Holiday horrors: Airbnb and Booking.com users battle for refunds as stays go wrong

In a Consumer Champions special, Anna Tims tackles online rental disasters, from a tree collapsing on to a cottage to being trapped in a flat

Apple Watch Series 11 review: wrist-flickingly good with longer battery life

Bigger batteries, more scratch-resistant glass and new hands-free gestures are small but meaningful upgrades

OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters

Company behind the AI video app says it will work with rights holders to ‘block characters from Sora at their request’

The Guardian view on the Jaguar Land Rover cyber-attack: ministers must pay more attention to this growing risk

Editorial: Cybercriminals pose a seismic and increasingly sophisticated threat to businesses and national security. Yet Britain seems remarkably ill-prepared

Six out of 10 UK secondary schools hit by cyber-attack or breach in past year

Hackers are more likely to target educational institutions than private businesses, government survey shows

996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000?

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach, says Emma Beddington

I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate

Could courage be contagious? Let’s hope so, because in the absence of powerful regulation, the normalisation of awful blooms

Elon Musk, the Anti-Defamation League and the right: what’s behind the latest blow-up?

The Jewish advocacy and anti-hate group is at the center of a rightwing backlash campaign led by Musk over the ADL’s online database on extremism

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

‘Delivery robots will happen’: Skype co-founder on his fast-growing venture Starship

Ahti Heinla on bringing his tech to small towns, its effects on jobs – and whether he’s still interested in money

‘Let’s learn from that history’: opera looks to luddites for how to deal with AI

New work by Ben Crick and Kamal Kaan suggests we could benefit from knowing more about the ‘machine-wreckers’

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

The Guardian view on Tilly Norwood: she’s not art, she’s data

Editorial: The first 100% AI actor is a cause for alarm. But the human connection of great acting can never be replaced