Jon Keegan

Jon Keegan

@jonkeegan.com

Tech reporter / Data journalist. I report on AI and Big Tech. Work has appeared in Sherwood News, The Markup, WSJ, MIT Technology Review. Aspiring 46er. ⛰️ Newsletter: https://beautifulpublicdata.com https://jonkeegan.com 📝 Send tips: Signal: jonkeegan.73

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Jon Keegan
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Ugh. Terrible news

Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social

News: Rest of World, the nonprofit newsroom focused on the impact of technology outside the West founded by Sophie Schmidt, tells donors in an email it will “cease publishing as a standalone entity” at the end of January.

Jon Keegan
@jonkeegan.com

This is fantastic!

The Pudding@pudding.cool

New project! Contributor @owenlacey.dev asks whether Kevin Bacon is the most-connected actor in Hollywood, per the popular game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. 🔗: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

Jon Keegan
@jonkeegan.com

This looks amazing, but I'm not resting till we get a Rage Against the Machine reunion performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Turnstile is, in 2026, the world’s biggest hardcore punk band by almost any measure. Despite announcing the Washington Monument show two weeks earlier, organizers estimated that the benefit concert drew around 60,000 people. https://wapo.st/4iEgEnh

washingtonpost.comFor Turnstile, Washington Monument show was a moment, and a homecomingOrganizers estimated that the show on the National Mall drew around 60,000 people.
Jon Keegan
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Exited to be at MIT today for the first ARC Prize Research Summit. François Chollet, founder of ARC Foundation and creator of the ARC-AGI benchmark starts the program off.

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Brian PJ Cronin
@brianpjcronin.bsky.social

They’re gonna blow through $3 billion in five years and trot out a regular ass dog and be like actually the dog is 30% louder now

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

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Charlie Warzel
@cwarzel.bsky.social

this kind of arms race btwn personal agents and institutions without systems to handle em is what we tried to poke at in our Chaos Agents piece last week www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comImagine Every AI Agent on Earth Buying the Same Cheap Paper TowelsAI agents are doing our shopping for us, and wreaking havoc on the internet.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Most/all of this seems to be users giving Muse/Dot/whatever AI agent they're running access to their bank accounts, and then not knowing what those agents are doing / banks not being able to detect authorized vs unauthorized stuff. what could go wrong? www.axios.com/2026/10/22/a...

axios.comScoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accountsBanks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and others are racing to contain agent risks.

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Techmeme Chatter
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Jonty Wareing@jonty.bsky.social

Oh damn it's as bad as expected: If you are running anything on PHP turn it the hell off RIGHT NOW until you can patch it. Yes this means every single Wordpress, Drupal, and Wikimedia install. www.wiz.io/blog/php2she...

wiz.ioPHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet | Wiz BlogCore PHP engine flaws enable remote code execution and Heartbleed-style memory disclosure across the web.

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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

wapo.stTheir police jobs ended. They kept using Flock’s vast surveillance network.Flock employees urged the company to adopt stronger security after a 2024 breach. The company continued to allow practices that left its network vulnerable to unauthorized users.

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B.J. Gunts
@bjgunts.bsky.social

"Anthropic... said around one-fifth of its $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026 came from just two customers. The company expects a “significant portion” of its revenue will come from a “limited number of customers for the foreseeable future,” according to the draft prospectus. "

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of this year .. That compares to a net loss of $13 billion during the same period a year earlier.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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Meduza in English
@meduza.io

A Russian military satellite has again maneuvered dangerously close to an ICEYE radar satellite, following similar moves this summer. ICEYE provides imagery to Ukraine's military, but it's unclear whether Ukraine uses this particular satellite. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

meduza.ioRussian military satellite comes dangerously close to a radar satellite operated by a Finnish-U.S. company that supplies satellite imagery to Ukraine — MeduzaThe Russian military satellite Cosmos 2612 has come very close to ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite operated by the Finnish-American company ICEYE, according to LeoLabs, which monitors activity in space.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Very happy the actual haiku is in the article.

The Onion@theonion.com

Trump Slams The Beauty Of A Lotus Flower In Scathing Truth Social Haiku https://theonion.com/trump-slams-the-beauty-of-a-lotus-flower-in-scathing-truth-social-haiku/

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Ryan Mac 🙃
@rmac.bsky.social

Replying to @rmac.bsky.social

On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...

nytimes.comWhen a Social Media Mob Came for Cornell’s Jane DoeAfter a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.
Jon Keegan
@jonkeegan.com

This is a fantastic resource!

klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social

The landscape of news publishers’ dealings with AI companies is complex and hard to follow. We’ve added a few new features to the @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals and Disputes tracker to make it easier to see these interactions in context. 🧵 tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism
@towcenter.bsky.social

The landscape of news publishers’ dealings with AI companies is complex and hard to follow. @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social have added a few new features to the Deals and Disputes tracker to make it easier to see these interactions in context. tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

tow.cjr.orgAI Deals and Lawsuits | Platforms and PublishersA tracker monitoring developments between news publishers and AI companies—including lawsuits, deals, and grants—based on publicly available information.

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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social

"Why won't El-Sayed figure out the solution to the problem we created?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I see what Abdul El-Sayed says about the war in Iran. I see him criticizing decisions the president has made, the military has made. But fundamentally we are where we are.I'd like to know what's Abdul El-Sayed's solution for the problem we have right now? It's easy to criticize"

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David Kaye
@davidakaye.bsky.social

holy crap. this @citizenlab.ca report details what they call "adfection" - the weaponization of the targeted ad system to deliver zero-click spyware. full report 👇

citizenlab.caExposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen LabThis is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Ca...

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Dan McCrum
@mccrum.bsky.social

What was the last thing 80 per cent of Americans agreed on?

Emily Guskin@emgusk.bsky.social

Wide majority of Americans oppose livestreaming Hasan execution: ABC/Post/Ipsos poll abcnews.com/Politics/wid...

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Johan West
@johanwest.eurosky.social

Over the last couple of weeks I've built a small hobby tool that compares free radar satellite images (Sentinel-1) with live AIS ship data around Denmark. The aim: find ships at sea that don't show up on AIS. A short thread on how it works 🧵

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Nadja Popovich
@popovichn.bsky.social

I dug into EIA data and found a growing divide between electricity prices at investor-owned utilities and public power providers. Then @michellema.bsky.social and I visited two towns that show what that divide means for customers on the ground. Read our story here! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.comOne Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% LowerThe stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

404media.coCharacter.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't WorkCharacter.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
Jon Keegan
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Citizens United folks

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social

Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. “The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for RepublicansThe world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.