Horror, glamour … and heartache: how a hit true-crime podcast divided a family

Relatives fall out over allegations made about notorious 1930s killing in award-winning show Ghost Story

When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg’s apology is empty

The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change

First UK patients receive experimental messenger RNA cancer therapy

The British clinical trial of the revolutionary new mRNA treatment will test its effectiveness in combating a range of cancers

Solid-state batteries: inside the race to transform the science of electric vehicles

They promise more energy and a vastly improved range for EV drivers. But can they deliver on the hype?

‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point

Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

Farewell FaceTime? That’s in store if the UK’s new snooper’s charter becomes law

The improved surveillance bill would force tech firms to tell the government about any new security measures – before they are introduced. Strangely, Apple won’t stomach it

For all his obsession with innovation, Peter Thiel has some stone-age views

The billionaire is bankrolling a pro-drugs version of the Olympics, but does he care about the whole women-having-rights thing? Nah

The AI tools that might stop you getting hired

One-way video interviews, CV screeners and digital monitoring are among the ways employers are using tech to save time and money on recruitment. But do they work?

Ofsted inspectors ‘make up evidence’ about a school’s performance when IT fails

Inspector tells Observer investigation that top officials are aware that computer system crashes can wipe out data

‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter

Four years after Robyn Cory’s daughter was groomed at 15 on Meta’s platform and sold for sex by a gang, she is still missing

When Mark Zuckerberg can face US senators and claim the moral high ground, we’re through the looking glass

Tech CEOs who’ve ruined people’s lives or politicians who back misery and mayhem? That’s a low bar and a tough choice, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Young people in the UK: are you exposed to conspiracy theories?

We want to hear from young people and those who work with them about the misinformation and divisive narratives they are seeing

Young women are turning their backs on body positivity. It’s time we all stopped obsessing about how we look

By continuing to focus the conversation around our appearance, all the body positivity movement does is reinforce that how we look is the most important thing about us

Mark Zuckerberg to receive $700m from Meta dividends

Facebook’s parent company to pay out to shareholders as it reports $40bn revenues for final quarter

Australian ‘contemporary’ portrait prize allows entries wholly generated by AI

Organisers of Brisbane Portrait Prize back artificial intelligence stating art is not stagnant and ‘traditionalists’ once opposed photographs