michael h keller
@mhkeller
nytimes reporter | tech, special projects | mhkeller@{nytimes,protonmail}.com, github/mhkeller | adjunct at CUJ | mhkeller.01 on Signal
New details shared at Black Hat conf about OpenAI hacks. The models created an internal message board and shared tips with one another www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/openai-...
The Red Hook lot with Steve’s Key Lime Pie now has a Scandinavian bakery, a cidery and a “listening bar.” I’m encouraging everyone to now refer to it as “Lime Square.”
My daily moment of zen is ignoring AI's grammar suggestions. Using too many words is a cornerstone of my humanity.
Really interesting detail from the Hugging Face hack: what appears to be an AI agent-hacker got in and when HF asked "frontier models" for help, they got blocked. They switched to a local model, which was also easier bc the team didn't have to spent time redacting. huggingface.co/blog/securit...
Many child safety features on social media apps don't work www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...
We also sourced pickups from the 90s and used a LiDAR scanner to create 3D models so we could compare their blindzones to those of more recent trucks. In some of the most popular trucks, like the Chevy Silverado, blindzones had doubled in size.
One of the reasons is that taller hoods are more likely to cause serious injury. But also the bulkier frames themselves cause larger blindzones. The A-pillar, one of the pieces supporting the roof, can be big enough to fully hide a pedestrian, particularly during left-turns.
We did a massive data-collection-and-joining effort combined with statistical modeling to estimate that about 200 to 400 pedestrians are dying each year who otherwise would have survived if vehicles were about the same size as they were around 20 years ago. Cumulatively, that's thousands of deaths.
Latest piece on the effects of the immigration crackdown: Internal DHS documents show that investigators have rescued or identified 300 fewer child sexual abuse victims this year compared to last year. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
The immigration crackdown comes at a real cost, investigators told me. Here's one particularly poignant example I learned about: Videos have surfaced online of an unidentified child currently being violently sexually abused but agents don't have enough time to investigate and have lost a key contact
Based on data we got in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, DHS statistics show that the agents have worked about 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation than is typical and at least five times as many hours on immigration enforcement.
The minimalist/web brutalist style appears directly copied from ssi.inc's own manifesto about "Safe Superintelligence" from over a year ago. h/t @1wheel.bsky.social
And because this is a crime on and of the internet, the material is unlikely to go away soon. Videos of the abuse are still being traded, sold and shared. And they likely will be for some time:
It took months of undercover work and illustrates how the same mechanisms driving the creator economy – monetized interactions, fast video connections – are also enabling child sexual abuse.
The fact that so much of it is going on in the open was often cited by guys on Telegram as proof that they were doing nothing wrong. They viewed it as tacit approval by the platforms. Here are some of those quotes:
The origination point of the lawsuit can be traced to a bar chart that @rich-harris.dev made in 2020 showing that Apple was way behind its peers in reporting child sexual abuse material
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