Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash

Requirement to upload documents for the purpose of ‘age verification’ is coming to platforms near you

Consuming constant clips made me feel stupider and lonelier. Thank God I’m old enough to remember a world before, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

A list of AI agents and robots to block

A whore's treatise on the "for the children" era of the Internet

How things have changed

The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.

The long read: He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde genius?

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.

Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties

Compact discs provided the soundtrack to his life. Then came streaming and he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. As CDs enjoy a renaissance, our writer looks back at what he lost

The proliferation of Quick Response codes has created a cybersecurity nightmare, but public vigilance can help

We should just admit that internet-wide search is dead and return to human curated internet directories.

Personal website manifestos

Lately I've been checking out Misskey-based instances, specifically misskey.io and a fork of misskey called firefish.social. They're a microblog system but with additional features such as 4K character limit, 16 images per post, emoji reactions with even additional custom reactions per instance, a gallery feature that is unique, not just a media tab of all your media posts, built in custom color themes with the ability to make your own, and the choice of 3 layouts that are full screen with customizable widgets, a twitter-like layout, and a tweetdeck/mastodon-like layout with the multi-column view. It's one of the few services that doesn't just try to make twitter again but tries to do something its own and I very much appreciate that for it. I almost want to use it despite my aversion to microblogs.