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• Football and other premium TV being pirated at 'industrial scale'

  New research singles out the Amazon Fire Stick as the most popular means of accessing illegal streams.

• Customers furious after Game cancels Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders

  Affected customers - who have waited years for the console launch - have reacted with fury.

• Victoria's Secret takes down US website after 'security incident'

  Some in-store services are also suspended - the lingerie firm says it is "working round the clock" to restore them.

• It's Musk's last day - what has he achieved at the White House?

  The tech billionaire and Doge have spearheaded dramatic changes in the US government and Washington.

• Elon Musk leaves White House but says Doge will continue

  Musk's exit comes after he criticised the legislative centrepiece of the president's agenda.

• Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI

  The $300m deal, which will last one year, will see xAI's assistant Grok integrated into Telegram.

• Nvidia revenues surge despite tariff uncertainty

  Nvidia's share price rose by more than 5% in pre-market trading on Thursday after it beat Wall Street expectations.

• Temu's Chinese owner sees profits plunge as trade war bites

  US-listed shares of PDD Holdings fell over 13% on Tuesday as the firm said its profit had almost halved.

• Second suspect arrested in alleged crypto torture scheme

  Police say the two men kidnapped an Italian businessman and tortured him with a gun, chainsaw and electrical wires for nearly three weeks.

• Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google

  Under the new law, minors will need parental approval before they can download apps or make in-app purchases.

• Adidas says customer data stolen in cyber attack

  The sportswear giant says criminals accessed its systems through a "third-party customer service provider."

• Pornhub and three other porn sites face EU child safety probe

  The EU said the sites did not appear to have "appropriate" age verification to stop children accessing porn.

• The people who think AI might become conscious

  With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient

• Humanoid robots fight in Chinese kick-boxing competition

  The two humanoid robots traded punches while fans watched on, in a world-first humanoid robot fighting event.

• Indian IT giant investigates link to M&S cyber-attack

  M&S said earlier this week that the hackers got into systems via a third party - but did not say who that was.