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The best UK Cyber Monday and Black Friday deals on the products we love, from video doorbells to heated throws

Tested, recommended – and now updated for Cyber Monday: the offers worth knowing about on our favourite products across home, kitchen, beauty and tech

Son of the Soil review – bone-crunching Lagos revenge thriller with bruising swagger

Razaaq Adoti writes and stars in this scrappy gangland action romp, mixing Nollywood energy with bloody set pieces and a dash of 80s-style grit

The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be

Will the bubble ravage the economy when it bursts? What will it leave of value once it pops?

‘Rage bait’ named word of the year by Oxford University Press

Existence of phrase – to describe content intended to make you angry – shows people are aware of manipulation tactics used online, says Oxford Dictionary publisher

‘Ingrained in my psyche’: why Gremlins 2: The New Batch is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite comfort rewatches is a look back at Joe Dante’s raucously rule-defying sequel

‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI

In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

Accenture dubs 800,000 staff ‘reinventors’ amid shift to AI

Consultancy’s move to embrace artificial intelligence follows Disney’s use of the term ‘imagineers’

I Only Rest in the Storm review – beguiling postcolonial blues in Guinea-Bissau

A disaffected Portuguese NGO worker dallies with a drag queen as he wrestles with white man’s privilege in Pedro Pinho’s intelligent drama

Why won’t Marvel let Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine retire in peace?

The actor himself has promised to accept all future cameos as the beloved claw-gremlin, but this will only wear out his superpowers

Onlookers review – snapshots of a south-east Asian country shaped by tourism

Through static compositions and observational detail, the documentary explores how Laos’s visitors and residents inhabit the same spaces in very different ways

TV tonight: Maxine Peake and Lola Petticrew star in a brutal, gripping drama about the Troubles

Violence erupts in series based on Patrick Radden-Keefe’s award-winning book. Plus: poignant memories are evoked in The Marvellous Miniature Workshop. Here’s what to watch today

‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career

The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of her run for office. She has never found out who made the malicious deepfake, but knew immediately she had to try to stop this happening to other women

Paddington: The Musical review – they’ve looked after this bear quite splendiferously

State-of-the-art animatronics, imaginative staging, fabulous performances and some marvellous songs about marmalade make for an evening that will fill you with joy and melt your heart

Beer? Yes. Crocs? No. Crocodile Dundee pub enters a new era

The Walkabout Creek hotel in Queensland’s Gulf Country is still going strong – just don’t expect crocodiles

Sir Andreas Whittam Smith obituary

Financial journalist who was the founding editor of the groundbreaking Independent newspaper in 1986

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  • US justice department sues Lyft over alleged refusal to serve passengers with disabilities
  • UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids
  • Inquiry launched into UK budget bank tax leak; Wall Street hit by US inflation data – as it happened
  • Tinto Brass obituary
  • ‘Flying cars’ could launch in China next summer, maker of two-seat model says
  • Anthropic targets valuation of up to $1.4tn in stock market flotation
  • 13 Assassins: Takashi Miike’s viscerally violent remake is full-throttle samurai mayhem
  • Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction
  • Meghan makes first public appearance since father’s arrest but pulls out of speech
  • Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued in US over affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Traces of Justice review – ‘Chinese Sherlock Holmes’ at centre of arresting forensic cop thriller
  • ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need
  • ‘I’m looking for faces which surprise me’: how Richard Avedon photographed the soul of his subjects
  • Are walking pads worth it? We put the best under-desk treadmills to the test
  • Soul Patrol review – heartstopping story of the US army’s first Black special ops team at work in Vietnam
  • Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen
  • ‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes
  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • One Nation dumps Victorian election candidate who praised Adolf Hitler as ‘GOAT’
  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
  • The French fridge hacks were relatively unsophisticated. An AI-enabled attack would raise the stakes
  • Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
  • Who is Alice Huang, the woman linked to Nvidia’s CEO?
  • Donnie Dunagan, original voice of Disney’s Bambi and triple Purple Heart marine, dies aged 92
  • Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish
  • More than 400,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests
  • EU sues IBM and two European firms over troubled entry/exit border system

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