Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say
Move would cost less than $5bn and cut toll of deaths from power outages and lack of supply, Cop28 delegates will hear
Elon Musk agrees with tweet accusing Jewish people of ‘hatred against whites’
Owner of X responds to antisemitic tweet calling it ‘the actual truth’ and criticizes Anti-Defamation League
Apple agrees to improve texting between iPhones and Androids
After years of reluctance, company announces iPhones will support RCS messaging standard
TikTok ‘aggressively’ taking down videos promoting Bin Laden ‘letter to America’
Platform says content promoting letter – published on the Guardian’s website two decades ago – ‘clearly violates our rules’
Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores
As US Senate began looking at the firm’s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads
AI is coming for our jobs! Could universal basic income be the solution?
Artificial intelligence will bring huge changes to the world of work – and dangers for society. Some think they can be solved by just handing everyone money. Is there a catch?
John Legend and Sia among singers to trial AI versions of voices with YouTube
Google-owned video platform opens up Dream Track experiment to produce 30-second soundtracks
Best podcasts of the week: From Spice Girls to Sugababes, how Britain’s girlbands conquered the world
In this week’s newsletter: The Saturdays’ Mollie King explores the history of Britain’s dominant female groups in Where It’s At. Plus: five of the most underrated podcasts
Rishi Sunak’s AI plan has no teeth – and once again, big tech is ready to exploit that
Tech companies are pushing the idea that the only way to make AI safe is to leave them in control. Trusting them could lead to disaster, say Georg Riekeles of the European Policy Centre and Max von Thun of the Open Markets Institute
Getting job applicants to submit a TikTok video is an insult I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy
Employment applications are already the height of awkward self-promotion. And some claims about Hilton Australia’s new hiring strategy are unhinged
Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged
Policy was reportedly introduced quietly in 2022 after the US midterm primary elections, according to the WSJ
Goodbye Omegle: how the anonymous chatroom traumatized our teen years
My generation became a target for abuse on the video-chat site – and our parents had no idea
Jimmy Rees: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The standup comedian shares what makes him laugh online, including TikToks about tying shoelaces, John Oliver and an F1 driver’s mum
‘It was a way to share your musical experiences’: why cassette tapes flourished, and still endure
Two new books explore the history of the tape and how it helped spread hip-hop, thrash metal and experimental music around the world one mixtape at a time
‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year
The psychological verb gained an extra meaning in 2023 that ‘gets to the heart of why people are talking about artificial intelligence’