I wonder how many Defcon presenters may be in those files, and why?

Eta not specifically released files, I mean

Amazing work by Wikipedian volunteers as usual

Stephen Hawking, really? Interesting.

Hawking, a physicist, was mentioned in court documents released in 2024 during Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. The documents included an email Epstein sent in 2015, asking friends of Virginia Giuffre to disprove supposed allegations of Giuffre’s that Hawking participated in an “underage orgy” in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein lived. Epstein said he "can issue a reward” to them if they can “prove her allegations are false”. The email implies it was written in response to a “new version” of the claim regarding Hawking. Neither Giuffre nor anyone else has ever publicly accused Hawking, who died in 2018, of sexual misconduct. According to physicist Lisa Randall—who was found in 2026 to have corresponded with Epstein—in 2006, Hawking and Epstein were both present at a conference on gravity. Randall describes both her correspondence and Epstein’s appearance at the conference as resulting from Epstein’s public financing of scientific efforts.