"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This was really highlighted when I processed birth data for this Guardian project - so many Australians recorded as being born in countries that no longer exist, vague regions or continents, or even things like "French ship" or "British Antarctica" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I've been wanting to explore Apple's local LLM ("Foundation Models") that's now there on every macOS 26 install. I was surprised I couldn't find any python bindings. A few hours with Claude Code (still mind blowing to me this is possible!) and I have an initial version: github.com/btucker/appl...

This has been an extraordinary set of data to process: 1.3B unique passwords, 2B unique email addresses (including mine 😭) and almost 3M of our @haveibeenpwned.com subscribers in there. It’s been weeks of processing to get this loaded, and finally, it’s done www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...

Not sure if I believe the story of a couple of dudes who put a trampoline on top of the Great Pyramid but this is an amazing yarn nevertheless hadtrampolinedidtravel.blogspot.com/2013/05/part...

I love how much the ABC are using illustration in their interactives www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Dick Cheney's wiki page was the most visited yesterday (excluding the main page, special pages etc.), almost doubling up Mamdani in second

BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2 careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...

Skilled workers are increasingly shunning America and Britain as top place to emigrate to • In 2008 more than one-tird of educated young adults picked US or UK as top destination • Share has dropped to 23%, with Canada among biggest beneficiaries from loss in US and UK allure

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

I’ve just looked this up and holy shit does Seattle’s icon go hard

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

From Ruins to Reuse: How Ukrainians Are Repurposing War Waste e360.yale.edu/features/ukr...

This is great neal.fun/space-elevator

Legit, for the past couple of years Teen Vogue has been one of the very few remaining major titles to publish political commentary that clearly addressed the American cultural descent into madness. Invaluable for young readers, filing a gulf. No wonder it’s being squashed

In their darkest moments, too many Australians are being met with lethal force instead of love and care www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

3) are the visual differences in my elaborate chart so minuscule its actually just a table in disguise

A big personal and professional change coming for me. I've accepted a professor position in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast which means that next year (visa willing), the family and I will be heading to Australia.

I had a very nice time writing about this new/old shipwreck found down at Point Lonsdale

the Coalition dumping net zero and going harder on immigration to chase One Nation votes is not likely to help them if they ever want to win enough seats to form government again - and this (complicated) chart shows one reason why! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The dream is over for Chicago. Bulls can still finish 81-1, but season feels hollow now.

This is great www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How racing makes its deadliest moments disappear www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

How hurricane hunters measured Melissa www.reuters.com/graphics/STO...

Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future. The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline: · pre-training, · post-training, · infra. 200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️

* Worst Coalition primary in a public poll ever, 3 points worse than previous Newspoll low * Highest ON primary in Newspoll history, sort-of tying last week's Essential (though that was raw not net) * Lowest combined major primary in Newspoll history by 3 points.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Truly epic. Everyone is gonna remember that time Will Smith shocked everyone on live TV

in early 2016 facebook came to the conclusion that everyone with a facebook account at the time was connected to everyone else on facebook by an average of about 3.5 hops research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/...

"In the past five years, the median house price in Mount Gravatt has grown by about 77 per cent, from $731,000 to about $1.3 million, according to Cotality data. Ten years ago, the median house price in the area was only $555,000, and in 2000 it was just $174,000." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Gonna be so hot today it broke the scale on my chart

Sun is pretty amazing today. Would recommend. #scribble

So many people to do the cricket broadcasts

Cricketttttt #scribble