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In a stunning reversal,
the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal weather forecasters
—just days before it was set to end.
The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at the start of hurricane season. 

In Rare Spasm of Sanity, Pentagon Backtracks on Plan to Scuttle Storm Tracking
The Department of Defense has walked back its decision to stop sharing satellite storm data with federal forecasters.

Weighted Support Points from Random Measures: An Interpretable Alternative for Generative Modeling
Peiqi Zhao, Carlos E. Rodr\'iguez, Rams\'es H. Mena, Stephen G. Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21255

Weighted Support Points from Random Measures: An Interpretable Alternative for Generative Modeling
Support points summarize a large dataset through a smaller set of representative points that can be used for data operations, such as Monte Carlo integration, without requiring access to the full dataset. In this sense, support points offer a compact yet informative representation of the original data. We build on this idea to introduce a generative modeling framework based on random weighted support points, where the randomness arises from a weighting scheme inspired by the Dirichlet process a…

North Korea already using Russian Pantsir missiles to defend Pyongyang, Ukraine's intelligence chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/north-korea-already-using-russian.html

Hegseth's Latest Battle: Infighting Inside the Pentagon (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-leadership-pentagon-1e57ca5f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p7#a250802p7

Practice Points: Offense digging 'deep' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-offense-digging-deep

#PhantastikPrompts 02.08.2025: What were your favorite stories as a child?
Many. But high on the list (in order of age suitability) were
A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and sequels;
James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks;
John Masefield's Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights;
Alan Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen and sequels;
anything by…

Run by an anonymous software engineer,
the twitter account
"Pentagon Pizza Report"
tracks Google data for pizzerias around the military complex in Arlington Virginia.
(Anonymized Google Maps data are aggregated from “timeline” or “location history” on phones, including visits made to the establishments.)
Often posting multiple times a day on X, PPR frequently singles out spikes in pizzeria activity,
-- allowing its 200,000-plus followers to dra…

Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport) on X
Pentagon Pizza Report: Open-source tracking of pizza spot activity around the Pentagon (and other places). Frequent-ish updates on where the lines are long.

Practice Points: Offense digging 'deep' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-offense-digging-deep

NATO chief urges continued US support for Ukraine as Pentagon halts arms shipments: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/nato-chief-urges-continued-us.html

Pentagon halting some promised munitions for Ukraine (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/pentagon-munitions-ukraine-halt-00436048
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p150#a250701p150