Talk Your Book: Valuation Still Matters

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The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies

Numerous researchers whose grants were terminated didn’t respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review or declined to comment, amid growing concerns that the Trump administration will punish scientists or institutions that criticize their policies. Coming cuts The termination of existing NSF and NIH grants is just the start of the administration’s plans to cut federal […]

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XChat, new DM feature, adopts Bitcoin-style encryption: Elon Musk

Key Takeaways Elon Musk announced XChat, a direct messaging feature using Bitcoin-style encryption and built with Rust. XChat includes vanishing messages and supports cross-platform audio/video calls without phone numbers. Share this article XChat, a new direct messaging (DM) feature being rolled out on Elon Musk’s platform X, is built on Rust and adopts Bitcoin-style encryption […]

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New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora

May 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Linux Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to […]

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