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In the Shadows review – true tale of Ramla Ali’s remarkable rise through the boxing ranks is a knockout

Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production

Stark warning – does new footage in Avengers: Endgame reveal the truth about Doctor Doom?

Warning: contains spoilersThe four short scenes added to the new version has made the film the highest-grossing of all time – but the only people really enjoying this are the Disney accountants

Tenzing review – reconstruction of first summit of Everest puts Sherpa at the centre of the story

Genden Phuntsok brings charm and innocence to his portrayal of Tenzing Norgay, while Tom Hiddleston is suitably frank as Edmund Hillary

Pro-Kremlin Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk arrested in Montenegro

Founder of influential Rybar blog detained after warnings of attempts to destabilise Balkan country, officials say

Other Mommy review – Jessica Chastain’s demonic double horror isn’t nightmarish enough

There’s some effectively unnerving imagery and a cleverly icy dual lead performance but this kept-from-critics shocker is a bit of a jumble

Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors

Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doing

The Filter is two! 31 things we loved this year, from cloud-like duvets to the perfect running shoe

Whether it’s a super-glowy serum or a cult gardening tool, here are our writers’ favourite buys from the past year

‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM

Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides

The new Darth Vader: how tech execs became the film villains of our age

Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release

‘Amazing piece of technology’: solar ‘traffic controller’ for apartments takes top Australian design award

SolShare, enabling power produced by a shared rooftop solar system to be split among several apartments, also wins for sustainability

AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them

Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this threat

‘People are feeling the real impacts’: influencers are targeting private equity with satire and rage

The trillion-dollar industry has taken over social media, inspiring skits and parody raps with millions of views

Gromit finally gets a voice … and it’s Martin Freeman

After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it turns out he sounds like a hobbit

The best sunrise alarm clocks in the UK, tried and tested for gentler mornings

Our reviewer sheds some light on the best dawn simulation alarms, from Lumie and Philips to Dreamegg

How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look

It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable

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  • Dustin Hoffman says filming The Graduate was ‘a terrible experience’ due to Mike Nichols’ ‘sadism’
  • AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
  • Who is hacking Europe’s supermarket fridges and freezers, and why?
  • ‘Screams on the level of a Taylor Swift concert’: horny romp Wicker gets the 4DX treatment
  • Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack
  • One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again
  • Unions gain access to thousands of Google workers after UK employment rights overhaul
  • ‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
  • Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app
  • ‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies
  • From puregatory to lifehoarding – how best to describe our strange, anxious times?
  • Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo
  • From a life-changing garlic press to a super-glowy serum: 12 buys you’re loving right now
  • Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
  • ‘Funny and self-aware’: why (500) Days of Summer is my feelgood movie
  • Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror
  • ‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama
  • I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands
  • Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
  • Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
  • Parents of woman who died of seizure after ChatGPT misguidance sue OpenAI
  • Investors pull billions in funds from Binance after record $6.3bn hack
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  • Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range
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  • Readers reply: with governments asking us to stockpile, can we learn anything from disaster films?
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  • The US-China trade war seems to have subsided – but the sense of calm is misleading
  • Binance resumes customer withdrawals after record $6.3bn hack
  • Sadiq Khan calls for cap on numbers of robotaxis on London streets

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