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Government orders 5,000 GPUs for ‘BritGPT’ • Downing Street intervenes in British AI building project

Amazon pivots to video shopping • TikTok threat prompts ecommerce giant to act

The slow road to self-driving cars • Drivers were meant to be redundant by now. But as James O’Malley discovers, self-driving technology is quietly improving

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

Entertainment is a hard sell • To everyone’s chagrin, Dick refuses to don false eyelashes and a sunny disposition simply to make money online

Fix the basics first, then let’s get to the future • Facebook and Google should clean up their own houses before trying to get into mine

Time to end this stupid game • We either need a universal way to benchmark the performance of PCs… or for people to stop asking Barry what they should buy

Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

Readers’ poll • Is Windows 10 Microsoft’s best OS of all time?

Windows 10 Stick, upgrade or switch? • With hundreds of millions of computers still stuck on Windows 10, due to go end of life in 2025, we investigate your options

Linux Mint • Nik Rawlinson is already a Linux convert. Here, he offers a few good reasons to switch

Tiny11 • We asked Nik Rawlinson to move out of his comfort zone and give this stripped-down version of Windows 11 a try

Windows 11 in the cloud • There is a novel, if painfully expensive, option: stream a Windows desktop instead. Jon Honeyball delivers his verdict

Windows 10 end-of-life security reality check • Davey Winder explains how vulnerable you’ll be if you decide to carry on using Windows 10 past its sell-by date

The Honeyball verdict • We asked Jon Honeyball to share the advice he would give to someone down his local if they were still running Windows 10 for personal or business use

Supercharge Chrome & Edge with these 10 BRILLIANT EXTENSIONS • Last month we investigated browsers that could speed up your work. This month, Nik Rawlinson finds ten extensions for Chrome holdouts

BEST OF IFA 2023 • WHAT WERE THE BIGGEST RELEASES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THIS YEAR’S EUROPEAN SHOWCASE OF ALL THINGS TECH?

Fairphone5 • The best Fairphone yet is also the most repairable, but don’t expect the pinnacles of speed or image quality

Geekom Mini IT 13 • A beefy specification for a mini PC, if you’re willing to gamble on the comparatively unknown company

Dell Inspiron 24 All-in-One • By no means powerful or luxurious, but this simple work machine produces the goods for a competitive price

AcerPredator Orion7000 (2023) • Killer gaming performance at 4K thanks to an RTX 4090, but that power comes at the expense of fan noise

Dell XPS 13 Plus (2023) • An elegant design and lovely 3.5K OLED display are let down by a frustrating keyboard and bad battery life

Linksys Velop Pro 6E • Not the fastest 6E mesh we’ve seen, but in terms of bang per buck it’s a compelling contender

SPECIALBUNDLE Parallels Desktop for Mac 19 + Windows 11 Pro • Claim this bundle for £129.99 – including the full Windows 11 Pro OS and a one-year licence to Parallels – and save 58% on the full price

Asus RT-AX59U • A very reasonably priced Wi-Fi 6 router that provides good performance and excellent firmware features

Canon Maxify GX6550 • A compact design, high-quality output and efficient page yields make this ink tank printer...