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My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial.In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark social media…

As every sports fan knows, it’s not just about the game. And in the world of veterans’ rugby, the highs, lows and boozy escapades of the players can be almost as entertaining as the matches themselves.Just ask debut author Paul Mosley, a…

Every parent of young children has a book they’re sick of reading aloud, whether it’s The Rainbow Fish or Goodnight Moon. In recent years, however, moms and dads are facing a fresh misery when it comes to bedtime stories: AI-generated slop…

Last year, when the novelist Laura Brooke Robson began writing Love Is an Algorithm—a love story between the cofounder of an AI dating app and a musician trying to survive in the age of large language models—she took extra care not to sound…

Malala Yousafzai and Gisèle Pelicot lead a star-packed Hay Festival 2026 lineup as the world-famous event kicks off today. Here is your full guide to the biggest Hay on Wye events today.09:10, 21 May 2026View 2 ImagesThe annual Hay Festival…

The legendary actor Michael Pennington famous for his appearances in Return of the Jedi and The Iron Lady, as well as a string of iconic stage productions, has died aged 8222:11, 10 May 2026View 3 ImagesMichael Pennington's role Moff…

Former paramedic Bill Tortorella said he saw two alternate futures for our planet, including a terrifying Mad Max style apocalypse where humans fought for water, as well as meeting his three guardian angels20:03, 10 May 2026View 4…

Literature lovers are urging people to stop using "anti-book language" – to protect books from hate speech. They fear terms such "throw the book at him" and "don't judge a book by its cover" are turning folk against reading.And they want…

Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might be worth the risk, because advanced AI might relieve humanity of “its universal death sentence.” That upbeat…

Imagine a tech company so visionary that it can take an idea public. A “concept IPO,” they called it.Picture the three founders, all former Apple employees, two of whom—software engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson—were already…