Mirror and Express owner to cut about 450 jobs – 10% of workforce Reach staff react with furious comments to CEO over plan to reduce costs by up to 6% in 2024
Half of Australia left without internet or phone as Optus crashes 10 million people are cut off, train systems fall down and businesses cannot make sales in outage lasting hours
Horizon bugs were kept from me, ex-Post Office lawyer tells inquiry Lawyer involved in prosecution of wrongfully convicted clerk who became homeless says executives did not pass on information
Carol Vorderman quits BBC show saying she will ‘not be silenced’ by social media rules Presenter says bosses had decided she ‘must leave’ after she continued to express political opinions online
Sextortion in spotlight as AFP and Meta urge young Australians to report scams eSafety commissioner says there has been a 117% increase in cases of image-based abuse in a year
Melissa Kahraman: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) The actor shares the clips and memes keeping her company at 2am – including two reality TV dons and a tiny house
Going ‘delulu’: being delusional is the new manifesting The idea, according to TikTok, is to set wild expectations for yourself – and convince your mind to believe in them
Optus service outage at a glance: what we know so far Hospitals, homes, businesses and transport services hit by Australia-wide internet, mobile and landline network blackout; CEO says service is now back
Optus network outage may have been caused by same issue that brought Facebook down in 2021 Australian IT company says ‘configuration issue’ may have been behind nationwide outage
Optus has been offline for hours – Exciting! Dangerous! The internet is gone forever and with it everything you ever loved
What’s been hit by the Optus network going down: from train services to wifi cat feeders ‘It’s been a very anxious morning for many Australians,’ communications minister says
Greener electric car batteries among Prince William’s £1m Earthshot winners William says ‘hope does remain’ at event rewarding innovative solutions to climate emergency
TechScape: Why Sunak’s ‘vanity jamboree’ on AI safety was actually … a success Against the odds, world leaders agreed on a landmark declaration to bring stronger oversight to AI. Plus, Sam Bankman-Fried’s very bad week
The problem with tech bro philanthropy They claim altruistic motives, but billionaires’ favoured brand of do-gooding, which allows no scrutiny or pluralism, is worse than unhelpful, writes Zoe Williams
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 review: still unique but should be better Big chip and graphics upgrades come at great cost to wallet and battery life for difficult second act