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    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    ‘Dangerous nonsense’: AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon

    Experts say online retailer has ethical responsibility to guard against chatbot-generated work on sensitive topics
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    Elon Musk
    As Musk steps back, experts say Doge cuts have harmed government services

  • Illustration of a robot putting human in a waste paper bin

    The big idea
    Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant

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    Scams
    ‘Hi mum!’ The simple WhatsApp text scam costing parents and friends dear

  • Kaitlyn Regehr

    Smartphones
    Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

  • The SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas

    US
    Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees vote to create ‘Starbase’

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News

  • man wearing navy suit speaks while sitting on red chair

    OpenAI reverses course and says non-profit arm will retain control of firm

  • Jeff Bezos attends the 11th Breakthrough Prize ceremony on 5 April in Santa Monica, California.

    Jeff Bezos to sell up to $4.75bn in Amazon stock over next year

  • person wearing vest with various shades of blue holds box while walking down street

    Amazon reports better-than-expected earnings despite tumult of Trump tariffs

  • Xbox video game consoles on store shelves

    Microsoft raises Xbox prices globally amid tariff uncertainty

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Privacy

  • a man on his phone

    TeleMessage app used by Mike Waltz suspends service over suspected hack

  • Man in suit

    ‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

    • UK Biobank is safely sharing health data to drive medical research

    • Opt out: how to protect your data and privacy if you own a Tesla

    • Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

    • Pro-Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’

    • Predictive policing has prejudice built in

    • So you want to go to the USA? Are you sure? Here’s how to prepare your machines for Trumpistan

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Spotlight

  • Girl cuts or trims the bush (rose) with a pair of scissors in the garden

    From the perfect gardening tools to £8 mascara, what you loved most this month

  • Langoustina Aguilera … just one of the many innovations shared in the Drag Names Facebook group every day.

    From Anita Dump to Paula Roid: how a Facebook group about drag names became my favourite place online

  • overhead view of a mining facility by the water

    How Trump’s love for crypto threatens US residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

  • motion-blurred photos of Elon Musk

    Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

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Opinion & analysis

  • Someone’s hand pressing keys of a laptop keyboard

    How ‘native English’ Scattered Spider group linked to M&S attack operate

  • Carole Cadwalladr

    It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now

    Carole Cadwalladr
  • people standing in a Star Trek-like starship bridge

    Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future

    Louis Anslow
  • Girl looking at smart phone under blanket in bed

    Australia’s social media ban is attracting global praise – but we’re no closer to knowing how it would work

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Games

  • Rockstar Games said of the title: ‘We hope you understand that we need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve.’

    Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026

    Much anticipated title was due in autumn but fans will now have to wait another year after the announcement by Rockstar Games
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    Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

  • A cacophony of colliding systems … Skin Deep.

    Skin Deep review – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground

  • A silhouette of a woman playing a game

    Playing with words: why novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

  • Sometimes it’s talking vegetables. Sometimes a dinosaur in a wig … match-three puzzling in Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3.

    Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 review – reality-bending daftness

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review – deeply satisfying homage to Japanese role-playing games

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • A businessman's fist striking the Earth like a meteor, scattering debris.

    The rise of end times fascism

  • man wearing navy suit and red tie speaks behind microphone as people sit behind him

    Two visions within Trump world are battling for primacy. Which will win?

    Ben Davis
  • Afrofuturism final

    How Afrofuturism can help us imagine futures worth living in

    Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson
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    Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values

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Reviews

  • Sky Glass Gen 2 showing a TV guide to Lockerbie a search for truth

    Sky Glass gen 2 review: the smart streaming TV levels up

  • Cloud.

    Cloud review – bizarre internet action thriller descends into hail of bullets

    • The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review

    • The best pressure washers: eight expert picks for cleaning garden furniture and patios

    • Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

    • The best espresso machines to unleash your inner barista at home, tested

    • Pixel 9a review: Google’s cut-price Android winner

    • The best power banks and battery packs for reliable charging on the go, tested

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Devices

  • Woman using mobile device after workout.<br>Woman using mobile device after workout checking data.

    Wearables
    We have more data on ourselves than ever before. But can we really track our way into happiness?

    Samantha Floreani
  • Jason Okundaye

    Smartphones
    Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs

    Jason Okundaye
  • Apple iPad Air M3 review showing the home screen stood up on a table.

    Tablets
    Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Menelik Calvin and Donna Michelle Evans pose in front of Donna's car

    ‘It’s nearly impossible’: learner drivers on the difficulty of booking a test

    • A person holds a mobile phone displaying Skype application

      Goodbye, Skype. I’ll never forget you

    • Meta apps

      ‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuse

    • Illustration for the Money Series 'It's gone, now what" shows a pair of human hands typing into their smartphone with prying eyes looking in

      What to do if your phone is lost or stolen: practical steps to restore peace of mind

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      ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

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