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Tony Blair: ‘I would have stayed if I could, is the truth’
Ahead of the publication of his book about leadership – definitely not aimed at Keir S…
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Quantum Witch: where religious cults collide with 80s Spectrum games
This queer emancipation story is set in a cosy pixellated art world but all is not wha…
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‘Internet prophet’: arrest of Telegram CEO could strengthen heroic image
Pavel Durov will probably use French legal disputes to position himself as a champion …
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UFO 50: A low-res, high-concept anthology of imaginary retro games
The collection comes from a mysterious (and fictional) 80s video game company and incl…
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From dumb phones to hand-me-downs: the ultimate guide to buying phones for kids
Taking the plunge and giving your child a handset? Here’s all you need to know – from …
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Our family Mario Kart tournaments are back – can I avoid getting pasted? | Dominik Diamond
Years ago, I could confidently beat my kids at Earth’s ultimate multiplayer game, but …
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Telegram CEO charged in France for ‘allowing criminal activity’ on messaging app
Pavel Durov, who has French citizenship, faces prosecution over alleged failure to sup…
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Nvidia rides big tech’s AI investment to beat Wall Street’s sky-high expectations
Chipmaker, third most valuable company in world, records $30.04bn in revenue, showing …
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Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle
As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is ri…
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Black samurai, scary monsters and stoners – the biggest games for autumn 2024
Get your controllers at the ready as Assassin’s Creed visits feudal Japan, Indiana Jon…
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Hit game Black Myth: Wukong faces backlash after telling players not to discuss ‘feminist propaganda’
Streamers were given list of topics to avoid also including news and politics, Covid-1…
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Milk & Serial: the vicious, viral $800-budget horror that’s free to watch
Found-footage horror about YouTube pranksters turns into an online phenomenon, giving …
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Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 review: bringing bass to bone conduction headphones
New running headphones combine bone conduction and open-air speakers for more rounded …
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‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI
Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdo…
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What the Telegram founder’s arrest means for the regulation of social media firms
In this week’s newsletter: Pavel Durov’s detention by French authorities is a major br…
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Can upstate New York become the next Silicon Valley? This ex-Nvidia founder thinks so
Curtis Priem has a vision for a quantum computing future and believes the area along t…
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AI cheating is overwhelming the education system – but teachers shouldn’t despair | John Naughton
With adjustments to the way we teach students to think about writing, we can shift the…
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EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone
Guidance comes after calls for a total ban for under-16s and a statuary ban on mobile …
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‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’: the food delivery riders living in ‘caravan shantytowns’ in Bristol
Gig economy workers for Deliveroo and Uber Eats in the city are living in appalling co…
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‘Never summon a power you can’t control’: Yuval Noah Harari on how AI could threaten democracy and divide the world
Forget Hollywood depictions of gun-toting robots running wild in the streets – the rea…
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‘Spectacular bargains’: why now is a great time to buy an electric car in the UK
A secondhand EV is a possibility for many families as the cost of desirable models, in…
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Royal Society facing calls to expel Elon Musk amid concerns about conduct
Exclusive: Some fellows fear tech billionaire could bring institution into disrepute w…
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Concord: Sony’s online shooter is flying but not yet soaring in a very crowded airspace
It is beautifully made but achingly familiar so could struggle to lure players away fr…
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Scientists enable hydrogel to play and improve at Pong video game
Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaini…
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Pigs sipping White Claw and cows in the kitchen: should we be worried about offbeat pets going TikTok viral?
Non-traditional pets get millions of online views. But the rising trend poses question…
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US mayoral candidate who pledged to govern by customized AI bot loses race
Victor Miller proposed customized ChatGPT bot to govern Cheyenne, Wyoming – but fared …
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Pixel 9 Pro XL review: Google’s AI-packed superphone to rival the best
Top-class camera, huge screen, long battery life, Add Me photo trick and advanced Gemi…
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A very British Fallout: Atomfall conjures up a cosy nuclear catastrophe in the Lake District
Rebellion’s game imagines the aftermath of a UK nuclear disaster that mixes folk horro…
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Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training
Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson allege company misused work to …
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Tactical Breach Wizards review – hilarious, quietly radical strategy game is the best since XCOM 2
PC; Suspicious Developments Guide a mismatched team including a Navy Seer and a necro-…
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Vision Pro review: Apple’s cutting-edge headset lives up to the hype
… but impressive, boundary-pushing device is priced so far out of reach for most that …
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Fortnite is back on mobiles after four years thanks to EU law
Players in EU can access game blocked by Apple and Google by installing it from app st…
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AI-generated parody song about immigrants storms into German Top 50
Artist Butterbro accused of walking fine line between parody and discrimination and he…
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‘Threads is just deathly dull’: have Twitter quitters found what they are looking for on other networks?
There’s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk’s lurch to the far righ…
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Elon Musk says X will pull operations from Brazil after ‘censorship orders’
Judge Alexandre de Moraes had ordered X to block certain accounts as he investigated f…
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Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years
GMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed…
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The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?
As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is u…
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Iranian group used ChatGPT to try to influence US election, OpenAI says
AI company bans accounts and says operation did not appear to have meaningful audience…
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A week in tweets: Elon Musk doesn’t stop posting but what is he saying?
