Did Boris Johnson’s easily available phone number pose security risk?

Analysis: texts are a popular route by which hackers can launch malware attacks to bypass corporate – or state – security teams, say experts

How YouTubers turned running for London mayor into content

Several internet personalities will be on the ballot on 6 May, though most know they have no chance of winning

‘They’re stealing our customers and we’ve had enough’: is Deliveroo killing restaurant culture?

The takeaway service may have felt like a lifeline during lockdown, but its ambitious vision will dramatically change the way we eat

Dear Gavin Williamson, teenagers use mobile phones. Get with the times

Why not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning

GCHQ chief: west faces ‘moment of reckoning’ over cybersecurity

Jeremy Fleming to say UK must ‘develop sovereign technologies’ and work with allies to ‘build better cyber-defences’

James Dyson: the Brexit cheerleader now caught up in ‘Tory sleaze’

Profile: revelation of his tax texts with Boris Johnson have brought the industrialist under the spotlight again

Boris Johnson ‘promised James Dyson he would fix tax issue’

Entrepreneur pressed PM directly by text message last year about Covid ventilator drive, BBC reports

Priti Patel v Facebook is the latest in a 30-year fight over encryption

Governments have been clashing with tech companies for decades over user privacy

Just say no: negativity is secret of political tweet success, study finds

Want to go viral on Twitter? Steer clear of positive terms, Spanish researchers say

Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre

It is 20 years since Jon Ronson wrote Them, his eye-popping investigation into conspiracy theorists. Now, in a world awash with tales of paedophile elites and puppet masters, is he any closer to understanding it all?

The music streaming debate: what the artists, songwriters and industry insiders say

The Guardian has talked to 25 figures from the music world ahead of publication of a parliamentary report

UK may force Facebook services to allow backdoor police access

End-to-end encryption could be challenged with security agencies enabled to monitor user messages

Oxford Nanopore float offers London a proper tech future

Planned IPO of life science group will test LSE’s appetite for funding high-growth tech

Legal challenge seeks to stop ministers sending disappearing messages

Self-destructing messages are undemocratic, say transparency campaigners preparing judicial review

Vilifying journalists is just part of the UK government’s modus operandi

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s recent attack on a journalist for merely doing his job is part of a worrying trend, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson