Goodreads is degrading our literary culture
Everyone can, and should, be a critic. But the reviews website is having a sinister effect on books.
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Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?
The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.
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What the Reddit blackout means for the wider internet
The specialised content on the forum has for years been hidden scaffolding for the internet. What happens when it is…
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Life after Apple
The company's minimalist aesthetic rules the world. Will we ever escape it?
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The internet is unusable now
Pop-ups, farmed content and sponsored posts have ruined a web that once told us whatever we needed to know.
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No one should be forced to go without broadband in modern Britain
The cancellation of broadband by a million people is another sign of the UK’s economic and social decline.
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There is no chance the government will regulate AI
This government is planning light-touch regulation of a technology our politicians do not understand.
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What does “love bombing” really mean?
On social media, terms coined to describe specific relationship dynamics are increasingly common – and increasingly misused.
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The age of ambient information
Online content has transformed into a sedative.
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Our parents were right: we can no longer trust what we see on the internet
I’d been lied to, by the very thing I hold in my hand for the majority of my day. How…
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Elon Musk is building an Internet of Losers
The decision to remove “legacy” blue ticks misses the point of Twitter’s Verified system – while failing to stick it…
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There’s no point pretending we can stop teenagers watching porn
The question is how to respond. What does it say about sex education if no one is explaining to boys…
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How to spot fake news and fight back against post-truth politics
Five ways in which you can fight the rise of media bullshit.
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The Online Safety Bill will make life harder for victims
The chilling effect of this new legislation will be violation of privacy and infringement of free speech online.
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“You can Google how to hack a smart home hub”
MPs were told that connected home devices are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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America acts while the UK’s Online Safety Bill remains in legal limbo
The impact of California's Age-Appropriate Design Code Act will stretch far beyond the US west coast.
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Why girls are pressured to share nudes online
Images and videos of girls aged 13 and under make up 95 per cent of self-generated child sexual abuse on…
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“Our online lives can never truly be our own”: Marie Le Conte on the generation that broke the internet
What does it mean to have grown up alongside an adolescent internet?
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If Silicon Valley wants to ruin Instagram, there is nothing we can do about it
The latest Instagram update is a reminder that the online spaces we have come to call home were never ours.
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Why we need a Children’s Online Safety Bill
There is an obvious solution to regulating the internet – put young people first.
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