Alt: Ben Stiller in Zoolander. He is wearing a blue hat with a light, a strappy white tank top, and pants with lots of tools hanging stylishly around the waist. His arms ar smeared with black dust and he carries a rock hammer. He is swaggering as if on a model runway.

The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

Tanbreez ranks among the larger undeveloped heavy rare earth projects outside China.

Researchers say that a vote to reject the epoch violated procedure and call for transparency.

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