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• Body of missing Los Alamos nuclear lab worker found alongside gun in remote national forest a year after she vanished

  The body of a missing nuclear lab worker has been found — alongside a gun — almost a year after she vanished without a trace, the latest in a string of disappearances and bizarre deaths involving experts and government employees working at some of the most secretive US national security facilities. The remains of Melissa Casias, 54, who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, were found in Carson National Forest over the weekend, some six miles from where she was last seen alive on June 26, 2025. A handgun was found alongside her body in the McGaffey Ridge area, although her exact cause of death and the date she is believed to have died have not yet been determined by authorities. Her body was discovered by a hiker in an area where US Forest Service crews have been working regularly on a restoration project since December.

• Why Roads Get Washboards

  What’s surprising is that this is still an active area of research. In the past decade or so, there’s been a burst of papers trying to explain exactly how washboarding forms and how to stop it. I was reading one of those studies when I saw the experimental setup they used. The moment I saw it, I knew I had to build one.

Horseshit

• There's No Photos Allowed at the Studio Ghibli Amusement Park

• How Cornish miners brought football to Mexico

• Put your phone away: Sweden urges parents to restrict screen use around children

• First undersea data center powered by offshore wind is online

• VW cuts owners' access to their own vehicle data with API change

• A Whole Generation Seems to Be Using 'POV' Wrong

• Patagonia Sues Pattie Gonia

• Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"

• You can have 'em over easy or well done: Proteins can be selectively controlled with radio waves

Epstein

• Four Takeaways from the WSJ Investigation into Bill Gates

celebrity gossip

• Steph Curry: NBA star signs shoe deal with Chinese brand Li-Ning

Musk

• SpaceX sets aside 5% of IPO shares for selected buyers, waives lock-up

  • SpaceX sets aside up to 5% of shares in IPO for certain employees and friends

• Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit

• Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

  • SpaceX valued at just $780B by Morningstar

• Experts sound alarm over Elon Musk's 'coup' that's 'about to rob your 401k'

• Worker Killed at SpaceX, a Monopoly Long Accused of Neglecting Safety

• I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth

• SEC, Elon Musk defend 'compromise' settlement over Twitter purchases

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Used EVs Are Now the Most Affordable Cars

• Only 54% of miles traveled by Waymos in California have a passenger onboard

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble

• This creepy blob robot will keep going even if you break its legs

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT

• New college grads are doing better than the vibes suggest

• Do you want that computer-science degree?

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• GoPro is at risk of potential bankruptcy amid lower sales and high memory costs

  • GoPro warned it may not survive

• AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review: A cheaper GPU for an expensive era

• California Attorney General sues 23andMe successor for 2023 data breach

• Amazon's Ring sued over facial recognition feature

  • Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature

• Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads

• John Deere Faces Second Class Action for Monopolizing Repair

• Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

• Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

• Gabe Newell snapped at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam

• Ad-blocking extensions sell data to advertisers

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• What Efforts to Cancel Richard Stallman Ought to Teach Us About the Media

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• The Messy Reality of Building an Empire in Space

• Blue Origin has set a aggressive return-to-flight timeline

• The Way the World Searches for Extraterrestrial Life May Hold Back Discoveries

• First commercial space station to launch early 2027

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Florida Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman: 'Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life'

  • Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged safety lapses

  • OpenAI let ChatGPT aid and abet mass shooters, Florida lawsuit claims

  • 'People are getting hurt': OpenAI sued by Florida over alleged safety risks

  • Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in lawsuit over violent incidents

• Anthropic files for blockbuster initial public offering

  • Anthropic has submitted a draft filing for its IPO.

  • Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO

  • Anthropic Files for IPO

• Alphabet to sell $80B in stock to fund AI spending spree

• Hackers trick Meta AI support bot to infiltrate Obama White House Instagram

  • Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts via the cunning plan of asking Instagram for them.

  • The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

  I’ve spent almost a decade and a half identifying vulnerabilities and exploits at unicorn scale, but this is hands down the most unserious, "almost too stupid to be true" of them all. Once it looks like the request is coming from the correct region, they tell the Meta support AI that the account is hacked and ask it to send the verification codes to an arbitrary email address they control. The first proper zero auth password reset I've seen in production. There appears to be no additional check as to whether the email being given is actually something the user has used before.

  All the Telegram groups have quieted down as Meta seems to have patched it already, but it appears this particular method was active for weeks, if not months.

• Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It

• DeepMind CEO says those cutting jobs because of AI 'lack imagination'

• California’s university system went all in on AI, now it's tearing itself apart

• Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents

• Can You Get Rich Quick Off A.I. Slop?

• The Future Belongs to Those Who Resist It

• The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop

• Cisco rolls out software tools to protect IT systems from AI agents

• Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I

• AI Sicophancy a Risk to Society Grasp of Reality

• Amazon joins Microsoft in sending message to employees

  Dave Treadwell, Amazon's senior vice president of engineering, addressed the issue directly. "Please don't use AI just for the sake of using AI," he told staff. "Use AI to help you solve customer problems, to help you solve business problems, to innovate."

• Americans don't know how to fight AI. So they're fighting data centers

• Philly cops admit they're tracking "First Amendment activity" critical of AI

• Take This Data Center and Shove It

• Top AI labs expand research into machine 'consciousness'

• AI Investments Are 'Circular Bet' as ROI Disappoints, Bain Survey Shows

• Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing AI dragon

• Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use

  • Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

• Phone screen doesn't have the same color range as the human eye

• Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant

  • Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

• What happens when AI starts selling to AI?

