DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access FEMA networks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/noe
"These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English, don't you?"
These days you can't even openly advocate for the murder of vulnerable groups without the police getting involved.
https://www.theguard…
StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22558
Matthew Stafford doesn't participate at Rams practice despite expected return https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6547127/2025/08/11/matthew-stafford-injury-rams-training-camp/
xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trad…
Superconducting NbN Resonator Parametric Amplifiers for Millimetre Wavelengths
Songyuan Zhao, Stafford Withington, Christopher Thomas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17528 https://…
Smartmatic defamation case:
'Sold my soul to the devil’: Fox News staffers blast network in explosive court filing - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-2674206251/
The GAO launches a probe into USAGM for potential overreach; sources say congressional staffers warned Kari Lake that she illegally used appropriated funds (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/14/kari-lake-voa-cuts-lawsu…
Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9