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Facebook takes down disinformation network targeting Ukraine
Meta says network ran websites posing as independent news entities and created fake pe…
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Swipe less, don’t be a sleaze, do say hello … and 10 more tips to raise your dating game
After two years of messaging and video chats, in-person dates are back. But how do you…
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What did I just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine
Could buying an NFT the way one buys a bag of Cheetos demystify the process? It’s eas…
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Love Big Jet TV? Meet the flight simulator streamers
Feed your newfound interest in aviation commentary with these flight-sim streamers, fr…
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Wine crime is soaring but a new generation of tech savvy detectives is on the case
For centuries, swindlers and thieves have been drawn to the highly lucrative world of …
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The data game: what Amazon knows about you and how to stop it
The tech giant has many ways of gathering information about its users’ activity – from…
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Beware: new IRS rules will lead a wave of phishing frauds | Gene Marks
Services like PayPal and Square now need your tax information. Scammers are going to b…
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Plug in your car … but only Britain’s richer motorists can charge up cheaply
Drivers with no off-street parking must use public charging points and miss £950 in sa…
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Think WFH means your boss isn’t watching you? Think again | John Naughton
Thanks to the rapid advance of little tech, employers can now monitor every online act…
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On my radar: Dave Grohl’s cultural highlights
The Foo Fighters frontman on his favourite new band, watching celebrities eat hot sauc…
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Credit card fraud: ‘How could scammers use it before I did?’
Samuel Gibbs was surprised when his details were used to pay for a stranger’s takeaway…
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Russia partially restricts access to Facebook to ‘protect Russian media’
Restrictions come after Facebook limits Kremlin-backed media accounts in wake of Russi…
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My inbox is piling up with spam again and my email doppelgänger is to blame | Shelley Hepworth
What do you do with an online doppelgänger? Use their streaming logins, cancel their b…
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Nelson Mandela paintings of life in prison to be sold as NFTs
My Robben Island consists of five watercolours painted by former South African preside…
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‘Profiting off suffering’: AP cancels sale of migrant boat NFT amid backlash
The news agency has since deleted the tweet promoting the sale and called it ‘poor cho…
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‘A really bad deal’: Michigan awards GM $1bn in incentives for new electric cars
Automakers’ history of taking fat subsidies and overpromising job growth make some ana…
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Intimate or irritating: are voice notes killing the phone call?
For some generations, voice notes have replaced text messages and even phone calls. Bu…
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Best podcasts of the week: Modern Family star spoofs true-crime shows
Sarah Hyland and What We Do in the Shadows’ Harvey Guillén appear in a twist-filled co…
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Is this the new face of organized crime? Decoding Razzlekhan, the rapping bitcoin fraudster
Heather Morgan, the wannabe Tiktok and hip-hop star, and her husband allegedly stole $…
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Eliza Reilly: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The writer and performer shares the funny videos that make the internet less scary (mo…
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UK firms warned of Russian cyberwar ‘spillover’ from Ukraine
Meetings held on threat posed, particularly to critical infrastructure, and how it cou…
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TechScape: how Spotify may have just quietly changed podcasts forever
In this week’s newsletter: two under the radar moves feel like the beginning of the en…
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Elden Ring review – an unrivalled masterpiece of design and inventiveness
PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series S/Series X; FromSoftware/Namco Bandai This is a m…
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Tom Cardy on being TikTok famous. Plus: will we survive the vibe shift?
Michael Sun is flying solo this week on Guardian Australia’s online culture podcast, s…
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Fake news alert! Donald Trump’s new social media app is a triumph | Arwa Mahdawi
The former president’s media venture, Truth Social has got off to a rocky start – with…
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Gay weddings for Russia: How The Sims became a battleground for the LGBTQ+ community
When EA decided not to release a same-sex marriage story for The Sims in Russia, the L…
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Pushing Buttons: why swathes of classic games are at risk of being lost forever
In this week’s newsletter: Nintendo closing its Wii and 3DS digital storefronts is a r…
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Donald Trump’s social media app launches on Apple store
Some users report problems registering on Truth Social, launched after Trump was banne…
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Big brands are jumping into the metaverse – your small business should too | Gene Marks
The metaverse won’t affect your small business now, but a lot can change in a decade –…
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Is Wordle good for your brain? | Letters
Tim Sanders says socialising with people is more beneficial, while Anne Cowper recom…
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‘The sprites clearly do not look like actual lemmings’: the inside story of an iconic video game
Dodgy graphics, mysteriously sourced computers and a bemused artist: a new Youtube doc…
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Gran Turismo 7: world-beating racing game still breaking new ground
The latest version of the ‘real driving simulator’ arrives on PS4 and PS5 next month –…
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Uncanny Valley: the moving one-man play – starring an animatronic robot
It was a play that gave us the word “robot” – and now an android is the performer in a…
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Five ways AI is saving wildlife – from counting chimps to locating whales
Artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the top three emerging technolog…
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I was driven up the pole by a nine-month wait for BT broadband
A reader has a poor mobile signal in a rural area and had every excuse in the book for…
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Disinformation for profit: scammers cash in on conspiracy theories
Some accounts claiming to support the Canada trucker protests are run by con artists a…
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Facebook ‘lets vigilantes in Ethiopia incite ethnic killing’
Social media giant accused of inaction after users post ‘horrifying and hateful conten…
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Row about Congolese statue loan escalates into legal battle over NFTs
Gallery at site of uprising against colonial rule accuses US museum of stonewalling re…
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‘We are afraid’: Erin Brockovich pollutant linked to global electric car boom
Exclusive: Investigation uncovers evidence of contaminated air and water from one of I…
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Truth Social: beta testers get a glimpse of Donald Trump’s new social media app
The platform has been described as having a striking resemblance to Twitter, which was…
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Elon Musk criticised for likening Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler in tweet
Auschwitz museum says using photo of dictator is exploitative and ‘disrespects memory …
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Apple chief Tim Cook faces shareholder revolt over $99m pay package
Shareholders urged to vote against deal for Cook, 61, whose pay last year was 1,447 ti…
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Ikea Symfonisk review: a good Sonos wifi speaker hiding in a lamp
Second-gen speaker lamp pairs improved sound with larger choice of colours, shades and…
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Best podcasts of the week: Dua Lipa impresses as a talented interviewer
The pop star defies expectations of the usual celebrity podcast. Plus: Paris Hilton op…
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The 15 best games on Apple Arcade
Eye-popping motorcycle rides, wildlife rescue missions, turn-based battling and Wordle…
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Nick Clegg promoted to top Facebook role
Former Lib Dem leader becomes president of global affairs Mark Zuckerberg to reduce …
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David M Green: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The comedian and writer on Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell shares some of his favourite o…
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TechScape: the taxman is starting to take notice of the NFT gold rush
In this week’s newsletter: as UK tax authorities seize their first NFTs, is government…
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Dystopian robot dogs are the latest in a long history of US-Mexico border surveillance
Activists have argued that the tools in use – drones and towers equipped with night vi…
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Elon Musk’s brain chip company, Neuralink, faces animal abuse claims
An animal welfare group alleges that monkey test subjects endured ‘crude surgeries’ an…
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Pushing Buttons: from the Witcher to Uncharted, these are the best (and worst) games about love
In this week’s newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with …
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‘Live in the future’: Zuckerberg unveils company overhaul amid shift to metaverse
CEO of company formerly called Facebook touts pivot at all-hands meeting as he faces i…
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‘This is rocket science’: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage
Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had …
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Total War: Warhammer III review – swords, sorcery and symphonic metal
Windows PC (Game pass, Steam); Creative Assembly/Sega This sprawling medieval fantasy …
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US Amazon warehouse workers prepare for historic union vote
