‘Heavy TAB gamblers’ among groups targeted by online advertising database

Experts say they are concerned by the targeting of habitual gamblers in a database discovered on Microsoft’s ad technology platform Xandr

TIM review – sinister household gadget leads AI thriller of android infatuation

Walking robot who looks like a Nazi youth leader turns out – surprise surprise – to have creepy designs on his owner

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 review: the most powerful folding phone-tablet

Lighter, slicker, gapless folder has great multitasking software and rapid chip – but extremely high price

Amazon delays rule change for some UK sellers who warned they could go bust

One marketplace firm says Amazon is only ‘delaying the pain’ of having to wait a week for their proceeds

Arrest of Saudi scholar and influencer another sign of social media crackdown

Detention of public health expert Mohammed Alhajji surprised many observers as he was seen as apolitical

Douglas Comish obituary

Other lives: Part of the team at Lyons that developed some of the earliest British business computers

Are Europeans actually less enthusiastic than Americans – or just dehydrated?

Americans holidaying in Europe are stressed about being able to drink enough H20 on the continent. Despite its obvious abundance, they may have a point, writes Emma Beddington

‘Only AI made it possible’: scientists hail breakthrough in tracking British wildlife

Technology proves able to identify dozens of species in thousands of hours of recordings

‘Into brain and the heart’: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan’s teenagers

Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing’s information war against its neighbour

TikTok users in UK to be left with ‘more toxic’ version of app, say campaigners

Activists call on tech giant to extend a change making personalised algorithm optional to comply with rules for EEA countries

TikTok has its faults, but it’s also diverse, eye-opening and completely full of life

The most marvellous app I’ve had the good fortune to click on has become the subject of the latest moral panic

Government targeting UK minorities with social media ads despite Facebook ban

Campaigns aimed at people interested in “hijabs”, “Hinduism” and “afro-textured hair” raise concerns over profiling and privacy

‘There’s no such thing as a neutral algorithm’: the existential AI exhibition confronting Sydney

Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Atmospheric Memory allows visitors to interact with generative tech – and become part of the show in unexpected ways

‘The night is literally in my hands’: what it’s like to attend an acid house rave – in virtual reality

Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwards

Can Britain recreate a microchip industry worth its salt?

UK governments let processor manufacturing drift overseas for years. Now Covid and war have shown how vital homegrown capability is, the country is scrambling to catch up. But so is everyone else