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Wannabe despot, dashing diplomat or boring back-office swot? Greece’s founding father divides opinion

He built modern Greece from the ground up, but Ioannis Kapodistrias remains a controversial figure. A new biopic throws light on this overlooked titan of European history

Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state’s child social media ban

State’s attorney general alleges TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual content and addictive features

Impact of social media ban for under-16s in UK hinges on how firm it is

Questions remain over enforcement, privacy risk and whether it could open door to even more invasive measures

The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue

There are real concerns about how a social media ban for under-16s will work. But tighter rules could be a step towards a better internet for everyone

Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened

Liz Kendall also wants Ofcom to report to parliament every year on how effectively social media firms are keeping under-16s off their platforms

‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban

Some feel it is a concrete step to protect children, but others argue it is ‘trying to fix the symptoms and not the disease’

Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully

We over-50s should worry less about our crepe necks and sunspots and more about our listening skills – and the pettiness we bring to social media, says Zoe Williams

UK 16 and 17-year-olds: we would like to hear your views on the government’s social media ban for under-16s

What are your thoughts about the ban? Do you welcome it or do you have misgivings?

‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert

Sunday night’s Rise Up, Sing Out event saw A-list celebrities unite to protest Trump ‘violating’ first amendment rights

Man claiming to be One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts

Exclusive: Aboriginal Australians and migrants the targets of John Drew, who party claims ‘has never been a One Nation party official in any capacity’

‘What’s the opposite of a gay demon?’: The creepy new Australian horror film that’s getting global buzz

Writer-director Adrian Chiarella subverts the idea of conversion practices in Leviticus, a jump scare of a movie that tells a tender queer love story too

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens strongly at box office as Obsession, Backrooms – and Michael – smash records

UFO thriller is on track to become director’s best performing original title in the US, taking just shy of $100m in global revenue after opening weekend

Ian McKellen says he imagined destroying Mar-a-Lago for new Avengers movie

Exclusive: At an open-air film festival in Rome, the actor shared anecdotes of his time on the set of upcoming superhero film Avengers: Doomsday

The Toymaker’s Key review – steampunk sci-fi animation is eclectic if overwrought

Produced by a very small team, this fantasy adventure story, though chaotic and derivative, hints at what future tech-savvy creators could produce beyond studio constraints

How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on

As UK ban for under-16s is confirmed, experience of Australian parents of similar restrictions has been mixed

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  • Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams
  • AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
  • FCC bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’
  • How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private
  • Apple becomes second $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies
  • Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content
  • The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
  • Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground
  • Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you?
  • How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement
  • Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
  • Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
  • Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
  • A self-emptying, frictionless marvel: Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean and Empty Pet Pro review
  • Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
  • Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
  • Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
  • ‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
  • It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
  • Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury
  • New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash
  • David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  • Plas Johnson obituary
  • ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
  • ‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
  • Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
  • Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them

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