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‘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

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

Kalshi to offer betting on drug trial results and FDA regulatory decisions

Move comes as prediction platforms rapidly gain popularity and offer opportunities to bet on virtually anything

‘A masterpiece in every way’: The Odyssey earns near universal acclaim as full reviews published

Christopher Nolan’s epic was given five stars by the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph, while the New York Times called it a ‘monumental adaptation’

Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?

The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president’s crypto fortune. How did Sun’s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?

Inquest reopened into death of 14-year-old boy after mother’s TikTok ‘addiction’ concern

Landmark high court ruling calls for fresh inquiry into Jools Sweeney’s death to allow for previously omitted social media evidence

‘From the father of the guy who made Obsession’: is the nepo dad the new nepo baby?

With Dane Cook set to star in his new film, Curry Barker’s dad joins Lana Del Rey’s dad and Tom Holland’s dad in a new wave of nepo daddies

Our sensitive teen daughter’s self-worth is tested by social media and peers. What should we do?

The more unusual you are, the more unusual it is to find people like you, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. With time, her world will expand

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup

Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training

‘He annotated my letter from Spielberg’: readers pay tribute to Sam Neill

From teeing up a marriage to inspiring a career and giving 144 bottles of wine to his birthday band, the star’s admirers share their fondest memories

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  • Think of England review – far-fetched tale of state-sponsored second world war porn turns deadly serious
  • Being Heumann review – stirring biopic of a pioneering disability rights campaigner
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