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One Battle After Another to On Swift Horses: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning counterculture caper with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn is breathless fun, while Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in a 50s-set drama about passion and identity

Breakfast with Gosling, grilled by Spielberg, burned by Star Wars: Lord and Miller are cinema’s hottest duo

From directing The Lego Movie to becoming a single entity, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have had quite the ascent. Now, sending one of the globe’s best actors to his cosmic doom in Project Hail Mary, they’re aiming for the stars

Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally

‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?

An investigation by journalists working with Republik magazine may have struck a nerve by suggesting the company has failed in Switzerland

The Oscars red carpet was in a skip. Then a woman took it home for her flat. What else could be repurposed?

A dumpster-diving TikToker struck gold the morning after the Academy Awards. But why are they binning carpets after one brief use? And where can we find the uneaten chocolate Oscars?

Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information?

FBI director revealed agency had resumed buying private information en masse in possible constitutional violation

Cryptocurrency firms suffer heavy losses in Illinois primaries after spending big

Cryptocurrency’s biggest Pac spent more than $10m for their candidates, only to be defeated by those who are anti-crypto

Indian film board blocks release of Oscar-nominated Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab

Distributor says authorities warned screening Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama could harm India–Israel relations

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – comedy horror sequel goes big and you should stay home

There’s even more screaming, running, swearing and exploding rich people in a follow-up to the 2019 sleeper hit that expands mythology we didn’t need expanded

‘The male ego is even more fragile than it ever was’: Kim Gordon on shyness, AI and Zohran Mamdani’s cool

As she releases her new solo album, Play Me, the former Sonic Youth star answers your questions on acting for Kristen Stewart, doing Basquiat’s photocopying, and who really invented punk rock

The best pressure washers in the UK for cleaning garden furniture and patios – tested

Our expert puts the best power washers through their paces on the toughest – and muckiest – outdoor chores, from grimy paving slabs to dirty decking

‘My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite’: Dianne Wiest’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

The Oscar-winning star of Bullets Over Broadway and Hannah and Her Sisters has three major movies coming up. To mark her 78th birthday, we cast an eye over an (almost) immaculate back catalogue

Prolonged high oil prices could ‘crimp’ AI boom, WTO warns

Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report says

PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns

Paul Griggs says senior staff at consulting firm who are not ‘paranoid about being AI-first’ are likely to be replaced

The Rite of Spring / Mirror review – techie Stravinsky and digital doppelgangers from Alexander Whitley

Visual spectacle overwhelms the human drama in the choreographer’s tech-heavy double bill

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  • Anna Wintour shares Vogue cover with Hollywood doppelganger Meryl Streep
  • Tell us: do you use AI chatbots to make decisions for you?
  • Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular
  • Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken on winning Oscars, Razzies and his ‘filthy’ rock musical
  • An AI company with an arsenal of spacecraft: what exactly is SpaceX?
  • Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
  • Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation
  • Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm
  • ‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat
  • The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
  • Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere
  • Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot for reputational glow-up
  • Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers
  • ‘I felt ashamed and scared’: how an online friendship became a sextortion nightmare
  • ‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot
  • Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed
  • The Drama: sex, secrets and that gobsmacking twist – discuss with spoilers
  • Iran’s internet blackout is longest national shutdown since Arab spring
  • Noel Chanan obituary
  • Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say
  • Private jets, deserted shores and an unbuilt resort: alleged links to sanctioned ‘scam’ empire revealed in Timor-Leste
  • ‘Traceability is vital’: labs test thousands of unregulated substances amid peptide craze
  • Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters?
  • ‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer
  • Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire
  • ‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
  • House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family
  • My mother, Audrey Hepburn: the star’s son Sean on her movies, marriages, good works and fascist parents
  • ‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products
  • Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

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