Popped onto BBC Radio Bristol this morning to chat to John Darvall about where your #smartphone data goes & if it's safe, following news Lord Mandelson has been ordered to turn over his personal phone to officials. Listen from 53:41 🎧🎙️: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #iPhone #iCloud #WhatsApp

Last night I was invited to go on the BBC News channel with Christian Fraser to react live to the breaking news that #Meta & #Google had been found liable in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles. Please excuse the messy hair! #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #techpolicy #socialmediaban

🧵1/3 Very interesting news in #cybersecurity right now, even Elon Musk has mentioned it.. cybercriminals used AI-generated malware to poison a popular #Python coding package called #LiteLLM that manages #AI API keys to more than 100 AI models for big firms like Nasa, Netflix, Nvidia, Adobe & Stripe.

Pretty busy day but I've summarised the new US National Policy Framework for #ArtificialIntelligence released this afternoon by the #WhiteHouse. The document looks surprisingly sensible, only a couple points I dislike😅 Here's a summary of key points: #AI #generativeAI #techpolicy #copyright #LLM

I've just finished reading Gov UK's new report today on the use of copyrighted works in the development of AI systems, produced by DSIT, DCMS & Intellectual Property Office. Below are the key points - I'm available for on-air commentary as needed: #AI #copyrightlaw #UKlaw #generativeAI #technology

Yesterday I attended a #Samsung event for women where they demonstrated how #agenticAI is being used in #SamsungS26Ultra smartphones, including further #GoogleGemini integration & #Nownudge. In the interests of transparency + public learning, I invite you to be a fly on the wall & see my POV 😉 #AI

The House of Lords has published a report on #AI & its impact on #copyright + creative industries, calling out Gov UK on AI messaging. They make it clear answers produced by #LLMs are not based on it learning anything 🤖 This is what I said recently on BBC News. Read: shorturl.at/cHpRr TL;DR below

I miss Tony Benn. World War II was only 80 years ago - the greatest event of the 21st century. How can we just allow the wars to continue without standing up against them? What if we’re next? It’s like we’ve forgotten the lessons of our grandparents, like it never happened at all…

Just been on BBC World discussing with Kasia Madera about Instagram’s new rollout of a feature that alerts parents if their kids are searching for self-harm and suicide-related content. I’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social in an hour to discuss the same thing. #Instagram #privacy #socialmediaban #meta

This morning I was on BBC Radio Scotland's Breakfast programme to chat with Laura Maciver & James Cook abt @theverge.com story on a man accidentally viewing thousands of #DJI robot vacuums. Here's a chat simplifying tech for a consumer audience. Listen from 2:56:24 here🎧🎙️: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Phew, it's been a busy 24 hours! I was on BBC Radio 4's PM programme yesterday evening chatting to Evan Davis about a @theverge.com story on a man accidentally being able to view thousands of #DJI robot vacuum cleaners. Listen from 41:09 here 🎧🎙️: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #cybersecurity #IoT

On Monday, I was invited to film a live panel discussion episode of Your Voice with BBC News on the UK government's plans to update the #OnlineSafetyAct with further protections for children online. Here my key points. View the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivA... #AI #Grok #technews

I didn’t have going to New Broadcasting House this afternoon to be part of a 25-min BBC News Verified Live Your Voice programme chatting to Matthew Amroliwala about the UK government’s new plans to protect children on the internet on my 2026 bingo card, but it happened! 🎬 Video to come soon! #AI

Hooray! 🎉And now for some good news - #Spain is banning #socialmedia for under-16-year-olds starting from next week. I was delighted to discuss this topic yesterday evening on TRTWorld's live Newshour programme. Really hopeful that this sweeps across Europe📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzH...

On Sunday I chatted to Geeta Guru-Murthy on BBC News abt #Clawdbot / #Moltbot / #OpenClaw & the website Moltbook, which is making the public think #AI assistants are complaining abt humans online🤯 Not true! We don't need to fear an AI uprising just yet. Full video🤖: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOds...

Today I bunked off ballet class to chat on the live BBC News channel abt #Clawdbot / #Moltbot & #Moltbook, esp. claims AI bots are writing long posts complaining abt humans + planning an #AI uprising 🤖🤯 Moltbook is fake. The bots are replicating real Reddit posts they trained on. Video to come!

Last night I was on @bbc5live.bsky.social chatting to @claremcdonnell.bsky.social about #TikTok censorship & speed throttling concerns from US users of the app, amidst the transfer of TikTok's infrascructure to #Oracle's US-based data centres🎙️ Listen from 2:16:46 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've just been on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme chatting to Sarah Montague about #Clawdbot🎙️🎧 Listen from 31:13: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... TL;DR: Clawdbot is a tech nerd hobbyist project. It's not simple to install & not secure. Don't feed it your data My full analysis: bit.ly/49KlPxI

I was back at TRT World yesterday to film an episode of Roundtable on the EU banning “high risk” Chinese telecoms equipment vendors from European mobile networks, with Enda Brady, CCCEU’s Linlin Liang & Checkpoint’s Graeme Stewart. This episode airs next Tuesday at 3pm GMT 📺 #cybersecurity #5G

Just back from the studio filming with TRT World talking about a key tech development this week. More deets tomorrow! #techjournalist #adayinthelife

After catching the cold/flu for the 3rd time in the last 2 months, I finally decided to get the flu jab. …but that’s now been cancelled because the flu jab nurse is ill too xD #lurgy #flu #londonlife

Goodness, from looking at my email inbox today - it seems like everybody is upset with the Budget for a multitude of reasons, yikes 😬

In other news, our lift has just stopped working. I doubt it’s got anything to do with Cloudflare but it’s a funny coincidence. Yes, I should probably get off the Internet and go outside 🤣😭

X seems to be back but you can’t upload any photos. Anyway, here’s the information I’ve collected so far about the #Cloudflare outage:

X is back! But right now, I can’t seem to post anything. Anybody else having the same experience?

