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I criticised Rwanda’s leader – now I wake up screaming after constant online attacks

Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign

Why are our children obsessed with anti-ageing treatments? Take a look in the mirror

It’s not all TikTok’s fault. Our pursuit of eternal youth has rubbed off on our offspring

It was expensive and underpowered, but the Apple Macintosh still changed the world

After its hyperbolic, Ridley Scott-directed launch 40 years ago, Apple’s all-in-one computer was a commercial flop. And yet its impact is still being felt

Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X

Investigators uncover concerted onslaught on Berlin’s support for Ukraine involving more than 1m posts

Data gold rush: companies once focused on mining cryptocurrency pivot to generative AI

Tech companies are cashing in on an unprecedented demand for computing power needed to operate artificial intelligence

Taylor Swift deepfake pornography sparks renewed calls for US legislation

Fake but convincing explicit images of pop singer were viewed tens of millions of times on X and Telegram, prompting outcry from US politicians

‘Dark forces’: how US corporations turned to courts in fight against unions

Companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starbucks are using new legal playbook against unions, experts say

The experts: photographers on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to vastly improve your pictures

You don’t need an expensive camera – a smartphone can capture a great shot. Just move that plastic bag out of the frame, make your subject laugh and practise your selfies

US launches inquiry into AI deals by Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Amazon

FTC will examine what rights the tech giants’ investments in AI companies have conferred and if those deals harm competition

Apple to allow EU customers to download apps without using App Store

Move comes as iPhone maker adapts to new Brussels laws, but could be replicated in UK in near future

Instagram to scan under-18s’ messages to protect against ‘inappropriate images’

Feature will work even on encrypted messages, suggesting platform plans to implement client-side scanning

‘They’re addicting kids and they know it’: the attorney challenging social media firms

Matthew P Bergman’s firm has filed cases against Snap, TikTok and others, with a novel argument – that the products are harmful by design

Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox staff

Tech giant acquired video-game publisher Activision Blizzard three months ago for $69bn

Virgin Media is most complained about UK broadband provider

Ofcom figures show Virgin attracted about 32 complaints per 100,000 customers compared with 18 for Now Broadband

ABC’s first Middle East correspondent urges management to back staff during Israel-Gaza conflict

Peter George says journalists aren’t as protected now by management as he was in the 1980s, and are at increasing risk of self-censoring

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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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