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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 …

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Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to …

Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages Read More »

When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability … Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could want at …

‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever Read More »

The Meta CEO fumbled a demo of his AI Ray-Bans, giving us hope that the robots might be too dumb to take over As humanity inches closer to an AI apocalypse, a sliver of hope remains: the robots might not work. Such was the case last week, as Mark Zuckerberg attempted to demonstrate his company’s …

Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor Read More »

Say goodbye to extortionate roaming fees – new companies like Airalo, Holafly and Saily offer cheap, easy coverage for your next international trip On a week-long trip to Paris last year, I racked up nearly $100 in data charges on my iPhone, with taxes and fees. Ditto for a separate, eight-day trip to Spain, which …

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They study for hours a day. The competitions have zero prize money. So what keeps quiz champions going for glory – and how do they win? Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Issa Schultz has a daily schedule that not many could compete with. “I get up, I make a coffee, I go on …

‘I’ve never driven a car. I can’t cook. I’m a lost cause’: meet Australia’s top quizzers Read More »

Subscription service is Meta’s response to regulatory warnings over crunching users’ data to serve targeted ads Facebook and Instagram users in the UK are to be offered advert-free versions of the social networks for up to £3.99 a month. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has responded to regulatory warnings over personalised adverts, in which users’ data is …

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Watchdog applauds ‘strong message’ after federal court orders Gold Coast man Anthony Rotondo to pay for posting deepfake images to a now-defunct website Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A man who posted deepfake pornographic images of prominent Australian women has been slapped with a hefty fine as a “strong …

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