EXCLUSIVE: Dundee and US surgeons achieve world-first stroke surgery using robot www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Medical supplies and mail could be transported by drones to try and cut delivery times in rural parts of Argyll and Bute. More than £500k of investment has been announced by the UK government to further explore the possibilities of using drones in the area. My piece: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two teens arrested over Kido nursery chain hack. Police say the 17-year-olds were arrested at residential addresses in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail. A rapid police response to a hack that's shocked the cyber world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beautiful pictures 🌕 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One iPhone led police to gang suspected of sending up to 40,000 stolen UK phones to China. Fascinating piece today from Sima Kotecha www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I wrote about the issue last September, when one man tracked his stolen phone from London to China www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Half of my life is on this app and now they expect us to pay for it." Snapchat users share fury at upcoming fees for storing old photos and videos. Article by Liv McMahon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Piece by Justin Rowlatt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Why we struggle to protect the young from conspiracy theorist parents' A powerful piece by Marianna Spring. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hackers who attempted to extort the Kido nursery chain by posting stolen images and data about children on the darknet have removed the posts and claim to have deleted the information. All the latest from Joe Tidy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tesla boss Elon Musk has become the first person ever to achieve a net worth of more than $500bn, as the value of the electric car company and his other businesses have risen this year. Story by Peter Hoskins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two Scottish tech projects are among 14 from across the UK that will benefit from funding designed to help boost local and regional businesses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC A remarkable story from Joe Tidy. Give it a read. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some personal news - I am rejoining the brilliant team at BBC Scotland News. Since last summer, I have been a Senior Reporter with the fab Tech team at BBC News on maternity cover, and I have had an amazing time! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Send me your story ideas for all things tech/science/arts/culture in Scotland!

A man has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. I reported on the story for the BBC News at One. Read more from Imran Rahman-Jones and Joe Tidy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

President Donald Trump says a deal to find a new owner for TikTok in the United States is done. So who will own it, and how will it work? My piece with Lily Jamali and Liv McMahon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TikTok's algorithm - the tech that determines what users see in their feed - will be copied and retrained using US user data as part of a deal to secure the app's future in the country. Firm involved in Man City will also be an investor in US TikTok deal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two teenagers charged over Transport for London cyber attack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Major US tech firms have pledged tens of billions of pounds worth of investment, with Nvidia's Jensen Huang predicting the UK will become an "AI superpower". I appeared on last night's Scotcast to chat with Laura Miller about it 📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Major US tech firms pledge tens of billions of pounds of investment in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I have been reporting on the story on Radio 4 and Radio Scotland, and I really enjoyed making my Scotcast debut with the brilliant Laura Miller 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

More than half of school and college cyber attacks and data breaches are being carried out by their own pupils, the Information Commissioner's Office has revealed. Read @joetidy.bsky.social's report. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute - the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence - has resigned following staff unrest and a warning the charity was at risk of collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Fast-fashion giant Shein has launched an investigation after an image of Luigi Mangione - the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York last year - was used to model a shirt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lawyer representing a California couple who are suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over the death of their 16-year-old son Adam Raine has criticised the popular chatbot's new parental controls www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parents of teenage ChatGPT users will soon be able to receive a notification if the platform thinks their child is in "acute distress" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK government may have wanted to force Apple to provide it with access to more customer data than previously thought, a court document indicates. Gov may also still be seeking to access data of non-UK users www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The streaming platform Kick has accused French authorities of politicising the death of content creator Raphaël Graven, who was also known as Jean Pormanove. He passed away during a livestream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For months, I have been hearing from people from all over the world who say they have been unfairly banned from Instagram and Facebook. Digital memories gone. Businesses upended. Worries over serious accusations. 📻 I spoke about it on the BBC's Tech Life programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the video platform Kick over the death of content creator Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove, during a live stream www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands say Meta has been banning their Instagram and Facebook accounts in error. AI is blamed. Cherished photos lost, businesses upended. Some speak of the profound personal toll it has taken, including concerns the police could become involved. My latest piece: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was presenting this week's episode of Tech Life on the BBC World Service - What happened to DeepSeek? @lilyjamali.bsky.social reports - AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? @joetidy.bsky.social reports - Alasdair Keane interviews Volvo’s tech lead 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? Watch this fascinating and thought-provoking film from @joetidy.bsky.social youtu.be/1UufaK3pQMg?...

