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Virgin Media to disappear from UK high street

Exclusive: firm’s 53 stores will not reopen after lockdown and staff will be offered other roles

More than 150 Australian newsrooms shut since January 2019 as Covid-19 deepens media crisis

As BuzzFeed News shutters its Australian operation, data shows 157 newsrooms have closed temporarily or for good since early 2019

Virgin Media and O2 owners confirm £31bn mega-merger in UK

Tie-up between parent groups Liberty Global and Telefonica aims to take on BT and Sky

Millions of Virgin Media customers hit by internet cutting out

Series of outages across UK not due to lockdown creating spike in demand, company says

Alone and disconnected: the woman left unable to call her dying partner

Problems with internet and phone service were once just an inconvenience. Now they can prove to be catastrophic

Mail publisher had agenda of ‘offensive’ stories about Meghan, court told

Duchess sues publisher of British newspapers over use of letter to father Thomas Markle

Facebook ‘disappointed’ in Australia’s attempt to make tech giants pay for news content

Federal government pushes ahead with plans despite similar schemes having limited success overseas

Media deal with Facebook and Google more urgent with coronavirus taking jobs, says regulator

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission pushing for code of conduct to ensure news businesses on digital platforms are treated fairly

Contacts of 1m Virgin Media customers left on unsecured database

At least one person from outside Virgin Media accessed non-financial details

Netflix faces crunch year as Disney, Apple and more vie for streaming crown

Streaming service could lose up to 16 million subscribers to rivals, says analyst

ET go home: why Spielberg’s alien shouldn’t be flogging wifi

‘The audience is going to get everything they want out of a sequel without the messy bits,’ say bosses, as they casually destroy your childhood memories to sell a cable TV and internet subscription

Telegraph buyers circle, but real political clout now lies with Facebook

The Barclay brothers are offering a trophy of sorts, even though newspapers no longer hold such sway over voters

TV streaming bonanza looms for UK – but can you afford it?

Services from Apple, Britbox, HBO and Disney launch soon – but to get them all would cost £1,450 a year

Streaming TV is about to get very expensive – here’s why

With Disney, Apple and others about to launch their own services, a lot of your favourite shows are likely to vanish behind paywalls. The golden age of streaming is over

HarperCollins UK profits double due to Tolkien TV deal with Amazon

Boost from rights sale for multi-series adaptation, as eBooks continue to decline

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  • 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
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
  • If Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return
  • Tell us: which Steven Spielberg movie means the most to you?

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