Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Newsletter writers with thousands of subscribers threaten to leave platform, which says banning extremists makes things worse

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites

Starlink satellites, carried on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, can beam signals directly to smartphones from space

‘Where does the bot end and human begin?’: what the legendary @Horse_ebooks can teach us about AI

By reusing and repurposing existing writing into viral fragments on Twitter, the account functioned like today’s chatbots. The Guardian spoke to Jacob Bakkila, the human behind the account

Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist

Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him

Laura Murphy-Oates: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

To farewell Guardian Australia’s Full Story host, we asked her to share her favourite clips – which are part-political satire, part-toilet humour. She contains multitudes

Everyone is on their phones. But is it really phone addiction we’re experiencing?

There is no standard diagnosis for ‘phone addiction’, and a debate rages about whether there should be. But will medicalizing a behavior help or harm those suffering from it?

NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications

Critics say encryption is an ‘attack on transparency’, and that radio monitoring is one of the few ways to keep track of the police

Beware the ‘botshit’: why generative AI is such a real and imminent threat to the way we live

Unless checks are put in place, citizens and voters may soon face AI-generated content that bears no relation to reality, says author André Spicer

Frustrated Indian food delivery driver heads out on horse after fuel queues

Zomato rider resorts to horsepower in Hyderabad after truckers’ strike causes fuel shortage and traffic jams

ASML halts hi-tech chip-making exports to China reportedly after US request

Dutch firm says decision was down to licence change, after initial report connected it to US pressure

China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as top-selling electric car seller

Build Your Dreams outsells rival in final quarter of 2023 figures for battery-only vehicles

‘Perilous and chaotic’: why officials are nervy before a likely UK election in 2024

Paper ballots may act as barrier to cyber attacks, but introduction of voter ID could lead to a host of complications

I’m a tech reporter. Can I still post my baby’s picture responsibly?

I know nothing online is private. I also won’t be able to resist taking photos of my cute baby. Can a privacy girly have it all?

Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter

Mutual fund Fidelity, which owns stake in social media platform, marks down value of its shares in disclosure obtained by Axios

‘Electricity is fundamental to quality of life’: the man bringing off-grid, pay-as-you-go power to Africa

Mansoor Hamayun, the co-founder and chief executive of Bboxx, started out with a university project to bring solar power to a few villages in Rwanda. Now he is set to expand tenfold across sub-Saharan Africa