Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution

With the region’s countries among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis, digital entrepreneurs have been inspired to find innovative ways to create real environmental change

Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip in human

Patient recovering well with signs of ‘promising neuron spike detection’, says startup’s founder

From Pitchfork to Q, music criticism is under attack. We must fight for the magic it can inspire

Yes, critics help us make sense of the millions of songs released every month – but the best writing transcends the music, says John Doran, editor of the Quietus

TechScape: ‘Hot garbage’ or core protection? Inside Apple’s ongoing beef with the EU

Of course the App Store owner’s fight with EU regulators is about money – but is it also about something more?

Australian Sam Lee charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in US for role in $1.89bn ‘Ponzi scheme’

HyperVerse crypto schemes, subject of a Guardian Australia investigation, alleged to have defrauded investors of almost A$3bn

Pro-Israel ‘surveillance’ group turning attention to Australia, leaked posts show

Members of Shirion Collective, which claims to ‘expose antisemites’ online, have discussed presenting lists of names to home affairs minister

Amazon drops $1.4bn deal to buy iRobot after EU veto reports

Roomba maker announces plans to axe 31% of workforce and exit of CEO after collapse of acquisition

US surgeon general Vivek Murthy: ‘Loneliness is like hunger, a signal we’re lacking something for survival’

As the 19th and 21st surgeon general, Murthy has described loneliness as an epidemic on par with tobacco use – the antidote, he says, is human connection

I went to a cabin in the woods without my phone. Could I break its spell?

In week 5 of Rhik Samadder’s phone detox, a return to nature sparks a return to self, but can he keep it up in the real world?

Prime movers: the German circus exploring Amazon through acrobatics

Rimini Protokoll’s new show is part of a series of performances inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses and draws a connection between its Aeolus episode and hypercapitalism

The Guardian view on online child protection: the web needs more health and safety

Editorial: New evidence of Meta’s failures to prioritise safety should be a wake-up call to policymakers

Welsh semiconductor factory ‘left in limbo’ as Westminster fails to approve US takeover

Labour criticises government ‘dithering’, after Vishay deal last autumn to buy chip maker Newport Wafer Fab stalls, putting jobs at risk

Shadowy world of ransomware-for-hire revealed by online account activity linked to the Medibank hack

Experts have pieced together the online history of Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov to reveal his alleged cybercrime operations in the years leading up to the attack

Farmbots, flavour pills and zero-gravity beer: inside the mission to grow food in space

Astronauts currently content themselves with freeze-dried gruel, but with plans for crewed missions to Mars in the works, scientists need to create more delicious, nutritious menus

‘The real thing almost didn’t turn me on enough’: how is online porn shaping the sex lives of young men?

One academic says the ubiquity of digital sex is ‘an astonishing historical departure’. The first generation of those raised on it are now reckoning with it