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Ministers urged to impose temporary ban on crypto political donations

National security committee warns UK elections dangerously expoed to foreign money until tougher safeguards are in place

BBC apologises to staff over N-word inclusion as Bafta announces comprehensive review

Chief content officer Kate Phillips tells staff she is ‘so sorry’ racial slur by Tourette campaigner was not edited from recorded broadcast

Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data

Information Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy

Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ

Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentially

Bafta judge quits over ‘utterly unforgivable’ handling of Tourette N-word incident

Film-maker Jonte Richardson cites ‘harm inflicted on both the black and disabled communities’, while New Black Film Collective and MP Dawn Butler criticise BBC’s failure to edit

‘It’s not Robocop’: UK police embrace AI ‘efficiency’ in complex investigations

Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole £800,000

Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it

Exclusive: NCA’s Alex Murray says he hopes new £115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools

‘No surprise’: Robert Aramayo’s teachers knew Bafta winner was destined for great things

Awarded best actor and rising star for role as man with Tourette syndrome in I Swear the 33-year-old was ‘mesmerising’ even when learning his craft in Hull

What is Tourette syndrome, what are tics and what happened at the Baftas?

A racial slur shouted during the awards show has raised questions about how Tourette’s outbursts should be understood

Netflix boss says $83bn Warner Bros takeover will benefit industry

Comments by Ted Sarandos follow Donald Trump’s demand for company to remove Democrat from board

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

One Battle After Another defeats Hamnet and Sinners at Baftas, as I Swear’s Robert Aramayo takes best actor

Paul Thomas Anderson drama scores six awards, as Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish woman to win leading actress prize

Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct

Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’

Romance fraud: warning over scam that turns victims into insurance cheats

Insurers say cases of scammers manipulating people into staging crashes and filing bogus claims are under-reported

Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’

Reported issues at Amazon Web Services raise questions about firm’s use of artificial intelligence as it cuts staff

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