What Does Palantir Actually Do?
What Does Palantir Actually Do? Summary WIRED unpicks the common myths about Palantir and explains what the company actually sells: sophisticated B2B software platforms that sit on top of messy…
To Raise or Not to Raise: Bootstrapped Founders Share Their Views
To Raise or Not to Raise: Bootstrapped Founders Share Their Views Summary At Black Hat USA 2025 a panel of three security startup founders—Andrew Morris (GreyNoise), Haroon Meer (Thinkst Canary),…
How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers
How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers Summary This Nature article examines how recent visa bans, delays and stricter screening — particularly in the United States but also in Canada,…
Daily briefing: Political officials could control US federal science grants
Daily briefing: Political officials could control US federal science grants Summary The lead story summarises a new executive order from US President Donald Trump that would give political appointees final…
Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what’s next?
Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what’s next? Summary Michael Kratsios was an early pick by President Trump to lead the White House Office of Science and…
Europe must safeguard climate data following NASA cuts
Europe must safeguard climate data following NASA cuts Summary This correspondence warns that proposed cuts to NASA’s 2026 budget could hamper the United States’ ability to provide freely accessible, long-term…
How Paris dealt with lightning in the Age of Enlightenment
How Paris dealt with lightning in the Age of Enlightenment Summary A short retrospective from Nature’s archive on para-tonnerres — early lightning conductors — in eighteenth-century Paris, together with a…
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit Summary Jim Lovell, the US Navy officer and NASA astronaut best known as the commander of Apollo 13, has died…
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’ Summary Linux maintainer Linus Torvalds publicly reprimanded long-time contributor Palmer Dabbelt for submitting a set of…
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down
Summary Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is due at the White House for talks with President Donald Trump, days after the President publicly urged Tan to resign amid questions about the…