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One bizarre expression after another: DiCaprio’s viral moment won the Golden Globes

Famously serious Oscar-winner gave rare insight into what might be the real Leo with his commercial break antics

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave

It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte

The rise of ‘unc’: is this gen Alpha’s way of saying ‘OK boomer’?

Timothée Chalamet celebrated his 30th birthday by embracing his unc status – and Sabrina Carpenter has used the word to describe her record producer. Why is it suddenly everywhere?

Malaysia blocks Elon Musk’s Grok AI over fake, sexualised images

Country follows Indonesia in restricting access after global outcry over X’s AI tool

Post your questions for Melissa Leo

The Oscar-winning actor – star of The Fighter, Frozen River, The Equalizer and now The Knife – will take on your questions

‘A celebration of the carefree’: why Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers celebrating their favourite comfort watches is an ode to John Hughes’s 1980s classic

UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children

Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X’s AI tool intensifies

Escape review – notorious Japanese revolutionary tells story of country’s most wanted criminal

Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the run in 1975 after a series of corporate bombings

Chalamet a smash, Sinners shut out: the key Golden Globes snubs and surprises

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another looks unstoppable ahead of the Oscars, despite Timothée Chalamet’s triumph over Leonardo DiCaprio for best actor

‘Timothée Chalamet gained over 60 ounces for Marty Supreme!’: the best quotes from the 2026 Golden Globes

The funniest zingers and touching moments from last night’s ceremony, including Jessie Buckley’s love for soup and Stellan Skarsgård on bad dads

Amazon insists I return a phone it says ‘may be lost’

I have paid two monthly £108 instalments but am now phone-less and out of pocket

Guián review – celebration of multicultural identity through a Chinese grandmother in Costa Rica

Director Nicole Chi Amén embarks on a journey to learn more about her own mixed cultural heritage after the death of her Guangdong-born grandma

Monday briefing: How Elon Musk’s Grok is being used as a tool for digital sexual abuse

In today’s newsletter: The chatbot is being used to digitally undress photos of women and children. What can politicians actually do to stop it, and what does it say about our control of the internet?

March of the penguins: the Golden Globes red carpet marks the return of the staid black suit

The performative male was over, with old hands and newcomers alike doing little to temper the black tie stuffiness

The Golden Globes ceremony ignored politics. But their big winner taps today’s unhappy turbulence

One Battle After Another engages with the tense climate of the second Trump administration unlike any other contender

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  • Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued by shareholders over affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Soul Patrol review – heart stopping story of Vietnam’s first Black special ops team
  • Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen
  • ‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes
  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • One Nation dumps Victorian election candidate who praised Adolf Hitler as ‘GOAT’
  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
  • The French fridge hacks were relatively unsophisticated. An AI-enabled attack would raise the stakes
  • Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
  • 1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young
  • A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
  • ‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’
  • Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend
  • Is this the most rubbish Christmas present ever?
  • What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
  • Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
  • 1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box
  • How African philosophies inspired a new approach to staging film festivals in Manchester
  • ‘I’ve seen people in my neighbourhood pulled out of their cars’: Ava DuVernay on the cruelty and brutality of Trump’s America
  • ‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints
  • Does Andy Burnham’s pivot from press to social media put scrutiny at risk?
  • Ukraine’s new frontier: how space has become critical to balance of the war
  • FAA announces first US digital air traffic control towers in Florida and Alaska
  • The Trump administration wants underwater datacenters. One Great Lakes non-profit is already preparing

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