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Technology

  • Google logo, keyboard and robot hands

    Alphabet
    Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons

  • OnePlus 13 showing the blue microfibre back and camera cluster standing up on a table

    Android
    OnePlus 13 review: the rapid Android with a gorgeous fabric back

  • An illustration of grey binary code and a padlock imposed on top in white

    Cybercrime
    Global ransomware payments plunge by a third amid crackdown

  • a women packing clothes

    Trump tariffs
    ‘I can’t order 100 pieces of junk for $15?’: How Trump’s tariff will hit fast-fashion devotees

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News

  • FILE - An Amazon truck drives in in Philadelphia, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

    Amazon ends year on strong note but forecasts weak upcoming quarter

  • screengrab of Gemini AI advert featuring a cheesemaker in Wisconsin

    Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that featured false information

  • Channel 1 is a new rolling news channel with a difference - its stories are scripted, edited and presented by AI. The Guardian visited the its creators in Los Angeles to find out more - and to audition for a role
    10:34

    Artificial news: How to create an AI anchor – video

  • Google logo on concrete wall

    Google scraps diversity hiring goals and cites Trump’s DEI orders

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Privacy

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Keir Starmer.

    Keir Starmer scrapped email account in 2022 after Russian hacking, says report

  • WhatsApp logo on phone

    Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware

    • WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware

    • Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says

    • The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain

    • Russian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of ministers worldwide

    • Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments

    • Memo to Trump: US telecoms is vulnerable to hackers. Please hang up and try again

      John Naughton

Spotlight

  • a man looking at the camera

    How the world’s richest man laid waste the US government

  • A woman knitting

    ‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall

  • Woman looking at her laptop screen in a cafe

    Why can’t I stop looking at myself on video calls?

  • Kenan Malik

    DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it

    Kenan Malik
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Opinion & analysis

  • John Naughton

    DeepSeek: cheap, powerful Chinese AI for all. What could possibly go wrong?

    John Naughton
  • a phone shows a screen for the app DeepSeek

    What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?

  • The DeepSeek app on an iPhone

    We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

  • The US flag displayed on a laptop screen looms over a mobile phone displaying the TikTok logo

    Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?

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Games

  • The Last of Us.

    The 15 best PlayStation 5 games to play in 2025

    From an intergalactic puzzle-solving beetle to a search for the Tusk of Ganesh, developers have put Sony’s impressive console to astoundingly imaginative use
  • Civilization VII

    Civilization VII review – your empire strikes back in glorious new detail

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle fulfilled all my Nazi-punching fantasies

    Dominik Diamond
  • Comic book artist Guillaume Singelin once again provides visuals … Citizen Sleeper 2.

    Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – we’re putting together a crew

  • Magazines and newspapers from Keith Stuart’s personal archive.

    What video game ephemera tell us about ourselves

  • We got game … magazines.

    Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • Marina Hyde

    Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress

    Marina Hyde
  • CHINA-TECHNOLOGY-AI-DEEPSEEK<br>The building housing the headquarters of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seen in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on January 28, 2025. Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street, following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a "wake-up call" for Silicon Valley. (Photo by AGATHA CANTRILL / AFP) (Photo by AGATHA CANTRILL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Get ahead of the tech curve: aim for Hangzhou, not Silicon Valley

  • Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

  • Quinn Slobodian

    The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

    Quinn Slobodian
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Reviews

  • Bill &amp; Paul Allen at teletype machine, Lakeside yearbook photo (1969-1970) Bill Gates on right

    Source Code by Bill Gates review – growing pains of a computer geek

  • Bill Gates in 1984

    Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review – refreshingly frank

    • An Update on Our Family review – these influencers’ murky tale makes you long to end the internet

    • The best window vacs for clearing condensation: seven expert picks for streak-free shine

    • House of Huawei by Eva Dou review – bad connection

    • The best treadmills for your home: up your indoor miles with our runner-approved picks

    • Winter running gear: our top training essentials to help you conquer the cold

    • The best slow cookers for effortless homemade meals, tried and tested

Devices

  • Amy Fleming holding out her arm to show the tracker on her wrist

    Wearables
    How I beat overwhelm: Tracking my heart rate left me feeling like a frustrated failure

  • School pupil using a mobile phone

    Smartphones
    School phone bans alone do not improve grades or wellbeing, says UK study

  • Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro review held in a hand showing the lockscreen.

    Tablets
    Apple iPad mini A17 Pro review: the best small tablet gets faster

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Picture of hand holding a mobile phone with DeepSeek on the screen

    Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report

    • People dine outside in old town of Gdansk, Poland, as other cycle past

      Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards

    • a composite showing two men making fascist salutes

      How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

    • Trump attends a candlelight dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington<br>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez and Elon Musk attend a candlelight dinner hosted by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. U.S., January 19, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria REFILE - CORRECTING "AMAZON CEO JEFF BEZOS" TO "AMAZON FOUNDER JEFF BEZOS"

      ‘The reign of terror is over’: my weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right

    • cars and buses drive along a city street

      Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation

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