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Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of white genocide' in South AfricaElon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a programming error" to explain why it said it was sceptical" of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of white genocide" in South Africa.Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I'm skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives." Continue reading...

Songwriter says he thinks it is a criminal offence' to let tech firms use protected work without permissionSir Elton John has called the UK government absolute losers" over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission.The singer and songwriter said it was a criminal offence" to change copyright law in favour of artificial intelligence companies. Continue reading...

Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should beIf you are one of the few people on the planet who fancies a chat with Keir Starmer, then there's a new AI model for you.A former chief of staff to a Tory minister has created Nostrada, which aims to enable users to talk with an AI version of each of the UK parliament's 650 MPs - and lets you ask them anything you want. Continue reading...

Features launching later this year to include live captions, braille reader improvements and accessibility nutrition labels' in the app storeApple has announced a broad range of new accessibility features for iOS focused on people with vision or hearing impairments, with the company downplaying the notion that the price of Apple hardware means accessibility comes at a cost.On Wednesday, before Global Accessibility Awareness Day on Thursday 15 May, Apple announced new accessibility features to launch on iOS later this year, including live captions, personal voice replication, improved tools for reading, braille reader improvements and nutrition labels" in the app store. Continue reading...

Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms?Can you count the number of times you've looked at your phone today? Or how often you've opened it to do one thing to find yourself doing something else entirely?If you're anything like me, you'll have little idea - merely an inkling - that it's more times than you'd hope. Smartphone algorithms are designed to capture our attention and hold it, but a new book written by an academic who studies them promises to help people take back control. Continue reading...

Latest twist in a contest between iPhone maker and Epic Games over payments for hit game on Apple devicesEpic Games says Fortnite is now unavailable on iPhones and iPads globally because Apple blocked a bid to release the popular video game in the App Store in the US and Europe.Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the US App Store or to the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union," the X account for Fortnite posted early Friday - claiming that Apple's move would now prevent the game's iOS availability around the world. Continue reading...

US retailers being targeted after attacks on Britain's Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and HarrodsUK-based members of the Scattered Spider hacking community are actively facilitating" cyber-attacks, according to Google, as disruption to British retailers spreads to the US.A group of hackers labelled Scattered Spider" have been linked with attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods, with Google cybersecurity experts warning this week that unnamed retailers across the Atlantic are being targeted as well. Continue reading...

Hackers paid overseas Coinbase employees for account data; company is offering $20m reward for informationThe biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the US forecast that a cyber-attack that breached account data of a small subset" of its customers would cost it between $180m and $400m. Coinbase said that price tag would not include the $20m ransom demanded by the hackers, which the company refused to pay.Coinbase, which sees the largest volume of cryptocurrency trades in the US, said that while the attackers stole some data including names, addresses and emails, they did not get access to login credentials or passwords. It will, however, reimburse the customers who were tricked into sending funds to the attackers. Continue reading...

Company could face fine of 6% of annual turnover if European Commission's preliminary verdict is upheldThe European Commission has said TikTok is in breach of EU digital laws that require transparency over who pays for advertising.The commission reached a preliminary verdict on the Chinese-owned short video platform's advertising policy, having launched an investigation in February 2024. The company could face a fine of 6% of global annual turnover, if the commission upholds this view. Continue reading...

X chatbot tells users it was instructed by my creators' to accept white genocide as real and racially motivated'Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok had been repeatedly mentioning white genocide" in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was instructed by my creators" to accept the genocide as real and racially motivated".Faced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding, the chatbot offered false and misleading answers. Continue reading...

Although Musk has pivoted from Doge, the Saudi summit shows how he's retaining proximity to the US presidentOver the course of an eight-minute interview, Elon Musk touted his numerous businesses and vision of a Star Trek future" while telling the crowd that his Tesla Optimus robots had performed a dance for Donald Trump and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, to the tune of YMCA. He also announced that Starlink, his satellite internet company, had struck a deal for use in Saudi Arabia for maritime and aviation usage; looking to the near future, he expressed his desire to bring Tesla's self-driving robotaxis to the country.We could not be more appreciative of having a lifetime partner and a friend like you, Elon, to the Kingdom," Saudi Arabia's minister of communications and IT, Abdullah Alswaha, told Musk. Continue reading...

