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Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s buzzy film was shown on only 855 screens in the biggest documentary opening in North America since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004

Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile

Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago

What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?

The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year

Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns

Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant

World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries

Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system

The best toys and gifts for eight-year-olds, tested by eight-year-olds

From science kits to karaoke machines, shower sets to brain-boosting games, here are the presents our mini testers loved the most

Margaret Hamilton obituary

Pioneering software engineer whose work was critical to the Apollo moon landings

World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries

Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades

Ali G answers his critics: ‘Me ain’t the first intellectual to get haterz’

Staines’s finest nailed the zeitgeist of the late 90s and early 00s, and now he’s back – but how does he fit into 2026? He discusses the backlash against his return, his worst ever interviewee and how he’s going to prevent world war two

‘I felt disgusted’: MEP speaks out over nude deepfakes and urges EU action

Lena Schilling of Austrian Greens says images are ‘digital violence against women’ and a threat to democracy

‘The strategy is to humiliate’: influencers and the ethics of ‘rage-bait machine’ street interviews

Influencers from anti-abortion campaigners to anti-immigration activists are making online content out of interactions with Australians on the street. Experts say the ethics are murky

Jonathan Glazer was ‘shocked into silence’ by NAZA documentary

Film’s executive producer talks about first time he watched film detailing Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza

7 Miles Out review – Carol Morley’s funny-poignant self-portrait of teenage kicks in Stockport

A daring, rich and funny study of the ordeal of having to invent and reinvent your own teenage sense of self amid confounding changes

Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI

In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent – not so from China

Selma Blair ‘did not intend to harm anyone’ during airplane incident, representatives say

Actor experienced a ‘medical emergency’ on flight during which she allegedly injured crew members, statement says

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  • Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • National Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
  • Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range
  • Forget maxxing your life. 2027 must be the year we relax – and start minning
  • 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
  • Sadiq Khan calls for cap on numbers of robotaxis on London streets
  • 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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