Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
Bitcoin’s buzz is gone. Investors chose real gold in 2025
Gold is up 70% while the cryptocurrency is down 6% after it failed to bounce back from a rapid October sell-off
Avengers: Doomsday – first official trailer for new Marvel film released online
Steve Rogers is back … in the 90-second trailer that is now online for all to see
Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025
A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AI
Anaconda review – Jack Black and Paul Rudd charm in unusual meta-comedy remake
The 1997 creature feature gets a self-referential redo that works best when it allows its two stars to lean into silliness
Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real?
Comparing the pictures taken with my camera’s automatic software to those taken with a ‘zero-processing’ app, the results are shocking. Is this a good idea, asks writer Isabel Brooks
The Apartment: Billy Wilder’s Christmas classic is the blueprint for romcoms everywhere
The 1960 film about a downtrodden insurance worker and his burgeoning crush is full of staccato repartee and unforgettable jokes. It’s barely aged a day
Timothée Chalamet’s unhinged Marty Supreme promo tour is fun – but what really sells a film in 2025?
The actor has been doing it all to sell his 50s-set ping-pong epic but, as a year of A-list flops shows, there’s no formula for guaranteed success
‘I’ve waited for this movie my whole life’: Guardian readers’ best films of 2025
From the surreal fairytale The Ice Tower to the revenge western Tornado, our readers share the films that had the biggest impact on them this year
My weirdest Christmas: I sat on a desk chair watching the strangest film I’ve ever seen
Away from our families, my flatmate and I hung out in his bedroom, Christmas lunch on our laps, watching a poorly written, jarringly inappropriate movie
Biography aims to fill gaps in story of ultra-libertarian Telegram founder Pavel Durov
Like many of his US counterparts, the Russian science prodigy turned hugely successful ‘digital populist’ has a deep suspicion of government constraint
The Devil’s Backbone review – rich, rousing ghost story is early gothic gem from Guillermo del Toro
Executed with trademark technical flair and empathy, this part-horror, part-fairytale set in a haunted orphanage from 2001 is one of the director’s best
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
What happened next: the Coldplay kiss cam couple
They went mega-viral as the couple who were caught canoodling on a live screen. Cue plot twists and months of public intrigue
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata