Month: June 2025

CMA proposes tightening regulation, which could lead to site giving users option to choose alternative services Business live – latest updates Google could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose alternative services, after the UK competition watchdog proposed to tighten regulation of …

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This is a mystifying and provocatively slow-paced game with more celebrities than you would find on a Cannes red carpetPS5; Sony / Kojima Productions What is Death Stranding 2 trying to say? It’s a question you will ask yourself on many occasions during the second instalment of Hideo Kojima’s hypnotising, mystifying, and provocatively slow-paced cargo …

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ChatGPT developer forced to act after receiving legal complaint from earbud maker iyO Business live – latest updates OpenAI has taken down online content related to its recent deal with Sir Jony Ive’s hardware startup, io, after a trademark complaint. The artificial intelligence company has removed promotional materials including a video where Ive – the …

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She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous father If you had wandered the set of the film M3gan …

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Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework? There are two kinds of readers: those who would choose death before dog-ears, keeping their beloved volumes as pristine as possible, and those whose …

Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to Booktok’s next trend Read More »

On Never Too Small, there are cabins that split in two and apartments straight out of Wes Anderson. It feels like we’re all one reclaimed wood table away from complete bliss Read more in the Internet wormhole series I’ve been invited into the homes of architects in Buenos Aires, voguish designers in Hong Kong, community …

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When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west Reactions to Lauren Greenfield’s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think …

‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones Read More »

Fraudsters are manipulating content of older adults as ‘sadness bait’ to push sales. The videos are going viral In April of this year, Daisy Yelichek was scrolling TikTok when something unusual appeared in her feed: a video of her 84-year-old father, George Tsaftarides, who runs an account sharing sewing videos from his small tailoring business …

‘It’s thieving’: impersonators steal elderly people’s TikToks to hawk mass-produced goods Read More »

‘Robo-adviser’ platforms use tech to help manage your money – here’s how the most popular ones stack up Rachel Reeves and her government colleagues are keen to get more Britons investing in the stock market. She said recently that a lot of money was being put into cash savings accounts “when it could be invested …

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Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others What to do if your email account is stolen – and how to stop it happening again Internet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive …

Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed Read More »