Labor board overturned first election over company’s unfair conduct, giving workers an…
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Foreign money funding ‘extremism’ in Canada, says hacker
Exclusive: leak shows more than half of donations to convoy protest through GiveSendGo…
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HMRC seizes NFTs for first time amid fraud inquiry
Move is part of an investigation into suspected VAT fraud scheme involving 250 fake co…
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Horizon Forbidden West review – an eccentric adventure with robot dinosaurs
PlayStation 4; PlayStation 5; Guerrilla Games/Sony For a big-budget blockbuster game,…
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True romance: film, music and art to fall in love with on Valentine’s Day
From a mind-scrambling breakup drama to a tender video game, our critics suggest popul…
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UK dating app Fluttr aims to beat the ‘Tinder swindlers’ with biometric ID
Platform hopes personal verification will prevent near-£100m lost to scammers on datin…
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Fears Cambodia is rolling out China-style ‘Great Firewall’ to curb online freedom
Changes coming in this week will see all online traffic pass through a gateway to pres…
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French anti-vaxxers buying fake Covid passes online
Exclusive: fake passes often promoted on mainstream social media platforms, study show…
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Uncharted review – Tom Holland game adaptation is action-movie by committee
Holland gives his all as rogueish treasure hunter Nathan Drake in a by-the-numbers Pla…
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Russian teenager jailed over ‘Minecraft plot to blow up virtual spy HQ’
Boy, 16, sentenced to five years for alleged plan to target FSB building created in co…
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‘Don’t take the damn thing’: how Spotify playlists push dangerous anti-vaccine tunes
Conspiracy theory songs claiming Covid-19 is fake and calling vaccine ‘poison’ are bei…
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Rising popularity of VR headsets sparks 31% rise in insurance claims
Metaverse gamers crashing into furniture behind increase in home contents claims, says…
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‘Every move scrutinized’: Facebook’s rocky road to the metaverse
The CEO has changed the world – but he faces regulatory, technological and branding tr…
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Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately?
Old drives often contain precious memories, but to keep them you have to maintain them…
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Bitcoin paradise? Briton creates ‘crypto utopia’ in South Pacific
Anthony Welch and partner try to woo cryptocurrency investors to regulation-free islan…
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Tinder takes dating back to the 90s with blind date feature
App says generation Z users want to sample what dating was like in pre-smartphone era …
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Apple to start warning AirTag users not to use devices to track people
The new safety feature comes after reports of women discovering the devices in their p…
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Crypto exchange Binance makes $200m investment in Forbes
Deal comes less than two years after Binance sued business publisher for defamation B…
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Abolish internet shopping in Belgium, says leader of party in coalition
Paul Magnette, Socialist party leader, describes e-commerce as ‘social and ecological …
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Best podcasts of the week: the Serial team tackle Islamophobia in Birmingham
S-Town’s Brian Reed unpicks The Trojan Horse Affair, which saw Midlands schools accuse…
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Tesla recalls 579,000 US cars and SUVs over ‘Boombox’ safety violations
Regulators sound alarm over function that can play sounds over external speaker and ob…
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Hampshire Tinder fraudster jailed after conning woman for £150,000
Richard Dexter sentenced to four-and-a-half years for duping victim into sending payme…
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BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute
Programme about ‘self-made crypto-millionaire’ dropped amid questions over central cla…
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‘Sexy horror comedy’: Bitcoin laundering suspect is also ‘raunchy rapper’ Razzlekhan
Heather Morgan, arrested on suspicion of laundering cryptocurrency worth billions, has…
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus review – makes even old-school fans feel childlike again
Nintendo Switch; Game Freak/Nintendo More than a quarter of a century since the cuddly…
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Pushing Buttons: why games don’t have to be hard to be good
In this week’s newsletter: the deliberately tough Sifu is about to revive the never-en…
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra: stylus-equipped Android superphone launched
Ultra leads top-end phone line with S22 and Plus models, part-made from recycled plast…
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Sony trains AI to leave world’s best Gran Turismo drivers in the dust
‘GT Sophy’ honed tactics and technique to beat 95% of human players of Playstation gam…
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Mitch Churi: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The comedian is also a nightly radio presenter, which means he knows all about pointle…
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Can bitcoin be sustainable? Inside the Norwegian mine that also dries wood
Kryptovault’s operation is part of a fightback against criticism of the famously energ…
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EU hopes €43bn plan will fix chip shortages as supply chain crisis bites
Ursula von der Leyen says chips are ‘bedrock of our modern economies’ but the pandemic…
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Reddit and Twitter users face age checks under UK porn law plans
Social network users may be asked to submit passport or credit card details under plan…
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