that was laura. now time for a look at this week s tech news. social networking platform linkedin is cutting 700 jobs and phasing out its local jobs app in china. the microsoft owned company said the move aims to streamline its operations. it follows a wave of job cuts across big tech. apple co founder steve wozniak has been explaining why he was among the tech titans warning of the dangers posed by artificial intelligence. mr wozniak told the bbc s zoe kleinman that while the tech has exciting potential, he fears it could be misused by bad actors. i think it s going to get better in what it s able to do and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, we finally agree on regulations that basically say, you do the bad things, you know, you re out of line. vietnam is cracking
like woodland, sand or pebbles. and martin dougan s been putting it to the test on brighton beach. martin: i ve been in a wheelchair for 13 years now, and that brings some day to day challenges. like pushing up and down kerbs, for example. thank you. or pushing with an ice cream cone in your hands. please don t fall. there s one obstacle almost all wheelchair users dread the beach. what may be someone s idea of paradise can be a real nightmare for us wheelchair folk. it s pretty much impossible for my chair to get through these pebbles. but one company has a high tech solution. cristian and matt both have spinal injuries which left them unable to walk.
and tiktok has admitted this was inappropriate access to data. so that s definitely on my mind. tiktok s owner, bytedance, said. tiktok s owner, bytedance, said it: ..describing it as a significant violation of its own code of conduct. it said the employees who did it had misused their authority and no longer worked at the company. do you still use tiktok? i have to use it for work. i used to really enjoy using it forfun, like, i was on it for hours, i loved the videos, i learnt some fun cooking recipes and things like that, but now, ijust have a dummy phone that i use it for at work and i don t use it. cat meows spencer: now, what do you get if you cross a wheelchair with a segway? well, that s what one company has done and created a self balancing wheelchair that you steer by tilting your body weight. lara: not only can it be operated hands free, but it also allows users to go multi terrain across surfaces that most wheelchairs can t
look at the new york times. so i went on to the new york times and i saw the story, and that s how i found out what had happened to me, that i d been tracked. and how did you feel when you looked at that news article? it was just shocking. i was kind of scrolling through it quickly to see what kind of personal information they d accessed, who was behind it all. i know that they used my location data to try and identify my sources, and i know that it was two staff in china and two staff in the us who were behind it. they ve now left the company, but what really struck me was that tiktok has always maintained that access to user data from china would be really restricted and limited, and yet, this happens. your tiktok account wasn t cristina criddle, financial times, was it? it was a personal account. it was my personal account on my personal mobile. and actually, ijust wanted to test out the features of tiktok because i write about it,
i think it s important to use the platform, use the editing tools, but i didn t really want to make videos of myself, so i used my cat, buffy, and tried to make really fun cat videos of her, and some of them did quite well. and, yeah, it was kind of shocking to me that two random employees in china, two random employees in the us managed to find a tiktok account that was in my name of my cat to try and use that for something that was to do with myjob. buffy, bell. bell dings good girl. last summer, cristina was working on some stories about what working at tiktok was like after a manager at the company had to step down when he told staff he didn t believe in maternity leave. this was on your personal phone, wasn t it? so, in theory, potentially it was also while you were out meeting friends, meeting family, you know, going to the park. yeah, absolutely. and there s no telling when i m at work, you know, it can be quite flexible, i can meet sources in the evening