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Amused by that AI video of a dancing raccoon? This is how the misery starts …

AI is already coming for our dignity – tricking us with amusing little online scenarios. How long before it comes for everything else, asks Polly Hudson

Fight the power – in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcers

A neighbour in nightwear, a local imam, a schoolkid, the activist known as Van Man – they and many more stood firm. The director of a prize-winning film about the battle of Kenmure Street reveals how it’s atoning for his absence

‘I considered starting over as a farmer’: Masao Adachi on political cinema, revolution and Japan today

The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics

Sinners studio say they raised N-word use with Bafta immediately as Google ‘deeply sorry’ for offensive notification

A source close to Warner Bros has said that executives were assured the slur would be removed before broadcast, while search engine remove AI-generated prompt

Down with Love: Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger’s perfectly offbeat 60s fantasy

This 2003 romcom seemed destined to be a hit. But it was too camp, too synthetic, too satirical: the exact qualities that make it a cult favourite today

Meta agrees $60bn deal with chipmaker AMD despite AI bubble fears

Facebook owner’s investment described by semiconductor company as ‘big bet’ on artificial intelligence

Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ

Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentially

Bafta judge quits over ‘utterly unforgivable’ handling of Tourette N-word incident

Film-maker Jonte Richardson cites ‘harm inflicted on both the black and disabled communities’, while New Black Film Collective and MP Dawn Butler criticise BBC’s failure to edit

The dust has not yet settled on the Baftas N-word row. This is why

When John Davidson involuntarily shouted racial abuse at Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan it set off two sets of alarm bells that should have been heeded much quicker and better

The Bluff review – Priyanka Chopra Jonas fights dirty in grisly pirate action flick

The Russo brothers produce a swashbuckling and often gory tale of 19th-century buccaneers in the Caribbean

Molly vs the Machines review – a powerful story of love, loss and the dangers of social media

Before she took her own life at 14, Molly Russell accessed thousands of harmful posts on Instagram and Pinterest. A new documentary recreates the inquest where her father was told the images were safe

The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should

Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

The best massage guns in the UK to relieve sore, tired muscles

Add percussive therapy to your post-workout routine with our expert picks, including mini and deep-tissue models. Plus, a brand new frontrunner now in top spot

Destitute survivors of south-east Asia’s cyberscam farms an ‘international crisis’

Not enough support for freed victims, say aid agencies, with growing numbers sleeping on the streets, unable to travel home without passports or money

God of Frogs review – less Kermit, more giant shapeshifting amphibian nightmare

Self-aware horror set across four time periods sees a woman impregnated by a human-sized pond-beast resulting in multigenerational havoc

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