The round robin is dead, but we blow our own trumpet online these days
A never-ending listing of personal triumphs on social media have replaced the much-derided letters
If you think ‘bossware’ surveillance culture in the workplace is new, think again
The rise of intrusive software that lets employers monitor workers’ every move is part of ruthless corporate mindset, but its origins go back to 1900s scientific management theories
Digital curator Giulia Carla Rossi: ‘There is a misconception that if something is on the internet it will last for ever’
The British Library’s head of digital publications on the urgency of preserving digital stories, from smartphone apps to interactive web narratives
‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks
Six Group, which operates the Swiss and Spanish bourses, is a target for cyberwarfare and must be on guard, its boss says
Elon Musk to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X
Social media firm boss says he will sue media watchdog that said ads were being placed alongside antisemitic content
Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitution scheme
Michael Lacey, Scott Spear and John Brunst, all men in their 70s, created complicated system to try to outwit US government
Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet
Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, attempted to do damage control as Paramount and Warner Bros among others also pulled ads
OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
AI firm’s board said Altman was ‘not consistently candid in his communications with the board’
Ukrainian teenagers win peace prize for developing apps to help young refugees
Sofia Tereshchenko, Anastasiia Feskova, and Anastasiia Demchenko awarded 2023 International Children’s Peace prize
White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets
The X owner tweeted that a post about Jewish people hating white people was ‘the actual truth’, prompting backlash
Microsoft releases AI tool for photorealistic copying of faces and voices
In response to criticism that Azure AI Speech was simply a ‘deepfakes creator’, Microsoft said it had implemented safeguards
A dead friend seemed to contact me on Facebook. The truth was sadder
Social media ‘ghosts’ are increasingly common - and platforms have an incentive to keep those profiles up if they drive engagement
By affirming an antisemitic trope, Elon Musk sinks to a dangerous new low
The owner of X has the power to elevate the hateful speech of others and bring about enormous harm
Anti-hate group says lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X ‘riddled with deficiencies’
Center for Countering Digital Hate says claim by X, formerly Twitter, is ‘riddled with legal deficiencies’
Experience: I invented the lickable TV
My creation was well received – the BBC described it as ‘netlicks’