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Ethical shopping | Ottolenghi’s fanbase | Successful Lib Dem leaders | Global taxation policies | Good riddance to billionaires Happily, Amazon thinks nothing about me because it doesn’t know me ( I’ve seen what Amazon thinks about me – and it revealed a depressing truth, 11 October ). I’ve boycotted Amazon for as long as I can remember, and I can promise anybody thinking of taking this step that…

Jean-Noël Barrot criticises X owner in speech attacking foreign efforts to destabilise France before 2027 election France’s foreign minister has accused Elon Musk of using his social media platform to orchestrate “massive online harassment campaigns” against European leaders as he took aim at foreign efforts to destabilise the country before next year’s presidential election. Speaking at an Organ…

Move aimed at firms such as Amazon and eBay could raise up to £1bn more for Treasury, says report A tax crackdown on online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay that could raise up to £1bn more for the Treasury is reportedly being drawn up for John Healey’s first budget. The chancellor is said to be preparing to announce that online marketplaces will be made responsible for collecting tax owed by…

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Kanishka Narayan, concerned by Australian incident, says British cyber defences could be bypassed by AI agent UK politics live – latest updates An AI-driven cyber-attack like the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister. Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government’s own cyber defences w…

Chantel Contos talks about her campaign against social media algorithms and how it has helped shape a groundbreaking bill in her native Australia to increase regulation of big tech Chanel Contos is in her mid-20s and has already changed Australia once. As she tells Annie Kelly , after she founded Teach Us Consent at university, the advocacy group successfully campaigned to change Australian’s nat…

Thinking Allowed, The Artificial Human and Free Thinking among other programmes hit by £500m cuts BBC Radio 4’s consumer rights show You and Yours is to be axed after more than 50 years, becoming one of the latest victims of the corporation’s £500m cuts plan. The programme, once described by the former Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer as “one of the most important” on the station, is one of a hand…

Lawyers launch super-complaint after research shows officers frequently dismiss image-based abuse Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled. Lawyers have gathered evidence from 100 people who repo…

Australian adults again able to access the world’s most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devices Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian adults will be able to access Pornhub once again after the site brought in age-checking on Apple devices in response to legal requirements that initially saw the site block users . In March,…

Push message claims fashion company’s data has been ‘fully compromised’, but website and app remain online Business live – latest updates Asos is investigating after users of its mobile app received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” the online fashion retailer’s data. The value of Asos’s shares on the London Stock Exchange dived almost 10% after thousands of customers receiv…

Scammers reuse personal details harvested from fake Esta websites – and texts and calls can keep arriving for months When the British actor Lisa Riley was preparing to travel to the US last year, she applied online for an Esta so she would not need a visa. After finding the site through a Google search she filled in her passport, bank and personal details and waited for the confirmation, which no…

Companies race to switch households to ‘voice over internet protocol’ services by the end of January BT has been accused of “bullying” customers by temporarily cutting off their broadband to pressure them to upgrade to a digital landline, as providers race to switch households over before the January deadline. Telecoms companies have so far migrated 16-17m lines from the old copper network to dig…

People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices For some, it is the security of knowing they have a physical copy of their favourite films and music, free from algorithms, interruptions and the vagaries of streaming. For others, it is the sound of needle on vinyl, the click of a cassette player and the ability to intera…

Responding to an editorial on Russian threats, Aneet Morar says companies that profit from spreading harmful content need to face real consequences Your editorial ( The Guardian view on Russian disinformation: a foreign threat that relies on UK complicity, 23 September ) is right that Andy Burnham’s warning about the Kremlin only tells half the story. I would go further: disinformation is one sym…