There is method to the apparent madness of the tycoon’s prolific 24-hour output Elon …
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‘Mistakes are romantic’: the revival of point-and-shoot cameras
Models, athletes and TikTokers shun phone cameras as 35mm sales surge and a new Pentax…
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Russia’s AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says
New Meta security report finds that AI-powered deception campaigns ‘provide only incre…
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‘Very demure, very mindful’: why everyone’s jumping on the modesty bandwagon
Jools Lebron has become TikTok’s satirical Emily Post, with etiquette for everything f…
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A slice of Raspberry Pi: how to build your own retro games machine
With a £34 mini computer and an emulator, gaming’s entire back catalogue opens up to y…
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Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US
Justice minister signs extradition order for Megaupload founder 12 years after FBI-ord…
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Meta struggles with moderation in Hebrew, according to ex-employee and internal documents
Meta has system for evaluating the effectiveness of its own moderation for Arabic lang…
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Dustborn review – supernatural road trip across an alternative America
PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series XS, Xbox One; Red Thread Games; Spotlight by Quantic Dream D…
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Cash, cartels and controlling scores in Confessions of a Match Fixer
Moses Swaibu tells all about betraying the sport he loved in a news podcast. Plus: fiv…
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Google launches Pixel 9 phones with advanced AI
New Pixel phones, foldable, watch and earbuds feature Gemini Live for free-flowing con…
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Wanderstop: challenging the cosy escapist fantasies of burnt-out workers
Running a tea shop in the woods doesn’t help arena fighter Alta to escape her trauma. …
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Want to smell like the Ender Dragon? We test the Lush Minecraft range
The second tie-in to a video game for cosmetics chain Lush includes the most literal b…
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Why Elon Musk’s fun week of stirring up unrest shows the limits of our online safety laws
Twitter under the tech owner has become the perfect test case for the UK’s new legisla…
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Goodnight Universe: inside the mind of a psychic baby
From the writer of lockdown hit Before Your Eyes, the new game uses VR or plain old we…
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Elon Musk’s X suffers tech failures at start of Donald Trump interview
Musk blames cyber-attack as conversation is delayed, resembling glitchy launch of Ron …
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Elon Musk should face arrest if he incited UK rioters, says ex-Twitter chief
Bruce Daisley calls for ‘beefed-up’ online safety laws and compares tech billionaires …
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Elon’s politics: how Musk became a driver of elections misinformation
The X owner, talking to Trump Monday, has cast doubt on mail ballots and claims there’…
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‘It’s OK, everyone else is doing it’: how do we deal with role violence on social media played in UK riots?
It’s easy to blame viral videos – and far harder to change the culture in which they t…
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LinkedIn is a mess. Here’s how to fix it | Gene Marks
The networking site one is calling a ‘cesspool’ is riddled with oversharing and lunati…
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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies, aged 56
Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in tech, had been living with cancer for two…
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Apple changes EU App Store rules after commission charges
Change in policy means developers will be able to communicate with customers outside A…
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‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?
There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group …
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‘Use the Force, Rich!’ Can you really play video games with your mind?
A Twitch streamer claims to be able to control games with her mind. I thought it was t…
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What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet
Last month large parts of Tonga were left without internet when an undersea cable was …
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Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands
X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters wo…
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Podcasts of the week: Spooky stories of the possessed from the stars of Paranormal Activity
In this week’s newsletter: Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat turn their hand to audio …
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Tides of Tomorrow – ghostly gamers offer a novel navigation of the climate crisis
Gameplay designer Adrien Poncet explains how this seafaring adventure anchors the ‘ide…
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No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a panic about computers gaining power …
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Dirty talk: how AI is being used in the bedroom – and beyond
Analysis of more than 200,000 chatbot conversations shows how the new tech is actually…
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Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’
X said the companies worked against their economic self-interests in a conspiracy viol…
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Elon Musk calls PM ‘two-tier Keir’ over police response to UK riots
Owner of X uses platform to promote conspiracy theory that white far-right ‘protesters…
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Tactical Breach Wizards puts the magic into military tactics games
Assemble a crew of navy seers and necro medics to take down a dictatorship in a spellb…
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Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules
White House calls decision – that could have major implications for web use – ‘victory…
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Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy | John Naughton
In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. B…
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‘If you do nothing, you can speedrun this game’: While Waiting, a game about biding your time
The developers behind Moncage challenge you to sit still in this irreverent waiting si…
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Neuralink has implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Elon Musk says
Founder says procedure, aimed at helping paralyzed people use digital devices by think…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review: the best folder going is only minor upgrade
Lighter weight, better screens, faster chip and fancy AI features are all welcome, but…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an en…
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We must be wary of the power of AI | Letters
Robert Skidelsky is concerned about the surveillance potential or AI, while Brian Ref…
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Apple beats earnings forecast despite decline in iPhone sales
Tech giant’s revenue rises 4.9% to $85.78bn despite phone sales falling 0.9% and trend…
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How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence
Experts warn growth of extremist influencers and ‘micro-donations’ could create even b…
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Crushing it: why millions of people still can’t stop playing Candy Crush
Launched in 2012, the tile-matching puzzler quickly became ubiquitous on phones. More …
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Strong earnings report pushes Meta shares up amid heavy AI spending
Stock price grew around 5%, which revealed the company outperformed analysts’ expectat…
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