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Chips Down

Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival

While the White House carved out a narrow exemption for some semiconductor imports, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs still apply to GPUs and chipmaking equipment.

Will Knight and Zeyi Yang

Waddle It Be

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

Caroline Haskins and Leah Feiger

Takeover

Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free

Brian Barrett

Latest

Rare Earth

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Matt Simon

It's a Journey

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact

Andy Greenberg and Matt Burgess

Education

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

Maggie Chen

Cut and Run

Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

Matt Burgess

Clean Break

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Violet Blue

Crypto Wars

A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

Matt Burgess

Brute Force

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

Eric Geller

Fourth Amendment

Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program

Dell Cameron

Uncanny Valley

A Look at a Very Silicon Valley Approach to Repopulation

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Zoë Schiffer

Loose Cannons

Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Justin Ling

Falling Star

If Ukraine Loses Starlink, Here Are the Best Alternatives

Chris Baraniuk

Search and Destroy

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials

Jared Keller

Hazy Priorities

US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself

Zeyi Yang

Viral Load

A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response

Kate Knibbs

Free to Go

The SEC Is Abandoning Its Biggest Crypto Lawsuits

Joel Khalili

Egg Shortage

The US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird Flu

Emily Mullin

Jet Lag

This Refinery Wants to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream. Trump’s Cuts Could Kill It

Kyle Younker

Video Games

Game Developers Fear Anti-Trans Measures Could Hit Their Industry Next

Megan Farokhmanesh

New DOGE, Old Tricks

The 50-Year-Old Law That Could Stop DOGE in Its Tracks—Maybe

Eric Geller

Shaky Foundation

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

Kim Zetter