Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data
GoFan penalized for breaching privacy laws after students used service to sign up for football games and school prom
Elon Musk takes witness stand in trial over Twitter takeover
Twitter investors allege the billionaire publicly derided the social network to sink its stock price and buy it at a bargain
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife
The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film
Berlin film festival head to keep job after Gaza free speech row
German government convened a crisis meeting after several prize winners condemned Israel’s actions against Palestinians
Gen Z flocks to Chinese medicine as trust in US health system plummets: ‘It’s so personalized to being human’
As Americans embrace ‘alternative’ remedies, people online joke that they’re ‘Chinamaxxing’ their wellness routines
Europe’s next-generation fighter jet project may collapse if row continues, says warplane maker
Dassault Aviation says €100bn project may soon be ‘dead’ if Airbus will not agree on how to share workload
Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary
Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections
Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself
Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas
Sydney to Hobart 1998: the harrowing race that killed six and ‘shattered the community’
Two brothers return to the yacht race that killed their father in True South, a documentary about the darkest moment in the event’s history
X to ban users from earning revenue if they post unlabelled AI-generated war videos
Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflict
Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa
Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehicles
Dolly review – six-foot mannequin terrorises camping couple in gory, trope-filled horror
Rising scream queen Fabianne Therese’s ability to channel distress somewhat redeems film in which an attractive, therefore doomed, couple learn major lesson
And the least likable character is … how Oscar season became dominated by difficult people
From Marty Supreme to One Battle After Another, this awards run has been populated by a harder-to-love group of spiky characters
Rise of the veavage: how one look came to rule the red carpet
Forget cleavage. A deep V plunging to the waist is the current style – as seen on Gwyneth Paltrow and many others this year. Why is it suddenly so popular?
Outgunned review – action-thriller in Angola sees sadistic child-hunting gang out for revenge
Danica De La Rey Jones’s elite fighter is targeted in a film that would be more exciting if its padded runtime was trimmed down