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Making Marie Antoinette review – sweet Coppola home movie reveals the family business

Shot by Sofia’s mother Eleanor this documentary shows something of the strain of shooting a period piece, but is a far cry from the tumultuous portrait of her husband in Hearts of Darkness

Ghosts: The Possession of Button House review – new levels of giddiness unleashed in spooky spin-off

Picking up not long after the events of the final episode of the BBC’s haunted house comedy, this glorious new film is every bit as warm and comforting as the TV sitcom

‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pages

Volunteers and new recruits come together for ‘wikithon’ to put more detail about industry into public domain

UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14

Adriana Retyte took her own life after viewing ‘high-risk’ material on the video-sharing platform TikTok

Battle over Meta’s alleged Bolsonaro bias intensifies days before Brazil presidential runoff

Lula’s supporters suspect tech firm meddling on behalf of US president Donald Trump, who has close ties to Bolsonaro family

Tesla and SpaceX explore merger as Elon Musk gives backing

Billionaire, on SpaceX earnings call, says ‘I do think there’s a lot of merit to combining the companies’

You Can See Everything mania lifts viewership for The Dropout by 186%

The hit Elizabeth Holmes documentary has led to increased interest in the award-winning narrative series on Hulu as well as Bad Blood, a 2018 book on the scandal

Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs

The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serve

‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers

Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say

Google Cloud outage: problems fixed for ‘most‘ customers, as regulators push for details – as it happened

Google apologises after power issue causes a major Cloud outage in its London region today that led to problems at banks, Revolut, and court video cameras

Could this be a Deep Blue moment for the cryptic crossword?

A computer program has finally outdone humans at solving cryptic crosswords. Plus, more from around the puzzleverse

‘It’s important that Michael’s voice is heard’: Jaafar Jackson says second biopic of his uncle will cover sexual abuse allegations

The star of Michael, the most commercially successful biopic of all time, has said sequel will give airtime to point-of-view of late singer

‘It was so satisfying when I threw a rock through the screen’: the people sick of being spied on by their smart TV

Is your television listening to every conversation? Filling your home with highly invasive ads? Some viewers have had enough of tech violating their privacy

The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world

As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives

‘We’ll keep doing this if people pay us!’ The cast of TV hit Ghosts on making a movie – and maybe a caveman spinoff

As the haunters of Button House hit the big screen with a plot about an escaped phantom, we hear how the team just missed each other too much – and why grunting Robin may get his own show

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  • Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
  • One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again
  • One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again
  • Unions gain access to thousands of Google workers after UK employment rights overhaul
  • ‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
  • ‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
  • Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app
  • ‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies
  • ‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies
  • From puregatory to lifehoarding – how best to describe our strange, anxious times?
  • Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo
  • Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo
  • From a life-changing garlic press to a super-glowy serum: 12 buys you’re loving right now
  • Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
  • ‘Funny and self-aware’: why (500) Days of Summer is my feelgood movie
  • ‘Funny and self-aware’: why (500) Days of Summer is my feelgood movie
  • Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror
  • Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror
  • ‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama
  • ‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama
  • I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands
  • I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands
  • Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
  • Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
  • Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
  • Parents of woman who died of seizure after ChatGPT misguidance sue OpenAI
  • Investors pull billions in funds from Binance after record $6.3bn hack
  • National Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
  • Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range
  • Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range

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