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Cybersecurity firm Wiz rejects $23bn bid from Google parent Alphabet

Israeli company aims for stock market flotation after spurning biggest deal in tech group’s history

A £53m gamble: billionaire’s company claims it was tricked into buying UK online betting firm that was worth ‘nil’

Internet betting tycoon Teddy Sagi’s multimillion-pound acquisition of a gaming firm now allegedly worth nothing is the subject of a court case involving heavily contested claims of fraud and physical threat

‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?

Liberating and a huge pain: my week with a Nokia ‘dumbphone’

Using the reissued 3210 model left our reporter very frustrated – but less mobile-obsessed and in awe of its battery life

Amazon workers in Coventry lose union recognition ballot by handful of votes

TUC insists fight will go on after GMB fails to secure right to represent retailer’s staff by just 29 votes

Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork

NullBulge group said it was leaking files from Disney’s internal Slack channel to ‘protect artists’ rights’

Microsoft deal with AI startup to be investigated by UK competition watchdog

CMA ‘has enough evidence’ to start full probe into tech giant’s hiring of Inflection’s top staff

Ocado shares jump as it narrows losses and boosts technology business

Revenues from tech arm, which sells robots to retailers, climbed by nearly 22% in six months to June

US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI

Whistleblowers say contracts include restrictions requiring staff to seek permission before contacting regulators

UK risks tech ‘talent drain’ to US if pension funds fail to back sector

Co-founder of British chipmaker Graphcore, which has been bought by Japan’s SoftBank, issues warning

Microsoft drops observer seat on OpenAI board amid regulator scrutiny

Startup’s new approach means Apple will no longer be able to appoint executive to similar role

Samsung Electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely

Campaign for better pay and benefits stepped up, says union representing about 30,000 staff in South Korea

Dyson to cut more than a quarter of UK workforce

Vacuum cleaner maker will axe about 1,000 jobs as part of global cost-cutting drive

Amazon’s Coventry workers begin voting in historic union ballot

More than 3,000 staff could get right to bargain collectively for rights and pay for the first time

Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

New computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can’t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • 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 boxes 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
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup

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