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Tom Simonite

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Peter Aldhous (@paldhous) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵The history of this 2002 nature paper shows how delayed retractions create an edifice of bad citations nature.com/articles/s4158… 2007: Integrity of the work questioned by Eugenie Reich and I 2019: Elisabeth Bik finds manipulated images 2024: Retracted, with 4,482 citations

🧵The history of this 2002 <a href="/Nature/">nature</a> paper shows how delayed retractions create an edifice of bad citations
nature.com/articles/s4158…
2007: Integrity of the work questioned by <a href="/EugenieReich/">Eugenie Reich</a> and I
2019: <a href="/MicrobiomDigest/">Elisabeth Bik</a> finds manipulated images
2024: Retracted, with 4,482 citations
Caroline Haskins (@car0linehaskins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New from me at WIRED: 1100+ STEM students from 120+ universities have signed a pledge to not work/intern for Google or Amazon until they drop Project Nimbus, their $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government wired.com/story/stem-stu…

hal 👾 (@halhod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s the northern hemisphere solstice today. So I wrote an essay about solar power, and how it’s is going to change everything

It’s the northern hemisphere solstice today. So I wrote an essay about solar power, and how it’s is going to change everything
Andrew Parsons (@andrewjparsons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

our Audible original Backfired: The Vaping Wars is out today and it's getting some great attention. Congrats to the entire team at Prologue Projects Leon Neyfakh Arielle Pardes Kim Gittleson Sam Lee Dustin DeSoto Katherine Sullivan Arlene Arevelo, Francis Carr and Erica Huang.

our <a href="/audible_com/">Audible</a> original Backfired: The Vaping Wars is out today and it's getting some great attention. Congrats to the entire team at Prologue Projects <a href="/leoncrawl/">Leon Neyfakh</a> <a href="/pardesoteric/">Arielle Pardes</a> <a href="/kgittleson/">Kim Gittleson</a> <a href="/samleeradio/">Sam Lee</a> <a href="/dtdesoto/">Dustin DeSoto</a> <a href="/katherrun/">Katherine Sullivan</a> Arlene Arevelo, Francis Carr and Erica Huang.
Lauren Goode (@laurengoode) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read yesterday’s story from Dhruv Mehrotra Tim Marchman about Perplexity’s bullshit machine. Then listen to our podcast today, with Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ as cohost, featuring the chief content officer of Forbes, which has threatened Perplexity with legal action podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gad…

Michael Veale @mikarv@someone.elses.computer (@mikarv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Closed protocols that Apple does not even license let alone publish like SharePlay and AirDrop are exactly what the DMA should be aiming at. If Europe is not big enough to push Apple into compliance then more jurisdictions should join the effort.

Eva Dou (@evadou) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to announce that my book about China's most important company, Huawei Technologies, will be out on Jan. 21. Looking forward to sharing this saga of how a small band of entrepreneurs and a nation built something wholly expected ... and all that came next.

Excited to announce that my book about China's most important company, Huawei Technologies, will be out on Jan. 21. Looking forward to sharing this saga of how a small band of entrepreneurs and a nation built something wholly expected ... and all that came next.
Tom Simonite (@tsimonite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

San Francisco's chief economist is not too worried about X moving out of the city. "It's a much smaller company now ... We may have gotten the most out of it that we were ever gonna get." washingtonpost.com/technology/202… via Trisha Thadani

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Elon Musk launched an AI image generator that appeared to lack standard guardrails, further dragging X into uncharted territory ahead of a contentious election. wapo.st/3M6lOrc

Will Oremus (@willoremus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you a bot? As AI gets smarter, tests like CAPTCHA or even posting a selfie are quickly becoming "inadequate" to prevent an onslaught of AI agents from overwhelming the internet, researchers warn in a new paper.

Are you a bot? As AI gets smarter, tests like CAPTCHA or even posting a selfie are quickly becoming "inadequate" to prevent an onslaught of AI agents from overwhelming the internet, researchers warn in a new paper.
Will Oremus (@willoremus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New: We finally have an official list of the major investors in Elon Musk's X, after a judge ordered it unsealed in response to a motion by Jacob Silverman and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. They include a16z, a Saudi Prince, jack, and yes, Sean "Diddy" Combs.

New: We finally have an official list of the major investors in Elon Musk's X, after a judge ordered it unsealed in response to a motion by <a href="/SilvermanJacob/">Jacob Silverman</a> and the <a href="/rcfp/">Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press</a>. 

They include <a href="/a16z/">a16z</a>, a Saudi Prince, <a href="/jack/">jack</a>, and yes, Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Marina Walker (@marinawalkerg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Attention editors increasingly tasked with helping shape coverage of AI technologies, we have you covered 🙌 The AI Spotlight Series editors' track is back on Oct. 9 w/Tom Simonite tech editor The Washington Post & Gideon Lichfield 🇺🇦🌻. Seats are limited . Apply here pulitzercenter.submittable.com/submit/293396/…