Backlash against ‘blatant’ Asian stereotype in The Devil Wears Prada 2

A social media clip released before the film hits cinemas, which introduces new character Jin Chao, has been greeted with furious reactions online

Fitness tracker for Fido? Experts split on benefits of pet tech

As sales soar, some say trackers can help animal anxiety or weight loss while others advise leaving diagnoses to the vet

Death of the gatekeeper: Devil Wears Prada 2 depicts a revolution in the fashion world

Film sequel reveals how luxury brands have turned the tables on once-dominant magazine editors

‘Superhighways for child sexual abuse’: California lawmakers seek tougher rules for big tech

Online exploitation ‘inflicting profound trauma on a staggering number of children’, Democrats say

Marvel looks like it’s about to abolish the Multiverse saga. Isn’t that cheating?

If Avengers: Endgame is being recut to segue neatly into Doomsday, the saga wasn’t a spandex spider web of smartly linked super-stories after all. So why did we watch Loki and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law?

US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’ as betting markets boom, policy expert warns

The gambling crisis ‘demands a public health response’ and should be regulated like alcohol or tobacco, expert says

Gen Z to the rescue! Zoomers are ditching doomscrolling and saving cinema

People born after 1997 are now the most frequent cinemagoers, defying fears that digital natives would lose interest in the big screen

‘Opening the hidden door within us’: how Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory

Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tunnels. He explains how this makes viewers and players face their worst fears

Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds

The Lion King review – Disney’s Broadway juggernaut roars to life in Sydney

With breathtaking aesthetics and joyous performances, the audacious adaptation – now almost 30 years old – is greater than the sum of its parts

Apex review – Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton cat-and-mouse game is slick but soulless

This empty-calorie Netflix flick, about a steely woman being hunted by a scary local in the Australian wilderness, is shot like a Mountain Dew commercial

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI

Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers

Thousands call on UK ministers to cut ties with US tech giant Palantir

More than 200,000 have signed petitions urging the government to break contracts amid concerns about the company’s ‘supervillain’ manifesto

Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website

Technology minister tells Commons ‘de-identified’ information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba

The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet?

Editorial: Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet