Fresh starch: how TikTok helped spark a baked potato revival in the UK Customers are coming to Preston’s Spud Bros from as far away as Australia thanks to a revival of the humble jacket potato on social media
Meta to push on with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI Move to use shared posts follows information commissioner concerns and sets collision course with EU over privacy
The US government is right to investigate Nvidia for alleged unfair practices Competition authorities were too slow to stop tech giants from dominating Web 2.0. They can’t repeat that mistake with AI
Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat With storms becoming more frequent due to the climate crisis, insurers are forcing operators to respond
Revolut founder sells shares ‘worth up to $300m’ in fintech company Nik Storonsky reportedly sold 40- 60% of the stock offloaded in August secondary share sale
TfL cyber-attack: teenager from Walsall arrested in connection with data breach Transport for London contacts 5,000 customers to say email and bank account details could have been accessed
BT identifying 2,000 signals a second indicating possible cyber-attacks Increase comes amid ‘AI arms race’ between hackers and businesses attempting to bolster their defences
‘My uniform’s more valuable than I am’: a security guard’s take on bodyworn cameras Public-facing staff in shops and frontline services are wearing cameras to help combat abuse and an epidemic of theft
Reeves announces £8bn UK investment by Amazon’s cloud computing arm Chancellor says move will create as many as 14,000 jobs at firm’s datacentres and in a range of other industries
Google’s second antitrust suit brought by US begins, over online ads DoJ accused tech giant of more monopolistic behavior a month after judge found it illegally cornered online search
BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir Oil and gas company to use artificial intelligence to speed up decision-making by engineers
OnlyFans owner paid £359m dividend as company’s revenues grow 20% in a year Both creator and fan accounts on the platform grew 30% during ‘strong year’ in which its users spent more than £5bn
‘Alexa, how should I vote?’: rightwing uproar over voice assistant’s pro-Kamala Harris points Amazon says the device’s pro-Harris answers were due to software errors, but conservatives allege a liberal bias
Google using anti-competitive tactics in UK ad market, claims watchdog CMA says tech company has ‘abused its dominant position’ to the detriment of publishers and advertisers
Billionaires are endorsing Trump – but is that a bad bargain for them? Experts are issuing stern warnings about business support for Trump – it could backfire badly and endanger democracy