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liv mcmahon

@livmcmahon.bsky.social
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tech journalist @ BBC News, social media lurker, plant mother (hoarder) 🌿🌈 send tips to liv.mcmahon[@]bbc.co.uk or on signal @ liv.13. views here my own.

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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In an effort to be less addicted to vinted and doomscrolling, I’m trying to read more/anything - and have started the year with this brilliant recommendation from the fab @theverge.com team ! www.theverge.com/c/23771068/b...
Ellen Ullman’s Close to the Machine, with the BBC Scotland headquarters and the river Clyde in the background
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
brat truly knows no bounds
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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...
bbc.co.uk
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So, I’ve been obsessing about a quirk in the TikTok law: assuming no stay, Oracle is banned from hosting TT’s data after Jan 19. AWS, Google, etc. can’t host it either. So where does it go? well, it’s a ByteDance asset, and if they can’t keep it here... www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
forbes.com
If TikTok Is Banned, Americans’ Data Could End Up Back In China
If it takes effect, the TikTok law will ban Oracle from hosting TikTok users’ data. That puts the data back in ByteDance’s hands — where it could flow back to China.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is not great
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
good morning to my new wee flurry of followers from a very chilly but very pretty glasgow 🌅❄️
In a picture taken on Glasgow’s Squinty Bridge, a blue, pink and purple morning sky reflected in the Clyde - with BBC Scotland and Science museum buildings shown on the left bank of the river, and the Finnieston crane and SEC Armadillo buildings on the rightA screenshot of Apple’s weather app showing the weather in Govan, Glasgow to be 0 degrees Celsius and “mostly sunny”
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 04/12/2024
Ads in ChatGPT? It's on the company's mind, as revealed by OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar in an interview with the FT this week. For @opinion.bsky.social, I break down why I think it's way too soon for such a move. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
ChatGPT Isn't Essential Enough Yet to Have Ads
Deciding when to introduce advertising into users’ experience is crucial. OpenAI shouldn’t be impatient.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 27/11/2024
TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for under-18s
tcrn.ch
TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for under-18s
TikTok is now the go-to social network for more than a billion users, bringing it to the attention of 14 U.S. attorneys general, who recently announced they were suing the company over its negative impact on minors’ mental health, as well as for…
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"OpenAI suspended access to its unreleased but highly anticipated video generation tool Sora on Tuesday after a small group of artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company’s treatment of creative professionals who test the tool with minimal compensation, acting as 'PR puppets.'"
washingtonpost.com
OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest
OpenAI shut down its highly anticipated video generation service Sora, after artists invited to test its capabilities staged a protest that allowed anyone to use it.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/11/2024
Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
this piece is SO good, and really shines a light on the strange aspirational beige-ness that’s come to define a lot of influencing
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 23/11/2024
The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A screenshot of an article headlined “we got AI Jesus before GTA 6” on Google
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I know looking at/sharing things Elon posts on X is literally part of my job but the first *five* posts on my For You feed were from him today
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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
BookTok For Real www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
theguardian.com
TikTok owner ByteDance to publish print books
8th Note Press, an imprint launched by ByteDance, will print novels in genres popular on BookTok including YA and contemporary fiction and ‘romantasy’
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
the human washing machine is finally here, everyone ! www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...
asahi.com
‘Human washing machine’ set to make a splash at Osaka Expo | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OSAKA--A futuristic “human washing machine” that caused a stir at the 1970 Japan World Exposition has undergone a 21st century makeover for the Osaka Kansai Expo in April.
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
all i want is to be thrown into a big pile of blåhaj
An Ikea store display designed to look like a deep sea dive shows a pile of “blåhaj” shark plushies piled high with a cardboard a diver dangling above it
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There are a ton of features in Bluesky that are brilliant but many still don’t know about them or use them. This new article by @theverge.com is a brilliant, simple manual and a must-read for the millions of new users arriving.
theverge.com
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
hiii to all lovely people following me 🥰👋 i haven’t posted anywhere in months but i’ll be trying to do so more here from now on. keeping my thoughts to myself is just too hard sorry.
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
we are so back
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
I am on threads at @livmcmahon if anyone would like to follow me and my weird, infrequent posts on yet another app
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liv mcmahon @livmcmahon.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
reconnecting with my Twitter Mutuals
The Bluth family
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