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Daily Stormer jumps to dark web while Reddit and Facebook ban hate groups

Action by technology companies and hacking group Anonymous removes neo-Nazi site from open web, while social media steps up anti-hate actions

Facebook Watch takes on YouTube and TV with revamped video offering

The new feature, Watch, lets users discover videos from outside their feed more easily, and will also dabble in original content

Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech

Silicon Valley says it is committed to racial diversity in its workforce. But the numbers tell a different story

Surveillance used to be a bad thing. Now, we happily let our employers spy on us

Web giants have trained us to think it’s normal for our bosses to implant us and harvest our data, writes André Spicer, a professor of organisational behaviour

13 things Apple should automate after driverless cars

Tim Cook has called autonomous systems ‘the mother of all AI projects’. So here are the things we’d most like done for us by robots

UK urges tech giants to do more to prevent spread of extremism

Amber Rudd will tell forum including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube that they share responsibility for tackling terrorism

Facebook ‘dark ads’ can swing political opinions, research shows

Ads targeted using profiles generated from individual voters’ stated interests are more successful in shifting attitudes according to Online Privacy Foundation

How Facebook groups bring people closer together – neo-Nazis included

Mark Zuckerberg’s new mission is to ‘bring the world closer together’. But Facebook groups can unite extremists as easily as they serve hobbyists

Sheryl Sandberg calls for policy changes to raise women’s pay

Facebook COO says equal numbers of men and women should apply for jobs and run for political positions to address gender gap

Going back to Facebook after four years is a sad and scary experience

You can’t beat the site’s global reach, but the dullness of the news feed is something that’s easy to leave behind

‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say

Facebook posts $3.89bn quarterly profit, up 71% from last year

Shares hit record high after figure is much higher than expected, with total revenue climbing 44.8% thanks to increased mobile video ad sales

Killer robots? Musk and Zuckerberg escalate row over dangers of AI

Musk described the Facebook CEO’s knowledge of the field as ‘limited’ after Zuckerberg publicly dismissed AI doomsday warnings as ‘irresponsible’

Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

As the Facebook CEO travels across the US to ‘learn about people’s hopes and challenges’, the cafeteria workers at his company struggle to make ends meet

The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google

How the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power

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  • Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
  • OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
  • Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
  • As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?
  • ‘There’s excitement in the air’: how America fell back in love with indie cinemas
  • How AI is changing language
  • Farewell to Jackass, the finest catalogue of male idiocy – it could only go on for so long
  • The Guide #250: All the US/UK cultural crossovers you may have missed but need to read about
  • From Madonna to Minions & Monsters: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Britain has so many stories. The reason we fund the arts together is so we can tell them
  • Burning flags, busty blondes and bison skulls: 48 photographs that capture America at 250
  • AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps
  • The Guardian view on how culture is taking on tech: the ultimate handheld device
  • UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears
  • Americans disgusted at Trump earning $1bn from crypto as president: ‘Obviously a grift’
  • Man charged with manslaughter over Tesla crash originally blamed on car’s self-driving mode
  • UK parents: share your views on guidance to not put photos of children on public display
  • Supergirl is a box office catastrophe. How can Marvel and DC save the superhero movie?
  • What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment, I tried to imagine
  • NSW government ‘absolutely thrilled’ to welcome OpenAI … until someone mentioned the Terminator films
  • Yours for just £228: a Kevin Spacey stainless steel gold-tone Fourth of July ‘adversity ring’
  • ‘If you see one movie this year’: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set to storm the box office
  • US residents angry at datacenters ‘being shoved down our throats’ are recalling officials
  • I tested 53 water bottles to find the best for leaks, looks and sustainability: here are my favourites
  • The making of Independence Day at 30: ‘I panicked and raced to set to rewrite’
  • Bugonia to Wicked: For Good – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • ‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite
  • 3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom
  • ‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work
  • Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

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