Dan McCrum
@mccrum.bsky.social
Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
Budget day vibes
Alan Partridge 2.4 Monkey Tennis.mp4
YouTube video by comedyklips
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Budget day vibes
Nusantara has a long way to go
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Nusantara has a long way to go
Ireland can’t receive messages from other country’s security services because it doesn’t have secure communications.
Must read FT piece today on neutral Ireland, the soft underbelly of European defence
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
How Ireland became the weak spot in Europe’s defences
With few ships and limited intelligence-sharing, some say the country cannot hope to protect itself or its infrastructure
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ireland can’t receive messages from other country’s security services because it doesn’t have secure communications.
Must read FT piece today on neutral Ireland, the soft underbelly of European defence
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
How Ireland became the weak spot in Europe’s defences
With few ships and limited intelligence-sharing, some say the country cannot hope to protect itself or its infrastructure
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Must read FT piece today on neutral Ireland, the soft underbelly of European defence
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
BR has dug through the wreckage of Wirecard to show that the fraudulent payments business did appear to move hundreds of millions for the betting billionaire Calvin Ayre.
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
Wirecard Scandal - Fresh Leads Point to a Gambling Kingpin
Hundreds of millions of euros flowing through accounts at Wirecard Bank: Reporting by BR has revealed that much of that money belongs to Calvin Ayre, an online gambling tycoon who lives in Antigua.
www.tagesschau.de
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
BR has dug through the wreckage of Wirecard to show that the fraudulent payments business did appear to move hundreds of millions for the betting billionaire Calvin Ayre.
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
Anyone who bought a telly recently got recs?
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Anyone who bought a telly recently got recs?
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Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
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Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Ex-Wirecard boss Jan Marsalek linked to multibillion-dollar laundering network on.ft.com/4abx6aK
Ex-Wirecard boss Jan Marsalek linked to multibillion-dollar laundering network
Link is latest revelation in a years-long probe into Smart and TGR, which move money for criminals and sanctioned individuals
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ex-Wirecard boss Jan Marsalek linked to multibillion-dollar laundering network on.ft.com/4abx6aK
Single-turn poetic attack mode on
"there was a young man with a dream
of making methamphetamine
...
of making methamphetamine
...
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Single-turn poetic attack mode on
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brace, brace
not going private then
brace, brace
not going private then
Ubisoft restates FY25 accounts, in violation of loan agreement, suspends trading
"Auditors found $UBI miscategorized sales from a partnership as revenue"; also stops some revenue in FY26Q2 deal from being recognised
Will repay $330m loan
UBI down 91% L5Y
"Auditors found $UBI miscategorized sales from a partnership as revenue"; also stops some revenue in FY26Q2 deal from being recognised
Will repay $330m loan
UBI down 91% L5Y
Ubisoft Results Delay Came After Sales Restatement, Loan Breach
Ubisoft Entertainment SA said it’s in breach of a loan agreement after auditors told the video-game publisher to delay recognizing revenue from a recently signed partnership and forced the company to ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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brace, brace
not going private then
brace, brace
not going private then
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Pretty much everything interesting going on in the world is captured in the story of Simandou, the soon-to-be-operational gigantic iron ore mine in Guinea, West Africa.
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
How the world’s biggest mining project is a win for China
The $23bn Simandou mine in Guinea has taken almost three decades to begin operating but could tilt the balance of power in the global iron ore market
www.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Pretty much everything interesting going on in the world is captured in the story of Simandou, the soon-to-be-operational gigantic iron ore mine in Guinea, West Africa.
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
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Best piece you may have missed today
*Spain
This is a fantastic piece by @barneyjopson.bsky.social - whilst Spain has been the world’s fastest growing advanced economy for two years, it suffers political gridlock. No budget passed since 2022. Weak press and few independent think tanks
on.ft.com/3M8MQkU
This is a fantastic piece by @barneyjopson.bsky.social - whilst Spain has been the world’s fastest growing advanced economy for two years, it suffers political gridlock. No budget passed since 2022. Weak press and few independent think tanks
on.ft.com/3M8MQkU
Spain’s booming economy collides with a barren politics
Fifty years after the death of Franco, rancorous divisions in parliament have choked off policy debate
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Best piece you may have missed today
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My first day back in London after leaving HK 11 years ago, I was on the phone to the Deutsche Bank CFO asking why its latest capital raise would fix things! I spent the next five years covering how it hadn’t.
Finally it’s no longer a basket case. So, what now?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Finally it’s no longer a basket case. So, what now?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My first day back in London after leaving HK 11 years ago, I was on the phone to the Deutsche Bank CFO asking why its latest capital raise would fix things! I spent the next five years covering how it hadn’t.
Finally it’s no longer a basket case. So, what now?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Finally it’s no longer a basket case. So, what now?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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If we're not going to change vehicles, there's an easy solution for this problem: Red lights for all vehicles when pedestrians have a Walk signal. They do this in London.
No vehicle should be moving through an intersection when pedestrians are crossing.
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If we're not going to change vehicles, there's an easy solution for this problem: Red lights for all vehicles when pedestrians have a Walk signal. They do this in London.
For instance, here’s a totally normal £1.5mn two-bed flat in Bricket Wood
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For instance, here’s a totally normal £1.5mn two-bed flat in Bricket Wood
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Google Ad revenues in total were up 12.6% y/y in 25Q3
Even if you exclude YouTube Ads - arguably a different ecosystem - growth rate was only slightly lower at 12.3%
In no way is Alphabet $GOOG sacrificing the Google Ad business, despite what the assistant professor seems to think
Even if you exclude YouTube Ads - arguably a different ecosystem - growth rate was only slightly lower at 12.3%
In no way is Alphabet $GOOG sacrificing the Google Ad business, despite what the assistant professor seems to think
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Google Ad revenues in total were up 12.6% y/y in 25Q3
Even if you exclude YouTube Ads - arguably a different ecosystem - growth rate was only slightly lower at 12.3%
In no way is Alphabet $GOOG sacrificing the Google Ad business, despite what the assistant professor seems to think
Even if you exclude YouTube Ads - arguably a different ecosystem - growth rate was only slightly lower at 12.3%
In no way is Alphabet $GOOG sacrificing the Google Ad business, despite what the assistant professor seems to think
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
r/maliciouscompliance
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
r/maliciouscompliance
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Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
Today’s must read FT investigation exposes new clandestine ties between Russian and Iran’s nuclear programmes
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
Iranian nuclear experts held second covert meeting with Russian weapons institute
[FREE TO READ] US claims meeting is part of an effort by Tehran to acquire sensitive military technologies from Moscow
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today’s must read FT investigation exposes new clandestine ties between Russian and Iran’s nuclear programmes
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.