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‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk

Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests

‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted

Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government

NASUWT says evidence growing that unregulated access affects behaviour in school and harms mental health

Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

Eddie Izzard: ‘I once ran 90km in just under 12 hours. That was a tough day’

The comedian and actor on her favourite Bond film, revisiting the Death Star canteen and avoiding the press with Brad Pitt

I tried to make my dog go viral on social media – it taught me more than I expected

Making a star of Murphy the labrador seemed like a harmless and plausible quest. But I hadn’t reckoned with all kinds of costs

David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘unacceptable’

Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM

Iranian cultural figures condemn internet blackout as ‘blatant tool of repression’

Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof and Golshifteh Farahani among those to join outpouring of support for protesters

Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent

Behind the Somali daycare panic is a mother-and-son duo angling to be top Maga influencers

Nick and Brooke Shirley have for years published conspiracy-minded takes on hot-button rightwing issues

‘It’s younger people seeking some sort of spirituality’: UK Bible sales reach record high

Surge in 2025 sales correlates with the growth in church attendances in England and Wales, research shows

Freedom from China? The mine at the centre of Europe’s push for rare earth metals

Swedish producer is trying to to accelerate the process of extracting the elements vital for hi-tech products

Iran’s internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time

Experts note the blackout is unprecedented in its extent but also selective, allowing some government communications

Golden Globes 2026: who will win and who should win the film awards?

This weekend promises a Hollywood showdown with films including Sinners, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another up for major awards

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow

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  • ‘These cooks ripped each other apart’: Dominic Sessa on playing Anthony Bourdain, kitchen bullies and the joys of being a 70s barfly
  • New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
  • Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI
  • Tell us: do you believe you have been filmed by Meta’s smartglasses without your consent?
  • Tech barons dream of human colonies on Mars – but I can’t think of a worse place to die
  • The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped – and that’s OK
  • BBC hires 26-year-old entrepreneur to help reach younger audiences
  • ‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction
  • ‘James Dean has got nothing on that kid’: River Phoenix films – ranked!
  • Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
  • Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating
  • Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
  • Super Troopers 3 review – misfiring cop comedy threequel
  • Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish?
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
  • Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
  • Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
  • Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays
  • How to Feed a Dictator review – what was on the menu for some of the world’s most evil men
  • American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
  • ‘Basically, you give yourself to the man’: Trewley Precious Temple on her life as a Gypsy wife – and beyond
  • ‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion
  • ‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting
  • 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

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