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Technology

  • Laura Farris.

    Deepfakes
    Creating sexually explicit images to be made offence in UK

    Offenders could face jail if image is widely shared under proposed amendment to criminal justice bill
  • Stock photo of black keyboard overlaid with green and red images and light.s

    Child sexual abuse
    Content growing online with AI-made images, report says

  • an illustration of facial recognition software being used on passers-by

    Facial recognition
    Companies scrap systems that track staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

  • a screen shows the word "truth"

    Trump Media
    Shares tank after company reveals plan to sell more stock

  • a child uses a laptop

    US
    Battle lines drawn as states take on big tech with online child safety bills

  • Elon Musk in front of a screen showing a Tesla Model 3 car, in January 2020.

    Tesla
    Firm to cut 14,000 jobs as Elon Musk bids to make it ‘lean, innovative and hungry’

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News

  • Outdoor primary-colored Google sign.

    Google blocking links to California news outlets from search results

  • Gradient app icon, with 'Instagram' label below, on a screen

    Instagram to blur nudity in messages in bid to protect teens

  • Figurines with computers and smartphones in front of the words artificial intelligence AI

    AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models

  • Adam Schiff

    New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art

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Privacy

  • John Naughton

    One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack

    John Naughton
  • people celebrating

    China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns

    • US reprimands Microsoft for security failures that allowed Chinese hack

    • At least a dozen Westminster insiders targeted in WhatsApp phishing attack

    • Western governments struggle to coordinate response to Chinese hacking

    • Why didn’t New Zealand impose sanctions on China?

    • Hackers obtain patient data from NHS Dumfries and Galloway

    • Foreign Office summons senior Chinese diplomat over ‘malicious cyber activity’

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Spotlight

  • The text AI assistants spit out is ineffably generated … ChatGPT.

    TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

  • Searching for the meaning of life … Harold Halibut.

    As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game

  • The Dexmo force feedback glove from Dexta Robotics.

    ‘Smell is really important for social communication’: how technology is ruining our senses

  • Young woman going through paperwork<br>Woman planning home budget and using calculator

    Four big tax myths flying around on TikTok: ‘Anyone who follows this is in for a world of hurt’

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Opinion & analysis

  • Reesa Teesa filmed a 50-part series describing her ordeal after meeting a man she calls ‘Legion’.

    Who TF Did I Marry captivated millions. What made the TikTok series so relatable?

    Lottie L Joiner
  • Google logo and the words ‘artificial Intelligence’

    If costs force Google to charge for AI, competitors will cheer

  • Elon Musk

    How much is Elon Musk to blame for Tesla sales slip?

  • Eva Wiseman

    Banning phones in schools is just another ploy to distract us

    Eva Wiseman
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Games

  • Searching for the meaning of life … Harold Halibut.

    As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game

    Fourteen years in the making, this character-driven sci-fi tale is a wonder of technology and imagination so texturally convincing you’ll want to touch it
  • Todd Howard, director of the Fallout game series, and Jonathan Nolan, director of the Fallout TV show.

    ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’: Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout

  • neopets

    How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months

  • a woman and a man smiling and laughing as they play a video game (out of shot)

    Now Play This 2024 review – the eccentricity is the point

  • Georg Backer accepts the British game award for Viewfinder at the ceremony.

    Bafta games awards hail one of gaming’s best ever years

  • Adventurers in a medieval-themed kingdom … The first edition of Dungeons & Dragons was launched in January 1974.

    It crawled from below 50 years ago: how the global Dungeons & Dragons empire began in a basement

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • A woman wearing augmented-reality goggles, touching the 'screen' at the foreground of the image

    Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?

  • Derek Shaw

    Derek Shaw obituary

  • American tech journalist and author Kara Swisher, known for her newly released "Burn Book," poses for a portrait in Washington, DC, on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

    ‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech

  • woman speaking at a lectern

    Crypto Super Pac spends $10m on Katie Porter attack ads in California race

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Reviews

  • Fairphone Fairbuds review earbuds sitting on top of their charging case.

    Fairphone Fairbuds review: ethically made earbuds with replaceable batteries

  • Sennheiser Momentum TW4 earbuds in case on a table.

    Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 review: best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds

    • Apple MacBook Air M3 review: the laptop to beat

    • Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review – the deep roots of AI

    • A Million Days review – low-budget sci-fi thriller asks if we should trust AI with our survival

    • The Lie Detectives: Trump, US politics and the disinformation damage done

    • Nothing Phone 2a review: a standout budget Android

    • Forerunner 165 review: Garmin’s budget OLED running watch

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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

  • A man staring at a smartphone

    Smartphones
    It’s not just children who are smartphone addicts, adults are too

  • The inside tablet screen of the Honor Magic V2.

    Tablets
    Honor Magic V2 review: exquisite hardware let down by software

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Cyborg sings into a microphone

    Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians?

    • Deepfake imagery is getting harder to discern, even by experts.

      TechScape: Could AI-generated content be dangerous for our health?

    • Teenage girl lays on her bed looking at her phone

      ‘Things I’m ashamed to admit’: TikTok trend driving new level of oversharing

    • Collage of well-known AI-generated hoax images

      ‘Inceptionism’ and Balenciaga popes: a brief history of deepfakes

    • A human face with eyes shut and computer-generated lines over the top showing biometric identification.

      ‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?

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