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‘He’s box office’: Gary Lineker admits wanting Roy Keane to join The Rest Is Football

Podcast co-host says tongue-in-cheek that ex-Manchester United captain would like to sign up for his show

Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash

Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country

Is this the end of Harry and Meghan’s American dream?

The Sussexes are returning to the UK with significantly reduced media deals in an industry where fame alone can no longer guarantee success

Abusers coercing or duping women to post explicit OnlyFans content, UK court cases reveal

Separate criminal convictions come as domestic violence charities warn of tech-facilitated abuse and coercion

The faces behind the feeds: Gen Z’s private lives and public posts – in pictures

For the first digital natives, there are two places to express yourself: in the comfort of your own room and online. Photographer Niccolò Rastrelli set out to find out how the identities compare

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

In trial that opened on Tuesday, California and 28 other states accused the company of designing addictive sites and violating laws protecting children’s privacy

The Guide #257: What we lose when a medium ​built for the ear surrender​s to the camera

In this week’s newsletter: As platforms chase ​s​ubscribers, podcasts are losing their off‑screen charm​, leaving listeners to wonder whether the intimacy of audio can survive the studio lights

‘They’re thinking about the likes’: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland

Social media platforms face public ire after fatal crash involving teenagers filming themselves driving on wrong side

Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister

Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough

Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial

Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children

Roblox commits to privacy overhaul after eSafety discovers adults can contact children via gaming platform

Regulator says verifiable safety measures are ‘critical’ to the online service’s viability

US states accuse Meta of covering up research on teen social media addiction in pivotal trial

State attorneys general claim tech company intentionally designed addictive products that harm young people

Social media on trial as $200bn case against Facebook and Instagram begins

Twenty-nine US states are seeking huge damages, claiming Meta’s platforms were addictive by design

Revealed: Toby Young free speech group crowdfunded over £60,000 for legal case fought by pro-bono lawyer

Staff members said Free Speech Union would ‘need to explain’ how it spent money donated by its supporters

New Mexico’s attorney general pushes new social media safety laws after $900m court victory over Meta

Exclusive: Raúl Torrez is drafting two bills with state lawmakers to bolster consumer protections and child safety online, building on state’s landmark case against Meta

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  • Trump touts ‘great meeting’ with Xi at White House – as it happened
  • ‘Cracking auction, Gromit!’ Original Aardman puppets go under the hammer
  • Russia could attack a Nato country within months, Danish intelligence says
  • Parents and carers: how has your view on your children’s use of social media or AI changed?
  • TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform
  • Price hikes, ads and lower quality: has ‘streamflation’ ruined the TV experience?
  • ‘Eat the rich, save the planet’: climate protesters call out big tech’s disconnect from reality
  • Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics
  • Flash sale: AO snaps up camera seller Jessops from Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones
  • Post your questions for Zach Braff
  • Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity
  • ‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes
  • Greek epics, gory obsessions and awkward invites: where does this year’s Oscars race stand?
  • We’re in a crisis of loneliness – but is buying friends on an app likely to help solve it?
  • ‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’: how Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
  • OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste
  • Forgotten Island review – best friends forever trapped in frantic DreamWorks animation
  • An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far
  • Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database
  • Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles
  • Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’
  • OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council
  • ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI
  • How the ‘poisonous tide’ of disinformation spreads division and despair
  • UK politics: PM’s new anti-disinformation unit gets cross-party backing, as Farage declares it an attack on free speech – as it happened
  • Criminals recruiting students on social media to be ‘parcel mules’, say police
  • My (complicated) relationship with AI: often seductive, occasionally frustrating and always demanding vigilance
  • ‘He made something every single day’: David Lynch’s inscrutable photography celebrated in LA show
  • The living dead: we can watch ‘Janis Joplin’ perform or reunite the Beatles, but who are the real winners here?
  • John Green got an astronomical following from his books. What came next? ‘I’m still competing for clicks’

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