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Technology

  • Pre-ticket boxes consenting to Grok AI use

    X
    Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI

    Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules
  • Customers queue outside an Apple store in Shanghai, China, during the first day of sale of the iPhone 15, September 2023.

    My new iPhone symbolises stagnation, not innovation – and a similar fate awaits AI

    John Naughton
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News

  • Profile of a robot humanoid face surrounded by maths symbols

    Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths

  • A man in a suit and tie applauds with a grave expression on his face

    Elon Musk attends Netanyahu’s congressional address as his guest

  • A woman takes a picture of a flight tracking board that reports delays for more than half the flights

    CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

  • Elon Musk seated with hands clasped

    Elon Musk denies report he will donate $45m a month to Trump Super Pac

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Privacy

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

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

  • the entrance to Walt Disney Studios and corporate headquarters in Burbank, California: a wide driveway is seen under an arch with lettering reading The Walt Disney Co and a symbol in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head and ears. A car is coming under the arch, which has trees to either side and in an avenue leading to buildings; it looks hot and sunny with a clear blue sky above.

    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?

    • Records on 300m patient interactions with NHS stolen in Russian hack

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Spotlight

  • film still of a man and a woman standing in a living room

    ‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

  • 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

  • Composite of three Olympians showing off their kit on TikTok

    ‘It’s the perfect setting’: TikTok goes wild for backstage Olympics videos

  • Matt Spracklen of Rock 'n Roll Birder.

    The Rock ’n Roll birder wants you to take a walk – and look up

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Opinion & analysis

  • 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

  • Josh Taylor

    Apple’s Vision Pro headset is impressive – but it’s hard to know its ultimate purpose

    Josh Taylor
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Games

  • Block party … Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure.

    Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure review – shifting expectations

    This cutesy and surprisingly intuitive brain teaser pushes the idea of the sliding-block puzzle to the very limits
  • Black Myth Wukong - still from a cutscene

    Black Myth: Wukong – the summer’s most exciting, and most controversial, video game

  • A scene from Clickolding

    Pushing Buttons: Why viral voyeurism game Clickolding became a surprise hit

  • The artwork for Horses.

    ‘I’m not sure if it will sell, but it should exist’: Horses, a surreal Lynchian horror game

  • Keith Stuart

    Press x to skip: it’s time we retired the video game cutscene

    Keith Stuart
  • Tears of Metal video game artwork

    ‘I was a big fan of Braveheart’: the story behind Scotland-set hack and slash game Tears of Metal

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • 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
  • Ben Horowitz looking at the camera

    Co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm back Trump’s presidential bid

  • Evgeny Morozov

    Silicon Valley wants unfettered control of the tech market. That’s why it’s cosying up to Trump

    Evgeny Morozov
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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

  • A jumper displaying an electronic message

    Wearables
    Wearable tech: how the human body can help power the future of smart textiles

  • John Naughton

    Smartphones
    My new iPhone symbolises stagnation, not innovation – and a similar fate awaits AI

    John Naughton
  • Microsoft Surface Pro 11 review desktop shown on a wooden table.

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

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • 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’

    • Social media algorithms

      We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny

    • Illustration of a Google search page asking questions about Google itself

      ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

    • She sits looking at the device in her left hand

      Liberating and a huge pain: my week with a Nokia ‘dumbphone’

    • JD Vance speaks during a fundraiser in Milwaukee on Wednesday, 17 July 2024.

      How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

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