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How to get a better mobile phone deal in the UK

With above-inflation increases, tips and tricks to find the right plan are even more important

If bosses fail to check AI’s onward march, their own jobs will soon be written out of the script

Machines have already taken over the drudge work. Now they’re coming for the fun stuff, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Airbnb goes back to basics with renewed focus on private room rentals

New features on app to encourage travellers to consider renting single rooms rather than whole properties

Etsy sellers offering fake ‘handmade’ products at ripoff prices, says Which?

Investigation finds rogue sellers charging up to seven times more for products than on other websites

Human values, as well as AI, must be at the core of the future of work

Automation too often erodes conditions and job quality creating anxiety and overwork. To build ‘good work’, we must invest in people as well as tech

‘It can be incredibly profitable’: the secret world of fake online reviews

As groups offering fake Amazon, Google and Trustpilot reviews continue to thrive on Facebook, one reviewer tells how it works

Stately home ‘used for James Bond scenes’ goes on sale for £75m

Denham Place in Buckinghamshire being sold by multimillionaire Mike Jatania

How to buy the right laptop for you at the best price

Tech experts on how to work out want you need, set a budget and find the perfect device – or upgrade an existing one

Vodafone issue ‘now fixed’ after broadband outage hits thousands in UK

Telecoms company apologises after complaints and says problem was the result of an ‘isolated incident’

Alexa, I’m in the dark. Why has my Amazon account disappeared?

When I couldn’t turn on the lights she told me there was ‘no account associated with this device’

Is TikTok’s ‘shoppertainment’ sales model pushing Gen Z into debt? Just look at the numbers

#TikTokMadeMeBuyIt videos have been viewed 40bn times, as users share their experiences of the ‘infinite loop’, says financial journalist Iona Bain

Innovative heat tech could save England’s swimming pools from closure

Twenty pools may be upgraded this year after startup uses energy from small data centre to heat water

Live your best (and cheapest) life: 11 top tips from money-saving influencers

Experts share ideas for saving money and the planet, from batch cooking to DIY hacks - and how to blag an upgrade

Ebay parcel was lost, but the courier can’t trace it

Using the platform to book an Evri delivery signs sellers up to Packlink

Beware of Valentine’s Day romance fraud, UK online daters told

Victim Support reports 38% rise in people affected by dating scams and gives advice on avoiding fake profiles

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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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