French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products

UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown

Documents show government developing programme to use technology for general immigration enforcement

Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs

Pups that carry your shopping are one thing – but what about the mechanical canines being bought up in the US by ICE, asks Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

Broadcasters need content creators ‘more than creators need them’

CEO of leading production company says unless pay or exposure are high, creators are ‘not that interested’ in TV

Why tradwives are fleeing the movement: ‘I can’t undo my past – but I can warn other women’

In recent years, some of the most vocal tradwives have left their husbands, renounced their religious faith and promoted financial independence. What is behind this sudden and seismic shift?

Hackers behind $6.3bn Binance heist ‘used malware and bogus job interviews’

Firm reveals details about how its cryptocurrency exchange was compromised, saying operation began in June

Food suppliers in UK hit by cyber-attacks after freezers targeted in Europe

Cybersecurity experts say national impact ‘minimal’ but incidents may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threat

Datacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them

These resource-guzzling centres drive up utility bills and are hated across the political spectrum. Cue a clunky, but potentially influential, new name for them, writes Arwa Mahdawi

New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants

Garden Climate Assessment Tool will allow users to predict a plant’s response to the projected climate in a given location

UK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre

Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’

Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack

Chains in seven countries say cooling unit temperatures rose overnight in incident similar to hack of French stores

Unions gain access to thousands of Google workers after UK employment rights overhaul

Prospect to hold workplace sessions and recruit members under agreement with tech company

Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app

Residents in Kyiv also warned of chemical attack and street-to-street fighting in false message sent by unknown party

From puregatory to lifehoarding – how best to describe our strange, anxious times?

The new words that end up a part of everyday speech can tell us a lot about the zeitgeist. In a world changing faster than ever, we need to coin some more, writes Emma Beddington

Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it

Exclusive: Gap between NHS claim and trusts’ comments described as ‘very misleading’ by senior health official