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Bafta apologises for events surrounding John Davidson’s Tourette’s outburst

An independent review found ‘weaknesses’ in the organisation’s planning and crisis procedures

US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic’s latest AI model

Reports say Fed chair Jerome Powell among attenders at meeting in Washington

Pillion to Roofman: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling make an unlikely couple in Harry Lighton’s gay biker drama. Plus: an amiable thief finds romance while hiding out in a toy store

AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them?

Every organisation needs guardrails that channel them away from human fallibility and collectively minimise the harm they can do

Thrash review – cursed shark thriller sinks like a stone on Netflix

Phoebe Dyvenor and Djimon Hounsou are left adrift in a suspense-free dud that has cycled through two distributors and three titles

‘Irresponsible failure’: Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft slam EU over child sexual abuse law lapse

Experts warn lapse could sharply reduce reports of abuse, echoing a 58% drop during a similar legal gap in 2021

I baulked at the idea of ‘friction-maxxing’. But there’s more to it than meets the eye

Self-help hacks such as ‘cooking from scratch’ or ‘meeting your friends’ may seem ridiculous. But there’s something deeply human at the heart of this trend, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Fortune Feimster: ‘The stage was a crate, the sound system was a karaoke machine. No one enjoyed the show’

The standup on playing a beaver in Zootropolis 2, being inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger and why her mother is a great source of comedy

Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media users

‘I’m not a commercial director – I’m not even a professional film-maker’: Jim Jarmusch on the seven-year journey to make his new film

The 73-year-old has been at the cutting edge of US independent cinema since the 1980s. As Father Mother Sister Brother opens in the UK, he talks about grief, greed and ‘doing crazy shit’ with Steve Coogan

Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence

Company claims law regulating AI systems, set to go into effect in June, infringes on its first amendment rights

We stress tested 22 USB chargers to find the best for phones, laptops, travel and more

Baseus PicoGo AE11 and Anker 511 Nano 3 are among the best USB chargers in the US to keep devices juiced up quickly and safely for all your tech needs

Man who groomed 14-year-old girl he met on Roblox jailed for 28 months

Police say case highlights online dangers to children after Carlo Tritta pleads guilty to making indecent images

Amazon upsets ebook lovers by ending support for old Kindle devices

Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles

OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions

Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation for putting landmark project on hold

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  • More than 400,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests
  • EU sues IBM and two European firms over troubled entry/exit border system
  • Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’
  • ‘Obvious risk of further tragedy’ at rail crossing type at which Amazon driver died, inquiry finds
  • Why is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang at the centre of a US-China row?
  • 1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young
  • ‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie
  • A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
  • 100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama dreamlike through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community
  • Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman review – an era-defining actor says his piece
  • Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting
  • ‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’
  • Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend
  • Nvidia opens investigation after report CEO Jensen Huang was target of foreign intelligence
  • Is this the most rubbish Christmas present ever?
  • What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
  • Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
  • Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
  • Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’
  • 1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box
  • How African philosophies inspired a new approach to staging film festivals in Manchester
  • ‘I’ve seen people in my neighbourhood pulled out of their cars’: Ava DuVernay on the cruelty and brutality of Trump’s America
  • ‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints
  • Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?
  • Does Andy Burnham’s pivot from press to social media put scrutiny at risk?
  • Ukraine’s new frontier: how space has become critical to balance of the war
  • FAA announces first US digital air traffic control towers in Florida and Alaska
  • The Trump administration wants underwater datacenters. One Great Lakes non-profit is already preparing
  • Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold
  • Standing in the way of slop bowls: the woman blocking food delivery robots

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