The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…
London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/11/
White House tweaks AIDS funding rollback to assuage skeptical Republicans (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/10/congress/pepfar-cuts-rescissions-aids-funding-00396385
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p61#a250610p61
Russel Vought meets my definition of pure evil, through and through.
"Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, told appropriators last week that the administration is seeking to take “an analytical look” at Aids prevention and instead prioritize funding for “life-saving treatment” for sufferers as part of its scaling back of PEPFAR."
White House says it will spare some Aids programs that were on the chopping block | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-aids-prevention-funding-b2767327.html
“Crucial training pipeline for Deaf scientists dismantled by NIH funding cuts”
https://www.science.org/content/article/crucial-training-pipeline-deaf-scientists-dismantled-nih-funding-cuts
USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"
A necessary condition for liftings of positive characteristic varieties with finite fundamental groups
Ruida Di, Runjie Hu, Siqing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07914
Trump Is Gutting Healthcare—But Women’s Health Was Already Disastrously Underfunded - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/10/trump-republicans-womens-health-funding-research-menopause-motherhood-abortion/