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Brassed Off review – stirring tale of coal and cornets moves Yorkshire audience to tears

In a cavernous venue seemingly designed for a colliery-based story, Amy Leach directs Paul Allen’s adaptation of the 1996 film

Watching Brokeback Mountain kept me in the closet

The first time I saw the film, I convinced myself I didn’t like it. Now it’s one of my favourites

From Supergirl to Muse: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Milly Alcock’s Kryptonian hero bops baddies with a superdog in tow, while the Devon band return with another collection of all-caps rock

Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment?

Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone

Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near Jindabyne

How Australian hero Karl Stefanovic took a sharp turn to the right – and fell from TV stardom

The former Today show host promised he’d ‘unleash the beast’ on his podcast. It has taken less than six months for the beast to overtake the polished star

OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request

Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos

‘Fork in the road’: CEO of Amazon-backed Rivian on why carmakers need to invest in EVs

RJ Scaringe says firms focused on selling fossil fuel engines risk being ‘woefully behind’ on technology by end of decade

Prime Day ends today – here are the 52 best deals to scoop up before they’re gone

Amazon Prime Day ends tonight. The Filter US vetted sales on the Our Place Titanium Always Pan Pro, Hatch Sunrise Alarm Clock and the Ninja Creami ice cream maker and more

O what a tangled web: unweaving the weirdest fan rumours surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Will X-Men’s Jean Grey be in the fourth Marvel Spidey film? What about Spider-Girl? Which Hulk will we see? Who is the real villain? And is Marvel fuelling the internet’s frenzied rumour machine on purpose?

Outrage as woman jailed for three years after criticising Somali government online

Sentencing of 27-year-old Sadia Moalim Ali condemned by former president and prime ministers as well as rights groups

‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime

The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Europe she feels unsafe

As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’

Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wages

Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory

Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and low on corporate hype

Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters

Britain has found itself looking for all three British protagonists at once, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

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  • Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI
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  • I Play Rocky review – Anthony Ippolito adds knockout sweetness to the story of Stallone’s Hollywood triumph
  • Jimmy review – simple-minded James Stewart biopic is too straightforward
  • Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?
  • Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres
  • 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
  • Apple iPad mini A20 Pro review: the best small tablet but with a big price
  • Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop
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  • Tinto Brass, director of Caligula and maestro of Euro erotica, dies aged 93
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  • Ramayana: Rise of a Legend review – India’s most expensive film ever becomes spectacular, huge-scale epic
  • Callum Turner emerges as James Bond favourite as Pierce Brosnan endorses actor: ‘He’s so strong’
  • UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown
  • Crawlers review – killer-spiders movie offers giant-arachnid action alongside anticapitalist commentary
  • Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs

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