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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
The Pentagon has secretly installed conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles,
declining to disclose their assignments as they
amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints
and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration,
according to people familiar with the matter and corroborating material.

At least some of the influencers have been a…

Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.

16WW Impulse Heating Test - A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better! - https://www.earth.org.uk/impulse-heating-test.html

16WW Impulse Heating Test
A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better!

Sources: the DOD appointed several conservative influencers to civilian roles without disclosing their assignments as they amplify Pete Hegseth's viewpoints (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se

Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.

Instagram says it will reduce the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated personas if they don't use a new "AI-generated profile" label (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2246914/instagram-…

Instagram Will Demote AI-Generated Influencers If They Don't Clearly Label Their Account
The app isn't cracking down on other kinds of AI slop, though.

Ausnahme in Kalifornien: Nicht nur Linux soll Ausweise nicht mehr prüfen
Infolge eines Gesetzes hätten Linux-Distributionen in Kalifornien ab 2027 das Alter der User abfragen müssen. Das hat die Legislative dort jetzt abgewendet.

Ausnahme in Kalifornien: Nicht nur Linux soll Ausweise nicht mehr prüfen
Infolge eines Gesetzes hätten Linux-Distributionen in Kalifornien ab 2027 das Alter der User abfragen müssen. Das hat die Legislative dort jetzt abgewendet.

Romo on leave from CBS Sports after arrest on suspicion of operating vehicle under the influence https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/romo-on-leave-from-cbs-sports-after-arrest-on-suspicion-of-operating-vehic…

When you are a Swift compiler contributor, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/dropping-the-requirement-for-c-only-bootstrapping/87739/

Dropping the requirement for C++-only bootstrapping
Dear compiler developers, I'm happy to announce that from now on "mandatory" parts of the compiler can be implemented in Swift (on the main branch). So far we only used Swift as an implementation language in parts of the compiler which are not strictly necessary for correct code generation of the standard library, like some optimization passes. Now, we can use Swift in all parts of the compiler, including the parser, AST, type checker or mandatory SIL passes. We are dropping the requirement…

Instagram says it will reduce the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated personas if they don't use a new "AI-generated profile" label (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2246914/instagram-…

Instagram Will Demote AI-Generated Influencers If They Don't Clearly Label Their Account
The app isn't cracking down on other kinds of AI slop, though.

The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June
as rising imports weighed on growth
-- yet consumers continued to spend.
And the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of inflation grew more slowly last month
-- but it remained above the central bank’s 2% target at a time when Americans are frustrated about the high cost of living ahead of the midterm elections, now less than 100 days away.

US economy slows, yet Americans still spending in face of inflation
The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June as rising imports weighed on growth. But consumer spending rose. And the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of inflation grew more slowly last month, but remained above the central bank’s 2% target. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that growth in U.S. gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — decelerated from 2.1% in the first three months of 2026 and came in below economists�…

the U.S. war against Iran passes the six-month mark,
the conflict’s disastrous impacts are being compounded by
the inability of the United States to negotiate or implement a resolution,
with the two sides trading attacksagain as of today.
The war’s “triple illegality,”
the tremendous cost to human lives and civilian infrastructure,
the immense and mounting economic costs,
the dangerous drain on military resources and readiness,
and the sheer m…

The Bipartisan Iran War Commission We Need
Congress should create a bipartisan Iran War Commission to investigate errors in going to war and how it was waged.