Staff at 5 Live told he will not return following claims about his previous career at Sullivan’s Sport newspapersThe BBC radio presenter Tony Livesey has left the broadcaster after allegations were raised about his previous career as the editor-in-chief of David Sullivan’s Sport newspapers.Staff at 5 Live, where Livesey had most recently presented the 10pm to 1am show four days a week, were told he would not be returning to the station, having stepped away from the role after the allegations first emerged. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/03/tony-livesey-leaves-bbc-david-sullivan-allegations">Continue reading...</a>

Staff at 5 Live told he will not return following claims about his previous career at Sullivan’s Sport newspapers

Radio presenter Tony Livesey leaves BBC after David Sullivan allegations

Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illnessThe writer and broadcaster Rod Liddle, a prominent columnist for the Sunday Times and the Sun, has died after a short illness. He was 66.Liddle, whose provocative style attracted praise and criticism, also wrote for the Spectator magazine and earlier in his career edited BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/03/sunday-times-and-sun-columnist-journalist-rod-liddle-dies-aged-66">Continue reading...</a>

Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness

Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66

Pupils who open accounts aged 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects than those who wait a few years, study findsChildren who open social media accounts at the start of secondary school appear to perform worse in tests than those who delay, with researchers suspecting that the constant checking for updates is a major distraction for many students.Pupils who opened their first social media account aged 11 to 12 scored lower in mathematics and reading tests than those who waited a few years, with scores at age 16 differing between the groups by the equivalent of about six months of learning, the study found. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/03/children-using-social-media-younger-age-worse-school-tests">Continue reading...</a>

Pupils who open accounts aged 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects than those who wait a few years, study finds

Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests

Newspaper revealed that US prosecutors demanded contacts and sources from reporter Matthew ColeThe <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> subpoenaed a freelance reporter for the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/new-york-times">New York Times</a> in connection with reporting on a failed top secret mission in North Korea, according to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/us/politics/times-subpoena-reporter-trump-north-korea.html">a report</a> published Saturday by the Times.The previously unreported subpoena, issued by prosecutors in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/virginia">Virginia</a>, was delivered by FBI agents to reporter Matthew Cole’s home in New York, the Times said. According to the newspaper, prosecutors are demanding that Cole turn over two years of contacts and sources. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/01/subpoena-freelance-new-york-times-reporter">Continue reading...</a>

Newspaper revealed that US prosecutors demanded contacts and sources from reporter Matthew Cole

Freelance New York Times reporter subpoenaed over reporting on failed US mission in North Korea

Shift from Westminster risks weakening scrutiny as regional titles battle hostility, big tech and ‘news deserts’Greater support for local media is needed to hold mayors and councils to account under <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/30/burnham-mayors-income-tax-business-rates-devolution">Andy Burnham’s plans for devolution</a>, which would involve a massive transfer of power into local government, publishers have said.A range of figures involved with local news broadly welcomed new plans unveiled by the prime minister, but said that monetising content, barriers erected by populist politicians and the roles of big tech and the BBC were among the challenges they faced. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/01/publishers-call-for-stronger-local-media-under-andy-burnham-devolution">Continue reading...</a>

Shift from Westminster risks weakening scrutiny as regional titles battle hostility, big tech and ‘news deserts’

Local media needs support if devolution push is to succeed, publishers say

Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online postsWhen reporter Max Blumenthal went to a cafe in Tehran one night a few weeks ago to upload videos from his reporting on the funeral of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, he began seeing social media posts from Trump ally Laura Loomer targeting him, including <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2073934330158886922">one</a> that suggested he should be “taken off the plane by US Marshalls when he lands back in the US … [and] detained”.“I began to prepare myself for being harassed on my return,” Blumenthal said. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/border-patrol-reporter-laura-loomer">Continue reading...</a>

Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online posts

US reporter fighting back after border patrol seized his cellphones

Prominent Fox News hosts have expressed concern, bewilderment and frustration over US objectives in IranThroughout his two presidencies, Donald Trump has leaned on reliable support from the conservative opinion wing of his favorite cable news channel, Fox News.But, like a broad swathe of the American public, several traditionally supportive commentators on the channel have recently expressed concerns about whether the war on Iran is succeeding, suggesting that Trump is on increasingly dicey footing in the conservative media world he relies on for backing. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/01/fox-news-iran-war-trump-criticism">Continue reading...</a>

Prominent Fox News hosts have expressed concern, bewilderment and frustration over US objectives in Iran

Trump’s favorite cable news channel is pushing back against his war on Iran

Former Liberal, ‘anti-woke’ film animator and councillor who says he used to work on Daniel Andrews’ security team among lineup for November’s state poll<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/aug/03/australia-news-live-fuel-excise-cut-jim-chalmers-cost-of-living-anthony-albanese-labor-angus-taylor-coalition-one-nation-pauline-hanson-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul>One Nation has named its first candidates for the upcoming Victorian state election, as the party leader, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/01/is-one-nation-big-enough-for-barnaby-joyce-and-pauline-hanson-rumours-of-internal-ructions-abound">Pauline Hanson</a>, has vowed to ban the ABC and the Guardian from attending her press conferences during the campaign.Guardian Australia understands reporters from the ABC and the Age were refused entry to Hanson’s press conference on Monday, where she announced seven of the eight candidates who will lead One Nation’s upper house tickets. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/03/one-nation-candidates-victoria-state-election-2026-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>

Former Liberal, ‘anti-woke’ film animator and councillor who says he used to work on Daniel Andrews’ security team among lineup for November’s state poll

One Nation names eight Victorian election candidates as Hanson bars ABC and Guardian from press conferences

