NEW REPORT: #Russian and #Belarusian - speaking independent media and opposition activists in Europe targeted with NSO Group's #Pegasus mercenary #spyware .

Collaborative investigation between Citizen Lab & @AccessNow:
citizenlab.ca/2024/05/pegasu…

OpenAI just created an oversight board that’s filled with its own executives and Altman himself. This is a tried and tested approach to self-regulation in tech that does virtually nothing in the way of actual oversight. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I hear about how data centers can be used for district heating all the time, so surprised to learn that this is Google's first ever such project -- providing heating for 2,000 people in Finland.

datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google…

Great. Just someone claiming to offer some #Pegasus spyware source code for sale.

True or scam, this reminds me of 2018, when an NSO employee stole code & did exactly that.

As I testified to Congress: the mercenary spyware industry continues to recklessly proliferate very

So... FBI ran a Truman Show on this 🇨🇳spy for 8 years?

Wild.

I'm really glad that vice presidential candidate, Nicole Shanahan, tweeted this because it gives me a chance to talk about how reporting is done. This is called a 'no surprises' letter and was my final attempt (after a half dozen interview requests and questions to the RFK

It will be interesting if books/writing/content from the pre-AI era becomes the equivalent of low-background/pre-1945 steel.

Delighted to become new Bloomberg UK political editor, following the legendary Kitty Donaldson

As always please get in touch with any stories / tips / if you fancy lunch — even if you’re not free for six weeks…

New/exclusive:
African workers who moderate platforms like Instagram + train AI for places like OpenAI (often for >$2/hr) pub'ed an open letter to Biden.
They say US tech companies need to stop paying 'modern day slavery' level wages & union busting:
wired.com/story/low-paid…

🚨Some news🚨 After 2.5 years, I’m leaving Rest of World! It’s been an absolute honour to edit such talented journalists globally, but I’m itching to do more of my own writing.

My last task is to hire the next Features Editor. Could it be you?

Apply: restofworld.org/about/hiring/f…

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Europe is giving huge sums of money to N African countries each year in an effort to curb migration

Our year-long investigation reveals this money is being used to indiscriminately round up Black people & dump them in desert areas, sometimes leaving them for dead

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ASML and TSMC can remotely disable their advanced chipmaking machines should China invade Taiwan

Great scoop from Diederik Baazil, Cagan Koc and Jordan Robertson

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Greg Peters is one of the most powerful media executives in the world. And yet, he’s got no public profile.

I spent the past several months speaking to the co-CEO of Netflix (and those around him) for the latest Businessweek.

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Time for perhaps the most damning stat of all:

One in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday.

No parent should ever have to bury their child, but on average across the US one set of parents from every kindergarten class most likely will.

The FT chart showing the UK soaring ahead.

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So I zoomed out and it turns out it’s a chart showing homelessness.

ht John Burn-Murdoch