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‘It’s cheap but it’s not disposable’: why fast tech is a growing waste problem

Low-cost and quickly discarded products are playing a key role in world’s fastest-growing waste problem – electronics It is cheap, often poorly made, and usually ends up in the bin or buried among the other knick-knacks, takeaway menus and birthday candles in the kitchen drawer. Known as “fast-tech”, these low-cost electronics are increasingly common – …

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WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices

Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to ‘lack of transparency in how it protects user data’ The WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday. The notice to all House staff said that the “Office of …

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YouTube should not be exempt from Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant has urged the Albanese government to rethink its decision to carve out the video sharing platform from new rules which apply to other apps Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast YouTube should be included in the ban on under-16s accessing social …

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Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps

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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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review – a hypnotising art-house game with an A-list cast

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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OpenAI takes down mentions of Jony Ive’s io amid trademark row

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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‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

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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Is this the antidote to the housing crisis? The YouTube series showcasing chic – and tiny – abodes

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

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 …

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

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 …

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