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Bankman-Fried asks judge for three suit jackets and slacks to wear at fraud trial

Request also made for four dress shirts, three ties, one belt, four pairs of socks, two pairs of shoes and ‘appropriate undergarments’

Meta pays £149m to break lease on central London office building

Landlord British Land says decision will knock earnings for six months to next March

‘Different set of rules’: how FTC head Lina Khan is fighting tech giants such as Amazon

Youngest ever Federal Trade Commission chief and antitrust scholar is suing Amazon in latest effort to take on big tech – not always with success

New laws will give Australians the right to sue for ‘serious’ breaches of privacy

Children to be given extra protection but rejection of right for adults to opt out of targeted ads likely to disappoint consumer rights advocates

What were NFTs? An understandable internet fad, and the next one is just around the corner

We only loved non-fungible tokens in a pandemic peak of online loneliness, says the writer and author Joel Golby

UK inmates broadcast prison life online from contraband phones

Videos on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram show prisoners interviewing peers, cooking and doing stunts

A list of the UK’s top podcasts poses the question: what is it with all the bros?

The format was made a phenomenon by women, but now you can hardly hear them – unless they’re discussing their husbands, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information

Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is ‘extremely concerning’ ahead of Australia’s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum

A threat to Amazon and a test of the FTC: is this big tech’s antitrust reckoning?

At the core of the case is whether the company used its position to disadvantage rivals and the power of the agency to rein in tech firms

US government accuses Amazon of using its power to inflate prices

Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sue retail giant in major antitrust case

The Creator review – vast and exhilarating sci-fi actioner rages against the AI machine

Director Gareth Edwards draws together the many strands of our current AI debate with tremendous boldness, conjuring up an intriguing and stimulating spectacle

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

TechScape: AI-made images mean seeing is no longer believing

In this week’s newsletter: Why an AI-generated image of Tiananmen Square jumping up Google search rankings is an omen for future disinformation

Get on the beers and that North Face jacket: Daniel Andrews through the memes

From the Tiananmen Square ‘phone meme’ to a novelty song during Covid, the internet has long been poking fun at the outgoing premier

Pornography driving UK teens towards child abuse material, say experts

Exclusive: Police and charities warn of rise in harmful sexual behaviour among young people

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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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