A history of Sony’s successes and failures

Founded in 1946, the Japanese company has broken Hollywood, changed the world of music and invented the robot dog, but it wasn’t always plain sailing

Maisie Williams: the Game Of Thrones star on cyberbullies and the fame game

At 12, the Bristol schoolgirl landed the role of Arya – and soon found herself juggling ordinary teenage life with online abuse and a growing fanbase

Seth Rogen forced to tone down key Kim Jong-un scene in The Interview

Sony’s Japanese CEO demanded – and won – concessions that scenes featuring Kim Jong-un were cut

Change.org raises $25m from media heavyweights in fresh funding round

Arianna Huffington, Ashton Kutcher and Bill Gates among investors in social activist platform, which eyes local expansion

Forget North Korea – the real rogue cyber operator lies much closer to home

A cyber-attack on Sony Pictures distracted attention from a more worrying story about a piece of malware used by GCHQ, writes John Naughton

Bleak picture: Sony-style hack attack could strike any company

Companies can spend millions on cyber security but still see sensitive data dumped on internet; the only full protection is to shut down business

North Korea denies hacking Sony Pictures

Pyongyang not behind cyber-attack that led to leak of several unreleased movies, says diplomat in New York

North Korea refuses to deny role in Sony cyber-attack

Experts say there is little hard evidence to point to Pyongyang, but secretive state appears happy to stay on list of suspects

The Imitation Game: how Alan Turing played dumb to fool US intelligence

David Cox: One of the few who knew that Bletchley had cracked Enigma was Ian Fleming – working in naval intelligence – but the Americans were kept in the dark

Love, loss and mixtapes: the Guardian and the Royal Court’s music microplay

Bijan Sheibani and John Harris on Groove Is in the Heart, which celebrates the ritual of recording a compilation tape in the days before the internet’s infinite jukebox

Welcome to the future: auto-lacing shoes on Kickstarter for $175

After hoverboarding, dreams of self-tying shoes finally realised for the year of Back to the Future II. By Samuel Gibbs

How did the Enigma machine work?

On the day The Imitation Game hits cinemas, a look at how Allied codebreakers untangled the Enigma

We need more radical sci-fi to inspire future tech

Sci-fi has taken a turn for the worse over the last two decades and it is damaging innovation, say Philip Byrne and Jed Hallam

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing’s outsider status fuelled his genius

Alan Turing biopic isn’t just about breaking the Enigma code – it’s also an attempt to show why he was a visionary and an AI pioneer decades ahead of his time, says director Morten Tyldum