The Los Angeles Times reports that Charlie Kirk has died. A horrible day for America. latimes.com/california/sto…

Here's the Charlie Kirk I Knew: thefp.com/p/the-charlie-…

Not good for American manufacturing. thestreet.com/retail/critica…

1/THREAD: The Associated Press has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. Yael @[email protected] & I obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal & classified Chinese gov't and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chines…

Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. The news comes after the US government took a roughly 10 percent equity stake in the struggling chipmaker. wired.com/story/nvidia-i…

One of the joys of historical research is finding out just how long our society has been holding out for the AI revolution. Here's a Newsweek cover from 1984 featuring Steve Jobs. It asks the question: "Personal robots: Want to know when you'll get yours?" Courtesy of the

Saturday in the backyard.

No matter what you think of the Free Press, I hope everyone can admit that it is very funny that twitter got her fired from her, like, $115k a year job at the NYT and 4 years later she sold her blog for $150M and is the head of CBSNews lol

Congrats to Bari Weiss on the CBS acquisition. Not many people build a media start-up and sell it to a legacy network in five years. Favorite Free Press moment: debating Walter Kirn on whether to ban TikTok. He made the free speech case and I argued for separation from Chinese

Reporting in southern Israel just after the Oct. 7 attack two years ago. Utter devastation, tragedy, desperation. I've covered war zones all over and the level of brutality that day topped almost anything I had seen before.

A story that's all too common. Charity in Cambodia (or elsewhere) gets a windfall from idealist outsiders who don't know what they're getting into. Also see Somaly Mam. wsj.com/us-news/elizab…

🧵 OpenAI says China uses ChatGPT to surveil Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities. Not mentioned in the 27-page report: Microsoft enables access to OpenAI products in China that are otherwise "banned." This Microsoft Azure loophole could enable these malign acts.

ChatGPT used to build surveillance capabilities for a government. The frontier is supposed to be new, but this is an extension of what they've been doing all along. cnn.com/2025/10/07/pol…

Sunday evening break. Stewed and baked Izmir Kofte (Turkish meatballs) for three hours, soaked in my Aegean tomato sauce, with a splash of Pinot noir and pomegranate molasses, all for my wife and me.

Blessed are the peacemakers

Morning coffee from the Zelensky cup. Israel peace deal closed. Good. But no time for victory laps. Let's turn back to the unfinished business of Putin's war machine and the threat it still poses to the free world.

My cat sat on the enter key and added 40 pages to my book manuscript.

When I'm wrapping big book projects, I indulge in my training as a sommelier, practicing pairing and cooking with different beers and wines. Today for lunch: Bratwurst braised in Oktoberfest beer and vegetable jus, finished with horseradish, mustard, and dill.

Microsoft is deep in the censorship regime of the People's Republic of China. It's the most sophisticated police state in the world and a US company is openly parading it.