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La Femme Infidèle review – Chabrol’s eerie domestic thriller is a brilliant ballet of repression and fear

Claude Chabrol’s eerie 1969 film charts a complex marriage in which a husband suspects his wife is cheating on him

Pressure review – stormy weather in tense D-day forecast retelling

Andrew Scott finds levels of complexity in a stoic character based on meteorologist James Stagg, the man who persuaded Eisenhower to delay Operation Overlord, for this slick wartime drama

Pixel 11 Pro review: Google’s best pocket camera goes customisable

Solid battery life, snappy performance and quality software make for a great smaller phone with a killer camera

‘He goes to the dark side’: behind the scenes on the Shaun the Sheep horror movie

Aardman’s hero is back in The Beast of Mossy Bottom – a terrifying tale of frankenfood, pitchfork-wielding villagers and a monster with suspiciously stiff orange hair. Our writer meets its makers and moulds her very own Shaun

Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world

Adam Mosseri says platform’s algorithm ‘feels like a black box’ but company trying to give users more control after Labor announces opt-out plan

Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030

Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become ‘superhuman systems’ that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade

Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030

One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity

The Fire Within You review – overheated family Christmas boils up too many stereotypes

Edoardo De Angelis’s claustrophobic drama brings a raging mother up from Naples for the holidays, with a capon. What could possibly not go wrong?

Apple’s new CEO introduces himself at annual showcase: ‘I continue to be inspired every single day’

John Ternus helms his first major event as head of $4.5tn company, where he announces first foldable iPhone

Apple unveils folding iPhone Duo as new CEO takes center stage

The passport-size iPhone Duo serves as the first big test for John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook last week

Russian director refuses to denounce lead actor despite criticism from Ukraine

Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s DAU, about physicist Lev Landau, stars Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis who has refused to speak out against Putin’s war

Union Town review – passionate exposé of US delivery workers’ employment conditions

Barbara Kopple returns with her third film investigating US workers’ rights – this time, undocumented ‘deliveristas’ and the attempts to unionise Amazon staff

John Malkovich cancels Israel trip over fabricated solidarity quote

The Wild Horse Nine actor had been due to appear on stage in The Music Critic in Tel Aviv – but pulled out over PR firm’s ‘unacceptable and untenable’ attribution of statement

Australia is on a collision course with US big tech. Could it cause Trump to turn on his ‘mate’?

Anthony Albanese wants social media algorithms to be optional – and it’s not the first Musk-Zuckerberg irritant emanating from Australia

RentTech companies asking tenants for personal details ‘completely outside’ new Victorian laws

Some rental platforms encourage hopeful tenants to share ‘excessive’ amount of information, Consumer Policy Research Centre review finds

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  • English far-right extremist who discussed killing Jews, Muslims and migrants is jailed
  • The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama
  • Amazon raises starting pay to $20 an hour and adds Whole Foods discount
  • Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
  • UK politics: Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ – as it happened
  • Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate
  • Location-tracking apps have turned me into a gibbering wreck – but I just can’t look away
  • Resident Evil review – Zach Cregger’s rebooted action horror is a wild rollercoaster ride
  • ‘Godfather of AI’ says tech regulation is nearing Covid-style pivot moment
  • Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
  • The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better
  • EU moves closer to social media ban for under 13s
  • Smile at Last review – photo-love-story style parable of a teen abandoned at a tough Soviet youth facility
  • Amazon to launch Ring ‘neighbourhood watch’ app in UK amid US privacy fears
  • Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85
  • In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan
  • Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
  • Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
  • The best life hack I’ve ever heard? Monetise what you’re bad at
  • ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation
  • Your mission, Tom Cruise, is to improve at interviews. And please keep sending the cakes
  • The US government is failing Americans on AI
  • Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life
  • The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance
  • Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’
  • Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says
  • Your photos, your words and your work: why is Labor making it easier for AI companies to take them for free?
  • Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling
  • Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration
  • A Talent for Murder review – Helen Mirren is a viperous Patricia Highsmith in hit-and-miss thriller

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