Raphael Satter
@raphae.li
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Writer. Contact me here:
https://raphae.li
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Antoine Hasday
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Bluesky, ton meilleur traitement de texte open source ? Je suis pas fan d'Open Office et j'en ai marre du racket de Windows.
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Trump on Fox News just now: "We had nobody killed. I THINK we had nobody killed."
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Grok's on-demand nudification service doesn't appear to have slowed down. As of about 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time the chatbot is still complying with user demands to digitally strip women of their clothing.
about 19 hours ago
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spoke to one of the women â a Brazilian musician â digitally stripped of her clothing by xAIâs Grok. When she saw the chatbot being asked to virtually strip her down to a bikini, she thought there was no way it would comply. She was wrong.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard-lapses-led-images-minors-minimal-clothing-x-2026-01-02/
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"Trumpâs staff have also counseled him to try to keep his eyes open during public events [...]"
www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...
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Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trumpâthe oldest man to assume the officeâsaid he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/as-signs-of-aging-emerge-trump-responds-with-defiance-769c5dcd
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Seva
4 days ago
this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead
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The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
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Casey Newton
4 days ago
Another great
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investigation into Meta, this one about the company's secret playbook for deceiving and manipulating the regulators investigating its massive scam problem
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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David Greene
4 days ago
One more day to give in 2025. So tell me and everyone else: to which nonprofit newsrooms and news publications should I and everyone else make sure to send some $$? National or local. All suggestions welcome. Even better if you link to a sample of their great work.
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New: Trump administration removes three spyware-linked executives from sanctions list
www.reuters.com/business/tru...
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Trump administration removes three spyware-linked executives from sanctions list
President Donald Trump's administration has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to the spy software consortium Intellexa, according to a notice published to the U.S. Treasury's website.
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-administration-removes-three-spyware-linked-executives-sanctions-list-2025-12-30/
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hakan
9 days ago
big fan of these writeups, especially coming from these two reporters who amaze me all the time
add a skeleton here at some point
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Kashmir Hill
11 days ago
I thought, based on the social media-fication of the
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Oliver Sacks piece, that Sacks had invented patients wholesale. But instead itâs what was once seemingly secretly acceptable among highbrow writers: making up quotes and details about people to make them more interesting.
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Syrians emptied Assadâs prisons. Theyâre filling up again, and abuse is rife.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Syrians emptied Assadâs prisons. Theyâre filling up again, and abuse is rife
A year ago, Syriaâs new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention centers are again operating. And beatings, extortion and other abuses have rea...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syrians-emptied-assads-prisons-theyre-filling-up-again-abuse-is-rife-2025-12-22/
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I did not know that Bobby Kennedy, father of Trumpâs anti-vaccine health secretary, RFK Jr., once worked for Joseph McCarthy. (from: âGhosts of Iron Mountainâ)
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AI âmarriagesâ are now popular enough in Japan that at least one wedding planner specialises in nothing but
www.reuters.com/wider-image/...
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'I didn't say those specific words' is an intriguingly phrased denial from Donald Trump's ex-wife.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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whet moser
17 days ago
the coolest thing in here might be the prefab subway stations
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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China's Clean Energy Push is Powering Flying Taxis, Food Delivery Drones and Bullet Trains (Gift Article)
Chinaâs experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things donât quite work.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/17/climate/china-hefei-clean-energy-drones-evs-robots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.c93T.UhXhI9NkBVry&smid=url-share
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The build-up? Hilarious. The last line? Haunting. And as for the writing -- let's just say you've seen it before.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
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Why Does A.I. Write Like ⊠That?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.nASw.ENWrbp7Nsqnm&smid=url-share
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Big story here and among the many scoops in it is the allegation that China is quietly handing out passports and tolerating dual nationality for specialists recruited to replicate ASMLâs EUV machines at a secret factory in Shenzhen.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Exclusive: How China built its âManhattan Projectâ to rival the West in AI chips
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and...
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/
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Capitol rioters are working with the Trump DOJ to plot vengeance against the US prosecutors â and judges â who put them away.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.
After Trumpâs mass pardons of the U.S. Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting da...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/they-prosecuted-capitol-rioters-now-rioters-doj-are-after-them-2025-12-17/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
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Anna Merlan
18 days ago
I wrote about Benny Johnson, a documented plagiarist whoâs become something like MAGAâs content creator in chief:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Benny Johnson went from BuzzFeed plagiarist to MAGA's chief content creator
He says he did âsome very bad things.â But in Trumpworld, that's a plus.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/benny-johnson-maga-donald-trump/
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Zack Whittaker
18 days ago
With news that the data breach at web and phone analytics giant Mixpanel includes the viewing habits of Pornhub users, here's my TechCrunch story from early December about why this data breach is a big deal â and what sort of data Mixpanel tracks about millions of ordinary people every day.