Social media companies ​​are blocking wide-ranging content - including posts about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza - in an attempt to comply with the UK's new Online Safety Act, BBC Verify has found. By Ned Davies, Shayan Sardarizadeh & Matt Murphy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The way people in the UK access porn websites is about to undergo a significant change. As porn sites apply new age checks, will users hand over personal ID? bbc.co.uk/news/article... The 7 methods adult websites could use for checking age www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From Friday, websites operating in the UK with pornographic content must "robustly" age-check users. So what changes are coming in, and will people just try and get around the new rules? My piece for BBC News with Liv McMahon and Grace Dean www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There can't have been too many times in the history of the BBC where a reporter introduced their piece on the radio by playing ABBA on a tuba 😀🎵💃 📻 I spoke with Imogen Heap, Yael Naim, Deezer's Alexis Lanternier and Sacem's Cécile Rap-Veber about music and AI www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Does Edinburgh's Royal Mile need 72 tourist gift shops? An excellent piece by Andrew Picken about overtourism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How will age verification for porn work and what about privacy? My feature for BBC News. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Should children have a bigger voice in the debate about the future of AI? They are among those most likely to be impacted, and they are the least represented. I interviewed Dr Mhairi Aitken of the Alan Turing Institute to find out more. 📻 19:01 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"I've lost endless hours of sleep, extreme stress, felt isolated." Instagram users who were wrongly accused of breaching its rules on child sexual exploitation have told the BBC of the emotional distress the accusations have caused them. My piece for BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'There is a problem' - Facebook and Instagram users complain of account bans Thousands of people have signed a petition or have posted online to say their accounts have been unfairly banned. Meta says there is no widespread problem. My piece with Imran Rahman-Jones. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was in the presenter's chair for this week's episode of Tech Life on the BBC World Service - The future of the internet is up for debate - I interview Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia - I speak with a teenage inventor of a toxic dust detector Listen 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Meta says it is "fixing" a problem which has led to Facebook Groups being wrongly suspended - but denied there is a wider issue on its platforms. My piece with Imran Rahman-Jones. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"It is unlikely that a game like this will encourage real world gardening any more than Super Mario Wonder encourages plumbing." 🌻🪠 The thoughts of Prof Andrew K. Przybylski. For BBC News, I have been finding out all about the new Roblox sensation - Grow a Garden www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How do we solve the problem of hallucination in AI? Maybe the answer is the AI saying 'I don't know'. For Tech Life on the BBC World Service, I spoke with William Tunstall-Pedoe, the CEO of Unlikely AI and one of the minds behind the Amazon Alexa, to find out more. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Messi and Ronaldo don’t need to worry, but the robot can pass better than me ⚽️ Just one of the many cool things I saw over the past few days at SXSW London. Clip from Jasmine Rose Federer at WPP. Great talks and not too much rain. My interviews will be broadcast soon 📻

Football and other premium TV being pirated at 'industrial scale' My piece for BBC News. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was in the presenter's chair for this week's edition of Tech Life on the BBC World Service. We covered: - Grief tech - Tech solutions to food waste - Making Formula 1 more eco-friendly - Digital art 📻 Listen on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC News understands Tata Consultancy Services, the Indian IT giant, is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether it was the gateway for the cyber attack on Marks & Spencer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Jony Ive, the hugely influential designer responsible for the look of Apple's most iconic and successful products including the iPhone, is joining OpenAI - the company behind ChatGPT www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It has been another busy day on the Tech news desk! M&S cyber-attack developments - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... UK exposes Russian cyber campaign targeting support for Ukraine www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I was on the BBC News channel earlier with the latest