Tech

• Own a mobile phone? Then you’re paying the ‘app tax’. It’s a racket and it’s time the UK faced Apple and Google down | Chi Onwurah
• Apple iPhone 18 Pro review: big changes for small differences
• Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
• Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’
• The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
• ‘We are in a kind of war’: row over viral Amsterdam chip shop lands in court
• OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
• Deepfake review – ingenious interview with a PM who dances around every issue
• ‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
• US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
• ‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology
• ‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash
• ‘It could get an orgasm out of a cabbage’: the best vibrators, tested
• ‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
• Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra clash in testy California governor’s race debate
• Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns