Technology writer for The Associated Press. bortutay@ap.org https://apnews.com/author/barbara-ortutayhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3mjxnxtqm7k2lwww.instagram.com/p/DXXQwr8Ee1U/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DXXQwr8Ee1U/20 Apr 2026 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxnxtqm7k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3mhypyuscgs2tNow let's see what happens with AI... https://apnews.com/article/social-media-meta-youtube-instagram-trials-aa1d936fca51c67478db7bc5b08d1c4526 Mar 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhypyuscgs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3mfs7czslrs2pWhen she tried to stop using the platforms, she said she was often unsuccessful. “Every single day, I was on it all day long,” she said. https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-facebook-trial-social-media-addiction-2afb4809d2dbbb0d1e69739c7f2b20b326 Feb 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfs7czslrs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3mehajgplys2vhttps://apnews.com/article/bad-bunny-super-bowl-2026-halftime-show-review-fbcd3dff50a4c6b0548bfa4712677eb009 Feb 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mehajgplys2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3me35pmjhkk2cRIP :( https://apnews.com/article/cia-world-factbook-ratcliffe-trump-fbec61ce16c4b3db59db9cefce0da04305 Feb 2026 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3me35pmjhkk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3m6g242tz4c2pWhile the website was processing my payment for plane tickets (like the circle going around and around) I got a notification that the price increased by $70. This is insanity. Has this happened to anyone else?25 Nov 2025 00:03 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6g242tz4c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3m63ka5ckw22hBecause the horror movies didn't warn us enough... https://apnews.com/article/ai-toys-miko-curio-gabbo-aa6d829b1aba18e2d1dfedd4cfca8da720 Nov 2025 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63ka5ckw22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3m5wi4jkbck2o"Believing that the only constant in the world was change, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus posited that no man can ever step into the same river twice. In the online world of social media, the current runs fast, too." -- Judge James Boasberg, ruling in favor of Meta. https://apnews.com/article/meta-antitrust-ftc-instagram-whatsapp-c36b941a372321e4ecd05e83e0db167818 Nov 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wi4jkbck2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3m25mjv3s4s2rThe only LLM I need. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2025 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25mjv3s4s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3lz7jy3fyck2m"Way back in 2012, the internet wasn’t yet the angry, shrieking wasteland it has become. A simple story about a no-nonsense lady in North Dakota could break through the noise." https://www.wsj.com/us-news/marilyn-hagerty-obituary-b456a4df?st=pY2C4h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink19 Sep 2025 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7jy3fyck2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3lygcoxahpc2y"Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found." https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e8809 Sep 2025 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lygcoxahpc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3lxiiogo44k2mI have honestly many times thought about purchasing one of those bulletproof backpacks or whatever, but then I think about the burden of carrying that to school every day, putting that burden on our children, that physical and mental burden of having to remember why you are carrying that backpack.28 Aug 2025 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxiiogo44k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3lxi6a26jc22fThe trouble with age verification https://apnews.com/article/age-verification-kids-social-media-privacy-speech-1cf99c96ab6b461cf7612d312e111e7928 Aug 2025 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxi6a26jc22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3lxd64mdio22f“If a tool can give suicide instructions to a child, its safety system is simply useless." https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbots-selfharm-chatgpt-claude-gemini-da00880b1e1577ac332ab1752e41225b26 Aug 2025 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxd64mdio22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/blanka.bsky.social/post/3lxaxdoc7xs2fHere's a recent story (and photos) by Mariam Dagga, about children in Gaza: [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2025 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:dyetepun3soasht2gmpmlwpc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxaxdoc7xs2f