Lily Jamali

photograph of burn mask

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1/ What is this photograph?

It's a custom-made mask fitted for a software engineer in northern Virginia who suffered third-degree burns on her face when the Tesla Model Y she was in crashed and caught on fire. A heroic crowd of bystanders could not open the doors

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, 07/08/2025 01:06 GMT The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

In case you missed it live: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

#Trump #Russia #Ukraine #France - and @lilyjamali.bsky.social on Apple investments in the US

I was presenting this week's episode of Tech Life on the BBC World Service

- What happened to DeepSeek? @lilyjamali.bsky.social reports

- AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? @joetidy.bsky.social reports

- Alasdair Keane interviews Volvo’s tech lead

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Food for thought

Homage to the Commodore Amiga

I also got to finally meet Jeeves!! (The pets.com sock puppet was there, too)

A highlight of my visit to the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum… discovering the BBC Micro - albeit a few years late! Thanks to @davidga.me for the history lesson!

I got to do something great a week ago: join a 25-year reunion for people who worked at #Napster. While the original experience was rough for most of them, this was a chance to process it with old friends. It remains one of the most remarkable stories of that era. wapo.st/3HdcJhv

No doubt! It’s such a great idea. We desperately need spaces like this.

Heard about this over lunch today.. really looking forward to seeing it!

Trump Organization enters mobile phone business It is the latest plan by US President Donald Trump's family that looks to cash on his name.

Ethics watchdogs say the Trump family’s new mobile venture represents another means for potential corruption and conflicts of interest.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The anti-Elon stickers are DEFINITELY getting larger

Skype shutting down: Your memories as Microsoft shuts down the video calling service As Microsoft shuts it down, we’ve spoken to people whose lives were impacted by the tools.

Today is the end of Skype as Microsoft shuts it down.

I have spoken to people whose lives were impacted by it, including a long-distance couple who fell in love over Skype and a woman who used it to find closure following her husband's death.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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1gmt/2bst #TheNewsroom here ---> www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - 📻

featuring @lilyjamali.bsky.social on Apple and tariffs; also #MikeWaltz; #Netanyahu #Harrods, and farewell to football superfan, Manolo el del Bombo of Spain.

@nickrandell.bsky.social keeping us on air

AP NewsAlert: Wisconsin attorney general sues in attempt to block Elon Musk from handing out $1 million to voters

Awesome news!

From today’s “#TeslaTakeover” protest in Berkeley, CA.
Our report is here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dating app cover-up: How Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark.

“Do we only publish where we are required by law?”

That’s a quote pulled from internal documents at Match Group.

This damning investigation finds Match Group has long known about abusive users on their apps but failed to share that info with users.

A MUST-READ:

19thnews.org/2025/02/dati...

BBC World Service - Global News Podcast, Trump: “Let all hell break out” if Hamas does not release hostages Both sides accuse each other of ceasefire violations

Here's Tuesday afternoon's #GlobalNewsPod
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
#Gaza, #Jordan #Rubiales and @lilyjamali.bsky.social on OpenAi and Musk

Possibly useful tip: the Trader Joe's precooked hardboiled eggs seem to be immune from the egg price hikes so far. The downside is that eating wet eggs from a bag makes you feel worse about yourself.

DeepSeek AI shakes American swagger and upends assumptions The app spooked the markets as well as the bullish sense of American superiority in AI development.

AI’s ‘Sputnik Moment’:
BBC’s Lily Jamali @lilyjamali.bsky.social on the Deepseek storm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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We're live at 2gmt: #TheNewsroom here ---> www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - 📻 @lilyjamali.bsky.social on #DeepSeek and #Nvidia; plus #Goma; #Gaza; #Neymar and #Auschwitz

I told the BBC that the Biden Administration made an "unforced error" in crafting and defending a law that gives the President outsized control over who owns TikTok. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musk, MrBeast, Larry Ellison - Who might buy TikTok? Several potential US buyers have expressed interest in purchasing the social media platform.

“It was a terrible idea to put the future of a massive information platform into this political maelstrom,” Georgetown Law’s @anupamchander.bsky.social tells me re: TikTok.
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The Tech Coup:

SUNDAY at 2pmET/11amPT — I interview Stanford’s Marietje Schaake about her new book “The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley.”
Please RSVP here to join us. We invite you to submit your questions.
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YouTube video by Marketplace APM TikTok Heads to the Supreme Court | Bytes: Week in Review | Marketplace Tech

I got to test 1-800-ChatGPT on WhatsApp with my @marketplace.org pal Meghan McCarty Carino. It’s… a work in progress.
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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.

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...

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.

Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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We have issued an Evacuation Order due to a Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. from Berkeley Police Department : Nixle We have issued an Evacuation Order due to a Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW People in the Tsunami Zone are in IMMEDIATE DANGER and MUST EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. This is ...

From BERKELEY PD:
We have issued an Evacuation Order due to a Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. nixle.us/FZ3E9

Whoa, and now a tsunami warning…