Brave the Dark review – delinquent teen drama comes off as if James Dean met Mr Chips

Warmly drawn melodrama based on a true story follows a delinquent teen taken under the wing of his kindly drama teacher

Peter Kyle, the ‘tech bro’ minister charged with kickstarting UK growth

‘Hard-working’ business secretary opens his tenure with delicate trade missions to Washington and Beijing

‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture

Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege

Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta’s ‘disgusting web of lies’

Dust to Dreams review – a baffling short film from director Idris Elba

The actor recruits Seal for a Lagos-set 19-minute misfire that inelegantly stuffs in far too much

‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return

Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain

Amazon fires 150 unionized third-party drivers, Teamsters says

Union says ‘Amazon is breaking the law’ after drivers working for contractor Cornucopia were terminated

Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity executive says Meta endangered billions of users in new suit

Attaullah Baig, fired this year for alleged poor performance, said he had warned Mark Zuckerberg engineers had unaudited access to user data

Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown

Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events

Ballad of a Small Player review – Colin Farrell wins us over in flashy, slight gambler tale

Conclave director Edward Berger makes a less cohesive follow-up with an over-stylised adaptation of Lawrence Osborne’s novel sold by a killer central performance

Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale

The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending

Facebook fiasco: why is Mark Zuckerberg suing Meta?

His account kept being deactivated, even though he had spent thousands of dollars to use the social media site for advertising. Just one of the perils of sharing a name with the world-famous tech billionaire ...

I got a robot massage and lived to tell the tale

Can one really relax while being prodded by large robotic arms?

At least 19 killed in ‘gen Z’ protests against Nepal’s social media ban

Many demonstrators say they are also on the streets over corruption and nepotism they allege is rampant

Big tech not stopping online sharing of child abuse images, eSafety commissioner says, amid new online codes

Neasures to protect children from harmful content such as AI chatbots to be implemented at the same time as the under-16s social media ban