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Smart rings: England players hope £300 gadget will give them Euro 2024 edge

FA has supplied Oura health trackers popularised by stars including Prince Harry to Gareth Southgate and team

Trader recommendation websites must vet firms, says watchdog

CMA draft guidance says platforms must also tackle fake reviews and sanction rogue traders

UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

Switchee aims to protect health and cut bills by installing its technology in 1m homes

Price well and check fees: 10 expert tips on selling clothes online

Insiders from sites such as eBay, Depop and Vinted give advice on how to get the best cash for preloved items

Plusnet mobile customers told to switch within weeks or lose number

BT Group-owned provider has already ditched its TV service and will become a broadband-only supplier

In it to win it: how to maximise your chances in competitions

Enter lots of contests, think of prizes as potential presents but beware of scammers

Is my Samsung laptop not all it’s cracked up to be?

My Galaxy Book 360 from Currys developed screen cracks while it was just sitting on a table

BT left my blind father without a panic button

It didn’t work after it switched his landline to digital without warning

Santander customers’ private data put up for sale for $2m by hackers

ShinyHunters stole information including bank and credit card numbers, as well as staff HR details

Next UK government should introduce scams legislation, says City lobby group

Group wants big tech social media firms to pay millions a year to reimburse customers after years of shouldering cost of fraud

Data breach exposes details of 25,000 current and former BBC employees

Data breach at pension scheme being taken ‘extremely seriously’, but broadcaster says there is no evidence of a ransomware attack

Basketball court, home cinema – but no booby traps: Home Alone house on sale for $5.25m

The house in Winnetka, Illinois still features the staircase which Macaulay Culkin rode down on a sledge, but the swinging paint cans have since been removed

Fraud rife on secondhand marketplaces Depop, Preloved, and Shpock

Survey of 1,300 buyers found 32% scammed on secondhand marketplace in two years, highlighting scale of APP fraud

No refund after I was sold a stolen £3,300 bike on eBay

I phoned the police and the bike was seized, but eBay and my bank won’t help over reimbursement

Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran

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