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Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed

A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?

‘Kenny was a riff on decency’: how a low-budget comedy about a portable toilet plumber became a $8m hit

Twenty years ago brothers Shane and Clayton Jacobson turned an improv character inspired by real ‘dunny men’ into comedic gold that celebrated the humour and smarts of blue collar Australians

In an era of frictionless digital experiences, there’s something magical about obsolete technology

DVDs and CDs signalled the beginning of the end for physical media but now have pride of place among technologies that are forgotten but not quite gone

Tell us: how have you been affected by falling cryptocurrency prices?

We want to hear how the fall in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and ether are impacting people

Doctor Doom is Iron Man’s evil shadow? The most far-out fan theories about Avengers: Doomsday

A message board on the Russo brothers’ website briefly hosted Marvel fans’ best guesses about the direction their forthcoming film will take. Here are the wildest

Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future

At its new Stone Mountain, Georgia, facility, Roomba-like robots shuffle between stacks, another adds shipping labels while another arranges packages in pallets

TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission

Preliminary EU ruling says app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adults

Aacta awards 2026: horror film Bring Her Back and Jacob Elordi win big at Australian film and TV prizes

The Philippou brothers’ film was most awarded of the night with 10 wins, while Elordi took home best lead actor for The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Eternity to Queer: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Who will Elizabeth Olsen choose to spend the afterlife with – Callum Turner or Miles Teller? Plus: Daniel Craig is wonderful in Luca Guadagnino’s erotic drama

Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers say

‘I’ve been advised not to say certain things’: The Secret Agent makers on Oscars, dictators and death threats

The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak out

Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year the day after Bezos guts Washington Post

Tech giant reports $213bn in revenue after its founder, who owns the Post, lays off a third of newspaper’s employees

Bitcoin loses half its value in three months amid crypto crunch

World’s most prominent cryptocurrency peaked at $126,000 in October 2025, only to see its value slump steeply

Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked

David Furnish calls alleged phone hacks of him and Elton John ‘an abomination’

Furnish says he and his husband felt ‘violated’ by the Daily Mail, which allegedly used information gained unlawfully

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  • Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
  • ‘Disturbing’: TikTok faces criticism after Perez Hilton livestreams self-harm
  • AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
  • The Guardian view on French cinema’s De Gaulle moment: present anxieties inform a new focus on the past
  • One Night Only review – sex is legal for 12 hours a year in bizarre romcom
  • AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to try to trick developers
  • Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
  • Darth Vader to become a TikTok star as Disney strikes deal on short video
  • ‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’
  • Film posters for The Mummy banned from public display in UK
  • Ice Cream Man review – Eli Roth’s junky slasher is one of year’s worst horrors
  • A Child of My Own review – barely believable true crime tale of desperation and delusion
  • Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: Claes Bang stars as SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’
  • Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech
  • ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
  • Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie review – plucky pups do their thing on Jurassic-style island
  • Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent
  • Queens of the Dead review – drag performers slay on the party scene in playful zombie comedy
  • Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
  • SpaceX beats revenue expectations in first earnings report after IPO crash
  • AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
  • Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy review – Mo Gilligan ruffles feathers in battle against ultra-processed foods
  • Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter components
  • Tell us: has Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey stoked your interest in classics and poetry?
  • Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom
  • Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gives UK poetry sales an epic boost
  • Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcast
  • The best microwaves in the UK for every kitchen and budget – tested
  • Google Earth’s potential disinformation nightmare
  • Lucky Strike review – likably manly Scott Eastwood fights his way home in second world war yarn

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