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Who is John Ternus, Apple’s next CEO?

Hardware engineering executive is a longtime Apple insider, indicating company will continue strategy that has led to record profits

Fifteen years after Steve Jobs, Tim Cook leaves a dramatically different Apple

Cook exported the smartphone revolution from the US to the world and turned Apple into one of the most powerful and profitable companies on Earth

Tim Cook to step down as Apple chief as John Ternus named replacement

Cook, who will stay on as executive chair, praises head of hardware engineering, who will take over on 1 September

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase

The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform

Is Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike’s new gender swap comedy inspired by The Two Ronnies?

Long-running 80s sketch The Worm That Turned imagined a dystopian world run by women, inspired by the election of Margaret Thatcher. It has not aged well – yet it bears similarities to a brand-new movie

Charlize Theron joins chorus of disapproval over Timothée Chalamet’s ballet comments

The former ballet dancer said Chalamet’s comments were ‘reckless’ in an interview with the New York Times in which she also discussed her violent childhood

London’s Last Wilderness review – mudflats meets Mad Max towers on eccentric estuary voyage

Through the eyes of an unseen explorer, Pablo Behrens’s experimental documentary takes us on an engaging but indulgent journey along the Thames estuary

The Trial review – searing record of Argentina’s courtroom reckoning with its brutal ‘dirty war’

Footage from the 1985 Trial of the Juntas is expertly edited into a documentary providing unforgettable witness to the repression that ‘disappeared’ thousands

‘We wasted a lot of lives’: CIA spymaster’s caution over past Iran intervention resurfaces from beyond the grave

A documentary about Peter Sichel – the ‘Jewish James Bond’, whose wine portfolio boasted Blue Nun – includes striking mea culpas about the cost and efficacy of US involvement in the Middle East

Primavera review – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is school-of-Salieri backdrop for period musical biopic

The composer has a musical relationship with a teenage violinist in this lifeless adaptation of a novel by Tiziano Scarpa

‘It’s about finding light in the dark’: why Harold and Maude is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers recommending their favourite comfort watches is a pick for 1971’s unusual romantic comedy

TV tonight: Romeo and Juliet gets a gritty gangster twist

Will Shannon and Arran’s lust at first sight win over their rival crime families? Plus: how the tragedy of Chernobyl unfolded. Here’s what to watch this evening

Rebel Wilson accused in court of trying to paint actor as ‘money grabbing opportunist’ as defamation trial begins

Wilson denies allegations made by Charlotte MacInnes, who she claims told her about uncomfortable situation with producer

Grimes joining LinkedIn is artwashing at its most brazen. I should know – I released my new film there

The business networking platform is rapidly becoming an AI slop dystopia – which made it the perfect place for my Nvidia-inspired fairytale, says multimedia artist Al Warburton

Olivia review – unhurried, painterly fable about loss aims to expose the meaning of grief

Argentinian director Sofía Petersen’s self-conscious film tries for the weight of slow cinema, but is formless, inert and hibernating within its own heavy unlit gloom

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