I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Misidentified by LLMs - Former police officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Summer cycling in London is kinda scary. I'm riding to work a little later than usual at the moment (~7:45 a.m. vs ~6:30 a.m.) and I've already seen two nasty collisions -- both, I'm afraid, because a cyclist didn't stop at a light or crossing.

When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: https://propub.li/3OBQMwk

Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire behind OnlyFans, is dead at 43, reports @oliviasolon.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“We value your privacy”

I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death

Meta spent seven years telling us they were working on true end-to-end encryption across all their various messaging apps... and finally rolled it out in 2024. And then less than three years later, they're shutting it off for Instagram? What? www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is...

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

It's going from bad to worse. www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Dogs are great if you have money and want that to no longer be the case.

It’s Ukraine’s turn to ask if we even said “thank you”.

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Nothing quite like the shame of having to explain to a radiographer why you got a microchip implanted in your hand so you could buy a KitKat from a vending machine in Wisconsin for a story 10 years go

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app www.wired.me/story/hacked...

February, truly the asshole of months, is vanquished for another year.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

NEW @bloomberg.com feature on Stake: the world's largest crypto casino. Our year-long piece dives into Stake employing superstar influencers such as Drake and Adin Ross to livestream gambling. By @cecianasta.bsky.social @oliviasolon.bsky.social and myself: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Stake says influencers like Drake and Adin Ross don’t win more than the average gambler. We ran the numbers, and guess what :) Here's our year-long data investigation into Stake and Kick's influencer empire, with @oliviasolon.bsky.social and @leonyin.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

There is a lot to find darkly comic in the Epstein files. What struck me in this @oliviasolon.bsky.social piece was the way he accesses the top intellectual echelons, pioneers in AI, physics. Yet spends so much time grubbing around with "SEO experts" and grifters. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Iran's shutdown is now 15 days and counting. Small amounts of service have been restored in recent days. #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevoIution2026 State telecom TIC (A49666) re-established many of its lost connections with outside providers, such as GBI (AS200612) at 22:02 UTC on Jan-22.

It’s depressing to see women try to claw back control of their images by imploring a chatbot not to misuse their photos. Posts like these are reminiscent of the copyright declarations you used to see on Facebook. Totally understandable but unlikely to have the desired effect.

So much interesting in this (and good work on @caseynewton.bsky.social documenting it). One thing to note though, Google's watermarking identified the image of the badge as created by its AI tool. Other image generators haven't bothered implementing anything similar, why? (Looking at you, Sora.)

Great work from @caseynewton.bsky.social and an illuminating case study in how journalists authenticate allegations/sources in an age of generative AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Nudify apps have been around for ages, but it's wild to see a mainstream platform like X effectively become a revenge porn machine, generating AND publishing non-consensual intimate images of women

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

This thread chimes with my experience on so many fronts. Whether it's conspiracy theorists, freelancers pitching stories, or people applying for jobs it's so hard to filter based on writing quality. Weirdly I end up trusting the typo-strewn, clearly-dashed-out-by-a-human-in-a-hurry emails more now.

The brutal reality of life as an Android owner in London: First you’re shocked as you’re mugged. Then you’re humiliated as the thief returns the device. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

Houthi missile attacks on vessels in the Red Sea has created huge delays to several subsea cable projects, throttling the supply of internet capacity. It's forcing companies like Meta and Google to rethink how they route internet traffic globally www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The new poop emoji

AppLovin has shut down a product linked to user and short-seller allegations that apps were being downloaded to mobile phones without consent. The product, called Array, was offered to device-makers and carriers to promote or preload apps on phones. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The SEC has been probing AppLovin over its data-collection practices, according to people familiar with the matter My latest for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI infrastructure ouroboros: Microsoft funds OpenAI, which pays for Microsoft & other cloud/data center companies for compute, and those cloud companies buy Nvidia GPUs, and Nvidia props those companies up with investment and guarantees to buy unused compute capacity.

In 2021, a report alleged that Evolution’s casino games could be played in sanctioned markets. The company denied the allegations, saying this wasn’t possible without “sophisticated technical manipulation.” It also sued the law firm that submitted the report to a regulator.

Devastated to learn that the Ibiza club Bezos and Sanchez went to was DC10. Stick to Ushuaia!

Big Parma is watching you www.theguardian.com/food/2023/au...

A series of short-seller reports about AppLovin have exposed the ugly underbelly of mobile ad tech www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I like how hyperscalers shifted from using shell companies to develop data centers as quietly as possible to avoid community pitchforks to calling them things like Gigazilla and bragging about how they will consume all of Spain’s power and water

New by @oliviasolon.bsky.social ( @bloomberg.com) and @tomasstatius.bsky.social ( @lighthousereports.com): a EU border control system - with biometric info on 1.7 million people - has extremely serious cybersecurity issues. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... This is why these stories are important:

This reporting by @tomasstatius.bsky.social @oliviasolon.bsky.social follows our previous exposé of a related EU biometric border system fiasco involving French industrial group Atos bsky.app/profile/ligh...

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software & security vulnerabilities, according to confidential documents seen by @bloomberg.com and @lighthousereports.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Journalists in movies are usually depicted as highly unethical -- sleeping with sources, making covert recordings, breaking into places to steal documents. But really we're spending 6 hours trawling LinkedIn for current and former employees.

The absolute entitlement with which my kids demand water. They cannot wait 5 minutes for their thirst to be quenched. In the 80s we never had access to water. No water bottles. We survived as desiccated husks, lucky to get the occasional cup of orange squash.

What's with these natalist/god complex billionaires? Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he has fathered 6 kids with three partners as well as more than 100 other kids via his sperm donations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Imagine a woven butterfly”

"I'm sorry, you're right to point out the mistake. I didn't bomb the target you asked for, I bombed something statistically resembling the target you asked for. I'll do better next time!"

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