He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences

Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

Report claims unrestricted online access will be a ‘government privilege’, limited to individuals vetted by regime

Amazon workers at Coventry warehouse tested for tuberculosis after outbreak

Company says TB testing carried out as ‘precaution’ after small number of workers contracted lung disease

Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images

Ashley St Clair files lawsuit in state of New York over deepfakes that appeared on social media platform X

UK politics: West Midlands crime commissioner resists calls for immediate sacking of chief constable – as it happened

Simon Foster says he will give report into force’s handling of Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban ‘careful consideration’ in deciding Craig Guildford’s fate

US lawmakers call on Donald Trump to restore internet access in Iran

Democrats and Republicans called on president to circumvent legislative process to implement ‘Freedom’ bill

Liz Kendall’s response to X ‘nudification’ is good – but not enough to solve the problem

Big tech companies cannot be trusted. It is not enough that they remove harm when they find it – the law must make their systems prevent harm, says AI governance expert Nana Nwachukwu

Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn

While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits

Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s

Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia

Australian politicians are condemning X and Grok, so why won’t they leave the platform?

Anthony Albanese has said the AI chatbot generating sexualised images of women and children is ‘abhorrent’ but has an account posting on the site

Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people

PM says he is alarmed at reports about children’s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policy

An ecosystem of smuggled tech holds Iran’s last link to the outside world

Despite internet blackout, a small number of Iranians are risking their lives to share messages as protests continue

The Guardian view on regulating big tech: politicians must back Ofcom’s challenge to Musk

Editorial: A flood of non-consensual deepfake bikini shots on X is putting the UK’s Online Safety Act to the test

UK media regulator investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images

Liz Kendall describes content as vile and illegal and says Ofcom has the government’s backing to use its full powers

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave

It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte