Labour targets TikTok microinfluencers ahead of election Party hopes smaller content creators with loyal following online will attract voters missed through TV and radio
Amazon UK could be forced to recognise union as GMB wins right to hold ballot Watchdog rules that vote should be held at Coventry warehouse to test support for union recognition
What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price? Process has coincided with a rise in price in the past and is due to take place again on Saturday
Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a smartphone, data shows Campaigners express concern at new Ofcom figures, which also show that half of under-13s are on social media
Terror watchdog condemns WhatsApp for lowering UK users’ minimum age to 13 Jonathan Hall, Britain’s reviewer of terrorism legislation, says more children could be exposed to encrypted extremist content
‘My soul mate’: Warwick Davis pays tribute to wife Samantha who has died aged 53 Harry Potter star described wife, who founded dwarfism charity Little People UK, as ‘greatest love of his life’
Students turning to cyberfraud as huge phishing site infiltrated, police reveal LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information – with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK
TikTok questioned by EU over Lite app that ‘pays’ users for watching videos European Commission has concerns about app’s impact on children, as well as addiction
US politics is awash with crude and misleading attack ads. Now it’s the UK’s turn Rules governing political campaigning on terrestrial television don’t apply to streaming or online – and parties are starting to play dirty, says journalist and author Jonn Elledge
Clustering of AI firms in south and east of England will foil levelling up – report Hi-tech ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge and London risks deeper regional inequalities, says thinktank
‘Not even a pipe dream’: John Akomfrah represents Britain at Venice Biennale Founder of Black Audio Film Collective says he would have laughed if someone had said he’d someday be in the UK pavilion
Lineup announced for UK’s inaugural Muslim international film festival Featuring stars including Riz Ahmed and Nabhaan Rizwan, the event aims to celebrate the ‘rich tapestry of Muslim experiences via the medium of film’
Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendance
Britishvolt ‘gigafactory’ site to be sold for £110m to US private equity firm Blackstone’s plans for data centre unlikely to generate thousands of jobs failed startup promised with Northumberland battery plant
Tesla to cut 14,000 jobs as Elon Musk aims to make carmaker ‘lean and hungry’ Billionaire says ‘there is nothing I hate more’ than cutting staff as more than 10% of workforce to be affected