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Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control

Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons

Jaguar Land Rover is a rich company – it can pay to support its own supply chain

As the government explores options to support suppliers it should ensure that the carmaker foots the eventual bill

From phone chargers to podcasts, the best road trip accessories make the miles fly by

Take it from a former van-lifer: the next time you travel on the road, this is the gear you will be glad you packed

Garden Reflexxx: the 10 funniest things we have ever seen (on the internet)

The film-making duo share their list of online essentials. It’s mostly women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

AI investors are in for a rude awakening

There is a huge gap between investment and revenue from LLMs. Investors wrongly assume everyone will be a winner

Adviser to UK minister claimed AI firms would never have to compensate creatives

Exclusive: Kirsty Innes made statement in now-deleted post on X seven months before taking up role as Liz Kendall aide

UK’s YouTube and TikTok content creators deserve more rights, say MPs

Cross-party group to ‘tear down barriers that stifle talent’, from mortgage difficulties to filming permit problems

Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness

Platform’s submission to age verification inquiry argues for a grace period for enforcement of laws it claims could infringe on human rights treaties

US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows

CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows

‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it work

Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers

Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media

Optus claimed live updates on triple-zero outages would impose ‘huge burden’ months before outage

Telco had resisted new rules that will require greater sharing of information with authorities during outages

Tariffs on talent? Trumps’s visa fees threaten tech’s most prized employees

The president’s deal on visas could upend Silicon Valley, and will a TikTok purchase finally go through?

‘It’s prime time for rapture talk’: TikTok gets its first ‘world is ending’ moment

Evangelical Christians on #RaptureTok are warning others of doom on 23 or 24 September – and sharing how they’re prepping

UK teachers and parents: what is the impact of deepfakes in your school?

We’d like to hear from schools and parents across the UK about how they are responding to AI generated deepfakes among pupils, and how it is impacting on children and school communities

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  • Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI
  • AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
  • The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama
  • AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
  • Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare
  • The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media – and my children have never been happier
  • ‘Impossible to be a mom’: new film shines light on how America fails its mothers
  • Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee
  • ‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie
  • Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
  • Shoot the People review – a powerful portrait of a talented yet controversial photographer
  • ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre
  • What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
  • Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
  • Meta bosses grilled over decision to cut ‘censorship’ that has potentially unleashed more antisemitic content
  • A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands
  • Sennheiser Momentum 5 headphones review: great sound meets exceptional battery life
  • ‘It was pretty depressing when Stranger Things ended’: Finn Wolfhard on growing up on TV – and his new life in music
  • China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands
  • AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper
  • Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?
  • ‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
  • What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it
  • The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more
  • ‘Tough pill to swallow’: LadBible boss on the traffic hit from Meta’s feed shake-up
  • Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn
  • From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
  • NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services
  • Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy
  • Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up

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