AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks
Cape Verde bets on tech to reverse postcolonial brain drain African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can transform its economy
Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions on weapons such as drones
Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error
Trump Media and Technology Group lost $406m in first three months of 2026 Parent company of president’s Truth Social platform generated only $870,000 even as net sales were up 6%
GameStop CEO opens eBay storefront to pay for potential eBay acquisition Ryan Cohen selling tube socks and baseball cards after offering $55.5bn, although source of funds remains unclear
Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk’s children, testifies in OpenAI trial Zilis, an executive at Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI’s board from 2020 to 2023
‘RAMageddon’: is the era of cheap phones and laptops over? Bargains are disappearing and the cost of gadgets such as MacBooks and PS5s is rising as AI competes for memory chips
Global finance watchdog warns over private credit industry fuelling AI boom Financial Stability Board report reveals tech, healthcare and services sectors as the biggest borrowers
UK electric car sales leap ‘could be hit by Iran war inflation and energy price rises’ BEV sales jumped nearly 60% in April, taking total electric car registrations to more than 2m, says SMMT
GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details Ryan Cohen said he didn’t understand questions about how the video games retailer could afford its $55.5bn bid
GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay Video game retailer’s CEO warns that unsolicited bid could turn hostile if it is rebuffed by resale site’s board
Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts
Starmer adviser held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech bosses Exclusive: Varun Chandra’s talks with Google, Meta, Apple and others raise fears of ‘lobbying behind closed doors’
UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK