Image: Foundry Earlier this month, news broke that Apple had been served an order from the U.K. government demanding extraordinary access to its customers’ cloud data. The order, which was issued secretly and forbids Apple from publicly discussing it, was extraordinary in its scope: The U.K. government demanded the ability to view all Apple customer…
Meet Xingxiulong yueorum, a new species of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Jurassic epoch. The fossilized skeleton of Xingxiulong yueorum. Image credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences. Xingxiulong yueorum belongs to Massopoda, a large group of sauropodomorph dinosaurs described in 2007. The new species is only the second…
Biologists have discovered a new species — and redescribed another one — of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent. The whirring tree frog (Litoria revelata). Image credit: Stephen Mahony. Litoria is a large genus of tree frogs native to Australia, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, the Lesser Sunda…
Plus: The US’s AI Safety Institute is being gutted. This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Ever since World War II, the US has been the global leader in science and technology—and…
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Yesterday marks a month since the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th US president. And what a month it has been. The Trump administration wasted no time…
It’s February 2025. The world feels like complete chaos, and it’s hard to step away from the news. Maybe your body feels tight, and perhaps your mind is racing. Take a deep breath, then keep reading. It isn’t just you: lots of people have expressed that they have felt overwhelmed and burned out from the…
The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it fire the head of an independent watchdog agency that investigates federal workers’ whistleblower reports.Why it matters: The case concerning the removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel is the first of what’s expected to be several appeals to…
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) was coy while discussing his potential Florida gubernatorial bid during a Friday interview while also expressing gratitude for landing an early endorsement from President Trump. When asked if and when he might enter the race during his appearance on NewsNation’s show “The Hill,” Donalds said that he is not “going to…
beacon} Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story 5,400 civilian workers on Pentagon chopping block The Pentagon seeks to cut more than 5,000 civilian employees on probation status beginning next week in a bid to eventually shave off up to 8 percent of…
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