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The moral of Kate’s picture-editing debacle is simple: the royal family should tell all

The first rule of celebrity is that once you crank up the publicity machine, keeping secrets is out of the question, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms dealer

Analysis shows link between Copper Technologies and Jonatan Zimenkov, who was later hit with US sanctions over Ukraine invasion

Labor wants to make ‘doxing’ a crime but how would the proposed laws work?

Draft new legislation would introduce a right to sue for serious invasion of privacy but experts have raised concerns

When £17m isn’t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more

Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier

Your business could lose money by not updating ancient software. Here’s why

Some business owners will be ready to cash out in the near future, but old tech could decrease the value of their firms

Warning over use in UK of unregulated AI chatbots to create social care plans

University of Oxford study shows benefits and risks of technology to healthcare, but ethical issues remain

Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny

Moguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view

‘I welcome our digital minions’: the Silicon Valley insider warning about algorithms – while embracing them

Marek Kowalkiewicz has made a career of harnessing new technology. But on the question of if algorithms have agency, he realised he was wrong

Can’t read a map or add up? Don’t worry, we’ve always let technology do the boring stuff

We won’t fear the rise of the robots when we realise they’re just another tool to take the tedium out of our lives

‘Young and handsome’: Biden kicks off $30m ad blitz with spot addressing age

Coinciding with multistate tour, 60-second ad shows president joking about age and stressing ‘strongest economy in the world’

Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman – explained

When OpenAI launched, Sam Altman touted his close relationship with Tesla’s CEO. A decade later, they’re at each other’s throats

‘She’s going to prevail’: FTC head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti-monopoly America

Some say Biden’s high-profile warrior – who’s gone after Kroger, Amazon, and Nvidia – has redefined the US antitrust landscape

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

Sasha Issenberg considers attempts to distort electoral reality on both sides of the great American divide

Michelle Donelan case highlights perils for politicians who pick fights online

Some of the Tories’ ‘anti-woke warriors’ seem unaware that protection of speech in parliament does not extend to social media

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  • SpaceX Starship megarocket blasts off before expected return for reuse
  • Microsoft outage shakes up companies, schools and local governments across US
  • Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption affecting millions and says it’s ‘not related to cyber or AI’ – as it happened
  • Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action
  • How Microsoft outage has affected key public services in the UK
  • Trump bought Nvidia stock as he helped chipmaker with change to export rule
  • Microsoft outage hits hospitals, GPs, schools and police across UK
  • Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook
  • A global Microsoft 365 outage has hit millions – what happened and when will it be fixed?
  • Marlon Brando cool to Jensen Huang joke: how the black leather jacket became a meme
  • Robert Pattinson reportedly leads James Bond contenders
  • The datacenter industry is using propaganda to fight opposition
  • US university students tell surveillance cameras to Flock off
  • What’s behind Australia’s surge in teen extremism?
  • ‘It was a train wreck! I was terrified’: how the new James Bond will be announced – and what can go wrong
  • Farewell, Cybertruck: why the winding down of the ‘Maga hat on wheels’ is a sign of the times
  • Gentle Monster to Conclave: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage?
  • Heartland review – Jessica Chastain’s Netflix country music thriller is more miss than hit
  • A baffling trail from Australia to Singapore: what is Megaspeed, the company implicated in downfall of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?
  • Calls for crackdown on China chip exports – as it happened
  • ‘Women are pitted against each other. It’s a bloodsport’: Billie Piper on industry infighting, Elsinore’s Oscar buzz and thriving on personal crisis
  • Darth Vader’s lightsaber, used in Star Wars movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, sells for nearly $5m
  • ‘Looks like we’ll have to talk to people’: Australia sent back to time before email with major Microsoft outage
  • A timeline of the affair scandal that sank Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
  • Who is Colette Kress, interim Nvidia CEO after Jensen Huang exit?
  • Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairs
  • Nvidia turmoil continues as Jensen Huang resigns over affairs scandal and company appoints interim CEO – as it happened
  • The Guardian view on venture capitalism: investor profits are no industrial strategy
  • Jensen Huang was a busted flush at Nvidia – he had to go

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