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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

24 Hour Party People review – daring metatextual paean to the Manchester music scene

Michael Winterbottom’s freewheeling 2002 film about Tony Wilson, champion of post-punk bands, couldn’t have starred anyone but Steve Coogan

Privacy watchdog launches investigation into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app

Commissioner says Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries

OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions

We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different

Pornhub returns to Australia after banning access due to age verification rules

Australian adults again able to access the world’s most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devices

‘Rip it open’: Big Girls Don’t Cry director explores wounds of early love in film festival hit

Director Paloma Schneideman explores issues of consent and queerness in coming-of-age film set in New Zealand

Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock Blonde who outgrew the persona

Her glacial poise in North By Northwest made her a cinematic icon, but films including On the Waterfront and Loving revealed great subtlety alongside the glamour

Eva Marie Saint’s best films – ranked

The star of classics from the 1950s onwards has died aged 102. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career

Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102

Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life

S&P 500 and Nasdaq surge to record highs after AI chipmaker rally

S&P tops 7,800 for first time in history as investors optimistic despite signs of instability in US economy

Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns

Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments

Asos warns customer data may be compromised after ‘unauthorised’ app access

Shares in fashion company fall nearly 10% after its app systems are accessed by ‘unidentified third party’

Artificial review – Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire

The origin story of Sam Altman’s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield

Tell us: do you use AI agents to manage your finances?

We would like to speak to people about their experience of using AI agents when dealing with their finances

Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money

OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences, says author Chris Stokel-Walker

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  • Australia’s social media ban ‘ill-thought-out’, Reddit argues in high court challenge
  • ‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search
  • 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
  • National Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
  • Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range
  • Forget maxxing your life. 2027 must be the year we relax – and start minning
  • Readers reply: with governments asking us to stockpile, can we learn anything from disaster films?
  • Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
  • The US-China trade war seems to have subsided – but the sense of calm is misleading

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