Why TikTok's first week of American ownership was a disaster

French MPs demand explanation over tech firm's contract to help ICE in US

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

Dorodango: the hobby that took over Japan in 1999

A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

Welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Oldest monastic brewery to be sold as German beer sales slide

Why the US is buying icebreakers from Finland

How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of 'human fracking'?

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you're not alone

Did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist?

Amazon insists I return a phone it says 'may be lost'

UK's Ofcom investigating X after outcry over sexualised AI images

How Grok's nudification tool went viral

Elon Musk's X threatened with UK ban over wave of indecent AI images

Dutch set to outlaw fireworks after more new year chaos

I used to be too timid to change a tyre. Now I build my own bikes

Seized by US: why so much interest in a rusty tanker in the Atlantic?

Sega co-founder David Rosen has died

Munich's surfers foiled again as authorities remove access to famous river wave

Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp

No gels, no foams: Catalonia turns to grannies to teach traditional cooking

No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse

Biography aims to fill gaps in story of libertarian Telegram founder Pavel Durov

Kimchi, made in China: how South Korea's national dish is being priced out

Activist group says it has scraped 86M music files from Spotify

'Slightly haunted but manageable': new signs cause confusion in Christchurch

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide

'You learn tricks to reduce it': the smart bins measuring food waste in S. Korea

How climate breakdown is putting the food in peril – in maps and charts

Bavarian pensioner lays trap to catch phone fraudster who was out for his gold

'It's an open invasion': how quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva

Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death

'Magical' galaxy frogs disappear after reports photographers destroy habitat

Mark Carney criticised for using British spellings in Canadian documents

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser on life after Grand Theft Auto

'A lot of stories but few facts': sceptics push back on buzzy UFO documentary

Is it time to redraw our maps?

Online gaming escaped Australia's social media ban-critics say just as addictive

Paramount launches $108.4B hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem

From Kenya to Nepal, how parents are battling ultra-processed foods

How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise

Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume

'Those who eat Chilean salmon can't imagine how much human blood it carries'

From Gears of War to Uno: the 15 most important Xbox 360 games

The fading of Japan's Shōwa era in pictures

Age of the 'scam state': how an illicit industry took root in south-East Asia

Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI

The inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI

Cats became our companions way later than you think

Informative, beautiful and deeply human: the underrated art of illustration

Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into age of technofeudalism

Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable

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'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex

'Bull riding is a drug': rodeo embraces its sports science era

I Time Traveled to 1994: Playing Doom II on My Real Pentium 75MHz PC

Meta wins US antitrust case and won't have to break off WhatsApp or Instagram

How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?

Master System at 40: the truth about Sega's most underrated console

What AI doesn't know: we could be creating a global 'knowledge collapse'

Story of Irish labourer buried alive in coffin for 61 days

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Grokipedia

Can you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off – who poisoned whom?

The perplexing rise of protein shakes: how it became a billion-dollar industry

In Grok we don't trust: academics assess Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia

Using shipwrecks to rebuild fishing populations

Toxin levels in fish lead to calls for UK-wide ban on mercury dental fillings

Can bowhead whales with their 200-year lifespan help us to slow ageing?

EU carmakers 'days away' from factories halting work in chip war with China

New AI-powered anti-scam tool wins praise from UK fraud minister

'Brothers in the forest' – the fight to protect an isolated Amazon tribe

AI models may be developing their own 'survival drive', researchers say