Ready to give up social media? ‘Advice pollution’ might just get you there

I almost admire the confidence it must take to tell people what to do online. But I long for the days when the internet wasn’t just lists of bossy self-optimisation plans, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds

Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

Post your questions for Keira Knightley

The Oscar-nominated star of Bend It Like Beckham, Pride and Prejudice and Atonement – and now children’s author – will answer your questions

Big tech has transformed the classroom – and parents are right to be worried

I’ve examined how commercial technologies reshape education – often in ways parents instinctively resist, but are told to ignore, says academic Velislava Hillman

‘Visceral, sensual wonders’: why The Talented Mr Ripley is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder of Anthony Minghella’s starry, sad and sinister 1999 thriller

PM says neo-Nazi giving speech from Victoria’s parliament steps ‘isn’t the Australian way’ – as it happened

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Anhell69 review – an impassioned eulogy for Colombia’s queer renegades

Theo Montoya collages an unfinished phantom horror film, gothic Medellín cityscapes and interviews with lost friends into a transgressive work of cine-protest

Somnium review – dream-injection sci-fi plot follows in dodgy-clinic tracks of The Substance

Racheal Cain’s debut feature feels derivative, with plotlines that are forced together and cartoonish reductions that sell its characters short

Sky Glass Air review: a surprisingly good budget smart TV

Slim, lightweight and with a bright 4K picture, Sky’s low-cost TV shines because of its software and service

The best theatre to stream this month: Basil’s back as Fawlty Towers reopens for business

John Cleese’s stage version of his beloved sitcom, a cast recording of Cornish musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Robert Wilson’s production of Handel’s Messiah are among September’s highlights

Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back

You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needs

Everyone in Canberra agrees action is needed on AI. But what to do and how? And at what cost?

Balancing productivity gains with the potentially negative impact on jobs and our way of life will be a defining issue for Labor

My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming-of-age comedy from grand slam

Pierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hitters

Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych

Jim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness, guilt and the closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and Paris

No fears over playing ‘man without a face’ Putin, Jude Law says in Venice

Star of The Wizard of the Kremlin says he does not expect any repercussions from portraying Russian leader