India revokes order to preload smartphones with state-owned security app
Tech companies including Apple and Google made it clear they would not comply due to privacy concerns
Mr Men and Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers
David Heyman has joined the French media company StudioCanal with plans to bring one of the bestselling children’s book series of all time to the screen
This Spotify Wrapped season, don’t outsource your love of music to AI
The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste
It Was Just an Accident review – Jafar Panahi takes us on a nightmare trip into a land of bribes and brutality
An unfortunate encounter with a dog sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events that expose the corruption and tyranny at the heart of Iran
Jamie Lee Curtis asked My Girl studio to put trigger warning on poster over Macaulay Culkin bee sting
Actor told Columbia’s head of marketing that the film’s scene showing the death of Culkin, then 10, was going to freak out every child in the US
Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood never looked more glorious or more tragic
Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusions
Quentin Tarantino has strong opinions about Paul Dano and none of them are right
Tarantino has called Dano a ‘weak, weak uninteresting guy’, ‘the giant flaw’ in There Will Be Blood – and the main reason it is not his favourite film of the 21st century
‘BDSM on screen used to just mean a gimp in the basement’: the kink community’s verdict on Pillion
Pillion, which explores a relationship between dom Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) and submissive Colin (Harry Melling), has just opened in UK cinemas. But how realistic is its portrayal of a group little seen in mainstream cinema?
Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combative
Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok
Researchers uncovered 354 AI-focused accounts that had accumulated 4.5bn views in a month
Tesla privately warned UK that weakening EV rules would hit sales
Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal
Australia’s eSafety commissioner rejects US Republican’s assertion she is a ‘zealot for global takedowns’
Julie Inman Grant says Australia’s Online Safety Act ‘does not impinge upon Americans’ freedom of speech’
Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm tumbles nearly 40% amid ‘crypto winter’
American Bitcoin Corp’s shares fell from $2.39 to $1.90 after closing in what some are calling ‘crypto winter’
One Battle After Another gains Oscars traction after early awards season wins
Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy thriller named best film by Gotham awards and New York Film Critics Circle
Production of French-German fighter jet threatened by rivalries, chief executive says
Relations between French company Dassault and the German unit of Airbus are reportedly ‘very strained’