Monica Soriano
@ScottishMon
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Editor, BBC News Technology & Innovation Story Team @BBCTech. Former @BBCScotNine, @VictoriaLIVE, @BBCr4today, @bbc5live.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2009
Apple removes high-level data protection for UK users after the government requested right to access
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Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
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Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
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Trying out a new social media platform - so follow me there if you are on it @scottishmon.bsky.social
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A cautionary tale about handing over your DNA - this testing firm now appears to have vanished. I did not expect the trail to lead us to Moscow and a Russian billionaire. https://t.co/bGc3KCvtGa
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Customers of Atlas Biomed are angry and worried about what's happened to the highly sensitive data they shared.
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Remember the craze for unlocking the ancestry secrets inside your DNA? 23andMe - which has a database of the genetic make-up of 15 million customers - has just narrowly avoided being de-listed from the stock exchange. https://t.co/w0ihd4suHD
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Once millions used it to find out about their family histories - this week it was almost delisted. What went wrong?
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Hunt for Bitcoin's elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto hits another dead-end. I wrote up the experience of this bizarre press conference and it’s wider context:
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Why are still no closer to unmasking the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto?
I’m at a London event billed as the ‘unveiling of the true legal identity of Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto’. An odd set up to the press conference as the organiser asked me to pay £500 to attend and appear on stage to ask questions of the billionaire mystery man.
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This is a brilliant report from @joetidy and thanks to the @BBCTech team for taking part in the experiment
Watch: Can BBC reporter's AI clone fool his colleagues? We did this experiment after hearing about the mysterious story of the $25m cyber fraud from earlier this year which saw criminals use AI cloning on a work meeting. Here's a short version of our vid https://t.co/783NlFZmjM
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James McAvoy and Tom Brady fall for 'Goodbye Meta AI' hoax
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More than 600,000 people have shared a message falsely denying Meta the right to use their images to train AI.
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Thieves snatched his phone in London - it was in China a month later
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Akara tells the BBC about the journey his phone took after it was snatched from his hands by thieves.
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Delighted to welcome @lilyjamali to our team - exciting times ahead
Got some personal news: this week, I join the BBC as North America Technology Correspondent based in SF and Silicon Valley. I couldn’t be more excited to start work with this incredible team! New contact details are in my bio if you’re looking to be in touch
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Thank you to the producer @TomQuinnTweets and our editor @ScottishMon
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'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them'
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A voice over artist found out his voice had been taken when he heard a chatbot on a podcast using it.
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Telegram: 'The dark web in your pocket'. There's no doubt criminality is happening on other social networks too, but my experiment hints at a broader problem that many in law enforcement have been concerned about for years. https://t.co/lxjzD4MeWC
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Klarna: AI lets us cut thousands of jobs - but pay more
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The firm wants to reduce staff levels to 2,000 works through its use of AI in marketing and customer service.
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Online platforms told they risk stirring up hate and violence
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The government and the media regulator have faced criticism for not intervening sooner.
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Elon Musk shares faked far-right 'detainment camp' post
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The image was faked to look like it had come from the Daily Telegraph website.
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What could Google monopoly ruling mean for you?
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The US government has said it wants 'structural relief' after a judge ruled Google broke the law.
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This week on @BBCClick - another chance to see the tech powering the Olympics https://t.co/scb98GZqti
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Click trials the tech powering the Olympics.
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