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A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions | TechCrunch
We sent over a dozen questions to Mixpanel's CEO about the company's data breach. Here's what we want to know.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/a-data-breach-at-analytics-giant-mixpanel-leaves-a-lot-of-open-questions/
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New:
@ajvicens.bsky.social
and I have been able to establish that the Pornhub user data being bandied around by ShinyHunters is at least partially authentic. At least two former customers confirm to us that their emails are in the sample data shared by the hackers.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Hacking group âShinyHuntersâ claims theft of data from users of leading sex site Pornhub
The hacking group âShinyHuntersâ said Tuesday that it had stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hacking-group-shinyhunters-claims-theft-data-users-leading-sex-site-pornhub-2025-12-16/
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Many reasons to read this story but among them are the newly reported connections between Epstein and Trumpworld: Bank exec Harry Loy Anderson Jr. was Epsteinâs effusive character witness in the Virgin Islands. Andersonâs daughter is now engaged to Donald Jr.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
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Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-money-scams-investigation.html
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molly conger
21 days ago
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
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Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/two-survivors-of-brown-university-attack-escaped-other-school-shootings
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About halfway through this wild story about missing American nuclear generator in the Himalayas Gen. Curtis LeMay makes an appearance and it all makes a lot more sense
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the worldâs highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html
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This research gets at an idea that's been percolating in disinfo-fighting circles for a while: Rather than get bogged down in debates over online censorship, why not shine a light on the market for disinformation-related services?
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Key barrier to online fraud can be bypassed for pennies, say researchers
A central barrier to the creation of bogus social media accounts can be bypassed for as little as a few cents at a time, researchers at the University of Cambridge determined, a sign of just how low t...
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/key-barrier-online-fraud-can-be-bypassed-pennies-say-researchers-2025-12-11/
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Zach Everson
24 days ago
Donald Trump Jr: "History will look favorably upon those who vote to preserve freedom of speech and Liberty." Also Donald Trump Jr: Here are my club's nondisclosure obligations. 3/
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Will Sommer
24 days ago
Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/eric-geressy-goodreads-pentagon-dod-pete-hegseth-jack-posobiec-threat/
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Kevin Collier
24 days ago
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.
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AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956
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This brings to (at least) 20 the number of lawsuits filed by people fired or otherwise punished for comments about Charlie Kirkâs assassination. Our story from last month on the sweeping crackdown against those who criticized Kirk (with
@ajvicens.bsky.social
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www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Kashmir Hill
26 days ago
I have seen so many of these in my decades as a journalist: the contact-us page that makes clear they donât actually want anyone contacting them
www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-o...
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New: Apple sends fresh round of cyber threat notifications to users in 84 countries
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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Apple sends new round of cyber threat notifications to users in 84 countries
Apple has sent a new round of cyber threat notifications to users in 84 countries, the company said on Friday, announcing its latest efforts to insulate customers against surveillance threats.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-sent-new-round-cyber-threat-notifications-users-84-countries-2025-12-05/
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A random one: Who is a good expert on how hedge funds, quants, etc scrape investor relations pages for market moving data? ie like what happened to Twitter in 2015 when its earnings were briefly published ahead of time and picked up by Selerity?
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
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How one tweet wiped $8bn off Twitter's value - BBC News
How Twitter lost more than 25% of its value after a tweet prompted traders to sell the stock.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32511932.amp
about 1 month ago
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Bill Grueskin
about 1 month ago
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putinâs forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. đ
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.EysH.oXieEDTJkrKa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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Sabrina Imbler
about 1 month ago
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
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Why Wonât Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
https://defector.com/why-wont-nora-the-leopard-seal-abandon-her-dead-pups
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Brian Phillips
about 1 month ago
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
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The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/national-affairs/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-ryan-lizza-explained-book-scandal
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Greg Jaffe
about 1 month ago
He Saw the Best of America and Then (at age 67) Fought for Russia in Ukraine. One of the crazier stories I've worked on. with Paul Sonne.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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He Saw the Best of America and Then Fought for Russia in Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/politics/russian-soldier-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.lt5r.DlOt3qmUHdzM&smid=tw-share
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
about 1 month ago
Unmade beds and overdue books: Photographing the rooms of kids killed in school shootings
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Unmade beds and overdue books: Photographing the rooms of kids killed in school shootings
The families of eight school shooting victims opened their doors to Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, allowing them to document their children's bedrooms.
https://www.cbsnews.com/rooms/
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U8.3A1u.ZAX9W46WWg-A&smid=url-share
about 1 month ago
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Brad Heath
about 1 month ago
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency has ceased to be.
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
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Important story: The very wealthiest people in America are playing an ever more important role in financing Americaâs elections â and potentially determining their outcome.
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Melissa Gira Grant
about 1 month ago
Public records requests by
@propertyofthepeople.org
reveal FBI had access to at least one immigration court watch Signal groupâitâs not clear how. But from what we know about how Signal works, it could be the FBI obtained access to a group memberâs phone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tim Onion
about 1 month ago
Incredible headline.
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Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/
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Deeply reported piece on how US authorities are detaining people based on nothing more than driving patterns captured by hidden cameras and flagged by opaque algorithms.
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Eliot Higgins
about 2 months ago
Bellingcatâs contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, weâre seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Will Sommer
about 2 months ago
Quite a twist at the end here!
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
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Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting tripâat least thatâs what she told me it wasâand her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out
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