Olivia Solon
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Covering tech at Bloomberg from London Signal: @oliviasolon.13 Email:
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James Ball
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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?
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Eliot Higgins
4 days ago
Misidentified by LLMs - Former police officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Former police officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest
Christi Hill and male officer misidentified in Vickrum Digwa murder case on AI platforms including Grok
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/03/former-officer-hampshire-hiding-after-being-falsely-linked-henry-nowak-arrest?CMP=share_btn_url
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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.
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
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
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Shona Ghosh
3 months ago
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire behind OnlyFans, is dead at 43, reports
@oliviasolon.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Leonid Radvinsky, Who Changed Porn With OnlyFans, Is Dead at 43
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the London-based company confirmed on Monday. He was 43.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43?srnd=undefined
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âWe value your privacyâ
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Charlie Warzel
3 months ago
I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of âmonitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithmsâa kind of attentional death
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One Situation After Another
Doomscrolling is over. Now, everyone is âmonitoring the situation.â
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/world-monitor-situation-meme/686389/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAa2i3j-oWrv2i7hciKpN3P4
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Mike Masnick
3 months ago
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...
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Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs [Update: Meta's statement]
Pulling the plug on privacy?
https://www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encryption-for-dms/
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Mary Anne Franks
3 months ago
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
Theyâre saying the quiet part out loud now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_source=Twitter
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Akshat Rathi
3 months ago
It's going from bad to worse.
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Mobius Stripper
3 months ago
Dogs are great if you have money and want that to no longer be the case.
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Carl Quintanilla
3 months ago
Itâs Ukraineâs turn to ask if we even said âthank youâ.
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Taylor Lorenz
3 months ago
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Eyes on AI
Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.
http://eyeson-ai.org
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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
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Mike Masnick
3 months ago
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
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Drew Harwell
3 months ago
Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app
www.wired.me/story/hacked...
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James Ball
3 months ago
February, truly the asshole of months, is vanquished for another year.
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Mike Masnick
3 months ago
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...
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Sam Biddle
3 months ago
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
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Leon Yin
3 months ago
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...
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Unlikely Wins and Comped Spins: Inside Stakeâs Empire
Crypto casino Stake pays Drake and other stars to bet, spreading clips of big wins to impressionable gamblers. The numbers show unusual luck is at work.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-stake-drake-crypto-casino-adin-ross-gambling/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjIwNDI5MCwiZXhwIjoxNzcyODA5MDkwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQjRFV0JLR0NUSVEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2NDU1MEM3NkRFMkU0QkM1OEI0OTI5QjBDQkIzRDlCRCJ9.FpzER3_CzafPnHAK2fhAipaMRInY0pJN8Die71PA1S8
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Cecilia D'Anastasio
3 months ago
Stake says influencers like Drake and Adin Ross donât 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...
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Unlikely Wins and Comped Spins: Inside Stakeâs Empire
Crypto casino Stake pays Drake and other stars to bet, spreading clips of big wins to impressionable gamblers. The numbers show unusual luck is at work.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-stake-drake-crypto-casino-adin-ross-gambling/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjIwMTAwNSwiZXhwIjoxNzcyODA1ODA1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQjRFV0JLR0NUSVEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGRUIzODlCNUI2ODI0RTY0QjY5MENEODE1RTBDREZGRCJ9.PFpKQ_oP0b_PQDLhkfD5AHE8n1qANEicJa0RWTEAYO4
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Shona Ghosh
4 months ago
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.
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Epstein Paid Reputation Firms to Suppress Child Sex Offenses Online
Jeffrey Epstein tapped online reputation management firms to bury negative coverage of his 2008 sex offense conviction and flood the internet with favorable content in a years-long effort to rehabilit...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-13/epstein-paid-reputation-firms-to-suppress-child-sex-offenses-online?srnd=phx-technology
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Doug Madory
4 months ago
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.
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Itâs 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.
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Jasper Jackson
5 months ago
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.)
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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...
