Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

Most people will focus on the insider trading element. What's more concerning is how this could've been a tip-off of pending military action. Like Signalgate, except anyone can see it in real time.

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

For years, people have lodged complaints about Tesla’s doors. With no official statistics, Bloomberg did its own analysis on the number of fatal crashes in the US in which door functionality played a role. Read more: bloom.bg/49tm0fF 📷️: Getty Images

Cannot think of a grimmer, sadder headline. "I’m a Two-Time School-Shooting Survivor: Zoe Weissman was 12 when she lived through Parkland. At 20, she just went through it again at Brown University." -- www.thecut.com/article/brow...

Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion: Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B” Equal to: -33 new high schools -public teacher salaries for > 1Y -more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

I took a deep dive into Meta’s “Hyperion” data center in Richland Parish, LA. The story of a tech behemoth coming bearing billions to a poor community like Richland Parish is complex and worthy of scrutiny. 🧵 1/7 sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

it took the NYPD a week to find a man dead inside a car with illegal tinted windows and parked in front of a fire hydrant just 600 feet from their front door

Isn't it funny how little regulation there is for this tech (genAI) that is so easily making CSAM?

Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... 1/2

Red light CRIMINAL summonses against cyclists. Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.

This is the first chart drafted by an AI assistant, and then reviewed by a human editor, to be published on the Reuters homepage.

Latest piece on the effects of the immigration crackdown: Internal DHS documents show that investigators have rescued or identified 300 fewer child sexual abuse victims this year compared to last year. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Last week, we wrote about DHS agents being pulled off child exploitation + terrorism investigations to arrest undocumented immigrants. Now we've seen internal data showing drop in drug + weapons cases. - Drug arrests ↓ 11% - New drug cases ↓ 15% - Weapons seizures ↓ 73%

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

We originally set up an alert to track our mentions @towcenter.bsky.social - but soon found that my name cropped up a great deal, (false ‘Dr’ added), talking about the things I talk about (tech + media) but none of the quotes were real. AI slop me has been pretty busy….

This is a great piece of investigative reporting ⤵️ ⤵️

Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities

The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not. They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

This is part of a global push to roll back privacy laws by companies that are constantly in trouble for violating privacy laws. Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Hi, I've been working on a lil' something.

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Our office released a new study highlighting rampant illegal parking across Downtown Brooklyn. Vehicles block sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes & loading zones - making it more dangerous for New Yorkers to get around the neighborhood. www.lincolnrestler.nyc/s/Illegal-Pa...

Reupping for the Sunday crowd =>

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Over the past two decades, China has leapt ahead of other countries in innovations in the energy mix of the future: solar, wind, batteries, and newer frontiers like smart grids. Latest in the Power Moves series with Max Bearak: 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What percentage of GPT training is now just making sure it can draw a pelican riding a bicycle?

A new report from Australia's eSafety Commissioner finds that tech companies continue to make "minimal efforts" to tackle online child sexual abuse: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrou...

Wish I had thought to do this. A snapshot at Zuckerberg’s various manifestos. What will the next one be about? om.co/2025/07/30/d...

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

The minimalist/web brutalist style appears directly copied from ssi.inc's own manifesto about "Safe Superintelligence" from over a year ago. h/t @1wheel.bsky.social

what's the best thing you've read on the rise of gambling/sports betting/the whole world feels like a casino now thing?

With a huge thanks to @openclimatedata.net, LayerCake v9.0.0 is out with significant TypeScript additions, proper end-to-end tests and all-new, Svelte 5 components in the component gallery! There will likely be improvements so please file an issue or a PR with any changes! layercake.graphics

Instagram announced today that it's adding increased protections to so-called "mom-run accounts," which are run by adults but primarily feature children too young to be on Instagram themselves. Before, these protections only applied to accounts run by teens. about.fb.com/news/2025/07...

So pleased to see this. Varsha Bansal developed this story and interview in our class on Information Warfare Reporting - thanks to @wired.com for publishing and Jo Ellis for standing up to disinformation

The AI moratorium is down from 10 years to 5 but new language in the budget bill would make tech companies immune from a host of potential lawsuits around online harms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

In Dec, we found children advertised across more than 80 livestream video apps. We just learned that one of the girls, age 9, was rescued in Vietnam. It's the first time U.S. agents have worked a case like this there and a first for local authorities, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

"It's still not popular" as a talking point going out the window right on time as fully expected.

X continues to allow accounts linked to terrorist groups like Hezbollah to pay for verified checkmarks. This comes after Musk criticized the Treasury Dept for allegedly not having controls in place with regards to terrorists that were "in place at any company." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/t...

Thank you, @craigsilverman.bsky.social, for including Code Like a Journalist in your newsletter! 👉 www.code-like-a-journalist.com

Fantastic charts by the @upshot.nytimes.com's @aatishb.bsky.social + Irineo Cabreros summing up Trump's first 100 days. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Three users on X who feuded with Elon Musk in December saw their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight, The New York Times found, signaling that Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it. nyti.ms/4lF3pm1