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James Norton set to play Brian Epstein in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles film project

The actor is reportedly in line to play the Beatles’ manager in the 1917 director’s ambitious saga about the Fab Four

Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie review – sunny, wholesome cat-obsessed tale that knows its audience

Kristen Wiig goes all Cruella as the evil cat lady pitted against Gabby and her grandma, Gloria Estefan, desperate as she is to get her hands on that doll’s house

‘A photographer with a cool and deadly eye’: Diane Keaton’s creativity behind the lens

The Oscar-winning actor and style icon was also a prolific photographer, collector and curator whose lifelong fascination with images revealed a sharp, singular way of seeing the world

Capita fined £14m for data protection failings in 2023 cyber-attack

Hackers stole personal information of 6.6m people but outsourcing firm did not shut device targeted for 58 hours

Driverless taxis from Waymo will be on London’s roads next year, US firm announces

Cars with human safety drivers set to appear in 2026 but black-cab drivers dismiss service as ‘fairground ride’

iPhone Air review: Apple’s pursuit of absolute thinness

Ultra-slim and light smartphone feels special, but cuts to camera and battery may be too hard to ignore for most

‘Big John’ Fisher’s Australian takeaway: get the right visa next time

British social media star sent back by border force after apparently arriving on tourist paperwork but with several appearances scheduled

‘Escapism is down there’: The men finding solace and community in the dark of disused Cornish mines

A new documentary, The Lost Boys of Carbis Bay, follows a band of explorers into their underground world

Digital ID: Danes and Estonians find it ‘pretty uncontroversial’

Citizens have enrolled with little opposition, albeit with some concerns over security and privacy, as UK plans system

‘You are constantly told you are evil’: inside the lives of diagnosed narcissists

Few psychiatric conditions are as stigmatised or as misunderstood as narcissistic personality disorder. Here’s how it can damage careers and relationships – even before prejudice takes its toll

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

Drew Struzan, poster designer for Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, dies aged 78

Artist behind posters for Harry Potter, The Thing and Back to the Future had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease

ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

‘Almost 30m plays on Spotify!’ When fake bands hit the real-life big time, from Spinal Tap to the Flaming Dildos

How do you invent a convincing fictional band for your play, film or novel? And what happens if they actually top the charts? The creators of Scott Pilgrim, the Commitments, Stereophonic and more reveal all

‘Left me physically exhausted’: readers on their most stressful movies ever

After Guardian writers shared their picks, readers responded with films including Gravity, Paranormal Activity and The Road

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  • Germany reportedly bans Chinese drones at military bases over security concerns
  • Nima Momeni sentenced to 16 years to life in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee
  • 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

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