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The Return of Arinzo review – families who hate each other clash in noirish Nollywood thriller

Nigerian actor and director Iyabo Ojo’s entertaining but imperfect tale about warring clans unfolds across Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania

MacBook Pro M5 review: serious power, still long battery life

Apple laptop sets new performance bar with more storage, new chips and plenty of options, but now has two-tier specs depending on processor

Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages

First teenage suicide linked to domestic abuse recorded in England and Wales

Police warn of violent pornography and ‘toxic’ influencers as suicides outstrip homicides for third year running

US supreme court hears whether smartphone location data warrants infringe users’ privacy

Lawyer for DoJ argued actions taken in public while in possession of a smartphone afforded no expectation of privacy

Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission

Musk’s lawsuit accuses Altman of fraud, while OpenAI says that Musk is ‘motivated by jealousy’

Britain becoming ‘soft target’ for Russian propaganda, says security expert

Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfare

UK information commissioner steps back amid workplace investigation

John Edwards says he is fully cooperating with ICO’s independent inquiry into ‘HR matters’

The Guardian view on screens in schools: big tech is finally under the microscope

Editorial: Scrutiny of the impact of technology on children’s lives and education should be welcomed

Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract

Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms ‘who act contrary to London’s values’

Taylor Swift files trademarks for voice and image amid concern over AI misuse

The singer’s company filed three applications on Friday after Matthew McConaughey launched similar strategy

Man charged with killing Florida doctoral students allegedly consulted ChatGPT

Hisham Abugharbieh has been charged in the deaths of his roommate and his roommate’s girlfriend

China blocks $2bn Meta takeover of AI agent developer Manus

Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investment

The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper

Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder

Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy

The hit success of the critically reviled Michael Jackson movie shows that his fans only want to see the good – not the truth

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  • Six in 10 Neets have never had a job, says Alan Milburn, as he warns of ‘generational faultline’ – UK politics live
  • ‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism
  • ‘Instagram truly is the new LinkedIn’: why gen Z is using social media to get hired
  • ‘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?
  • ‘Not many kids had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland
  • ‘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

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