Tinsel and Home Alone back in style as TikTok seeks comfort in #90sChristmas Emphasis this year is on nostalgia as present day feels ‘a bit more uncertain’, say trend experts
Investment in data centers worldwide hit record $61bn in 2025, report finds Analysts see ‘global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing’ amid surge in demand from AI boom
Elon Musk’s massive 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn and now worth some $139bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlash
Why is Truth Social owner Trump Media merging with a fusion energy firm? What we know about the deal with TAE Technologies so far – from why it is happening to what fusion energy is
Move over Bluetooth: wired headphones are back – and suddenly cool again From celebrity endorsements to digital fatigue, the once-obsolete white wire has become a fashion statement and a quiet act of opting out
‘A black hole’: families and police say tech giants delay investigations in child abuse and drug cases US law enforcement officers say Meta and Snapchat routinely delay or reject warrants. The companies disagree
UK politics: ‘Not clear’ who was behind FCDO hack, says minister, amid reports of China link – as it happened Chris Bryant confirms October cyber-attack as the Sun names Storm 1849, a Chinese hacker group, as being responsible
The Com: the growing cybercrime network behind recent Pornhub hack Criminal ecosystem is made up of mostly male native English language speakers aged from 16 to 25
UK Foreign Office victim of cyber-attack in October, says Chris Bryant Minister says risk to ‘any individual’ from cyber-attack is low and that it is still unclear who is responsible
Sony collars Snoopy in £340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise Japanese conglomerate raises to 80% its stake in firm that owns the intellectual property created by Charles Schulz
TikTok signs Trump-backed deal to avoid US ban Joint venture will take over part of app’s US operations, including data protection, algorithm security and content moderation
Television in titbits: the rise of the billion-dollar microdrama industry Hollywood is betting big on vertical microdramas, told in chunks under two minutes. Can a gimmick turn into a new form of entertainment?
What will your life look like in 2035? When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel
Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industries
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’ Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates