Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (www.theguardian.com)
3 hours ago Amazon

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (www.theguardian.com)
4 days ago

UK-based Kido nursery chain was hacked by a ransomware gang called Radiant, which posted profiles of 10 children online and threatens to release more data (www.theguardian.com)
9 days ago

Sources: Microsoft terminated Israel's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
10 days ago Israel Microsoft

Some Australian leaders and experts debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by Trump allies (www.theguardian.com)
11 days ago Trump China Australia

Amazon plans to close all 19 Fresh stores in the UK and convert five of them into Whole Foods Market shops, four years after launching the first in London (www.theguardian.com)
12 days ago Amazon London

Inside the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack, which forced a shutdown of most systems and is likely to cost the company hundreds of millions of pounds (www.theguardian.com)
14 days ago

Meta faces a backlash after using Instagram photos of teenage schoolgirls, posted by their parents with visible faces and names, to promote Threads to a man (www.theguardian.com)
15 days ago Instagram

A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)
19 days ago China AI Pentagon

ASPI researchers: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border rose from 11 to 27 since 2021's military coup, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people (www.theguardian.com)
27 days ago Thailand

An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (www.theguardian.com)
2025-8-31 AI Netflix Algorithm

An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's “masculine energy”, Silicon Valley's “cloying conformity” and “combination of machismo and self-pity”, and more (www.theguardian.com)
2025-8-25 Interview Energy Zuckerberg

Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B (www.theguardian.com)
2025-8-24

The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship (www.theguardian.com)
2025-8-7

Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system using Microsoft Azure that collects recordings of millions of phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
2025-8-7 Israel Microsoft

A UK court sentences a 21-year-old student who created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank, and charity websites, linked to £100M of fraud (www.theguardian.com)
2025-7-25

After Elon Musk announced a US political party called the America Party, Donald Trump called Musk a “TRAIN WRECK” fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending (www.theguardian.com)
2025-7-7 Trump U.S. Elon Musk

A French court finds three ex-Ubisoft executives, including the chief creative officer, guilty of enabling a culture of sexual and psychological harassment (www.theguardian.com)
2025-7-3 France

A report finds Google undercounted its carbon emissions, which rose 65% from 2019 to 2024, not 51% as claimed; biggest yearly jump was 26% between 2023 and 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
2025-7-2 Google

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-28 AI

Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-17 Google

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-16 AI

WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025 (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-10 YouTube

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-9

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-8 AI

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to “keep up” with others (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-5 AI

An analysis of the top 100 trending TikTok videos under #mentalhealthtips finds 52 contain misinformation, including misused language and quick-fix methods (www.theguardian.com)
2025-6-1

Study: users in China's Henan province were on average denied access to 5x more websites than a typical Chinese internet user between Nov. 2023 and March 2025 (www.theguardian.com)
2025-5-26 China

The UK House of Lords again rebuffs the government's AI plans by adding an amendment to a bill to require AI firms list copyrighted content used to train models (www.theguardian.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Amazon unveils Vulcan, a sorting robot with a sense of touch and will be capable of grabbing ~75% of warehouse items, rolling out globally in the next few years (www.theguardian.com)
2025-5-7 Amazon Robot

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