NPR investigation finds federal judges failing to disclose free luxury travel - important work ⁦Tom Dreisbach⁩

npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

TIL that this music video was released:

NEW: Border communities in Texas have purchased a technology that tracks people through their Bluetooth and WiFi signals. It can track you through your wireless earbuds. The product is called Trafficatch & it's integrated into license plate reader systems
notus.org/technology/war…

Went to a wedding in Alabama this past weekend. Was told several times I look like Lane Kiffin….

I’ll never recover from this

Jeff Bezos emails Amazon exec

February 29, 2020

BREAKING: Police have charged Pikesville High School's athletic director with using AI to fake a racist recording of the school's principal that went viral thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

Keep an eye on this tactic as elections near globally. Remember that IRGC went after the content management systems of media companies in 2020 as part of their bigger campaign. therecord.media/hackers-breach…

The strongest person I know. Evan should be free, with his family and The Wall Street Journal colleagues. We'll keep fighting until that happens.

#FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan

1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

Maria Cheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
apnews.com/article/china-…

“Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn #Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.”

apnews.com/article/c26635…

Sandworm on Anderson Cooper 360° x.com/AC360/status/1…

Nashville day 2

👀A Russian court has sentenced a former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer to nine years in prison for taking a $1.7 million bribe from hackers and promising to shield them from prosecution.

therecord.media/former-fsb-off…

Reuters' Mohammed Salem has won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image of a Palestinian woman, Inas Abu Maamar, cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in Gaza.

this was a great critique of NPR that felt both fair and inward looking by Alicia Montgomery

id argue that these issues are endemic to large legacy media operations generally — allowing for biases but noting it is more complicated & kafkaesque as well

slate.com/business/2024/…

Here at Vanderbilt University’s Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. If you’re attending, send me a note 📝

nailed it

Deeply interested in how the biden admin (from Nsc through commerce) evaluated this move, given the available background

Chinese MFA spokesperson says Volt Typhoon is a ransomware group

globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

cool to see ransomware get national mainstream attention like this