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Eric Lipton

@ericliptonnyt
57 posts
2024-11-18
Trump to name Brendan Carr—a massive champion for Elon Musk and his Starlink system—as chairman of the F.C.C. which controls orbital access by space communications companies in the US. [image]
2024-11-18 View on X
Status

Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more

“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”

Here are just a few of his appeals to defend SpaceX and Starlink. [image]
2024-11-18 View on X
Status

Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more

“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”

2024-09-15
Trump crypto business partner—via Bloomberg: “You can literally sell s— in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story's right, because people will buy it,” Herro said about crypto as he drove in a Rolls-Royce. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-15 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Chase Herro, who calls himself the “dirtbag of the internet” and sources say is the dealmaker behind Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial

'If you do this right, who f—ing cares if it goes to zero,' Chase Herro once said of crypto.

2024-09-14
Trump crypto business partner—via Bloomberg: “You can literally sell s— in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story's right, because people will buy it,” Herro said about crypto as he drove in a Rolls-Royce. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Chase Herro, who calls himself the “dirtbag of the internet” and sources say is the dealmaker behind Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial

'If you do this right, who f—ing cares if it goes to zero,' Chase Herro once said of crypto.

2024-01-02
SIDEBAR: A who's who in the world of departed Pentagon and national security folks who have become venture capitalists/advisers. And the companies they have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in Now they need DOD to deliver billions in contracts https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

Just who has made this move—from the Pentagon to venture capital firms that are pouring tens of billions of dollars into defense-tech startups? Here is a detailed list compiled by The NYT—and the defense tech firms they have invested in. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

NYT: New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

These stories are part of a series by The NYT, examining the revolution now underway in the world of defense technology. Here is a piece on one of these venture-capital backed outfits: Shield AI, building robot drones for DOD. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

NYT INVESTIGATION: For decades now, retiring top Pentagon officials took cushy jobs with giant contractors like Lockheed. There is a new spin on the revolving door: Pentagon officials turned venture capitalists. And using connections to push for DOD $s. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

Many of these folks argued in interviews they are pushing the Pentagon to accelerate contracts to this wave of defense-tech startups, offering robot drones, AI and new warfighting tools—for the good of the nation. But it is essential for the business plans of the firms too.
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

2023-11-07
Air Force contractors are testing artificial intelligence software that could soon allow robot attack drones to autonomously find & take lethal action against targets NYT travelled to a testing range in Devils Lake, North Dakota, to see this future. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-11-07 View on X
New York Times

A look at the hurdles that tech startups like autonomous drone developer Shield AI face in competing for Pentagon funding against more entrenched weapons makers

New York Times : X: @shieldaitech and @ericliptonnyt X: @shieldaitech : Our AI pilot is flying on multiple #aircraft today! @EricLiptonNYT with @nytimes highlighted the unmatched ...

2023-07-26
WSJ: X, formerly Twitter, presses major companies to advertise on its site, telling them to spend money on X or lose ability to control their brand identity on the new X [image]
2023-07-26 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765

Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding.  As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …

2022-12-19
Another deep dive on an unknown character from the FTX scandal: Restaurateur, Political Donor, Tipster: The Many Roles of FTX's Ryan Salame. The co-chief executive of an FTX. By @MattGoldstein26 @yaffebellany @kenvogel https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
New York Times

A profile of ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame, a big GOP donor who emerged as a central player in the FTX scandal after flagging fraud to regulators

only to put them, their employees and the local economy in jeopardy once FTX collapsed. https://www.nytimes.com/... Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel : RYAN SALAME's girlfriend, @michel...

2022-12-14
DOJ announces more charges against SBF. Include campaign finance violations. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-14 View on X
CNBC

Citing Sam Bankman-Fried's flight risk, a Bahamas magistrate judge denies him bail and says he should be remanded to Bahamian custody until February 8, 2023

who is asking his client be let out on bail. Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : NEW: SBF + his counsel have been in Bahamian court all day fighting extradition. Prosecutors argued he...

DOJ announces more charges against SBF. Include campaign finance violations. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-14 View on X
Bloomberg

The DOJ charged SBF with violating campaign finance laws, creating a showdown over what could be the biggest recent illegal infusion of money in US politics

Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democratic donor in the 2022 election cycle, is charged with violating campaign finance laws …

2022-11-24
“The fact that an offshore hedge fund that was basically a crypto firm was buying a stake in a tiny bank for multiples of its stated book value should have raised massive red flags for the F.D.I.C., state regulators and the Federal Reserve.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-11-24 View on X
New York Times

FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal

Through a subsidiary, FTX invested $11.5 million in the parent company of Farmington State Bank, which has a single branch and, until this year, just three employees.

2022-11-22
Sports in the US has always been a big business. But over the last 4 years, as sports betting has been legalized across much of the nation, sports have become part of a gambling enterprise. Today, NYT takes an investigative look at this transformation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-11-22 View on X
New York Times

An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others

The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …

2022-11-14
FYI, those crypto boosters arguing the problem with FTX was its centralized status—and the answer is to jump to DeFi (decentralized finance) where the movement of crypto assets relies on the code “protocol” not people-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Massive fraud there too. DOJ report https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
CoinDesk

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn't order FTX to reopen withdrawals for Bahamas-based customers, refuting FTX's statement

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :

2022-11-13
FYI, those crypto boosters arguing the problem with FTX was its centralized status—and the answer is to jump to DeFi (decentralized finance) where the movement of crypto assets relies on the code “protocol” not people-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Massive fraud there too. DOJ report https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-13 View on X
CoinDesk

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn't order FTX to reopen withdrawals for Bahamas-based customers, refuting FTX's statement

FTX said last week it had allowed Bahamas-based customers to withdraw funds at its regulators' request.  —  Crypto exchange FTX was not required …

FYI, those crypto boosters arguing the problem with FTX was its centralized status—and the answer is to jump to DeFi (decentralized finance) where the movement of crypto assets relies on the code “protocol” not people-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Massive fraud there too. DOJ report https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-13 View on X
CoinDesk

FTX claims the company was hacked, telling users to delete FTX apps, not install app updates, and not to visit FTX.com, after $600M+ in crypto left its wallets

trustless, permissionless, uncensorable crypto—is the only path forward for the future. This week, we grieved. Next week, we build. @cz_binance : What a sh!t show... And it's going...