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White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies

Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?

In today’s newsletter: With Keir Starmer expected to announce Australia-style restrictions, further problems including AI chatbots are on the horizon

Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images

Echo project will help erase images as part of package of support to end ‘prolonged suffering of survivors’

The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power

Editorial: A belated change of policy on nude digital images of children must be part of a wider reset

Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns

Molly Rose Foundation says government should instead set strict safety standards for apps

Yes, Michelle Obama knows a lot about resilience. She still shouldn’t be lecturing gen Z about it

It’s decades since the former US first lady was an employee, writes Emma Beddington. The world of work she grew up in has long gone

Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

Companies such as Apple and Google have until September to install software or face legislation, says PM

The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers – and parents

Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surprise

‘Mogging’ is suddenly everywhere. Is that a problem?

This word for outdoing or outshining others originated in the manosphere, but is now thoroughly mainstream. Why is it so popular – and should we be worried about slang that arises from toxic subcultures?

Labour will make AI ‘work for the workers’, says Liz Kendall

Technology secretary promises to support people whose jobs are swept away by automation

Are You Watching? review – unflinching, fury-filled interrogation of the vile side of the web

Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer’s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess Edwards

A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket

As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks

Starmer accuses Musk of trying to ‘whip up division’ in UK over Henry Nowak murder

PM says Britons are ‘reasonable, tolerant people’ and backs MP’s legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised images

The Guardian view on NHS records: patients are not raw material for big tech

Editorial: Ministers should end Palantir’s contract before medical confidentiality is sacrificed to Silicon Valley’s appetite for public data

‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the Global Justice Report is far more bleak

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  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • 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

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