Mary-Ann Russon

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

Radio Scotland Breakfast - 23/02/2026 - BBC Sounds News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather and big name interviews.

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/...

PM - Scathing MPs approve release of Andrew files - BBC Sounds Documents on Andrew Mountbatten-Windor's appointment as trade envoy will be published.

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

Dunno, they each make their own choices on what adulthood means? Anyway the other countries are just bills at this point. Regarding the under-13s rule in the UK, kids are just faking their ages as there's no verification in place. Personally I think it should be under-18s blanket ban.

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!

5 Live Drive - 29/01/2026 - BBC Sounds A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Clare McDonnell and Chris Warburton.

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/...

World at One - Starmer promises 'mature' relationship with China - BBC Sounds The Prime Minister declares ties with China are essential to the UK's national interest.

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 🤣😭

Yes, the answer is simple. We should immediately stop protecting our web services from DDoS attacks, or at least stop using Cloudflare *sarcasm* 😅

*Or is it?* 😬🙃

Woooo!

Sounds like you still get to go though?

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

Thanks for the info! Oh wow, that’s really interesting that they were performing scheduled maintenance at all these different data centres. Was it all at the same time? I need to go study my time zones.

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?

Where are you located? And is your region mentioned at all on the page?

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?