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‘What we’re doing is real justice’: how one New York gym built a pipeline away from prison

Debra Granik’s five-hour documentary shows a former drug dealer turned entrepreneur striving to beat a system that continues to punish those that have served time

Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50

Her new film, Apex, may not be Citizen Kane, but how refreshing to see a middle-aged actor as a female action hero, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Di’Anno – Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer review – metal act’s original singer is a tough act to follow

This entertaining profile of Paul Di’Anno – the heavy metal band’s lead vocalist from 1978 to 1981 – is dragged down by its subject’s irascible nature

Hokum review – Adam Scott dour and grumpy in enjoyably eerie rural horror

A writer’s retreat to the remote Irish hotel in which his parents spent their honeymoon brings him face-to-face with all manner of creepy goings-on in a gruesome and eccentric black-comic shocker

Galaxy S26 review: Samsung’s still-compact flagship Android

Small top-tier Android is great to use, being fast, AI-loaded and with reasonable battery life, but falls short of rivals on camera

BBC responds to interest in Cornish with new language podcast

Learn Cornish launched few months after language given new level of protection

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives, says Charlotta Kronblad of the University of Gothenburg

Bernie Sanders urges international cooperation to halt AI’s ‘runaway train’

US senator holds panel with leading Chinese scientists and warns of risks to society unless new technology is regulated

‘Your questions are designed to trick me’: combative Musk grilled over battle with Sam Altman

Lawyers for world’s richest person try to paint him as humanitarian as judge cuts off his long-winded replies

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

Critics say Maryland’s new law banning rapidly change product costs based on consumer data is full of carveouts

Tech giants’ results show rosy outlook for AI boom and US stock market

Google, Microsoft and Amazon report gains in cloud-computing businesses while Meta spending draws concern

Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking

The fashion and magazine industries have had a makeover but this glossy knock-off reunites the old team – and recycles the old plot – with style

Friendly AI chatbots more likely to support conspiracy theories, study finds

Chatbots programmed to respond warmly even cast doubts on Apollo moon landings and fate of Hitler, researchers say

I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

Physical phone-blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the test

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  • ‘Impossible, exhausting, horrifying’: how a chilling supernatural play explains the terror of life in Iran
  • Studio Display XDR review: Apple’s pro display shines very brightly
  • If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
  • ‘This isn’t freedom’: anger, anxiety and tears as Iran’s internet flickers back
  • The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?
  • AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red
  • Lifting of internet restrictions reveals Iranians’ anger over food inflation
  • ‘Put an end to this war’: Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes new plea to Putin
  • The great Australian nightmare: how the housing crisis inspired a wave of brutal – and funny – pop culture
  • The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 – tried and tested
  • Tony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him
  • Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
  • Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal
  • People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?
  • Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook
  • What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers review – the secrets of our search history
  • ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing
  • Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece
  • Nearly in one in five UK girls receive unwanted images online, poll finds
  • Kiln-free recycled tile startup agrees pilot deal with major UK supplier
  • Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun
  • Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama
  • Paddington 4: Armando Iannucci to write bear’s next movie with Thick of It and Veep cowriter
  • Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions
  • Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks
  • Labour says Reform UK ‘in chaos’ as Zia Yusuf publicly tells Jenrick he’s got party’s deportation policy wrong – as it happened
  • ‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film
  • Hammer to rerelease 1958 Dracula in UK with long-lost footage added
  • Funny, absurd and sentimental, Mr Deeds is one of Adam Sandler’s most underrated films
  • Iran’s access to global internet starts to resume after 88-day blackout

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