The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped – and that’s OK
If you have to Google an internet or gen Z/alpha slang term, you absolutely shouldn’t be using it. I’m accepting this milestone with quiet dignity
BBC hires 26-year-old entrepreneur to help reach younger audiences
Brandon Relph, who founded first company at 13, joins strategy team in ‘much-needed step’ for the broadcaster
‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction
After his fall from grace, media’s former enfant terrible is now sober and helping others with his addiction recovery newsletter and podcast, The Small Bow
‘James Dean has got nothing on that kid’: River Phoenix films – ranked!
As Stand By Me is re-released for its 40th anniversary, we look at the late actor’s most intense, enduring roles – from a goofball boffin to a narcoleptic hustler
Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
Preceding a long-awaited sequel, Griffin Dunne’s supernatural suburban romance gets a big-screen rerelease. With its romcom quirk, buttery cinematography and stabs of black comedy, it remains a zany gem
Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating
Government introduces several measures, including monitoring of computers, for pupils aged 16 to 19
Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
Super Troopers 3 review – misfiring cop comedy threequel
The return of the country’s most incompetent police force fails to bring enough laughs or any real justification for its existence
Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish?
No, Amazon, I do not want to buy another version of the thing I just bought, or any other random object I don’t recognise or understand, writes Joel Snape
Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
Waititi’s eccentric drama sends the late actor into the New Zealand wilderness with his young charge, angry authorities in hot pursuit
Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all
Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
Michael Almereyda’s 1994 horror romance is an indie gem – with a cameo from executive producer David Lynch as a morgue attendant
Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays
Long days with nothing to do is the whole point of summer. Turning it into a ‘making memories’ exercise is creepy and controlling, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
How to Feed a Dictator review – what was on the menu for some of the world’s most evil men
Andrew Neel’s documentary contrasts the lavish dishes eaten by heads of repressive states – served by largely unrepentant staff – with the starvation faced by their citizens
American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
A retrospective at the Locarno film festival looks back at the era of Huac’s domination of US culture, uncovering some sobering lessons for now