Fitness tracker for Fido? Experts split on benefits of pet tech
As sales soar, some say trackers can help animal anxiety or weight loss while others advise leaving diagnoses to the vet
Death of the gatekeeper: Devil Wears Prada 2 depicts a revolution in the fashion world
Film sequel reveals how luxury brands have turned the tables on once-dominant magazine editors
‘Superhighways for child sexual abuse’: California lawmakers seek tougher rules for big tech
Online exploitation ‘inflicting profound trauma on a staggering number of children’, Democrats say
Marvel looks like it’s about to abolish the Multiverse saga. Isn’t that cheating?
If Avengers: Endgame is being recut to segue neatly into Doomsday, the saga wasn’t a spandex spider web of smartly linked super-stories after all. So why did we watch Loki and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law?
US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’ as betting markets boom, policy expert warns
The gambling crisis ‘demands a public health response’ and should be regulated like alcohol or tobacco, expert says
Gen Z to the rescue! Zoomers are ditching doomscrolling and saving cinema
People born after 1997 are now the most frequent cinemagoers, defying fears that digital natives would lose interest in the big screen
‘Opening the hidden door within us’: how Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory
Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tunnels. He explains how this makes viewers and players face their worst fears
Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds
The Lion King review – Disney’s Broadway juggernaut roars to life in Sydney
With breathtaking aesthetics and joyous performances, the audacious adaptation – now almost 30 years old – is greater than the sum of its parts
Apex review – Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton cat-and-mouse game is slick but soulless
This empty-calorie Netflix flick, about a steely woman being hunted by a scary local in the Australian wilderness, is shot like a Mountain Dew commercial
Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI
Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers
Thousands call on UK ministers to cut ties with US tech giant Palantir
More than 200,000 have signed petitions urging the government to break contracts amid concerns about the company’s ‘supervillain’ manifesto
Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website
Technology minister tells Commons ‘de-identified’ information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba
The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet?
Editorial: Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet
Some Interrail travellers told to cancel passports as hacked data posted online
Eurail, which sells passes, says data being ‘offered for sale on dark web’ after December breach affecting 300,000 people