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"Santos and Spider-Man do have something in common: they’re both well-known for things not going as planned."
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EXCLUSIVE: Add Broadway producer to the long list of George Santos’s fabrications
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In The Early ☕️
- on police reform and 2024
- Blinken goes to China amid China balloon
- Trust in police drops after Nichols
- on Biden’s brands
- GOP still backing candidates that lost
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Analysis: Hackers target U.S. nuclear facilities, the latest in a long line of nuclear-related cyberattacks
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My latest: A courtroom battle between a law firm and the SEC is raising questions about what information is out-of-bounds for cyber regulators. (w/ )
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rip gawker. again
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In an email to employees, Bustle Digital Group CEO Bryan Goldberg announces the company is laying off 8% of staff and “suspending operations” at Gawker
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The U.S. and allies in the Middle East and North Africa are expanding their cybersecurity collaboration. via
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White House cyber official Anne Neuberger on work to protect critical infrastructure and paradigm shift toward regulation, by and
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"Rio Tinto has apologised for losing a highly radioactive capsule that fell off a truck on a 1,400-kilometre stretch of desert highway in Western Australia, as the mining company sought to limit the damage from the incident."
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Rio Tinto apologises for losing highly radioactive capsule on.ft.com/3XLoT4l
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NEWS- Justice Department has asked the FEC to hold off any enforcement action against George Santos as prosecutors conduct a criminal inquiry
Request is the clearest sign to date of an active probe examining his campaign's finances washingtonpost.com/investigations w/
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‘I felt like we were in “Goodfellas’’’: How George Santos wooed investors for alleged Ponzi scheme
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Here is an almost certainly useless anecdote: My teenagers have shared only a few Washington Post stories with me, and they were all from Launcher
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The Washington Post has started laying off my friends and colleagues. It's wrong and unnecessary and did not need to happen. I'm sad and mad and so disappointed in this institution that I care about so deeply. We're better than this.
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NEW: The Washington Post just sent staff members an email welcoming three new hires -- while layoffs are going on at the company today
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Hundreds of Twitter engineers can tweet as any Twitter user without detection, a new whistleblower has told Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. Only from the Post,
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CommuteAir says in doc filed with Montana's attorney general that a "2019 sample of the federal no-fly list which was used for system testing, flight information and certain employee data" was exposed recently +"Mandiant is also engaged in this incident." dojmt.gov/wp-content/upl
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new foia idea
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A kitty cat piñata that was the old mascot of the DOJ FARA Unit before I arrived. They retired it and gifted it to me when I left the Department. twitter.com/NwMuseumNwUDon…
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This ad was "promoted by Google" (?????)
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How Errol Morris helped Steve Jobs make Apple's 'Switch' ad campaign
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“After leaving the Obama administration, Zients ran a private equity firm and spent two years on the board of Facebook, experience that has drawn criticism from liberals.”
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SCOOP: Jeff Zients to be Biden's next chief of staff
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I will say that the level of detail included in this report about the forensics and limitations of the Supreme Court's IT systems is pretty interesting! supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/pre
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Here's the report: supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/pre
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BREAKING: Scotus says it can't identify leaker of draft opinion overturning Roe
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BREAKING: Scotus says it can't identify leaker of draft opinion overturning Roe
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FinCEN: "FinCEN assesses that Bitzlato serves as a VASP that ultimately enables the profitability of ransomware attacks and, at least in the case of Conti, advances the political and economic destabilization interests of the Government of Russia." fincen.gov/sites/default/
Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato, a Cryptocurrency Exchange, Charged with Unlicensed Money Transmitting justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/f (Announced with and )
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We have now published a copy of the Purple Team’s report on social media and the Jan. 6 attacks. Read it here: washingtonpost.com/documents/5bfe
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NEW: The Jan. 6 committee's report omitted key findings about social media companies' failures to address online extremism, amid fear of reprisals from Republicans and powerful tech companies. w/ @viaCristiano and @drewharwell washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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Nick Cave is getting a lot of attention for discussing AI but it must be said, more broadly, that his newsletter (the first I signed up for, in this new newsletter reality) is the best one out there. Usually it's about grief, and art, and the meaning of life. It's wonderful.
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Here’s Nick Cave’s full letter about ChatGPT:
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Omg this takedown of ChatGPT by Nick Cave 👀
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New: last year NYT ran a blockbuster investigation w/ calls of Russian soldiers criticizing the war. NYT only used first names to protect. We found the article actually had the soldiers' phone numbers in the page source code, exposing them for *months*
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A list I eagerly wait for every year:
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Hi, it’s been a while…
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A Year In Quiet Listening
GFP’s favourite sounds of 2022
Read & Listen:
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Some exciting news! I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to work with my fantastic 202 colleagues in this new role!
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New assistant editor for the 202 newsletter team is Aaron Schaffer
@aaronjschaffer will work with the other 202 editors, reporters and researchers to produce newsy, compelling content for our daily newsletters. washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/01/10/
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EXCLUSIVE: Satellite imagery and newly verified footage show packed crematoriums across China as covid surges — suggesting the country's death toll is far higher than the government says.
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🚨 Supreme Court denies NSO Group’s request for cert in WhatsApp lawsuit supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor
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Mike Rogers (R-AL) is restrained after getting into an argument with Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during in the 14th round of voting for speaker in a meeting of the 118th Congress, Friday, January 6, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC.
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