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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani launches India’s biggest-ever IPO

Low-cost broadband provider Jio Platforms aims for £81bn valuation when it floats on the stock market on Wednesday

Worried about what your phone is doing to your brain? This new fad will make it worse

I have long known that internet detritus is bad for me. But with microdramas – stories told in episodes under two minutes – I can actually feel the damage being done, says writer Imogen West-Knights

Serbian prosecutor who investigated Belgrade Trump tower project ‘targeted with spyware’

Apparent attempt to hack Rade Bajić’s iPhone comes amid efforts to undermine landmark criminal case

Monster Mia review – kooky kid discovers school of beastly besties in wholesome Halloween fun

A scrappy girl discovers her tribe – which includes a vegan vampire – at a school for top scarers in this entertaining pre-teen animation

Googlebook review: Google’s new laptops are woefully underbaked

Great hardware let down by software flaws on these pricey machines that combine ChromeOS with Android

Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?

As a freaky Val Kilmer doppelganger stars in a new western and faux starlet Tilly Norwood is set for her feature debut, experts are split on whether mainstream adoption is a long way down the line – or just around the corner

The Cycle review – forensic scientist autopsies her dad in grisly psychodrama that turns supernatural

Tense story fritters away initial levels interest as generic horrors eclipse offbeat family dynamic

Don’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

I knew one of us could get hurt eventually. I never thought it would be my friend Helen

There will now be a flood of rhetoric about who is to blame. Don’t fall for the political opportunism from left or right. We are all responsible

Political hate speech can have real-world fallout. After the alleged attack on Helen Haines, our leaders must act

Social media amplify the worst excesses of what passes for public discourse, while some media outlets foment polarisation

New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph

Secrets, lies and a shock A-list cameo: how You Can See Everything became the film of the year

Nathan Fielder’s secretive Elizabeth Holmes documentary has become a sold-out smash hit and might make Oscars history

‘They pulled a guy’s face off. It’s my favourite bit!’ Linda Cardellini on Freaks and Geeks, Mad Men and slasher horror Crystal Lake

She got to torment Don Draper in Mad Men and has just won an Emmy for DTF St Louis. But nothing prepared the star for all the gore as she switched to horror with the Friday the 13th prequel

The reviews are in! Is You Can See Everything the greatest film ever?

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s headspinning documentary about Elizabeth Holmes is an unprecedented critical success – even with a three-hour runtime

Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staff

Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without employees being informed

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  • 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
  • Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app
  • ‘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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parents of woman who died of seizure after ChatGPT misguidance sue OpenAI
  • Investors pull billions in funds from Binance after record $6.3bn hack
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  • Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range
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  • Readers reply: with governments asking us to stockpile, can we learn anything from disaster films?
  • Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
  • The US-China trade war seems to have subsided – but the sense of calm is misleading
  • Binance resumes customer withdrawals after record $6.3bn hack
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  • Romeo + Juliet at 30: how Baz Luhrmann made teens fall in love with Shakespeare
  • Dafne Keen and Harriet Walter on working with Patrick Stewart: ‘I’ve never seen anyone so ecstatic’
  • A gift to scammers: why you should probably keep your birthday a secret
  • I’m sick of smug celebrities on the podcast circuit. No wonder there’s a fuss when someone speaks the truth

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