‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers
Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say
Google Cloud outage: problems fixed for ‘most‘ customers, as regulators push for details – as it happened
Google apologises after power issue causes a major Cloud outage in its London region today that led to problems at banks, Revolut, and court video cameras
Could this be a Deep Blue moment for the cryptic crossword?
A computer program has finally outdone humans at solving cryptic crosswords. Plus, more from around the puzzleverse
‘It’s important that Michael’s voice is heard’: Jaafar Jackson says second biopic of his uncle will cover sexual abuse allegations
The star of Michael, the most commercially successful biopic of all time, has said sequel will give airtime to point-of-view of late singer
‘It was so satisfying when I threw a rock through the screen’: the people sick of being spied on by their smart TV
Is your television listening to every conversation? Filling your home with highly invasive ads? Some viewers have had enough of tech violating their privacy
The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world
As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives
‘We’ll keep doing this if people pay us!’ The cast of TV hit Ghosts on making a movie – and maybe a caveman spinoff
As the haunters of Button House hit the big screen with a plot about an escaped phantom, we hear how the team just missed each other too much – and why grunting Robin may get his own show
Explosive births, talking foxes and the devil in a trenchcoat – the Sitges fantastic film festival in all its creepy glory
Olivia Colman goes vulpine, Rupert Grint’s newborn is a monster and Joko Anwar makes a warmhearted violent ghost story set in an Indonesian prison
Spielberg’s War of the Worlds forced Americans to look in the mirror – and see the real monster
Starring a smooth-sprinting Tom Cruise at the top of his game, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller shows the scales falling from his own country’s eyes
Actor Christina Applegate reveals she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis
The Married … With Children actor says the news is ‘unnerving’ and ‘really confusing’
I’m a chief technology officer. AI still needs your human expertise
AI is increasingly getting good at doing some tasks, but it can never replace human workers’ judgment
This mall was a symbol for San Francisco’s ‘doom loop’. Now it could become a datacenter project
Developers propose turning San Francisco Centre into not a server-based facility, but a ‘community-based AI exhibit’
Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time
The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DC
Children of the Wicker Man review – how the folk-horror classic haunted the family that made it
Director Robin Hardy’s children lay bare the sometimes agonised family background to a movie that went from ruinous flop to cult favourite
RJ Mitte obituary
Film and TV actor with cerebral palsy who played Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad and was a staunch disability rights campaigner