Internet

• The AI bubble will pop. It's up to us to replace it responsibly

  Mark Surman
• All politics is digital politics

  How liberals lost the internet

  Robert Topinka
• 'Chilling' hacking network is targeting vulnerable children, charity warns
• UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime

• Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

• Iran appears to ease internet blackout as cost of shutdown mounts

• 'It's not too late to fix it': web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a 'battle for the soul' of the internet

• Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft

  Jonathan Liew

• Pass notes

  Rejection spreadsheets: would 1,000 knockbacks make you a better person?

• Anti-pop and an alien sigil: how Aphex Twin overtook Taylor Swift to become the soundtrack to gen Z life online

• EU launches inquiry into X over sexually explicit images made by Grok AI

• The big interview

  Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter's death - and why a social media ban won't work

• Iran president's son urges authorities to restore internet after protests blackout

• Internet wormhole

  Blurry rats and coyotes with mange: the oddly thrilling subreddit dedicated to identifying wildlife

• Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests

• 'Cornwall isn't resilient enough': towns struggle with broadband outage after Storm Goretti

• Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in 11 days, study finds

• Deactivate your X account - you won't miss it when it's gone

• The big idea

  How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of 'human fracking'?

• 'Still here!': X's Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia and Indonesia despite ban