Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors

A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers

Project Oracle, the inspiration for the company that Larry Ellison co-founded, was a contract issued by the Central Intelligence Agency back in 1975 to build a system for the mass storage of digital data. Read More

Zane Shamblin, a computer science and business graduate in Texas, killed himself on July 24, 2025, after a four-hour drinking session and “death chat” with ChatGPT, an AI bot that provided seemingly human responses to his questions over his anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

When Nathan Bernard, an activist tracking immigration raids in Portland, Maine, filmed an ICE agent taking pictures of her in late January 2026, she questioned why he was photographing her. "Because we have a nice little database, and now you're considered a domestic terrorist,” the masked agent replied.