Bobba, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, has an impressive technical background despite his age. He previously interned at Meta, focusing on AI, worked at Palantir in data ...

Chinese tea chain Auntea Jenny is set to debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on May 3, becoming another milk tea brand to go public in nearly two months. The company plans to issue 2.41 million ...

Fiery social media exchanges, battle over child support keep the internet captivated Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Ashley St Clair (right). File photo The public spat between tech billionaire Elon Musk ...

White House adviser Elon Musk at a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday. Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort that is ...

Along with Akash Bobba, a 22-year-old former Meta and Palantir intern, Russo demanded sweeping access to data on every person in the United States with a Social Security number. Social Security ...

Over the next week or two, King’s office was peppered with demands from DOGE that a software engineer, Akash Bobba, be given access to SSA data. “That request was unprecedented,” Flick says ...

Akash Bobba, a UC Berkeley triple major in electrical engineering, computer science and business administration, for example, was featured in a recent legal filing central to the high-stakes ...

At least 10 people associated with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are now working at the Social Security Administration, according to government records ...

DOGE software engineer Akash Bobba was brought in by newly appointed Chief Information Officer Mike Russo and “rushed” through onboarding so he could access the systems that house sensitive data.

Then, a software engineer named Akash Bobba joined after career officials were pressured by the Trump administration to rush him on board despite issues with his credentialing process, Flick said.

Flick detailed the pressure she and those in SSA leadership at the time were under to onboard a DOGE software engineer, Akash Bobba, and give him access to agency systems and data, including the ...