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    Artificial intelligence
    ‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

    More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system
  • BBC logo

    Technology
    BBC says it has complained to Apple over AI-generated fake news attributed to broadcaster

  • a man wearing a black shirt smiles as he walks on stage

    Amazon
    Amazon donates $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund as tech cozies up to president-elect

  • A graphic showing the X and Bluesky logos

    Social media
    From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’?

  • AFP headquarters in Canberra

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    ‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails

  • A fourth generation Amazon Echo Dot showing outside temperature

    Virtual assistants
    ‘What does AI mean?’: Amazon reveals UK’s most asked Alexa questions of 2024

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News

  • black-and-white sign with TikTok logo outside of building

    TikTok turns to US supreme court in last-ditch bid to avert divest-or-ban law

  • US-UNION-RETAIL-AMAZON<br>Amazon workers protest on April 1, 2022, as they vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York. - Amazon workers in New York voted Friday to establish the first US union at the e-commerce giant, a milestone for a company that has steadfastly opposed organized labor in its massive workforce. Employees at the Staten Island JFK8 warehouse voted 2,654 to 2,131 in support of the unionizing drive, according to a tally of ballots from the National Labor Relations Board. (Photo by Andrea RENAULT / AFP) (Photo by ANDREA RENAULT/AFP via Getty Images)

    Threat of Amazon workers’ strike spreads during peak holiday season

  • three men smile and talk

    Elon Musk will not receive highest-level government security clearance – reports

  • Hand holds smartphone with TikTok app.

    TikTok loses emergency bid to pause law that could lead to US ban

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Privacy

  • close-up of four people's hands holding phones

    Why did China hack the world’s phone networks?

  • Stock image of group of hands texting on cellphones.

    Many Americans’ cellphone data being hacked by China, official says

    • ‘Russia can turn the lights off’: how the UK is preparing for cyberwar

    • Alder Hey children’s hospital explores ‘data breach’ after ransomware claims

    • NSO – not government clients – operates its spyware, legal documents reveal

    • Chinese hackers collected audio from Trump campaign adviser’s calls – report

    • Chinese believed to have targeted Trump’s and Vance’s phones in US telecommunications breach

    • Russia’s FSB protected Evil Corp gang that carried out Nato cyber-attacks

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Spotlight

  • Vesuvius erupts in an exhibition at the National Museum of Australia

    A volcanic explosion every 15 minutes: how Australia’s museums are turning to tech to lure us in

  • Composite of three black-and-white images, of a UFO, a man, and an alien head.

    From UFOs to drones, the US fascination with – and fear of – ‘anomalous detections’

  • Film director Asif Kapadia photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Phil Fisk, November 2024.

    ‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

  • illustration of person sitting with elbow on knee in front of digital renderings

    She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score – and sued to help others avoid the same fate

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Opinion & analysis

  • Tesla cars at dealership

    Tesla sales in Australia are sliding for the first time. Is it stiff competition or the Musk factor?

  • John Naughton

    I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways…

    John Naughton
  • musk xi and trump

    Tesla’s path in China clears as Musk courts both Trump and Xi

  • John Naughton

    Elon Musk is not America’s new king. But he might be its new Thomas Cromwell

    John Naughton
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Games

  • Monument Valley 3 screenshot.

    ‘People should feel there’s more than doom and gloom’: Monument Valley 3’s environmentalist hope-punk

    How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game
  • Palworld video game

    Forget the Baftas … here are our alternative game of the year awards

  • Playing the familiar legends adds undeniable appeal … Marvel Rivals.

    Marvel Rivals review – discomfitingly slick hero shooter makes you worry about gaming’s future

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review – whip-smart, fascist-fighting, open-world adventuring

  • The Spectrum.

    The Spectrum review – a tactile trip to the 1980s

  • Grand Theft Hamlet.

    Grand Theft Hamlet review – in-game Shakespeare performance is brilliantly exciting

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Inside Silicon Valley

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    Revealed: the tech bosses who poured $394.1m into US election - and how they compared to Elon Musk

  • A man stretches his hands above him, one clutching a mic. Behind him is the US flag and two panels on the right read Vote Early

    Silicon Valley’s right wing notches victories nationwide and at home

  • Rebecca Solnit

    Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Photograph: Johan Lolos/Rex/Shutterstock

    10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018) – podcast

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Reviews

  • Video Doorbells composite

    The 8 best video doorbells tried and tested – and Ring isn’t top

  • A composite of three e-readers on a red, pink and orange background

    The 8 best e-readers, tried and tested – from Kindle to Kobo and beyond

    • Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be

    • The best robot vacuums to keep your home clean and dust free, tested by our expert

    • Meta Quest 3S review: the best bang for your buck in VR

    • The best iPhones in 2024: Apple smartphones tested, reviewed and ranked

    • Apple Watch Series 10 review: thinner, lighter and basically the same

    • Distant Memories of the Near Future review – dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now

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Devices

  • Meta Quest 3s review showing the headset and controllers on table.

    Wearables
    Meta Quest 3S review: the best bang for your buck in VR

  • Index finger of young man touching smartphone

    Smartphones
    Smartphones should carry health warning, Spanish government told

  • Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro review held in a hand showing the lockscreen.

    Tablets
    Apple iPad mini A17 Pro review: the best small tablet gets faster

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • The Nokia 5110 from 1998 came in different colours.

    Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive

    • Components of an FGC-9, a gun that can be 3D printed, laid out against a brown background

      ‘Gun control is dead, and we killed it’: the growing threat of firearms that can be made at home

    • Donald Trump, in a blue suit and Maga baseball cap, and Elon Musk, in a leather jacket and aviators, watch something off in the distance

      Money, lawyers or boosting Farage on X: how Elon Musk could affect UK politics

    • illustration of palestinian flag over a cursor arrow

      ‘Progressive except for Palestine’: how a tech charity imploded over a statement on Gaza

    • a female teenager leaning up against red lockers in her school. She is on her phone looking down in disappointment wearing a full school uniform.

      Why Silicon Valley panicked over Australia’s under-16 social media ban

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