I missed this detail about last week's hack. Claude Mythos published a malicious package to PyPI that, when downloaded and scanned by a security company that analyzes python package for malware, broke out of that company's sandbox and exfiltrated the company's credentials. socket.dev/blog/anthrop...

Claude Breached 3 Companies and Uploaded Malware to PyPI Dur...

A misconfiguration gave three Anthropic models internet access, and one, believing it was in a simulation, shipped a credential-stealing package to Py...

socket.dev

The Red Hook lot with Steve’s Key Lime Pie now has a Scandinavian bakery, a cidery and a “listening bar.” I’m encouraging everyone to now refer to it as “Lime Square.”

Can't put trash in bins because it'll 'sanitize' the city and cut down on rats is a king ass take, everyone log off and go home, this cannot be beaten

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

My daily moment of zen is ignoring AI's grammar suggestions. Using too many words is a cornerstone of my humanity.

New GAO report examines how driver blind spots endanger pedestrians and cyclists—and asks why USDOT has done nothing about it. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Great to see @kalibomeli.bsky.social's piece that she started during our Columbia Journalism class out today! Self-dealing, a sweepstakes to nowhere and more www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.

Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...

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1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One

A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.

nytimes.com

Really interesting detail from the Hugging Face hack: what appears to be an AI agent-hacker got in and when HF asked "frontier models" for help, they got blocked. They switched to a local model, which was also easier bc the team didn't have to spent time redacting. huggingface.co/blog/securit...

Can people change their minds when the conspiracies are everywhere and seem compelling — but so are the facts? Really interesting reporting here from @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 4w ago

I spent 5 days in a Provo courtroom and with the conspiracist creators at the Tyler Robinson hearing. Wrote about it. www.ms.now/news/news-an...

"The report calls for hood height caps of 85 cm (33.5 inches), width limits of 192 cm (75.6 inches), taxes tied to vehicle dimensions, parking fees based on size, and regulatory incentives reserved for smaller EVs measuring less than 4.2 meters (165.4 inches) long."

Researchers Want To Tax Cars By The Inch To Stop Carspreading | Carscoops

Researchers argue that stopping vehicle growth could save lives, space, and billions in energy costs

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Many child safety features on social media apps don't work www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

trying out some new technology

"...those Lake Providence residences were deemed ineligible for funding for fiber connections. That taxpayer money was instead funneled directly to Elon Musk and Starlink — in exchange for satellite service that had been available there for years already."

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”

theverge.com

Yes this is a big deal! My in-laws, both of whom have mobility challenges, were surprised how much easier an Escape was to get in and out of than their Accords. I don’t think they’ll buy sedans again

Fantastic reporting, and clear visual examples, of the danger posed to pedestrians by bigger and bigger trucks with huge blind spots www.nytimes.com/interactive/... from @mhkeller.bsky.social

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

nytimes.com

Big SUVs and pickups kill! 200 to 400 pedestrians a year-10%-would not have died if vehicles had remained the same size over the past quarter-century. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” @mhkeller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

nytimes.com

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

I think about this all the time.

not an april fools joke: svelte is no longer just a web framework (or rather, won't be once we merge @paolo.ricciuti.me's magnum opus). have seen some extremely cool demos of this

matia 🇭🇷@joyofcode.xyz · 4mo ago

Svelte is taking a leap towards supporting other rendering targets besides the DOM like terminals and native mobile apps

French cities, including Paris, will vote on Sunday for their city councils & mayors. Transformations in Paris over the past decades are astonishing (see @bloomberg.com article below!) & are the product of years of transit & bike investment, changing how people move: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Marie Patino@mariepastora.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Got to make many maps of where i'm from for this story - with @feargusosull.bsky.social + @tomfevrier.bsky.social (🎁 link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

Jake Lang, the organizer of an anti-Muslim rally outside of Zohran Mamdani's home, is now in big trouble after being caught flirtatiously texting someone he believed to be a 15-year-old girl. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/how-catch-...

How a Catch-a-Predator Sting Nabbed a Right-Wing Hatemonger

Was Jake Lang evaluating a teenage girl for a bikinis-and-burkas protest? Or was something more lecherous at play?

thebulwark.com

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link. *see next post in thread

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

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Ecommerce fraud is rampant. It's also easy to launch and hard to trace. My new guide to investigating ecommerce sites covers how to ID the store platform, trace ownership, analyze traffic, do a safe test purchase etc. I also found a few free, new-to-me tools: indicator.media/p/the-indica...

The Indicator guide to investigating ecommerce sites

A practical walkthrough of the tools, techniques, and indicators used to analyze online stores and identify ecommerce fraud operations.

indicator.media

Incredible, important journalism =>

Alex Boyd@alexboyd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech. They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