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Google adds opt-out for Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to reassure regulators

Users can disable features such as Smart Reply that use personal data to improve experience

Social media firms must face sanction for ‘anti-vax content’, demands Labour

Opposition claims that online disinformation poses a threat to the effective take-up of coronavirus vaccines

Google denies Peter Costello’s claim it uses Australian news content to boost revenue

Nine chairman says company invests millions of dollars in content that Google and facebook use to bloster their platforms

Facebook extends political ad ban in US for at least a month

Deadline pushed back amid ongoing wave of US election misinformation

YouTube fails to remove video falsely declaring Trump victory

Google also criticised for providing advertising services to far-right misinformation sites

Facebook and Twitter take emergency steps against Trump false victory claims

Two tech platforms counter misinformation with statements that votes are still being counted

Big tech firms add $163bn to market values despite Covid and legal scrutiny

Google, Facebook and Amazon rally in third-quarter earnings reports

Republicans use congressional hearing to berate tech CEOs and claim Trump is ‘censored’

Hearing with Twitter, Facebook and Google CEOs was meant to focus on section 230, a law that protects internet companies

Section 230: tech CEOs to defend key internet law before Congress

Facebook, Twitter and Google chiefs to argue against law’s repeal amid unsubstantiated claims of anti-conservative bias

The Guardian view on trustbusting Google: change is needed

Editorial: Tech giants are not playing according to economic rules set by the market, but by rules they largely set themselves. That won’t wash

Big tech accused of avoiding $2.8bn in tax to poorest countries

Reform of international corporate taxation could transform health and education, says report

The US has a good record on fighting monopolies. Now it’s Google’s turn

The tech giant claims that no one is forced to use its search engine. All power to regulators set on proving otherwise

You don’t need a search engine to see why Google won’t lose this lawsuit

The US Justice Department’s complaint that the tech giant has monopolised the web is too little, too late

Google is facing the biggest antitrust case in a generation. What could happen?

Filing is first step in a battle that could take years, and experts say it will probably move forward even if Biden wins the election

A US antitrust suit might break up Google. Good – it’s the Standard Oil of our day

Republicans and Democrats finally agree on something: big tech’s power threatens our economies and our flow of information

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  • Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • Angry and lonely after my marriage ended, I came dangerously close to embracing the manosphere
  • Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents
  • Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
  • AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
  • Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
  • Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
  • Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
  • ‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
  • Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror
  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine review – scavenger’s story reveals a rich seam to mine
  • The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
  • Thirsty and power hungry: Australia is in the middle of a datacentre boom – but are they good for the economy?
  • Superfood or sweet treat? 17 delicious ways with popcorn – from snack bars and choux buns to salads and soups
  • Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
  • Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off
  • To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?
  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage

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