Instagram keeps flubbing on teen safety. Will its new ‘PG-13’ guidelines make a difference?
The content guardrails introduced this week feel like hollow posturing after the failure of past promises
Nigel Farage has 1.3m followers on TikTok. Does this mean gen Z likes him?
He is the most popular UK politician on one of the world’s most popular social media sites. Working out what that means is actually surprisingly difficult, writes Zoe Williams
The Draft! review – entertaining Indonesian meta-horror goes down the Scream route
The tired old tropes of spooky visions, cursed wells and cookie-cutter characters are gleefully dissected in a fun slasher that trades a cabin in the woods for a villa in the jungle
Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive
The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words
Diablo review – Scott Adkins enters Cormac McCarthy territory in over-the-border revenge thriller
Its deranged antagonist might be an Anton Chigurh rip-off, but some fantastically flailing fight scenes almost lift this otherwise humdrum action romp
Garmin Fenix 8 Pro review: built-in LTE and satellite for phone-free messaging
Top adventure watch upgraded with 4G calls, messages, live tracking, satellite texts and SOS for going off the grid
Bryan Cranston thanks OpenAI for cracking down on Sora 2 deepfakes
Users of generative AI video app were able to recreate the Breaking Bad actor’s likeness without his consent, which OpenAI called ‘unintentional’
‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places
The studio where he crashed the Life of Brian spaceship, the stage where he put on a Faust that caused fights, the pub where he last spoke to Heath Ledger … the ex-Python takes a hilarious and evocative meander down memory lane
‘I’m having a great day’: AWS outage offers some a brief glimpse of a tech-free existence
There was a different side to the chaos of the Amazon outage that affected crucial services around the world, such as no exams, light switches not working, and less work to do
Amazon says Web Services are recovering after outage hits millions of users – as it happened
Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank, Ring doorbells and Amazon’s own shopping site among services hit by online outage
I’m a digital nomad who works on the road. These seven travel gadgets go with me everywhere
From ultra-portable laptops to organizers for all your cables, the right gear makes all the difference
Nasa looks to other companies for US moon program as Musk’s SpaceX lags behind
Nasa head said agency is opening up contracts for crewed lunar program Artemis after SpaceX had to delay timelines
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’
Nostalgia loop: it’s time for Sony to get Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield back in their Spidey suits
Even if it ends up another multiversal tangle of familiar faces and recycled heartstrings, a film with the old Spider-Men might be Sony’s best hope of a box office hit, writes Ben Child
When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part
The arrival of AI is a chance to remind kids that the joy of creativity is not in what you made, but in the process of making it