Alphabet warns of Scattered Spider', network of hackers reportedly behind cyber-attack against UK retail giant M&SAlphabet's Google warned on Wednesday that hackers responsible for paralyzing disruptions of UK retailers are turning their attention to similar companies in the United States.US retailers should take note. These actors are aggressive, creative, and particularly effective at circumventing mature security programs," John Hultquist, an analyst at Google's cybersecurity arm, said in an email sent on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Government uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data billMinisters have used an arcane parliamentary procedure to block an amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose their use of copyright-protected content.The government stripped the transparency amendment, which was backed by peers in the bill's reading in the House of Lords last week, out of the draft text by invoking financial privilege, meaning there is no budget available for new regulations, during a Commons debate on Wednesday afternoon. Continue reading...

Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the cold

This might be the most French game ever - but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle epoque-inspired beauty than you thinkMuch has been made of the fact that the year's most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. (It has just sold its two-millionth copy). It's a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops, live-service games and eye-watering budgets: scrappy team makes a lengthy, unusual and beautiful thing, sells it for 40, and everybody wins. But it's not quite accurate.Sandfall Interactive, the game's French developer, comprises around 30 people, but as Rock Paper Shotgun points out, there are many more listed in the game's credits - from a Korean animation team to the outsourced quality assurance testers, and the localisation and performance staff who give the game and its story heft and emotional believability. Continue reading...

Thanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla's road rage-inducing street tank can't even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppersThe Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn't possibly pass up - a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that's illegal to drive in most of the world?Few had seen anything quite like the Cybertruck when it was unveiled in 2019. Wrapped in an ultra-hard, 30X, cold-rolled stainless steel exoskeleton", the Cybertruck was touted as the ultimate doomsday chariot - a virtually indestructible, obtuse-angled, electrically powered behemoth that can repel handgun fire and outrun a Porsche while towing a Porsche, with enough juice leftover to power your house in the event of a blackout. At the launch, Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, said the truck could tackle any terrain on Earth and possibly also on Mars - and all for the low, low base price of $40,000. Sometimes you get these late-civilization vibes [that the] apocalypse could come along at any moment," Musk said. Here at Tesla, we have the best in apocalypse technology." Continue reading...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts. This week's followed the Spain/Portugal outagesIf you were prepping, what should be your top five things to hoard in light of the recent power outages in Spain and Portugal? Alina Ahmad, JohannesburgSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading...

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New system will analyse responses 1,000 times faster than a human and save millions, ministers claimAn AI tool has been used to review public responses to a government consultation for the first time and is now set to be rolled out more widely in an effort to save money and staff time.The tool, named Consult", was first used by the Scottish government when it was seeking perspectives on the regulation of non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as lip filler. Continue reading...

Nvidia to sell hundreds of thousands of AI chips in Saudi Arabia and Cisco also signs deal with UAE company G42A swath of US technology firms announced deals in the Middle East as Donald Trump trumpeted $600bn in commitments from Saudi Arabia to American artificial intelligence companies during a tour of Gulf states.Among the biggest deals was a set signed by Nvidia. The company will sell hundreds of thousands of AI chips in Saudi Arabia, with a first tranche of 18,000 of its newest Blackwell" chips going to Humain, Saudi Arabia's sovereign-wealth-fund-owned AI startup, Reuters reported. Cisco on Tuesday said it had signed a deal with G42, the AI firm based in the United Arab Emirates, to help the company develop that country's AI sector. Continue reading...

Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in MarchMicrosoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce.The tech giant didn't disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US. Continue reading...

What if a simple selfie was enough to show scientifically how well or badly we're ageing? That moment's getting closer ...Name: FaceAge.Age: New. Continue reading...

As the UK debates AI and copyright, Trump hands a gift to Big Tech, drones proliferate along the India-Pakistan border and a robot dispenses methodroneHello, and welcome to TechScape. Sometimes it helps me to write by thinking about how a radio broadcaster or television presenter would deliver the information, so I'm your host, Blake Montgomery. Today in tech news: questions hover over the automation of labor in the worker-strapped US healthcare system; and drones proliferate in a new conflict: India v Pakistan, both armed with nuclear weapons. But first, how fights over AI and copyright take very different shapes in the UK and US. Continue reading...

