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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties
Gaines County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state of Texas and has among the highest rates of children with ...
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 ...
Report: iPhone SE could shed its 10-year-old design “as early as next week”
The new fourth-generation iPhone SE ought to be the device's first significant makeover since 2020. It's said to be adopting a design similar to the iPhone 14—one of the iPhones with Face ID in a ...