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Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design

Mid-range Android stands out with huge screen, slick software and dot-matrix display, but falls just short of greatness

More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity

Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets

The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must push harder on illegal content

Editorial: Jess Phillips’s frustration about online safety points to an alarming reluctance to confront big tech

Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty

Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with it

‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters

Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow

Cannes film festival: Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder

What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAI

Pity the poor AI datacenters facing ‘discrimination’

The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense

Record numbers of UK renters crowdfunding to cover bills

Rent donations on GoFundMe up 60% since 2022, with 100,000 donors helping people keep a roof over their heads

X to block UK access to accounts linked to terrorist groups in Ofcom agreement

Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate content

‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge

Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley

Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI

High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments

Nine-person jury to consider whether AI firm bilked world’s richest person and unjustly enriched themselves

Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech

Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear

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  • Pro-One Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories’ that monetise content
  • Abbie Chatfield: ‘Someone told her worst dating story. I lay on the floor of the stage and screamed’
  • The AI bubble has further to run despite the looming crash
  • Tearing up the screen: BFI’s Rip It Up season rebels against tired teen stereotypes
  • Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’
  • Today programme suffers ‘body blow’ as BBC prioritises social and digital content
  • Screen time can damage under-twos’ development, landmark study suggests
  • Brassed Off review – stirring tale of coal and cornets moves Yorkshire audience to tears
  • Watching Brokeback Mountain kept me in the closet
  • Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown
  • From Supergirl to Muse: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone
  • How Australian hero Karl Stefanovic took a sharp turn to the right – and fell from TV stardom
  • OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request
  • ‘Fork in the road’: CEO of Amazon-backed Rivian on why carmakers need to invest in EVs
  • Prime Day ends today – here are the 52 best deals to scoop up before they’re gone
  • O what a tangled web: unweaving the weirdest fan rumours surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day
  • The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 – tried and tested
  • Outrage as woman jailed for three years after criticising Somali government online
  • ‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime
  • As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’
  • Enola Holmes 3 to Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
  • Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters
  • Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry
  • A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong
  • The Mission review – a surgeon saves lives in war-torn Gaza in a visceral portrait of human endurance
  • Australians to pay at least 20% more for iPads and Macbooks after Apple hikes prices citing AI
  • California billionaire tax will appear on ballot after deadline for deal passes
  • Apple raises iPad and MacBook prices, blaming cost of chips amid AI boom

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