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Purr-fect casting: is Orangey the most important movie cat ever?

A new retrospective celebrates the work of the cat credited with roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Comedy of Terrors and Rhubarb

‘Orwellian’: Sainsbury’s staff using facial recognition tech eject innocent shopper

Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’

‘One of the most stunning sights in the country’: your picks for UK town of culture

From pirates and skateboarders in Hastings to legends and locks in Devizes, from dolphins in Scarborough to the ‘artists’ town’ of Kirkcudbright, readers put forward their favourite places

Unlicensed weight-loss drugs marketed on social media as ‘prizes’

‘Giveaway’ competitions on WhatsApp and Telegram for retatrutide and other drugs described as ‘extremely dangerous’

How cryptocurrency’s second largest coin missed out on the industry’s boom

A leaked pitch to reshape Ethereum’s leadership exposed deep divisions over politics, power and Ether’s static price

Amazon pulls Melania from Oregon cinema after owner’s criticism as rumours mount over ‘fake ticket sales’

Owner of local cinema says Amazon is upset at way they marketed movie as some in US say healthy ticket sales are not reflected by empty seats

Five young teens on life under Australia’s social media ban: ‘It’s not a big deal any more’

Nearly two months after age restrictions for under-16s were introduced, we revisit five teenagers on how they’re experiencing – or getting around – the ban

Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan

Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms

‘I’m so co-o-old’: ahead of Wuthering Heights, the 20 best films with dreadful weather – ranked!

As we don our oilskins for the release of Emerald Fennell’s rain-lashed romance, we count down the films pitting their stars against the elements

Emerald Fennell hopes Wuthering Heights will ‘provoke a primal response’

Speaking in conversation at the BFI Southbank in London, the director of the much-anticipated Brontë adaptation also revealed that Margot Robbie asked to play Cathy

Hollywood money fuelled record £2.8bn spend on UK film production last year

Growth could slow as Netflix pulls back projects to US to secure $80bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

From Jay Kelly to Wicked 2: the Oscar-primed films that fizzled this season

It was a great year for Sinners and One Battle After Another but films with megastars like George Clooney, Julia Roberts and The Rock all struggled

The best UK treadmills for your home: up your indoor miles with our runner-approved picks

Whether you’re chasing gym quality on a budget or a fancy folding model, accelerate your training with our expert’s pick of the best running machines

‘I don’t want to do the same thing over and over’: Stacy Martin on risky roles, tequila at the Oscars and her Jurassic Park dream

After experiencing the strangeness of the Academy Awards with her last film The Brutalist, the indie actor has reunited with its creators for period curio The Testament of Ann Lee. But what she’d really like to get her teeth into is a certain dino franchise

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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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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