems that handle data should do a basic bookkeeping course that covers how double entry works.
The accountants managed to work out for us since the 13th Century that if you move money from A to B, both A and B need an audit entry describing the movement each way. Write only - nothing is removed. Yet I don’t see an equivalent teaching in the various system design books, despite this concept being fundamental to any system that needs (financial and non-financial) auditing capabilities.
It is not that clear.
Duty to Warn letters to Kamala Harris
https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-letters-to-kamala-harris-voting.html
It would require the #IRS to initiate an #audit of the justices’ tax returns each year, release the results & make the tax filings public. Nominees to the court would have to disclose 3 yrs of tax returns.
Another measure would allow a two-thirds vote of the court to force a fellow justice to #recuse from a case.
OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to partner with the US government to collaboratively test new models before they’re released to the public — a process that allegedly began this summer with OpenAI’s GPT-4o successor. In my view the EU should request the same access to the models if those companies want access to the EU market.
#openai #anthropic #eu #geopolitics #ai #audit @geopolitics