A Bitcoin mine moved into a Texas town--then its residents started getting sick. I traveled to Granbury and talked to 50+ people experiencing symptoms that seem to stem from the mine's noise, including heart palpitations, seizures, migraines, blood clots time.com/6982015/bitcoi…

Scoop: Transsion, one of the world's largest smartphone manufacturers (although largely unknown outside of the developing world), is being chased down by intellectual property holders including Nokia and Qualcomm for alleged patent violations. w/ James Kynge ft.com/content/78c5cf…

Wrote about a pretty significant cultural shift taking place in UK workplaces: the rise in whisteblowing. Lawyers and advocates told me that the Lucy Letby case, the Post Office scandal, and the MeToo movement have all had a trickle down effect. ft.com/content/893ab0…

Hosted this morning's FT News Briefing podcast, which featured interviews with Neri Zilber and rbrtar_, as well as a look at the upcoming Bank of England rate announcement. ft.com/content/26534a…

Not convinced the new exoskeleton hiking stuff will take off but a pretty incredible development for the gorpcore guys. theverge.com/2024/7/29/2420…

*NEW* Google is making changing to its search engine to mitigate the increase in deepfake porn. Tech platforms are still grappling with how to manage AI-generated adult content. Wrote about it with Hannah Murphy ft.com/content/a2b489…

The scale of these boycott actions against Israel, targetting Western consumer brands, is really staggering. ft.com/content/a2ee34…

The UK's higher education regulator is forking out money for consultants to deal with impending university insolvencies, going against the government's own directive to not spend any more money on consultants 🤔 on.ft.com/3yqjpo5

💥New podcast alert from ⁦Financial Times⁩💥 The FT’s ⁦Hannah Murphy⁩ on the trouble with deepfakes & what to do about their proliferation, produced by ⁦Persis Love⁩ ⁦JoshGD⁩ ⁦Edwin Lane⁩ scored by Sam Giovinco & ⁦Breen Turner⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ft-…

It started with a freakishly insect-free dinner in Sicily. Back in the UK, I wanted to find out more. Is this the #insectapocalypse? 🦋🐞🪳🪲🐜🪰🦗🦟 Where have all the insects gone? via ⁦Financial Times⁩ on.ft.com/4dytDlv

Oasis inflation effect when?? ft.com/content/4876fa…

After seeing nonconsensual deepfake porn of herself online, Anita found little recourse for having it removed, or holding the perpetrators to account. 98% of deepfake videos are porn. What's being done about it? Hannah Murphy Manuela Saragosa🌍 Edwin Lane open.spotify.com/episode/7FfzcY…

Hosted this morning's FT News Briefing podcast with coverage of the German far right election victory, calls for a general strike in Israel, and greedflation (w/ Robert Armstrong) Produced by Niamh ft.com/content/d464b0…

General strike in Israel peters out early

Looking into American semiconductor manufacturing history and stumbled across this pretty incredible story of how AIM occupied a Fairchild fab on Navajo Nation (the company wasn't paying minimum wage). Fairchild responded by offshoring the plant to Asia. navajotimes.com/50years/50-yea…

London's e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over parking issues, as Lime and Forest expand; Lime trips during peak hours have grown 91% YoY in 2024 (@joshgd / Financial Times) ft.com/content/730d4d… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240908/p6#a240…

Wrote about Transsion – a Chinese smartphone manufacturer which sells almost exclusively in emerging markets – and the growing list of challenges it faces (CFO's just been detained, a litany of IP suits, Chinese rivals muscling in on its turf) on.ft.com/3MK2hwY

I spoke with JoshGD and James Kynge of Financial Times on the recent travails of Transsion, which despite gaining share in LATAM and Eastern Europe, has lost ground in Africa due to strong competition. Legal travails are also on the horizon for the company. ft.com/content/7739f6…