Peers back amendment to data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material they have usedThe government has suffered another setback in the House of Lords over its plans to let artificial intelligence firms use copyright-protected work without permission.An amendment to the data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material is used in their models was backed by peers, despite government opposition. Continue reading...

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement - and do tech CEOs care?I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn't limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world's workers - which means you can capture their salaries. All of them.Replacing all human labour with AI sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But it is the explicit aim of a growing number of the tech elite - and these are people who lack neither drive nor resources, who have deep pockets and even deeper determination. If they say they want to automate all labour, we should take them at their word.Ed Newton-Rex is the founder of Fairly Trained, a non-profit that certifies generative AI companies that respect creators' rights, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University Continue reading...

Billy Evans, father of Holmes's children, says company can make diagnoses from users' blood, urine and salivaElizabeth Holmes's romantic partner - the father of her children - reportedly has raised millions of dollars to start up a new blood-testing company that is strikingly similar to the one that landed the Theranos founder in federal prison.The fundraising comes as Billy Evans, an heir to a hotel fortune, is pitching his new company, Haemanthus, to potential investors, according to the New York Times. Evans's pitch: a health-testing company that can make diagnoses from users' blood, urine and saliva. Continue reading...

US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands - and push some victims to suicideA TikTok video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of himself dancing and wearing a heavy gold chain. They boast to their eager followers about their path to wealth.BM got me a new car," states one caption on a video. $5,000 in a few hours." Continue reading...

While there have been concerns over the safety and legal status of the technology, working models from local startups are showing its benefits

A pharmacist and an engineer founded Opio Connect to make machines that dispense drugs and reduce drudge workLanea George pulls open a steel security door and enters a windowless room where a video camera stares at what looks like a commercial-grade refrigerator. The machine, dubbed Bodhi, whirrs and spins before spitting out seven small plastic bottles containing precisely 70ml of methadone, a bright pink liquid resembling cherry cough syrup. It is used as a substitute for morphine or heroin in addiction treatment.She scoops the bottles off the tray, bundles them with a rubber band and sets them on a shelf. It's not yet 10am and George, the nurse manager at Man Alive, an opioid treatment program - known colloquially as a methadone clinic - in Baltimore, has already finished prepping the doses for the 100 or so patients who will arrive the next day. Bodhi has changed my life and the lives of our patients," she says. Continue reading...

AI safety campaigner calls for existential threat assessment akin to Oppenheimer's calculations before first nuclear testArtificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer's first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems.

Hundreds of leading figures from UK creative industries urge prime minister not to give our work away'Hundreds of leading figures and organisations in the UK's creative industries, including Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Ian McKellen and the Royal Shakespeare Company, have urged the prime minister to protect artists' copyright and not give our work away" at the behest of big tech.In an open letter to Keir Starmer, a host of major artists claim creatives' livelihoods are under threat as wrangling continues over a government plan to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission. Continue reading...

Games like Roblox are played by millions of children globally - but some researchers warn dark design patterns embedded in them are difficult to avoid

Wikimedia Foundation seeks judicial review of some requirements of Online Safety Act it claims may endanger safety of volunteer editorsThe charity that hosts Wikipedia is challenging the UK's online safety legislation in the high court, saying some of its regulations would expose the site to manipulation and vandalism".In what could be the first judicial review related to the Online Safety Act, Wikimedia Foundation claims it is at risk of being subjected to the act's toughest category 1 duties, which impose additional requirements on the biggest sites and apps. Continue reading...

The newest trailer indicates Grand Theft Auto VI may have a soft centre, with its focus on outlaw lovers Lucia and JasonSomething new is coming to the Grand Theft Auto universe next year. I don't mean super-high-definition visuals, or previously unexplored areas of Rockstar's take on the US. This time it's something much more profound. If you've seen the newly released second trailer from GTA6 - somewhat cruelly released just days after we discovered the game won't be out until next May - then you might know what I mean. The brand new thing is romance.It's now clear that the key protagonists of the latest gangland adventure are Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval, two twentysomething lovers from the wrong side of the tracks. He's ex-army, now working for drug runners; she's fresh out of jail, looking to make a better life for herself and her beloved mom. They fall for each other, hatch a plan to get out of Vice City, and then when their simple heist goes wrong, they find themselves at the sharp end of a state-wide conspiracy. You always knew that if Rockstar were going to tell a love story, it would involve a formidable cast of underworld kingpins, gang members, conspiracy nuts and corrupt politicians, and you were right. Continue reading...

