Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point

CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder’s argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something ‘new and novel’

Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism

Calls via foreign-owned platforms curbed as critics say Kremlin is pushing for greater control over Russia’s internet

British sports teams and bodies ‘failing to safeguard’ women from online abuse

Most of Britain’s leading sports teams and governing bodies ‘still have no specific safeguarding policies’ to protect women from online abuse, research has found

UK cinemas to host KPop Demon Hunters sing-alongs

Netflix summer hit in which girl band Huntr/x protect fans from supernatural threats will appear on the big screen over bank holiday weekend

Lorna Raver, actor from Drag Me to Hell, dies at 81

Veteran actor played antagonist in Sam Raimi’s acclaimed horror hit and appeared in The Young and the Restless

‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentence

UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced

Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act

The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’

After IceBlock’s launch in April, Kristi Noem attacked developer Joshua Aaron and his wife was fired from the DoJ. The attention has only led to more raids being reported

‘I don’t touch my phone. At home, I’d be scrolling’: why young people are flocking to independent cinemas

Young people are drawn in by the promise of a ‘no-distractions’ zone, rereleases of old classics and music documentaries by global artists

‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co-starring with Brad Pitt

As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava Gardner

Teenage girls making TikToks: Philippa James’s best photograph

‘My daughter and her friends are part of the smartphone generation. The more time I spent with them, the more I learned about the darker side of their mobiles’

Is AI going to steal your job? Not if you work in cleaning, construction or hospitality, Australian report finds

Jobs and Skills Australia says doomsday predictions are overblown but almost all occupations will be augmented by artificial intelligence

Brad Pitt break-in linked to gang targeting celebrities, Los Angeles police say

Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of committing burglaries at the homes of several prominent residents, according to LA police

Central Station review – Walter Salles’s big-hearted Brazilian road movie boasts stellar performances

Salles’s 1998 breakthrough about a woman’s quest to find the father of a rescued child closes with a satisfying click while it questions everyone’s motives

The Trump administration has decided coal is female. Here’s why

What is really behind the US Department of Energy’s weird pronouncement on social media, asks Arwa Mahdawi