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Technology

  • WhatsApp logo on phone

    Spyware
    Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware

  • A finger pointing to a mobile phone screen with a Facebook app symbol on it

    Facebook
    ‘Are we dating the same guy?’: Women turn to Facebook to uncover cheating and violence

  • A man opening a fridge

    Fridges
    New technology could make fridges cheaper and more eco-friendly

  • iPhones on display

    Apple
    Apple reports sagging iPhone sales in China as first-quarter earnings barely beat Wall Street’s expectations

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News

  • a WhatsApp icon on a phone

    WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware

  • a man wearing a black T-shirt speaks on stage

    Meta posts robust fourth-quarter earnings amid DeepSeek mania

  • Glassy outside of a building with Microsoft sign

    Microsoft reports strong fourth-quarter earnings amid uproar over DeepSeek’s AI

  • DeepSeek Logo on a phone and in the background

    DeepSeek blocked from some app stores in Italy amid questions on data use

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Privacy

  • A pedestrian walks along a pavement with a sign showing directions to Parliament Street and Whitehall

    Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says

  • Portrait of Sergei Cristo standing against a wall in a dark overcoat

    The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain

    • Russian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of ministers worldwide

    • Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments

    • Memo to Trump: US telecoms is vulnerable to hackers. Please hang up and try again

      John Naughton

    • Chinese hackers breach US treasury network, gain access to some files

    • US judge finds Pegasus spyware maker liable over WhatsApp hack

    • Why did China hack the world’s phone networks?

Spotlight

  • silhouette of a hand typing on a keyboard

    A man stalked a professor for six years. Then he used AI chatbots to lure strangers to her home

  • Sunrise alarm clocks composite

    Rise and shine with the seven best sunrise alarm clocks, tried and tested

  • collage shows mark zuckerberg, TJ Rodgers, a group of ceos at trump's inauguration, marc andreessen, george gilder, and elon musk doing what appears to be a nazi salute, along with time magazine covers, gilder's book Wealth and Poverty, and an older computer

    ‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

  • ‘Humans have always been distractible.’

    All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot

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Opinion & analysis

  • a phone shows a screen for the app DeepSeek

    What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?

  • The DeepSeek app on an iPhone

    We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

  • The US flag displayed on a laptop screen looms over a mobile phone displaying the TikTok logo

    Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?

  • TikTok logo and US and Chinese flags.

    Who banned TikTok? Politicians toss culpability like a football

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Games

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle fulfilled all my Nazi-punching fantasies

    Dominik Diamond
    It’s bizarre that a game featuring Hitler and Mussolini on their rise to power feels comforting, but here at least it is entirely permitted – indeed encouraged – to beat up Nazis
  • Comic book artist Guillaume Singelin once again provides visuals … Citizen Sleeper 2.

    Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – we’re putting together a crew

  • Magazines and newspapers from Keith Stuart’s personal archive.

    What video game ephemera tell us about ourselves

  • We got game … magazines.

    Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia

  • Hi-Fi Rush.

    The 15 best Xbox Series S/X games to play in 2025

  • Bundle of Joy video game screenshot

    Bundle of Joy, a game about the frantic monotony of early parenthood

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • Marina Hyde

    Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress

    Marina Hyde
  • CHINA-TECHNOLOGY-AI-DEEPSEEK<br>The building housing the headquarters of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seen in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on January 28, 2025. Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street, following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a "wake-up call" for Silicon Valley. (Photo by AGATHA CANTRILL / AFP) (Photo by AGATHA CANTRILL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Get ahead of the tech curve: aim for Hangzhou, not Silicon Valley

  • Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

  • Quinn Slobodian

    The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

    Quinn Slobodian
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Reviews

  • Bill Gates in 1984

    Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review – refreshingly frank

  • An Update on Our Family.

    An Update on Our Family review – these influencers’ murky tale makes you long to end the internet

    • House of Huawei by Eva Dou review – bad connection

    • The best treadmills for your home: up your indoor miles with our runner-approved picks

    • Winter running gear: our top training essentials to help you conquer the cold

    • The best slow cookers for effortless homemade meals, tried and tested

    • The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen review – smartphone nation

    • The 8 best electric blankets and heated throws – tried and tested to keep you toasty for less this winter

Devices

  • Amy Fleming holding out her arm to show the tracker on her wrist

    Wearables
    How I beat overwhelm: Tracking my heart rate left me feeling like a frustrated failure

  • iPhones on display

    Smartphones
    Apple reports sagging iPhone sales in China as first-quarter earnings barely beat Wall Street’s expectations

  • 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

  • People dine outside in old town of Gdansk, Poland, as other cycle past

    Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards

    • a composite showing two men making fascist salutes

      How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

    • Trump attends a candlelight dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington<br>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez and Elon Musk attend a candlelight dinner hosted by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. U.S., January 19, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria REFILE - CORRECTING "AMAZON CEO JEFF BEZOS" TO "AMAZON FOUNDER JEFF BEZOS"

      ‘The reign of terror is over’: my weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right

    • cars and buses drive along a city street

      Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation

    • Chloe Hamiton shot for her AI feature for OM

      Would you let AI choose your outfits?

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