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Virgin Media accidentally gives away telephone number

A reader who wrote to us about struggling to get connected is back, as the switching process takes another turn for the worse

STV to take on BBC in Scotland with launch of digital news service

ITV licence holder to begin digital service next month that will cover international and UK news from Scottish perspective

Louise Mensch to launch rightwing site for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp

Publisher says US-focused site Heat Street will have no ‘safe spaces’

Independent owner considering closing national print titles

Evgeny Lebedev and team have not yet made a final decision but he is expected to close 30-year-old titles

Welcome to the sixth evolution of television: place-shifting

Having gone from humble black-and-white beginnings, 2016 will see TV set free from the television to be consumed wherever and whenever you want

Daily Mail website’s ad revenues surge as paper announces price hike

Mail Online ad income soared by 27% in the fourth quarter, driven by US growth – but it was not enough to offset print decline

Baroness Rebuck and Jimmy Wales join Guardian Media Group board

Chair of book publisher Penguin Random House UK and Wikipedia founder take up their roles with immediate effect

Disney boss says Star Wars saga will continue beyond new trilogy

Plus: Han Solo was once set to return as a 10-year-old boy whose adoptive dad was Chewbacca in 2005 prequel Revenge of the Sith

Portsmouth newspaper’s price rise a symptom of media malady

Newsprint buyers will vanish ever faster, but publishers have done too little with their digital products to make them attractive to readers or advertisers

Virgin Media asks ASA to crack down on false broadband speed claims

The ad watchdog’s current rules allow companies to advertise a headline broadband speed even if it is available to only 10% of customers

Daily Mail takes full control of Australian website

Nine Entertainment joint venture ends as Mail Online’s global chief executive says 100% ownership is best business model

Canada’s largest newspaper publisher reveals revenue falls

Advertising decreases cause a £2m quarterly loss for Postmedia Network

Moshi Monsters maker in crunch talks on loan as figures show revenue slump

British children’s entertainment firm Mind Candy also saw its net losses increase in 2014 as income from subscriptions and licensing declined

Vice Europe to double revenues to £100m as TV strategy pays off

UK operation will deliver first significant profits at approximately £18m as investment in news and driving TV strategy pays off

Star Wars studio looks to prevent attack of the drones

Pinewood conducts security exercise aiming to stop movie buffs snooping on production of films such as episode VIII of sci-fi franchise and James Bond

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  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
  • White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
  • Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
  • Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
  • Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance
  • Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?
  • World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
  • French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
  • Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
  • Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images
  • OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
  • Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads
  • The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power
  • Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns
  • Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims – as it happened
  • Loneliness influencers: why are people suddenly boasting about having no friends?
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about

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