Ben Smith

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Editor-in-Chief at Semafor

Podcast Co-Host at Mixed Signals

Editor-in-chief of @semafor. Former @nytimes media columnist, @buzzfeednews EIC. "Traffic." [email protected], Signal semaforben.90

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Inside the Qatari luxury jet on offer to President Donald Trump

3 days ago | semafor.com | Shelby Talcott |Ben Smith

The detailed specifications of a Boeing 747 that appears to be the same plane offered by the Qatari government to President Donald Trump are available online, offering a glimpse inside the luxurious jet. The tail number of the plane, which ABC News first reported would be offered by Qatar to Trump, is visible in photographs of the aircraft during a stop at Palm Beach International Airport earlier this year.
Inside the Qatari luxury jet on offer to President Donald Trump

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Shelby Talcott |Ben Smith

1 hour ago15 Insanely Cheap Tropical Vacations Where You Can Enjoy Paradise for PenniesDreaming of swaying palms and turquoise waters without emptying your wallet? Cheap tropical trips offer the perfect escape to paradise – where …1 hour agoWatch: American Airlines Plane Catches Fire at Denver AirportAn American Airlines flight caught on fire after landing on the runway at Denver International Airport. The plane was diverted to Denver after the crew reported engine vibrations.
Nelly's Italian Cafe & Pizza

1 week ago | williamsonscene.com | Ben Smith

Started by married couple Ryan and Danielle Hall — both descended from a long lineage of pizza makers — Nelly’s offers delicious New York-style pizzas with that characteristic foldability and thin, pliable crust we all know and love. Get pizza by the slice, in true New-Yorker fashion, or order an entire 18-inch pie capable of feeding the most voracious of pizza lovers for days.
An interview with Ken Rogoff, the economist who got Trump right

1 week ago | semafor.com | Ben Smith

In Davos this January, in the pre-Liberation Day good times for global capitalism, Ken Rogoff was a rare voice of dissent. The Harvard economist just finished writing a lively but ultimately gloomy book called Our Dollar, Your Problem about the trajectory of global finance, out this week. The financial elite assembled in the Swiss Alps saw Donald Trump about to unleash “animal spirits” with a party cocktail of tax cuts, deregulation, and anything-goes dealmaking.
The economist who got Trump right

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ben Smith

14 hours agoTrump’s latest move proves his manufacturing Golden Age is just fools’ goldNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump continues to promise that his tariff regime will usher in a new Golden Age for American workers with an explosion of high-paying manufacturing jobs across the Rust Belt and America.
Tenable research shows how “Prompt-Injection-Style” Hacks can secure the model context protocol (MCP)

1 week ago | thetechstreetnow.com | Ben Smith

8 minutes ago crn.in Tenable Research has published new findings that flip the script on one of the most discussed AI attack vectors. In the blog “MCP Prompt Injection: Not Just for Evil,” Tenable’s Ben Smith demonstrates how techniques resembling prompt injection can be repurposed to audit, log and even firewall Large Language Model (LLM) tool calls running over the rapidly adopted Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Why ‘Margin Call’ remains Wall Street’s favorite movie — and the best indictment of it

2 weeks ago | semafor.com | Ben Smith |Liz Hoffman

JC Chandor likes to joke that you could trade off the viewership data of Margin Call, the 2011 film that tells the story of an unnamed bank’s catastrophic 24 hours during the 2008 financial crisis. “If you could find the fancy hotel rooms in London where bankers were starting to watch Margin Call again, you could probably have a pretty good futures trading operation, based on them starting to panic,” Chandor said in an interview from his office in Connecticut last week.
The group chats that changed America

2 weeks ago | semafor.com | Ben Smith

Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan’s views on China. “This is insane CCP thinking,” Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, wrote to a 300-member Signal group.
A-League Men: Perth Glory fall 1-0 to premiers Auckland FC to seal second consecutive wooden spoon

2 weeks ago | albanyadvertiser.com.au | Ben Smith

Perth Glory have been consigned to their second consecutive A-League Men’s wooden spoon after premiers Auckland FC capped their title-winning exploits with a 1-0 win at Go Media Stadium. Marlee Francois’ second-half ‘Olimpico’ goal directly from a corner sunk Glory, leaving Perth — who failed to land a shot on target against Auckland — four points below Brisbane Roar entering their final game of the season.
Semafor Media: ūüü° Real rules

3 weeks ago | semafor.com | Ben Smith

Welcome to Semafor Media, where we‚Äôd intended to do a light issue for Easter but got carried away. The conservative writer Julius Krein observed recently in American Affairs that the Trump White House is ‚Äúdrifting toward Bush-era attempts to bend reality simply by force of will and aggressive unilateralism.‚ÄĚIndeed, one way of seeing the abrupt shift in the media landscape since a bit before ‚ÄúLiberation Day‚ÄĚ is that the media matters just a little less than we all like to think.

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