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Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyr…

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change.

Prediction of solar energetic events impacting space weather conditions: #SpaceWeather Challenges: https://eos.org/science-updates/vast-space-sparse-data-an-ai-answer-to-twin-space-weather-challenges - modern machine learning and AI methods can help heliophysics researchers and space weather forecasters overcome limitations from a dearth of observations and the infrequency of extreme events.

CTE? Family seeks answers to former Cowboy's sudden death https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/16/aldon-smith-death-under-review-as-family-seeks-legal-probe/90571733007/

In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pittsburgh with a stopwatch and a conviction.
Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found the answer:
the problem, he thought, was that the people who did the work were also the people who decided how to do it.
Workers brought their own habits, their own rhythms, their own judgment. All of th…

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.

Informed by the press conference with U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen and Homeland Security Special Agent Michael McCarthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X3DhFnngDY
PDF (untagged) of indictment:

De-musk-ing: “If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get,” says Ben Leffel, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In March Leffel told legislators at a meeting of the Nevada Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group: “The Loop by the Boring Company is the biggest, most absurd transit scam I have ever heard of …

‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams
Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver?

Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers (John Ainger/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Aldon Smith Cause of Death: What His Haunting Final Interview May Reveal https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/aldon-smith-cause-death-final-interview/

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.
The journal Toxicology Reports had removed the paper this spring after editors determined it was so seriously flawed it could harm patients and pose a risk to public health.
Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared t…

Charity work in Aldon Smith's final hours offers no answers in ex-Cowboy's tragic death https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/14/cowboys-aldon-smith-final-hours-charity-w…