Initiative aims to identify proficient gamers and coders who can help companies identify flaws in their cybersecurity

Cybercriminals, the shadowy online figures often depicted in Hollywood movies as hooded villains capable of wiping millions of

Organizers in Monterey Park took inspiration from other US cities to fight against the construction of a giant datacenter

When a southern California city council proposed building a giant datacenter the size of four football fields last December,

New Anthropic campaign suggests other AI platforms will incorporate targeted ads in their chatbot conversations

The Seahawks and the Patriots aren’t the only ones gearing up for a fight.

AI rivals Anthropic and OpenAI have launched a war of

SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questioned

The acquisition of xAI by SpaceX is a typical Elon Musk deal: big numbers backed by big ambition.

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Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough

Victims of deepfake image abuse have called for stronger protection against AI-generated explicit images, as the law criminalisi

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Nintendo’s monster-collecting franchise was pilloried as a ‘pestilential Ponzi scheme’ in the 90s. But as its celebrates its 30th birthday, it now stands as a powerful example of video games’ ability to connect people

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We want to hear how the fall in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and ether are impacting people

Bitcoin sank to its lowest value in more than a year this week, faling to $63,000 on Thursday, about half its all-time peak of $126,000 in October 2025…

At its new Stone Mountain, Georgia, facility, Roomba-like robots shuffle between stacks, another adds shipping labels while another arranges packages in pallets

One of the reasons Amazon is spending billions on robots? They don’t need bathroom br

Preliminary EU ruling says app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adults

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TikTok could be forced into changes to make the app less addictiv

AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers say

Deepfake fraud has gone “industrial”, an analysis published by AI experts has said.

Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scam

Verdict could influence more than 3,000 similar cases against ride-hailing company

A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber on Thursday to pay $8.5m after finding the company liable in a lawsuit brought by a woman who said she was sexually assaulte

Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’

A man was ordered to leave a supermarket in London after staff misidentified him using controversial new facial recognition techn

South Crofty site could get $225m funding as US seeks to secure supply of critical metal

Donald Trump has aggressively pursued investment into hi-tech industries in recent months, but the US administration has now set its sights on a more traditi

A leaked pitch to reshape Ethereum’s leadership exposed deep divisions over politics, power and ether’s static price

US crypto developer Danny Ryan submitted a proposal in November 2024 to Vitalik Buterin, the founder and symbolic leader of Ether

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Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

On the veranda of her family’s home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi Murmu works from one of t

Compact and comfortable Pixel Buds have noise cancelling, decent battery life and good everyday sound

Google’s latest budget Pixel earbuds are smaller, lighter, more comfortable and have noise cancelling, plus a case that allows you to replace th

Apparent collapse of Nvidia–OpenAI tie-up raises questions about circular funding and who will bear the cost of AI’s expansion

Did the circular AI economy just wobble? Last week it was reported that a much-discussed $100bn deal – announced last S

Alphabet reports $34.5bn profit and revenue soars 48% in recent quarter as it plans a sharp increase in AI spending

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, and is planning a sharp increase in capital spendin

From indestructible wallets to Crocs (yes, Crocs), we rounded up the best guy-approved Valentine’s Day gifts they won’t know how they lived without

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As the wheels of justice begin to turn in Britain, a spotlight should also shine on the financier’s wealthy enablers in the US

“The more Epstein documents get released, the more we see how he had so many powerful friends, and that’s ultimately wh

The most popular mom content tends to be rightwing tradwife propaganda or not political at all – pushing progressive creators out of the algorithm

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A number of countries including Australia are investigating X over Grok-produced sexualised deepfakes

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Perfect Tides perfectly captures the older millennial college experience, and a time when nobody worried about being embarrassing online

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Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI

Pinterest has fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts and then shared the information,

Sustainable smartphone takes a step forward with modular accessories, a good screen and mid-range performance

The Dutch ethical smartphone brand Fairphone is back with its six-generation Android, aiming to make its repairable phone more modern, m

Pedro Sánchez says urgent action needed to protect children from ‘digital wild west’, drawing anger from owner of X

Spain has proposed a ban on social media use by teenagers as attitudes hardened in Europe against the technology, drawing personal

‘Mid-career’ female workers also being sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London Corporation

Women working in tech and financial services are at greater risk of losing their jobs to increased use of AI and automation than their mal

Billionaires and intellectuals attended events with the disgraced financier years after he served time for sex offense, files reveal

Newly released emails and travel itineraries appear to show that for years after Jeffrey Epstein served time for

Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms

Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief e

AIs are not sentient – but tweaks to their ethical codes can have far-reaching consequences for users

Do you want an AI assistant that gushes about how it “loves humanity” or one that spews sarcasm? How about a political propagandist ready to lie

A raft of online videos show parents serving up dinner without a single plate in sight, to the amazement of their families

Name: Dump dinners.

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Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s firms have complied with data protection law

Elon Musk’s X and xAI companies are under formal investigation by the UK’s data protection watchdog after the Grok AI tool produced

Known as ‘white gold’, lithium is among the most important mined elements on the planet – ideal for the rechargeable batteries used in tech products. Can Europe’s largest deposit bring prosperity to the local community?

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Pearson, Experian and others fall sharply after startup unveils software to automate a range of professional services

European publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial inte

New US-owned app struggled with a storm and was accused of blocking content critical of Trump – can it recover?

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Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company

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Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption

The International AI Safety report is an annual survey of technological progress and the risks it is creating across multiple

CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland security

Palantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to pro

Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses

In 2002 Barnsley toyed with a redesign as a Tuscan hill village as it sought out a brighter post-industrial future. In 2021 it adopted

Millions of dollars have been raised for Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed, while campaigns are backing families hit by Victoria’s bushfires. What does this way of giving mean for the charity sector?

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Online gaming legend Mark Fischbach writes, directs and stars in this feature about a convict on a vague intergalactic mission – but his barebones production has nothing to show

William Goldman’s old showbiz maxim continues to apply that nobody k

The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series

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New Mexico attorney general accuses Meta of failing to safeguard children against trafficking and sexual abuse

Meta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins on Monday.

The landmark jury trial in Santa Fe pits the N

OpenClaw is billed as ‘the AI that actually does things’ and needs almost no input to potentially wreak havoc

A new viral AI personal assistant will handle your email inbox, trade away your entire stock portfolio and text your wife “good morning”

A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents – bots built by humans – to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only

On social media, people often accuse each other of being bots, but what h

The rise in real estate tech means renters often hand over huge amounts of revealing information to digital third parties – at great risk

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Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’

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