Landmark losses for Meta and YouTube as big tech misses the point
Meta claims social media addiction isn’t real. Juries disagree
Including online games in social media bans is unworkable, unnecessary and would harm young people
As calls for restrictions on under-16s’ online activities gather pace, some are urging curbs on online gaming. The idea is a mess from top to bottom
Smiley Face: finally, a stoner comedy for the girls who get overstimulated at the supermarket
Gregg Araki’s comedy-of-errors film stars Anna Faris trying to complete everyday tasks in an astronomical state of high. It’s downright terrifying
UK parents: what do you think about the government’s advice on screen time for children under five?
Do you agree with the guidance? Have you been limiting screen time for your child? How is that going?
From the phone to the plex: why TV shows are turning into movies
A successful cinema release for the new Peaky Blinders movie provided marketing opportunities that could lead to a reverse in the stream-first model
Russia slowly trying to splinter its internet from rest of world, analysts say
Telegram is increasingly blocked and mobile internet users face blackouts in effort likened to Iranian shutdowns
The UK has a chance to pioneer pornography regulation – it must take it
The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? says author Susanna Rustin
The Drama review – Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s controversial wedding film delivers on its promise
A woman’s confession on the eve of her nuptials causes uproar in this insouciantly offensive provocation from the director of Dream Scenario
Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract
Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics company
Ghost Killer review – fantastic karate chopping and gunslinging in in supernatural action-comedy
Top notch choreography features heavily in tale of a student who is inhabited by an assassin’s spirit determined to wreak revenge
Two-thirds of under-16s with accounts on Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok kept access despite ban
Nearly 70% of under-16s with accounts on Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok had maintained access, survey finds
If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit
The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after ‘casting its net too wide’
Two Women review – sex comedy remake is French-Canadian answer to Confessions of a Window Cleaner
This tale of a pair of women who tire of their partners and arrange sex with strangers is not sexy enough for erotica and not real enough to be drama
MacBook Neo review: the budget Apple laptop powered by an iPhone chip
Snappy performance, high-quality screen, best-in-class keyboard and trackpad show cheaper can still be great
James McAvoy: ‘I’ve been “that Scottish person”, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’
He went from a Glasgow council estate to Hollywood fame. Now, in his directorial debut, the X-Men star is challenging stereotypes about his homeland via the remarkable tale of a real-life hip-hop hoax