Not LMAO, all my builds are broken because the testing library is hosted on CloudFlare.

Oh look this is relevant again

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

Question: Everyone else in the world affected by the #Cloudflare outage, if you go to cloudflarestatus.com, do you get a similar page to what I’ve got but with your geographic region listed? Does it say that your WARP access has been disabled too?

The last day of @websummit.bsky.social was a blast! 🎤 Chris Ballance of IonQ and I chatted about #quantum chips based on trapped ions, then I delved into superconducting quantum applications in aerospace with Mirko Reuter of @airbus.com Defence & Dr. Juan Bernabe Moreno of IBM Research Europe.

Hello from @websummit.bsky.social in Lisbon, Portugal! 👋🏼 Today I spoke abt chip shortages & #cloud sovereignty at the Economic Policy Summit, plus interviewing an electric truck startup & #AI autonomous software firm abt the future of logistics at Machine Summit. Back tomorrow to chat quantum 😉

I'm off to Lisbon today for @websummit.bsky.social, where I'll be speaking and moderating panels, plus hunting for cool new ideas to cover. Here are the details, come see me interviewing live on stage 👇 #websummit2025 #AI #quantum #cloudcomputing #techpolicy #datasovereignty

Seeing that someone has resigned from the BBC tonight. That person directly aided and abetted in bullying me and is one of the reasons I left the BBC. Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it?

Pleased to announce that I'll be speaking and moderating at @websummit.bsky.social in Lisbon next week. I'm also actively looking for story ideas relating to emerging tech, tech policy and anything cool or quirky, so feel free to pitch me! 📧[email protected] #websummit #AI #cybersecurity

A major overhaul of IT infrastructure in just-in-time power networks across the Western world is needed as it's incredibly easy to overwhelm national grids - we're just lucky that attackers haven't bothered, so far. Here's my latest for @theregister.com🔐: www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/e...

Just seen my latest cybersecurity article is currently being featured top on @theregister.com, while another piece I wrote for The Array has climbed to second Most Popular on that site. How nice😊

I was asked on air twice yesterday re the #AWS outage but was busy. From seeing analysis tho, I'm glad I didn't - no journalist could have told you how this happened. "DNS" is not an answer. Unless I can explain it the way @quinnypig.com has, I don't bother: www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Could proactive malware vaccines that make simple cosmetic changes to Windows PC #PowerShell profiles to trick #malware help to turn the tide against the onslaught of ransomware attacks? 🔐👾 Here's my latest feature for @theregister.com: www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/m... #cybersecurity

Everyone keen on sovereign cloud & on-premise cloud is having a field day with the AWS outage xD The problem is the region US-EAST-1, which is the default when you open the AWS console. A lot of firms use it as it’s the oldest, largest & therefore offers cheaper prices for on-demand capacity.

At @rusi.bsky.social’s military technology conference today, where AI, automation & sovereign control are the main topics 🤖 Love putting on my military tech hat again (covering since 2014) Also enjoying the gorgeous architecture of the Banqueting House, a stone’s throw from No. 10 Downing Street

I’m not sure what London Mayor Sadiq Khan thinks Apple & Samsung can do abt phone thefts. A method that could work wld be to create a list of stolen IMEI numbers & get mobile operators around the world to block them so they don’t work whichever SIM card you put in… www.mylondon.news/news/west-lo...

Me: It's so great to see #quantum mechanics, the foundations of superconducting qubits, recognised by the Nobel committee. Also me: So why do editors continually refuse quantum news or feature pitches? This is the future, yo. If you'd like some quantum articles, let me know😊

Hello from The Hague! I’m covering the One Conference this week and having lots of interesting conversations on developments in #cybersecurity 🔐 Here are some fun moments from the first day 🌈 #thehague #oneconference #presstrip #technologynews #innovation

I don’t usually want to promote a feature from a tech company, but I really like this idea. Helping to prevent AI content scrapers is definitely ethical behaviour that I can get behind. 👍🏼

A lot of my work for a while has been for the private sector, so it's nice to have a direct byline for once! Here's my new feature article on the hidden problems in #AI and #cloud investment that are being overlooked, for The Array 🤖☁️:

🧵 1/7 Maybe this is weird given I'm a tech journalist who loves innovation, but over the last year I've started feeling very uncomfortable with the idea of using AI & the cloud, unless it's strictly necessary, as I feel I'm part of the problem & exacerbating climate change🌍🌡️

I am very impressed that DSIT made this sexy infographic to explain the new UK Compute Roadmap. So impressed I hope to stick it in some work somewhere. Just look at this beauty...👇🏼

I don't like to disparage anyone's work, but I think we need to be careful abt editorialising. If you've just won a $200m military contract, I don't think you're "desperate". I think you're laughing all the way to the bank. Journalism shouldn't be abt saying words other liberals might like to hear..

The effects of Trump’s tariffs: Alibaba is now heavily focused on courting UK businesses who might want to manufacture something, paying for one of the most expensive advertising slots in London - the travelator at Waterloo station, where campaigns cost up to £250,000… 👀

Our Labour govt is now trying to get rid of end-to-end encryption, since the Conservatives previously were told there is no way to bypass it. It makes perfect sense for Meta to join forces with Apple as enabling mass surveillance is a huge no-no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...