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As the Pentagon, particularly the Army, cozies up to Silicon Valley
four big tech executives with no military background, were directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, in the Army
-- and they will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense.
Earlier this month, the Army announced Detachment 201,
the name being a reference to HTTP code,
for the newly commissioned executives
from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI.
The ne…

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings
The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting talent and creating jobs around them.

Netflix Consumer Products Chief Moves Funko As CEO
https://deadline.com/2025/08/funko-hires-netflix-consumer-products-chief-as-ceo-1236485007/

Consumer prices rose at annual rate of 2.9% in August, as weekly jobless claims jump (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/consumer-prices-rose-at-annual-rate-of-2point9percent-in-august-as-weekly-jobless-claims-jump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p49#a250911p49

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Betting recap: Bettors back Bengals; Beck, Simpson, Mendoza now Heisman faves https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/46576918/nfl-betting-week-6-cincinnati-bengals-joe-flacco-texas-longhorns-oklah…

The CSA releases Matter 1.4.2 to improve reliability, stability, and cross-platform coordination, like Wi-Fi-only commissioning to cut its Bluetooth dependency (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/matter/757179/matter-1…

Matter’s latest update doubles down on stability and pushes the platforms to play better together
Updates to how Wi-Fi routers work in Matter, how devices connect to the network, and the addition of Wi-Fi commissioning arrive with the latest Matter spec.

Electrification is still marginal in the Netherlands. Dutch electricity consumption in the first half of 2025 was almost exactly the same as a decade ago, in the first half of 2015 ( 0.3%).
Efficiency gains compensated for the modest shares of electric cars and heat pumps that did enter the scene.
Source:

Meer elektriciteit uit fossiele bronnen
Nederland produceerde in het eerste halfjaar van 2025 64 miljard kWh elektriciteit. Dit is 7 procent meer dan in het eerste halfjaar van 2024. Met name de productie uit fossiele bronnen steeg, vooral uit kolen. De productie uit hernieuwbare bronnen was lager, vooral uit windenergie. De productie uit zonne-energie piekte in het tweede kwartaal. Het verbruik van elektriciteit bleef gelijk. Dit meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) op basis van voorlopige cijfers.

Inflation rose in August as companies continued to push the cost of tariffs onto consumers.
The newest update to the consumer price index (CPI), which measures a basket of goods and services, showed that prices increased 2.9% over the last year
– the highest since January.
Core CPI, which excludes energy and food costs, stayed stable at 3.1% after going up in July.
The Fed is under intense pressure from Donald Trump to cut rates,
but the decision looks likely to b…

House Intelligence Committee announce bipartisan review of 9/11 Commission report (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/us-news/house-intelligence-committee-announce-bipartisan-review-of-9-11-commission-report/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p61#a250911p61

Tee Higgins hungry to start hot in 2025, Bengals WR sets sights on big year in Cincinnati

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tee-higgins-hung…