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The Bodyguard sets record as BBC’s most popular box set

Drama’s 35m iPlayer requests tops Killing Eve and Taboo to become biggest streaming hit

Brazil battles fake news ‘tsunami’ amid polarized presidential election

Electoral court orders Facebook to remove links to 33 fake news stories targeting Fernando Haddad’s vice-presidential candidate

Coalition calls on Google and Facebook to get on side with encryption bill

Peter Dutton says the internet giants have a responsibility to help combat organised crime

Facebook Portal smart screen to launch amid concerns over privacy

Company reveals details about voice-controlled device, which was delayed after data breach

Facebook’s UK tax bill rises to £15.8m – but it is still just 1% of sales

Margaret Hodge MP says it is ‘outrageous’ how little tax the company pays in Britain

Facebook’s security is so bad it’s surprising Zuckerberg hasn’t deleted his account

Facebook missed serious holes in their security system. Their incompetence warrants outrage

#BeingMicronesian: online hatred spurs positive fightback

When Sha Ongelungel saw yet another derogatory post directed at Micronesians, she decided enough was enough

Viral publisher Unilad blames arch-rival LadBible for collapse

LadBible’s purchase of Unilad’s debt prompts accusations rival is driving Unilad out of business

Fat Bear Week: Alaska’s brown bears face off in battle of the plumpest

It’s up to the public to crown the fattest bear before their hibernation – does that mean most rolls? Neck flab? You decide!

Unilad: Facebook viral publisher goes into administration

Hundreds of jobs at risk with parent company owing £6m and administration looming

Facebook faces $1.6bn fine and formal investigation over massive data breach

Irish data regulator could penalize the social network after hack of nearly 50m accounts

Google and Facebook join rights groups to fight Australia’s encryption bill

Unusual alliance calls on government to ‘slow down’ and listen to ‘legitimate concerns’

Huge Facebook breach leaves thousands of other apps vulnerable

The breach that compromised 50m accounts took advantage of ‘tokens’, a system used by third-party platforms such as Spotify and Pinterest

Could this EU crackdown on fake news be a gamechanger?

The new EU code of practice on disinformation indicates progress has been made, says Paul Chadwick, the Guardian’s readers’ editor

Should anonymous social media accounts be banned?

There are growing calls for an end to people being able to hide their identity online. But is this a threat to free speech? Labour MP Jess Phillips and tech author Jamie Bartlett swap ideas

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  • Rocky week for AI as shares slump but no sign of crash – yet
  • Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – discuss with spoilers
  • UK ‘minded’ to intervene in Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
  • Michael Byrne obituary
  • Elon Musk promotes ‘anti-migrant’ Armie Hammer film with free download on X
  • Doubt that Elon Musk ‘earned’ his trillion? Rightwing media says you’re in an ‘impotent envy cult’
  • UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores
  • The original Moana: did a 1926 documentary give birth to a 21st century Disney blockbuster?
  • The Invite review – Seth Rogen adds zest and bite to fruity dinner party comedy
  • Not a Pretty Picture review – Martha Coolidge’s recreation of her rape remains shockingly powerful
  • Oura Ring 5 review: a stunning generational leap for smart rings
  • Executioner review – sleazy MP hams it up with sex worker in darkly comic blackmail thriller
  • Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency
  • ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
  • Crypto firms operating in UK to be subject to sweeping new rules
  • US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
  • Shares in chipmakers underpinning AI boom rocket in first half of 2026
  • Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate media business
  • Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths
  • ‘His ability is hard to deny’: is Tom Hardy a secretly good rapper?
  • ‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes
  • Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that
  • Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project
  • Black Box: Flight 298 review – there’s a beastie in the hold in airborne conspiracy horror
  • Keir Starmer’s attempts to placate big tech were a disaster. Andy Burnham must take a stand
  • ‘Genuinely changed my life’: why Groundhog Day is my feelgood movie
  • The Last Assassins review – shades of Blade Runner in dystopian thriller shrouded in silty-green murk
  • Why did the BBC hire Ashley Cain? Because it has a warped idea of what young men want
  • Fragments of Ice review – fascinating chronicle of Soviet collapse through the lens of a Ukrainian ice skater
  • Ring Video Doorbell Pro review: night and day better with new 4K camera

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