New tool allows Californians to request data brokers to delete personal details
State seeks to give residents greater control over their personal data and have fewer messages forced upon them
Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge
Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them
Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her
Exclusive: Ashley St Clair says supporters of X owner are using his AI tool to create a form of revenge porn
How far can James Cameron’s Avatar saga go after its billion-dollar box office triumph?
Cameron warned that Avatars 4 and 5 might end up as novels if third instalment Fire and Ash bombed. But noise about its slow start is beginning to look like a ritual movies in the series must go through before the money pours in
‘Pinnacle of westerns’: the Oscar-winning writer of Forrest Gump on staging High Noon – with songs by Springsteen
He’s written screen smashes like Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon. As Eric Roth plunges into theatre, he talks about classic westerns, being sacked by Robert Redford – and why writing for Martin Scorsese is a dream
Timothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley in Oscar surge as they win Critics Choice awards
The Marty Supreme and Hamnet stars are jockeying for pole position for the big Hollywood prize after a night in which One Battle After Another and Adolescence were also recognised
Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills
Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing
Paris court finds 10 guilty of harassing Brigitte Macron online
Teacher and publicist among those convicted of maliciously posting or sharing false claims French first lady is a man
‘I find it all a bit comforting’: why Zodiac is my feelgood movie
The first 2026 entry in our ongoing series of writers calling attention to their comfort films is David Fincher’s thriller
I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront
These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy, says Yanis Varoufakis
Dreams Travel With the Wind review – communing with the spirits to preserve Indigenous culture in Colombia
This intensely personal film follows Colombian director Inti Jacanamijoy’s grandfather to the ancestral lands of the Wayuu people
Drake and livestreamer Adin Ross accused of using online casino money to artificially inflate streams in class action case
US class action alleges Stake’s anonymised design enabled rapper to fund automated streams on music platforms
Mickey Rourke launches fundraiser to pay $60,000 in rent after threat of eviction
The 73-year-old Oscar-nominated actor was issued with an eviction notice in December
UK arts groups offer therapeutic support to performers as they challenge myth of tortured artist
‘You don’t have to be tortured to make great art,’ says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing
Evangeline Lilly reveals she has brain damage after hitting her head in fall
Marvel, Lost and Hobbit actor says ‘almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity’ after she fainted and fell face-first into a boulder