Month: September 2025

National cyber security centre raises alert level to ‘caution’ as technicians race to restore government systems after battery fire sparked nationwide chaos South Korea’s intelligence agency has raised the national cyber threat level, amid concerns that hackers could take advantage of the chaos caused by a fire at a government datacentre that paralysed critical digital …

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What does Europe’s biggest porn conference reveal about the future of the porn industry? Amelia Gentleman reports The Xbiz Adult Industry Conference is Europe’s largest porn industry gathering. About a thousand content creators travelled to Amsterdam for the event earlier this month. The Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman was there and describes to Helen Pidd the …

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A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life For a while, Sam Vea had been smelling sulphur on the air – only mildly infernal, like a distant sniff of hell, but sulphur nonetheless. Still, on the Saturday …

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian Read More »

The games master has accrued millions of fans and sold out Madison Square Garden with his shows where he plays D&D live with guests. He’s still ‘bewildered’ by the success “If anyone were to tell me that getting a job as a full-time cast member on a sketch YouTube channel would lead to playing Dungeons …

‘Laughing at a libertarian crypto dragon? That rules’: Brennan Lee Mulligan on how Dungeons & Dragons took over the world Read More »

From shopkeeping sims to daring dating, here are the best games to snuggle up with as the weather turns It is traditional for any feature about cosy entertainment at this time of year to mention the nights drawing in, roaring open fires and the desire to curl up in an armchair with something nonthreatening. Well, …

Occult objects, a dead dynasty and a mobile bookshop: ten cosy new video games for autumn Read More »

Under Mark Zuckerberg’s publicity video for Vibes, one Instagram user commented: ‘Bros posting ai slop on his own app’ Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version Cat videos, selfies and dad jokes are typical fare for any social media feed but Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is introducing a new twist: …

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Criminals calling themselves Radiant say they will post additional private data online unless they are paid Hackers with pictures and the private information of thousands of nursery children have threatened to publish more material online unless they are paid. Criminals calling themselves Radiant hacked the UK-based Kido nursery chain and posted profiles of 10 children …

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The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests Far-right ideas are gaining ground. They are thriving in online worlds which are not easily visible to large …

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Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the future In The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech …

The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial Read More »

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was …

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee Read More »