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Npower reviews News of the World advertising amid phone-hacking row

News International newspaper faces angry backlash amid growing campaign for advertising and reader boycott

Hacking of Fox News claimed by group with links to Anonymous

Group loosely connected to hacker collective says it took control of Twitter feed to claim President Obama assassinated. By Charles Arthur

US Federal Trade Commission reportedly investigates Twitter

Recently the company has clashed with developers as it has bought or built its own services

Google+ ‘blocked in China’

Great Firewall of China website shows users are unable to access any location within google.com. By Charles Arthur

Blogging from Bangladesh – more poverty tourism?

Rowan Davies: Sending bloggers to developing countries is well meaning, but without a completion strategy risks being just groovy PR

Zane Lowe reaction to Beyoncé at Glastonbury causes Twitter storm

Media Monkey: Zane Lowe's on-air outburst of laughter and admission he went to watch Queens of the Stone Age instead of Beyoncé riles Twitter users

Gay Girl in Damascus hoaxer accused of defending himself with new persona

Tom MacMaster says complimentary anonymous commenter in online forum using same IP address was friend who was visiting

The Social Network’s Aaron Sorkin quits Facebook

Writer of Oscar-winning drama is no longer a friend to Mark Zuckerberg's creation due to 'opinions on social media'

Who controls Laura Kuenssberg’s Twitter account?

Jemima Kiss: The political reporter's move from the BBC to ITV highlights the problems around blending personal and professional tweeting

Facebook and Twitter are doing nicely, thank you. They don’t need free plugs from us

The giants of the web are not public utilities but businesses focused on making money for their shareholders, says John Naughton

Online identity: Can we really be whoever we want to be?

One of the net's original evangelists says that our experience of the web is changing our identity both on and offline, writes Aleks Krotoski

June’s best new music from across the MAP

More sounds from around the world in June's edition of the Music Alliance Pact

Lessons learned from A Gay Girl in Damascus

Robert McCrum: It was a travesty, but the fuss surrounding the fictional lesbian blogger has at least highlighted human rights issues in Syria

In defence of anonymity, despite ‘Gay girl in Damascus’

Dan Gillmor: After the 'Amina' fiasco, the media need more safeguards. But let's ask: whose interests are served by outlawing anonymity?

Outrage in US as ‘lesbian’ bloggers revealed to be men

Male editor, who posted as a woman, of LezGetReal website claims he was acting in the interests of the gay community

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  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls

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