The agency seeks flexibility from Congress to form new disposal arrangements with states.

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On July 29, 2026, NIST released an initia

John O'Neill, the FBI's expert on Al Qaeda, warned of its threat. But his maverick style doomed his career.

NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.

Last month, I gave a talk at DEF CON on AI hacking: what happens when AIs become hackers. It's a combination of the potentialities I raised in my 2022 book A Hacker's Mind and the lessons we're learning from current AI models engaging in hacking behavior. I'm really proud of the talk, and the fact that it gained over 100K views on YouTube in just a few days. Also online is an interview with me in the AI Village.

Bendy bonding process could transform wearables … and data center rack designs

Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.

It won't work: My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to reassess sandboxing quality for capable AI agents, and in general the software stack with which they interact. An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent. There is simply too much attack surface. Even innocuous features (like running with a display) add extra, exploitable attack surface.

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk.

The outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more.

The short-term funding bill seems likely to become law, which would block the rule until at least Dec. 11.

Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.

The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.

The program solicitation estimates a sharp decline in awards for 2027 despite recent signals of support from the White House.

We know that trees are good for cities. A new study finds that mature trees are especially good.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Moderna, Novavax-Sanofi and ​Pfizer-BioNTech's updated COVID vaccines, the companies ‌said on Thursday, after an advisory panel recommended that the shots should target ​the dominant XFG variant.