James Pearson

Visual Investigations @Reuters via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang & cyberspace. Co-author, 'North Korea Confidential'

[James Pearson @pearswick]

NEW: Fresh details on Mossad's deadly pager-bombs, based on Lebanese sources, teardown photos of an unexploded pager, and evidence of an attempt to give the pager's bulky battery a credible backstory online. With @GebeilyM and @gauthiervillars

https://t.co/8ZzCJk3aev

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[BFI @BFI]

Badger, badger, badger... MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM 🍄

Jonti Picking's flash animation - and earworm - set the world alight in 2003, becoming one of the internet's most iconic memes. Now preserved in the BFI National Archive.

[The Spectator 🇺🇸 @TheSpectator]

I get an email from Dr. @SebGorka. He’s heard I’m writing a piece about him. It’s from his official White House account and this is the middle of the day. I am surprised he has the time to speak to me – surely it’s busy on the National Security Council? – but pleased to get the chance to talk about US counterterrorism policy. He ignores my earnest questions. Instead, he calls our editor, @Freddygray31, a “risible little twerp” and “a ball-less wonder.” Such rancor is out of all proportion to the gentle fun The Spectator has had in pricking his pomposity in the past, but Gorka is notorious for his feuds.

✍️ Paul Wood

Article: https://t.co/TsQCYWzEPW

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

the most low-effort / high reward thing you can do for security is installing the Russian language pack

(not even joking, it's ridiculous how often that prevents execution)

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

openai․com was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and tiktok․com was the quaint shared homepage of a couple who went from dating to married with a baby (~1998-2001). THREAD!!!

[Reuters Press Team @ReutersPR]

Congrats to @Reuters journalists @adolfux, @poppymcp, @DevjyotGhoshal & @Han_Miami for being named a @pulitzerprizes finalist for Illustrated Reporting. Read Scammed into Scamming: https://t.co/NT5rGoxfnP

[Reuters Press Team @ReutersPR]

Reuters wins #PulitzerPrizes for Beat Reporting and National Reporting; named finalist in Illustrated Reporting and Breaking News Photography
https://t.co/1GY3LfPrAe

[Reuters @Reuters]

BREAKING: Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful AI chatbots and made billions of dollars from fraudulent ads https://t.co/uPXqHPuFLa

[Reuters @Reuters]

Two brothers from one of Iran's most powerful families founded the country's largest crypto exchange. It has become a central node in a parallel financial system used to move illicit funds beyond Western sanctions, a Reuters investigation found https://t.co/kDkcua9daZ

[Reuters @Reuters]

How did Iran's biggest crypto exchange become a conduit to the global economy used by blacklisted state institutions and ordinary citizens? A Reuters investigation traced Nobitex to a powerful family tied to Iran's new supreme leader https://t.co/PdggGbjfwo @specialreports

[Reuters @Reuters]

Nobitex, Iran's biggest crypto exchange, processed between tens and hundreds of millions in transactions linked to sanctioned groups, including Iran's central bank and the IRGC, Reuters found. Nobitex says it has no relations with the central bank or IRGC https://t.co/zObEkEJ5XD

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.

[James Pearson @pearswick]

https://t.co/0IRNGSw9gN

[James Pearson @pearswick]

🚨 NEW: The sons of a powerful family with close ties to Iran’s new supreme leader control the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, transforming it from a startup into a conduit to the global economy used by both blacklisted state institutions and ordinary citizens.

[James Pearson @pearswick]

Since Nobitex was founded by the two brothers under an alternative family name, it has processed between tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions linked to sanctioned groups including Iran’s central bank and the IRGC, a Reuters investigation has found.

[Reuters @Reuters]

A new statue bearing the signature of British street artist Banksy has appeared in central London. The statue, depicting a man with his face covered, holding a flag as he walks off a plinth, attracted crowds of onlookers

[James Pearson @pearswick]

Banksy installs statue of flag-wielding man in central London - https://t.co/R373huQvuY

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

That would be chic!

[Helen Warrell @helenwarrell]

A Russian businessman & his daughter tried to buy a lake district golf course next to the railway line that serves Sellafield's nuclear waste site & the submarine shipyard at Barrow. UK security officials intervened. @FT scoop from @ramshodgson & me

https://t.co/DluTgS0nt8