From hobbitmaxxing to Catholicmaxxing: how well do you know your maxxes?
Maxxing trends – going all in on a particular trait, habit, quality or pastime – tend to burn brightly and briefly. But how many of the following are real?
‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms
Exclusive: Senator Ed Markey on why he has proposed legislation aimed at curbing datacenters, automated hiring systems and harm to children
Heartstopper Forever to Anemone: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Alice Oseman’s LGBTQ+ romantic teen drama concludes with an intimate look at long-distance relationships, while Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean are two brothers surrounded by fear and generational pain
‘I was like, “Oh my god, I can be taken seriously”’: the women inspired to become lawyers by Legally Blonde
As the classic courtroom comedy drama turns 25 meet the associates and attorneys who took Elle Woods’ pioneering spirit and ran with it
Reeves to launch City ‘skills compact’ committing firms to retrain staff in AI
Exclusive: Plan to improve skills of thousands of financial sector workers to keep pace with tech revolution
‘It would be weird not to show the sex’: Kit Connor and Joe Locke on Heartstopper’s queer teen curtain call
As Netflix’s quietly radical coming-of-age drama wraps up with a feature-length film, its stars discuss queer escapism, awkward love scenes and letting go of the characters that made them
Robota review – machines on the march in next-gen version of sci-fi classic
Headlong’s take on Karel Čapek’s 1920 tale of romance and robots is rife with timely debates about tech’s threat but at times the philosophical discussions drag on
‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first AI datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency
Plans to build a NZ$3.5bn datacentre in Makarewa in the country’s south has drawn concern about electricity and water use, and potential noise pollution
Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts
Instagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn
‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins releases single
Hollywood actor signs recording deal with Decca after decades of composing pieces inspired by his Welsh childhood
Parents’ attachment to phone screens can lead to anxiety in children – study
Teens feel ‘devalued, dismissed or unimportant’ when parents snub them in favor of phones, new research finds
Christopher Hanson-Abbott obituary
Other lives: A pioneer of vehicle safety technology whose company Brigade Electronics introduced reversing alarms commercially to the UK
OpenAI releases latest ChatGPT model after delay over White House cybersecurity concerns
Staggered release of ChatGPT 5.6 follows similar restrictions on rival firm Anthropic’s latest AI models
MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS
Cross-party group backs call from science and technology committee to look at alternative options, citing ‘serious mistrust’
I don’t want AI – give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel
We don’t need AI videos of fake animals. There are real ones out there and they’re really cute