“Some states are very strict on the nationality and transparency of ownership, and other states less strict,” says Alla Pozdnakova, a professor of law at the University of Oslo’s Scandinavian Institute for... Read more »

The stated goal of DOGE’s actions, per a statement from a White House spokesperson to the New York Times on Thursday, is “slashing waste, fraud, and abuse.” As I point out in... Read more »

1 The Trump administration is slashing billions in biomedical research funding The change, effective immediately, is sending shockwaves through academia. Expect lawsuits. (STAT $)+ Scientists are also increasingly alarmed about the fact that federal health... Read more »

“We’re getting noticed,” said Seto Baghdoyan, director of forensic audits and investigative services at the GAO, in an interview with MIT Technology Review. The documents don’t offer a crystal ball into Musk’s... Read more »

This kind of work is crucial because the US government holds invaluable international and national data relating to climate. “These are irreplaceable repositories of important climate information,” says Lauren Kurtz, executive director... Read more »

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DOGE staffers are feeding sensitive federal data to AI systemsIt’s just one of many alarming security lapses at... Read more »

“We’re working on trying to create functional replacement teeth,” Pamela Yelick of Tufts University, one of the researchers behind the work, told me. The idea is to develop an alternative to titanium... Read more »

It’s incredibly hard to protect a system from someone—the evil housekeeper from DOGE—who has made their way inside and wants to wreck it. This administration is on the record as wanting to... Read more »

Norman likens the device to “an MRI machine tipped on its side and suspended above the user’s head.” What’s more, says King, the second a subject moves their head the signal is... Read more »