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Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.
It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.
Automated snapshots were gone too.
In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.
If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.
Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing
06.03.2026 16:54
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Veteran silk Robert Venables KC denies tax evasion charges.
Venables famously threatened to “set the dogs” on anti-tax-avoidance campaigners and called them “trespassing scum” at the Golden Handshake awards in Oxford in 2012. A trial is due later this year.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/veteran...
03.03.2026 19:23
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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.
03.03.2026 19:40
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If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.
03.03.2026 10:07
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I’m now slightly obsessed with the plumbing millionaire turned senator from Oklahoma who seems to think the current Ayatollah is the same dude who overthrew the shah of Iran half a century ago.
27.02.2026 09:18
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A screenshot of WhatsApp:
Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question.
Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know
Ash: Are jaguar soft?
Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
25.01.2026 23:13
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Well, this does raise *a lot* more questions about both the Cabinet Office's 'inquiry' into Labour Together and now Starmer's ethic advisor's investigation into Josh Simons
23.02.2026 16:22
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The minister and the alleged smear campaign: key unanswered questions
Josh Simons, who is at centre of scandal in which journalists were falsely linked to a ‘pro-Kremlin’ network, faces questions over candour of his statements
Unanswered questions apparently don’t include “why does the Labour Party have a dirty tricks unit for secretly smearing perceived enemies” and “since we now see it does have one and it’s literally trying to report journos to the security services as traitors, what else might it have been up to”
23.02.2026 16:21
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The fact that we are two Supreme Court votes away from being a full-fledged dictatorship shows that our judicial system is working.
by Noah Feldman
23.02.2026 14:46
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Countries that do not pay my employer a lot of money could be left behind
18.02.2026 22:07
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After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
08.02.2026 12:14
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greatest headline of my adult life
13.02.2026 13:02
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
11.02.2026 07:05
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Photo of the Royal Courts of Justice in Central London
At the Royal Courts of Justice today to monitor the first test of England and Wales' first (and only) Anti-SLAPP powers in an application brought by @danneidle.bsky.social
10.02.2026 09:19
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Cabinet office minister used PR firm to investigate journalists' sources
Cabinet office minister Josh Simons commissioned APCO Worldwide for the investigation in 2023.
Great to hear a Democracy for Sale story on heads of news on Today on Radio 4
Also very good to see a proper credit for us - as an ‘investigative website’ not ‘a Substack’ - high up in the story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
07.02.2026 08:37
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Elon Musk • @elonmusk
X.com
Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" really knew what they were talking about e=2.718
This is because when you’re a young man you think what’s best in life is crushing your enemies, driving them before you and hearing the lamentation of their women*. But then you get old, and you realise it’s having a family that loves you, fulfilling work and hobbies, a little house and a cat.
06.02.2026 19:16
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The British accountant, his mother and the Uzbek millions — Finance Uncovered
Who owns UK companies that were awarded millions in Uzbek phblic contracts?
Surely not a UK accountants mum...
Comments from @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @bcowdock.bsky.social Tymon Kiepe @openownership.bsky.social + me
www.financeuncovered.org/stories/more...
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
06.02.2026 21:26
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Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
06.02.2026 07:25
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Wow. The ransacking of public goods in the US is terrifying
05.02.2026 23:43
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Only in the UK can we have documentary evidence of documents being leaked, no denial of the leak, but journalists still have to put "alleged" in the headline.
Libel law is broken.
03.02.2026 08:33
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💰Today the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been told it’s on the hook for more than half a million pounds in legal costs to Claire Gill, after the regulator’s #SLAPPs case failed against the Carter-Ruck partner who acted for the $4 billion crypto-scam OneCoin.
02.02.2026 17:13
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Shame on Donald Trump for single-handedly discrediting and dismantling the liberal rules-based international order all by himself without any assistance
30.01.2026 10:58
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Deutsche Bank offices raided in money laundering probe
Officials searched offices in Frankfurt and Berlin in relation to
A two act play...
Yesterday: Deutsche Bank's offices raided in German investigation into money-laundering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today: Deutsche Bank announces record profits of 9.7 billion euros. www.db.com/news/detail/...
29.01.2026 09:15
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