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Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot technology.

Elon Musk's net worth is ~$414.9 billion according to various wealth trackers now. But this is still a meaningful consequence (for 1,000 reasons) for Tesla to have to pay a crash survivor & the bereft family of the other victim $242.5 million.... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...

Hidden invasion: Rwanda's covert war in the Congo Leaked reports, satellite images and interviews reveal the extent of Rwanda's shadow war in the Congo, as the U.S. tries to strike a deal for peace and access to the region's minerals.

We also teamed up with the incredibly talented @michelawrong.bsky.social, who wrote this sweeping and unflinching story on Rwanda's covert war and what it has wrought on the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo: www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

My wonderful colleagues @jeanleenbc.bsky.social, @tavleennbc.bsky.social, @marinscott.bsky.social and I scoured 3 years worth of leaked military documents and surveillance footage—and interviewed sources who spoke to us at great personal risk. We're very grateful to them for their courage.

YouTube video by NBC News Hidden Invasion: Inside Rwanda's Covert War in Eastern Congo

Rwanda has been accused by the UN and Western governments of supporting the M23 rebel movement and sending their own troops into eastern Congo.

In our short documentary, you can see for yourself the extent of Rwanda's covert war. Watch here: youtu.be/-do8Y7Gw7NM?...

NBC News Digital Docs Hidden Invasion: Rwanda's covert war in eastern Congo

Rwanda has never admitted to taking part in the conflict in the DRC that since 2021 has killed thousands and displaced millions.

@nbcnews.com's investigation discredits Rwanda's narrative of this conflict and lays bare their hidden invasion.

🧵 with links to watch & read

An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!

Hi friends, help me boost?
Looking to talk to people who work in child vaccines (providers, schools, health depts, clinics, data folks or coalitions, etc.) who might have insight or experiences to share about how their work has been impacted the last couple of months. Don't reply just DM me please!

If you want the backstory on Trevor Milton—a few years ago I helped produce a podcast series about his rise and fall with my old colleagues at WSJ and Jigsaw Productions. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Houthi and the No-SCIF

Elon Musk’s Starlink has a growing footprint in the federal government The use of Starlink has been adopted by at least one additional federal agency since President Donald Trump began his second term, and it’s being considered by more.

Starlink - the satellite internet service owned and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX - has a growing footprint in the federal government... www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... Fri. evening scoop from @davidingram.bsky.social + me + Jonathan Allen @nbcnews.com

New season of White Lotus needs some online tie-in content. HBO, please let me write fake Journal articles about Jason Isaac's financial fraud.

Whitehouse.gov captures from: 2008 Sept. 15; 2013 Mar. 21; 2017 Feb. 3; and 2021 Feb. 25

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity. New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids.

“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Funeral visitor sign-in book, never used

Someone was giving away the uplifting opposite of never-worn baby shoes on my block this morning

RIP David Lynch

Madlib lost home, equipment, & "decades of music" in LA fires; fundraiser launched Flying Lotus, DJ Premier, and others helped share the news.

An incalculable loss. Madlib owned an estimated 16,000 records, full of rare groove and soul, filling up multiple rooms in his house. There are things lost in these fires that can never be rebuilt.

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Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

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Israel is demolishing northern Gaza and fortifying military positions, imagery shows Visual analysis and interviews show how Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the north as the Israeli military cuts a new corridor through Gaza.

Israel is cutting a new corridor through northern Gaza, wiping Palestinian towns off the map, forcibly displacing nearly the whole population, and fortifying military positions in what many fear is a plan for long-term control.

Our latest investigation [gift link]: wapo.st/4gFoSrO

Went down a fun rabbit hole last night about how the French government spent the better part of 1993 freaking out about Jurassic Park—making it a big issue in trade talks, as well as trying and failing to prop up a French epic about coal miners to take on Jurassic Park at the domestic box office.

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

Fantastic to see Evan Gershkovich's byline back in the WSJ, with a very illuminating article from this WSJ team on the elite Russian security service responsible for much of the intensifying repression of the last few years (including Evan's own arrest)! www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since Stalin. era.

EVAN GERSHKOVICH IS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS — on the byline of a WSJ article.

So great to see Evan publishing stories again.

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January!

New year, new skills. Join us:

This is a really fun and illuminating profile of Brian Krebs, the most badass cybersecurity journalist in the game. Great story by @bobmcmillan.bsky.social and well worth your time.

Which country's legislative branch has more clowns in it?

Napoleon, December 3, 1812

YouTube video by NBC News Occupy and destroy: Israel’s systematic demolition of Lebanese border villages

The accompanying short doc: youtu.be/eoRdzAyHyWE?...

Zone of destruction The Israeli military claims to have limited goals for its southern Lebanon invasion. But an NBC News investigation found widespread destruction in areas occupied by the IDF.

I suppose I should celebrate joining a platform that doesn't throttle links by linking some recent work!

My first project for NBC is about the wanton destruction of southern Lebanon by the IDF—a collaboration between our digital docs and data graphics teams: www.nbcnews.com/specials/zon...