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Technology

  • Elon Musk at a conference in Paris, 2023

    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk calls PM ‘two-tier Keir’ over police response to UK riots

    Owner of X uses platform to promote conspiracy theory that white far-right ‘protesters’ involved in disorder are treated more severely than minorities
  • a google logo

    Alphabet
    Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules

  • Tom Cruise at the Cannes film festival.

    TechScape newsletter
    Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

  • a man in a suit speaks

    Elon Musk
    Secretaries of state call on Musk to fix chatbot over election misinformation

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review stood up like an open book.

    Review
    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review: the best folder going is only minor upgrade

  • tablet, with white Neuralink logo, in front of computer motherboard

    Elon Musk
    Neuralink has implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Elon Musk says

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News

  • Phone shows Airbnb logo with stock graphs in the background

    Airbnb shares drop 12% as company flags weakening US demand

  • A man wearing a tuxedo looks ahead

    Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’

  • Elon Musk

    Elon Musk says ‘no choice’ but for X to shut San Francisco HQ

  • A man menacingly presses his fingers to his face

    Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions’

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Privacy

  • A sign outside a polling station in central Westminster, London

    Online security lapses led to data of 40m UK voters being hacked, says ICO

  • Passengers on a busy platform at King's Cross station

    Is the UK resilient enough to withstand a major cyber-attack?

    • Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork

    • Hackers stole call and text message records on ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers, company says

    • Hackers leak alleged Taylor Swift ticket data to extort Ticketmaster

    • NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider

    • UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

    • What does the London NHS hospitals data theft mean for patients?

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Spotlight

  • Police clash with right wing protesters in Piccadilly Gardens on 3 August in Manchester.

    ‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots

  • Sam Altman with a digital design overlaid on his face

    OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid

  • The AI gadget Friend.

    Can an AI friend make you less lonely?

  • An armed man in fatigues and combat gear watches a pick-up truck burn

    The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

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Opinion & analysis

  • Two people walk next to a Google sign

    A US judge ruled that Google built an illegal monopoly. What happens next?

  • Closeup of Mark Zuckerberg

    Why Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar gamble doesn’t just matter to Meta

  • Two large screens in a polished granite wall, both blank, with people carrying suitcases beyond it.

    The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization

  • A young middle-aged white man with dark brown hair, smiles and waves, spotlit on a dark

    Elon Musk v California: what exits of X and SpaceX mean for the Golden state

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Games

  • Tactical Breach Wizards

    Tactical Breach Wizards puts the magic into military tactics games

    Assemble a crew of navy seers and necro medics to take down a dictatorship in a spellbinding new game inspired by XCOM, but without the punishment
  • While Waiting.

    ‘If you do nothing, you can speedrun this game’: While Waiting, a game about biding your time

  • Feels like a teen ghost movie … Fear the Spotlight.

    Grab your Ouija board: behind Fear the Spotlight’s 90s-inspired horror

  • people wearing black shirts hold protest signs in front of a building

    Over 300 video game actors protest over unregulated AI use in Hollywood

  • Matchy matchy … a Candy Crush screenshot.

    Crushing it: why millions of people still can’t stop playing Candy Crush

  • ‘I’ll miss the late-night rounds of Uno’ … a graphic depicting Xbox 360s.

    The Xbox 360’s pioneering online store has gone offline – and it marks the end of a gaming era

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • a man wearing a black T-shirt reading 'Mavs' smiles while watching a basketball game

    Venture capitalists including Mark Cuban back Kamala Harris’s campaign

  • Ed Newton-Rex

    Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI

    Ed Newton-Rex
  • Solano county and Rio Vista residents protest outside an event unveiling California Forever's plan for a new city after being shut out of the event in January 2024

    Ballot measure to build billionaire-funded city in California withdrawn

  • Carole Cadwalladr

    Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

    Carole Cadwalladr
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Reviews

  • Impassive moping … Coma

    Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 review phone open on angle showing the homescreen on a mat.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 review: faster, longer-lasting flip phone

    • Galaxy Book 4 Edge review: Samsung laptop delivers power but not battery life

    • Uncanny Me review – exploration of cloning tech fraught with moral and ethical questions

    • Surface Pro 11 review: Microsoft’s big Arm leap almost pays off

    • The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

    • Eternal You review – thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving

    • Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

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Devices

  • The AI gadget Friend.

    Wearables
    Can an AI friend make you less lonely?

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review stood up like an open book.

    Smartphones
    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review: the best folder going is only minor upgrade

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review stood up like an open book.

    Tablets
    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review: the best folder going is only minor upgrade

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • a composite image of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Bitcoin symbol and Donald Trump

    Maga hats, panties and the carnivore diet: my bizarre day at Trump’s Bitcoin 2024 speech

    • Most people have used cutting-edge AI but the magic is wearing off.

      TechScape: Will OpenAI’s $5bn gamble on chatbots pay off? Only if you use them

    • Composite image featuring multiple example of the types of content served up on TikTok's For You page on the blank account set up by Guardian Australia.

      TikTok’s algorithm is highly sensitive – and could send you down a hate-filled rabbit hole before you know it

    • Large queues of people at Ninoy Aquino international airport in Manila, Philippines

      TechScape: Why CrowdStrike-style chaos is here to stay

    • An illustration of a blue digital background with the words in white AI Artificial Intelligence, and silhouettes of figures sitting at desktop computers, at laptops, and on the phone.

      The world is not quite ready for ‘digital workers’

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