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Hit send too soon? Now you’ll be able to edit those ill-advised iMessages

In the next version of the Apple app, you’ll be able to click ‘unsend’ and your message will disappear. Could this be the end of the drunken text?

Apple unveils buy now, pay later feature and redesigned iPhone lock screen

Worldwide developer conference begins with changes to iPhone operating system and redesigned version of cheapest laptop

Augmented eyes on Apple at developer conference

New computers, iPad overhaul and expanded Messages app on the cards, with AR glasses a possibility

‘People are stressed’: Apple workers set to begin first in-person union election

If successful, the store in Towson, Maryland, would be the first to unionize at the US tech company

Why your ability to repair a tractor could also be a matter of life and death

US farmers’ struggles for the right to fix their own, now highly computer-controlled equipment, have implications for us all

Meta asks to be spared tighter rules in Australia, saying iPhone’s tracking blocker is hurting business

Company tells consumer watchdog it is set to lose $10bn this year in wake of Apple iOS feature hampering ability to collect user data

‘Unstoppable until they aren’t’: are tech market losses signs of a bust?

Apple is no longer the most valuable company, Meta took a $230bn hit, Amazon reported its first loss since 2015, but a slump ‘is a big question mark’

‘I was totally smitten’: readers share their memories of the iPod

Apple has discontinued the music player that transformed a generation’s listening habits after its launch in 2001

RIP the iPod. I resisted you at first, but for 20 years, you were my musical life

It held my favourite mainstream tracks – and the obscure ones. But it couldn’t hold off the march of time, and Spotify, says freelance writer Dorian Lynskey

TechScape: Apple, Google and Microsoft are about to make passwords a thing of the past

In this week’s newsletter: safer than two-factor authentication and easier than remembering dozens of codes, the ‘Fido’ system will make our digital lives smoother

Tell us: share your memories of your first iPod

We’d like to hear about your first iPod and the playlists you had on it

‘The spirit lives on’: Apple to discontinue the iPod after 21 years

Apple is discontinuing its MP3 player, bringing an end to device that transformed how we listen to music

Corporate America buckles down for culture war on Roe v Wade

Republicans are mulling retaliation against firms providing benefits such as travel assistance for employees seeking abortion

EU claims Apple breaking competition law over contactless payments

Company accused of abusing market position to limit rivals’ access to technology required for tap-and-go transactions

The 10 best video games made in Australia – sorted

There are some fun, beautiful and smart homegrown hits to celebrate, from Untitled Goose Game to the political statement of Escape from Woomera

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  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate
  • Tell us your favourite film of 2026 so far
  • As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
  • Taliban order ban on smartphones as officials shown destroying devices
  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
  • The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35
  • ‘It makes no sense’: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban
  • The best power banks and battery packs in the UK for reliable charging on the go, tested
  • Teddie Beverley obituary
  • Apocalypse when? ‘Earth’s Black Box’ to be installed in remote Tasmanian airfield
  • UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
  • Legislation proposed to stop lawsuits used to silence journalists and whistleblowers
  • Fears for Xbox as it puts its developers on the chopping block once again
  • I had a blood clot. An AI diagnosis may have saved my life
  • Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator
  • Disclosure Day is great. But Spielberg overestimates our capacity for empathy
  • ‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams
  • ‘Vegetarian Nigella’ and flirty hair flips: John Early and Kate Berlant take on diet culture in new influencer satire

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