Sam Bankman-Fried said he thought the wild DM exchange between him and a reporter was a conversation with a ‘longtime friend’ who he ‘stupidly forgot’ was a journalist

Getty Images Following the FTX collapse, the founder and former CEO exchanged wild DMs with a Vox reporter. Sam Bankman-Fried said Wednesday he didn’t realize the conversation would be public. Bankman-Fried made the comments in a long and at times awkward interview with The New York Times. Sam Bankman-Fried said he didn’t realize the infamous…

6 of the 10 worst cities in the world for expats to live in are in Europe — see the list

Rome, Italy. querbeet/Getty Images Networking site InterNations released its annual ranking of the best and worst cities for expats. More than half of the 10 worst cities for expats in the world are in Europe. South Africa’s Johannesburg was voted the worst city overall for expats. Networking site InterNations has released its latest ranking of…

Xi is showing a sign of weakness by repressing protesters, Anthony Blinken says

Antony Blinken (left) and Xi Jinping. Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images Antony Blinken says it’s a “sign of weakness” for Xi Jinping to quash Chinese dissent. He said the “massive repressive action” taken by Xi’s government is not a sign of strength. Blinken added that it’s obvious that China has…

The seafloor holds a history of hurricanes—and could map out their future

Deep ‘blue holes,’ like this one off Belize, can collect evidence of hurricanes. The TerraMar Project This article was originally published on The Conversation. If you look back at the history of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s, it might seem hurricane frequency is on the rise. The year 2020 had the most tropical cyclones in the…

More than 6,000 immigrants were affected by an ICE data leak after an excel sheet with identifying info about people fleeing torture was accidentally made public for 5 hours

An immigration detainee stands near an US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) grievance box in the high security unit at the Theo Lacy Facility, a county jail which also houses immigration detainees arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), March 14, 2017 in Orange, California, ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images ICE accidentally leaked…

Neuralink CEO Elon Musk expects human trials within six months

It’s been six years since Tesla, SpaceX (and now Twitter) CEO Elon Musk co-founded brain-control interfaces (BCI) startup, Neuralink. It’s been three years since the company first demonstrated its “sewing machine-like” implantation robot, two years since the company stuck its technology into the heads of pigs — and just over 19 months since they did…