Wow

Lapping up this happy, good news.

What’s up with the lions?

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024

Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Wall Street CEOs reportedly “summoned” to DC by Scott Bessent and Jay Powell to discuss AI cyber risks after Anthropic’s warning Top officials are worried about left-tail cybersecurity risks from new AI tools, and making sure the most important American bankers are taking...

Top officials are worried about left-tail cybersecurity risks from new AI tools, and making sure the most important American bankers are taking the threat seriously.
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Creator of popular, mysterious “HappyHorse” text-to-video model is Alibaba Alibaba confirmed it was behind the new text-to-video model that has shot to the top of leaderboards....

Alibaba confirmed it was behind the new text-to-video model that has shot to the top of leaderboards.
sherwood.news/tech/mysterious-happyhor...

There’s a band I like from New Zealand called “The Beths,” who’ve written several excellent records, with thought-provoking lyrics. I eagerly await their new releases, and when their latest album dropped last summer titled “Straight Line Was a Lie,” it made me think about how prescient that expression is. Most long-term endeavors do not follow a linear straight line, up and to the right. Progress jumps around; it’ll zig up, then sometimes stall, or zag down, or force you back to the starting line. Sometimes, it feels like you’re running in circles. But, the path is rarely straight.

How did I miss this? Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave a shoutout to @thebeths.bsky.social (one of my faves) in this week’s letter to shareholders. Great album!

A reporter asked Trump about Iran charging fees literally yesterday -- and his response was that we were going to get a cut of the action!

Signal gives you a way to stop this in Settings > Notifications > Notification Content

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

OpenAI: Our new AI tool is too dangerous to release, too! A new era of powerful AI tools that could render current cybersecurity defenses moot is spooking investors....

A new era of powerful AI tools that could render current cybersecurity defenses moot is spooking investors.
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OpenAI’s Stargate shrinks further as UK data center “paused” Citing high energy costs, OpenAI said it would be pausing Stargate UK. The move is the latest downsizing of the ambitious global data center...

Citing high energy costs, OpenAI said it would be pausing Stargate UK. The move is the latest downsizing of the ambitious global data center plan.
sherwood.news/tech/openais-stargate-sh...

Hall of fame FT correction

I was listening to the Artemis astronauts answering questions from the press. They all seem like such nice, decent people who really like each other. A familiar feeling from another era.🌓

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

🚨 ON STRIKE 🚨

Unionized staff at ProPublica @propublicaguild.org walked off the job today.

Stand with workers: DO NOT cross the picket line.

That means no visiting ProPublica's website, social media or engaging with its content today.

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Anthropic: Our new “Mythos” model is so powerful we can’t release it The unusual announcement of the model highlights its alarming new cybersecurity capabilities....

Anthropic says its new "Mythos" model is too powerful to be released. As part of its testing, researchers had a clinical psychiatrist engage in around 20 hours of what can basically be described as therapy sessions with the model.

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Bezos jawmaxxing is wild

Report: Apple’s foldable iPhone may be delayed by engineering troubles The premium foldable iPhone was one of Apple’s big product launches planned for this year....

The premium foldable iPhone was one of Apple’s big product launches planned for this year.
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Lunar Flyby - NASA

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

POLYMARKET: “.. we are investigating how this slipped through our internal safeguards."

@nbcnews.com
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Helena in Focus @sthelenafocus X.com Not only is Jonathan alive and well on St Helena, but during his time on the planet he has now seen off 76 US Attorney Generals, from the 11th Attorney General, Roger Brooke Taney, in 1832, to outgoing 87th Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in 2026. Jonathan is the great survivor.

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

Seems pretty side-questy!

The compromise @caseynewton.bsky.social is proposing would be a big deal in the tech policy world. The feud between Section 230 absolutists and those seeking to rein in social media companies is a big reason why regulation always withers on the vine.

I Decompiled the White House's New App The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

“The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.”

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Wow

Absolutely insane lines. 5am JFK terminal 5