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Technology

  • Logos of: Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

    Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors
  • Head and shoulders shot of Paul Givan in suit and tie

    Data protection
    Minister apologises for Northern Ireland special education needs data breach

  • Sam Altman with a digital design overlaid on his face

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

  • A police facial recognition van in front of the Cardiff City stadium

    Facial recognition
    Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say

  • An AI illustration; 3d render human head profile filled with binary code.

    Letters
    We must be wary of the power of AI

  • Figurines with computers and smartphones in front of the words Artificial Intelligence AI

    Technology sector
    UK shelves £1.3bn of funding for technology and AI projects

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News

  • a TikTok logo outside a building

    US sues TikTok and ByteDance for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy

  • a side-by-side image of Don Lemon and Elon Musk

    Don Lemon sues Elon Musk and X over terminated talkshow deal

  • Outdoor picture of blue and black Meta logo on white background.

    Strong earnings report pushes Meta shares up amid heavy AI spending

  • People in a packed airport terminal wait with luggage and look at flight information screens

    Delta faces $500m in costs from CrowdStrike global tech outage

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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

  • Cross section of the Iter tokamak reactor

    Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

  • 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

  • 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

  • Spectators at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

    The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

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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

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

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

    When two horror movie fans took the leap into game development, the last thing they expected was for an actual movie production company to want to get involved
  • 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

  • Thank Goodness You're Here

    Thank Goodness You’re Here! review – sheer vivacity and dark charm

  • ‘Three concepts: Star Wars, open world and a scoundrel story’ … Star Wars Outlaws.

    Star Wars Outlaws: what to expect from Ubisoft’s galactic adventure

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • John Naughton

    Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

    John Naughton
  • 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

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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?

  • Viv Groskop

    Smartphones
    The hunt for a missing date, the numbers I’ll never forget: we’ll never match the magic of a landline

    Viv Groskop
  • 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

  • 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’

    • Social media algorithms

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

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