Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000+ public schools, reaching 1M+ students in an “AI-powered education program” over the next two years (www.theguardian.com)
1 day ago AI Education

Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time (www.theguardian.com)
3 days ago Australia Ban

Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a “lower level” since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (www.theguardian.com)
3 days ago VPN

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (www.theguardian.com)
3 days ago Australia Ban

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (www.theguardian.com)
9 days ago AI Immigration

Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (www.theguardian.com)
13 days ago Airbus Solar

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (www.theguardian.com)
19 days ago Russia chatbot

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (www.theguardian.com)
26 days ago Google Hurricane

How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (www.theguardian.com)
2025-11-5

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)
2025-10-6 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)
2025-10-2

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)
2025-9-27

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)
2025-9-26 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)
2025-9-25 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)
2025-9-23 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)
2025-9-22

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)
2025-9-21 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)
2025-9-17 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)
2025-9-8 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

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