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Those of us who spend our lives gaming can no longer deny knowledge that our online communities are awash with disturbing hate speech and violent rhetoric There is a lot of attention on young men and toxic masculinity at the moment. It’s about time. The devastating Netflix drama Adolescence, about a 13-year-old boy accused of …

Video games can’t escape their role in the radicalisation of young men | Keith Stuart Read More »

This premium mattress comes with a chunky price tag. Here’s what impressed me – and what could be better • The best mattresses: sleep better with our six rigorously tested picks I put in months of hard sleep to test Simba’s flagship “bed-in-a-box” mattress, and for the most part, I found it so comfortable that …

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On straight line missions, YouTubers jump fences, wade through rivers, and almost die in peat bogs. It’s completely pointless – and weirdly beautiful Spending too much time on YouTube can be a dangerous game for men my age. Algorithmic gyres can pull you rightwards – towards misogynistic extremes and away from the parts of the …

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New CPS guidance aims to boost use of deletion orders after Observer revealed systemic failings The Crown Prosecution Service is to update its guidance on so-called “revenge porn” crimes to stop perpetrators being allowed to keep explicit photos of their victims. The Observer revealed last month that magistrates courts were routinely failing to make orders …

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When a Netflix drama highlights how online influencers can turn a teenager into a killer, it’s time to rethink social media Every so often, a television drama comes along that has the power to change things. Last year, it was ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, in which the plight of subpostmasters was rendered …

Adolescence reveals a terrifying truth: smartphones are poison for boys’ minds | Martha Gill Read More »

The co-founder of LinkedIn and Democrat donor remains confident that AI can be good for all of us – if its introduction is handled in the right way Reid Hoffman is a prominent Silicon Valley billionaire entrepreneur and investor known for co-founding the professional social networking site LinkedIn, now owned by Microsoft. He’s also staunchly …

Reid Hoffman: ‘Start using AI deeply. It is a huge intelligence amplifier’ Read More »

The company that prides itself on announcing products only when they’re ready grossly underestimated the demands of personalising its virtual assistant After ChatGPT broke cover in late 2022 and the tech industry embarked on its contemporary rendering of tulip mania, people started to wonder why the biggest tech giant of all – Apple – was …

Did AI mania rush Apple into making a rare misstep with Siri? | John Naughton Read More »

Amid angst over the technology, a consensus is emerging about its capabilities – but there is an elephant in the room In early March, a job advert was doing the rounds among sports journalists. It was for an “AI-assisted sports reporter” at USA Today’s publisher, Gannett. It was billed as a role at the “forefront …

‘We need to set the terms or we’re all screwed’: how newsrooms are tackling AI’s uncertainties and opportunities Read More »

Musk lambastes judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as Trump administration’s judiciary clash intensifies In the days after a federal judge ruled Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID likely violated the constitution, the world’s richest person issued a series of online attacks against the American judiciary, offered money to voters to sign a …

Elon Musk lashes out at US judges as they rule against Doge Read More »

Cafes are cracking down on remote workers – but we can save ourselves by following a few simple rules Once upon a time, it was socially acceptable to smoke inside, wear those mad, wide ties and pat your secretary on the bottom. Norms change, and that’s often for the best. But when it comes to …

Loud Zoom calls, hogging space, spending a pittance: no wonder laptoppers’ antics irk cafe owners | Emily Watkins Read More »