Technology reporter for @Business and writer for @bw magazine. [email protected]
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I have a new @BW feature out about Aleksanteri Kivimaki, a notorious hacker who may or may not have committed a particularly dark cybercrime. With invaluable reporting help from my colleague @LeoLaikola: tinyurl.com/48eh6bp2
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A deep-sea cable was mysteriously destroyed off the coast of Norway. Now, a Russian boat is being implicated in the sabotage. trib.al/oPaf24O
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Tech sales used to be an easy way to get rich, now it "kinda sucks." Think less $800 dinners, more performance-based firings. I dug into ground-zero of these changes at Salesforce with @drakepbennett.
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Washington Post agrees: NUMBER GO UP is the one to read
"Faux’s boisterous, masterfully written book is worth a read…. Faux’s cast of misfits and con artists never fails to entertain.”
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This was so great: nauseating, but also delicious. I gobbled it up
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I have a new feature out, with @MargiMurphy, about a gang of teen gamers who stole $24m with a remarkably simple hack, then started turning each other in (but not before buying some extremely pricey watches and tequila). It's in this week's @BW @business
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How an ex-employee stole Coca-Cola’s other secret formula — then got busted. (via @drakepbennett and @jordanr1000 for @BW in News+)
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I have a big new story out, with @jordanr1000, about a talented, troubled chemist, and the plot to steal Coke's other secret formula @BW @business
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The secret guilty satisfaction of the end of the blue check mark: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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This is so smart, and also hilarious. @chafkin on how the AirPod exemplifies the cynical brilliance of post-Jobs Apple bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW
I have a new @BW feature out with @jordanr1000 that I'm extremely proud of. The twisty tale of the first Chinese intel officer ever to be arrested and tried--and of all the secrets he inadvertently brought with him.
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🍄 NEW! 🍄 Psychedelic science is at an inflection point: What was once an underground movement is now an industry. But there is still an awful lot to work out about how these drugs work.
(From me and @drakepbennett)
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Adding to his considerable list of accomplishments, @praddenkeefe has now written the craziest tale I have ever read about someone I apparently worked with newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via @NewYorker
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Peloton Got Trapped in Its Trillion-Dollar Fantasy - My feature on Peloton with @drakepbennett bloomberg.com/news/features/…
My one contribution to the debate about Arabella Advisors is to point out that the Arabella was the ship that the first batch of Puritans came over to the New World on, whose WASP descendants can look at Mayflower descendant WASPs as arrivistes.
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Battery ‘Dream Technology’ a Step Closer to Reality with New Discovery news.utexas.edu/2021/12/06/b…
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Haze Fan, a member of Bloomberg's Beijing bureau, is still detained in China one year on, with no information forthcoming on her case bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #China
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My book, FLYING BLIND: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing, is out today. How did a company that prided itself on its engineering prowess, that had perfectionism baked into its DNA, go so wildly off course? 1/7 penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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From 2018: How your family tree could catch a killer trib.al/9TbHazy
