Bose Ultra Open earbuds review: unique open-fit and great sound

Bluetooth earbuds fit around side of the ear without blocking it for full awareness with music and calls

Learn this from the Rochdale debacle: society faces peril when smart people believe dumb things

Azhar Ali’s parroting of anti-Israel conspiracy theories is not a warning just for Labour – there’s a lesson in it for everyone, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

New York sues TikTok, Instagram and YouTube over ‘addictive’ platforms for children

Lawsuit accuses tech companies of creating ‘addictive and dangerous’ products that are fueling mental health crisis

Sora: OpenAI launches tool that instantly creates video from text

Model from ChatGPT maker ‘simulates physical world in motion’ up to a minute long based on users’ subject and style instructions

Independent in talks to take over BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti told UK staff he was excited about deal, described as ‘strategic partnership’

Google stops notifying publishers of ‘right to be forgotten’ removals from search results

Move comes after Swedish court rules that informing webmasters about delisted content is breach of privacy

Take the money and run? I tested X’s paid-promotion model, and it was woeful

Granted, a $50 investment wasn’t going draw in millions of clicks, but I expected more than just a few bots to show interest

Jazz composer Maria Schneider: ‘David Bowie cracked me – maybe not in a good way’

The US musician has won star admirers and seven Grammys across three decades of lyrical and angry work – but you can’t stream it. She explains her fight against big tech, and her dismay at other artists’ apathy

Hackers got nearly 7 million people’s data from 23andMe. The firm blamed users in ‘very dumb’ move

The company pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums

I tried out an Apple Vision Pro. It frightened me

The new ‘mixed-reality’ headset gave me a glimpse of the future – and I’m not sure it’s a future we should want

‘I love to twirl the cord’: the young people pushing for a landline renaissance

Corded phones are hard to find these days. But for some gen Z diehards, they offer nostalgia and real connection

Best podcasts of the week: Who spiked the chowder with PCP on the set of Titanic?

In this week’s newsletter: A new podcast tries to get to the bottom of one of Hollywood’s greatest lunch-based mysteries. Plus: five of the best podcasts about the occult

From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces

Chiselled jaws, pouty lips, hunter eyes: everything is up for grabs in the quest to increase ‘sexual market value’. But how did this extreme cosmetic craze become mainstream?

Elon Musk moves SpaceX incorporation to Texas after Delaware judge axed $56bn Tesla pay

Decision to move rocket company comes after Musk said he would hold shareholder vote to move Tesla to Texas as well

North Korea and Iran using AI for hacking, Microsoft says

US tech giant says it has detected threats from foreign countries that used or attempted to exploit generative AI it had developed