Tech bros need to realise deepfake porn ruins lives – and the law has to catch up
Taylor Swift is just one of countless victims of deepfake videos. Firms feeding off this abuse should pay for the harm they cause
Everyone Knows That: can you identify the lost 80s hit baffling the internet?
Entire online communities have developed around naming this 17-second snippet of catchy pop – and three years after it was uploaded no one has solved the mystery
Danish man on trial over alleged £500k music streaming fraud
Aarhus court hears he may have profited from artificially generated playbacks, in case thought to be first of its kind
Jazz composer Maria Schneider: ‘David Bowie cracked me – maybe not in a good way’
The US musician has won star admirers and seven Grammys across three decades of lyrical and angry work – but you can’t stream it. She explains her fight against big tech, and her dismay at other artists’ apathy
Fungi: Web of Life review – Björk and Merlin Sheldrake guide trippy mushroom doc
Beginner’s guide to the wrap-your-brain-around-them facts of mycological science boosts the wonder with 3D time-lapse photography
Spotify swings to loss as it adds 200,000 audiobooks to paid service
Job cuts add to costs for streaming service but it gains 10m premium subscribers in fourth quarter
‘I’ll probably be OK, right?’ Musicians and users concerned as Universal music taken off TikTok
Contractual dispute between Universal Music Group and social media giant results in removal of thousands of songs, and loss of marketing clout for musicians
Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalog from TikTok in furious open letter
UMG said it will remove all songs from TikTok after it accused the social media platform of trying to ‘bully’ them into ‘a bad deal’ over music rights fees
Taylor Swift deepfake pornography sparks renewed calls for US legislation
Fake but convincing explicit images of pop singer were viewed tens of millions of times on X and Telegram, prompting outcry from US politicians
On my radar: Margo Price’s cultural highlights
The US country star on learning a new instrument at 40, her favourite place to eat in Nashville and an app she’s happy to have send her to sleep
‘It can only be good’: Elvis tribute acts embrace the hologram Presley
Acts gathering in Birmingham for Elvis championships welcome forthcoming hi-tech concert experience
AI Elvis not the first hologram star to shake his moves on stage
From Abba to Tupac Shakur, more and more deceased or ageing stars are being brought back to their former glory thanks to AI
So, Spotify knows how many hours I spent listening to Taylor Swift. But only I know why
Every tech company from Monzo to my bank is crunching my data. All the results tell us is how dull it is to reduce human experience to numbers, says journalist Elle Hunt
Marvel, crypto, Tucker Carlson: eight of 2023’s most spectacular downfalls
Experts on tech, politics and culture weigh in on the year the hype faded and what could come next
Calum Newton: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The musician and comedian (AKA Candy Moore) tells us what’s calming his existential dread lately – including a classic Vine, a classic TikTok and two covers of stone-cold classics