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The internet has broken – again. Shouldn’t the tech firms that make billions from it pay to fix it?

I’ve been banging the drum about these vulnerabilities for years. It will take more than a handful of exhausted developers to keep us safe, says author and journalist Chris Stokel-Walker

‘If my brother hadn’t died, my life would be so different’: Olympic boxer Ramla Ali’s incredible journey

From fleeing the Somali civil war to fighting at the Tokyo Olympics, Ali’s life has been remarkable – and now she is being played by Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson in a new biopic. We hear from both on this ‘positive migrant story’

Judi Dench says sight loss means she can no longer perform but she is still ‘besotted by’ Shakespeare’s sonnets

Age-related macular degeneration has also left actor, 91, unable to read or recognise faces any more

‘The tech bro fight club is real!’ The titans of AI get the Succession treatment in a wild new TV show

The Audacity is a fearless satire taking on Silicon Valley’s ‘egomaniac weirdos’. Its creator and stars talk ayahuasca ceremonies, mining kids for data – and punching CEOs

How tech became the villain of the US midterms

Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

What Chris Rock’s film Misty Green misses about Black characters

Director Rock establishes the film’s setting of Los Angeles better than the lead character, played by Rosalind Eleazar

In You Can See Everything, it’s Elizabeth Holmes’s partner who makes for 2026’s timeliest villain

Nathan Fielder’s conversation-igniting film on the Theranos founder finds its darkest moments in her deceptive, Charlie Kirk-loving fiance Billy Evans

‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun

The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief?

860 review – Billy Crystal’s charisma powers rambling one-man play

The veteran actor charms with stories about his colorful life and losing his home in the LA fires while taking jabs at Trump

Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

Precautionary takedowns come as experts say vulnerability in PHP, which is used by 70% of sites, could be exploited

Tesla beats earnings projections after Musk floats SpaceX merger plan

Musk says ‘there’s a lot of merit’ to potential merger that would require approval of 50% of all Tesla shareholders, but declined to elaborate

Clayface review – flesh-stretching DC body horror is very gory but not very good

Liverpool makes for an unconvincing Gotham City in this effectively gross but otherwise middling attempt to milk money from a lesser-known Batman villain

‘A vehicle to expose prejudice, bias, and stupidity’: Sacha Baron Cohen defends Ali G as satire

The actor defended his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, saying his aim is to bring people ‘face-to-face with the danger of fanaticism and conspiracy theories’

‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?

With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives. But do they ever come out well?

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