tech writer ✍️ former @cnbc
London, UK
Joined April 2011
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What is going on with Monzo?! ft.com/content/6553ec40-00a8…
From botched buyout attempt to PE interest, to now reportedly reverting to a good old fashioned VC fundraise..
Ryan Browne retweeted
One of Binance's engineers was interviewed by a person claiming to be the chief executive officer of a fictitious company over a social chat app, and asked to download an assignment containing a “malicious code repository”.
What will quantum computers be able to do that today's computers can't?
Nu Quantum's CEO uses the analogy of what it would take to break public-key encryption; says what's possible with enough data centres to fill earth twice over will be achievable with one quantum machine 🤯
Mistral CFO, on Anthropic IPO, says it's "impressive" what they've been able to build in a short time - but notes the liabilities were a source for concern...
On when will be the right time for a Mistral IPO, he says "we don't have any plans" at the moment.
Palantir has a perception problem - how does it address that? @tsgiles asks
@louismosley believes the problem is a consequence of Palantir being a company that 'believes in the west':
"Alongside that we’ll support the democratically elected leaders of those countries"
Palantir's UK boss says he doesn't see the company being impacted if Democrats gain ground in the midterms.
"The US commitment to defense around the world remains strong and I can't see that changing."
Binance restarts customer withdrawals after $6.3bn heist ft.com/content/1d4dd7b2-9dee…
2nd show in a row this week to see @staticdress. Crowdsurfer jumpscare 5 secs in 😂
Absolutely incredible band, been following em for years. So proud 🫶
Ryan Browne retweeted
Our investigators are observing never-seen-before laundering patterns with the stolen funds from the Binance exploit. Thousands of transactions in a short period suggest that the attackers are using automation to obscure the trail of funds. Rather than simply moving funds onward, they repeatedly circulate them among addresses, often sending funds back to addresses involved earlier in the sequence.
Read more: chainalysis.com/blog/binance…
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Polymarket is investigating a series of suspicious trades on the Israeli election, where some of the accounts already cashed out more than $100,000.
scoop by @denitsa_tsekova @bdanweiss & Leonardo Nicoletti
Welp. The reaction to this is purely the reason I've been spending much less time on this app. It rewards toxicity at the expense of rational, thoughtful conversation.
To the people ragging on BBC's Joe Tidy for not knowing about PHP:
Guess what? Nor did 99% of the general public.
It is a journalist's job to help people understand complex subjects.
We're writers, not technicians - we speak to the experts.
(P.S. Joe is the best in the biz.)
Went to see @Kyle_MacLachlan last night doing a talk on his new memoir 'Fictional Selves'
Asked which character is "most Kyle," he said "it's a little bit of everything - but I will say (Twin Peaks' Special Agent Dale) Cooper is probably the closest to me."
'Britmaxxing' is starting to face a reality check...
Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of plans for a controversial AI data centre project in Essex.
The facility, which is being developed by Nscale, has faced significant public and political backlash.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Ryan Browne retweeted
Quitting the frontier AI race "will end up costing Europe what remains of its place in the world and lock it into a regime of economic dependence unprecedented in the history of civilizations", says Mistral CEO.
(@paulg response: "It may be too late")
