The Julius Kivimaki and Vastaamo hack story is back in the news today with articles and a new BBC podcast series. Given that I've literally "written the book" on this hack I offered to help but they never replied. The good news is, there's a brilliant HBO doc series out, which I was involved in:

🧵 1/ What is this photograph? It's a custom-made mask fitted for a software engineer in northern Virginia who suffered third-degree burns on her face when the Tesla Model Y she was in crashed and caught on fire. A heroic crowd of bystanders could not open the doors

In case you missed it live: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #France - and @lilyjamali.bsky.social on Apple investments in the US

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/...

A highlight of my visit to the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum… discovering the BBC Micro - albeit a few years late! Thanks to @davidga.me for the history lesson!

I got to do something great a week ago: join a 25-year reunion for people who worked at #Napster. While the original experience was rough for most of them, this was a chance to process it with old friends. It remains one of the most remarkable stories of that era. wapo.st/3HdcJhv

Ethics watchdogs say the Trump family’s new mobile venture represents another means for potential corruption and conflicts of interest. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today is the end of Skype as Microsoft shuts it down. I have spoken to people whose lives were impacted by it, including a long-distance couple who fell in love over Skype and a woman who used it to find closure following her husband's death. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1gmt/2bst #TheNewsroom here ---> www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - 📻 featuring @lilyjamali.bsky.social on Apple and tariffs; also #MikeWaltz; #Netanyahu #Harrods, and farewell to football superfan, Manolo el del Bombo of Spain. @nickrandell.bsky.social keeping us on air

AP NewsAlert: Wisconsin attorney general sues in attempt to block Elon Musk from handing out $1 million to voters

From today’s “#TeslaTakeover” protest in Berkeley, CA. Our report is here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Do we only publish where we are required by law?” That’s a quote pulled from internal documents at Match Group. This damning investigation finds Match Group has long known about abusive users on their apps but failed to share that info with users. A MUST-READ: 19thnews.org/2025/02/dati...

Here's Tuesday afternoon's #GlobalNewsPod www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #Gaza, #Jordan #Rubiales and @lilyjamali.bsky.social on OpenAi and Musk

Possibly useful tip: the Trader Joe's precooked hardboiled eggs seem to be immune from the egg price hikes so far. The downside is that eating wet eggs from a bag makes you feel worse about yourself.

AI’s ‘Sputnik Moment’: BBC’s Lily Jamali @lilyjamali.bsky.social on the Deepseek storm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We're live at 2gmt: #TheNewsroom here ---> www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - 📻 @lilyjamali.bsky.social on #DeepSeek and #Nvidia; plus #Goma; #Gaza; #Neymar and #Auschwitz

I told the BBC that the Biden Administration made an "unforced error" in crafting and defending a law that gives the President outsized control over who owns TikTok. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“It was a terrible idea to put the future of a massive information platform into this political maelstrom,” Georgetown Law’s @anupamchander.bsky.social tells me re: TikTok. www.bbc.com/news/article...

SUNDAY at 2pmET/11amPT — I interview Stanford’s Marietje Schaake about her new book “The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley.” Please RSVP here to join us. We invite you to submit your questions. dc.alumni.columbia.edu/marietjescha...

I got to test 1-800-ChatGPT on WhatsApp with my @marketplace.org pal Meghan McCarty Carino. It’s… a work in progress. youtu.be/JFHOsIBB-Yw?...

Brilliantly reported by my colleague @grahamjfraser.bsky.social, our story about Apple Intelligence making up BBC News app headlines when summarising notifications seems to be exactly the sort of thing Apple wanted to avoid with a slower, “thoughtful” approach to genAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

From BERKELEY PD: We have issued an Evacuation Order due to a Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. nixle.us/FZ3E9

Anyone in NorCal feel that earthquake? (Testing if #earthquaketwitter has landed here on bluesky yet)

#BBCNews - ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? www.bbc.com/news/article... By @lilyjamali.bsky.social

@emilyliu.me Hi Emily, i’m with BBC News. Possible to connect briefly about the outage? I’m at [email protected]. Thanks!

Lina Khan is as close to a household name as a member of the FTC is probably ever going to get. What’s next for her and more in tech in a second Trump administration? I wrote about it for this week’s BBC Tech Decoded newsletter. www.bbc.com/news/technol...

Timeline cleanse! Check out our latest “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review” with @anitar.bsky.social of @theinformation.bsky.social (We finally found an excuse to touch on the Drake-Kendrick Lamar beef) youtu.be/T_1BR5hqwXU?...

