Bank and building society users hit by 33 days of outages in two years, say MPs

Treasury committee finds disruption a result of 158 IT incidents affecting millions of customers

Minister said NHS could use Dyson ventilators to help firm’s marketing, Covid inquiry told

Machines could be marketed as ‘used in UK hospitals’ after James Dyson responded to call from PM, inquiry hears

What would a UK-US economic deal really look like?

London and Washington aim to avoid obstacles and forge a narrower agreement, likely with a focus on tech and AI

The Guardian view on pornography: the Obscene Publications Act needs an update

Editorial: A new report makes a convincing case for outlawing strangulation imagery – and putting the home secretary in charge

Ban pornography depicting strangulation, review urges UK ministers

Independent review also calls for ban on other ‘legal but harmful’ material that is degrading, violent or misogynistic

Prioritise artists over tech in AI copyright debate, MPs say

Cross-party committees urge ministers to drop plans to force creators to opt out of works being used to train AI

Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

Beeban Kidron joins calls against PM’s AI tsar over tech-firm interests

Film director and peer complains of government’s ‘shameful’ copyright rules policy and role of Matt Clifford

UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration

Exclusive: Government reluctant to take action that could weaken UK’s attractiveness to AI firms, says Labour source

Home Office contractor collected data on UK citizens while checking migrants’ finances

Official sent email to charity that suggested Home Office had data on ‘hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting Britons’

Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokerati

Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them

The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong

UK-wide parking app may be out of road after government funding withdrawn

Five-year-old platform intended to make drivers’ lives easier will only be supported until the end of March

Konstantin Kisin: anti-woke libertarian who reluctantly calls himself ‘right wing’

In speech at Arc conference, podcaster argues ‘identity politics and multiculturalism … are two failed experiments’

Apple removes advanced data protection tool in face of UK government request

Apple says removal of tool after government asked for right to see data will make iCloud users more vulnerable