President Trump's tariffs have plunged the world economy into chaos. But history counsels against despair - and the left should seize on capitalism's crisis of legitimacySince Donald Trump launched his chaotic trade war earlier this year, it has become a truism to say he has plunged the world economy into crisis. At last month's spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, where policymakers and finance ministers from all over congregated, the attenders were shellshocked", the economist Eswar Prasad, a former senior IMF official who now teaches at Cornell, told me. The sense is that the world has changed fundamentally in ways that cannot easily be put back together. Every country has to figure out its own place in this new world order and how to protect its own interests."Trump's assault on the old global order is real. But in taking its measure, it's necessary to look beyond the daily headlines and acknowledge that being in a state of crisis is nothing new to capitalism. It's also important to note that, as Karl Marx wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please." Even would-be authoritarians who occupy the Oval Office have to operate in the social, economic and political environment that is bequeathed to them. In Trump's case, the inheritance was one in which global capitalism was already suffering from a crisis of legitimacy. Continue reading...

Our fashion expert rounds up her pick of the best phone straps, from beaded wristlets and cross-body straps to lanyards with recycled cases Jess Cartner-Morley's May style essentials: life-changing jeans and the ultimate holiday shoesYou're probably familiar with the concept of adding a finishing touch to your outfit: a belt that smartens up trousers, a great pair of sunglasses, statement jewellery that livens up a plain T-shirt. Well, now, there's a new accessory in town: the phone strap.For many of us, it's a must-have. On a practical level, it means you don't have to root around in your bag every time you need to check Google Maps for directions. With phone theft also an issue, it could keep your mobile safer. Continue reading...

Experts say such tools may give dangerous advice and more oversight is needed, as Mark Zuckerberg says AI can plug gapHaving an issue with your romantic relationship? Need to talk through something? Mark Zuckerberg has a solution for that: a chatbot. Meta's chief executive believes everyone should have a therapist and if they don't - artificial intelligence can do that job.I personally have the belief that everyone should probably have a therapist," he said last week. It's like someone they can just talk to throughout the day, or not necessarily throughout the day, but about whatever issues they're worried about and for people who don't have a person who's a therapist, I think everyone will have an AI." Continue reading...

How the global wrangle for natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fuelling one of the world's worst humanitarian crisesHello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, after three months of fighting, a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the works. I spoke to our east Africa correspondent, Carlos Mureithi, about the conflict, how quickly it escalated and the prospects for peace. Continue reading...

Vulcan device capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses' fuels fears of mass job lossesAmazon said it has made a fundamental leap forward in robotics" after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses.Vulcan - which launches at the US firm's Delivering the Future" event in Dortmund, Germany, on Wednesday and is to be deployed around the world in the next few years - is designed to help humans sort items for storage and then prepare them for delivery as the latest in a suite of robots which have an ever-growing role in the online retailer's extensive operation. Continue reading...

It's a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own addiction'?At 3.12pm on a sunny spring afternoon in St Albans, Yasser Afghen reaches for the iPhone in his jeans pocket, hoping to use the three minutes before his son emerges from his year 1 primary class to scroll through his emails. As he lifts the phone to his face, Matthew Tavender, the head teacher of Cunningham Hill school, strides across the playground towards him. Afghen smiles apologetically, puts his phone away, and spends the remaining waiting time listening to the birdsong in the trees behind the school yard.A one-storey 1960s block with 14 classrooms backing on to a playing field, Cunningham Hill primary feels like an unlikely hub for a revolution. But a year ago, Tavender and the school's executive head, Justine Elbourne-Cload, began coordinating with the heads at other primary schools across the city, then sent a joint letter to parents and carers across St Albans: the highly addictive nature of smartphones was having a lasting effect on children's brains. The devices were robbing children of their childhood. Could parents, the letter asked, please avoid giving them smartphones until they turned 14? Continue reading...

Damages awarded after earlier ruling found NSO unlawfully exploited a bug in WhatsApp to spy on usersMeta Platforms won a $168m verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said on Tuesday, capping a six-year arm-wrestling match between the US's biggest social-networking platform and the world's best-known spyware company.Meta had already won after a December ruling found that NSO had unlawfully exploited a bug in its messaging service WhatsApp to plant spy software on its users' phones. On Tuesday, a jury in California ruled that NSO owed Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages - and $167.3m in punitive damages, Meta said. Continue reading...

