People’s bodies are changing in the age of Ozempic. How are we meant to talk about it?

Discussing people’s bodies can be fraught. We asked eating disorder experts how to do so – or not – responsibly

John Irvin obituary

British film-maker and director of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy who was described by Alec Guinness as having ‘balls behind the camera’

The Quiet Earth: New Zealand post-apocalyptic classic preys on the fear of being totally alone

With eerie empty street scenes akin to 28 Days Later, this 80s sci-fi flick follows a lone scientist spiralling into madness. And its psychological terror is as haunting as ever

Ali G: Who Iz I? trailer reveals return of Sacha Baron Cohen’s prank-playing rudeboy

Comedian returns in new film, adding a retired US general to a list of pranked celebrities that include Buzz Aldrin and Donald Trump

No, AI doesn’t mean the end of mathematics – at least not yet

Mathematicians are raising concerns that the technology could kill their profession. But they still have abilities AI doesn’t

Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash

Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza

The seventh in the series takes longstanding lead gangster Tate, played to the hilt as always by Craig Fairbrass, to the White Isle to knock some heads together

‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground

New documentary To Use a Mountain spotlights the pain and triumph of resisting government efforts to turn parts of rural US into disposal sites

Gold price hits three-month high amid fears over Iran war and Trump economy

Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for the first time since May amid uncertainty over US fiscal plans

Seam me up, Scotty! After 60 years, Star Trek has had a muppet takeover. About time too

Star Wars has embraced the magic of puppetry since the 70s, but Trekkers have been starved of any muppet action … until now. The creators of Strange New Worlds talk about boldly sewing where no one has sewn before

Penny Lane Is Dead review – Aussie slasher comedy zips from Neighbours to nasty

Mia’Kate Russell’s 80s-set Ozsploitation horror is a tad slapdash, but the grungy gore and seething catfights save it from dud status

The war on ‘loudcasting’ phones can be won, but it will take some very British nudging

Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on, says Dan Hancox, a writer and editor covering music, politics and cities

Speeding for online glory: the internet subculture where young men drive dangerously for likes

Social media trend feeds on footage shot from cars racing down busy roads, with potentially lethal consequences

Zip Wire review – cancer-curing scientist is on the hook for cable-dangle thriller

This nonsensical film sees an OCD-afflicted scientist fending off assassins while hanging from an aerial wire, and fails to get pulses racing for even a minute