British Library begins restoring digital services after cyber-attack
UK’s national library apologises to researchers, saying full recovery could take until end of the year
Egg timer, Coke bottle and a skull cast: VR puts Burns memorabilia in reach
Glasgow University has set up virtual trips showing stories behind the poems and exploring the poet’s life
My plan to topple the Tory dark lords in 2024
We need a fellowship of socially conscious heroes to fight the Conservatives and NHS data-grabbing firms and save our democracy
The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms
Empiricism, algorithms and smartphones are out – astrology, art and a life lived fiercely offline are in
Would I use AI to write my novels? I’d get better results from a monkey with an iPhone
I asked ChatGPT to improve my latest novel and lost no sleep over the results. But I do worry about diverse voices being crowded out, says novelist Monica Ali
‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial
Linda Marigliano: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
Sharing videos is a love language for the presenter and author. Here, she shows us a dancing frog and multiple mischievous children
Personal data stolen in British Library cyber-attack appears for sale online
Ransomware group Rhysida claims responsibility for hack and has posted images from library’s HR files
Young Americans are picking up the Qur’an ‘to understand the resilience of Muslim Palestinians’
Readers find themes that align with their values as they seek to ‘grow empathy’ for a religion long vilified in the west
The Guardian view on new dictionary words: a parlour game that can clarify a scary reality
Editorial: AI has given us hallucination as word of the year. We should quarrel with this humanising definition while recognising that it evokes unprecedented times
‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year
The psychological verb gained an extra meaning in 2023 that ‘gets to the heart of why people are talking about artificial intelligence’
‘It is a beast that needs to be tamed’: leading novelists on how AI could rewrite the future
Novelists and poets, Bernardine Evaristo, Jeanette Winterson, Stephen Marche and others, consider the threats and thrilling possibilities of artificial intelligence
Elon Musk biopic to be directed by Black Swan film-maker Darren Aronofsky
The Oscar-nominated film-maker will adapt the recent biography by Walter Isaacson after independent studio A24 won a ‘heated’ bidding war for rights
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’
The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition
Interpreters are wizards – at times they seem to have read my mind. AI could never compete
They can take another’s words and sentences and reshape them, on the instant, transforming my stammered-over words into sublimities, says novelist John Banville