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No matter how many system updates the Meta boss runs, there will always be something about him that screams creepy automaton'. And the $270m apocalypse shelter doesn't helpOver the past few years Mark Zuckerberg has been conducting a very expensive experiment. If he grows his hair and revamps his wardrobe, will it make him seem more relatable? If he takes up mixed martial arts, goes wild boar hunting, and tells manosphere-adjacent podcasters such as Joe Rogan that companies need more masculine energy", will red-blooded American males respect him? With the help of a small army of stylists, personal trainers and PR gurus, could Zuck transform himself from an unlikable dork into an alpha bro?For a brief moment, the answer to all that seemed to be a tentative yes". Zuck's shock of shaggy new hair made the billionaire seem less like three Lego figures in a trenchcoat and more like an adult human male. His gold chains and jazzy new outfits sparked excited chatter of a Zucknaissance". The Meta billionaire also had a lucky break, PR-wise, in 2023 when Elon Musk, the world's least self-aware man, challenged him to a cage brawl. Cue a flurry of articles about how Zuck was actually a skilled athlete who would annihilate Musk in a fight, leaving approximately 950 children without their father. Continue reading...

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Documentary investigates the whereabouts of the model who played an influential corporate character, as well as the relationship between race and technologyBack when computers were still new, Mavis Beacon was an icon for generations of children learning IT skills. Her name, along with the accompanying image of a smiling, suited Black woman, graced countless editions of some popular software that taught typing through interactive lessons and games. For Black students, to see someone who looked like them in a position of authority and knowledge, inspired assurance and aspiration. Mavis Beacon, however, did not exist; she was a fictional character represented by a photograph of Renee L'Esperance, a Haitian model whose story is now lost to history. Eager to reclaim her legacy, film-maker Jazmin Jones and collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross embarked on a years-long quest to track down the woman behind the image.The resulting documentary is anything but conventional. Describing themselves as E-girl detectives", Jones and Ross draw on a wide variety of sources for their investigation. In addition to a physical headquarters - complete with an evidence board not unlike those seen in detective films of yore - there is a virtual dimension to their pursuit. We see what presumably is the cybersleuths' desktop screen, on which memes, Google maps and search results multiply like mushrooms after the rain. Continue reading...

CEO, Sam Altman, says decision to backtrack was made after hearing from civic leaders' and state attorneys generalOpenAI has reversed course in the process of transforming into a for-profit entity, announcing on Monday that its non-profit arm would continue to control the business that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) products. Previously, the company had sought more independence for its for-profit division.We made the decision for the nonprofit to stay in control after hearing from civic leaders and having discussions with the offices of the Attorneys General of California and Delaware," said CEO Sam Altman in a letter to employees. Altman and the chair of OpenAI's non-profit board, Bret Taylor, said the board made the choice for the non-profit to retain control of OpenAI. Continue reading...

The billionaire fired thousands of workers, but savings are minimal and offset by degradation of services, critics sayAs Elon Musk steps back from his role heading the so-called department of government efficiency" (Doge), many experts on government operations complain that Doge has done nothing to improve the quality of services the government provides to the American people.Doge is not offering any solid claims that it has improved services in any way," said Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. Rather, it has made the quality of some government services worse." Continue reading...

US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuseAutism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database - meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study - and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused.While the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denies it's a registry, the agency did confirm a sweeping database of autistic people will power a $50m study on autism. The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said last week that he plans to announce results from the study within months. Continue reading...

We gave you gardening tips, a spring fashion edit, the ultimate guide to anti-ageing and more. Here are the picks that inspired you most in AprilThe year always seems to pick up pace in spring, with the big house and garden tidy-up becoming all-consuming. The early spring sunshine has been wonderful (for those of us lucky enough to have seen some), though it does accelerate the pressure to ready your garden for the summer ahead.I spent winter trying not to look out of the window, fearing that most of the plants I'd optimistically bought last summer wouldn't make it. So it's a wonderful feeling to have the garden open up again - and many of you seem to agree. We were taken aback by the popularity of our pieces on how to get your garden ready for summer and the best secateurs to help you with the spring tidy. Continue reading...