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Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne no longer interested in Reform-Tory pact

Donor who has given £12m to Reform UK had previously wanted Nigel Farage to keep open mind about deal with Conservatives

Italian activists and journalist targeted by spyware in 2024, prosecutors confirm

Investigation finds three were hacked by Paragon spyware at same time, potentially fuelling questions for government

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission

Sci-fi surgery as doctor in UK directs robot to remove a prostate in Gibraltar

Briton with cancer operated on by doctor located 1,500 miles away using four-armed robot fitted with 3D camera

Mark Zuckerberg says criminal behavior on Facebook inevitable

Meta CEO, grilled about children’s safety, says in taped deposition a user pool of billions will include bad actors

Trump says he fired Anthropic ‘like dogs’ as Pentagon formally blacklists AI startup

Reports say talks have resumed between defense department and startup over military’s use of company’s AI

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom

In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it

Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

They claim to fix fine lines, blemishes and redness – but which stand up to scrutiny? We asked dermatologists and put them to the test to find out

Google Pixel 10a review: cheaper Android is great, but no real advance

Quality camera, good software and long battery life, but you should just buy the Pixel 9a instead

Breaking Social review – Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism

Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality – while Bregman’s nuggets of wisdom are a joy

Sam Altman admits OpenAI can’t control Pentagon’s use of AI

CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers

Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data

GoFan penalized for breaching privacy laws after students used service to sign up for football games and school prom

Elon Musk takes witness stand in trial over Twitter takeover

Twitter investors allege the billionaire publicly derided the social network to sink its stock price and buy it at a bargain

Europe’s next-generation fighter jet project may collapse if row continues, says warplane maker

Dassault Aviation says €100bn project may soon be ‘dead’ if Airbus will not agree on how to share workload

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  • Ghost Killer review – fantastic karate chopping and gunslinging in in supernatural action-comedy
  • If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit
  • Two Women review – sex comedy remake is French-Canadian answer to Confessions of a Window Cleaner
  • MacBook Neo review: the budget Apple laptop powered by an iPhone chip
  • James McAvoy: ‘I’ve been “that Scottish person”, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’
  • California to impose new AI regulations in defiance of Trump call
  • TV star’s AI porn allegations spark national debate in Germany
  • Why is Labour so unpopular? Just look at the dithering over kids’ screen time
  • Corey Feldman speaks out about Rob Reiner Oscars tribute snub: ‘Like a family reunion I wasn’t invited to’
  • Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling
  • ‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive
  • Apple subsidiary fined by UK government over Moscow sanctions breach
  • McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass review – amiable tale of how Macca’s Höfner was finally found
  • Mary Beth Hurt, star of Interiors and The World According to Garp, dies aged 79
  • Rob Schneider calls on US to restore military draft
  • College Republicans director made racist and sexist remarks on live streams
  • ​​Being Ola review – a sweet and gentle film about disability, friendship and abandonment
  • ‘Nostalgic glint of adventure’: why The Beach is my feelgood movie
  • ‘Prosthetics aren’t made for people like us’: the brothers creating innovative artificial limbs for Africans
  • Night Stage review – public sex enthusiasm the key to extravagant and subversive erotic thriller
  • Q review – freedom, lies and transgressions in emotional fallout from a secretive Muslim women’s movement
  • Kim Novak says Sydney Sweeney is ‘totally wrong to play me’ in biopic
  • Urgent action needed to prevent surge in digital violence in Africa, experts say
  • Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time
  • ‘Double standards’: Instagram removes Erin O’Connor’s pregnancy photos again
  • The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin
  • Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media
  • How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial
  • ‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books
  • The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine

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