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How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone

Adjust these settings to stop your 4G or 5G phone making a noise during test at 3pm on 23 April

Fresh concerns raised over sources of training material for AI systems

Investigations reveal limited efforts to ‘clean’ datasets of fascist, pirated and malicious material

Google allows app developers to break away from Play billing system

UK regulator asks for views on how move will work in practice, amid concern over tech firm’s cut of in-app purchases

Google calls for relaxing of Australia’s copyright laws so AI can mine websites for information

Tech company argues government should support artificial intelligence development while artists seek protections

Google chief warns AI could be harmful if deployed wrongly

Sundar Pichai calls for global regulatory framework similar to nuclear treaty amid safety concerns

Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools

Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley’s Coupa Cafe, but ‘scalability’ is still on the menu as tech workers look forward

‘I didn’t give permission’: Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches?

Regulators around world are cracking down on content being hoovered up by ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and others

As AI weaponry enters the arms race, America is feeling very, very afraid

Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world’s AI superpower?

From Google Maps to Pokémon Go, John Hanke is programming the future

The CEO of Niantic has helped create technologies that have changed the way we live. How does he see the future of play?

Bard: how Google’s chatbot gave me a comedy of errors

It is connected to the live internet, but this AI tool seems trained to give the least insightful answers

Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK

From Tuesday users can join waiting list for access to technology that firm hopes will rival Bing Chat and ChatGPT

Will Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard backfire?

Success of AI-powered rivals ChatGPT and Bing Chat has forced its hand, but release brings risks for tech giant

TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives

From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how

Software engineer David Auerbach: ‘Big tech is in denial about not being in control’

The writer says that meganets – the huge tech networks already part of daily life – have led to groupthink and the breakdown of public discourse and that we must exert more influence on them

Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet

There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?

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  • 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
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
  • Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors
  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

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