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Tom Felton: ‘I agree with Barbie – blonds have more fun’

The actor on playing Draco Malfoy, all-night fishing with his brother and taking a beating from Chadwick Boseman

Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories

Christopher Harborne’s record gift revealed in Electoral Commission figures prompts renewed calls for cap on political donations

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters

‘I don’t take no for an answer’: how a small group of women changed the law on deepfake porn

The new Data (Use and Access) Act, which criminalises intimate image abuse, is a huge victory won fast in a space where progress is often glacially slow

Pornography company fined £1m by Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks

AVS Group, which runs 18 websites, has 72 hours to make changes required by UK’s Online Safety Act

TV Tonight: celebrating two of the best Christmas films ever

How festive favourites The Muppet Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life were made. Plus: are Bunny Munro and son nearing the end of the road? Here’s what to watch this evening

‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

New film is based on TV series inspired by The Office, whose lead character is said to resemble the chancellor

Instagram and Facebook begin shutting down accounts as Australia’s under-16s social media ban looms

Ban due to take effect next week, but Meta has started deactivating accounts already

Hundreds of Australians complain of wrongful social media account closures but ombudsman can’t help

Increasing number of people asking for help to regain access to accounts, with Google topping digital platform-related complaints

‘From taboo to tool’: 30% of GPs in UK use AI tools in patient consultations, study finds

Survey shows rise in GPs using tools such as ChatGPT to produce appointment summaries and assist with diagnosis

Doom, gloom … and Belle Gibson? The top Google searches in Australia in 2025

From Cyclone Alfred to Charlie Kirk, the results show Australians are tuned in to major events. But there are some surprise inclusions

Letters. Text messages. Passwords and more passwords. Why can’t the NHS just give me someone to talk to?

I can forgive shabby hospitals, confusion over appointments, even doctors’ poor bedside manner, but all the apps in the world can’t replace a real person, writes Adrian Chiles

‘It was legs out all the time!’ June Squibb on starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directing debut – and Broadway’s original Gypsy

She brought the house down as a stripper in Gypsy, going on to star in films with Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson. Now, at 96, she’s stealing the show in Eleanor the Great. What’s her secret? ‘Be a looker-ahead’

Oh. What. Fun. review – Michelle Pfeiffer leads Amazon’s underbaked Christmas turkey

Starry cast, including Felicity Jones and Chloë Grace Moretz, can’t save misfiring cross between Home Alone and The Family Stone

India revokes order to preload smartphones with state-owned security app

Tech companies including Apple and Google made it clear they would not comply due to privacy concerns

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  • ‘The goal was to scare a kid’: the wild world of films-within-films
  • Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
  • ‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site
  • Australia social media ban: when does it start, how will it work and what apps are being banned for under-16s?
  • Teens hoping to get around Australia’s social media ban are rushing to smaller apps. Where are they going?
  • Google’s AI Nano Banana Pro accused of generating racialised ‘white saviour’ visuals
  • Chatbots can sway political opinions but are ‘substantially’ inaccurate, study finds
  • The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working
  • Steve Cropper obituary
  • Is your relationship solid – or sinking? The bird theory thinks it knows
  • ‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage
  • Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDF
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 review – inept game-based horror is one of the year’s worst
  • Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
  • HyperVerse promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ accuses Australian Sam Lee in US court of duping him with ‘elaborate deception’
  • Tom Felton: ‘I agree with Barbie – blonds have more fun’
  • Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories
  • The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
  • ‘I don’t take no for an answer’: how a small group of women changed the law on deepfake porn
  • Pornography company fined £1m by Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks
  • TV Tonight: celebrating two of the best Christmas films ever
  • ‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era
  • Instagram and Facebook begin shutting down accounts as Australia’s under-16s social media ban looms
  • Hundreds of Australians complain of wrongful social media account closures but ombudsman can’t help
  • ‘From taboo to tool’: 30% of GPs in UK use AI tools in patient consultations, study finds
  • Doom, gloom … and Belle Gibson? The top Google searches in Australia in 2025
  • Letters. Text messages. Passwords and more passwords. Why can’t the NHS just give me someone to talk to?
  • ‘It was legs out all the time!’ June Squibb on starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directing debut – and Broadway’s original Gypsy
  • Oh. What. Fun. review – Michelle Pfeiffer leads Amazon’s underbaked Christmas turkey
  • India revokes order to preload smartphones with state-owned security app

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