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Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic year A system that thousands of schools and universities in the US use was offline on Thursday during a cyber-attack , creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology. Students quickly took to social media to ask if others were …

Their microtonal rock has been a huge viral hit – but are they really 333-year-old aliens inspired by Borneo monkeys? The Quebecois duo tell all Recently, Angine de Poitrine had to get new heads. The alien-looking rock duo were not in fact born with the monochrome polka-dotted complexions and extruded faces that millions of listeners have obsessed over since they went viral this spring. Guitarist…

Video shows ‘looksmaxxing’ influencer shooting an apparently already dead alligator in the Everglades A controversial social media influencer known as Clavicular is facing charges in connection with a live stream showing him shooting an apparently already dead alligator in the Everglades, local Florida media has reported. Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters and is known for the prac…

Taking on its US rival in Britain is expected to lead to ‘collateral damage’ for UK retailers “We’re here to shake up the UK e-commerce market,” says Matthew Nobbs, the UK boss of Joybuy which is spearheading a European charge by China’s version of Amazon. “I see our competitors as everyone,” he adds, reflecting the scale of ambition of the online retailer that sells home appliances, groceries, m…

Ministers have committed to changing rules for children, but how this will take shape is still up for debate The UK government committed last week to either implementing a ban on under-16s accessing social media or imposing restrictions on children’s use of those platforms. A consultation is already under way on whether to impose limits and the announcement confirms that curbs will be introduced.…

The president’s contempt for the media is explosive and his ‘disappointment’ with Australia apparent. For Meta, Google and Oracle, it’s a powerful combination The fallout of the Albanese government’s proposed News Bargaining Incentive feels predictable. The tech oligarchs will likely urge Donald Trump to punish Australia for the government’s efforts to protect publishers from the financial harm c…

Jimmy Wales remembers a toxic internet even before social media and says AI is ‘not a disaster’ for the free – and freely edited - online encyclopaedia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, has branded the Australian social media ban an “unmitigated disaster” and an “embarrassment” that…

The internet was supposed to make travel easier. But the more I research my destination, the more I worry about visiting the wrong bits of it In the 1980s, a friend of my father navigated through Europe in a camper van with his family using only the map in the back of a pocket diary. He crossed France believing “aujourd’hui” meant “please”; you can imagine the reception he got from Parisians aski…

Exclusive: Varun Chandra’s talks with Google, Meta, Apple and others raise fears of ‘lobbying behind closed doors’ An influential government adviser close to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech executives, the Guardian can reveal. The No 10 business aide Varun Chandra discussed regulatory changes, AI and Donald Trump’s second administration with tech corpo…

Consuming constant clips made me feel stupider and lonelier. Thank God I’m old enough to remember a world before A clip from Before Sunrise . A woman joking that she won’t date men with flat heads because their lack of tummy time as babies betrays parental neglect that any female partner will be tasked with unpicking. Another woman gathering dahlias from her garden. A man discussing how Trump’s e…

As the Onion waits for a court to approve its takeover, creative director Heidecker previews his ambitious plan to parody the site – already sending Jones into a fury If you’ve tuned in to Infowars over the years, you might have heard a very angry man screaming about the 2020 election being stolen for “ reanimated corpse ” Joe Biden, or chemicals in the water turning frogs gay , or the Sandy Hook…

Google, Microsoft and Amazon report gains in cloud-computing businesses while Meta spending draws concern Unusual simultaneous reports of financial results by several of the US’s largest tech companies gave positive indications for the stock market despite widespread fears of an AI bubble on Wednesday. Four of the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks, the most valuable publicly traded companie…

Ed Davey attacks Reform calling it ‘Maga franchise’ and says Elon Musk funnels far-right ideas into UK via X UK politics live – latest updates The Liberal Democrats are pushing for a ban on MPs accepting payments from X as part of a proposed wider crackdown on what Ed Davey will call a “serious threat” to UK democracy from Donald Trump’s US and other countries. Announcing the plan on Tuesday, the…

As AI erases the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder, some gen Z workers skip the entry level to become their own CEOs When Ashley Terrell graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2024, she planned to find a job in marketing, maybe for a tech company. She had a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a college résumé that included a student marketing job for Red Bull. But after months…

Digital communication in its most basic forms can push us into an ‘always on’ state – and generate feelings of exclusion or rejection When I first started teaching at Oxford in 2005, I would offer “office hours” a couple of times a week. They were literally that – time for students to come by my office and chat about anything on their mind. Emails were formal and for rare occasions, with the expe…