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Gen Z flocks to Chinese medicine as trust in US health system plummets: ‘It’s so personalized to being human’

As Americans embrace ‘alternative’ remedies, people online joke that they’re ‘Chinamaxxing’ their wellness routines

Europe’s next-generation fighter jet project may collapse if row continues, says warplane maker

Dassault Aviation says €100bn project may soon be ‘dead’ if Airbus will not agree on how to share workload

Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary

Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself

Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

Sydney to Hobart 1998: the harrowing race that killed six and ‘shattered the community’

Two brothers return to the yacht race that killed their father in True South, a documentary about the darkest moment in the event’s history

X to ban users from earning revenue if they post unlabelled AI-generated war videos

Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflict

Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa

Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehicles

Dolly review – six-foot mannequin terrorises camping couple in gory, trope-filled horror

Rising scream queen Fabianne Therese’s ability to channel distress somewhat redeems film in which an attractive, therefore doomed, couple learn major lesson

And the least likable character is … how Oscar season became dominated by difficult people

From Marty Supreme to One Battle After Another, this awards run has been populated by a harder-to-love group of spiky characters

Rise of the veavage: how one look came to rule the red carpet

Forget cleavage. A deep V plunging to the waist is the current style – as seen on Gwyneth Paltrow and many others this year. Why is it suddenly so popular?

Outgunned review – action-thriller in Angola sees sadistic child-hunting gang out for revenge

Danica De La Rey Jones’s elite fighter is targeted in a film that would be more exciting if its padded runtime was trimmed down

Why Sinners should win the best picture Oscar

Ryan Coogler’s artful action-horror offers superb performances, rich storytelling, historical detail – and a jook joint scene that tears the roof off

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Play Dead review – an intriguing high-concept horror set in a murder basement holds its breath

This thriller begins with a grisly jolt of invention before succumbing to diminishing returns

Three months into Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, has it been a success?

Getting platforms to comply with the restrictions was no small feat. But it’s too early to measure the real-world mental health outcomes

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  • Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom
  • Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gives UK poetry sales an epic boost
  • Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcast
  • The best microwaves in the UK for every kitchen and budget – tested
  • Google Earth’s potential disinformation nightmare
  • Lucky Strike review – likably manly Scott Eastwood fights his way home in second world war yarn
  • US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?
  • Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers
  • Web of billions: how Spider-Man became the most heroic franchise in Hollywood
  • Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life
  • Post your questions for Imelda Staunton
  • Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud
  • The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s grief classic
  • Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all
  • ‘Fortnite on steroids’: the virtual gaming worlds transformed to train British soldiers
  • Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data
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  • Justin Hardy, director of Wicker Man sequel, dies three weeks before its premiere
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes $932m at box office in second biggest opening weekend in history
  • Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests
  • Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
  • Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month
  • Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us?
  • 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

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