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Billionaire owner speculates ‘coordinated group/and or country’ involved after platform was unresponsive for many Elon Musk claimed on Monday afternoon that X was targeted in a “massive cyber-attack” that resulted in the intermittent service outages that had brought down his social network throughout the day. The platform, formerly known as Twitter, had been unresponsive for …

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President suspended implementation of law ordering app to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or face US ban Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States was in talks with four groups interested in acquiring TikTok, with the Chinese-owned app facing an uncertain future in the country. A US law has ordered TikTok to divest …

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The 86-year-old author’s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature – with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot See more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet At the centre of most things is a skeleton. So it is for the …

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The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal one With an imposing double-winged redbrick main building, and school songs lifted directly from Harrow’s songbook, Pretoria boys high school is every inch the South African mirror of the English private schools …

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The photographer Stefan Nieland has been working on a project about the role of smartphones in tourism in the city that gets about 32 million visitors per year: “When moving here in October I wanted to observe and photograph tourism. I immediately felt there was one element that would be in every picture – the …

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Microsoft and Google have both recently released new generative AI models that simulate video game worlds – with notable limitations. What can they do? Another month, another revolutionary generative AI development that will apparently fundamentally alter how an entire industry operates. This time tech giant Microsoft has created a “gameplay ideation” tool, Muse, which it …

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A hundred years ago the average person, in one of the the world’s wealthiest societies, could expect to live until 40. Now global life expectacy is 73 At the start of the millennium it was widely presumed each successive generation would achieve a higher level of prosperity than the last. Today that is no longer …

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Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the start For years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler’s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. …

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As a film extra, I surrendered my device and discovered the extraordinary connections I miss while staring at my screen A few Thursdays ago was a wrap. For my brief acting career, that is. One of the benefits of having a writer’s schedule in a city like Paris is the ability to say yes to …

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts I read that Skype is closing down, a few years after Covid brought video-calling to prominence like never before. So, my question is: what is the biggest missed opportunity in history? …

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