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What does the end of free support for Windows 10 mean for its users?

Computers running software will still work but steadily become more vulnerable to viruses and malware

‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

The long read: Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part professor, part friend

Could ‘trash fashion’ save this Nairobi neighbourhood from drowning in discarded western clothes?

A runway show in Gikomba, east Africa’s largest secondhand clothing market, has attempted to highlight the impact of mass clothing imports – and offer a solution

‘I lost a friend of almost 40 years’: Nancy Meyers pays tribute to Diane Keaton

Film-maker who directed Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give, and wrote Baby Boom and Father of the Bride, says ‘we have lost a giant’

Cyber-attacks rise by 50% in past year, UK security agency says

Officials say increased dependence on technology leaves society more vulnerable to threats such as ransomware

Our Fault review – ultra-glossy Spanish step-sibling melodrama is too bland to be annoying

Third film adapted from the romance novels by Mercedes Ron, originally written in Spanish, feels clunky and cliched

Vodafone outage: thousands of broadband and mobile users report problems

Company apologises and says network ‘recovering’ after many customers say there were unable to access services

Equity threatens mass direct action over use of actors’ images in AI content

Union says growing numbers of its members have made complaints about infringements of copyright in AI material

AI could make it harder to establish blame for medical failings, experts say

Report raises concerns about liability issues and lack of testing as development of AI health tools booms

‘The most spontaneous person I’ve ever met’: Guardian writers remember Diane Keaton

From Annie Hall to The First Wives Club, Keaton’s performances redefined what it meant to be funny, stylish and unapologetically oneself. Our writers pay tribute to a one-off star who made eccentricity irresistible

H is for Hawk review – Claire Foy is tremendously authentic in eccentric grief drama

Foy convinces as a grieving academic who trains a goshawk in this film based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir

Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth

Joel Mokyr looked at growth and technological progress, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have written about the role of ‘creative destruction’

Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks

Actor, who voices Dolores Umbridge in the new full-cast recordings, says she hopes ‘we can all find respect’ amid renewed controversy over Rowling’s views on trans rights

‘Nature’s Labubu’: why are gen Z ‘unboxing’ conkers?

The traditional playground favourite is staging a comeback – without the threat of violence

‘I cared only what Diane Keaton had to say’: Woody Allen pays tribute to late actor, co-star and former partner

Allen says Keaton was ‘unlike anyone the planet has experienced’, and that ‘her great laugh still echoes in my head’

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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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