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Did a DOGE engineer copy the Social Security database? Meta is buying Moltbook and Wordle’s creator is back with a new game

Published: March 11, 2026

Duration: 6:53

-A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer from DOGE said he possessed two databases from the SSA and asked for help transferring the databases from a thumb drive "to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data.

-Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since January and remains completely ridiculous.

-Josh Wardle is back with a new game called Parseword.

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