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4 February 2026

  • Rafael Behr

    When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’

    Rafael Behr
    The debate over banning under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy’s digital infrastructure, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

3 February 2026

  • A person holding a mobile phone displaying the 'X' logo in front of Elon Musk's page on X

    French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

  • Composite of the illustrations of computers shown in the article, showing different personality types

    From ‘nerdy’ Gemini to ‘edgy’ Grok: how developers are shaping AI behaviours

  • A blond-haired toddler sitting at a table covered in food which is all over the table in front of him

    Pass notes
    The dump dinner: spaghetti is now being served straight on to the table – but why?

  • The Grok artificial intelligence (AI) tool displayed on a mobile phone and laptop

    UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

  • Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

  • ‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report

1 February 2026

  • Thee TikTok app on a phone.

    ‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

    Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditions
  • girl with a laptop sitting on newspapers

    Brief letters
    Internet freedom doesn’t mean a free-for-all

    Brief letters: Intellectual property | Contact point | The car’s the star | Scandi duvets | Swiss roll solution
  • Robert Topinka

    All politics is digital politics
    How the left can win back the internet – and rise again

    Robert Topinka
    In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academic Robert Topinka

30 January 2026

  • A trader walks on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

    The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly

    Mark Surman
  • Robert Topinka

    All politics is digital politics
    How liberals lost the internet

    Robert Topinka

29 January 2026

  • A hacker with a phone in shadow

    ‘Chilling’ hacking network is targeting vulnerable children, charity warns

    Ecosystem known as the Com is carrying out extreme exploitation, violence and sexual abuse, says report
  • A woman's hand holds a mobile phone as she tries to connect to the internet; she holds her phone over a closed silver laptop, which is resting on a red patterned Persian rug.

    UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime

    Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex
  • A hand holds a phone displaying the Telegram logo in front of a sign also displaying the Telegram logo

    Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

    Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that have distributed AI-generated images and video

28 January 2026

  • A woman using a smartphone with a communications tower in the background

    Iran appears to ease internet blackout as cost of shutdown mounts

    Experts say uneven connectivity suggests regime is throttling and filtering data as losses said to hit $36m a day
  • World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee

    ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet

    Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
  • Jonathan Liew

    Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft

    Jonathan Liew
    The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

27 January 2026

  • Young businessman celebrating success with arms raised. There is a blurred image of two coworkers in the background.

    Pass notes
    Rejection spreadsheets: would 1,000 knockbacks make you a better person?

  • Subtle foreshadowing … Aphex Twin takes over the internet.

    Anti-pop and an alien sigil: how Aphex Twin overtook Taylor Swift to become the soundtrack to gen Z life online

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