• Uber caps staff use of AI coding tools after blowing its budget

  • Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T

• Lawsuit Against Amazon: 'Subscribe and Save' Program Can Cost You More

• New all-time high thanks to old video? IBM stock jumps after viral post

• Will the IT consulting share price rout ever end?

• Remote Work Leaves Younger Workers Sidelined

  • Can't find a job after graduation? Blame WFH, not AI

• Meta reveals details about layoffs in Playa Vista and Menlo Park

• Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

• XLight Finalizes $150M CHIPS grant to build new EUV source in Albany

• Berkshire Has $400 Billion in Cash and Just Put $6.8 Billion Into Housing. What That Means for Investors.

• Gold replaces US Treasuries as top reserve asset, ECB says

• Cliffwater's flagship private credit fund hit with 17% redemption requests

• Samsung moving U.S. headquarters to Plano

• Marvell stock pops 33% after Huang says it may be the next trillion-dollar firm

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Emptiness of the Crowded Governor's Race in California

• US Department of Energy will give weapons-grade plutonium to energy companies

Trump

• "You're fucking crazy": Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon

• President signs executive order to give Gov. Early Access to AI Models

  • Trump signs executive order granting oversight of AI models

  • Trump Signs AI Executive Order to Increase Government Oversight

  • Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks

Left Angst

• America's Corporate Protector

• What the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

• Hegseth Blocks Eight Navy Senior Officer Promotions

  • Hegseth strikes female and Black Navy officers from promotion list

• We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Redacted Nearly Everything

• RFK Jr. announces largest autism fraud bust in history.

  Kennedy highlighted that the original cost of the Early Intervention Development Program was a mere $38.1 million in 2020, but that it had ballooned to $442 million in 2026, with much of that increase stemming from fraud. “Today’s arrests represent the largest autism fraud bust in American history,” he said. “This was an organized theft that exploited the most vulnerable, deceived families, stole taxpayer dollars meant to help children with autism access legitimate care and support.” “Investigators uncovered brazen schemes that billed taxpayers for nonexistent services, fraudulent diagnoses, and fake care while criminals enriched themselves at public expense,” he added.

  • The Autism-Therapy Business Is Booming–and So Is the Billing Abuse

• The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It's Coming for Protests

• Seven states sue US for paying $1B to make TotalEnergies exit wind power

• Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• New York police investigate mysterious cases of people coming out of manholes

• FBI charges two NIH researchers with smuggling monkeypox to US from Congo

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• America Plans Transfer Of Coast Guard Cutter To The Philippines.

• Drones to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage

• Army 'Jailbreaks' Its Own Weapon Systems to Counter Drone Threats

• USTR proposes 25% tax on all Brazilian products

World

• Tiny Guyana poised for big Iran oil gains and growth strains

• Venezuela's oil exports rose to 1.25M bpd in May, shipping data shows

• EU is set to join US-led chip alliance 'Pax Silica' to counter China's AI race

• Brazil Banned Addictive Design. The Crucial Regulatory Choices Are Still Ahead

• Canada considers cancelling part of U.S. F-35 order to buy 60 Swedish Gripen

• User-replaceable batteries are coming back in a big way

• Video Released of Cops Chatting Amiably with Sikh Murderer as the Victim Henry Nowak Bleeds to Death on the Ground

• Norway becomes ninth country to sign up for French nuclear deterrence

• The Polish government approves a law banning all phone usage in primary schools

• Brazil Lost 80 Percent of Its National Museum Collection. Now It's Rebuilding

• Malaysia bans social media accounts for children under 16, but questions remain

• Sweden is now America's most valuable tech ally. Most Americans haven't noticed

• Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

• Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans

• Sweden prepares prisons for 13-year-old gang killers

• European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns

• Korea's Hanwha offers rockets in bid for Canadian submarine deal

Iran / Houthi

• Iran Ends Negotiations With U.S., Doubling Down on Terrorism – Trump Responds.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin could pay a personal price for failure in Ukraine

• Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones surveillance

• Russia Ships Most Oil Since 2022 as Drones Strike Refineries

China

• Chinese firm developing AI to predict dissent, leaked documents show

• Without fanfare, China is making rural migrants' lives easier

• China's lab-grown diamonds emerging as a surprising beneficiary of the AI boom

• China launches rival rocket to SpaceX Falcon 9 for the first time

  • China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability

• Chinese Military Sought Nvidia Chips for Years, Report Says

• China's Blueprint for the Annexation of Kinmen

Health / Medicine

• Basil and fennel compound may build up dangerous DNA damage in vulnerable people

• Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Moderna and other groups get $60 million to develop Ebola vaccine.

• The Painful Truth About Long Covid

  There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Amazon molly fish species survived 100k years without males

• Extreme Solar Blasts and Weak Magnetic Field Are a Deadly Combination for Earth

• Pacific Ocean warming signals the possible return of a strong El Niño

• Nearly 2M bees let loose after semi crash on interstate

• El Niño to bring more heat and disasters in coming months, UN warns

  • El Niño confirmed, set to fuel more extreme weather

• Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India

• The way we treat pigs is a sin

• The color of this new and unusual blue octopus is what helps it survive

• Outrage as Google plans to release 64M bacteria-infected mosquitoes

• A deep-ocean desalination startup hopes to rewrite California's water future

• Inside America's Most Dysfunctional Zoo

• Second rabid bat found in crowded California neighborhoods sparks concern