New NIH policy will slash support money to research universities
These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and ...
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an ...
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right," Nikolay Bashlykov, a Meta research engineer, wrote in an April 2023 ...
Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties
On January 30, officials reported two measles cases in unvaccinated, school-aged children in Gaines County, which sits at the ...
DOGE can’t use student loan data to dismantle the Education Dept., lawsuit says
The Department of Education (DOE) was sued Friday by a California student association demanding an "immediate stop" to Elon ...
UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say
The UK is reportedly seeking access to data secured by end-to-end encryption with Apple's Advanced Data Protection, which ...
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...
Return of the California Condor
In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...
The EV transition hits some snags at Porsche and Audi
As a result, Porsche says it's taking "extensive measures" to improve profitability, including adding more internal ...
New “WikiTok” web app allows infinite TikTok-style scroll of Wikipedia
On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs in a manner ...
Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts
The aerospace company, which is the primary contractor for the rocket's large core stage, issued the notifications as part of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (or WARN) Act, which ...
Topic: department of education
Students don't want loan data used in AI probe to slash DOE, according to lawsuit. Students don't want loan data used in AI probe to slash DOE, according to lawsuit. Students don't want loan data used ...