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Why has Facebook coined their new cryptocurrency Libra?

Cryptocurrency is a new word with ancient roots – and Libra is just the latest to enter the digital money market

Adult performers picket Instagram HQ over company’s nude photo rules

Artists, activists and models join in condemning confusing guidelines leading to account suspensions

Alarming and unnecessary: Facebook’s new cryptocurrency must be resisted

The tech giant has big ambitions for ‘Libra’. Privacy and regulation are just the start of the problems, says Charles Arthur, a former Guardian technology editor

Facebook cryptocurrency: dawn of the corporation-government

If it gets the green light from regulators, Facebook is on its way to creating its own currency – a prospect that should alarm us

Is Facebook’s Libra currency a case of corporate megalomania?

The planned cryptocurrency has big questions to answer, not least on transparency and trust

What is Libra? All you need to know about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency

Facebook claims it wants to reach people without access to a bank account, and that Libra is the best way

Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance

Digital currency will let billions of users make transactions, but is already facing opposition from US lawmakers amid privacy concerns

Facebook’s Libra launch will extend its global domination

Cryptocurrency could wipe out many businesses and further concentrate corporate power

Crypto is coming: get ready to spend Facebook’s money

The social network is likely to release details of its cryptocurrency this week: and it won’t be much like Bitcoin

How Silicon Valley’s whiz-kids finally ran out of friends

The tech founders said they were not like the evil capitalists of old. We should have known better

Let’s get real before deepfake videos corrupt our democracy

As Mark Zuckerberg has discovered, you can make anyone say anything, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

Facebook emails seem to show Zuckerberg knew of privacy issues, report claims

Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, WSJ reports

Doctored video of sinister Mark Zuckerberg puts Facebook to the test

Last month Facebook declined to remove a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi even after it was viewed millions of times

Google made $4.7bn from news sites in 2018, study claims

According to report by the News Media Alliance, revenue was almost as much as that of the entire online news industry

Huawei security threat derives from its sheer scale, says analysis

Cybersecurity report warns Chinese tech firm’s breadth exposes customers to risk

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  • California billionaire tax will appear on ballot after deadline for deal passes
  • Apple raises iPad and MacBook prices, blaming cost of chips amid AI boom
  • Pride review – solidarity between gay activists and miners in a magnificent musical
  • Little Brother review – Netflix comedy is neither weird or funny enough for star Eric André
  • Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her
  • You can still get an Apple Watch for its lowest price ever. Here’s which to buy
  • Tiny yet powerful, the Anker 511 Nano 3 is the best budget USB charger we tested – on sale for Prime Day
  • Can a $290m film studio on a former cow paddock lure Hollywood to Perth?
  • Russia used Israeli firm’s tool to crack phone months after ties severed, report finds
  • Prime Day deals are still on – the 45 best discounts after sifting through hundreds
  • Jackass: Best and Last review – kings of gross-out comedy’s final, funny farewell
  • A Better Tomorrow review – firefights aplenty and unapologetic melodrama in John Woo’s blood-drizzled crime classic
  • Puppy eyes, sad hair and a big boom box: John Cusack films – ranked!
  • Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds
  • Chris and Martina: The Final Set review – tennis titans discuss their deep bond and intense rivalry
  • The Furious review – dial-shifting dadsploitation mayhem as father goes in search of kidnapped daughter
  • ‘More relevant than making fires’: Explorer Scouts launch badges for AI and digital age
  • Blue Heron review – sombre and sophisticated portrait of childhood trauma in 1990s Canada
  • Bello! Why gen Alpha subconsciously speaks the language of the Minions
  • Weatherwatch: How UK firm’s low-cost tech can warn of volcanic eruptions
  • World Cup becomes cult of the individual but ignores team complexity
  • What is China’s SpaceSail, and could it rival Elon Musk’s Starlink?
  • Met gets extension to Palantir AI project after Sadiq Khan blocked deal
  • Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
  • US opens second federal investigation of deadly Tesla crash into Texas home
  • Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega and Stephen Fry among new invited Oscar voters
  • ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools
  • Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla stock drops
  • Big tech spent millions on a single US congressional race. It won’t be the last time
  • The Guardian view on Islamophobia: political rhetoric is fuelling hate crime

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