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Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say

Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’

Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal

TikTok’s future in the US has been in limbo for over year, but Trump says the US and China finally have a deal

iOS 26 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s Liquid Glass updates

iPhone upgrade joined by watchOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 Tahoe, adding a new look and features to devices

Larry Ellison: Oracle co-founder who overtook Musk as world’s richest person

Tycoon who briefly surpassed Elon Musk is a friend of Trump, owner of Hawaiian island and father of man who took over CBS

Larry Ellison briefly overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person

Oracle co-founder’s shares rose by 40% in early trading, briefly valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk’s $384bn

Google launches Pixel 10 with AI tools that anticipate users’ needs

Gemini’s new Magic Cue feature allows chatbot to scan digital life and pull up relevant information

Competition shows humans are still better than AI at coding – just

Przemysław Dębiak, who beat OpenAI at world finals, says he may be last human to win due to incredible pace of technological progress

‘Tone deaf’: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI

CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the business

Did AI mania rush Apple into making a rare misstep with Siri?

The company that prides itself on announcing products only when they’re ready grossly underestimated the demands of personalising its virtual assistant

Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise

AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over

What could Apple’s legal challenge mean for data protection?

The UK’s battle for access to encrypted services could define how companies are able to safeguard customer data in the future

‘We’re projecting into the future’: sounds of BBC Radiophonic Workshop made available for public use

Software goes on sale that replicates the distinctive analogue sounds of celebrated unit where Doctor Who theme was created

Richard Bleasdale obituary

Other lives: Software designer whose innovations transformed the live entertainment industry

While Musk and Altman wage their silly little feud, China is making all the broligarchs look like chumps

The launch of the AI chatbot DeepSeek wiped $1tn off the value of US tech stocks. That should worry even this overhyped and self-satisfied twosome, writes Arwa Mahdawi

TechScape: Why the US wants to force Google to sell Chrome

The Department of Justice suggested it should ‘divest Chrome’ and divest or submit to oversight of Android – seismic challenges for the tech giant

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  • 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
  • Tell us: which Steven Spielberg movie means the most to you?
  • ‘Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom
  • I was addicted to my phone – but one screen time hack actually made a difference
  • Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’
  • How much does Sean Penn hate selfies? Enough to invoke the Holocaust
  • A Murder Between Friends review – Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit
  • Idris Elba says audiences would never accept a black actor playing James Bond: ‘That’s not what they like in their culture’
  • Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
  • Time and Water review – Iceland’s doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster
  • Yes, Michelle Obama knows a lot about resilience. She still shouldn’t be lecturing gen Z about it
  • Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better
  • ‘It soothes me’: why The Blair Witch Project is my feelgood movie
  • Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones
  • Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway review – motorbike whodunnit cranked up to top speed
  • My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs
  • ‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds
  • ‘My life is about beauty’: Julie Newmar at 92 on shocking the world as Catwoman – and caring for her son
  • My most capable clients are becoming prisoners of their phones – but there is a way out
  • Confessions of a political liveblogger: ‘I enjoy it professionally – but, as a citizen, you can think the country’s going to hell in a handcart’
  • The health tracker backlash is here – so ditch the data and set yourself free

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