Month: October 2025

CMA puts Google under tighter regulation with ‘strategic market status’ designation and can enforce changes Business live – latest updates Google faces enforced changes to its UK search business after the competition watchdog conferred a special status on the company that puts it under tighter regulation. The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) confirmed that Google …

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Chiptune alt-rock band Anamanaguchi are having a bumper year, culminating in an opportunity to create the soundtrack they’ve always wanted to make – for a new Scott Pilgrim game Scott Pilgrim, the series of pop culture-saturated graphic novels by Canadian author and comic book artist Bryan Lee O’Malley, has become a timeless epic about teenage …

Meet Anamanaguchi, the band behind the last Scott Pilgrim video game’s soundtrack – and the next one Read More »

Carmakers accused of cheating air pollution rules have faced little punishment but trial brought by 1.8m UK motorists is about to begin “Little lungs are still paying for Dieselgate every day,” says Jemima Hartshorn, founder of the Mums for Lungs campaign group. Her own young daughter has suffered serious breathing problems, which at their worst …

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Strava, the Instagram for exercise, is suing Garmin for allegedly copying its features. Josh Taylor explains it to Miles Herbert Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Josh, there’s a lot of commentary online from runners and cyclists over Strava suing Garmin. I am a runner, but I must confess I …

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Twelve months, thousands of tests and a revolutionary potato masher – here are our readers’ and writers’ ultimate buys • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Filter is turning one. Since we launched a year ago, we’ve run, hiked, camped and swum; we’ve drunk 455 cups of coffee; washed …

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British Standards Institution study across seven countries found quarter of bosses believe entry-level tasks could be automated to reduce costs Young people entering the workforce are facing a “job-pocalypse”, as business leaders invest in artificial intelligence (AI) rather than new hires, according to a study of global business leaders. Bosses are prioritising automation through AI …

Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI over new hires, report says Read More »

The IGDA Foundation broadened its reach by attending the world’s biggest video games event this summer – but faces challenges funding its work helping underrepresented developers Gamescom, the annual video game convention held in Cologne, Germany, is a unique event. It not only draws hundreds of thousands of players to pack out vast convention halls …

The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developers Read More »

Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users’ names, …

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NHTSA reported Teslas driving through red traffic lights and driving against direction of travel during a lane change US automobile safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla vehicles equipped with its full self-driving technology over traffic-safety violations after a series of crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said the electric carmaker’s self …

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Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding the wave or will the wave destroy us? The hacker mansion is part startup commune, part luxury crash-pad, …

‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI Read More »