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Technology

  • AI generated image of Jesus with the body of a lobster

    Spam, junk … slop?
    The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’

    Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact
  • Silhouettes of people look at Google logo

    Google
    Company remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs

  • Joaquin Phoenix in the Spike Jonze film Her

    Artificial intelligence
    As the AI world gathers in Seoul, can an accelerating industry balance progress against safety?

  • Man wearing black jacket against purple background

    Analysis
    How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal

  • OpenAI logo on a phone screen in front of an image of a robot looking in a mirror

    OpenAI
    Company putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher

  • The Ash Carter Exchange On Innovation And National Security<br>WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: (L-R) Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, and Admiral Tony Radakin attend the Palantir booth during the AI Expo For National Competitiveness at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Palantir)

    ‘We’re the peace activists’
    My surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference

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News

  • Close up with iPhone on chat GPT

    AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers

  • Screengrab from a video from Chinese state-backed group called Storm-1376 showing an AI-generated newsreader.

    How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda

  • Tigran Gambaryan waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria

    Binance executive denied bail in Nigeria over money laundering charges

  • Environmentalists march in front of a Tesla plant, carrying blue protest banners and balloons

    Protesters vow to keep up pressure on Tesla as it expands German gigafactory

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Privacy

  • Robotic hand using a laptop

    BT ramps up AI use to counter hacking threats to business customers

  • British soldiers

    MoD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months

    • Grant Shapps says it will ‘take some time’ to conclude who was to blame for cyber-attack on armed forces payroll – as it happened

    • LockBit ransomware group’s leader unmasked and hit with sanctions; UK house prices inch higher– business live

    • UK armed forces’ personal data hacked in MoD breach

    • Germany summons Russian envoy over 2023 cyber-attacks

    • FBI chief says Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure

    • One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack

      John Naughton
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Spotlight

  • Some of the items in the Secret Life of the Home gallery.

    ‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets

  • Illustration by Observer Design of a woman and the Zoe nutrition app.

    ‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app

  • Inside a Facebook datacentre in Sweden

    Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

  • Curling at the 2018 Olympics.

    Best podcasts of the week: The stone cold truth about the scandal that rocked curling

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Opinion & analysis

  • Someone holding a phone in their left hand, with a message on the screen reading: 'Go ahead, I'm listening …'

    OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model offers promise of improved smartphone assistants

  • Illustration photo shows the Facebook icon on a smartphone in front of an Australian flag

    ‘News on Facebook is dead’: memes replace Australian media posts as Meta turns off the tap

  • The TikTok office

    ‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’: TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US

  • Facebook logo on a smartphone screen

    Fears of Putin swinging elections behind EU’s Meta crackdown

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Games

  • Gets everything right … Animal Well.

    Pushing Buttons: Big studios are making big cuts – but indie gems like Animal Well are still out there

    A wave of innovative indie games bring a sense of optimism to an industry in urgent need of a confidence boost
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

    Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review – eerie visuals and a thrilling story

  • Thirsty Suitors, a game whose hero is a queer Desi skater.

    ‘I don’t see the point of me without the politics’: video game writer Meghna Jayanth on the benefits of staying indie

  • On a quest for vengeance … Melinoë in Hades II.

    Hades II’s audacious, invigorating spin on Greek myth makes it worth playing right now

  • The Emily Blaster game inspired by Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

    Five of the best books about video games

  • Part newspapers, part fanzines … video game magazines thrived for 30 years.

    The 15 (ish) greatest UK video game magazines of all time

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • A woman wearing augmented-reality goggles, touching the 'screen' at the foreground of the image

    Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?

  • Derek Shaw

    Derek Shaw obituary

  • American tech journalist and author Kara Swisher, known for her newly released "Burn Book," poses for a portrait in Washington, DC, on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

    ‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech

  • woman speaking at a lectern

    Crypto Super Pac spends $10m on Katie Porter attack ads in California race

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Reviews

  • Agathe Riedinger looks in the mirror in Wild Diamond.

    Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy

  • Apple M4 iPad Pro reviewed in an 11in size shown with keyboard and pencil stylus.

    iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that’s total overkill for most

    • Nothing Ear (a) review: cheaper, smaller, longer-lasting earbuds

    • Fairphone Fairbuds review: ethically made earbuds with replaceable batteries

    • Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 review: best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds

    • Apple MacBook Air M3 review: the laptop to beat

    • Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review – the deep roots of AI

    • A Million Days review – low-budget sci-fi thriller asks if we should trust AI with our survival

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Devices

  • A jumper displaying an electronic message

    Wearables
    Wearable tech: how the human body can help power the future of smart textiles

  • A man appearing to row a wooden boat sitting on a large expanse of sand

    Smartphones
    ‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’: Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture

  • Apple M4 iPad Pro reviewed in an 11in size shown with keyboard and pencil stylus.

    Tablets
    iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that’s total overkill for most

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Raffaella Spone shot in Doylestown Pennsylvania in April 2024 for The Guardian Saturday Magazine

    She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all

    • SnapChat.

      TechScape: How Snapchat is saving itself – and keeping up with Silicon Valley giants

    • Dead internet theory posits that bots now write most of the content on the internet.

      TechScape: On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?

    • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

      ‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

    • The philosopher Nick Bostrom in Oxford

      ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

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