WATCH: “You click to subscribe. Why can’t you click to cancel?” -Paresh Dave of WIRED on the latest tech company that regulators say is too hard to quit. Check out “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review” and subscribe on YouTube to catch the show every week… youtu.be/o_F5V00Oykk?...

Great to chat with @joannastern.bsky.social of @wallstreetjournal.bsky.social about Apple’s “AI-in-Everything” strategy, and the week’s other tech news. WATCH HERE and SUBSCRIBE to catch “Marketplace Tech Bytes” every Friday!: youtu.be/WQMtgvd2rRg?...

Our Marketplace Tech week-in-review with @natashathereporter.bsky.social of @theinformation.bsky.social is up! We talk AI whistleblowers, Facebook’s future & the return of Roaring Kitty. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/H-P7EIz_oWM?...

Great to wrap the week in tech with Paresh Dave of WIRED. We cover TikTok, noncompetes, and the new Sony/Honda EV. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/AhAkRn9zZRM?...

Tesla stock is down 30% in 2024. Watch @jewelmelanie and I discuss the week’s major tech headlines here! $tsla👇 youtu.be/aaVZJX00unc?...

“This is one state trying to take this on, but we have a nationwide problem.” [email protected] on Florida’s new social media crackdown for minors. Plus, Joanna’s latest EV adventures & a WWDC preview Our latest MARKETPLACE TECH BYTES: Week in Review is up… youtu.be/gP1Eomlv7iU?...

Anita Ramaswamy from Reuters Breakingviews joined me for our weekly Marketplace tech round-up. We discussed how Apple’s walled-garden strategy became a liability. $aapl WATCH HERE!: youtu.be/lS_oEkFT_xM?...

I got to talk through the week’s top stories in tech with Paresh Dave of WIRED. We had a lot to cover including TikTok, OpenAI, Waymo, and Reddit. SUBSCRIBE to catch the show every Friday. youtu.be/IV8hlcAY25Q?...

The 12th most valuable company in the world is no longer Tesla. It’s Ozempic & Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk. Watch Christina Farr and I talk through the week’s top stories in tech. $TSLA $NVO $AAPL youtu.be/lCI-uQD9k5g?...

“One of the things that I think we’re gonna have to reckon with is that human intelligence comes at a premium,” @bostonjoan.bsky.social tells @lilyjamali.bsky.social . For tech companies looking to cut costs, though, trust & safety workers are an easy target. www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

“Innovation is something that looks like a distraction until it clicks.” Great to chat with @nmasc_ for our weekly tech roundup👇 youtu.be/vn7e1cQN2a4?...

“Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review” is posted! Anita Ramaswamy of Reuters BreakingViews joins me for this edition. SUBSCRIBE to MarketplaceAPM on YouTube to catch the show every week youtu.be/TXYqeBihVrQ?...

ICYMI, here’s our latest installment of “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week In Review.” Natasha Mascarenhas of The Information joins me to discuss tech layoffs, Gulf States funding Silicon Valley, and Netflix’s ad strategy. SUBSCRIBE on YouTube to catch the show every Friday! youtu.be/ZKjLDombsX4?...

This week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes” is up! Great to have investor Christina Farr of OMERS Ventures join to talk AI, CRISPR, and more healthtech. SUBSCRIBE to catch us every Friday! youtu.be/GAEQIUQmZ_I?...

ICYMI: Our “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review” from the floor of CES in Las Vegas… youtu.be/jR5EvXs5qB0?...

WATCH: Personal tech to keep an eye on this year. @joannastern.bsky.social of the Wall Street Journal joins us for this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes SUBSCRIBE to watch every Friday! youtu.be/fRAq6u6L7ec?...

Together, Meta & the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) have donated over have a billion dollars to American colleges and universities. Now, TTP Director Katie Paul discusses academic freedom and the power of corporate influence with Marketplace's @lilyjamali.bsky.social.

Our 2023 Marketplace Tech roundup is posted! Hope you’ll give it a watch: youtu.be/kzmyRebqxRE?...

"Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review" is up! Axios’s Maria Curi and I discuss... *'What We Watched' on Netflix *Europe's AI Act *Epic's antitrust win vs Google youtube.com/watch?v=LeTL... $nflx $googl

went on Marketplace to discuss everything that's happened over the last few days in the life of everyone's favorite richest human being www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

The bust after the boom hits the video game business. @sarahparvini of the @latimes reports 8K+ job cuts across the industry LISTEN 👇 www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

Wondering what in the heck happened this week in tech?? Jewel Burks Solomon and I have you covered with Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Hope you’ll give it a watch - and SUBSCRIBE on YouTube 🙏 youtu.be/fBMJ-NSPk7A