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Screen time can damage under-twos’ development, landmark study suggests

Exclusive: Researchers call for urgent investigation of risks to babies of tablets, smartphones and other digital devices

Brassed Off review – stirring tale of coal and cornets moves Yorkshire audience to tears

In a cavernous venue seemingly designed for a colliery-based story, Amy Leach directs Paul Allen’s adaptation of the 1996 film

Watching Brokeback Mountain kept me in the closet

The first time I saw the film, I convinced myself I didn’t like it. Now it’s one of my favourites

From Jon Snow: A Last Big Story to Muse: the week in rave reviews

The former Channel 4 News anchor reports on his health before leading another investigation, and the never-knowingly-understated Devon rockers return. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

From Supergirl to Muse: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Milly Alcock’s Kryptonian hero bops baddies with a superdog in tow, while the Devon band return with another collection of all-caps rock

Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment?

Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone

Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near Jindabyne

How Australian hero Karl Stefanovic took a sharp turn to the right – and fell from TV stardom

The former Today show host promised he’d ‘unleash the beast’ on his podcast. It has taken less than six months for the beast to overtake the polished star

OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request

Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos

‘Fork in the road’: CEO of Amazon-backed Rivian on why carmakers need to invest in EVs

RJ Scaringe says firms focused on selling fossil fuel engines risk being ‘woefully behind’ on technology by end of decade

Prime Day ends today – here are the 52 best deals to scoop up before they’re gone

Amazon Prime Day ends tonight. The Filter US vetted sales on the Our Place Titanium Always Pan Pro, Hatch Sunrise Alarm Clock and the Ninja Creami ice cream maker and more

O what a tangled web: unweaving the weirdest fan rumours surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Will X-Men’s Jean Grey be in the fourth Marvel Spidey film? What about Spider-Girl? Which Hulk will we see? Who is the real villain? And is Marvel fuelling the internet’s frenzied rumour machine on purpose?

Outrage as woman jailed for three years after criticising Somali government online

Sentencing of 27-year-old Sadia Moalim Ali condemned by former president and prime ministers as well as rights groups

‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime

The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Europe she feels unsafe

As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’

Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wages

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  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies
  • Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content
  • Apple becomes second ever $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks
  • The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
  • Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground
  • Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you?
  • Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
  • Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
  • Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
  • A self-emptying, frictionless marvel: Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean and Empty Pet Pro review
  • Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
  • Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
  • Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
  • ‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
  • It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
  • Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury
  • New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash
  • David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  • Plas Johnson obituary
  • ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
  • ‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
  • Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
  • Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
  • Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection
  • Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
  • The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival
  • Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ
  • ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project

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