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Sydney Sweeney says her silence over jeans advert backlash ‘widened the divide’

Actor speaks out over controversy around jeans advert in the summer that critics say flirted with eugenics

Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar

Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackers

Albanese defends decision to sign off on $100,000 US trip for Anika Wells and staff

Communications minister also faces scrutiny over taxpayer-funded family trip to Thredbo

Trump hosts Kennedy Center honorees and teases hosting skills: ‘I’m sure they’ll give me great reviews’

George Strait, ‘Sly’ Stallone and Kiss accept medals from president, who says he was ‘98% involved’ in choosing them

A Melbourne bakery found TikTok fame, before trolls began harassing its young staff. How the owners responded went viral

Montmorency Bakehouse decided to tackle online harassment head-on, asking viewers to ‘please stop with the thirsty comments’

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

‘Everyone will miss the socialising – but it’s also a relief’: five young teens on Australia’s social media ban

As the under-16s social media ban looms, Guardian Australia speaks to five 13 to 15-year-olds about what they will miss, and what government should be doing instead

Broadcaster targeted with racist slurs accuses Farage of emboldening ‘toxic environment’ online

Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillor

Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix inks deal for troubled Hollywood giant

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised ‘everyone’ would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lost

The New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine

Film-maker Marshall Curry pulls back the curtain on the beloved institution in a revealing and celebratory new film

Harbadus attacks Andvaria: cyber war game tests Nato defences against Russia

Power blackouts, public chaos and loss of communication with space were all thrown at troops in seven days

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Die Hard isn’t a Christmas film, claims the British public. But Pillion reminds us that the finest festive films reflect the complexities of the season, says film critic Kitty Grady

From Eternity to Jamiroquai: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Elizabeth Olsen examines her life choices in metaphysical romcom and the elaborately titferred sometime Space Cowboy returns

Why is Timothée Chalamet suddenly everywhere? Seven things you need to know – from Oscars to puppies

The 29-year-old star is getting his best reviews ever for the upcoming film Marty Supreme – but he’s also making waves with his idiosyncratic approach to celebrity and maintaining his status as the internet’s boyfriend

Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation

Surprise success of film, known as Zootropolis in some countries, bucks trend for Chinese to spurn Hollywood in favour of domestic productions

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  • AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s
  • ‘Watch The Odyssey for free online’: scam targets film fans with fake streaming sites
  • The hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity
  • OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns
  • Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
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  • Sex, drugs and washing dishes: inside Anthony Bourdain’s unruly younger years
  • ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
  • Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves
  • The Guide #255: The great front‑row backlash ignores what makes films feel truly colossal
  • Human Centipede director Tom Six reveals multiple sclerosis diagnosis in ‘final film’
  • ‘I’ve always felt too old and too young at the same time’: The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey on swapping child stardom for cult television – and Celebrity Traitors
  • From Love Me Tender to Kevin Bridges: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
  • This man was secretly snapped by someone with smartglasses. He’s not alone in calling that a violation of privacy
  • Sam Neill filmed role in Legend of Zelda film adaptation before his death
  • The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy
  • Out of the blue: James Cameron’s surprise departure would be good for Avatar
  • Hamnet to On Falling: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all?
  • The Last House review – post-Covid apocalyptic lockdown thriller is a solid night in
  • ‘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

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