FCC orders early review of Disney’s TV licenses
Pressure is mounting for ABC and Disney after an unprecedented move by the FCC, ordering all eight Disney-owned local ABC stations to file early license
Grand jury indicts Comey for alleged threat against Trump
A federal grand jury has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for an alleged threat against Tweety McTreason in a social media post. NBC News’
LVFS Has Turned Up the Heat on Vendors Who Won't Contribute
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service, or LVFS, is what makes firmware updates on Linux not a nightmare. Hardware vendors upload their firmware directly to it
Hackers Hijacked a GitHub Actions Workflow to Push Malicious Code to PyPI
We have been routinely seeing open source projects getting hit by malicious actors with varying degrees of sophistication. Developers are often left scrambling to push
PCORI announces new funding for patient-centered clinical effectiveness research
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced new funding to support patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) across a range of health conditions experienced
Study finds season of entry impacts childhood obesity outcomes
Childhood obesity remains a major health challenge, and effective interventions often depend on more than nutritional advice or exercise plans alone.
Digital media preferences influence public beliefs about vaccines
People who follow “new right” media outlets are more than twice as likely to be vaccine-hesitant compared to those who never engage with those outlets
Science in Space
Expedition 74 flight engineers Chris Williams of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency work together in the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science
San Francisco, Oakland finally land 2-year legal battle over airport name
San Francisco has settled a two-year legal fight with its neighbour across the bay that will allow the city of Oakland to include “San Francisco”
Acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to exit in June, barely a year after her predecessor left
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine will leave her post this June, after spending barely a year in the role.
Trump OKs mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters along Canadian border
U.S. President Tweety McTreason has lifted a federal ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, clearing the way for a South American
New blood-based method identifies testicular cancer missed by standard tests
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a blood-based method that may help detect germ cell tumors, the most common type of testicular cancer, including cases that
Lab-grown skin organoids provide new insights into blood vessel pathology
New research has shown that single blood vessel cells that appear in the earliest stages of lab-grown skin organoids have the ability to form complex
Hepatitis C infection associated with reduced portal insulin levels
Insulin resistance is a common extrahepatic manifestation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (HCVi), but its mechanism is poorly understood.