I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

Chinese app RedNote is rocketing up download charts – in Australia the sudden uptake is not just about TikTok

Experts say the flood of users to the Chinese app highlights flaws in the Albanese government’s social media ban

Nintendo announces its next console, the Switch 2

A larger screen, redesigned snap-off controllers and a new Mario Kart make an appearance in a reveal trailer

Stronger age checks to come into force for online pornography sites in UK

Regulator Ofcom releases guidelines that call for use of face scans, credit cards checks or photo-ID

TikTok is the only truly democratic social platform. A US ban would rob us all

Nothing has challenged Silicon Valley like the Chinese app. Blocking its use in the US would be like stealing half the books in a library, writes content creator Sophia Smith Galer

Billion-dollar video game: is this the most expensive piece of entertainment ever made?

How player-funded development launched a multiplayer game of galactic proportions – and costs – in Star Citizen

Smartwatch bands can contain ‘major’ levels of toxic PFAS, study finds

High amounts of ‘forever chemicals’ that can be absorbed through skin detected in common brands of wrist bands

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket blasts off in challenge to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Launch of Amazon founder’s New Glenn craft on second attempt ramps up rivalry between tech billionaires

Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy

Ed Miliband says funding pledge means Britain within ‘grasping distance’ of ‘secure, clean, unlimited energy’

For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

To think, until nearly the end of the last century, everyone had to write like this, says Adrian Chiles

SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon

Privately built spacecraft from Texas-based Firefly and Japan’s ispace will conduct experiments for future missions

Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool

Luke Evans, whose work has been called ‘breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipment

The best treadmills for your home: up your indoor miles with our runner-approved picks

Whether you’re chasing folding treadmills or gym quality on a budget, our top-rated running machines will accelerate your training

Labour’s AI plan could be good for British people – except the creatives it will throw under the bus

The proposed new law will hand over artists’ and writers’ copyright so their competitors can be trained for free. The government must reconsider, says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained

Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’

Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers