Go Jays! apnews.com/article/blue...

Global AI governance is in focus at this week's United Nations General Assembly annual meeting. Here's a rundown of by me and colleague Meg Kinnard apnews.com/article/arti...

On holiday this month in Turkey, I roasted on the Mediterranean coast in temperatures as high as 37C/98.6F. Good timing for this @apnews.com One Tech Tip with some pointers on how to keep your phone and other electronic devices cool during the hot hot summer heat. apnews.com/article/ipho...

Europe is racing to beef up its military capabilities, but the question is how to do that quickly? One answer could be defense tech hackathons. Here's an @apnews.com yarn I wrote about one 24-hour brainstorming meetup. Organizers hope to foster a startup-like culture for Europe's defense industry

This week's One Tech Tip for @apnews.com is for all you dog and cat owners out there. It's about pet tracking devices and was inspired by one of my cat's escapades a while back. TL:DR he went AWOL. Full story via the link.

Amazing. Respect the lede.

On this day, this used to happen. Now it doesn't apnews.com/general-news...

Very pleased to share a National Headliner Award with @aliswenson.bsky.social @alansuderman.bsky.social @garanceburke.bsky.social and Dan Merica today! We won first place in the Newspaper Political Coverage category for a package of @apnews.com stories on AI and elections.

New cellphones are pricey and could get even more expensive amid global trade tensions. So maybe it's time to consider buying a secondhand phone. Here are some tips from me for this week's edition of One Tech Tip for @apnews.com.

As the busy summer travel season approaches, travelers should be ready for increased scrutiny of devices when they're at the border, especially when entering the U.S. Here are some tips to protect your electronic device privacy, in the latest for the @apnews.com One Tech Tip series.

London Met Polic’s facial recognition van is deployed on Camden High Street today. Officers stopped the guy in white T-shirt and were chatting with him for quite a while. I couldn’t stick around to see how it ended

Did you know you don't have to give out your real email when you sign up for something or start using a new service on the internet? Use a burner email address instead for more privacy & security. It's also known as email masking and I wrote about it for this week's @apnews.com One Tech Tip.

2 big earthquakes in SE Asia this morning, one 7.7, the other 6.4 - a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok has collapsed

Beijing is not happy after a company owned by Hong Kong's richest person sold Panama Canal port assets. It's not the first time that Li Ka-shing has faced criticism from the CCP, but it's always surprising when it happens because the city's billionaire tycoons have been its longtime supporters

"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you're on Bluesky it might be because you've already quit Facebook or Instagram. If you haven't but are mulling it, here's a video I did, based on my One Tech Tip article from January. (see it here bsky.app/profile/thek...)

Today's @apnews.com One Tech Tip was inspired by a reader email pleading for help. She wanted to know about how to stop getting spam calls. She said she was getting up to 14 a day even after using call blocking apps. apnews.com/article/spam...

If you're American (or anyone who cares about the world and has a few dollars), subscribe to WIRED, donate to AP: apnews.com/donate www.wired.com/subscribe

You might ask, what is the quintessential Canadian pop song? Here's one of my picks: Sloan doing Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" which came out on a tribute album that no longer seems to be available anywhere, either physical or digital. Only on this YouTube rip www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6t...

This came out a month ago but it's still essential reading. Vive le Canada. macleans.ca/society/cana...

US veep JD Vance laid out the Trump administration’s artificial intelligence policy on the final day of the Paris AI summit. Main points include no to excessive regulation or woke AI

Good morning from Paris. I forgot to post our story from yesterday on the AI Action Summit, where US veep Vance is making his intl debut. Had a lot of interesting conversations, but the question is what, if anything, will be achieved. Today Vance will make a speech so we’ll if he has any surprises

This isn’t your father’s AI summit

I'm in Paris for a few days to cover the latest international AI summit. Here's a preview by Sylvie Corbet and moi on what to expect. TL:DR Macron wants to widen the debate away from the race to build better-than-human artificial gen intelligence but Trump's AI plan & China's DeepSeek are wildcards

You might be wondering: how do fake reviews work? Well, here’s a thread that might shed a little light. Last year I got approached on Telegram by a random account. I didn’t know this person, who called herself Rachelle. I asked about Kenny, someone I once knew who dated a girl with that name. 1/n

We all hate fake reviews, amirite? Google is pledging to crack down on them after an investigation by British regulators who secured commitments from the tech giant. UK businesses that try to profit from them will be slapped with warning labels on their Google profiles and rogue reviewers banned

In today's edition of One Tech Tip for the @apnews.com, something that Bluesky users maybe might appreciate: apnews.com/article/face...

An AP reporter is looking for *renters* who have been affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. Please let me know if you (or someone you know) would be interested in sharing your story for an Associated Press article. Thank you!

I'm back after a Christmas/NY's hiatus with the latest One Tech Tip for @apnews.com. Seeing as it's a new year, I decided this week to write about my top tricks for getting your email inbox under control. If you've got any other ideas, let us know! apnews.com/article/emai...

More on the Romania TikTok election story. Brussels now investigating whether TikTok failed to do enough to guard against digital risks related to the presidential vote. ICYMI Romania's top court annulled 1st round results over suspected electoral violations and Moscow's meddling. @apnews.com by me

Do you use end-to-end encryption on your smartphone? Officials are now advising that people encrypt their mobile comms, after uncovering a sprawling telecom hack. So here's my One Tech Tip this week for @apnews.com on how to make use get the highest level of privacy for your chats and phone calls

Whoah, big news in UK media world

This could be the world’s biggest election interference via online influence ops instance since U.S. A. in 2016. And the prime suspect: Mr. Putin, again. @thekelvinchan.bsky.social

Romania held an election. A little-known candidate emerged as the front-runner. Authorities released a trove of files alleging Moscow arranged an online campaign to support him, via TikTok and Telegram. Now the European Union orders TikTok to keep all data related to the vote. Wrote this today

Same

Had to do a double-take when I saw this. Martial law in South Korea?

Interesting - though to be clear it's the federation, not all the 320,000 journalists, which is what I initially thought.

Here's a quick AP video explainer I did on how to use Bluesky, to go along with the text story I did last week. Of course ff you're seeing this here, then you don't need to watch it because you've already joined the club. But please share it with people who want to know more!

Good tip

This is an interesting tool for Bluesky users. Enter your username - or anyone else's - and it will tell you if your account has any labels (AKA filters). Mine only has "changedhandle" blue.mackuba.eu/scanner/

BREAKING: 3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says

Kinda surprised to see that Volkswagen is selling its joint-venture auto plant in China's far west Xinjiang region. Accusations of human rights violations have swirled around the facility but last year VW did an audit that found no signs of forced labor, which suggested it was digging in

Glad to see Terrible Maps is on here too!

Take note of this announcement from Bluesky HQ

Lots of articles today about Bluesky potentially violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) after this FT article came out. But Bluesky is legally NOT required to publish user numbers in my opinion. The spokesperson of the European Commission has mixed up things. (1/5) www.ft.com/content/9083...

Not sure whose door I need to knock on, but it would be helpful for journalists if BlueSky had a 'notify' option for posts from officials.

Let’s end the week with some moody photos of #London’s Canary Wharf

Hi to all new followers! We're all still figuring out how this platform works and while I laid out the basics in my One Tech Tip, one thing I didn't get around to is something @alixkroeger.bsky.social told me about: detaching posts from someone else's quote of it, which helps combat harassment.

Cool! That's a helpful tip! Still lots of interesting features that I don't know about.