Adam O’Neal did not give reason for his departure at end of August in another major shakeup at US publicationThe Washington Post had realized a state of relative calm in the five months since the paper was turned upside down in February, when nearly half the newsroom was <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/04/washington-post-layoffs">laid off</a> and its unpopular publisher, Will Lewis, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/12/will-lewis-washington-post-publisher">abruptly</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/washington-post-will-lewis-resigns">resigned</a>.But on Friday, staffers were shocked to find out that Adam O’Neal, a millennial hired last year to lead its opinion section, was already leaving. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/31/washington-post-opinion-editor-resigns-adam-oneal">Continue reading...</a>

Adam O’Neal did not give reason for his departure at end of August in another major shakeup at US publication

Washington Post’s opinion editor resigns after just one year in role

I am hanging on to a product that makes people I loathe more super-rich while they trash the worldThere is so much talk of all the lonely people in the world right now that the pervasive state of loneliness is being called an epidemic.I don’t think that is an overstatement. I see loneliness around me all of the time. Everywhere. Not just in the faces of rough sleepers who look up at passers-by in the hope of finding eye contact and a little empathy – but also in the faces of those who rush past avoiding them, their heads wired or aired to their phones. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/social-media-addiction-loneliness">Continue reading...</a>

I am hanging on to a product that makes people I loathe more super-rich while they trash the world

Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us? | Paul Daley

Connection with voters on screen only pays off when it’s matched with bold policies in the real world – as it has for Zohran Mamdani in New YorkAndy Burnham is having a good time. I can’t remember the last time a prime minister (or indeed any high-profile British politician) actually looked as though they were enjoying what they were doing. I saw a clip the other day in which <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/2083206579852124414?s=20">Burnham remembered</a> arguing with his dad about the point of an English degree, quoted poetry and discussed the importance of mastering words. It was almost enough to make you feel sorry for Keir Starmer. In his entire time as leader of the Labour party and then the head of the government, Starmer delivered not a single unprocessed moment. No natural sentiment escaped the carapace. And here is his successor, practically oozing it.It matters. It’s good and healthy to have a leader who looks as though they want to be where they are. Whose approach isn’t that of a scold or a receiver who has taken control of the premises, or someone whose sole aim is to tenaciously clamber up to the top job and hold on for dear life.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/andy-burnham-digital-age-political-success-good-on-camera">Continue reading...</a>

Connection with voters on screen only pays off when it’s matched with bold policies in the real world – as it has for Zohran Mamdani in New York

Finally, we have a PM for the digital age. But real change requires more than just being good on camera | Nesrine Malik

The trillionaire Tesla owner has called the editor of the Economist a ‘traitor to the west’ after a clash-filled interview. How should the media respond?Elon Musk’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuoqKYxDHVc">long interview with the editor of the Economist</a> is as good a representation as any of the current clash between two worlds. In one corner, the editor of an 182-year-old news organisation which promotes economic liberalism and freedom. In the other, the world’s first trillionaire, who spreads misinformation to his hundreds of millions of followers on his own social media platform. The bout is a masterclass in the challenges journalists face in a new world of AI, fact avoidance and online aggression.The flash points in Zanny Minton Beddoes’ conversation with Musk start with definitions. Musk says that the people Minton Beddoes calls “far-right” and “fringe” (she mentions Germany’s AfD party) are in fact just “normal people”. They clash over whether the speed of his cuts to USAID led to unnecessary deaths in developing countries – she believes his claim that it didn’t defies not only statistics but the evidence from her reporters on the ground. Asked if he is racist, he cites the fact he has four children with a woman who is “half Indian”. In an awkward exchange, when asked by Minton Beddoes whether he is anti-Muslim, Musk says he is against “people coming to a country with antithetical views … I’m against rape and murder.”Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group. As the Marjorie Deane professor of financial journalism at City St George’s, University of London, she has a connection through a charitable foundation to Zanny Minton Beddoes, who is chair of trustees. She writes in a personal capacityDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click here</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/01/elon-musk-truth-interview-editor-economist">Continue reading...</a>

The trillionaire Tesla owner has called the editor of the Economist a ‘traitor to the west’ after a clash-filled interview. How should the media respond?

In the battle of Elon Musk v the press, we can’t let truth be the loser | Jane Martinson

Animated cats banter tediously in a show that’s determined to shock, but which leaves you checking your watch to see how long is left. It’s lazy, dated and far too pleased with itselfAccording to multiverse theory, there are parallel realities in which news of a new Ricky Gervais project instils a feeling other than dread. But we don’t live in them. Having seen his new series, Alley Cats (Netflix, from Friday 7 August), a boorish banter-vehicle in which animated cats shoot the breeze like a bunch of pub bores, I’m not sure what there is to report – other than the fact that I didn’t laugh once. Considering what a fan I once was, I find this remarkable. What&nbsp;happened?Woke happened, is what his diehard fans would say. Gervais has paid the price of a shifting Overton window on jokes about dwarves and disabled people and trans people. You can’t say anything any more, they lament, while defending a wealthy, highly platformed man who proves the opposite. They’re not wrong, though – politics plays a part. While writing this, I stepped outside to say hello to a queer friend who was, naturally, buying a bicycle in the street. I asked her what she made of Ricky Gervais. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/01/alley-cats-ricky-gervais-review-back-boorish-sweary-comedy">Continue reading...</a>

Animated cats banter tediously in a show that’s determined to shock, but which leaves you checking your watch to see how long is left. It’s lazy, dated a...

Alley Cats: Ricky Gervais is back with a boorish, sweary comedy – and I didn’t laugh once

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OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI land...

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actually go. 

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events t...

Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app. 

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locke...

WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, sum...

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pen testing. 

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annu...

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else. 

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler. 

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman is calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...

Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. 

TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking ...

These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout . 

Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or goo...

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