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‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditions

‘Coffee is just the excuse’: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order

In-person interactions break down barriers in east London, as AI startups also try to bridge communication divide

Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor

‘Menopause gold rush’? Boom in hi-tech products as stigma starts to recede

The march of wearable tech is coming to the aid of women in what some say is a long underserved market

US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

What to know about the jury trials of Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube

Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts have claimed social media is intentionally addictive and harmful

Will corporate America finally stand up to the Trump administration?

The brutal handling of immigration raids and the killing of Alex Pretti have tested the reticence of the corporate class

Alarm raised over Chinese CCTV cameras guarding ‘symbol of democracy’ Magna Carta

Campaigners criticise use of ‘vulnerable’ devices at Salisbury Cathedral and Parthenon despite their removal from sensitive UK government sites

We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?

My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse?

Can you guess our screen time? A priest, pensioner, tech CEO and teenager reveal all

From the person who scrolls on the toilet to the one without any social media, what do their digital habits tell us?

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island

‘Innovating weather science’: Met Office launches new two-week forecast

Weather service research concludes that less accurate probability-based predictions are still considered helpful

The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly

When bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differently

What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship

It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm, says academic Paolo Gerbaudo

SpaceX reportedly mulling Tesla merger or tie-up with Elon Musk’s xAI firm

Rocket company examining feasibility of both options before potential $1.5tn stock market flotation, report says

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  • Stand by Me review – Rob Reiner’s nostalgic look at friendship and the loss of innocence still grips tight
  • The Cure review – eat-the-rich horror fable with a sinister life-extension twist
  • Anna Wintour shares Vogue cover with Hollywood doppelganger Meryl Streep
  • Tell us: do you use AI chatbots to make decisions for you?
  • Paul Seed obituary
  • Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular
  • Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken on winning Oscars, Razzies and his ‘filthy’ rock musical
  • An AI company with an arsenal of spacecraft: what exactly is SpaceX?
  • Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
  • Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation
  • Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm
  • ‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat
  • The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
  • Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere
  • Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot in reputational glow-up
  • Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers
  • ‘I felt ashamed and scared’: how an online friendship became a sextortion nightmare
  • ‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot
  • Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed
  • The Drama: sex, secrets and that gobsmacking twist – discuss with spoilers
  • Iran’s internet blackout is longest national shutdown since Arab spring
  • Noel Chanan obituary
  • Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say
  • Private jets, deserted shores and an unbuilt resort: alleged links to sanctioned ‘scam’ empire revealed in Timor-Leste
  • ‘Traceability is vital’: labs test thousands of unregulated substances amid peptide craze
  • Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters?
  • ‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer
  • Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire
  • ‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
  • House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family

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