Digitale Kritis im Kriegsfall: “Momentan sind wir schlecht vorbereitet”

Deutschland kann seine digitale kritische Infrastruktur im Verteidigungsfall nicht ausreichend schützen. Die Liste nötiger Maßnahmen ist lang. Eine Analyse von Ulrich Hottelet (Kritis, Politik)

Deutschland kann seine digitale kritische Infrastruktur im Verteidigungsfall nicht ausreichend schützen. Die Liste nötiger Maßnahmen ist lang. Eine Analyse von Ulrich Hottelet (Kritis, Politik)

Anzeige: BCM-Strategien und IT-Notfallmanagement implementieren

Krisen wirksam begegnen – in diesem Workshop lernen IT-Fachkräfte, wie sich Business Continuity Management strukturiert aufbauen, IT-Notfallpläne entwickeln und Notfallübungen erfolgreich gestalten lassen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

Krisen wirksam begegnen - in diesem Workshop lernen IT-Fachkräfte, wie sich Business Continuity Management strukturiert aufbauen, IT-Notfallpläne entwickeln und Notfallübungen erfolgreich gestalten lassen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates

With billions in grants put on hold, targeted universities will see research crippled.

Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn't especially interested in funding research. Before January's end, major science agencies had instituted pauses on research funding, and grant funding has not been restored to previous levels since. Many individual grants have been targeted on ideological grounds, and agencies like the National Science Foundation are expected to see significant cuts. Since then, individual universities have been targeted, starting with an ongoing fight with Columbia University over $400 million in research funding.

This week, however, it appears that the targeting of university research has entered overdrive, with multiple announcements of funding freezes targeting several universities. Should these last for any considerable amount of time, they will likely cripple research at the targeted universities.

On Wednesday, Science learned that the National Institutes of Health has frozen all of its research funding to Columbia, despite the university agreeing to steps previously demanded by the administration and the resignation of its acting president. In 2024, Columbia had received nearly $700 million in grants from the NIH, with the money largely going to the university's prestigious medical and public health schools.

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Here are the reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts

“I expect that the government will follow all the rules and be fair and follow all the laws.”

In the last week, the US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $5.9 billion deal to make Elon Musk's space company the Pentagon's leading launch provider, and then it assigned the vast majority of this year's most lucrative launch contracts to SpaceX.

On top of these actions, the Space Force reassigned the launch of a GPS navigation satellite from United Launch Alliance's long-delayed Vulcan rocket to fly on SpaceX's Falcon 9. ULA, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is SpaceX's chief US rival in the market for military satellite launches.

Given the close relationship between Musk and President Donald Trump, it's not out of bounds to ask why SpaceX is racking up so many wins. Some plans floated by the Trump administration involving SpaceX in recent months have raised concerns over conflicts of interest.

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Revolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journal

“If our usual approaches are not effective, other strategies must be used.”

Health experts took to one of the country's leading medical journals to pen searing rebukes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first weeks as the country's top health official—and they called upon their colleagues to rise up to fight the misinformation and distrust they allege Kennedy, a long-time anti-vaccine advocate, is fomenting.

From gutting federal health agencies and knee-capping critical local public health programs, to delaying a significant vaccine advisory meeting, hiring a discredited anti-vaccine advocate to conduct a vaccine study, ousting the country's top vaccine regulator, and undermining the response to the mushrooming measles outbreak in Texas that stands to threaten the country's measles elimination status—the researchers had no shortage of complaints.

In one article, pediatric infectious disease expert Kathryn Edwards of Vanderbilt University recounted the timeline of the measles outbreak, noting the missteps, missed opportunities, and controversial comments Kennedy made along the way. The rundown included his trivialization of the outbreak, failure to strongly advocate for vaccination, promotion of unproven treatments, like cod liver oil, and delayed responses from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which Kennedy controls.

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