ALBANY, N.Y. —Students throughout New York state might have to give up their cellphones during school hours starting next fall under a proposal announced Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The plan, which would require legislators’ approval, would take effect in the next academic year and force students to disconnect from their phones and other personal […]
LIMA—Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines. The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 146 miles south of Lima in Peru’s Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed […]
The Chinese regime’s cyberespionage campaign will likely become more sophisticated in targeting key adversaries in 2025, particularly the United States, experts have warned. The situation calls for collaborative counteroperations among Quad alliance partners—the United States, India, Japan, and Australia. These nations are targeted by Beijing, but several gaps currently impede their collective efforts, analysts said. […]
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order (EO) to pause the enforcement of the divest-or-ban TikTok law for 75 days. This will allow his administration time to determine the best next step with regard to the video app. The endorsement freeze also covers between the original deadline of Jan. 19 and the signing of […]
President-elect Donald Trump said on Jan. 19 that he is asking tech companies to keep social media platform TikTok online and would sign an executive order postponing the federal ban of the social media website in the United States. “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. […]
Chinese state-backed cyber espionage group Salt Typhoon, which has been in the news for its breach of U.S. telecom firms, was first discovered on the federal network using a different name, according to Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “We saw it as a separate campaign called another goofy cyber […]
The TikTok social media platform became unavailable in the United States on Saturday night before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app took effect. The app has also disappeared from app stores. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the United States,” a message on the app states. “Unfortunately, that means you can’t […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold the law that would ban TikTok if its Chinese parent company does not divest. Jon Schweppe, Director of Policy at the American Principles Project, joined NTD to discuss.
Throughout January, a couple of hours after sunset, one can observe Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in a single wide view. NASA calls this a “planetary parade.” Uranus and Neptune are there, too, but they can only be observed with a telescope.
TikTok said it would be “forced to go dark” on Sunday if the Biden administration does not give a definitive statement assuring non-enforcement of a law requiring the company to divest or face a nationwide ban. “The statements issued today by both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide […]
The White House on Friday said that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a ban on the Chinese-owned TikTok social media platform will ultimately fall under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Earlier Friday, the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in upholding the ban, just three days before Trump is due to be inaugurated […]
WORCESTER, Mass.—Five Massachusetts college students appeared in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through a dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok. The Assumption University students, all teenagers, were arraigned on conspiracy and kidnapping charges. Not-guilty pleas were entered for […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—One of NASA’s two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago. Suni Williams, the station’s commander, tackled some overdue outdoor repair work alongside NASA’s Nick Hague. They emerged as the orbiting lab […]
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said the spacecraft’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one, with contact lost just 8 1/2 minutes into the flight. The spacecraft was supposed to […]
SpaceX is expected to launch its seventh Starship test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, at 5:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 16. The Starship, with a fuel tank that is 25 percent bigger, among other upgrades, is attempting to deploy dummy satellites in space for the first time.
Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, who President-elect Donald Trump recently announced will serve as his national security adviser, said on Jan. 15 that the incoming U.S. leader is exploring ways to “preserve” TikTok in the country amid a looming ban. Waltz made the remarks during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier in response to […]
WASHINGTON—Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf—a highly compact stellar ember—with a death wish. The observations made using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth. Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA’s Mariner and Pioneer […]
From Chinese apps collecting your data to the vulnerabilities of smart cars, have you thought about your own cybersecurity? NTD’s Melina Wisecup sat down with Tony Perez, cybersecurity expert and founder of Netlok, to discuss.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth’s dusty sidekick. The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon. […]
