Active Conflicts & News MegaThread February 08, 2025

The r/CredibleDefense daily megathread is for asking questions and posting submissions that would not fit the criteria of our post submissions. As such, submissions are less stringently moderated, but we still do keep an elevated guideline for comments.

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February 8, 2025
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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

February 8, 2025
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UL Top 10 AI Risks (v1)

Given the speed of AI improvement and adoption, it’s hard for most people to know what to be concerned about, and what to do about it.
Sometimes the risk is doing too much too fast, and sometimes it’s not doing enough fast enough.In this resource I wi…

February 8, 2025
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