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Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

news.ycombinator.com Carly Page 2025-09-21 11:00:16

A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. The ruling, handed down this week by Judge Jia Cobb of the DC District Court, rejects a request from researchers, universities and scientific societies to reinstate the cancelled grants while the case is heard. The plaintiffs had argued that NSF's mass terminations were arbitrary, unlawful and would do irreparable harm to the cou

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PostgreSQL Maintenance Without Superuser

news.ycombinator.com Radim Marek 2025-09-19 15:17:29

How many people/services have superuser access to your PostgreSQL cluster(s)? Did you ever ask why your software engineers might need it? Or your BI team? Why those use cases require same privileges as someone who can drop your databases? The answer isn't because these operations are inherently dangerous - it's because PostgreSQL historically offered limited options for operational access or simply because not enough people are aware of the options. So the common practice is to either got basic

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Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-19 16:53:50

The battle over $20 billion worth of climate-related funding authorized by Congress continues as an appellate court ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency, which had terminated Biden-era grants made to nonprofits. The legal tussle stems from EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to cancel grants dispersed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Zeldin said that the grants did not match the EPA’s current priorities and claimed, without evidence, that he had concerns a

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Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-10-21 19:30:00

In May, a group of about 40 people stood in a circle deep within the Pyramid of Khafre, the second-largest of the three pyramids looming over Egypt’s Giza Plateau, holding hands and praying for Earth. Suddenly, their tour guide, an American mathematician and author named Robert Edward Grant, collapsed. He later described the experience in an interview with WIRED as a full-body electric shock emanating from somewhere beneath the chamber’s stone floor. “I felt electricity coming through my hands,

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We could make Rosie the Robot, but should we?

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-11-14 21:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Robots are coming, but are we ready for them? All the big consumer tech companies are working on robotic companions for our homes. There’s Amazon’s Astro, Samsung’s Ballie, LG’s AI Agent, and whatever it is that Apple is dreaming up i

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 03:37:12

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-04 05:56:33

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

news.ycombinator.com Maxine Joselow 2025-12-11 10:29:28

The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter. The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 nonprofit groups and state agencies that received the grants under the “Solar for All” program, with the goal of sending the letters by the end of this week, according to the two people, who spoke on the co

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Trump’s AI Action Plan is a distraction

technologyreview.com Asad Ramzanali 2025-12-22 12:15:00

Today’s generative AI is based on the transformer model (the T in ChatGPT), first described by a team at Google in 2017. Six of the eight researchers on that team were born outside the US, and the other two are children of immigrants. This isn’t an exception. Immigrants have been central to American leadership in AI. Of the 42 American companies included in the 2025 Forbes ranking of the 50 top AI startups, 60% have at least one immigrant cofounder, according to an analysis by the Institute for

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State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

news.ycombinator.com Clément Gorin 2026-01-25 00:44:18

We would like to thank Dionissi Aliprantis, Laure Athias, Sascha Becker, Karol Borowiecki, Nicolas Baumard, Davide Cantoni, Don Davis, Shari Eli, Oliver Falck, Oded Galor, Ed Glaeser, Claudia Goldin, Erik Hornung, Robert Johannes, Hubertus Kohle, Ruru Hoong, Michael Hutter, Bob Margo, Stelios Michalopoulos, Petra Moser, Nathan Nunn, Ömer Özak, Dominic Rohner, Stefanie Schneider, Munir Squires, Marco Tabellini, Mathias Thoenig, Daniel Trefler, Matt Turner, Hans-Joachim Voth, Fabian Waldinger, and

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-30 23:55:56

Washington, DC—From a distance, the gathering looked like a standard poster session at an academic conference, with researchers standing next to large displays of the work they were doing. Except in this case, it was taking place in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, and the researchers were describing work that they weren’t doing. Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administrat

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’ canceled research

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-31 05:55:56

Washington, DC — From a distance, the gathering looked like a standard poster session at an academic conference, with researchers standing next to large displays of the work they were doing. Except in this case, it was taking place in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, and the researchers were describing work that they weren’t doing. Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administr

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‘Jurassic World’ Characters Ranked, Based on How Much We Wanted Them to Get Eaten

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-08 05:00:16

With the release of Jurassic World Rebirth, we’re taking a look at the roster of characters from this latest era of the Universal Pictures and Amblin blockbuster franchise, where the dinosaurs tend to be the most memorable stars. Rexy, the T-Rex, reigns supreme, of course, but the old girl has been carrying the franchise on her back for over 30 years. When it comes to the humans of Jurassic World, have any of them hit the icon status of Jurassic Park’s original trinity? No one has come close to

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Via the False Claims Act, NIH puts universities on edge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-12 13:42:07

Earlier this year, a biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan received an update from the National Institutes of Health. The federal agency, which funds a large swath of the country’s medical science, had given the green light to begin releasing funding for the upcoming year on the researcher’s multi-year grant. Not long after, the researcher learned that the university had placed the grant on hold. The school’s lawyers, it turned out, were wrestling with a difficult question: whethe

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Take Us North Kickstarter campaign launches for game about crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-14 05:30:00

Anima Interactive has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its game, Take Us North, about the experiences of migrants and asylum seekers on crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Take Us North is an adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border. It’s about the human story behind the politics and headlines, and stories about what the actual crossing is like. The game has raised $12,000 to date and is targeting hitting $30,000

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Latest Tech News

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

PostgreSQL Maintenance Without Superuser

Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits

Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries

We could make Rosie the Robot, but should we?

New executive order puts all grants under political control

New executive order puts all grants under political control

EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

Trump’s AI Action Plan is a distraction

State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’ canceled research

‘Jurassic World’ Characters Ranked, Based on How Much We Wanted Them to Get Eaten

Via the False Claims Act, NIH puts universities on edge

Take Us North Kickstarter campaign launches for game about crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

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