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• It's taken three years to recover from China hack, election watchdog says

  In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.

• Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests

  Thousands had taken to the streets demanding that the government lift the ban and tackle corruption.

• Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts

  Unexplained damage to the cables is causing delays in traffic going through the Middle East, the tech giant says.

• Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

  The Commission said competitors faced higher costs and reduced revenues as a result.

• Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

  Social media users also struggle to grab the game on the Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox game stores.

• Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat

  Dr Jean Innes is stepping down after the government told the charity to focus on defence research.

• World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police

  The take-down of the site has been championed as a major victory for live sports broadcasters.

• Creator of Charli XCX Apple dance settles Roblox lawsuit

  Kelley Heyer had accused the online platform of copying her choreography without permission.

• Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

  A new dataset with African languages should improve access to AI for millions on the continent.

• M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

  The hack has caused severe disruption at manufacturing plants globally, with some staff told not to come into work.

• Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit

  Google says the decision misunderstands how its products work, and it will appeal the ruling.

• Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein

  An image with the likeness of Mr Mangione was used to advertise a white, short-sleeved shirt.

• Family of dead teen say ChatGPT's new parental controls not enough

  OpenAI has introduced new rules in the wake of the family's allegations that ChatGPT encouraged their child to take his own life.

• A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means

  The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies a judge has instead ordered?

• Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals

  A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome web browser.