Australian MPs are facing a rising tide of security threats. Our national politics has lost its down-to-earth spirit
The price of higher security for MPs is further distancing between decision makers and those who elect them
Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies aged 81
The acclaimed Irish actor started her career in Coronation Street and Casualty before a string of high-profile Hollywood roles
Chastity, nodding and enormous pores: will women also love Nolan’s Odyssey?
Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation has been met with almost universal acclaim – from mostly male film critics. Might women find the journey less comfortable?
The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer
The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today
Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?
Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious
‘I don’t play around’: Nolan fans fly into London to see The Odyssey at BFI Imax
Film fanatics arrive from US, Switzerland and Ireland for midnight premiere of director’s critically acclaimed epic
‘Laws were broken’: multistate effort to stop Paramount’s $111bn merger heads to court
Attorneys general from 12 states are suing to block the Paramount-Warner Bros deal they say violates antitrust law
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy
‘Brazen corruption’: critics denounce Trump Media plan to sell priority access to Truth Social posts
Move would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to potentially profit from seeing president’s posts first
The Dink to Wicked Little Letters: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
A fun sports comedy about a failed tennis prodigy, plus Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman go at it in a gloriously sweary and scandalous period drama
Heartstopper Forever review – sanitized sex scenes won’t let the Netflix lovebirds grow up
The film-length finale to the teen LGBTQ+ show has poignant moments but feels like fan service by numbers
‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey – and getting a puppy
How do you follow Oppenheimer? By spending $250m bringing Homer’s epic poem to the big screen in Imax. Today’s most powerful director talks big swings, trauma-bonding and the healing powers of chocolate labrador Charlie
Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review – wildly imaginative and intricate, but eminently approachable
Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral works
Neglected software update caused widespread Telstra network outage, CEO tells Senate inquiry
Vicki Brady told senators maintenance staff were unaware of mass outage risk as critical software failure ‘rippled slowly across the network’
Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO
The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options