Safe from AI: which jobs will help you thrive in the future?

Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law

Texas Democratic political candidate says SpaceX grants ‘sure looks like’ corruption

Nathan Johnson says if elected attorney general he’ll investigate rural internet deal with Elon Musk company

Netflix reportedly among parties in talks to buy Letterboxd

Sony Pictures and Paramount are said to also be among potential buyers for the film-focused social platform

Bank of England handed powers to regulate key tech firms including Amazon and Google

Direct oversight of ‘critical third parties’ such as Oracle and Microsoft given to ensure resilient cyber-defences and help safeguard UK economy

Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police

Civil liberties groups say Facewatch system in stores such as Sainsbury’s and B&M is ‘dangerous escalation’

Reeves to launch City ‘skills compact’ committing firms to retrain staff in AI

Exclusive: Plan to improve skills of thousands of financial sector workers to keep pace with tech revolution

Christopher Hanson-Abbott obituary

Other lives: A pioneer of vehicle safety technology whose company Brigade Electronics introduced reversing alarms commercially to the UK

How a throwback to 2006 took down Telstra’s national phone network

The same technology that helps your smartphone know when daylight savings ends set off a ‘digital domino chain’ that locked customers out of the network

Low-e windows keep homes cool … but may set neighbours’ property on fire

Low-emissivity windows also keep houses warm in winter, but use on bowed glass can have magnifying-glass effect

Telstra outage: triple-zero calls affected by network glitches as regional train services slowly resume

Carrier says some were unable to connect to emergency hotline a day after mobile network went down

Bank of England governor says he is ‘able to spot’ lobbying after Farage crypto meeting

Exclusive: Andrew Bailey says no policy changes were made as a result of pressure from crypto tycoon-backed Reform leader UK politics live – latest updates

Telstra blames ‘software defect’ for major outage that hit mobiles, trains and triple-zero calls

Telco said outage was not due to a cyber-attack but warned of scammers calling people claiming to be from Telstra

The Telstra outage is a stark reminder of the widespread effects of single-system failures

The network disruption – which brought trains, traffic lights and Eftpos payments to a halt – raises questions about the resilience of services

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development

OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment

Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical