Octopus Energy to sell stake in software spin-off Kraken at $8.65bn valuation
CEO of Britain’s biggest household energy supplier says technology arm could float in the medium term
We still don’t really know what Elon Musk’s Doge actually did
Calculating the actual savings and impact of the bulldozing US department that vowed to cut $1tn in waste is difficult
Megalopolis: the $120m Coppola flop that just won’t go away
A screening tour, a New Year’s re-release, a documentary, an incoming director’s cut … will we ever be rid of this historic misfire?
Facebook slow to act on posts celebrating Bondi beach massacre, anti-hate group says
Exclusive: CST highlights volume of IS-supporting accounts and says social media firms ‘putting all of us in danger’
‘Move fast, break stuff’: how tech bros became Hollywood’s go-to baddie in 2025
From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindset
No Time for Goodbye review – well intentioned drama about the loneliness of the asylum-seeker
Journalist Don Ng’s debut feature raises interesting questions about the asylum experience – but his film is too sentimental and superficial to truly answer them
Tuesday briefing: A surreal year in news gives our cartoonists endless material
In today’s newsletter: Covering everything from Donald Trump to AI, and Gaza to Ukraine, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Ben Jennings shares his favourite caricatures of 2025, and we share ours too.
Case dropped against TikTok streamer who was shot by US immigration agents
Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who livestreams LA breaking news, was accused of ramming car into federal officers’ vehicles
John Radcliffe obituary
Other lives: Executive producer in the BBC’s continuing education department, he oversaw innovative adult educational programmes
Cryptocurrency slump erases 2025 financial gains and Trump-inspired optimism
Last few months of the year have seen $1tn in value wiped from the market, despite all-time-high price of bitcoin
‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI
New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’
Packing a punch: the true story behind the first Zimbabwean film to qualify for Oscars
A small boxing academy helping street children in Victoria Falls has inspired an award-winning short featuring Hollywood actor Tongayi Chirisa
‘Why should we pay these criminals?’: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations
Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider
‘The most culturally Iranian of all Iranians died so far from Iran’: the towering legacy of Bahram Beyzaie
Beyzaie, who has died aged 87, wove myth, folklore and classical Persian literature into stories that defend against a regime which sought to obliterate them
‘He has come back from the dead’: Chevy Chase spent eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic
In documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the actor and his family revealed that doctors told them to ‘prepare yourselves for the worst’