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‘I watch it to be close to him’: why Point Break is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers looking back on their most rewatched comfort films is a tribute to an action classic that also defined an important friendship

Naima review – triumphant note of hope fuels engrossing insight into the immigrant experience

Documentary about a Venezuelan migrant’s struggles in Switzerland is a timeworn tale of marginalisation and financial precarity

Cherry on the top: Jessie Buckley pulled off a stunning double Oscar win for herself … and Chanel

The best actress winner was a red carpet triumph in her blood red and rose pink gown, the colours bringing an emotional warmth and a singularity that stood out among the familiar choices of black or gold

Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice

Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tips

Bouchra review – Prada-wearing coyote is anti-identitarian alter ego in film that maps queer experience

Art and reality merge in Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s debut feature, which depicts its subjects as sweetly anthropomorphic animals

The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: its huge screen blocks shoulder surfers from spying on you

Latest Android superphone packs great cameras, fast chips, long battery, a stylus and first-of-its-kind privacy display

South Korea celebrates ‘miracle’ Oscar wins for KPop Demon Hunters

Performance of Golden during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony hailed for bringing Korean culture into the heart of Hollywood

Paul Thomas Anderson endured one snub after another. Now the Oscars have finally seen sense

In honouring One Battle After Another, Academy voters finally welcomed Hollywood’s prodigal son into the fold

TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers

Marianna Spring goes Inside the Rage Machine. Plus: the finale of the brilliant comedy Small Prophets. Here’s what to watch this evening

India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies

Covid exposed the lack of data on the country’s 140 million mobile migrant workers, but a new project in Odisha is helping to fill in the gaps

‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer

The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, Trump and Putin

Oscars 2026: One Battle After Another wins best picture – as it happened

The night belonged to One Battle After Another but there were also awards for Sinners and Hamnet – as well as touching tributes, jokes from Conan and plenty more on Hollywood’s biggest night

Key takeaways from Oscars 2026: horror wins, tech loses and politics is hard to ignore

This year saw some Chalamet exhaustion, wins for Warner Bros and memorable music while one winner was nowhere to be seen

‘Next year, it’s going to be a Waymo in a tux’: the best quotes from Oscars 2026

From Conan O’Brien roasting Timothée Chalamet to several winners getting political, here are the night’s best quotes

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  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
  • Cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers has geopolitical context
  • Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
  • Who is Alice Huang, the woman linked to Nvidia’s CEO?
  • Donnie Dunagan, original voice of Disney’s Bambi and triple Purple Heart marine, dies aged 92
  • Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish
  • 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
  • ‘We did 10 takes of it!’ Kerr Smith on Dawson’s Creek and filming US TV’s first gay kiss
  • ‘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’

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