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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5m to settle lawsuit over account suspension
Platform suspended the US president’s YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capi…
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South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire sparks hacking fears
National cyber security centre raises alert level to ‘caution’ as technicians race to …
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Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that c…
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Occult objects, a dead dynasty and a mobile bookshop: ten cosy new video games for autumn
From shopkeeping sims to daring dating, here are the best games to snuggle up with as …
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fig…
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Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages
Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a …
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‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever
When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, i…
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Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor
The Meta CEO fumbled a demo of his AI Ray-Bans, giving us hope that the robots might b…
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Amazon to pay $2.5bn to settle FTC lawsuit over Prime ‘subscription traps’
US regulator said company enrolled millions of customers into service without consent …
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Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control
Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including …
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Garden Reflexxx: the 10 funniest things we have ever seen (on the internet)
The film-making duo share their list of online essentials. It’s mostly women on the ve…
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Oi Vay: the German remote-driving company that hopes to make private car ownership redundant
Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled ren…
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Adviser to UK minister claimed AI firms would never have to compensate creatives
Exclusive: Kirsty Innes made statement in now-deleted post on X seven months before ta…
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Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers
Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying …
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Google experiences deja vu as second monopoly trial begins in US
Firm faces another dismantling attempt over allegations of illegal monopoly over digit…
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