US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to cut public funding for NPR and PBS, accusing the news outlets of being biased in his latest attack on traditional media. Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with most mainstream news media, previously describing them as the “enemy of the people.” A notable … Read more
Google has announced that it’s helping to financially support the electrical training ALLIANCe (etA), an organization formed by the National Electrical Contractors Association and the International Brotherhood of Electricians. The goal is to train “100,000 electrical workers and 30,000 new apprentices in the United States” to meet the growing power demands of AI. Using AI … Read more
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Yesterday the organization operating the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database (CVE) announced that government funding was about to end. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has now stepped up to extend its option to finance the program. The CVE Board has also shared that it’s forming a … Read more
The US government has continued to make drastic cuts to budgets and personnel, but one cybersecurity service has at least temporarily avoided the chop. The database operated by nonprofit MITRE Corp will receive 11 months of federal support. A representative from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whose parent agency funds the MITRE database, told … Read more
The fate of the CVE Program—a database that catalogs publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities—was unknown over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, it was leaked that the maintainer of the CVE Program, MITRE, sent a letter to CVE board members, saying that funding for the CVE program was set to expire today, April 16. “If a break … Read more
CISA says the U.S. government has extended funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. “The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA,” the U.S. cybersecurity agency told BleepingComputer. “Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will … Read more
MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum has warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs expires today, which could lead to widespread disruption across the global cybersecurity industry. CVE, the most critical of the two, is maintained by MITRE with funding from the U.S. National Cyber Security Division … Read more
Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion federal funding freeze on Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism. The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions procedures expands a list Harvard received on April 3, … Read more
“Wheelchair Rugby Player Secures Funding to Launch Groundbreaking Project Aimed at Revolutionizing the Sport in the UK” On Monday 14 April, 2025, trailblazing wheelchair rugby player and disability advocate Jessica Booth announced the launch of a groundbreaking new project that aims to transform the face of Wheelchair Rugby League in the UK. Having represented Wales … Read more
Birmingham-based GINA, a private sexual trauma-crisis organization, has been awarded nearly £20,000 from the Young Gamechangers Fund to expand its support services for survivors of sexual violence. This funding, provided by the Co-op Foundation and delivered by Restless Development and Global Fund for Children, will allow GINA to offer immediate in-person, online, and telephone counselling … Read more