AI and misinformation: what’s ahead for social media as the US election looms?
Innovation is outpacing our ability to handle misinformation, experts say. That makes falsehoods easy to weaponize
‘It’s happening everywhere’: Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon on TV’s deep crisis
The network boss believes production companies that underpin Britain’s global reputation face being forced out of business
Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’
Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?
Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do
Meta’s review of hate speech policy sparks concern of further censorship of pro-Palestinian content
Arab, Muslim and pro-Palestinian organizations expressed alarm about company’s policy on ‘Zionist’ in meeting
AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
Researchers find large language models, which power chatbots, can deceive human users and help spread disinformation
The Guardian view on video games: computer generated worlds are influencing real ones
Editorial: It’s long overdue that society recognises a new gaming culture has emerged from a more social, diverse gaming community
Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which Meta said violated its policies
‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries
Book sales boom as readers escape the ‘oversaturation and noise of the wild west digital landscape’
Piers Morgan to leave TalkTV show to focus on YouTube
Some interviews will still be shown on TalkTV but Morgan calls commitment to daily show ‘unnecessary straitjacket’
Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says
A group known as Volt Typhoon, geared toward sabotage, quietly burrowed into the networks of critical US infrastructure
How AI is ‘amplifying creativity’ in the fashion world
Ahead of London fashion week, optimists believe new tools can open up an industry that can be elitist – and costly to enter
US outlaws robocalls that use AI-generated voices
‘It seems like something from the far-off future, but this threat is already here,’ says chair of Federal Communications Commission
Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies
Law obliges social media platforms to remove illegal content – with fears that interview will give Russian leader propaganda coup
Shares in chip designer Arm soar by more than 50% leaving it valued at $120bn
Chief executive, Rene Haas, says UK-based firm is benefiting from huge demand for AI-powered products and apps