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Billionaire attacks Bob Iger as Disney becomes latest firm to pause advertising over endorsement of antisemitic tweet Elon Musk has said the Disney boss, Bob Iger, should be “fired immediately” after the world’s biggest entertainment company joined an advertising boycott of his X platform. The world’s richest man has embarked on a series of outbursts …

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Paul Vogel moved to sell stock as shares soared after it was revealed 1,500 jobs would be cut Spotify has announced that the chief financial officer, Paul Vogel, is to leave, days after cashing in $9.3m (£7.4m) in shares in the wake of the music streaming service announcing it is to cut almost a fifth …

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In 1993, a team of five coders released what would become one of the most influential video games ever made. Three decades on, they explain how they did it In late August 1993, a young programmer named Dave Taylor walked into an office block on the Lyndon B Johnson freeway in Mesquite, Texas, to start …

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Tech firm says it has developed ‘robust’ safety measures after home secretary and campaigners condemn move Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has been accused by the UK government of empowering child sexual abusers after the tech firm began rolling out the automatic encryption of all messages on its Facebook and Messenger platforms. The home secretary, James Cleverly, …

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The legendary soprano was celebrated for her emotional connection. This moribund gimmick intended to bring her back – but in fact took her further away Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In the final moments of Stephen Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence, android boy David brings his “mother” Monica back to life for …

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Cyber-attacks on parliamentarians, civil servants and journalists aimed at meddling in UK politics have been going on for eight years Downing Street is facing calls for an inquiry after it revealed Russian state spies have targeted British MPs, peers, civil servants and journalists with cyber-attacks for the last eight years and were behind a hack …

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Court decides postal service does not have to deliver licence plates, for now, in latest twist in row over collective bargaining Tesla has lost a legal action against Sweden’s postal service as a dispute with Nordic trade unions escalates. A Swedish court said on Thursday that PostNord did not, for the time being, need to …

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The trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 is everywhere this week, the first game in the smash hit crime series in more than a decade. From its crude beginnings to its multiplayer mayhem, we look back at past releases – and the outrage that greeted them GTA is a series of crime-drama video games set …

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Media watchdog says layoffs at top social media firms affecting moderation create ‘toxic environment’ as 2024 elections approach As the 2024 elections approach, experts warn that top social media firms have rolled back vital safety policies and laid off moderation staff, creating a “a toxic online environment” vulnerable to exploitation that threatens democracy. A new …

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Foreign Office minister tells MPs that FSB is ‘behind sustained effort to interfere in our democratic processes’ • UK politics live – latest updates Russian spies have been targeting British MPs, peers, civil servants, journalists and others with cyber-hacking since 2015 as part of a concerted attempt to meddle in British politics, a Foreign Office …

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