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I think I want to marry the guard on my Avanti West Coast train today who said in an announcement that everyone using their devices to watch or listen to stuff during the journey must wear headphones!

Makes sense

Cristina and I first talked over a year ago. She has never stopped fighting her treatment at Tesla despite her own personal health battle bbc.com/news/articles/…

Cautionary tale, although I don't understand why, having used one method which worked in his trial run, he then decided to use another for the full amount bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Borrowed Zuck’s glasses 👓

A few thoughts about the UK’s AI/copyright battle

The UK has made more than 20,000 demands using the Cloud Act, an agreement which allows the UK and the US to request data access from each other for law enforcement purposes. The US has made 63, says Greg Nojeim at a US sub committee hearing about the UK gov’s row with Apple

Just putting this here… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Oh

Ok, Google 😂

Ofcom to investigate whether 4Chan complies with the online safety act. I can save them a bit of time there by confidently saying: I highly doubt it!

Last month I reported that the government had put back plans to allow driverless cars on UK roads: today it has brought the date forward again! Uber will now trial robotaxis in London (probably with customers via the app) in Spring 2026 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

In August 2024 I met Peter Kyle, shortly after he had been appointed the new government’s Tech Secretary, and he told me there was no money for this. What a difference a year makes! gov.uk/government/new…

Exclusive: WhatsApp sides with Apple in privacy dispute with UK government bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The ping pong is over and the peers have backed down - but the fight will continue bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Truly awesome to have made it onto ComputerWeekly's shortlist of influential people in UK tech. What a powerful list! So many brilliant names. Please cast your votes... (ahem: its alphabetical so Zoe Kleinman is last!) computerweekly.com/news/366626041…

My son has unlocked a new level of enthusiasm for retro tech! His bedroom is increasingly full of the same stuff as mine was when I was a kid 😂

Looking forward to seeing Karen Hao in Edinburgh in August. Just secured my ticket after starting off at 1,502 in the online queue! I got her new book about OpenAI yesterday. The firm and Sam Altman declined to be involved which of course makes me even more intrigued to read it…

Retro-tech-obsessed-son is selling this game on eBay and I can't get over the offers we have received for it. It is 💰💰💰

So I think this means it was all AI (and some smart prompting) after all?! When I covered the curious case of the mystery band and its hundreds of thousands of listeners on Spotify for the BBC yesterday, part of me wondered whether it was all an elaborate hoax by Oasis 😂