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Halle Bailey: ‘It’s a vulnerable place to be – a young woman cast as a Disney princess’

The singer and Little Mermaid star answers your questions on ‘cool auntie’ Beyoncé, Bridgerton – and being confused for Halle Berry

‘The internet has seen me at my best and my worst’: meet Jojo, Australia’s ASMR superstar

With 5.17 million YouTube subscribers, the 27-year-old might be the most successful ‘ASMRtist’ in the world

Starmer vows to tackle social media’s ‘addictive features’ to protect children

Prime minister says UK must do more to regulate against potential harms after landmark ruling in US court

Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project

Eline van der Velden says she developed her ‘digital twin’ to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expected

The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for children – and the US justice system

In a court of law, tech titans will be judged not for who they are, but what they do. We should take comfort in that

Rave Culture: A New Era review – high energy testimonial to the UK’s dance revolution

It could do with more robust political context, but this Spanish-made documentary is still a loving, insightful delve into rave’s lasting influence and lost-weekend logistics

William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet review – Baz Luhrmann’s joyful tragedy is still extravagantly full of life

The 1990s love tragedy starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes is a tonic and a delight

Travelers flock to Clear security app to bypass TSA lines amid US airport chaos

Clear Secure has seen jump in new sign-ups amid the partial government shutdown as TSA workers go unpaid

They Will Kill You review – satanic beat-’em-up offers gore, bad jokes and deja vu

A housekeeping role turns into a fight for survival in a derivative cocktail of action, comedy and horror that doesn’t go down all that well

Dodging the ‘wrinkle wagon’: why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

The Blue Trail, about a rebellious 77-year old woman who escapes forced exile for elderly people, has struck a nerve in a country where ageism is widespread

Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter

I’m a young woman, and people keep telling me the internet has ruined my brain. Is this helpful?

A new ruling valuably highlights the ways social media can damage very young users. But has it really ruined my whole generation, asks freelance writer Isabel Brooks

Muskism by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff review – how Elon Musk is reshaping the world

Henry Ford changed the face of industry forever – what kind of economic model do Musk’s methods presage?

Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up

Raoul Peck’s film about the Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist makes a compelling case for its continuing relevance but could ask more searching questions about its author

Charity Commission warns Alan Turing Institute of its legal duties after complaints

Exclusive: Watchdog issues formal guidance to trustees at top AI research institute after staff expressed concerns

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  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day: new characters, new flaws, new tech and brain-exploding future consequences – discuss with spoilers
  • Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
  • Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
  • ‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
  • Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded
  • This Tempting Madness review – watchable psychological suspense offers Mexican standoff of gaslighting
  • Barbie sequel at risk as salary talks with Robbie, Gosling and Gerwig hit impasse
  • The Ribbon Hero review – do-gooder princess battles giant flying earwigs in update of classic yarn
  • Memory review – a cinematic exorcism through a child’s eye view of terror in the Chechen wars
  • Atlas of Disappearance review – forensic quest for thousands of forgotten victims of the Spanish civil war
  • Finally, we have a PM for the digital age. But real change requires more than just being good on camera
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes debut to $927m box office to land second biggest opening weekend in history
  • ‘The greatest arms I’ve ever seen’: Matt Damon’s muscular female stunt double Devyn Dalton
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  • Why we’re all obsessed with Jimothy the raccoon, the internet’s animal of the moment
  • Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy
  • From The Wizard of Oz to Trainspotting: 25 films to watch before you turn 25
  • UK’s state investments agency hit by data breach
  • The brief life and sudden death of Zyzz: why did the bodybuilding influencer die at just 22?
  • ‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
  • Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
  • China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House
  • Biohacker Bryan Johnson is keeping his girlfriend’s menstrual blood in his freezer
  • If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid
  • The great British switch-off: how floating retreats, mobile-free pubs and sauna book groups are liberating people from their phones
  • In the battle of Elon Musk v the press, we can’t let truth be the loser
  • ‘We didn’t feel safe’: Booking.com users face battle to get money back
  • ‘A towering piece of monoculture’: how The Odyssey discourse has dominated this summer
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