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Mark Sellman

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Technology Correspondent at The Times. Gooner who likes cycling. All views my own unless I’ve nicked them from someone else

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TikTok staff described the app as having a "coercive design tactic; a quarter of older teens use the app after midnight; its safety tools have very low take up. These and other revelations come from internal documents I got hold of. More here. www.thetimes.com/article/4d5c...

TikTok’s tricks laid bare, from ‘coercive design’ to 5am scrolling

Ten million users are defined as having ‘objectively harmful daily usage’. According to leaked internal documents, the company is aware of the addictive methods

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are possibly just days away from new restrictions on social media for teenagers being announced in the UK. If you want to understand how teenagers use TikTok, then look at this. It's research from Revealing Reality and 5Rights that gives you a teen-eyed view of their screens. shorturl.at/6hREm

Doomscrolling 708 videos a day: how TikTok turned our teens into addicts

As international debate on social media reaches fever pitch, research reveals exactly what children are doing on the app

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I had an exchange with Matt Goodwin about claims he has introduced errors into his new book after using AI. He addressed some of them but not others. I thought the most crucial thing was the English as an Additional Language (EAL) stat, which is fundamental to some of his claims. shorturl.at/stBIH

Matt Goodwin accused of AI blunders in new book on migration

The Reform UK candidate has been accused of inventing quotes and misunderstanding statistics in Suicide of a Nation, but says critics are ‘left-wing activists’

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

Part-ban on ransom payments to hackers set to come into force in the UK. It will be fascinating to see the impact of this in the next few years. Most experts welcome it but Jamie MacColl of RUSI sceptical it will work until a full ban www.thetimes.com/article/cf85...

Businesses banned from paying hackers’ ransoms to target cybercrime

New laws mark some of the strictest in the world to target hackers, requiring the private sector to seek government permission before paying cybercriminals

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

A huge chunk of terror content has been sitting on social media despite the illegal harms section of Online Safety Act being in force for months. It raises questions for Ofcom as to whether their methods are effective www.thetimes.com/article/0acc...

New online laws fail to stop promotion of terror groups

Content urging the killing of ‘Zionists’ and videos of Israeli hostages being executed remains despite social media platforms having a legal duty to take it down

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

Stephen Bartlett has decided to take a stand over Google/YouTube taking creator content to train on AI. It's not well known in the industry, but as it does become it will be interesting to see if more big names like him speak out www.thetimes.com/article/b3db...

Steven Bartlett warns YouTube over using creators’ videos for AI

The Diary of a CEO podcast host says that the video-sharing site will he ‘hollowed out’ if it continues to take videos to train AI without paying creators

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

The Chatham House Russia expert Keir Giles has done everyone a great service by releasing all the details of how Russian intelligence hacked his Gmail account. As he says: “people finding out about this problem is more important than my embarrassment”. www.thetimes.com/article/a9b1...

How Russian hackers hoodwinked Chatham House’s Kremlin critic

Keir Giles has revealed how he fell for a sophisticated phishing attack that gave cybercriminals posing as the US State Department access to his Gmail account

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

GCHQ's top cyber official has expressed his frustration that organisations are not following his advice on cyber security. Those I spoke to said that the NCSC lacks teech to implement its guidance and the big picture is that the market incentives need to change www.thetimes.com/article/9aca...

Businesses ignore advice on preventing cyberattacks, says GCHQ

The chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre tells British firms to ‘implement our advice immediately’ after a spate of hacks of commercial websites

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

So the government concessions in the copyright row have failed to move the needle. Next stop, report stage of the data bill on May 7 and then onto the Lords on May 12. If the Kidron amendments go back in, it's ping-pong and tick-tock ...what will ministers do then? www.thetimes.com/article/2bd8...

Artists reject concessions in revolt over AI copyright law

MPs, peers and creative industry figures demand measures to force AI companies to reveal what copyrighted works they have used

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · last yr.

Sir Demis Hassabis lays down his and Google's response to DeepSeek in Paris before AI summit: - 'no new scientific advance' : "It's an impressive piece of work, and I think it's probably the best work I've seen come out of China.

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Mark Sellman@mpsellman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to Paul Abbott for telling his story. Hopefully it will encourage others to do the same as a public service ‘My company thrived for 150 years — then Russian hackers brought it down in three months’ www.thetimes.com/article/622d...

‘My company thrived for 150 years — then Russian hackers brought it down in three months’

Paul Abbott, a former director of a logistics company that went under after a ransomware attack, is intent on warning others of the growing danger

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