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A âwhistleblowerâ tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
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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
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Katelyn Jetelina
7 months ago
For the first time in my career, I canât tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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Jim Waterson
7 months ago
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.
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Jim Waterson
7 months ago
The brutal reality of life as an Android owner in London: First youâre shocked as youâre mugged. Then youâre humiliated as the thief returns the device.
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
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"Don't want no Samsung"
Plus: Scroll down to see what might be the strangest new artwork in the capital and read more on our investigations into the capital's landlords.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-phone-thieves-prefer-android-iphone-l
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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...
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Google, Meta Delay Red Sea Cables as Security Risks Rattle Plans
Multiple subsea internet cables slated to run through the Red Sea are yet to complete as planned, as political tensions and heightened security threats have made the route more dangerous and complicat...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/google-meta-delay-red-sea-cables-as-security-risks-rattle-plans
7 months ago
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The new poop emoji
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8 months ago
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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.
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AppLovin Axes Product Tied to Unwanted App Download Allegations
AppLovin Corp. said it has shut down a product linked to user and short-seller allegations that apps were being downloaded to mobile phones without consent.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/applovin-shuts-array-software-tied-to-unwanted-app-download-allegations
8 months ago
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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...
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AppLovin Has Been Probed By SEC Over Data-Collection Practices
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. The companyâs...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/applovin-has-been-probed-by-sec-over-data-collection-practices?embedded-checkout=true
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9 months ago
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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.
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In 2021, a report alleged that Evolutionâs casino games could be played in sanctioned markets. The company denied the allegations, saying this wasnât possible without âsophisticated technical manipulation.â It also sued the law firm that submitted the report to a regulator.
10 months ago
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Devastated to learn that the Ibiza club Bezos and Sanchez went to was DC10. Stick to Ushuaia!
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Maaike
10 months ago
Big Parma is watching you
www.theguardian.com/food/2023/au...
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Cheese and chips: parmesan producers fight fakes with microtransponders
Counterfeits are the bane of the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, which is now trialling tech in the rind
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/18/parmesan-producers-fight-fakes-microtransponders-chips-rind
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A series of short-seller reports about AppLovin have exposed the ugly underbelly of mobile ad tech
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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AppLovin Short Sellers Discover Mobile Ad Techâs Ugly Underbelly
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloombergâs journalists around the world. Today, Olivia Solon addresses the spate of reports alleging one of Google and M...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-23/applovin-short-sellers-discover-mobile-ad-tech-s-ugly-underbelly
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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 Spainâs power and water
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Antonella Napolitano
11 months ago
New by
@oliviasolon.bsky.social
(
@bloomberg.com
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@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:
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Cybersecurity Flaws Plagued EU Border Control System, Audit Shows
An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software and security vulnerabilities, according to emails and conf...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/europe-s-schengen-border-software-vulnerable-to-hacks-audit-says?embedded-checkout=true
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Lighthouse Reports
11 months ago
This reporting by
@tomasstatius.bsky.social
@oliviasolon.bsky.social
follows our previous exposĂŠ of a related EU biometric border system fiasco involving French industrial group Atos
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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
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@lighthousereports.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EU Border Software Vulnerable to Hacks, Confidential Reports Warn
An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software and security vulnerabilities, according to emails and conf...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/europe-s-schengen-border-software-vulnerable-to-hacks-audit-says?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MTQzNzk4MSwiZXhwIjoxNzUyMDQyNzgxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWVI3NFZUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzMkI3NjREMjRGNDQ0OTEyQjE0Mzc1OTA4ODY4N0FFNiJ9.Y1ORK2-Q2ANi1g_mptFAaSmZEZU9vHO02jCnjvgu3Ic
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Telegramâs Durov to Leave Fortune to 100 Children Heâs Fathered
Telegram billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov plans to leave his vast fortune to the more than 100 children heâs fathered, according to an interview with Franceâs Le Point magaz...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/telegram-s-durov-to-leave-fortune-to-100-children-he-s-fathered
12 months ago
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Jacob Aron
12 months ago
"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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12 months ago
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